Makeshift Battering Ram!

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It hurt and he could hear his clothing cracking as he sat up, seeing blurs of color racing around him. Hellhounds, he realized as his vision cleared. He was cold, so so cold but Grover was chanting in his brain thoughts of fire and warm hot chocolate and blue cookies and how much he'd kick his butt if he froze to death. So Percy tried to struggle to his feet and grab for his sword-But no, no it's wasn't there. He must have dropped it but-there it was in his pocket again. A shout of surprise-Someone' had been using the sword and now they were running. Percy uncapped riptide and used it to push himself to his feet. Legs numb and unresponsive, his fingers were blue. Nice. A hellhound noticed he was up. Less nice.

He swung the sword that weighed a ton and the snow on the ground followed it and extended his reach, slicing through the hellhound cleanly. What the-ice, the aching again in his head and stomach as his teeth chattered. He could feel his blood running slowly through his veins, as if every time he controlled ice his own body began to freeze at the same time. Becoming more solid and stationary, just when he used water in the air he could mist travel-but there was a limit to how far he could travel Nico had said and never to try to go so far or he might never reform. He wondered if it was similar to now, controlling ice where he could see his breath come out as particles of ice. 

"Think warm thoughts!" Was Grover's advice "Hot tubs or... I don't know kissing Annabeth! Or being smothered by Mrs. Old Leary!" 

Mrs. Old Leary. Percy puckered his lips, his frozen blue lips and made an attempt at whistling. A high pitched sound was somehow possible as Percy shivered further and soon he was met by a mass of fur who's first objective was to lick him with a big slobbery lick. 

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Percy was cold! And now her tongue was stuck and she could not get it off!!! Mrs. Old Leary swung her tongue around, accidentally hitting another hellhounds with her new battering tongue. One growled and tried to bite at Percy but she clawed his face "get your own battering ram!" 

They we're absolute jerks! And Percy was cold, it wasn't good for him to be cold. She could take him to Bermuda! She took Nico there when he was cold but she needed a good nap first. Percy plopped off her tongue in a heap and she didn't lick him again, instead she decided the best thing to do would be sit on him. So she curled up around the frozen popsicle of a human and made sure every single surface was covered with her thick dense fur. Then she growled at the other hellhounds who could not understand why she'd chosen to protect a human! Idiots.

The zappy boy and a really big bird flew down and helped chase off the other hellhounds and the humans she didn't know the smell off waved their arms at her. Travis waved, he gave her treats if she'd go lick people, but she didn't see smell any him right now so she'd save licking for later, and when it wasn't so cold. She didn't want another battering Ram, it stung! Zappy boy came over with the other boy who she also made,  sometimes smelled like death just like Nico and Hazel did, because he liked Hazel. Hazel tried to feed her gold once, she was a strange death child. 

"Mrs. Old Leary, can we see Percy's please?" Zappy asked politely. She considered it, he was still really cold, but they just wanted to see not touch. She could smell the coldness everywhere, it made her wary, but Percy also smelled of the cold. So she stretched out a little to show him long enough that Zappy and Hazel's boyfriend were satisfied the night she curled right up and decided it was naptime. And she growled at anyone that's came close as the sun began to set and a ship approached from the sky.

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