Destiny Calls (A Percy Jackson Fanfiction)

16: Dom tames the Nemean Lion and calls it Nemeo

"Ho... Holy Zeus! What in Hades is that?" Dom scrambled out his sword. I aimed an arrow at the gold blur, and suddenly the gold blur sat at Dom's feet. "A... cat?"

Sure enough, a small golden kitty sat at our feet, silver claws and big amber eyes. I reached towards it, and it shrunk away from my hand. Dom tried, and surely, the kitten snuggled onto his lap, it's amber eyes turning violet to match Dom's. I put a hand out to steady it, and at my touch, it jumped like it had been electrified and its fur turned silver while it's claws turned gold. Wait... "The Nemean Lion is reborn." I said. 

"Wait what? This harmless little kitty is the Nemean Lion?" Dom said as he stroked it's back.

"Reborn I guess. Maybe Nyx sped up the process but it didn't really work properly. So we got our own destructo cat." I answered. I took an arrow and poked Leah who sat behind me. "Leah! We've got a cat problem."

"What?" she poked her head out. "What in Hades?"

"Nemean Lion. Destructo-cat. Night back-fired. We now have a cat." Dom answered. "And it likes me. We're bonding."

"Figuratively or literally?" I asked.

"Dunno. Let me test." he patted the Nemean Lion cub on the head. "Try to do the can-can, Nemeo."

"Did you just call the Nemean Lion Nemeo? And told it to do the CAN-CAN?" Max said in disbelief.

"Yup." Dom answered triumphantly as the lion cub 'Nemeo' started to jump around on it's back feet and jump around like the can-can. "I'm just that..."

"..stupid? ...idiotic?" I suggested.

"I was about to say awesome, but meh, sometimes that works too." Dom gave me a half smile.

"Agreed." Leah and Max both said, before laughing in sync.

"Seriously guys?" I groaned. "I need to go charge after fighting a crazy Ares kid."

I lay on my seat and adjusted it as the seat-belt light flashed off. Moving my head to suit the headrest, I pretended to sleep, but in fact, I used the excuse to have some dreamless rest, and listen to their conversation.

"Do you worry about Thea?" Leah's voice was light. "Killing Rayn, emotionally distressed, Tori dying?"

"Of course she's distressed." Dom's voice now. "That's why I watch her. To see a girl I care about suffer like that is the worst thing ever."

"It's funny how you try not to show that you like her so badly, yet with us you're so open." echoed Max. "Yet it's so obvious to her how you feels."

"How in Hades do you know she's distressed?" Dom said.

"I'm a daughter of Aphrodite." Leah answered, and I mentally sighed. Always her excuse. "I can sense her feelings, like her certain feelings for you."

"Thea will never like me. She made that pretty clear to me that it was impossible for us to happen. I'm just her best friend, not her boyfriend." Dom answered, shifting in his position.

"She called you two us. That's already an improvement, Dom. She cares for you, don't worry, she just hides her emotions in a fine layer of sarcasm and glares." Leah said, "And she 100% knows how you feel for her, and how she feels towards you, she just denies it. My mother can mess up the best of warriors sometimes."

I decided to intervene. "You know I'm still awake right?" I whispered to Dom, who jumped. Leah looked shocked, while Max's face was just like 'are you serious that is the most clichéd of chiché moments'. "Dom, you may not be my boyfriend but you're now a comfy pillow." And I collapsed onto his shoulder, and soon actually went into the dreams.