Percy Jackson: The Wolf Curse

Chapter 29: Don't You Touch My Babies!

[Percy's POV:]

Why does a monster, sorry hostile monster, decide to show up AFTER everyone is cold and weakened? Though she also looked freezing and weakened.. Is she hostile? Or have I just been assuming things.

"Gimme the children, I'm hungry!" definitely hostile!

"Sorry! No children on the menu today! How about a wolf instead?" I let my passengers off of my back and got into an intimidating pose, ready to attack at a moment's notice. It had started snowing hard and visibility had all but vanished, quite literally, I couldn't even make out what kind of monster she was.. Only that she was one and female if the deformed looking boob shaped shadow of a figure was anything to go by. Which they had to be right?

She screeched in an ear rupturing manner, medusa and the others covered the kids ears whilst theirs and mine were exposed to its curdling sound threatening to draw blood from my paw sensitive ears.

She seemed to run at me, fast.. faster than I was expecting. Was she not affected by Alaska as I thought? It was then I realised she had no legs but a long smooth tail winding through the pearl white snow.

"I SAID GIVE THEM TO ME NOW!" Ok enough thinking.

I snarled viscously at her and willed my fur to turn bronze before leaping to meet her attack head on my mouth wide and teeth bared ready to rip flesh from bone. No one hurts my babies. NO ONE.

We collided and immediately I realised how hard her.. Scales? were.. a snake lady? What was she doing out here?? Surely she's freezing. My bronze fur was ineffective against her, not even doing so much as a scratch.

"I will not starve again you hear me! NEVER!" she kept shouting in a blind rage, coiling around me so tightly that I couldn't move a muscle, tail an all. she continued on past me, ensuring her tail kept me trapped in her wake and pin to the velvet white snow.

The others tried to run away, but this far into Alaska had made such a feat impossible for them all. They could only lay at her mercy.. I felt pathetic.

"No.. you stay away from them!" I cried out feeling helpless for the first time in this life, the cold kiss of the snow doing nothing to soothe my despair. I couldn't help thinking, I have to do something.. Anything! This can't be all I'm capable of!

Moments later I came up with a plan. A Simple one. Grow. I had never tried to grow bigger than my natural size, as big as that was, but if I could just get a bit bigger.. Just maybe I could make a stalemate between us. She, unable to reach Reyna and the kids.. And me, trapped in her monstrous grip.

I needed the power to pull this off, I couldn't hold being small for long and that compressed what I already had; so I used the only source of power I could feel. The snow.

The power was faint, but there nonetheless, I focused deeply as the monster inched her way to Fidi, each Inch made me more and more desperate for this to work and just when her outstretched claws made contact, drawing a thin line of red thick blood on her once unscathed cheek, I snapped. And so did the Earth.

My size almost quadrupled, the storm tripled and my anger had all but doubled.

Around me the very Earth itself started to heed my subconscious call, the snow reaching to become her wrist shackles, branches of trees long dead and buried rose through the ground to restrain her body. I took no notice of it, my anger purely focused on the monster who harmed what is mine.

"How dare you harm my children?" I spoke with a deadly calm Gravely tone, the skies darkened at my words. The earth trembled and the shackles tightened Forcing the rest of her tail to the ground. She was face to face with me pinned down by my paw, I felt how easy it would be to simply crush her entirely and looking at Fidis now scar marked cheek made resisting the decision that much harder. I wanted her death. And the earth wanted me to give it.