Artemis Child

Artemis Child Ch51

I snapped back awake. Behind me was an army of monsters, all seemed to want to tear me up. Although they kept their distance. I waited outside a bunch of Roman war tents, waited for Octavian to come out.
"You are late!" He barked at me. "Better late than never huh?" I said but he shook his head. He looked older since last I saw him. Which was just over 4 hours ago. His hair was still ratty, but there was dark marks under his eyes, they shown hard against his pale complexion.
"Now, I want you to go to the Greek camp. Tell them what you have seen, make them fear us." He sounded confident in this plan. I have only heard the part about the monster army so I have no idea how this will play out.
'Focus on our tail. With enough will power you can make it retract.' The other soul said in my head. I gave it a try. I was worried if I tried to hard I would fart, cause I have never had to focus on the nerves of a tail before.
After a few minutes of focusing and straining, a small fart, I started to feel less and less of a tail til there was nothing left. I did a weapons check before deciding it was time to go for it.
I walked all the way around til I found the sign that said Camp Half-Blood. A memory flashed of a car, and my aunt Mel; yet, I couldn't remember much about the dark haired girl. Not even her name.
Following the small path. Small images popped up. Memories were slowing coming back. The path didn't take long, I showed up into a clearing. Teens moving around, all armed and from my healing memories more were wearing armor now than ever before at once. "Cory!" Someone said in a big yell. It was someone who looked familiar.
"What the hell dude. I thought you died. No wait. You did die, I carried you into the water with Andrew." He said but then took a step back. "How do I know you are Cory?" He asked. "I don't know. Test me I guess." Although I didn't know what that would be taken as.
He swung his hand to pimp slap me but I blocked his hand. He moved his other hand to pull out his gun and aim it. I used my other hand to pull my Roman sword to his neck. "Yeah, you are Cory alright." He said and gave me a hug. "I missed you dude."
He took a step back and added. "No homo." There was a brief second where I feel like I was supposed to say something, but I didn't know what to say. "Wow. Usually you would have made a joke, but you seem like you have been through something...like dying."
I made no expression, or comment. "Nevermind just tell me what you remember."
"It's a long story." I said and walked with him.
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Helios was growing more and more flirty. I had to slap his hand because he put it on my waist from "turbulence" or so was his excuse. Just a mile now, and I'll be back at camp. I could see the circling animals above the camp. I didn't know if they were friendly or not. Didn't want to risk it, Helios had little to no energy left from me draining his chariot.
"Land over there." I said pointing at the long empty road. He obeyed and did his best to make a decent landing. "How long have you flown this thing and you can't land it gently?" I asked as the chariot made a horrible motion and display of sparks along the pavement.
"This Chariot has only landed during the great war. The sun's light was constant and so too was the motion of this magnificent ride. Also I have been imprisoned for many centuries, give a titan a break here." He said and I had no comment to make.
"Here is the whip. Just trust your instincts on who to give it to." He said and tried to take off. The chariot made a poop sound but nothing happened. He tried again, this time he didn't even get the poop sound.
"How about a jump start?" He asked. I placed a black flame into the the ride and let the magic happen. The chariot transformed into a four wheeled Convertible with beautiful curls of purple against a black paint coat. The curls looked like paint strokes of an amazing artist. The rims had spikes that stuck out with a gothic look. There were Greek symbols on the hood surrounding a sun. The head lights had three on each side. One was the color of twilight, one was mid day, and the last was an indigo for the end of day.
He seemed to like the new ride because he took off without another word. And left me to my camp. I reverted back to my human form, my wings contracted, disappeared behind me, my hair came back down, and then I didn't glow anymore.
I walked til I found the small path that sped away from the road and into the woods. Been a long time since I walked here, or at least the months felt like it. I remember walking out of the camp with Cory and Andrew. They seemed to compete for a bit, but really Andrew was flirting. Cory couldn't tell a game of hard to get if it bit him and took off his leg.
The Camp sign hung over everyone who entered's head. I walked into camp, the rambunctious teens made their way doing what needed to be done. Yet there was a lot missing. Post were empty, there was no way they were goofing off or Dionysis would have their head in a martini glass.
"No way, really?" Someone asked his pal walking towards the lunch room. "Yeah. We had the ceremony, but he just showed up anyway. Kind of freaky." The other one replied. I decided to follow them. The world was at that point pulling a horrible stunt.
The moment I opened the lunch room door, people were cheering and high fiving someone in a fur trimmed coat. "Thanks to you our camp is up and running a little better than before. New people and your friends' amazing talents. Way better defenses. The quest was successful since you led it." Someone said and patted the person on the back.
'The only recent quest was the one Cory led. I brought back the power of Prometheus's. I helped make this camp amazing, because he was so strong.' I was getting mad. The memories of his first time drawing his weapon in my defense. His first fight with Andrew over my pants. The training he and Andrew did with me. The first monster fight, a Wendigo that needed burning. Meeting Serena, getting my new powers and having to fight them. Getting thrown in jail. Fighting a giant werewolf. Meeting Toni. Meeting Kaylyn, then again body-snatched by Mother Earth, then kicking her ass. Getting our ass handed to us by Damocles. Getting my powers in check and awakening to fight Damocles again, and winning like a boss. Saying goodbye to a friend. Pissing off a guild of huntresses. Fighting a fuckin Titan. All just to come back to some ass hat trying to baske in glory that he doesn't deserve. I didn't see the guy's face but he was taller than Cory was with a tight Roman foehawk style haircut.
"You liar!" I yelled silencing everyone. The guy didn't turn around, but he looked as if he froze. "You can't come in here just imposing as Cory." I clenched my fist and tried to restrain myself.
"I watched him die, I saw the light leave his eyes. I....I..." My voice broke, my throat started to burn from sorrow. Then he turned around.
My heart skipped, pounded, then nearly stopped in confused emotions. It was Cory, but how? I walked up to him, and raised my hand to hit him. Maybe anger was still in my system from a few minutes ago. Instead of doing anything against him. I fell against his chest beating my hands on it with no real force, sobbing.
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The girl from my memories. First her voice hit me like a truck full of emotions. Then before I can ask her anything, she is crying on my chest. Her tears and sobs pierced my body worst than anything else. "Ssshhh. It's okay." Was all I could say and hold her.
Toni started waving his forks like they were flares for directing a plane. "Okay, time for everyone to leave. Romans are outside our camp, time to ready up." He said, and that gave me time to talk to her.
"What happened to you?" She asked through a shaky voice and muffled from my clothes. "First tell me something." I said to her and moved her a respectable distance away.
"What am I to you? And.....do I know you?"