Chapter 3
After a while of explaining, interruptions, and walking to the Hunt's main camp site they finally took what I said to heart and went to bed. I didn't sleep though because one I didn't need to now that I was a Primordial and two because I wanted to keep an eye on Thalia until she woke up. I put my snout on her chest and closed my eyes listening to her breathing and soon enough I found myself in darkness. I woke up to her stirring and I rose my head and looked at her as she started to wake up. She looked at me and opened her mouth to scream but I put my paw over it and she tried to claw it off, but I kept firm.
Stop it, stop it I am not going to hurt you and trust me I do not want you to wake up the other hunters and make them give me a hard time I said to her and she went still before nodding her head and I slowly took off my paw off of her mouth and she sighed in frustration.
"Why do you always surprise me, your like Percy, when he was still alive" she said and then she looked into my eyes "even your eyes are like his...in a way" I turned around and stepped out of the tent accidentally running into someone and ending us both to the floor letting out surprised screams. I stood up and looked down to see that I was on top of Artemis, I quickly got off and went around her using my snout to help her get up too. I felt something on my back and when I looked back I saw Thalia with a spear of lightning on my back aimed at my face. I frowned and if she noticed whatever, but other than that I bounced throwing her off of my back and then I went into the forest and climbed a tree to rest in peacefully.
I felt my domains activating for some reason and I noticed that something was happening to the water domain. I spread my wings and flew towards the Ocean, and when I landed on the beach I noticed that the water was a blackish green like something had poisoned it. I wanted to heal the water and all of the things in it before they got hurt, but I feared that my ex-father would feel me and would come to see what I was doing. I thought about them for a second and then I saw a small head poke up in the distance, and the shape seemed to come closer to me.
Dragon on land, please help us, please help the water, it tastes horrible, smells worse, and I can feel my scales and skin slowly fading away as I swim I heard the voice of the thing, and when it came closer I noticed that it was one of the Hippocampus's that I had ridden on once in my past. It looked horrible, large chunks of it's scales and skin weren't there and all that were in their place were holed the size of my paw and some the size of my arm, and they all looked a sickly green color oozing with poison and illness.
What happened to you I asked looking at the creatures body in horror and why is the Ocean like this
That's the thing, Poseidon has grown sad and depressed with both of his sons dead and since them the Ocean had become thicker and thicker, harder to swim in, and then fish started to die and acid burned our skin and wounds. The Jellyfish purposefully landed themselves to escape the pain of the waters, and the whales dived to the depths and drowned unable to resurface for air, the only things barely holding on are the mythical creatures and some fish who have found a good way to escape the Ocean's pain I was angry, no I was beyond angry, I was Disgusted, Horrified, Pissed Off, Furious, and Enraged that Poseidon had become careless over his domain, his creatures, and his power.
I am truely sorry for what Poseidon has done to you and the other creatures in the Ocean I said and then I put my paw on the Hippocampus' head and I reached for the water inside of me and let it crawl from my scales and bathe him in good water. It went through and around his body healing whatever it touched, and then I lifted my paw and had him come out of the water while I purified it. I put my paw in the water and started to heal it, and in a flash Poseidon was next to me, and I noticed that he was pale and he looked depressed, and I realized that he was fading. That didn't suppress the anger that I had towards him for ruining the Oceans and disregarding his responsibilities and powers as a protector of the Oceans and Seas. I took my paw out of the water and lept at him snarling, and he went down with a yell of surprise and pain as my claws went through his shirt and into the skin of his shoulder.
Why have you neglected your powers and let these poor creatures suffer and die from your disgrace, you have neglected your powers and thus many living, breathing, swimming, and being in your domain have suffered, died, and had pain of years worth of deadly poison inflicted upon their bodies and souls.
Some in there may never see their families, or live like they had because they will be damaged beyond repair, many in their will lose family members due to your careless and recklessness. Even the Jellyfish which we all hate, no offense, had killed themselves on purpose due to the pain that they didn't want to endure on their tentacles and bodies I looked at the beach and noticed that it was pitch black like the ground of Tartarus, and it was littered with tonnes of Jellyfish, and I saw the carcass of a whale in the distance, and the water was roaring and thrashing from my anger.
It just renewed my anger I dug my claw in his shoulder more you are a disgrace to your powers, you are a disgrace to your throne, and you are a disgrace to your family I don't know why I said family but it worked because he was in tears sobbing underneath my powerful body. I stepped off of him and waded into the Ocean as I calmed down the waters and then I healing them I extending my presence and power to the entirety of the Earth, Heck I even felt Ouroboros in the Depths of the Ocean relax and hiss in gratitude as I healed it and the Oceans. After I was done healing the Oceans Seas and creatures in them, I looked back to see my ex-father staring at me in surprise, sadness, and hurt for something hidden underneath the surface of his soul. I waded back to he beach and stepped on it's now golden and new sands, and then I met Poseidon's eyes and took off into the skies, but it wasn't fast enough to not hear him say that one word again--"Son".
As I flew I felt something watching me and when I looked down I saw a cyclopes in the after throwing position from something and then something bright glinted in the sun and I swerved just in time to, barely avoiding the spear from it's path to my wing. I spun around caught it in my paws and threw it back at the cyclopes with perfect accuracy, and it screamed just before the spear buried itself in the eye of the monster reducing it to dust. I roared letting out all of the anger and hurt that I had on my chest from seeing my ex-father again, and dived towards the monster army underneath. I landed with a shock wave causing the trees around me and the monster that was too close to explode sending splinters and the lone dust of the single monster flying from me. Some of the pieces impaled the monsters near the blast and they were reduced to dust, and I roared again blasting the ten feet in-front of me with ice-fire. The monsters in the fire's range froze and then blasted apart with pained faces in the ice. I then rushed forwards and began to bite, slash, blast, cut, and burn monsters everywhere, and then I noticed where they were going and that made me even madder. I roared in half pain, half anger and my body exploded with power. I was the burning flame of Chaos, I was the cold Ice of The Void, I was the shaking Earth and the Rising tide, I was the burning cauldron of flame and magma, and I was angry.
I moved like a streak in the monsters and time slowed down to my will as I moved through them biting, slashing, roaring, and burning. I moved like a snake in a field of tall grass and worthless mice making my way towards the bigger ones of the army while slithering through the entire army and driving my claws and teeth into them so fast that many were still in the process of flying through the air and sliding apart slowly reducing to ash. I saw a Manticore, the Minotaur, and something that I thought I'd never see again, Scorpius. I crushed the monster under my paws as I let time resume, and as I stood before them the monsters that I had killed exploded at the same time, and I bet that by the reactions of the three I looked terrifying. I felt my body burning with Void fire and I saw the three hesitate before the manticore struck out with it's tail aiming for my heart, but as soon as it's tail touched my skin it burned of leaving a stump and the Manticore exploded in a mix of golden dust and rock. I looked at the sad pile that used to be a much prize pet in another planet in the galaxy, and then I looked at the giant scorpion and guessed that I could try to talk to them not that they know that if they even touch me, or I touch them then they'll die.
"Why are you alive again Scorpio, you were sent to the stars to be forever separated from Orion and Earth?" I talked in it's main language which was full of hisses and strikes on the floor with my paws.
"How do you know my language?" it asked
"I know all languages" I said ending with a threatening stamp towards the Minotaur that was trying to go around me, he stopped and froze as I put the tip spike of my tail at his chest "but you didn't answer my question. How. Did. You. Return?"
"A monster in the skies even more powerful than the gods came and freed me from my star prison" it said and my heart stopped at the possibility of it being him. My fire died down a little and then it went up again and Scorpio thinking that it was his change struck, and barely swerved his tail missing and making it strike into the ground. I de-fired a paw and grabbed his tail and then I shot up with my wings and let go, and then I dropped and met his height. We were about three hundred thousand feet above the forest floor, and as he was free falling he was screaming, flailing and begging me to not let him die like this and get sent back again. I disregarded him until my curiosity got the better of me and I grabbed his tail again, and pinned his claws and tail underneath his body with my body blocking them from moving even the littlest bit.
"Who is this monster" I asked the best I could in the air, and it wasn't easy trying to communicate in the air with nowhere to hit the ground as I spoke, so I just used him as the main mat as he did me. He was too distracted at the floor coming up thirty thousand feet below. I bit into his leg making him scream and fight to get free, and I asked him again.
"It said that it's name was Order brother of Chaos, and I if he was so bad I didn't care because I"
"Was free" I cut him off and then the next ten feet was filled with his screams, and then I felt something move under my body and I realized that I had loosened up, making him able to move again, but only enough to stab my in the stomach. I let go and spread my wings to level myself in the air, I looked underneath my body and saw a large hole where the venom was injected, and I knew that judging by the look of the black arms spreading across my underside. I was going to die just as I reached camp half-blood, and that was depending on how fast I killed the Minotaur in this weakened state. Then I remembered my claws and his head don't go well together and I swooped down, beheaded him and then decided to go to the Ocean to try and let that heal me. I saw the Ocean and dived into it hoping for the best, and slowly, painfully, the Ocean's waters healed me, but it came at a risk. I still had the Venom in me and that would make me part scorpion that's the thing about gods that have monstrous forms, they curse you with their form if they manage to injure you. I was just hoping that it could be something that I could hide until I got used to it, and the pain that came with it.
I slowly sank to the bottom of the Ocean as the venom took over my mind and changed it in a way to mutate a part of my body. The last thing that I felt was the shock-wave of the screams of the many things in the ocean feeling my pain. I was connected to all of the creatures of any body of water, and if I died then they would too, and that was what kept me alive all of the times that i had gotten hurt badly in battles of my past. I hoped that the Mer family on Planet Tide was doing well as my vision faded and I was plunged in the darkness of sleep. Why I am connected to them, I do not know, but I guess that I either developed or missed the part about me and that Primordial addition. Something that Chaos didn't say before she faded, she got out everything else, but that. I was getting used to feeling the Hunt, but they couldn't do anything about the fact that I was on the bottom of the Ocean in a coma fighting in my own head.
I woke up and I immediately felt how much colder the waters were, so I warmed them up and swam to the surface to see where the sun was, but I didn't see a sun, just a starry night sky, I looked for the different constellations and noticed that I was asleep for a week. I shot out of the water and flew towards camp Half blood at a speed that caused the air to boom an ripple in-front of me thrice as a reminder that I had gotten past the barrier of sound three times. I saw the camp in the distance and angled myself to go in, and the I remembered that I couldn't go in. I just barely skimmed the barrier as I turned around and went towards the hunt. I could feel them moving searching for something, so I wasn't worried about where they were, or about finding them, but I was wondering what they were searching for.
Artemis I yelled in her mind and she looked up but didn't see anything, and because she stopped the hunt was asking what was wrong but she just told them that she thought that she heard me, but they continued on their search. I landed on the left of them and ran towards them all of their bows snapped in my direction as my barreling form came towards them, and then I felt the air change as thirty bowstrings were loosened and two sets of arrows came flying towards me with deadly accuracy. I flapped my wings once and stopped them in their tracks, making them have no momentum to carry them through the air and they fell to the ground. The hunt's eyes widened as everyone scattered just as I came into them. I stopped in the middle of them watching them get up and another set of arrows was aimed at my face, I knew that I should've just ran through, 'captured' Artemis from her own hunt, and ran off into the forest to tell her who I was and what was going to happen. When the dust cleared I saw them lower their bows and loosen their arrows, and then they all rushed in and at first I thought that they were going to tackle me to the ground as a group and beat me up. I wouldn't be able to do anything if they did because I was also a leader of the Hunt, but I was more like the guardian of the hunt if I think about it. Then I felt dozen's of hands around my neck and body with the cold silver of their bows tingling against my skin, I froze unsure of what to do and I looked around for Artemis, but discovered that she was also among the group hugging me. Once they all dispersed Thalia came up to me and put her hand on my neck.
"I know that's you cousin, we all saw your eyes, and we've all heard your slightly changed voice and compared it to Percy's" she said "please tell me that it's still you" I grumbled making a low rumble in my throat, and I looked at her like 'how'd you know' but I eventually huffed and nodded.
I am Percy, but Percy is dead I made a new life and I was given a new body and new memories, but the dragon body is just a side effect that not even I can take away I heard them all gasp as I spoke to all of them in my mind "I cannot change back to human, but I have kept some attributes of my former species, like actually being able to speak, and make things like a human, and honestly I like--no Love this form and body it makes everything so much easier and flying, nothing can compare to the freedom I feel in the air"
"You can talk too" everyone seemed to miss what I'd just said, but I shrugged and grinned
"My new name is ισχυρό πάγο, or Powerful Ice"
I guess that i'm going to be doing this book more because this one gets more views than my other books, and will probably exceed them all in a couple of more chapters. Thanks for reading and I'll have another chapter out soon, 3-26-18, 3266 words.
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