Daughter Of Light- Book 1: PJO

Chapter 43: Too Many Goodbyes

I groaned and shook my head. My head was pounding. My body hurt. I managed to roll onto my side. My eyes were blurry but the more I blinked, the clearer my vision became. I pushed up onto my elbow, and then sat up. I pulled my helmet off and shook my head again. I saw a huge body laying in a crumpled heap not that far from me.

Panic. That's all I felt, just full raw panic. Raph. He lay unmoving.

I dropped my helmet and scrambled over to him. I gently pulled his helmet off and focused on his vitals. He was bloody, bruised and unconscious. I felt a broken rib or two, but I didn't detect any internal bleeding. He was unconscious but he would be okay, physically. Not sure how he was mentally still.

Glancing around I saw an odd looking creature scooping rocks and boulders with about a hundred hands coming from every part on his upper body. He was throwing them at Kampê, burying her.

I saw Quintus and Miss O'Leary fighting. Tyson was swinging his fists pounding another giant to literal dust.  A cheer went up from the campers as the last boulders slammed over Kampê. Effectively sending her back to tarderus.

They took care of that problem. A dracaenae stood in front of the demands and monsters and pointed and screamed something. Apparently it was something scarry enough to send them forwards. I grabbed my helmet, slamming it onto my head I leapt to my feet.

The giants surged forward in a last desperate attempt. One surprised Chiron with a glancing blow to the back legs, and he stumbled and fell. Six giants cried in glee and rushed forward. Glitter was beside me and I swung myself up onto her back. We surged forwards, back towards the fight.

That's when it happened I saw Grover open his mouth and something happened, something scared these blood thirsty monsters. As one, the forces of Kronos dropped their weapons and ran for their lives. The giants trampled the dracaenae trying to get into the Labyrinth first. Telekhines and hellhounds and enemy half-bloods scrambled after them.

However the problem was Raph lay unconscious right in front of the Labrynth exit. Glitter and I were only a few feet from him. They all had to get passed me. And I was angry. These monsters had invaded my home. They had hurt my friends, killed my family. They didn't just get to leave.

As they scrambled towards me and Glitter, I calmly pulled the Pheonix feather off my bracelet. I held the beautiful feather and felt the hot tingle in my fingers, the feather ignited immediately, sending flames over my body. Bringing my arms close into my chest for a second, gathering all the power, hear and fire. I inhaled and as I exhausted, I let everything out. All the anger and sorrow, the fear of loosing those I loved. The relief of knowing some of my loved ones still were alive.

I realised all my emotions with the fire blast. Gritter reared back, up on her hind legs, kicking her flamming gold hooves. She slammed down into the ground at the same time. My fire exploded with the impact. It was like a bomb going off. Like a shook wave rippled outwards. Tongues of fire wrapped around and shot through each and every human, monster and mythical being.

Each monster erupted in a flash of fire and was gone. The fiery shock wave was almost instantaneous. Leaving those from our side unharmed. A few of the unconscious campers sat up looking around. How the flame could tell the difference between Kronos's army and us, I wasn't sure. I didn't question it. The feather stopped burning and I saw it was signed at the edges and the tip. I had four more uses. I wasn't sure if that meant on the fifth time I would die, or I just didn't have this ability, but I wasn't going to worry right now. I clipped it back into my bracelet.

Only then did I look up and see every camper in the area looking at me in awe or fear. I wasn't on fire anymore, but I still glowed, and I guess that was weird. I sat up on the back of an actual sun fire and war horse. I patted her back.