Champion of Chaos

Chapter 4

"-elp head! Kelp head! KELP HEAD!" I woke up to a shadow shaking me awake, blocking out the sun.

"What's up Thals?" I said, playing innocent. She pulled me into a tight hug. "I am so so sorry about what happened. I thought I raised her better. I will castrate everyone in that camp the next time I see them."

"It's alright Thals, we'll be fine. In three weeks, Chaos will take us to Utopia. For now, we just need to survive. Are you hungry?"

"No, I'm fine. Nico fed me after I comforted him about Will. Apparently Will broke up with him for sticking up for you."

"Oh no, I caused that too?! No it was my fault, Where is he? Oh gods no..."

"It's alright, he doesn't blame you. Plus, he seemed pretty okay with it. I wonder why..."

"Maybe because a certain someone isn't a maiden anymore?" After my comment, she blushed crimson.

"W-wh-what? N-no, wh-what do you mean? We're just friends."

Not according to the stutter you're not, now go away, I'm gonna wash myself in the pond."

She left, while I went into the pond, keeping my underwear on. I had tattoos, with different symbols in different places. There was a small sun on rop of my right shoulder. I grabbed it, and out came an amazing bow and a quiver which held an infinite number of arrows. Cool!

I had a skull on top of my left shoulder, and when I grabbed it out came a pitch black scyther with a skull on the non-bladed side of it. Even cooler!

I had a dove wrapped in vines on my left pectoral, covering it, and a cadeceus above my appendix. All of the tattoos were small (except the dove and vines), thankfully, and all were black. I grabbed the cadeceus, and a shield popped out, similar to the one Tyson gave me. Oh no, what about Tyson? I just abandoned him. 

I tapped the dove wrapped in vines, and suddenly I was covered in armor, and a voice, probably Aphrodites. told me I can change the color whenever I want. I could also change the helmet, wheter I wanted horn like the devil or for it to completely cover my face, I could change it at will. I tapped where the tattoo was on my body, though still covered in armor, and it disappeared. I did that with all my new weapons bringing them back to their tattoo, and I was relieved to know that the quiver doesn't interfere with the armor, and it just gets placed over, like nothing ever happenned. 

I want to say I slept peacefully that night, but I didn't. There was a bed, a couch, and the floor. I took the floor, Nico took the couch, and Thalie took the bed. My dreams went back to Tartarus, and the torture I went through just so Annabeth could leave unharmed. Time passed differently down there, and I asked for Annabeth to be unconcious for most of it. It was two years that I spent in a dungeon, each monster trying to get me to scream, but at that moent in time, all I cared about was that my wise girl wasn't hurt. She was unconcious until the last few days, where she had to watch. I lied, telling her that it was only a week to stop her from worrying, and that she saw the worst of it. Boy, was that a lie.

Apparently Morpheus hates me, cause I also went back further, experiencing Gabe. The gunshot wound I have on my right shoulder, that I told my mom was someone in an alleyway, or the stab wound right below my appendix from a beer bottle, that I told my mom was a rock that I fell on. Everything, all the pain in my life, I experienced. All the deaths, everything.

I woke up suddenly, with a tear streaked face, and Thalia and Nico shooting with a worried glare. I explained to them what I dreamt, and how long it has been going on. Both had tears in their eyes, and I knew that Thalia and Nico both blushed when we pulled in for a group hug.

I summoned breakfast, then got my armor on to go fight any nearby monsters. Stragely, Hestia gave me a tattoo that I didn't notice. It was a dragon, engulfed in flame. It was on the small of my back, and when I pressed it, a bunch of throwing knives appeared on my waist. Sweet! I threw one, and immediately another took it's place. Only then did I notice the small companion on my shoulder that was a small dragon.

'Hello" It said.

'Um... Hi? I guess you are my- what are you? Who are you?'

'I am your pet. You may name me whatever you want, and I serve you and only you. I can engulf myself in fire and greek fire, just like you, and grow pretty tall. As I get stronger, as you get stronger, my true size will grow, to that of a skyscraper. But when you touch the tattoo, I get a choice to go away or not, you can send me into the tattoo, or you can keep me out of it.'

'I guess you can do whatever you want. Do you have a name? From your voice I think you are male, but I don't know.'

'No, I bear no name. I can change color, and I am male. What is my name? What would you like my color to be?'

'I'l name you Ajax, and I guess you'll be naturally blue with some sea green. Is that alright?'

'That is great, I'm going to go take a nap, alright?' And with that, he disappeared into the tattoo.

There was only a pack of hellhounds, about thirty, but I killed them with my new stuff, in about a couple minutes. And with that, my day was over.