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The Flames Of The Night

Angel stared in amazement at Cathy as her hands burst into green flames, and honestly I couldn't blame him. I've seen Cathy use magic hundreds of times, we've practiced magic together for weeks and I've never seen anything like this. Her flames are usually orange and used with her boomerang thing. "Cathy that's amazing!" said Angel. "But how is it gonna help David shadow travel?"

"I use Underworld magic." I said. "But, the thing is, I'm not a child of the Underworld. So how do I do it? I harness the power from my ring, or sword. Depends on what I need at the moment. The point is that if I practice a lot with my ring, I get better, in other words, if I learn more spells, I'll be able to use the ones I already know better. Right now I know five and a half spells."

"Half?" In That moment, my right hand where I wear my ring burst into black flames and Cathy shot a column of green flames at the cave wall. I aimed to shoot the wall with my black fire but instead of shooting a column of fire, the flames grew slightly larger the flickered out of existence. "Well that's useless." Said Angel. Cathy shot him a deadly look and said: "He's making progress. Now, do it again." I kept firing shots at the cave wall but I couldn't even make the fire shoot a couple feet in front of me. We'd been there so long that even Angel started to train with us. Instead of using the cave wall as a target, we'd use Angel. Cathy would fire a column of green flames at Angel, bright light would appear when he held up his hand and then it would turn even brighter. I would make the shadows get thicker; just to see if that would help. Sadly, it didn't. After three hours straight, we decided to take a break. Outside the cave was a waterfall that leads down to small lake so we could bathe and swim around and shit. Luckily, the cave was at the bottom of the waterfall so we could use that as a shower. Angel and Cathy looked at me, the lake, then smiled. Angel and I put on our cargo shorts and stripped off our shirts and that's when I noticed it. Angel and I were growing six-packs. Fuck yeah. I turned around and I almost chocked. Cathy was wearing nothing but a bra and some short shots. "C-C-Cathy y-you're..." I was beginning to say but Cathy cut me off. "What? It's less revealing than a bikini, and you've seen me in plenty of those." She said. "And besides, there's not much of a difference between seeing me in a bra and seeing me in a bikini top."

"True enough." I said, turning around to go into the lake. As we got into the lake, the water was cold and thin. At first we were shivering too much to do anything, but then, as we got used to the cold, we started moving around and eventually we were swimming and splashing around to our hearts content. At one point Cathy got into the waterfall and started taking a shower while Angel and I began sparring on the lake, he had his gold sword and I had Stygian. He swung to the left, and I blocked; I swung to the right, he blocked. I swiped at his legs, he blocked. He swiped at mine, I blocked. This went on for quite some time until I saw my chance. Angel attempted to strike from above. It was a bold move because if I failed to block, he would crack my head wide open but I sparred with him close to every day. No one knows my skill with a sword better than Angel and vise-versa. When I saw his strike coming, I faked as if I was going to block it but when his blade reached mine, I squatted and his sword kept going down. I moved my sword across his until I reached the guard of the blade and hit his wrist with the butt of my sword. His sword fell into the lake. I slashed my sword in the air and stopped, just millimeters away from his throat. Cathy was watching intently as she had never seen us spar. Angel smiled and asked "How long you been working on that one?" And I answered by saying "Since we got the quest." Angel reached into his pocket and pulled out his gold coin. He was about to flip it when Cathy said. "No, It's my turn now." I looked at her in shock and asked "You sure?" though we both knew it was just a front and that none of us knew what the outcome of this fight was going to be. Cathy pulled her ivory stick from thin air and said: "Bring it."

I slashed at her right with my sword and she used her stick that was now glowing a bright gold to block. I expected that boomerang thing to break on contact but apparently that gold thing was protecting it. We went on like this for a while, the same as with Angel but then, after she had blocked one of my strikes and my chest was wide open for attacks, she took the offense and poked me really hard with her stick. She poked me so hard, in fact, that I flew back a couple of feet just from having contact with the stick. The moment I hit the wall a couple of feet behind me, I used the air to make the water at Cathy's feet to churn. I wasn't controlling the water like Percy could do; no, I was pushing the water by manipulating the winds, bending them to my will. Cathy looked surprised at first, but that didn't last because she fell into the lake pretty quick. I took that time to use the winds to push me foreword towards Cathy and when I got there, I saw just what I was expecting. Cathy had dropped her weapon and it lay forgotten in the lake as Cathy stood up I grabbed her wrist, spun her around so her back was to me and both my arm and hers were around her neck, not chocking her, just holding her in place. She tried to use her other hand to attack but I grabbed her other arm with my other arm and held it up to her face, a small black, candle-like flame was hovering on top of my index and middle finger, inches away from her face while I used the rest of my fingers were grabbing her, keeping her from moving. She smiled and I couldn't resist. I pecked her on the lips and let go of her, shooting into the air. She laughed and picked up her ivory thing and through it into the air and that son of a bitch started following me. When the thing finally hit me, my clothes burst into flames. I plummeted straight into the lake and would have died if Cathy hadn't used magic to make a tide to catch me. When I surfaced, Cathy and Angel were dying of pure laughter and I just couldn't help but joining them, somehow, the fire didn't consume my clothing, but it did scare the hell out of me. It was about three in the morning, and we were playing magical pranks in the middle of a lake. What could go possibly wrong? As we were laughing, there was a rustling in the bushes, and the laughter died out almost instantaneously. We all summoned our weapons and gently approached it. Next thing we knew, a giant three headed monster, a hydra, jumped out of some bushes that were just way to small for it to hide in. It blew some flames in our way but we quickly dodged them. Angel made some light to chop off the monsters heads but that was a bad idea. Where Angel cut off a head, two more grew back. Cathy made some fire on the tip of her ivory stick and green fire on her left arm. She fired both at the monster but it moved with impossible speed and the flamed blasted between two of its heads, both of which immediately blasted fire and Cathy's direction while its other two heads blew fire at Angel and me. Angel and I jumped out of the way just in time, but Cathy wasn't so lucky. She dodged one of the heads attacks but the other one got her arm, leaving a nasty mark. The beast took the time Cathy gave it from flinching and screaming in pain to smack her with its tail, making her slam against a rock, knocking her out. Rage filled within me. I shrunk my sword and shot the hydra with a bolt of lightning. It easily dodged but I blasted, not a bolt of lightning, but something stronger. It looked kinda like a missile but smaller and rounder. It hit the monster squarely in the chest and it staggered. Again, I shot a barrage of balls/bolts of lightning with both hands so fast that Angel just stared at me in amazement. I looked over at Cathy's crumpled up body and I lost it. Lightning arched down my arms and made tiny balls of electricity at the palms of my hands and an actual bolt of lightning came down from the sky and landed on the hydra for about three seconds. I would have been surprised that it wasn't dead except for the fact that they can only be killed with fire. So I focused all my energy and drew power from the ring. I blasted a column of jet-black flames at the hydra so quickly in succession with my previous attacks that it just didn't have time to move. The flames engulfed the hydra completely and it exploded in a burst of black ashes. "What the hell was that?" asked Angel, but I didn't answer. I was too busy rushing over to Cathy's side. I picked her up and flew to the cave. I put a few drops of nectar into the third degree burn in her arm, which immediately started to clear up. I dropped as much as I could risk it into her mouth and she began to stir. Angel was now beside me, handing me some water and a roll of bandages that he had apparently gotten from Camp Jupiter. Cathy woke up just as I was wrapping her arm in a wet bandage. "What happened?" she asked.

"It's okay, you're safe now." I responded hugging her. "I killed it."

"You what?" she asked surprised.

"Yeah," said Angel. "He shot black fire at it. You should have seen it!" I looked at Cathy and I knew what she was thinking. She should have seen it. She should have been there when her student mastered a spell. "It's okay," I said. "Don't worry, just rest, we'll shadow travel to Brooklyn in the morning." Cathy nodded, still looking sad. She got closer and grabbed my arms, and wrapped them around her. He laid down against my chest. We sat there, quiet in the firelight. Cathy's long, caramel colored hair smelled of cinnamon. I lightly rubbed my hand up and down her arm, warming her up from our swim in the lake. Angel and I had changed into our jeans and fresh Camp Half-Blood t-shirts but Cathy was still in her bra and short shorts. She was shivering a lot and I put my hoodie around her, just to see if it would help. I caressed her hair, trying to calm her down, but she was in tears. "It hurts." She said, referring to her burn. The nectar had manage to get the mark away but the inside of her arm was still not fully healed. "That's no ordinary fire." I decided. "It must me magic."

"Maybe we could try the nectar again." Said Angel, not very hopeful.

"No." I said. "We can't risk it." Cathy was shivering in my arms and I was really worried about her. I held her close to me, hugging her tight. Cathy fell asleep and Angel and I started talking.

"You really like her don't you?" he asked.

Yeah." I said thinking about how two and a half weeks ago I had nothing, no sword, no magic, no powers, and no girl.

"Seems her to believe that just a couple weeks ago we were worried about finals and shit."

"Yeah. Man I hated sitting in that classroom, with an air conditioner, lunch, gods I miss that school!"

Angel chuckled, and leaned back against the wall. "It's five a.m." He said. "Get some rest, we got a long-ass day tomorrow." He wasn't wrong but I couldn't sleep, adrenaline was still pumping through my veins. "He's right you know." Said Cathy who was apparently still awake. "Get some sleep and tomorrow, we can talk to the Egyptians, who knows? Maybe I can learn a thing or two about magic." I kissed Cathy and leaned back against the cave walls as Cathy got in even closer against my chest, kissed me lightly, and we both went to sleep.

Aaaaand Back To The Long Ones...Though I Got An Even Longer One In My Pants If You Know What I Mean!