Hades' Chosen Prince

41. The Harpies Attack

"AHHHHHHHH" I yelled my lungs out as I sat up panting, my hands gripping the sand, my lips trembling. My eyes widened as I recalled what happened, quickly getting up and looking around me only to find: nothing, no blood, no body, just me and a chimera claw, horn and scale. Not knowing what to do, I picked up the battle prizes and walked around.

The waves gently crashing against the shore was the only noise I heard as I sat there hugging my knees on the beach. Then Saria appeared next to me holding my golden dagger "hey girl, why did you bring that?" I asked as I took the dagger from her snout.

"Well you have call" she said,
I stared at the dagger in confusion, it had a slight golden glow, that's when I heard a voice in my head.

???: hellooooo? is this thing on?

Me: um.....who's this?

???: who else can you talk telepathically silly

Me: Jasmine?

Jasmine: no, the mailman. Yes Jasmine!

Me: I-I thought you...

Jasmine: died? Nope

Me: then what I saw... What was it!?

Jasmine: well.... It's sorta hard to explain....

Me: I'm all ears Princess

Jasmine: okay. When you passed out I did too, then I woke up in an island. Turns out it's Ogygia, Calypso took 'pity' on me and made you have an illusion while she took me here

Me: what?

Jasmine: gods you!! I'm far away and what you saw was like a dream!

Me: ohhhh, so are you coming back?

Jasmine: I could, but I think I'll stay, I could learn something here

Me: uh huh...

Jasmine: don't worry I'll be back eventually, now I gotta go, my so called 'coach' gets cranky. Talk to you later Kitty.

Me: yeah... Talk to you later Princess.

With nothing else to add, she stopped talking, and I was again alone with my thoughts... Well aside from Saria who kept nuzzling my side... And yeah she managed to make me purr.

Eventually we walked back to camp, took us quite a while, since I wasn't running away from an angry daughter of Zeus.

Without looking at anyone, I walked straight to my cabin with Saria. Once there, I left the battle prizes in a drawer where all the others were, then I laid down on the bed, Saria decided to accompany me and jumped next to me "hey Brian what will we be doing today?" She asked curling up to my side "no clue girl, we could just sleep all day" I said and scratched behind her ears, she nodded and tried to fall asleep.

I on the other hand had a strange feeling in my chest, I couldn't fall asleep or stay in place, I ended up pacing around my own room thinking of something that I could do... Or why I had this feeling.

That's when I heard someone yell "HELLHOUND!!". Sword and armors would be heard along with loud footsteps, in fact too loud... Oh gods it's coming this way!! I hurried to grab on of my rings, but the door slammed open and the hound pounced over me, I trashed and struggle to get free when it said "well hello there your majesty, forgot about your pet hound have you?".

I blinked at the hound and smiled slightly "well hello there Lassie, but how'd you get in?" Before she could explain, she moved away and showed that Angie was behind her "heyo big bwothew, I bwought miss Lassie hewe " Angie said and waved off some campers ready to hurt Lassie. They whimpered and walked away scowling, I stood up and Saria jumped to my side, both her and Lassie stared at each other as if they were having a conversation we shouldn't hear.

Angie looked at me smiling "Lady Pewsephone took me to the undewold, that's whewe I met Lassie, she said she wanted to see you so I took hew hewe" she explained.

I nodded "well thanks Angie, wanna go take a walk?" I asked nodding outside, Angie's eyes sparkled and nodded hopping onto Lassie's back "let's go big bwothew "

All of us walked out of my cabin and began walking into the woods idly chatting about this and that, eventually we stopped talking and just enjoyed the scenery. "Hey Brian I think Angie's asleep" said Lassie who was falling slightly behind me "cool, but why do you say that?" I asked not looking back, but at some trees "well... I don't really feel her weight... Brian!" Lassie barked and rushed to my side "a harpy got her!" Lassie said pointing her snout towards the sky, when I looked up I saw a flock of harpies, one holding Angie in her talons.

From where I was standing I couldn't tell if she was asleep or knocked out.

All but the Harpy that was carrying Angie flew down on us, I gritted my teeth and threw fireballs at them, Lassie attacked the ones that got too close to us and Saria used vines and tree branches to smack a few out of the air. There were grunts and harpy cries one louder than the others.

Soon we were all covered in golden dust, the ground filled with talons and feathers. Saria picked all of those up in a vine made basket. Lassie and I were frantically looking at the sky, the harpy that had Angie with her was already long gone, I started to curse every single harpy out.

That was until I heard an angelic voice "big bwotheeeew". I blinked and looked up only to see Angie slowly floating down towards us, I stayed quiet in confusion, when she landed there was someone else behind her, couldn't really get a good look on him since Angie tackled hugged me, which made me fall back, Lassie and Saria barked happily as they licked her face.

She only responded in giggles "what a beautiful family reunion, hate to be bother, but I would like to talk to your big brother" said a male voice, Angie nodded and hopped onto Lassie's back "I'll take these two back big bwothew " she said and they walked back towards camp.

The guy extended his hand towards me "here let me help" I took the guys hand and he pulled me up, too fast, we were close eye to eye. We both blushed and I backed away slightly to look at the guy. He had a nicely built complexion, you could faintly make out his  muscles, his skin had a golden tan, his hair was short and a dark blonde color, his eyes were a light blue color, he wore torn jeans, a sleeveless orange camp half-blood shirt and some dark blue sneakers. As I looked him up and down, he did the same stopping at my head "I like your pink eyes and cat ears". I blushed brightly and fiddled with my tail "thanks ... I like your eyes, I'm Brian Grey, son of Hades" the guy blushed slightly and smiled "I'm Joey Stone, son of Zeus, you should keep a better eye on your sister. But now I'm more curious about how good you are at fighting, I challenge you to a fight"