Chapter5
Percy's POV
I ran around the forest, and then my glamour disappeared without me wanting it to, and I knew that it was time. The full moon shown through the forest's leaves and upon me and the first crack slipped through the silence in the forest. I screamed in pain as a searing heat traveled all throughout my body, my bones were snapping out of place and my body was growing longer. I was forced onto my hands and knees as my back broke leaving me paralyzed for now and I screamed as my legs got bigger and my skin broke as my tail came out, an extension of my spine. Then everything snapped back into place as my teeth, head, mouth, and body grew bigger and thicker.
Hair, silver hair covered my entire body, and my vision gathered a slight haze, and I collapsed exhausted. I didn't expect the change to be more pain than anything I had ever known, but it was, and I feel like a took a single step and I was at the water looking down into it and at my reflection. My Onyx eyes were like black holes surrounded by a sea of silver, with black streaks coming from the black patch around both of my eyes making it look like my eyes weren't there, but the proof that they were was the slight shine they gave off as the moon glinted off of the silver sheen covering the entire eye. The streaks went up and down my face, across my body, down my neck, and legs, to stop at the beginning of the black sock of my paws, and the tip of my tail. I wondered why I had so much black on me and then I saw it, there was the silver arrow of Artemis traveling down my spine, the Helm of Hades was the black lines on my face, the silver trident on my right side was for Poseidon as his adopted son blessed with his powers, and then there were the five wavy lines on my left side, one black as the Styx River, one Ink-Black for Lethe, one Orange-Red for Plegethon, one (made up for last two) murky blue for Acheron, and the last one the bottom, Cocytus, a silver-grey line. I was shocked, when was I blessed by the five rivers of the underworld.
Then five figures suddenly appeared on the water, the five maidens of the rivers. I bowed deeply.
"Mistress'" I said and they all groaned, and Styx came forwards and lifted my head up to look at them, and I sat down.
"Why did you all bless me" I asked and Styx answered for all of them, I guess that she was the spokes-person for the five
"You've united us all together through your soul and actions, me because you've connected me to you by bathing in my waters. Plegethon for drinking from her waters, Acheron for the sorrow that you've gone through, Lethe for your lost memories due to wars and curses, and Cocytus because of your losing many of those that you love" Styx said and I didn't know what to say.
"Thank you all milady's and I will not misuse your gift" I said and they all nodded and disappeared one-by-one ending with Lady Styx.
"We know you won't" she said a bare whisper in the wind, and Percy smiled before hearing another scream in the night, and he took another step and ended up in an alleyway. Then he figured it out, he was accidentally shadow-traveling, so he focused on letting the shadows stay as they were and he put his paw down and he wasn't sucked through it to end up somewhere else...cool.
Percy looked right and positioned himself at the entrance of the alleyway as he stare at the two men that were trying to take advantage of a woman in the alleyway. Percy caught the glint of silver on the roof-tops and he caught Thalia's eye and smiled. To the human it looked as a threatening gesture, but to Thalia and the others, they saw it as a humorous, and kind gesture.
Percy advanced on the two men and they stepped back every time Percy took a step forwards, and eventually he passed the women and they didn't waste any time as they quickly got out of the alleyway. Then Percy sat down and the Huntress' all jumped down from the roof-tops, aiming bows at the men. Thalia and Artemis had jumped down at Percy's sides and Phoebe was behind him aiming an arrow around his five-foot sitting height. His eyes gleamed as he looked between the men, Thalia, and Artemis.
So do you want to destroy their lives, or shall I I said and they smiled and lowered their bows, the other girls followed suit and I didn't waste any time. I rushed forwards and was about to use my mouth to tear through them, but then I decided that I didn't want to risk turning them and having to kill them later because mortals can't survive the turn. So I just used my claws and with a quick swipe their legs were cut through, down to the bone, and their genitals were no longer attached to their bodies. I shifted back into a human and found that my armor was automatically on and I called the police, getting them to have an ambulance come over, and the Hunt departed disappearing into the night, and I huffed in annoyance.
"You couldn't wait to get away from me huh Thals" I said and I could feel her grinning from where she looked down at me from the rooftop across the street in-front of me and then I saw a flash of silver and she was gone. I jumped into a shadow and appeared at another robbery. I sighed. These mortals really didn't know when to learn, I didn't smell Peter's scent so it must've been new, or he wasn't there yet. I vapor-traveled in-front of the police and continued to walk inside of the building, and then I realized something was off. They weren't as nervous as normal when there was a robbery. I walked inside and the cock of a gun, the hum of energy, and the breathing of seven people circled me.
The spider-kid stepped forwards and he shot a barrage of webs at me, or which I just cut through with an upwards stroke and they were swallowed by the shadows, and I let the shadows return to normal and did the 'uh uh' sign.
"Where is my friend" he said ripping off his mask and I grinned
"Hello Peter Parker" I said and I dragged a foot back as I got ready for a fight "I didn't think he was your friend at all, in fact I thought that you were avoiding him on purpose" as I got ready I covered the building in a wall of metal and when I stopped the entire store was in a large metal box. Peter shot webs at me in rage and I let them connect, and I cast an animation as I walked behind them and lent on the counter from behind the bar as time resumed to normal, and once Peter was done he punched the animation and it burst into water soaking everyone.
I stepped back from the counter and gasped, causing everyone to whirl back and get into ready stances.
"Oh, no, you killed--" I dramatically pat myself down and grinned "oh wait, I'm still not dead" then a beam of light came in my direction illuminating it's path as it went and I lifted my arms in-front of me and formed a shield of silver which the beam of light just reflected off of and hit Iron man back in his chest making him fly back into the metal wall. I smirked and disconnected my arms making the silver shield separate and fade back into my suit.
"Oh no, he's hit himself "I broke out laughing and Captain America threw his shield at me of which I just caught and held on to, studying and blocking the bullets of Natasha as the shot at me as I studied it. It seemed to vibrate more than usual, and then I remembered that it was a metal alloy called Vibranium and I hummed in interest.
"You know I really want to keep your shield" I said vapor-traveling to his left side and leaning on his shoulder as I said it and he tried to punch me but I lifted the shield in it's path and he flew back and into the bar-counter, and I vapor-traveled to his right side and dropped his shield onto him "but sadly its your symbol of power, and I don't feel like taking that away at the moment"
I cut through Natasha's pistols as I vapor-traveled around and I caught Clint's arrow and threw it back at him before it could detonate, and it exploded at his chest and I smirked. Then there was Hulk, and I vapor-traveled back to Steve and picked up his shield again.
"Okay if I borrow this for a second? No? I don't care" I walked forwards as Hulk came barreling towards me and I bashed the shield across his face sending him face-first into the metal wall, and out cold turning back into Dr. Banner and I looked around at the chaos around me and I tossed Captain America's shield back onto him and he grunted in surprise. Then I walked over to Peter, put his mask back on, and went to the back of the place, opened a doorway out, and once I was back into the forest after I vapor-traveled there. I let down the metal box and I assumed that the Police would come in and help the Avengers out of the building.
I decided to play with my new powers, and first I brought up the shadows and formed them around me and then let go and they blasted outwards covering over trees and other things like a blanket. That would be useful later, then I tried to raise a single skeleton. I touched the ground and almost screamed as a skeletal hand grabbed mine, and I pulled up and the skeleton came up with me. I set it down and saw that at my touch it had turned silver, the bones hard as steel, and it's movements fast and slick. Like an assassin's. I thanked it for coming and it jumped backwards and back into the ground for when I called it later. I then decided to call a hell hound over, and just to my luck a certain one heard my call.
It jumped out of a shadow and tackled me in a rain of licking and yipping. I laughed and gently pushed her off.
"Hi girl, long time no see, huh?" I said and she glared at me like 'seriously'
"Fine, I'm sorry" I said and she licked my hand, I wiped my face and pet her head "do you mind being my partner in crime?" I said and she grinned, or at least that's what I saw as her mouth seemed to stretch backwards.
"No then" I grumbled and then I decided about weapons, I made a knife with my shadow-powers and one formed in both of my hands. A dagger and a hunting knife with an arm-length blade. I made the dagger like the hunting knife and then made a sheath of silver to go around my back and waist and I sheathed them in their respective places, then I made silver pistols, eight throwing knives, and two colts and that was only the belt and waist sheathes, or holsters. I made twin swords of silver, a one-handed broadsword made of ice and a shield made of two different metals. One was very strong and the other seemed to vibrate more than usual. I decided to look into it later when I raided the tower for information once again. The swords were on my back with the shield in-front of them and the silver swords were on either side of the broadsword, which was in the middle of the two.
"What do you think" I asked Mrs. O' Leary and she tilted her head, and I thought about what I could be missing and I got it, I formed a silver bow, and slung it over my back and Mrs. O' Leary seemed happy with my choices of weaponry now, and I pulled out the bow and I looked at Mrs. O' Leary in confusion.
"I don't know how to use a bow girl" I said and she looked at me like 'really' again, and I looked down to see that I had subconsciously gotten comfortable with holding it, so I just let my instincts guide my actions and I pulled back the string aimed at a spot on the tree and let the arrow, which had materialized on the string as I pulled it back. It had hit the exact spot on the tree that I was aiming at and Mrs. O' Leary scowled at me. I huffed and went over before ripping the arrow out of the tree and studying it.
"Don't look at me like that, you know I used to be horrible with a bow" she bobbed her head and then walked into the forest to hunt. I could feel her intentions, and I'm pretty sure that I could understand her as well thanks to the fact that I was now the prince of Hell-hounds but I guessed that she didn't want to talk yet...she would when she was ready, and when she did I would be accepting of whatever she sounded like.
Thanks for reading and I'll have another chapter out soon.
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