The King

Chapter 8

The picture above is what Nyx should look like.

Chapter 8: Quest II (1)

'Do not tell your friends what your enemies shouldn't know' Random human with trust issues.

Percy POV

"the one who rides the moon, Nice ring to it don't you think" Clarisse gave a little nudge grinning at me like no tomorrow.

When we made the bargain Artemis's pride didn't let her go through the schematics when she agreed to be my slave if I won without laying any restrictions it meant I could do as I pleased with her maiden Goddess or not, I could even attempt to kill her hunter and all she would do is help me that's how dominant I could be over her, Not everyone knew this except my companions and of course Artemis herself yet I was nicknamed 'Moon rider' by everyone else the only male to ever have Artemis at their fingertips not to mention Gods couldn't do anything about it due to Nyx and Chaos behind me, Another nudge from Annabeth threw me out of my thoughts.

"Hey Wise Guy" This was the best she could come up with after I called her Wise Girl "You've been ignoring her since she woke up." Annabeth was referring to the Goddess standing in front of my door, another thing I failed to mention 9months isn't that long mortally speaking, If I embarrass her now who knows what she'll do later of course I am confident that as long as the Gods that come after me aren't in their divine forms I could always stand a chance but that doesn't apply to the people I care about.

"In my defence, I don't need a Divine slave!" I said just loudly enough for Artemis to hear me sighing in relief when she walked away.

"Percy you are the only person in the world that would view this situation as a bad one." Clarisse looked me in the eyes.

I lay on my king sized as both Clarisse and Annabeth sat on the bunks of bed a little away from me this was our hang out.

"Everyone hurry the barrier is fluctuating" The yells of various demigods shook us to check what happened, violent tremors were happening just outside the barrier that shielded us from both humans and monsters alike, the campers were struggling to push through and see what was happening I caught a glimpse of a mechanical bull continuous ramming into the protective dome around camp half blood but that wasn't the scary part it was the fact that the dome seemed to be breaking in and out of existence visible cracks spreading into the sky.

'I can feel their fear' It was like a foul odour, Clarisse held on to me tightly I brought Annabeth closer 'They must have felt this was the safest place for them now that it's being threatened they turn into kids'

"Run!" I shoved both Clarisse and Annabeth back telling them to run that one line broke everyone into mayhem and screams could be heard all around camp as if fanning the flames with a shattering sound as the bull broke through the barrier the yells got louder.

"shit, Move!" I can let that bull get behind me Annabeth stood petrified while Clarisse brought out her spear.

She's not fighting this thing,  I ran towards the bull with my riptide concealed in pen form hoping to end this all in one strike, I channelled lightning through my body blinking my eyes to adjust to how detailed everything became while also freezing the mechanical bull joints reducing its speed as soon as it got close enough, I slashed its neck off cleanly with a lightning powered strike the effect of the lightning gave Riptide a light golden glow its sharpness increased a lot as I could feel it vibrating with power.

Adding flames to it I made sure to destroy every bit of the monster by showering it in a continuous stream of lightning till it was nothing but bolts and screws and molten celestial iron.