Kitty Problems...

"I said I'm sorry dint I? It was just a joke...Jeez!" Max said holding his red cheek. "Well that will teach you to mess with a daughter of Zeus." Thalia said pompously making Nico and Bianca snicker at Max's well deserved punishment, when Thalia punched his face and then kissing him passionately in public. [Tsudere ka omai?!] Max mused.

"Okay. Enough horsing around, lets get serious. Thalia, you take Nico and Bianca and head to the dormitories. Find Grover, you can find the boy. I'll go for Chiron's office. I already Iris messaged him so he will be expecting me. Everyone person inside is aaleep. So try to be quick and silent about it. Most importantly....Don't get caught."

Max gave them the directions and jumped through the open window and made his way to Chiron's office when he heard raised voices coming from the teacher's lounge on the second floor.

"...will not touch him Tisiphone. He is not the thief, he doesn't even know about our world or who his father is. Heed my warning Fury, or else-" Chiron threatened. "Ooohh. The great Chiron, threatening a Fury. Give me Percy Jackson and you shall live another day Chiron." The fury in a disgusting sing song voice, mocking Chiron.

At that moment Max walked in with a smile, "Hey, I see Chiron started the party without me!". "Who are you mortal?! Doesn't matter. Kill him!!"She screeched pointing at Max. Out of nowhere a large shadow attack ramming into him throwing him out of the window along with his assailant.

Max gracelessly landed on his stomach from the second floor knocking his air out. He got up with extreme pain, his sides hurt. He looked down to see 5 inch thorns sticking out of his body.

There was a movement in his peripheral, he did not wait to throw himself forward to dodge the incoming attack from a blur of yellow-brown blur.

He got up quickly and pulled out his Axe from the holster on his back, taking stance and faced his enemy.

Max recognised the monster before him as the Manticore. The beast had the body of a lion and and tail similar to a scorpion, except it had multiple thorns protruding from its stinger. Its lion body was 7 feet in length and its tail was around 3 feet poised , ready to attack.

He grunted in pain as he pulled them out, a green liquid trickled out of his puncture wound. [Fuck! That hurts like a bitch! Manticore venom huh?...lucky its not lethal.]

Max's brought his attenttion back to the manticore. For some reason the manticore was not attacking, just observing him. Max did not wait to find out why, [This is taking to much time, Thalia might be in danger] he thought.

Max gripped his axe and was about to attack the manticore when a pair of jaws clamped hard on his shoulder and threw him, smashing into the building making a hole in the wall.

Max climbed out of the hole clearly pissed, fished a couple of cubes of ambrosia and popped it in his mouth. His injuries smoked and sizzled, closing the wound and repairing his tattooed skin on his shoulder.

The instant he held his axe he was bombarded with a hail of spikes. Max kept dodging till it came to a stop. He realized why spike-rain stopped instantly, both the manticores were on either side of him flanking him.

Max smirked. He couldn't care less. He charged at the smaller looking manticore pulling a tomahawk from his belt with his free hand and threw it at the startled creature. The Manticore moved its head on insticnt to dodge, saving it life but its lopped off of a result.

*RROOOAAARR*

Blood spurted out of the wound blinding it. Max wanted to finish it off but was interrupted by the other manticore pouncing on him. He rolled to the side and kept dodging on the same side eventually coming to a stop.

The manticore too came to stop and looked back at the blinded manticore. It snarled at him realizing Max had come out if the pincer formation and it being in between him and the its partner.

Max took out his last remaining tomahawk and threw it straight at it. The monster leaned its body to the side easily dodging the incoming projectile.

The manticore growled at him as if mocking his throwing skills and aiming, just to hear a surprised yelp behind it.

The manticore turned its head distracted at the sound, its partner now dissipating into gold dust a tomahawk buried in its already bloodied face. "Heeere kitty kitty."

The manticore snapped its neck to the source of the voice albeit being too late. Max had already reached the distracted manticore and swung his axe beheading the beast.

Max gathered his tomahawks and a few spikes the manticores shot at him [This has become a habit] he thought chukling to himself. He had collected monster remains to add to his growing collection.

He remembered about the Fury and jumped to the broken window of the room he fell from. There has no sign of the fury Tisiphone, just an army of skeletons and zombies in different kinds of amour, being hacked apart and trampled upon by a furious centaur. "Where the fury?!" Max shouted while spartan kicking a zombie which shot back ramming into a horde of skeletons in Russian CCCP uniform.

"She is after Percy- the son of Poseidon. I can take care of this go!" Chiron shouted while hacking with two swords. "And Max, give him this." He shrunk shrunk one of the swords into a pen and threw it to Max.

Max paused to look at the pen he has holding and grinned. What he was holding was Riptide or Anaklusmos. The magical sword/pen that returns to Percy whenever he throws or looses it.

Max didn't say anything further pocketing the pen and jumped out the window.