Children of the Heroes: Omega

Chapter 20: Reptile or Canine...?

Jake POV

So there we were, watching Amphisbaena flail around on his back trying to catch a giant butterfly. It was not any ordinary giant butterfly fly though. This was a giant butterfly with hooves. Well, I guess that really doesn't help much. Anyways, the butterfly was Tatar.

Tatar was hovering in the air with big paper wings from Felix's toolbelt, (decorated with spray paint that Leo happened to have in his toolbelt). The paper wings were enchanted, so they worked like a big man kite, or satyr kite, or whatever...

Tied around his waist was a rope that dangled down into my hands. So I controlled the the giant hooved insect. The fact that I had my best friend tied up in the air with pink wings on cheered me up a little. But I couldn't help wondering where Rayn was, and how we would find her...

"A little to the right..." Leo said, gesturing towards Tatar.

"Perfect!" said Felix as I positioned Tatar correctly.

Tatar hovered right in front of Amphisbaena's two heads. Both immediately looked up from what they were doing, (I think they were scratching themselves...) and stared at Tatar.

"Guys....I don't like the look this thing is giving me...." Tatar said as he frantically started flapping his wings.

"Then you're definitely not gonna like this!!" I yelled up to him.

Tatar had a scared expression as I wiggled the rope around back and forth quickly. Amphisbaena's mouths stretched to a goofy smile. Immediately after, four arms swiped at Tatar.

"HEY! NOT COOL JAKE!!!" he screamed down at me.

I started to run down the street, into an open field. Amphisbaena started rolling after Tatar.

"Let's just say this is revenge for the cowbell!!!!" I yelled up to him as I swooped down into a dip in the field. Tatr rocked up and down. I released a little rope to make Tatar fly higher. That excited Amphisbaena even more. He started to fly with his tiny wings.

"Well take this as revenge for the wings!!!" Tatar replied as he spit down below.

Unfortunately, the spit nailed me in the face.

"Eew.." I wiped the spit off my face. I then noticed a strange puddle on the ground running past.

"Take this!!" I yelled as I shot the puddle liquid at Tatar's face.

"Ahh! WHAT WAS THAT!?!?! IT'S STICKY!!" he yelled back.

"I don't know, but i'm pretty sure it's not water!!!!"

I decided we had gone far enough. I told Tatar to pull the string on the right wing. HE came tumbling to the ground at high speed.

"Be careful!" I yelled as he was screaming.

Luckily for him, he landed in a puddle. Not so lucky for him, it was THAT puddle...

Tatar lifted himself out of the puddle and glared at me evilly as he wiped the goo off his shoulders and face.

"Watch ou-" I was too late.

Amphisbaena came spiraling down at muddy, pink, Tatar. At impact, the puddle exploded everywhere. Griff, and the rest of the team, landed next to me.

Curled in a ball, under Amphisbaena's arms, was Tatar. Wrapped inside his pink and purple wings.

Everyone immediately started laughing at the scene in front of them, mud spread about.

"You think you're SO funny...?" Tatar remarked at me with a creepy smile.

"Yes, I'm incredibly funny." I added, a bit too cocky.

Tatar hurled the suspicious mud at my face. In shock, I flung out my arm and the entire puddle sprayed everyone else but me. Griff started squawk laughing at everyone because there was none on him.

Then a tiny drop landed on Griff's beak. He shot me a sinister look, and shot a golden beam at me.

I screamed like a little girl, only to find that Griff caught my pants on fire. The Irony is Incredible... I thought to myself. I looked around at everybody laughing at me now, Clare holding her side. I had no choice but to do the unthinkable. I jumped into the puddle.

"Ahhhh....." I sighed in relief as the burning died down in the 'water'.

"Alright, alright. Waterboy and butterfly are going to need some new clothes..." Leo responded, holding back more laughter.

"But, unfortunately....these are all I have..." Leo said as he pulled out a pair of purple bedazzled girl pants. I groaned.

"HA! I wasn't even wearing pants!!" Tatar shouted at me while taking a pair of jeans out of his backpack.

"The wings...they're stuck!!!!" Tatar said as he nervously tried to take them off.

"Oh...right. See, those were ENCHANTED wings. So I can't take them off of you because i'm not enchanted....duh..." Leo says, looking at Felix like Tatar was stupid for not thinking of that himself.

After a few minutes of cleaning and pants changing, we were on the road again. Two boys, a psycho, two girls, a boy with purple pants, and a human goat butterfly, walking with a griffin.

"Hey, is there like somebody that's on charge of you guys...or.?" Leo asked me.

"Well, there's Chariclo, she's nice, but we ran away from her camp..." I responded.

"Wow. That escalated quickly! You guys have a lot of explaining to do, don't you?" Leo added.

"Well, first off, let's give Chariclo an explanation." Savannah wrote a letter and tied it around Amphisbaena's leg.

"That should be good. Bring yourself and this note to Camp Omega, ok?" she told Amphisbaena in a babyish tone.

She scratched behind both of his heads. Amphisbaena panted in enjoyment. "Clare, do you have anything from camp?"

"Umm...yeah. I have a bandanna from my cabin." Clare answered.

"Thank you." Savannah said, taking the bandanna. She lifted the bandanna up to Amphisbaena to sniff.

Amphisbaena's eyes grew larger and he immediately started rolling away towards camp.

"That thing is SO weird..." Felix said.

"Agreed." said Zac.

"Don't be so mean, guys. He's just a puppy..." I said as we watched Amphisbaena roll away into the horizon.