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CHAPTER SIX vi. that should balance your chakra _______
The arrow pierced through the karpoi with unmatchable precision. It only killed one of them, but it was enough to draw their attention away from Hazel.
It was a massacre as Frank, Percy and Sebastian fought their way through the karpoi. Frank was shooting arrows in every direction, whilst Percy slashed Riptide through them. Sebastian was wielding his own sword, not particularly feeling like sinking his fangs into some wheat. Hazel jumped down from the rock she was on and joined the fight.
Within minutes, the karpoi had been reduced to piles of seeds and various breakfast cereals. One started to reform, but Percy pulled a lighter from his pack and sparked a flame.
"Try it and I'll set this whole field on fire." He warned. "Stay dead. Stay away from us, or the grass gets it!"
Frank winced like the flame terrified him. Hazel shouted at the grain piles: "He'll do it! He's crazy!"
The remnants of the karpoi scattered in the wind. Frank climbed the rock and watched them go. Percy extinguished his lighter and grinned at Hazel.
"Thanks for yelling. We wouldn't have found you otherwise. How'd you hold them off so long?"
She pointed to the rock. "A big pile of schist."
"Excuse me?"
"Guys." Frank called from the top of the rock. "You need to see this."
Sebastian, Percy and Hazel climbed up to join him. As soon as Sebastian saw what he was looking at, he inhaled sharply. "Perseus, no light! Put away your sword!"
"Schist!" He touched the sword tip, and Riptide shrank back into a pen.
Down below them, an army was on the move.
The field dropped into a shallow ravine, where a country road wound north and south. On the opposite side of the road, grassy hills stretched to the horizon, empty of civilisation except for one darkened convenience store at the top of the nearest rise. The whole ravine was full of monsters - column after column marching south, so many and so close, Sebastian was amazed they hadn't heard Hazel's shouting.
The four crouched against the rock. They watched in disbelief as several dozen large, hairy humanoids passed by, dressed in tattered bits of armour and animal fur. The creatures had six arms each, three sprouting on either side, so they looked like cavemen evolved from insects.
Sebastian had seen many, many monsters in his time and he had been expecting an army to be marching to Camp Jupiter. But seeing it made it all the more real. The Camp - his home - would be reduced to nothing but blood and ash.
"Gegenes." Hazel whispered. "The Earthborn."
"You've fought them before?" Percy asked.
She shook her head. "Just heard about them in monster class at camp."
