Chapter 8
Artemis pov:
I fell to the floor with the wolf on top of me.
He dug his claws into my chest then went for the kill (by trying to bite my neck). Before he could I blasted him off me with a beam of pure moonlight. He flew twenty feet before slamming into a tree.
He fell to the forest floor before he got up and started circling me. He continued to face me and growl as he circled.
'Persistent son of a b**** aren't we?' I thought as I pulled out my hunting knives.
The wolf backed up a step; when I pulled out the knives, but he was still circling and growling.
"What's wrong wolf? Don't like silver?" I taunted. He bared his teeth and crouched. "Let's go then!" I said.
Just then a silver arrow pierced the wolf's paw causing the wolf to yip in pain. The wolf turned toward where the arrow had come from and ten of my hunters burst out of the bushes with bows and knives.
The wolf barked before running at me. I got ready to strike when at the last second he changed course just enough that I couldn't reach him. The wolf ran off into the dark woods, leaving only a small blood trail to follow.
"DANG IT! We were so close!" Yelled Thalia.
"Yah if it didn't use Lady Artemis as a shield it would have been dead." Elizabeth said.
I turned towards my hunters. "We are not done yet girls. We still have a trail." I said as I pointed to the blood droplets going off into the forest. "We have a hunt tonight girls! But don't kill him! He holds information I need." I said before pulling out my bow.
"How could he hold information? He is just a wolf." Elizabeth said.
"He's not a wolf, or at least not Entirely. He is actually a werewolf." I said before I motioned for us to move out.
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Percy pov(dream):
I spun around and saw a hellhound charge strait at me.I barely managed to roll out of the way as the hellhound lunged at me. The hellhound skidded to a halt and turned to face me.
I got up and clicked riptide (in this story riptide is a click pen), which instantly changed to a bronze sword. The hellhound looked warily at the sword before it started to circle around me.
I noticed that to my right was a tree stump so I put it in between us. As soon as I did this the hellhound charged. It used the stump as a spring board jumping high into the air, as it tried to pounce on me. I brought my sword up and stabbed the hell hound in the head. At least it would have if it didn't explode into dust as soon as it hit the bronze sword, which resulted in blinding me with gold powder.
I coughed and brushed it out of my eyes when I felt pain above my eye. My dream seemed to pause as I felt above my eye but nothing was wrong. It felt as if someone had dragged an arrow across my eyebrow. 'What the-? I never got hurt above my eye...' I thought. For some reason the floor changed to a stone floor like in the throne room of Olympus, then went back to the forest floor. 'Weird.' I heard the sound of paws on grass and I knew what was going to happen next as my dream continued.
I turned my head in time to see a white wolf tackle me and bite my shoulder. I screamed as pain racked my whole body, some how I managed to throw the wolf off of me as I continued to wither in pain.
After five minutes the pain reduced to a dull throb. I got up and saw the wolf hadn't left. I kept my sword pointed at it as I put a hand to my shoulder. I pulled my hand back and saw it was covered in blood. I flicked my hand sending droplets of blood to the floor.
"What the Hades! What did I do for you to bite me?" I said angrily staring at the white wolf. The wolf had mesmerizing light blue eyes that looked almost human, it blinked once and tilted its head to the side. "Great, now I'm going crazy. I'm trying to talk to a wild wolf." I said.
'Learn to use the gift you received for the hunter is near. Upon your second forced transformation come find the wolf you see now.' A female voice said in my head.
"Wait! Who are you and what do you mean the hunter? And what forced transformation?" I asked out loud.
I heard a chuckle in my head. 'You'll see.' Then the voice left my head and the wolf got up and ran. I put out my hand to tell it to wait, when my dream seemed to pause again.
This time I felt pain in my hand. My vision flickered and I saw Artemis with blood all over her chest, then it went back to the wolf and my dream continued.
The wolf ran off and I felt pain all over my body as I took on the form of the pain went on for hours as this was my first transformation and it felt worse than the Styx.
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Artemis pov:
Our party ran into the woods after the wolf. We followed the blood trail but it made no sense.
Instead of it running straight or trying to lose us it seemed as if it was trying to find something. It would head straight then stop and head in a different direction. We kept on following it until we came to a clearing.
The wolf was sniffing around a small campsite. 'Why does this look familiar?' I thought before it dawned on me. The wolf was at Percy's camp site. It seemed to be sniffing for something when it caught the scent. It howled and took off faster than what it should have.
We followed it up a hill to a cliff. The wolf was circling below and was scratching the cliff face. It continued to pace and scratch the cliff face as if it needed something desperately. It continued until Elizabeth stepped on a twig producing a snap.
The wolf stopped and looked at us then growled. I raised my bow and was about to fire when a howl was heard. The wolf howled back and received another howl in return.
The wolf then ran straight at Elizabeth before jumping over her and taking off into the woods.
"Don't let him get away!" I said.
In response three hunters fired arrows each one of them got close but missed. The wolf continued with us hot on his tail. We eventually came to a lake.
The wolf stopped at the bank and looked at the water. It then howled and waited. When it received no response it started pacing the beach. After a few minutes it seemed to notice the arrow in its paw.
It tried to get it out; but only was able to break the shaft leaving the arrow head still in its paw. After about twenty minutes with nothing happening I told the girls to wait here. I transformed into a wolf and walked along the sand to the wolf.
'What is wrong oh brother of mine?' I asked hoping that the wolf would take the bait.
'She said go to the lake. But she's not here.' The wolf said in a very deep voice.
'Who's she?' I asked. He seemed to stiffen.
'Don't know, but I have to find her. She said go to the lake... She's not here.' He said.
'You seem to be pretty lost without her.' I stated. He didn't respond but continued to try to get the arrow out. We sat there in silence until he stopped and turned his head to the east.
'I have to go.' He said before he took off. I turned my head to the hunters and barked before I followed him. He ran until he came to a cave.
This cave was not the same as the last one, but looked very similar.
The wolf ran in and went as deep as he could go before he howled in pain as the sound of bones breaking filled the cave. Soon his howls changed to human screams of pain.
I changed back to Artemis and walked in.
It was very dark but I could see that he was now human. Unconscious and naked but human.
The darkness covered him enough to tell he had no clothes; but was too dark to make out any details. I snapped my fingers and a set of clothes appeared beside him. Then I left the cave and waited for him to come out.
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Annabeth pov:
I stared at Zain for a minute before I walked up to him and asked. "What in Hades was that?!" Zain looked at me before his eyes went wide and he looked back toward camp.
"What are yo-" I started to say before he put a hand up with one finger up. It was silent then I heard a boom.
It was muffled as if it happened from somewhere in the distance. I then saw a smoke cloud that was in the same direction as camp.
"Oh my gods!" I said in shock. I then looked down and saw Zain walking quickly and quietly toward the explosion.
I ran after him and caught up to him in seconds. "How did you know that was going to happen?" I asked. Zain gave no sign he heard me. "Zain?" I asked. He still gave no response. "Hello Zain! Earth to Zain!" I said trying to get his attention. No luck.
I kept following him until I noticed that he didn't stumble or anything when he walked through the forest, he seemed to glide across the forest floor. We kept going toward the explosion.
We soon left the forest and were back in camp, but it seemed as if that didn't trigger any thing for Zain. He just kept on going like the energizer bunny.
He soon turned to the left and went to the Hephaestus cabin which would have been on fire, if other campers hadn't been putting the fires out. He stopped and turned to the Apollo cabin.
His pace resumed as he walked toward it and went inside. I quickly followed and saw many people being treated for injuries of all types. Zain didn't even glance at the others he walked toward the back room which was used as a emergency room.
He opened the door and walked in, I followed and saw one of the Hephaestus campers on a bed and he was coughing up blood.
"Don't worry we'll get you fixed up in no time." An Apollo camper said as he hooked up an IV to his arm.
There were several campers who were around the bed one of whom was Nico. Nico looked up and saw me and Zain. Upon seeing us his face went from caring to sad.
Zain pulled out a gold pocket watch, looked at it, then closed it and put it away. Zain then walked over to the Hephaestus camper and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Hey! Who are you and what are you doing in here?" An Ares camper asked. Just then the Hephaestus camper coughed up a lot of blood.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO JOHN!" The Ares camper screamed. She looked scared and pissed at the same time. John coughed up more blood before he let out a sigh and stopped breathing. Zain put his hand on his eyes and closed them. He then grabbed John's hand and pulled out a blue clone of John from John's body. Then Zain nodded and blue John disappeared. The room was quiet before the Ares girl screamed.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?! GIVE JOHN BACK! YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO TAKE HIM!" She screamed before she punched Zain so hard that he flew through two walls and landed outside the Apollo cabin.
"I challenge you to a duel tomorrow! Anything goes! If I win you give me back John! You win and you can have my soul too!" She said loudly.
"Kristina! I wouldn't do that!" Nico said trying to reason with her.
"Shut it dead boy." Kristina said venomously. She held out her hand to Zain.
"Do you accept?" She said sternly. Zain shook her hand and nodded his head.
'This is not going to be good.' I thought as Kristina left.
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