Living in A Demigod World

Percy/Zhan

Percy's pov:
"Okay... Look, we should go. Two gorgons are coming, We don't want them to hurt you."

June clasped her hands over her heart. "How sweet! But that's part of your choice!"

"My choice, or our choice..." Percy glanced nervously at the hill. The gorgons had taken off their green vests. Wings sprouted from their backs---- small bat Wings, which grunted like brass.
Since when did they have wings? Maybe they were ornamental. Maybe they were too small to get a gorgon into the air. The two sisters leaped off the apartment building and soared towards them.

Great. Just great.

"Your choice," June said, as if she were in no hurry. " For you, demigod, you could leave me here at the mercy of the gorgons and go to the ocean. You'd make it there quite safely, I guarantee. And as for you..." Her eyes bore into Zhan's. He got the feeling that she knew Zhan. "You could run away, never to be seen again. You could begin a new life, live to a ripe old age, and escape a great deal of pain and misery that you once overcome.

Percy was pretty sure he wasn't going to like the second option. "Or?"

"Or you could do a good deed for an old lady," She said. "Carry me to the camp with you."

"Carry you?" Percy hoped she was kidding. Then June hiked up her skirts and showed him her swollen purple feet.

"I can't get there by myself," She said. "Carry me to camp, across the highway, through the tunnel, across the river."

Percy didn't know what she meant, but it didn't sound easy. June looked pretty heavy.
The gorgons were only fifty yards away----leisurely gliding toward them as if they knew the hunt was over.
Percy looked at the old lady. "And if carry to this camp because----?"

"Because it's kindness!" She said. "And if you don't, the gods will die, the world that you both know will perish, and everyone from your old life will be destroyed. I don't think Hanguang Jun would like that, but you don't remember, so I suppose it won't matter. You'd be safe at the bottom of the sea, and you could join the monsters, you'll be safe with them."

Zhan's pov
Zhan swallowed. That again, what was up with his past? Was it really that destructive, evil, vengeful, and horrible? And who was this Hanguang Jun guy, anyway?! The gorgons shierked with laughter as they soared in for the kill.

"If Percy carries you," Zhan said. "Will we get our memory back?"

"Eventually," June said. "But be warned Percy Jackson, you will sacrifice much! You'll lose the mark of Achilles. You'll feel pain, misery, and loss beyond anything you've ever known. It'll be much worse for you, Yiling Patriarch. For you have suffered many times in your past."
Th gorgons were circling right overhead. They were probably studying the old woman, trying to figure out who the new player was before they struck. Zhan was a little bit angry. Every monster that they met, would smile like a physco, as if he were going to be like one of them.

"What about those guards at the door? And how will Xiao Zhan be able to see the camp?" Percy asked.

June smiled. "Oh, they'll let you in. Don't worry about the Mist, my dear cultivator! You will see the camp when you arrive, so what do you say? Will you helps defenseless old woman?

Zhan doubted June was defenseless. At worst, this was a trap. At best, it was some kind of test.
He hated tests. Since he's lost his memory, his whole life have been a complete blank, and he prefers to know anything than nothing.
Then he thought about Lan Zhan, the only part of his old life he was sure about. He had to find him.

"I'll fend the gorgons off, for as long as I can, while you carry June to the entrance." Zhan told Percy as he prepared to mount on Suibian.

"But you can't see the guards! What if you get killed? I promised to help you regain your memory back!" Percy disagreed.

Zhan sighed. "I'll be fine, wait for at the entrance. I'll met you at the doorway." With those words, he flew off to the gorgons.
He threw talismans at them, dogged their claws, sliced them to bits in the air. This went on for five minutes, they didn't stay down for long, and Zhan was getting tired already. His muscles were aching, his forehead beaded with sweat.

A line of water struck his face. He thought, 'Percy, I swear I'm going to kill you', He wiped his face, looking at the direction of where the water came from.
Percy shouted something in the distance that Zhan couldn't make, but one thing he knew, they made it to the gate. Zhan flew like the wind, dodging cars, birds, and gorgons. As he jumped off Suibian, he threw a fire talisman at them.
But Percy was behind him, by throwing the talisman, he made Percy an easy target.

Zhan screeched to a halt. "PERCY!" He yelled.

"Gotcha!" Shrieked Euryale. Just as Percy had turned, and arrow whizzed past Xiao Zhan and struck Euryale into her forehead. Euryale tumbled into the fast lane. A truck slammed into her and carried her backward a hundred guards, but she just claimed over the can, pulled the arrowout of her head, and launched back into the air.

Percy reached us. "Thanks," He told the guards. Just as June said, when Percy said thanks Zhan saw them. "Good shot."

"That should've killed her!" The archer protested.

"Welcome to our world," Zhan flashed a grin at them. Percy glared at him.

"Frank," The girl said. "Get them inside, quick! Those are gorgons."

"Gorgons?" The archer's voice squeaked. It was hard to tell much about him under the helmet, but he looked stout like a wrestler, maybe fourteen or fifteen. "Will the door hold them?"

In Percy's arms, June cackled. "No, no it won't. Onward Percy Jackson, and Xiao Zhan! Through the tunnel, over the river!"

"Percy Jackson? Xiao Zhan?" The female guard was darker-skinned With curly hair sticking out from the sides of her helmet. She looked younger than Frank---maybe thirteen.  Her sword scabbard came almost down to her ankle. Still, she sounded like she was the one in charge. "Okay, you're obviously a demigod. But who are-----?" She glanced at June. "Never mind. Just he them inside. I'll hold them off."

"Hazel," The boy said. "Don't be crazy."

Percy's pov:

"Go!" She demanded.

Frank cursed in another language---was that Latin?-----and opened the door. "Come on!"
Percy followed, staggering under the weight of the old lady, who was definitely getting heavier. He didn't know how that girl Hazel would hold off the gorgons by herself, but he was to tired to argue.
The tunnel cut through solid rock, about the width and height of a school hallway. At first, it looked like typical maintenance tunnel with electric cables, warning signs, and fuse boxes on the walls, light bulbs in the wire cages along the ceiling. As they ran deeper into the hillside, the cement floor changed to tiled mosaic. The lights changed to reed torches, which have been burned but didn't smoke. A few hundred yards ahead, Percy saw a square of daylight.

Here's chapter 7. Hope y'all like reading it❤❤❤