Chapter 11

Hey, this is Nick, coming to you live from Camp Jupiter. For those of you just tuning in, or to give those of you whom have read to this point a refresher Ariella's twin and I both basically arrived at Camp Jupiter at the same time. He and Ariella are both technically children of Poseidon while I am a Child of Pluto and part storm dragon through my mother. Dragon hunters that happen to be legacies here in the camp took the opportunity the tracking exercise Ariella devised to try and kill me. Percy had to intervene and save me twice. The Apollo son Percy had kicked into the camp was still being held by skeletal soldiers and surrounded by Haley's electrical cage. For such a young Child of Jupiter she was a serious bad ass. Then he and Nico dealt with two more hunters that were after me, only they had attacked Amy first to save their comrade from being a prisoner.

I had round house kicked both of them away and leapt back with Amy. The rest of the campers return, Aaron, son of Apollo racing over to heal Amy. From the looks of it the entire camp knew those two had something to do with Amy's condition and were warned away from helping the third. Then Ariella returned, sees Aaron attending to Amy whom was in my arms, and Gwen sees her eyes glowing blue, like a storm tossed sea, before diving behind Percy. Apparently she had seen Ariella this pissed off before. Unknown to me at the time in Camp Half-Blood, the Greek Camp, Jason Grace shudders for no apparent reason, sensing the impending doom.

I could see from the set of Ariella's body language that this was not going to be pleasant. She happened to be a daughter of the Earthshaker, Storm Bringer, and Father of Horses. Her being this enraged was probably not a good thing. The pair not being held in place by skeleton soldiers were trembling in fear as the Apollo campers that were holding them let go and back away quickly, smart move.

I could feel the barometric pressure dropping significantly and I look towards the Tiber to see a massive water spout forming, there may not be any lightning in the storm clouds above, but I knew from experience when my female relatives got truly pissed off the darker the clouds the blacker their rage. These clouds were deeper than pitch black and roiling around like the water beneath them. Being part storm dragon I had nothing to fear, but damn Ariella had a very nasty temper. I just wondered what it said about me that I was actually being turned on by this display of awesome temper.

Every camper present takes shelter behind Percy, Nico, or myself. I guess they figured they'd be safer behind us, well, Haley stayed where she was as her dad dealt with storms as well. Aaron also didn't move as he was more terrified of what would happen if he stopped treating Amy. I couldn't see the wind but I could feel it whipping, heard it howling out Ariella's anger. Then the water spout was on land and racing for the targets of her ire. It stops twenty feet short and then water starts twining around her like an angry, vengeful cat until it took on the form of a Hippocampus.

I could see the sheer terror the pair were feeling in their eyes, the other one was just thanking whatever deity that he had already been dealt with. Then the ground starts trembling beneath our very feet, though only lightly for those of us not on the receiving end of Ariella's wrath. For the pair of bigoted idiots they were now on their hands and knees, struggling to keep Ariella and her twister in sight. Smart of them, never let a pissed off enemy out of your sight, or a wrathful sister. I knew from experience that older siblings generally beat down on those that hurt their younger siblings be it physically or emotionally. Well, if they happened to be a decent older sibling that is.

I knew from experience that older siblings could be crappy, case in point, my older half-brother through my mother, Nico, well, I'd only known him for a short amount of time but, I was beginning to think that I may actually like him. Plus, he was technically an older brother seeing as how he'd been born at the tail end of World War II. My eyes widen when the storm solidifies into a horse, " Did she just create a storm spirit horse? " Carlos asks in awe.

Percy, from what I could see, was dumbfounded at what his pissed off sister was capable of, then again, I couldn't really blame him. Said horse rears up and neighs out a challenge to the heavens, or so it seemed. The wind responded to his neigh and the two idiots flinch. Gwen whimpers from behind Percy, " The last time this happened she created a Storm Shark, Great White at that. "

I hum thoughtfully at that information and said shark swims down from the clouds, nuzzling me and then Percy briefly before circling the nitwits. Gwen pales even further at seeing the shark, the nitwits are now holding on to each other as the horse paws the ground while the shark circles them, the ground still shaking hard under them. I look to Ariella and she didn't even look like this was effecting her. Just how powerful did she happen to be anyhow? Not that I was going to complain, she looked like a sexy Valkyrie getting ready to go to battle. I was never going to forget this moment as long as I lived.

Ariella was one demigoddess I wouldn't mind getting to know. Hell, after this was over and she was done fretting over Amy I may just see if I could take her out on a real date. Why demigods hid themselves away from the world I would never understand. Just learn how to fight and then defend yourself and your family. Why live in fear, it made no damn sense.

When the idiots pass out in fear Ariella releases her hold on her power, the Storm Shark and Storm Horse both nuzzling their creator before heading into the dissipating storm clouds above. " Aaron, how is she? " Ariella asks.

" She'll be fine, I'll just move her to the infirmary to rest, I'll post my most trusted siblings at the door and I will not allow Octavian anywhere near her. How he's an Apollo legacy I will never understand. " Aaron states.

" Nick, my shark told me that you saved my sister and got her out of there, so thank you for that. "

" Hey, they were after me so they had no right to go after Amy. She's a sweet kid and didn't deserve that. " I tell her, her eyes still looked stormy and it was in that moment that I realized Cupid had struck, Ariella was it for me.

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians.