Hades' Chosen Prince

6. The Way to Camp Half-blood

My mind is a blur, the last memory on my head was of the hellhound looking at me, but now, all I know is that I'm lying on the ground and there's a small pain on the back of my head, with a soft groan, I sat up and saw that the hound was sitting across from me "uh..... hi, what happend to me?" I asked rubbing my head. "you passed out after I helped you control your powers" the hound answer, but it's maw didn't move "uh...powers?" I questioned as I slowly got up "yeah, lady Persephone told me to help you with that, so she gave me that one use ability" she explained "I still can't process all of this" I mumbled petting the hound "well you will...eventually, also you haven't called me by name" she pointed out ."oh..uh.... the note said you were a girl so...Lassie?" I suggested, the hound shrugged, or something like that, "sure i never had a name" she finally answered "then Lassie it is" I reassured.

"Anyway, I need to explain your powers, or abilities whatever you prefer. You can manipulate shadows, make illusions and summon monsters" Lassie explained "sounds interesting... mind telling me how?" I asked, she nodded and without a missed beat she explained what I needed to do to use these powers. So far I can only summon a harpy (half women half bird creature) and other hellhounds, but not as tall as Lassie; illusions, I can make an image of myself, but if I tried to do anything bigger I would start to feel dizzy; and finally shadow manipulation, I can use shadows to barely hold an object, a different shadow that is, I have complete control over mine, being my own shadow, I can manipulate it to arise from the ground and hold something's firmly, but Lassie told me that if I used my own shadow to fight and if it got hurt, whatever the damage it would get, would also affect me.

After a few hours of training, Lassie would explain the strengths and weaknesses of some monsters, then it hit me, "where do I go now?" I asked Lassie "well now that you know who your dad is, monsters will come after you, there's a camp for people like you that will keep you safe" Lassie explained while I was packing some stuff in my backpack, "what about the weapons they won't fit, where are they anyway?" I mumbled as I looked around "why don't you check your hands?" Lassie said pointing with her snout, I looked at my hands only to see three rings on a different finger, one in both my middle fingers and the third one on my left index finger, I looked at Lassie dumbfounded, she rolled her head with a soft groan "the weapons turned into these rings, the ones on the middle are the blades and the other one is the bow; now come on it isn't safe here anymore" she said walking away, I followed looking at my hands

A few weeks passed while I traveled with Lassie, training with my powers and weapons whenever I had the chance, Lassie would always show up in the mornings with something to eat, I didn't asked where she got it, I would say thanks and eat half of it, giving the other half to her. There was a day when she walked slower, falling behind me.

"You okay there Lassie?" I asked turning around to face her "yeah... see that wooden arch?" she pointed with her snout, I looked over and, in fact,  saw a widen arch,"yeah what about it?" I question, "well I can't cross it because I'm technically a monster, guess this is where we take our separate paths" I sighed deeply when she said that, I walked over and hugged her neck "not a goodbye, just a see you later" she nuzzled my neck and nodded, with her head held up, she escorted me closer to the wooden arch, it had similar symbols to the ones in the letter, but these read 'Camp-Halfblood'.

I walked through it and looked around only to see Lassie walk into a shadow, with a deep sigh, I made my way through the camp avoiding people, that's when I heard footsteps behind me and the metalic sound that a sword would do when it clashes against something, I quickly flicked the two rings on my middle fingers turning them into the blades and turned around ready to slash "why were you following me and what do you want from me" I demanded, but the only answer I got was a giggle and a sudden dagger held at my throat.