I've been dreaming about this, the gods have smile upon me, it might not be how you imagine but whom are we to decided, we are all pawn to our masters, hail chaos.
That night after dinner, there was some excitement for once. It was time to capture the flag, a little distraction.
When the plates cleared away, the conch horn sounded and all stood at their tables, the campers moved and got ready, some seemed happy but others just went with it.
Not feeling it but doing it anyway.
Annabeth and two of her siblings ran into the pavilion carrying a silk banner. It was about ten feet long, glistening grey, with a painting of a barn owl above an olive tree.
From the opposite side of the pavilion, Clarisse and her buddies ran in with another banner, of the same size, but gaudy red, painted with a bloody spear and a boar's head.
Percy went with Cabin Hermes, he turns to Luke.
"Those are the flags?" Percy asked, seeing the flags.
"Yeah."
"Ares and Athena always lead the teams?" Percy checked, seeing if those two always lead.
"Not always, but often." Luke said, Percy nods.
"So, if another cabin captures one, what do you do— repaint the flag?" Percy questions the whole thing. Luke grins at him.
"You'll see. First we have to get one." Luke said, seeing Terry walking forward with Sydney.
"Hey Percy, ready for this capture the flag" Sydney grins at him, Terry just smiled.
"Yeah, whose side are we on?" Percy asked. Terry smiled again.
"Hermes made a temporary alliance with Athena. Tonight Hermes gets the flag from Ares, it's going to be fun." Terry grins at him, something Percy doesn't like.
"What did you do?" Percy asked, concerned with what Terry is planning, Terry only giggles.
"Where is Nathan?" Percy looks around for his friend, the only one to stop Terry in his schemes.
"He said he doesn't want to play. He is providing us medical treatment after this" Sydney explains to him, Percy saw Nathan talking to Chiron while he was holding medical supplies from his bags
"And Kate?" Percy asked, Luke nudged him, making him look to see Clarisse talking to Kate.
"Come on Kate, you get to be on the winning side" Clarisse said, trying to convince Kate to join Aries.
"I'm already in Hermes," Kate said, going over to the others.
"But you're unclaimed, no one would bat an eye if you join our cabin" Clarisse expressed to her, but Kate shakes her head.
"I'm fine where I am" Kate signs, this is a common between the two.
"But this could be what our father wanted" Clarisse points out, this stops Kate, turning to Clarisse with an enraged look.
"Our Father? What makes you believe Ares is my father?!" Kate growls at her, making Clarisse back up.
"Well, you're strong, a great fighter, you take no shit" Clarisse points out, slowly backing while Kate gets angry.
"I hope he is, then I know who to blame for my shitty childhood" Kate resentfully said, looking at Clarisse.
"My godparent left me with a mother and father who beat me and each other, made me mad at everything I see, when I see my godparent, there will be hell to pay" Kate swore to her, making Clarisse step back as Kate made her way to the others, leaving Clarisse to glare at Percy for some reason.
"You ok?" Percy asked, seeing Kate gritting her teeth.
"Just need something to do," Kate said, following the Hermes cabin.
The teams were announced:
Athena had made an alliance with Apollo and Hermes, the two biggest cabins. Apparently, privileges had been traded—shower times, chore schedules, the best slots for activities-order to win support.
Terry and Sydney are having fun making deals.
Ares had allied themselves with everybody else: Dionysus, Demeter, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus. Dionysus's kids were actually good athletes, but there were only two of them.
Demeter's kids had the edge with nature skills and outdoor stuff but they weren't very aggressive. Aphrodite's sons and daughters they weren't too worried about. They are lazy when it comes to any physical activity, mostly to check their reflections in the lake and do their hair and gossiped; don't know why anyone would make an alliance with them.
Hephaestus's kids weren't pretty but looked like shallow people anyway, and there were only four of them, but they were big and strong from working in the metal shop all day.
That, of course, leaves Ares's cabin: a dozen of the big kids with more testosterone then brain cells.
Chiron hammered his hoof on the marble.
"Heroes!" He announced getting everyone's attention.
"You know the rules. The creek is the boundary line. The entire forest is fair game. All magic items are allowed. The banner must be prominently displayed, and have no more than two guards. Prisoners may be disarmed, but may not be bound or gagged. No killing or maiming is allowed. I will be a referee and battlefield medic. Arm yourselves!" Chiron said he spread his hands, and the tables were suddenly covered with equipment: helmets, bronze swords, spear, and oxide shields coated in metal.
"Whoa, we're really supposed to use these?" Percy said looking at all the weapons; Luke looked at me as if he were crazy.
"Unless you want to get skewered by your friends in cabin five. Here—Chiron thought these would fit. You'll be on border patrol." Luke handed a shield to Percy. Percy's shield was the size of an NBA backboard, with a big caduceus in the middle. It weighed about a million pounds.
'I hoped nobody seriously expected me to run fast,' Percy thought.
His helmet, like all the helmets on Athena's side, had a blue horsehair plume on top. Ares and their allies had red plumes.
"Looking good Percy" Terry said, showing his smaller shield, half Percy's shield and a spear, wearing the blue horse hair helmet as well.
"Why are you here? You hate doing physical activity" Percy asked him suspiciously, Terry never likes doing hard work.
"How can I not enjoy the fruits of my labour if I'm not standing in the front seat?" Terry explains, before Percy could question him.
"Blue team, forward!" Annabeth yelled and few people cheered but others just followed, not feeling as exuberant as they should and followed her down the path to the south woods.
Some of the red team yelled taunts at them as they headed off toward the north.
Annabeth walks over to Kate with a spear and shield.
"Kate, I need you in the front lines" Annabeth said, getting Kate's attention.
"What?" Kate asked, hearing her now.
"I need you to lead the vanguard, your strength and fighting skill will be the tipping point" Annabeth explains, seeing Kate is now the strongest fighter in Hermes now, bar the more experienced one.
In raw talents and strength Kate beat all the newbies; the more experienced ones are the only ones allowed to challenge her.
"Will Percy fight with me?" Kate asked, but Annabeth shook her head.
"No he is on Border patrol with Terry" Annabeth said, to Kate's confusion.
"You put Percy with Terry, Why?" Kate asked her, Percy is a good fighter; inexperience but he is better than Terry.
"It's all part of the plan" Annabeth said with a knowing look, a look at tick Kate off.
"I don't like you" Kate stated, walking away with the others to Annabeth's shock.
Percy managed to catch up with Annabeth without tripping over his equipment.
"Hey." Percy said, but Annabeth kept marching.
"So what's the plan? Got any magic items you can loan me?" Percy asked, Terry catches up with him.
"Now Annabeth, don't go telling the plan" Terry said, nudging Annabeth, move push back.
"Oh shut up Terry, you are not part of my plan" Annabeth is annoyed, Terry always tries to get in on the plan.
"But if you follow my advice" Terry tries to say but Annabeth wasn't having it.
"No Terry, I'm the head on this alliance and the brains, I don't need others, Athena always has a plan" Annabeth spoke, shutting down Terry before he could say,
Terry frowns at her.
"Athena isn't always right" Terry grunts, walking back as Annabeth turns to Percy.
"Just watch Clarisse's spear," Annabeth said, talking to Percy now.
"You don't want that thing touching you. Otherwise, don't worry. We'll take the banner from Ares. Has Luke given you your job?" Annabeth asked.
"Border patrol, whatever that means." Percy said,
"It's easy. Stand by the creek with Terry, keep the reds away. Leave the rest to me. Athena always has a plan." Annabeth pushed ahead, leaving Percy and Terry in the dust.
"Okay, glad you wanted me on your team." Percy mumbled, Terry frowned at her.
"She a bitch Percy, won't listen to me or anyone else, Athena plans usually makes someone else suffer while she gets the benefits" Terry said, glaring at Annabeth's direction with a signature Percy.
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From a long distance, Chiron and Mr. D were waiting for something to happen. Mr. D was sitting on a chair, while Chiron was just standing there.
"You always watch from here" Nathan asked, walking beside the two immortals.
"Welcome Nathan," Chiron greeted the less troublesome child.
"Pretty much, it would be more interesting but since the incident…well it is not has fun as it used to be" Mr. D answered Nathan before turning to him.
"Why are you here?" Mr. D questioned,
"Stomach is killing me and I need to refill my pills, I need to talk to you about that Chiron Cough Cough," Nathan said, looking at Chiron.
"How can a demi-god get sick? Something is wrong with you, hey Chiron do something about him, his presence disgust me" Mr. D waves to him, Nathan glares at him.
"Doesn't Ambrosia help" Mr. D said, asking why Nathan doesn't use the healing potion.
"I'm not hurt I'm sick, I need my medicine soon" Nathan glares at the god,
"It's alright Mr. D, I'll see to getting your medicine" Chiron said, seeing Nathan need more than the ambrosia.
"Thank you, ACHooo" Nathan sneezed, his snort flying in the air and landing on a tree.
"Excuse me" Nathan apologised, taking a tissue to blow his nose.
SIIIISSSSSSSS
The immortals and demi turn to see the snot has melted the tree like acid.
That surprised Mr. D, Chiron and Nathan.
"That's weird" Nathan said, seeing his snort is melting the tree.
Wait no, it is now growing more roots in its place, a lot of old rotten wood.
"Ok... Last time I checked, I am not your father," Mr. D said, one of his abilities is to control plants, he can actually control all kinds actually but he prefers grapes and strawberry vines.
"Good thing you're not, I would beat your ass if you were" Nathan said, looking at his tissue, seeing it's not melting or anything, Mr D looks at Nathan.
"Rather rude to a god, I can turn you into a dolphin" Mr. D threatens, but Nathan sneezes again.
Achhooo
More snort got on the ground as Nathan blew his nose again, a very loud sound at made Mr. D uncomfortable.
"I'm sorry what" Nathan said, wiping his nose as Mr. D saw the sick look on his face.
"Yeah never mind" Mr. D turns away, seeing Nathan has enough shit to deal with.
Mr. D is an asshole but even he's not that cruel.
"Who do you think would win, Nathan?" Chiron asked Nathan shrugs at him.
"The Blue team is most likely" Nathan thought, getting Mr. D's attention.
"Why not red? They have a war-god cabin with them," Mr. D asked. Nathan shakes his head.
"There's more to war than fighting, intellects win wars not brute force" Nathan said, Mr. D nods.
"Right you are, at least one brat knows how it works" Mr. D said to Chiron but Nathan shakes his head.
"I'm worried about the others," Nathan said, looking at the Blue team and Red team fighting.
"Don't worry, the Ares cabin knows what's good for them" Chiron said, seeing Nathan is concerned for his friends.
"What no, I'm concerned because Terry in this, he never plays a game fair" Nathan said, knowing Terry is up to something, to Chiron sudden realisation.
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Kate stands straight with the blue team behind her; everyone starts to gather around Kate seeing she is the strongest among them.
"This is exciting Kate" Sydney said, next to Kate with her own gear, using her harpy whip and a spear.
"Would prefer Percy here with us" Kate said, a little exciting about this but wanted to fight with Percy
"Oh don't worry, Percy will have a great time, especially with Terry" Sydney said, making Kate sign at the mention of Terry.
"Why would Terry join in anyway?" Kate asked, Sydney thought for a moment until she snap her fingers
"You yeah, he and I spread rumours about Percy" Sydney said, getting Kate's attention.
"What rumours Sydney?" Kate turns to her, seeing Sydney grins.
"Nothing much, how amazing Percy is, how strong he is, about your friendship with him and how he can beat all the Ares kids" Sydney counts every rumour she spreads about her friend.
"You what!?" Kate outrage at what she did, Sydney looks confused.
"What's wrong with me telling everyone about Percy" Sydney asked with her shoulder.
"Ares cabin are prideful pricks, they'll attack Percy" Kate said to her, Sydney looked in shock as she looked around for Percy and Terry.
"Where are they?" Kate asked, looking around, but a horn blew, making everyone cheer and scream, Kate glared forward as everyone charged, and the Blue team ran forward.
"MOTHERFUCKERS" Kate roars in rage, running forward with her shield and clashing into a few Ares sons, knocking them back as whipping her spear around, knocking their helmets off and knocking them out.
"Yeah, I should have seen that coming" Sydney said, mentioning that rumor to Kate and Terry telling her to mention a few things about Percy.
Sydney should have seen it coming, she jumps over Demeter's child, landing on the shield and using her harpy whip to knock out a few others as well.
They both need to find Percy before Terry does something stupid.
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It was a warm night. The woods were dark, with fireflies popping in and out of view. Annabeth stationed Percy and Terry next to a little creek that gurgled over some rocks, then she and the rest of the team scattered into the trees.
Standing there alone, with a big blue-feathered helmet and huge shield, Percy felt like an idiot.
"There was no way anybody would actually attack me, would they?" Percy said, Terry shrugs looking at him.
"You never know Percy" Terry is cheeky at him, Percy looks at him.
Percy and Terry heard far away, the conch horn blew. Then they heard whoops and yells in the woods, the clanking of metal, kids fighting. They heard a familiar shout as well. A blue-plumed ally from Apollo raced past them like a rabbit on coke, leaped through the creek, and disappeared into enemy territory.
"Great, I'll miss all the fun, as usual." Percy said but Terry grins.
"Oh just wait my friend the fun is starting" Terry said, turning to hear a canine growl, close by while Percy raised his shield instinctively; he had the feeling something was stalking them. The growling stopped.
"What did you do Terry?" Percy asked, he grins as he waves his hand.
"Just had Sydney tell everyone how great you are and how you can beat the Ares cabin" Terry said with a shit eating grin, to Percy horror, Terry gave a wave.
"Hi Wilma" Terry greeted, Clarisse and four other Ares warriors came in yelling and screaming out of the dark.
"Cream that punk and that nerd!" Clarisse screamed. Her eyes glared through the slits of her helmet. She brandished a five-foot-long spear, its barbed metal tip flickering with red light. Her siblings had only the standard-issue bronze swords. They charged across the stream. There was no help in sight.
Percy could run. Or he could defend himself against half the Ares and curse Terry in the dark.
Percy managed to sidestep the first kid's swing. They three surrounded him, and Clarisse thrust at him with her spear. His shield deflected the point, but he felt a painful tingling all over his body. His hair stood on end. His shield arm went numb, and the air burned.
Her spear was electric. He fell back.
Another Ares guy slammed him in the chest with the butt of his sword and he hit the dirt. They started laughing.
Terry drops the shield and sword, he turns his body to avoid the sword swing, and Terry moves his head and body to avoid the Ares soldiers.
"Hold still" One Ares kids said, trying to slash him but Terry kept dodging.
"Your mother was a whore and tried to cut off your dick cause she wanted a girl" Terry taunts one guy, making him mad. The Ares kids jump at him just as another tries to stab Terry with his sword.
Terry jumps to the side, making the one Ares kid jump in the other sword thrust.
"AWWWWW" The one Ares kid screams in pain as the sword goes to the side, the other one freaking out.
"Oh shit, Mat, oh gods I'm sorry, so sorry" The other guy said, grabbing his brother and stopping the blood from the wound.
"Keep pressure on that" Terry points out, getting a glare from the guy.
"Why are you glaring at me, this happens all the time" Terry said, Clarisse tries to stab him with the electric spear, but Terry steps back.
"Hold still nerd" Clarisse growls, trying to poke the nerd with her lighting spear, but Terry bobs and weaves his body.
"Sorry bully, can't do that, taste nerd power" Terry said, throwing his hand forward.
"BURN BABY BURN" Terry shouted, shooting fire at her, forcing Clarisse to back off with her brothers.
Percy managed to get to his feet. He raised his sword to hit Clarisse, but Clarisse slammed it aside with her spear as sparks flew. Now both his arms felt numb.
"Oh, wow, this is the guy that killed the minotaur? Yeah right, everyone knows Kate killed it, she was too nice to weaklings and gave you the credit" Clarisse points at him, Kate mentions Percy killed the Minotaur first but people saw her tearing the beast head off.
"The flag is that way," Percy managed to say, hoping they would leave him alone.
So he can kill Terry himself.
"Yeah, but see, we don't care about the flag. We care about a guy who thinks our cabin's look stupid and the nerd calling us out" one of Clarisse's siblings said.
"And call us weak with tiny dicks" another one said, Percy looks at Terry but he shrugs.
He didn't mention that part.
"Once Kate sees how pathetic you are, she'll join Ares" Clarisse said, lighting in her spear.
"Wilma, Kate is too strong for you, none of you is any better than Percy, and everyone knows you're all stupid, right Percy" Terry said, adding gasoline to the fire.
"My name isn't Wilma you jackass" Clarisse shouted, stocking her spear forward sending electricity around, Terry and Percy jumped back as another slash Percy's arms, leaving a cut as they landed in the water.
"Percy" Nathan shouted, seeing the fight as he headed over.
"They are taking this too far," Chiron said, as he saw blood on the ground, following behind Nathan.
"This is going to be interesting," Mr. D said, watching all this, but stops all of a sudden, feeling something near him, and watching him.
"What's this feeling?" Mr. D said, looking around, seeing only his shadow.
"Uncle?" Mr. D called out, believing his uncle was here, but got no response.
Back to Percy and Terry, they stay back as Clarisse and her cabin mates come into the creek to get the two.
One guy tried to attack Percy, but somehow, Percy knew what to do. He swung the flat of his sword against the guy's head and knocked his helmet clean off. He hit him so hard and he crumpled into the water.
"Go Percy" Terry cheered, as two other Ares guys try to get Terry, Terry kicks the water against the two.
SPLASH SPLASH
"Hey stop it" one guy said, getting wet from the water.
"That's all you can go" the other guy taunts, seeing Terry kicking water at them.
"Na I got someone for ya" Terry grins, rubbing his head together, rubbing them fast as the two guys see electricity gathering in his hands.
"Oh shit" They both said, Terry saw electricity.
"AHHHHHHHHHH" "FUCCCCCKKKKK" The two guys shouted, getting electrocuted.
"UNLIMITED POWERRRRR" Terry shouted, crackling like a certain emperor.
But he forgot he was wet too, one of the bolts travelled to his arms.
"OHHH SHITTTTTTT" Terry cracked, getting shocked as well.
Clarisse stands back, seeing Percy taking out one guy and Terry shocking two guys and himself.
Fucken Nerd.
"Just you now Prissy" Clarisse said, Percy gets ready to face her.
"AhHHH Clarisse, help! She's insane!" Another Ares came running behind Clarisse, turning to see a scary sight.
Kate standing on the hill with her shield and spear covered in blood, her helmet off with blood on her face.
"She's been beating us all, please save me" the Ares guy said, but a whip hit him, wrapping around his throat.
Sydney with the harpy whip pulled the guy up to her.
"That's enough out of you" Sydney said, tightening the whip to suffocate the guy, making him pass out due to lack of air.
"You wanted my attention, you got it" Kate growls, seeing what's happening.
"Kate, it's part of the game" Clarisse said, but Kate sees the truth.
"The leader of the red team ganging up on the rookie, I know who you are," Kate said, walking down the hill.
"You are nothing but a bully crying for attention, all your cabin are, none of you are warriors, no honor, no dignity, you pick on the weak to make yourself feel better, cause you know Ares would never look at any of you" Kate said, Clarisse flinch at the mention of her father.
"A true warrior fights to prove himself, take on challenges against the strongest, Ares never looks at any of you because he sees what I see" Kate's words cut deeper to Clarisse than any sword cut.
"He's see a coward he can use and abuse, and none of you will stop him" Kate shouted, Clarisse glares at Kate
"RAHHHHH" Clarisse shouted, lighting surrounding the spear the Kate blocks with her shield.
"Magic! Fight me on your own" Kate grits her teeth, the lighting hitting the shield but she's not dropping it.
Pushing forward the spear does around her shield as Kate grabs the end of it and snaps it like a twig.
"Ah! You bitch!" Clarisse screamed, but Kate hit her again.
"Your father will never love you, stop fighting for him and fight for yourself" Kate shouted back, stabbing her spear as Clarisse backed away.
Then they all heard yelling, elated screams, and the group turned to see Luke racing toward the boundary line with the red team's banner lifted high. He is flanked by a couple of Hermes guys covering his retreat and a few from Apollo behind them, fighting off the Hephaestus kids.
The Ares folks got up, and Clarisse muttered a dazed curse.
"A trick! It was a trick." Clarisse shouted, seeing Luke taking the red team flag, Terry watched this with a grin.
They staggered after Luke, but it was too late. Everybody converged on the creek as Luke ran across into friendly territory. Other side exploded into cheers at winning the game.
But the red banner burst into flames.
Luke drops the red flag, everyone backs away from the burning flag.
All the blue team gather around Luke to see the red flag burning, all talking in concern and issues, the Blue team turns to the red team angry now.
"Hey that cheating" A voice calls out to Percy right, Percy looks to see no one was there, The air shimmered, and she materialised in front of him, holding a Yankees baseball cap as if she'd just taken it off her head.
See Annabeth appearing out of nowhere and shouting at Clarisse.
"What no way" Clarisse denies, seeing her flag burn and everyone turning to the red team, the blue team all shouts accusations and threats.
Chiron canters out of the woods and get in between the team, blowing the conch horn to stop the game.
But no one wins.
"They burn their own flag" Percy said, seeing everyone turning to Ares and the others, Chiron stopping anyone from getting violence.
"You burn your own flag, that afraid of losing" Kate said, seeing the Ares burn their own flag rather than accept a loss.
"We didn't burn the flag, we don't know magic" Clarisse defends her cabin; bullying is one thing but they are not cheats.
"But you have the most magic users, anyone can make something burst into flames" Terry pointed out, most of the cabins joined Ares, any one of them can make it possible.
"Is that aloud?" Sydney asked, not sure if burning the flag is aloud, seeing everyone getting angry over a game.
"No it not" Annabeth said, glaring at Clarisse who glares back.
"You shouldn't have sent those rumours Terry" Kate calls him out, hearing from Sydney about Terry's little scheme.
"I don't know what you mean" Terry said, looking sly at her, as Kate growled at him, now she wished she was in the red team.
Just to punch Terry.
Nathan came by with a first aid kit and a lot of bandages.
"Is anyone hurt?" Nathan said, seeing a few of them got cuts and scratches, he was running around healing and bandaging everyone that got hurt, most by Kate.
Clarisse grunts as Nathan goes to her.
"Leave me alone" Clarisse said, but Nathan didn't move
"You need a bandage like it or not, you're bleeding" Nathan points out, Clarisse sees the blood on her arm, she turns to see all Are's members with bandages and other stuff.
Clarisse signs as she lets Nathan bandage her, but Percy realises something.
"You set me up," Percy said angrily, looking at Annabeth who turned to him.
"You put me here because you knew Clarisse would come after me, while you sent Luke around the flank. Wait, is this Terry's plan? This is your idea Terry!" Percy asked, asking him but he shakes his head.
"Please that too obvious" Terry states,
"It's not his plan it's mine, Athena always, always has a plan." Annabeth said to him,
"Seriously? I expected this from Terry, but you?" Percy said, seeing Annabeth in a bad light.
"I came as fast as I could. I was about to jump in, but ..." Annabeth said Nathan came to him.
"Ok calm down, it over, let" Nathan stops the argument until he sees Percy wounded.
"How did you do that?" Nathan asked, getting the other's attention.
"Sword Cut," Percy answers, Kate, Sydney and Terry came over.
"That's no sword cut. Look at it." Sydney said, Percy looked to see the blood was gone. Where the huge cut had been, there was a long white scratch, and even that was fading. As he watched, it turned into a small scar, and disappeared.
"I—I don't get it," Percy said, Terry figures it out.
"Step out of the water, Percy." Terry said,
"What—"
"Just do it." Terry orders Percy to come out of the creek and immediately feels bone tired. His arms started to go numb again. He almost fell over, but Kate steadied him.
"We already know you're connected to a water god, you got water powers from them" Kate figures, making Percy hit his head.
"Of course" Percy said, is a son of a water god who made him stronger in the water.
"Oh, Styx, this is not good. I didn't want ... I assumed it would be Zeus..." Annabeth cursed, Nathan turns to her.
"What are you talking about?" Nathan asked, but before anything else they heard that canine growl.
Three canines like growls that are now heard, three howls ripped through the forest.
The campers' arguing instantly stops, hearing the howls, Annabeth draws her sword, Percy holds his sword and shield, Kate gets the spear and shield, Sydney gets her whip and spear as fire gathers around Terry's hand.
Nathan quickly goes to help the injured, seeing something bad will happen.
A terrifying and gigantic black and mahogany three-headed Rottweiler dog the size of an elephant came out of the woods, howling out with his three heads, wearing a chain collar with three holes and has blood-red eyes, razor-sharp teeth and nails.
"The fucken Cerberus" Terry shouted, everyone turns to it in shock, the campers and Chiron look in shock at the famous monster.
"Don't you say a fucken word Terry" Percy shouted, knowing Terry would say it full name, empowering it.
But the Cerberus growls louder, all three heads all snarled as fire starts to gather around their mouths, the three heads of the Cerberus roared, shooting fire in three different directions.
"TERRY" The group shouted at him, but Terry held his hands out in surrender.
"Wait, I never said Cerberus, Guardian of the Underworld, Hound of Hades, father of the hellhounds, son of Typhon and Echidna, once tamed by Hercules" Terry said, but stopped.
"Oh wait I just said it" Terry said, everyone groans as they all gather around pointing their weapons at the monster, the Cerberus growls, blowing more fire as everyone steps back.
"Why is he here?" Sydney panics seeing the giant dog,
"It should be guarding the underworld, he should be transparent to the living" Annabeth said, she researches monsters too.
"None of us are dead" Nathan said, if none of the living see the Cerberus then why do they all see it clearly.
"AHHHHHHH" A shout is head, they all turn to see a skeleton come out of the ground scaring an Aphrodite daughter, he carries a sword and shield and tries slashing at the demi-gods, few ran away from him as more skeletons carrying weapons come out of the ground and start attacking everyone.
"Attackkkk" Luke shouted, grabbing his sword to fight the skeletons along with the other campers with weapons.
All campers with weapons started to attack and fight off the skeletons with Chiron leading the fight.
"The dead are here, the Cerberus is hunting them" Kate said, blocking a sword from one of them, knocking them down.
"That's good right?" Percy said, not sure about the Cerberus but if it is only after the dead then it shouldn't attack them.
Right?
The Cerberus runs forward, three dogs' heads attacking both the skeletons and campers, two heads biting the skeletons but one bites a camper.
"Fuck no that fucken dog can't tell who's dead or not" Terry shouted, shooting fire to burn the Skeletons as more of them came out of the grounds.
"Shit come on" Nathan shouted, grabbing those to injure from the capture the flag game and taking them away from the battle, the skeletons are kept away from Nathan, then walking back when Nathan is near.
"Ok Nathan, gather the injured, and keep them away, Sydney you and I will kill that fucken dog, Percy and Kate fight off the rest of the dead" Terry orders to the others.
"Alright, come on Kate" Percy said, Kate following behind as they destroyed each skeleton the way.
"What are you doing, we have to stick together" Annabeth shouted, but they ignored her. Sydney and Terry ran to the Cerberus while cracking the whip and burning each skeleton in their path.
"Get your cabin and help out" Nathan said to her, already helping the injured up and leading them away from the skeletons as they keep away from him while the injured start to follow Nathan, Annabeth growls in frustration, taking her sword to fight as well.
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"Come on, follow me" Nathan shouted, getting everyone injured to follow him, two Skeletons warriors with swords almost stabbed one demi-god, but Nathan got between them.
"Back the fuck off" Nathan shouted, the two skeletons stand back off, walking away from Nathan as they attack someone else.
"Why are they scared of you?" A demi-god of Athena asked with a sling on his arm, never seeing skeletons back off like that.
To gods but never a demi-god.
"I don't know, just stay close to me" Nathan said, helping the girl up and grabbing a bandage to give to her.
"It is not fatal, but wrap it up and follow the pack" Nathan said, the demi-god girl nods as she follows a group of injured Demi-gods.
Nathan leads them though the injured away from the fighting, lucky the other Demi-gods are fighting the skeleton warriors help by keeping them away from the injured as Nathan and his group help the others and leads them away from the fighting.
"This is insane" One demi-god of Demeter said, seeing all these skeletons fighting the demi-gods and the Cerberus of all monsters attacking both Demi-god and skeletons.
But four more Skeletons came to Nathan and the injured, they holding spears pointing them at the group.
"Fuck off" Nathan shouted, trying to scare them with his presences, but they don't back off, they step forward with the spars at him, making Nathan step back.
"Shit" Nathan cursed, backing off, seeing the skeletons are different, their bones are all twisted or out of place, ribs are out of order and their bone fingers are fused together.
"Crooked bones" Nathan said, seeing the skeletons bones are all misshaped, the skeletons try to stab the injured demi-god but Nathan blocks it with his bag.
"Get back, I'll handle it" Nathan said, the injured step back as some ran away from the twisted skeletons as Nathan stood his ground.
"We are dead" one camper said, scared of these twisted skeletons, Nathan stands his ground.
"Not on my watch" Nathan stands his ground, using his bag to defend himself,
A roar shouts through the wood, a slimy sound is heard, and something draws the injured attention.
Nathan, the injured demi-gods and even the twisted skeletons turn to see someone they'll never forget.
It has the soft, sticky and mottled body of a pallid slug, webbed hands that flop around, a face of writhing green tentacles, and a whip-tail growth that bursts from its back and which wags constantly from side to side.
"What monster is that?!" An Aphrodite Demi-god shouted, all standing away from the really ugly slug monster.
"That no monster I ever read" Athena Demi-god frightens, but Nathan looks more surprised than shocked.
He has seen this monster before, but only in his dream.
The slug-like monster tongue's out, one from his stomach and the other in his mouth, he grins as his slug-like body moves, making a slimy path, the first thing it sees are the twisted skeletons.
Making him grin as he rushes forward, his slug-like body bouncing as the skeletons charge at the monster, the beast grabs two of the skeletons with his large arms. Giving the skeletons a hug, squeezing the bones to his chest as his tongue licks the skeletons heads.
The Skeletons struggle to get out of his embrace, the slug monster's body secreting acid as the bones start to melt. Leading a puddle on melt bones around the slug monster, the monsters look sad at the melt bones.
"It's body's acid" one demi-god freaks out, no monster has acid like body. The other two skeletons spear the beast in the bell, but the bell open up, full of teeth and a long tongue, the beast's stomach ate the spear and the skeleton with it, the monster grab the last skeleton, bring it to it head despite it melting in his hands, the beast lick and kissing the head of the Skeleton with it tongues and tentacles as it melt away all over it body.
The beast looks sad at the melted skeleton.
"Why is that thing sad?" One camper observed, all seeing the expression on its top face.
The slug monster turns to them, the thing grins turn wider when he sees Nathan.
"Oh crap" Nathan said, the beast all but jumped to Nathan, everyone back screaming scared as the slug monster grabs Nathan.
"This is how I die," Nathan said, closing his eyes as he was ready to be killed by this unknown slug monster, the creature giving him a big hug.
Nathan opens his eyes, seeing the slimy creature hugging him with its big arms, his tentacles wrapped around him. The slug smiles as he licks and pets Nathan.
"What..it…going onnn" Nathan tries to say the monster keeps hugging and moving him, trying to see what is happening, he is not melting or anything.
"The monster really likes you" One demi-god said, seeing the monster look happy to see Nathan.
Like a puppy seeing its favourite toy or something.
"I..can..see..that" Nathan struggles to say, the monster won't let him go.
"OK, PUT ME DOWN" Nathan shouted, the beast stopped, his face looking at Nathan, looking sad at him.
"NOW" Nathan orders the beast, it moans sadly as he puts Nathan down, looking sad as it stares at the ground.
"By the gods, what is it?" One demi-god asked, the beast turned to him, it smiled about to reach him but Nathan stopped it.
"NO, STAY NOW" Nathan orders, seeing the beast is acidic with the ground melting around it, the beast looks down as everyone looks at Nathan.
"Seem to listen to you" the Athena demi-god figures. Seeing the monster listening to Nathan.
"No shit" Nathan figures, seeing the monster look down, moaning with its two disgusting mouths.
For some reason Nathan feels bad.
"Ok, it ok, you didn't know your own acid" Nathan signs, seeing the monster look at him, it has a hopeful look.
"Just calm down," Nathan said, using his arms to slowly pet the monster, as the monster grins, his stomach mouth giving Nathan a big lick, covering his body in saliva.
"What is doing here?" One demi-god shouted, "I can't take it anymore"
"I have no fucken idea" Nathan said, wiping the saliva off his face, more skeletons with weapons start to head for them.
"Ok Slimy, you see those skeletons" Nathan names the fucken thing, seeing the slug monster grin, nodding at Nathan.
"Those…are….yourr new bone toy….yeah, go play with anyone made of bones" Nathan figures what to say, seeing how the monster is grinning and jumping around.
"Yeah go play with the bones, go go Slimy" Nathan points at the skeletons, now named Slimy jump in joy with its slug like body, jump to grab the skeletons to play with them, each bone monster melts and their weapons rust being played with Slimy the slug monster.
"What is that thing?" A demigod asked him.
"I..don't…know…but I've seen something like this before" Nathan slowly figures, he dreams about a place filled with rotten monsters and rotting swamps.
Nathan and the other injured Demi-gods watch the slug monster play with the skeleton warriors as this battle becomes more than anyone could handle.
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Kate stabs another skeleton in the head, knocking it off as the skeleton falls down.
"Another one down" Kate said, Percy using his sword to knock down another one behind Kate.
"These boneheads are nothing" Percy said, seeing skeletons are nothing against the demigods he faced, Luke helped train him to use a sword.
But he heard more canine growls, looking over he saw a three black hounds hound the size of a rhino, with lava-red eyes and fangs like daggers, the hounds are staring at Percy.
"Hellhounds" Annabeth shouted, she cut a few skeletons down as they started to run to Percy.
"Duck" Kate shouted, Percy got on his knees, pointing his sword out to stab the hellhounds, his sword cutting its stomach as Percy rolled out of the way.
Kate slams her shield into another hellhound, knocking the hound head and stabbing it in the head.
Two more hellhound's growls at the two, making them get together.
"They seem to like you" Kate says, seeing the hounds are staring at Percy.
"Must be the dog treats in my pocket" Percy jokes, making Kate smile as they point their weapons at them.
"You're joking about this" Annabeth shouts, she's fighting skeletons with the others and now hellhounds are attacking Percy why Cerberus is burning up the place.
"Let's deal with the hounds in front of us" Kate said, seeing the hellhounds look at him.
One hellhound growls at them looking ready to pounce.
But another hound jumps him, a hound that looks like a horrific cross between dog and reptile. Covered with thick scales, with large horns and usually featuring a series of spikes down the spine. Frills grow from various locations, like the back of the skull, on the throat, and the rear of the jaws.
"What the hell is that?" Percy points his sword at the more demonic looking hound, seeing it bite the hellhound neck and spilling blood everywhere.
"That is no Hellhound, what is that?!" Annabeth said, seeing a completely new monster all together, it is nothing she read.
"A flesh-hound" Kate said, looking surprised at the flesh-hound, getting looks from Percy and Annabeth.
"Wait, you know that thing?" Annabeth asked in shock, she never heard of a flesh-hound, the other hellhound tries to attack it but the flesh-hound breathes fire, attacking it.
"I used to dream about a hellhole, I remember running into these dogs I call Flesh-hounds" Kate tries to explain, unsure how to say it without sounding crazy, she looks at the flesh-hound.
"Wait a minute Conner!" Kate shouted, the flesh-hound turned to Kate, stopped snarling and looked more happy.
For a terrifying demon from hell.
The flesh hound jumps on Kate, landing on her as he licks her face.
"Hahhhaa stop it, hahaah, you stupid red bastard" Kate laughs at the flesh-hound licks her face, Kate stands up while petting the flesh-hound.
"You summon a monster" Annabeth looks in awe, seeing the monster acting like a dog, the flesh-hound growling at her.
Scaring Annabeth until Kate stops him.
"NO no Conner, stop no growling" Kate orders, holding the flesh-hound, to show discipline to the monster as he stops growling, but glares at Annabeth.
"That crazy" Percy said, the flesh-hound turned to him, snarling at him, but Kate held him back.
"Stand your ground Percy, Conner here smells fear and hate cowards" Kate said, seeing Percy standing his ground.
"ok, stay..stay" Percy said, trying to be forceful but the flesh-hound growled. Kate pets him down, calming the beast.
"shhhh" Kate calms him down, looking to Percy to give him a nod. Percy slowly pets the flesh-hounds.
"Woow" Percy said, petting the scale flesh of the hound.
"What is going on?" Annabeth wonders, they turn to hear the Cerberus scream.
They look to see a blue stingray flying around the air biting Cerberus.
"Is that a Stingray?" Percy asked, Conner the Flesh-hound grows at the Stingray.
"Why the hell is Terry doing?" Kate asked, seeing Terry pointing at the stingray with a parrot on his shoulder.
"Is Sydney riding a dinosaur?" Annabeth asked, seeing Sydney riding a purple dinosaur?
What is with today!?
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Early Terry and Sydney were taking out a few Skeletons while running to stop the Cerberus.
"Why are we hunting that dog?" Sydney asked, looking at Terry who volunteers them.
"Your whip plus my magic should work" Terry shrugs, as they see Luke trying to fight Cerberus.
Luke gets good hits in, slashing one of the Cerberus head, leaving a cut in one of its eyes, growling the Cerberus's shot fire, burning Luke arm as he screams in pain.
"AHhhhh" Luke shouts, jumping back away from the three-headed hound; holding the side of his body full of burns, the Cerberus snarl at him.
Going in for a bite, Sydney started cracking her whip, scaring Cerberus.
"Bad dog, Bad dog, get back" Sydney yells, cracking the harpy whip, scaring Cerberus in fear of the whip.
"See it scared of the harpy whip, now try some lighting" Terry cheered as his plan, rubbing his hands together to charge up.
"Zap Zap Zap zap zap zap zap zap" Terry chants zap while shooting lighting at the giant three-head dog. Cerberus screams in pain from the lighting.
"Zap zap zap zap" Terry keeps saying zap to shock the monster, while Sydney helps Luke up.
"You alright Luke" Sydney said, helping Luke up.
"mhhh yeah, just a little burn" Luke said, holding his arm, seeing the burn on his arm while Sydney helped him.
"Seat this one out, we'll scare it away" Sydney tries to help but Luke stands up.
"No it's fine I can still ahhhh" Luke holds his arm in pain, Sydney helps him.
"You can't fight with a burned arm, look help the others will you" Sydney helps him up, Luke groans seeing his arm is messed up and more skeletons fighting each other.
And he sees Terry saying zap to shock Cerberus.
"Raa ok, I'll heal up then finish him off" Luke said, seeing he needed to help the other and get his arm sorted.
"That it man, go lead" Sydney said, patting Luke's hurt arm. Causing him to wince.
"Sorry" Sydney apologised Luke nods.
"ZAPPY ZAPPY ZAPPY, TASTE MY ZAPPY MOTHERFUCKER" Terry shouts, shooting more lighting at the Monster then before.
"He's insane," Luke said, seeing how crazy Terry is.
"You figure that out now" Sydney looks at him, before grabbing the whip, running to the Cerberus back.
Sydney runs forward, jumping forward and spinning on her hand and does a few flips, spinning and jumping on top of the three-head dog as it tries to get Sydney off him.
"Hahahaha Come on, boy faster" Sydney shouted, cracking the whip behind Cerberus while he trashes around trying to get her off him.
"Hey! Sydney, I can't zap it if you're there" Terry shouted, not wanting to shoot lighting with Sydney there.
"Come on Terry have fun" Sydney shouts at him, riding the Cerberuses as the two heads try to bite Sydney and try to get her off their body.
Terry got annoyed at this, he felt something land on his shoulder.
It was white crow.
"Gary what are you doing here, you're supposed to keep the band together" Terry scowls at the white crow; it crows at him, Terry narrows his eyes at him.
"What do you mean someone got out, they all have their parts to choir" Terry groans at him as a bird continues to chip at him.
"Oh for the love of all that is holy and good in this world, I can't understand you here" Terry can't take Gary bird talking, finding it easy to understand him when he is dreaming.
Grabbing the white crow, he pulls, flips and changes its mass and body while it screeches the whole time.
RAGGGGG RARRRR
"Shut up Gary, I can't understand you here, I don't care with your exalted or whatever, hold still" Terry shuts the bird up, not caring about whatever it's screeching about.
Terry finished with the white crow, now a colourful parrot.
"Braaaaa What the hell? What the Hell?" Gary the parrot now asked, on Terry's shoulder now.
"See now I can understand you easily" Terry smiles at his work, Gary glares at him.
"Stupid fool, braaa stupid fool" Gary barks, but Terry waves him off.
"Shut up, explain what happened?" Terry asked, the bird, it flaps its new feathers.
"Braaaa Screamer escaped, Screamer escaped BRaaa" Garry cries out, to Terry confusion.
"Screamer?" Terry asked, just as he said a loud scream was heard, he blocked his ears.
Along with Sydney, demi-gods around them and even Cerberus as they all wince from the sound.
Terry looks to see a huge mythical ray flying though the sky, pure blue with black spots, many eyes on the top and spikes and fangs in the front of it.
"Screamer waits that fucken Andrew" Terry points at the Screamer, now knowing who it is. Andrew the Screamer screeched out a piercing, high-frequency that made everyone hold their ears in pain.
Sydney fell off the Cerberus who whines in pain, everyone around fell down there knees trying to block horrible noise. Andrew flies down to the Cerberus, screeching while using its spike to bite down on Cerberus.
WHINNNNN
Cerberus whines in pain as he tries to get the Screamer off him, running away as the Screamer flies off, before turning around to nip at him again.
"Andrew, you cunt, I already gave you a part in the band" Terry shouts at the Screamer, but it is not listening, still biting the dog as it tries to run away.
The Demi-gods around ran away from the fight, having finished the skeletons but ran away from the screeching stingray and fire breathing Cerberus.
"I saw your potential, I know you would be great and this is how you repay me you sick fuck" Terry shouted, getting annoyed at the Screamer for ignoring him.
Everyone looks on in disbelief, they see Terry do weird stuff, but this takes the cake.
"If you're not going to be my star in my band then you're my podium" Terry shouts, rubbing his hands together before shooting Lighting at the Screamer.
Andrew screeched in pain with electricity running through it, it fell to the ground, right in front of Terry.
"I know you did it, I always know one of you stingrays killed Steve Irwin, it had to be you Andrew" Terry shocks the Screamer, it cries in pain as Terry starts to probe and change the string-ray with his hands, moulding and changing it into something else.
Sydney groans after the fall off the Cerberus rubbing her head until she felt something wet tickle her.
"hmhhahahh stop it, come on, wait until the second date" Sydney opens her eyes to see a familiar sight.
A monster that has a perverse beauty, combining elegance and sleekness with an unnatural appearance, it's bipedal, with a body shape not unlike that of an ostrich without feathers. It has two long, feminine legs, and a crest of vivid green hair that runs down the length of its back. The glossy fur on its legs and upper body is typically lavender, whilst the head, tail, and underside are pastel yellow with mottled deep red markings
About halfway down its long neck, there sometimes grows a vertical row of breasts, marking this thing as a creature of the Serpent. The most disturbing quality of this creature is its conical head equipped with a sphincter-like mouth. Flitting out from this orifice is a long, electric-blue, whip-like tail that ends in a sharp barb.
Said sharp barb is tickling Sydney.
"Barney, my elegant steed, my favourite dinosaur" Sydney jumps in joy, giving Barney kisses and hugs on his long head, Barney purrs in pleasure at Sydney touch.
Sydney always dreams of riding a beautiful and deadly landscape, a place never before seen in her wildest dream, it is always a new experience for her, and here her handsome dino steed is always there to give her a ride for a few pats and loving care.
"Why are you here? You want to ride again?" Sydney cues at the dinosaur; Barney licks Sydney as he sees a bit of blood on her face, getting mad Barney turns to Cerberus, seeing it lick his wounds.
"It's nothing Barney" Sydney tries to calm it down, but Barney shakes his head, using his long tongue to wrap around Sydney, with impressive strength Barney lifts her up and puts her on his back.
"Bareback, oh you want to help take this down" Sydney grins as Barney digs into the ground, Sydney grins with her whip.
"Then let's show him what we're made off" Sydney cheered, Barney roars as Sydney cracks her whip. Running forward Sydney reached down to grab one of the spears the skeletons had, cracking the whip on her Barney.
Making him run faster as Sydney whips her Harpy whip to hit Cerberus, causing great pain on the three-headed monster, Barney shoots his sharp whip like tongue, hitting one of Cerberus's eyes.
Cerberus whines in pain as one head starts to breathe fire, making Barney jump back and away from the flames.
Cerberus growls, looking around to see all the skeletons are now gone, only the demi-god starts to surround him, he growls at all of them.
Only Fireball to hit him, Cerberuses growls, one head turning to see that same demi-god shooting lightning before, now flying on a golden like disc with white spikes and eye balls under it.
"You thought I ran away, think again" Terry shouted, he turned Andrew in a flying disc. One he now stands and flies on, Gary won't shut up about it.
"BRAAAa Impossible, Impossible" Gary the parrot keeps screeching in his ears.
"Shut the fuck up Gary" Terry shouted, shotting more fireballs at Cerberus, as it runs away avoiding the fireballs.
Cerberus smells something horrible, looking to see a slug like beast rush at him, the slug beast roar at him as Cerberus backs away from.
"Ok Slimy, there's a puppy to play with" Nathan said, now is ridding the slug monster to keep him from playing with any demi-god, now only Cerberus remains.
"Nathan what the fuck are you riding?! It looks like an obese medusa, a rotten hutt, your mama" Terry shouted, seeing Nathan riding a fat slimy Gordon like monster with a mouth in it stomach and tentacles for hair.
"What I'm riding? What the fuck are you riding? A golden plate with eyeballs and teeth? Where's that manta ray?" Nathan points out, seeing a screaming flying manta ray now Terry riding a flying golden disc with eyes and mouths.
"Andrew was a terrible and disobedient singer, came here without my permission, so I turned him into my podium" Terry grins, the disc shape tries to bit them but Terry stomps on it.
"Hey, Andrew, you're my bitch now" Terry said to the disc under him, the eyes on the thing narrowing but listening as Terry smiles.
Cerberus backs off until a fireball hits it. He turns to see a lizard-hound growling at him with three other demi-gods.
"Nathan, Terry what are you two doing?" Percy asked, seeing both his friends riding some weird monsters.
"Is that a hellhound? You train one?" Terry asked, changing the topic as Kate walks forward, the flesh-hounds going near her.
"No Kate did" Nathan figures, seeing the flesh-hound get fuzzy with Kate.
"You two have one as well" Kate said, seeing she had an companion, but so do these fucks up have as well.
"Three have one, hey guys" Sydney rides Barney back, the demi-gods look at Sydney dinosaur with discomfort.
"Sydney what is that…that… thing?!" Annabeth all but shouted, seeing the four most troublesome demi-gods now riding or controlling unknown monsters.
Annabeth can't figure out what they are and she reads mythological, all mythology.
She is a smart girl that reads all about Greeks, she is curious about other myths, but she sees no book about any other these monsters.
"This is Barney, my famous steed, say hey Barney" Sydney cheers, Barney let out his long tongue in greeting.
"Barney the dinosaur?" Percy said, figuring the name, Sydney smiles.
"You got it" Sydney said, the four monsters glare at one another, something noticed by their respective owners.
"They don't like one another" Nathan said, the first time see Slimy look angry, calming him down with pats.
"We need to discuss it later" Terry said, feeling Andrew shift under him, a few hits stop the movement.
"It's ok Barney, Percy my friend, and the others are associates" Sydney said to Barney, calming him down as Kate holds Conner back.
"Hold, HOLD, Wait for me to attack Conner" Kate ordered, holding the neck of the flesh-hound, getting a grow but he stays his ground.
Cerberus growls at all of them, three heads all burning with fire, which Percy notices.
"Look I know we are in a weird situation, but right now we are a three headed bitch to take out" Percy said, pointing her sword at Cerberus, everyone turned to see Cerberus gathering flame.
"Let's do this!" Nathan shouted, Slimy roars charging at Cerberus, punching two of Cerberus' heads and shooting gas into the middle, blinding the three headed dog.
"WooooWhooooo" Terry cheers with joy, the disc spinning around at a fast pace, holding one hand out with fire. Terry and the disc turn into a flaming saw, cutting and burning the Cerberus side.
"YEAAAAHAAAA" Sydney holds the spear out, Barney jumps across the Cerberus other side, stabbing the spear into the monster's body with another tongue lash from Barney.
"RAhhhh" Kate roared, jumping in the air with Percy with Conner jumping as well.
Cerberus is in great pain, the slug monster acid blinds and hurts his front, a burning saw cuts his side and a spear and last on his other side, now all heads look up to see two Demi-gods and a Flesh-hound jumping at his head.
He tries to attack but he is too weak.
Kate stabs the left head of Cerberus, Conner the flesh-hound ripped the throat out of the right head, and finally Percy stabs the top of the middle head of Cerberus.
All the heads of Cerberus cry in pain, blood sweeping out of his wounds, as Cerberus turns to gold dust.
Leaving in the golden dust was a necklace with three metal pieces of dog heads.
Everyone breathes a sigh of relief at the end of the Cerberus, ending this battle.
"We did it," Percy said, exhausted from the fight.
"This is a fuck up end of the night" Nathan said, getting of Slimy as he makes him stay in the spot, Sydney went to pick up the necklace.
"A necklace? How does that work?" Sydney asks confused while a necklace comes out of a dead monster; Terry jumps off the disc, the parrot sits on the disc.
"Give me that" Terry grabs the necklace out of her hand, giving them a shake fire starts to gather around it, Terry points it forward as fire shoots out of it.
"A flame throwing necklace?" Kate asked, seeing the necklace as Terry looked at it.
"Could be useful" Terry shrugs while holding the necklace, but that wasn't the issue right now.
The five all turn to look at the monster stand up, merely looking and standing in their place, Annabeth shows up, seeing Cerberus is dead and the new monsters standing there.
"So what do we do about these monsters?" Percy asked, looking at each monster.
"I have no idea Stay, stay" Nathan stops Slimy from moving, his look inpatient but stay.
"You got an ugly one Nathan" Terry points out, Nathan gives him the stink eye.
"At least he is alive" Kate said, seeing the floating disc with eyes moving.
"Mine the best looking, aren't you Barney" Sydney praised her monster, he seems to like it.
"THIS ISN'T FUNNY, SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE" Annabeth shouted, seeing the monsters aren't attacking her as she looks at them.
"No shit, skeletons and Cerberus attack the camp, and these monsters show up" Percy said looking at his friends.
Luke came over along with other campers, glory means nothing with all this happening, Chiron came near them
All looking at the monsters in fear and some cases wonder.
"You guys know these monsters, don't you?" Percy figures, seeing his friend's interactions with them
"I've never seen monsters like these," Chiron said, keeping his distance with his swords in hand.
"It ok, as long as we're here they won't hurt anyone" Sydney steps forward, trying to calm down everyone as they look at her.
"I dreamed of a wonderful place, of beauty and death. Barney here helps to explore everything, riding winds of such a world" Sydney said, Barney came forward, resting his head on Sydney's shoulder as she gave him a pet.
Terry steps forward with the floating disc with eyeballs and a parrot, beside him
"I dreamed of a realm beyond sane minds, luckily my sanity was always in question" Terry explains, Gary flowing to his shoulder.
"There I meet this creature who was originally an ugly abomination until I change him, like I change the screamer into a floating disc" Terry explains the floating disc.
"Braaa Asshole, Asshole" Gary said, getting a few laughs from the campers and others.
"Shut it Gary," Terry grabs the colourful parrot, it cries in pain as it starts to change before everyone's eyes, the parrot is now all red.
"You change its colour?" Annabeth said, seeing the bird change its colour and the monster into an item.
"I can do more than that" Terry grins, shutting the bird up as he hits the floating disc.
"What about that slimy monster?" Luke points at the slug monster petting Nathan.
"I dreamed about a horrible place, a swamp with everlasting rot, growing beyond what is physically possible, I've seen monsters similar to these ones but kept my distance" Nathan explains, Slimy gave Nathan a big lick, making his hair stick out.
"Didn't they think they were so friendly?" Nathan said, feeling the monster pat his head as it nuzzled him.
"Friendly? that monster leaves acid everywhere" One Athena Demi-god said, seeing the slimy path being made, all the slime melted the ground and anything else it came in contact with.
"Ok, he needs to be house trained and get him fixed somehow" Nathan said, seeing the slime is very dangerous and needs to be cleaned.
The flesh-hound growls as Kate gives him a pet.
"I dreamed of a hellhole, fire and brimstone with demons fighting to death, I nearly got killed by one of his kind, I killed one and fed him to another, he has been with me ever since" Kate pets the flesh-hound with the hound licking her.
"So what! You dream of monsters and they came to life?" Clarisse said, seeing the monsters all listening to the four.
"That's impossible," Chiron said, but he looked around.
"Where is Mr. D?" Chiron asked, everyone looked around for the god.
"Cerberus and Hellhounds, they're not supposed to be here." Chiron said, looking at all the damage caused by them.
"Someone must have summoned the dead, leading the hounds to follow" Chiron figures, Clarisse heard it. She pointed at Percy
"It's all Percy's faults! Percy summoned it! And he burned our flag!" Clarisse accused him.
"Oh shut it you cheating bitch" Terry said, giggling to himself as the four friends know that giggle.
"Be quiet, child," Chiron told her.
"You're wounded," Annabeth told Percy, seeing a few cuts on him.
"Quick, Percy gets in the water." Annabeth said.
"I'm okay."
"No, you're not, Chiron, watch this." Annabeth said, getting his and other attention.
"We know he can control water owls for brains" Sydney said, Annabeth glares at her, Percy was too tired to argue. He stepped back into the creek, the whole camp gathering to watch him. Instantly, Percy felt better. All saw cuts on his chest closing up. Some of the campers gasped.
While his friends look at him in slight surprise, they already narrow it down.
"Look, I'm connected to a water god" Percy said, trying to explain,
"I'm sorry..." But Percy noticed they weren't watching his wounds heal. They were staring at something above his head
"Percy," Kate said, pointing at his head.
By the time Percy looked up, the sign was already fading, but he could still make out the hologram of green light, spinning and gleaming. A three-tipped spear: a trident.
"Your father," Annabeth murmured. "This is really not good."
"It is determined," Chiron announced.
All around him, campers started kneeling, even the Ares cabin, though they both didn't look happy about it.
All expect his friends and their monsters as they look at everyone in slight confusion.
"Why are you kneeling?" Nathan asked, wasn't this common, do they knee every time someone is claimed.
"Do we kneel?" Sydney asked Kate, who shrugs.
"My father?" Percy asked, not as bewildered as he should be.
"Poseidon," said Chiron. "Earth-shaker, Storm-bringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God."
"Yeah we already narrowed that down." Terry said, not kneeling as he stood up.
But they hear something, a dark chuckle as everyone looks around.
"Who is that?" Kate said, the monster stayed close to their companions, all growling around the area.
"Did it get darker?" Nathan said, feeling Slimy hold him protectively.
Now there hearing laughter and painful voice of Mr. D, Chiron steps forward
"Who are you? Come out from the shadows!" Chiron orders seeing another presence here, darkness start to gather, as everyone saw Mr. D flouting in the air.
To everyone's horror.
"Dionysus" Chiron spoke in concern, seeing the god holding his neck, the darkness started to gather as everyone watched something with big claws hold Dionysus by the throat.
"I am the Shadow!" A powerful voice spoke, a black demon, with horn distinct horns, black as the night, claw-like hands and a strong muscle body with spikes and two large wings behind him, a symbol of eight arrows in a radial pattern burn on his chest.
"A demon" Annabeth said, this guy looks exactly like a demon from the biblical, as everyone gets their weapons.
The demon only chuckles, he disappears, letting Mr. D fall to the ground, gasping for air.
"Dad" Two of the children ran up to their godfather, helping him up as he tried to breathe.
"Your gods are so weak, how easy would it be to cut you down" The Demon spoke, appearing around the camp, scaring all the campers.
"You will not hurt anyone, monster," Chiron said, trying to defend the campers, but he couldn't find the demon-like figure, only to hear a laugh.
"Fortunately for you I only came as the Messenger of the Great Undivided" The demon taunts him, Chiron tries to attack him with his swords but they miss him.
The demon appears before the four most troublesome demi-gods and the son of Poseidon, it had a disturbing smile see the four.
"My, look how strong you four have become, so young and already started gathering your Daemons" The Demon smiles at the four demi-gods, said daemons all growl at him.
"Daemons?" Sydney looks at the monsters they have gathered.
"Don't you mean demons?" Terry asked, looking at this guy screaming devil at least.
"No Terry Daemons" The demon knows Terry's name.
"How do you know Terry's name? Cough" Nathan coughs, seeing the demon smile at him now.
"We all know all about you four Nathan, your father has blessed you greatly" the Demon smiles, scaring Nathan.
"My father?" Nathan asked, getting scared right now.
"Who the hell are you?!" Kate shouted, pointing her spear at him, the threat only pleased the demon.
"Such fire Katie, you make your father proud" the Demon smiled, making Kate try to stab him, only to be blocked by the demon's arm.
"How rude of me, none of you know who I am?" The demon vanished, scaring the four and everyone watching.
"I go by many names, First Damned, the Harbinger, the Lord of Torment, the One Who Heralds the Conquerors, the Foretoken and the Bearer." The demon keeps appearing in everyone's shadows, scaring them and making them point their weapons.
The demon appears in front of the four as they look for him, standing in all his glory.
"I am Be'lakor, the Dark Master, the first Daemon Prince" Be'lakor introduces himself, but looks at the four.
"But you four, can call me your big brother" Be'lakor spoke to them, surprising everyone.
"WHAT THE FUCK" the four shouted, looking at the daemon prince.
Everyone else looked on in shock and terror, scared to say anything.
"How are you our brother?!" Kate growls at him, Be'lakor chuckles.
"Well half-brother, but only a few details. How else would everyone know who claims you, your parents honor me by announcing their claims" Be'lakor chuckles, Percy looks at them.
"They getting a claim too?" Percy spoke quietly, but wished he didn't as Be'lakor turned to him.
"Mhhmhm already changing fate, Chaos would be proud" Be'lakor smiles at him, both Chiron and Mr. D look on in horror.
"Chaos?!" Both Mr D and Chiron spoke, others aware of Chaos started to pale.
"Chaaaaaooos" Annabeth strutted in fear, something Be'lakor smiled at.
A sign appears over Terry's head, everyone looks to see a hologram of a blue flickering flame with an eyeball looking at everyone staring at it.
"Tzeentch, Changer of Ways Lord of Change and Sorcery, Architect of Fate, Great Conspirator, Master of Mutation, Weaver of Destinies, Father of Lies and Deception," Be'lakor gestures to Terry.
Hail Terry Zeitz, Son of the Chaos god of Change, Mutation, Intrigue, Ambition, Knowledge, Sorcery, Destiny, Lies and Trickery" Everyone looks at the symbol in awe and horror.
"That's a lot of titles" Was all Terry could say.
Another Symbol appears over Nathan's head, a green three pointed arrow triangle with three circles, it looks like it has stink lines and flies around it.
"Nurgle, the Plague Lord, Lord of Decay and Pestilence, Fly Lord, the Great Corruptor, the Grandfather , Master of Plague and Pestilence" Be'lakor gestures to Nathan
"Hail Nathan Negal, Son of Chaos god of Disease, Decay, Despair, Destruction, Death and Rebirth"
Each title makes Nathan look sicker, he holds his hands on his mouth.
"That explains so much" Nathan despairs at who his father is and what everyone is saying about gifts and him being selfish.
Another Symbol appears over Sydney head, it purple with two moons like blades on a pole on a right angle, it looks like a torture/ sex-toy, the symbol looks shiny and lovely to look at.
"Slaanesh, the Dark Prince, Princess of Pleasure, Lord of Excess, the Perfect Prince, the Queen of Chaos, Master of Excess in All Things, 'She Who Thirsts'" Be'lakor gestures to Sydney.
"Hail Sydney Slabey, Daughter of Chaos god of Pleasure, Passion, Hedonism, Decadence, Pain and Perfection"
Sydney tries to wrap her head around her god parent?
"Wait is Slaanesh my Mother or Father, what's with the pronouns?" Sydney asked, Be'lakor only smiled.
"Why are you smiling? What do you know?!" Sydney cries out, really scared right now.
Finally a hologram over Kate's head, a red symbol of eight like shape, burning red and on fire.
"Khorne, the Blood God, Lord of Skulls, Lord of Blood, Rage and Battle, Hunter of Souls, Taker of Skulls" Be'lakor gestures to Kate.
"Hail Katie Khade, Daughter of Chaos god of War, Hatred, Wrath, Rage, Murder, Blood, Strength, Courage, and Honour"
Kate glares at the symbols, her rage slowly building the more she looks at the symbol of her father.
All four of the symbols joined together, fusing into eight arrows in a radial pattern, the same burn on Bel'lakor's chest.
"Together these four are the children of Chaos once undivided, Hail the Children of Chaos" Be'lakor shouted for all to hear, as he vanished in the shadow, as everyone looked at the symbol of chaos in awe and horror.
"Wait, we're siblings?!" The four children of chaos looked at one another, if what Bel'lakor said is true.
Then they were all siblings!
I've been waiting for this, all of you wanted any of the four other chaos daemons or champions to do the claim, but you know the amount of damage any of them would do to camp half-blood.
Lord of change burning everyone with magic, Bloodthirster killing everyone, Unclean ones plaguing everyone and Keeper of Secrets raping everyone.
No who better to claim them then Be'lakor, the same guy who crown the 13 Everchosens.