Monsters Of Moonlight

Chapter Eighteen

A Crack in the Glass

Luna Remy Sallow-Uley

Having Cerberus around was becoming a welcomed relief to the ravenette, a blessing of comfort she had not realised to be searching for since returning to her fathers home.

While the titan did not keep the nightmares away, nor the memories or traumatically induced reactions, he was there to help her through it.

When she woke screaming and thrashing from a nightmare, the titan was there to comfort her.

When the memories became too much, the titan would show her memories of his own, illustrating countless battles and centuries watching the gates, amusing her with stories the dead told him upon their arrival.

The titan had even made a habit of sneaking into her school bag on days he recognised to be hard for her, comforting the young demititan when things became too much and sneakily causing chaos to the ignorant teenagers around them.

And so, her saving grace had arrived in the vaporous form of the Guard of the Underworld - someone she couldn't be more grateful for during the passing days.

On another note, however, the was the fourth time in as many hours that Luna found herself chasing after the mischievous titan who found amusement in making mundane school days as complicated as avoiding minotaur in a maze.

"Cerberus, I swear to Hades that if you set another classroom on fire, I'll cain you to your post and force you to endure my aunt and uncles nauseating acts of infatuation." She hisses, quickly rounding another corner only to find yet another empty hall.

It was currently lunch, meaning that most of the school population found themselves enjoying the cafeteria or the cloudy - though not rainy - fields outside.

Cerberus had taken the opportunity to escape her bag yet again during lunch as she collected her food.

The disguised titan had blended into the shadows around him before offering her a taunting, wolfish grin at the end of the lunchroom before taking off, leaving her to abandon her meal and chase after the childish creature.

"You'd make such a fetching pelt. If you don't come out now, we'll see if you match those new leather boots Annabeth got me for my last birthday." She hums.

Had anyone heard her, the soft, airy angelic tone of her voice would have easily distracted them from her words - to those who knew her however, more often than not, when Luna's voice softened into such an enchanting melodic beckon, they knew it safest to run and never once look back.

"Finally tired of all the mutts you seem so fond of, little mouse?" Emmett sounds behind her, the demititans shoulder slumping in disappointment that it was her immortal irritation greeting her and not the small furry one.

"Cerberus is not a mutt, though thankfully, there is only one of him." Luna brushes off, playing ignorant to his barb at her family. "You would surely understand. Have you fallen out of any more windows recently?"

"Nope." He chirps, striding up beside her, hands dug casually in his pockets as he smiles lazily down at her. "What about you, mouse? Thrown any books at some poor unsuspecting immortal recently?"

"Nope." She echoes. They seem to be under the impression that I'll castrate any potential stalkers within my vicinity - a very creditable caution, I'll commend."

"Yes, your timid total of five feet is so intimidating, baby." He teases.

"I dinted your leg, didn't I?" She smiles.