Chapter 7
I walked out from behind the pillar as Annabeth faded out of view and walked over to the gods, and now that I had a new identity and have discovered my past I was able to forgive the gods but not Zeus, who killed me. I walked over to the fire and stood high with my scaly head rising to the top of Hestia's fire and I looked at Chaos, my real mother before she walked into a portal with a nod.
I will help you in this war, but this is my last war and I am not to be called upon again in any other dimension I go to, got it I waited until they nodded before I opened a portal to the camp beach and stepped through leaving the gods in shock at the fact that I'll actually help them after all they've done.
I closed the portal behind me and turned around to look at my reflection, and I was surprised to see that I had changed, a lot. The underside of my wings were still blue from last time and my chest was also still white, I looked back and saw that my back was now black, blue, and purple mixed and swirled together to ripple like waves, and my tail was also a rainbow of black, purple, blue, white, and black also swirled together. I had grown by at least five more feet and my head reached the top of the cabins as I looked around. I looked in the water again and saw that my eyes were the same blue but there were purple and black spots seemingly swirling like the rest of my body, and then I fell to the ground as a pain overtook my body and I barely dragged myself into the water in time to let loose a scream that made the surface ripple.
I felt my blood boil and change until everything stopped and I slowly sagged out of the water and I saw that my skin now had silver streaks along the lines of the swirling circles, each of my legs were different, my front left being silver, my front right being red, white, blue, and other colors of fire stretching into a pattern like that of fire, my back right was different shades of blue rippling like water as I moved, and my back left foot was dark black and purple like the void. My wings and teeth had gained a silver gleam, and my eyes still glowed blue, but they also glowed silver sometimes. I looked at my chest and saw that the broken trident had disappeared as well as the white of it and I saw that it had been replaced by a silver-white moon surrounded in a black sea of darkness.
I smiled and retracted my teeth and then I turned around to see that a familiar black-haired kid was staring at me with awe and confusion, and then our eyes met and he must've realized who I was because Nico shot at me and hugged my chest the best he could. I put my head on the top of his and then I felt little dents in my scales, and I looked down and realized that he was punching me. I backed up feigning pain and giving him a mock pained look and then laughing at his shock and he fell backwards from the shock of my laughing and I had to admit it did sound strange but I was getting used to it.
"H-how are you still alive, last we heard you were killed and I couldn't find your soul in the underworld" he said tears coming to his eyes
I was killed by Zeus' bolt yeah, it was painful I added by the look on his face when I said that, but when my soul came out of my body the doors to the underworld were closed and there was a rip in reality that sucked me in before disappearing and I never would've made it to the underworld anyways, even if Hades liked me the Fates didn't have it planned for me to die apparently, so I was reborn in a different way, as a dragon in a different dimension. Then Annabeth's ghost came to me, warned me to come back, and here I am, having to help you in this war until I can go back once you all are safe.
I looked at him and then there was a horn signaling the arrival of the hunters, and I smiled, this was going to be fun. I gave Nico a grin before taking off like a bullet just as the hunters cleared the barrier and I saw Thalia and she just barely jumped out of my way as I zoomed towards her, and her knives glanced along my scales, doing no damage, but the lightning that she hit me with was a shocker.
I went outside of the barrier and through a couple trees as I couldn't slow down and then I opened my wings about ten trees in and my head and body grazed that tree and I shot into the air, did a one-eighty and shot back at Thalia careful to avoid her lightning, and then I flew into one and stopped flying falling to the earth purposefully, and then I commanded it to rise up and catch me as I fell and it did.
It extended into a big hill that took my weight and force before returning to normal and I traveled on foot. Sliding around trees, in shadows, and silently running at Thalia, but I had to kill a few hell-hounds that were also stalking them before realizing where they went and giving up to go back home. They were dust before they even saw my shadow but I continued on and I saw her and increased my speed till I tackled her and I kept on going with her punching, or trying to stab at me while we rolled across the floor with me using the earth to steer us in the direction of the forest along the edge of the barrier.
I felt a couple bumps on the back of my skin and quite a bit of snaps as the arrows finding their marks but couldn't embed themselves in me. We stopped rolling with me pushing down Thalia by her waist and I grinned at her purposefully not showing any teeth, and she seemed to be in shock for a second as she stare at me grin and then her gaze went to my eyes and she smiled and I let her up and she hugged my chest in a similar way as Nico did. Not being able to wrap completely around but still being able to get my chest wet as she cried.
Then I felt the air charge and I watched in slow motion as I lightning bolt came from the air and struck her hand, and even though I had power over the elements, and everything outside of the element's spectrum like darkness, or shadows, light, and the void which was entirely different now. I felt the charge of two million volts of electricity hit me in the chest like a five ton truck due to the fact that she amplified her power, and I was blasted back into the air and back into the ground sliding in the earth making a semi tunnel in the earth as I slid. Then I stopped and groaned/growled from her little shock, blast that, electrocution torture.
Thalia's POV
As soon as I saw his eyes I wanted to say his name, I wanted to speak, but I couldn't, so I just hugged him after he let me up. Then the only thing I felt was anger as I called on my powers over lightning and punched him in the chest making him shoot backwards and dig a path in the earth as he slid and I looked at the hunters to see them standing there in shock and Artemis who was smirking looking at me. Then I ran to Percy but stopped just at his tail as his head rose up slowly and he rolled over as he stood.
Wow Thalia you can throw a really charged punch he grinned and I ran up to him again hugging him and telling him I was sorry which he chuckled and put his giant head on the top of mine and I'm sorry for leaving you his voice echoed in my head and I pulled back and joined the others who had now gotten out of their shock and were now yelling all sorts of questions and facts with the main one being 'we want answers Perseus' which was yelled by Phoebe, and he cringed at the mention of his name.
I am serious about this he said, my name is Stealthwave now, the Percy that you knew died when I was born and I saw something that I wasn't used to, sorrow, and slight guilt
"We all are sorry for letting you get killed and we regret our choice to stand by without knowing what happened to you" Artemis said and I was shocked that she'd regret her not standing up for a male.
But you didn't know and you couldn't have done anything till after you heard about it he said looking at her gratefully that we would've defended him and stood by him, but you couldn't have done anything, so stop beating up yourselves over it. He looked at them all in gratitude and then we all noticed the moon on Stealthwave's chest.
"What's that?" one of the hunters asked pointing at his chest almost touching it, and he looked at it as well
I don't know, I guess that I have a connection to your mistress' domain, but I don't know why or how Stealthwave said and then I went behind him and gasped, and pointed to something on his back while he tried to bring his head around to see what she saw and I guessed that he couldn't see anything when he stopped trying to look behind him towards what I was pointing to.
Steathwave's POV
What's there? I asked as Thalia and Artemis came to my side and then she motioned for me to lay down and I did. They all gasped and I was starting to get irritated.
What's there? I half yelled and they all gripped their heads in pain, sorry I added seeing that that had hurt them
"You have a bow on your shoulders going around your neck and an arrow going to the top of your head" Artemis said as she came around and I saw her feet come into view and I closed my eyes not wanting to see anything else, even if she was wearing something under her skirt "and you have what looks like an ever changing monster with what looks like a silver knife in its head" I felt her finger touch my scales on the spot absentmindedly tracing the arrow and it sent shivers under my skin, which I held in for fear of her injuring me for my actions.
What does it mean? I asked still with my eyes closed and I felt the skirt drift over my snout as she walked away and I opened my eyes, though carefully and slowly just in case. I saw her looking at me curiously and I shot up sitting down and startling a huntress behind me. I looked back and used my tail to wrap around her waist and lift her up before bringing her around and setting her down with the others, and I noticed Artemis looking at me with a strange look, but I couldn't quite place it.
What? I asked and she seemed to snap out of it shaking her head before looking down and saying 'nothing', and then she 'ran' away before I could see her face, but I swear that I saw her cheeks have a somewhat golden tone like she was blushing, but I shook it out of my head and ran to the water sliding under without a sound or a big splash. A little while later I saw something silver come floating down and I saw that it was a silver knife, and I looked up seeing the auburn-haired goddess looking at the water with what I was guessing, her arms crossed. I sighed shaking my head smiling before grabbing the hilt of the knife and swimming up.
I think you dropped this I said playfully and set the knife down on her foot, and she bent down picking it up and then sheathing it and looking at me with a smirk.
"Must've slipped" she said and I nodded in fake agreement
Uh huh, slipped ten feet from the shore, and not making a splash, like it was thrown I looked at her and tapped my tail on her head before slipping past her nice try
"I want to talk to you about something" she said suddenly touching my back and I stopped and looked back at her
What? I asked curious
"Would you like to become the hunts guardian, and friend accepted in our camp as the first and only male we actually like" she said and I thought about it, what would happen if I did this, would I see Hiccup, Toothless, and the others if I did this, or would they let me travel back and forth freely calling on me when they need serious help.
Sure, though I want to be able to travel freely between dimensions, and I would like a mind-link to you so that you could call me if you needed something important I said and she nodded before looking around to find something, and I felt like she needed something to tie the bond to her, and I took out a scale on my left front leg with my right claw and she seemed to notice my left 'hand' then as I handed her the silver scale from my ankle area.
"I guess this would work" she said and took it and then she had me recite a bonding ritual to her and after I memorized the words we both said it at the same time three times, and her hand and my paw and scale glowed silver and then it felt like a part of my soul ripped apart and though it was a little painful, I didn't show it and then I saw her face scrunch up in pain as her's probably did the same, and I felt mine touch something, probably hers, before I growled in pain and she winched as they tied together and then seared as one. The process was done in a couple minutes, but it felt much longer. I looked at her and she was about to put the scale I her pocket but I stopped her.
I have something better for you to put it on I said and made a necklace of silver and the necklace floated over and joined to the scale with a bright light and when the light died down the necklace was joined to the scale as it's charm with a small moon on the surface of the scale. I pointed to the moon as she tied it around her neck, and she touched it making our bond heat up before tingling powerfully.
You can touch the moon on the scale's surface and the heat and tingling is you calling to me, and I will be there either that instant or in a couple seconds after being called I said and she lifted it up and looked at it in awe.
"I didn't think you could do that" she said and I shook my big head
No I couldn't do that before I got my part Primordial status, and when Chaos makes me a full Primordial the bond will be stronger and we'll be able to contact each-other in thought even across dimensions I said and she looked at me in awe and I slipped back into the water and slept as the moon on the horizon started to come up and light up the night. I felt my power grow then but didn't pay much attention due to it being night and I needed sleep. I was glad that every time I came in the water the fish wouldn't come near me but that was ruined as a carp realized what I was and I woke up to find the sky still dark with the moon almost set and a bunch of fish around me.
MY LORD they all said making it ring in my head and I shot out of the water before they could bother me anymore, and then I realized that Artemis was laying on the grass by my old cabin and the beach. I flew silently over to her and put her on my back with my tail before walking to her cabin carefully to not wake her up.
Thanks for reading and I'll have another chapter out soon, 2866 words, 6-6-18, I know that this one was a little longer, but i felt like writing a-lot and so I did...:-)
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