Austhors notes: Sorry this one is so short, I want to try and put them up daily but school takes up most of my time. I'll have something better up tomorrow hopefully, never the less. Enjoy :D.
Chapter 6: The original 3
Percy's P.O.V
Justin wasn't nearly as useless as I originally thought he would be. After getting off the bus in New York I realised that he sort of... Just knew where the destinations were, not that I was complaining, I had no idea where to go.
It was getting dark and I had been trailing behind Justin for over an hour when I started to hear a sort of metallic creaking sound, It sounded like two pieces of metal were being scratched together, it sort of reminded me of Yancy academy almost 6 years ago now, the teachers used to scrape the blackboard with there sharp fingernails, to attract the attention of the students. Damn just remembering it now made me shiver. Justin and I crept closer to the source of the noise, as we got closer, I realised that Justin had completely stopped making noise, the clattering of his nails on the Tarmac was now non-existent, I wonder how he did it. If I was ever in any doubt of him being magical, that was washed away when I realised how silent he was creeping, he would make an excellent hunter it seemed, but then again it's probably how he survived, seeing as I found him in the middle of the woods.
After a couple minutes of creeping towards the sound, dodging in and out deserted alleyways and roads, we finally found the source of the noise. There was a dude sitting in a garage that looked much too small for his size, he was about 8 foot tall... And he was made out of celestial bronze. I decided that was probably because this was definitely one of the rogue automatons running around the US, we would probably do better if I jumped him with the element of surprise.
As I sneaked around to the wall of the garage, I heard the grinding sound cease I had reflexively frozen immediately in the middle of the street and then thought better of it and dove into the shadows of a nearby lane way. The mechanical man clunked out onto the street awkwardly, I realised what the grinding sound was, after I noticed that the robots leg was dented severely, causing it it limp at the best of times, it must have been trying to repair itself. It stopped there and surveyed the area, it looked like it was listening intently. I saw Justin trot into view of the robot from a nearby alley, the mech studied him closely probably wondering if he was a threat or not. With the giant robot distracted, I lunged. My sword piercing the back of the head, it flailed wildly in vain, trying to get the sharp object out if it's core processor. Even now I could feel its movements getting sluggish as the messages from its "brain" were cut off at the stem, after about 30 seconds the metal man drooped to the ground, and landed with a thud. I stood over it marvelling at the beautiful design in its metal, there were Greek letters, words and phrases carved into its shell of bronze. As I looked down I was something pulsating beneath the two breast plates protecting the mans chest, I bent down to get a closer look but ended up wrenching one of the bronze plates out of the way, because I could only see a slither poking through. What was laying in front of me was breathtakingly beautiful, this must be where the robot drew it power from, it was a smooth disk about the size of two hands cupped together, it was also made out of bronze like the automaton and had even more delicate carvings on it, the engravings seemed to glow silver whenever you looked at them in your peripheral vision, but what really caught my eye was the deep blue orb that slowly rotated in the middle of the the disk, it was like something you would see in Star Wars, it looked like it was hanging on invisible string and the disk was orbiting about it. The orb itself had a delicate mist writhing through the impossibly deep blue of the orb, I stuffed it inside my backpack trying to keep it as padded as possible, maybe Annabeth would like this, her birthday was coming up so maybe I'd give it to her then.
Then Justin was off at a canter, and I had to race to catch up. Off to fight another robot, hopefully they were all this easy. Boy was I wrong.
