Chapter 96: Night Terror

The sunlight dances, twinkling down the leaves of the trees of the surrounding forest around Camp Half-blood. In a field we can see several children holding weapons, several different weapons and armor! From the biggest to the smallest, everyone was training in their own pace, there was a sudden commotion and everyone stopped and looked at the scene in front of them: A tall, dark-skinned teen, probably between his 14 or 15 years came flying above everyone and hit with his back at a big boulder that was being used as a training bag for the hardcore children of Ares that were punching it and trying to break it, thinking that maybe if they all attacked it would eventually break.

Which would've, if it was not for the dark-skinned teenage that hit with his forehead on the rock, breaking the boulder in several tiny pieces. The guy was bleeding from his forehead while unconscious on the ground, some child of Apollo came rushing towards the boy as the medic, his hands glowed for a second and the bleeding from the dark-skinned teen's forehead stopped, some bones of his body healed, his cracked skull regenerated, and most of his ribs grew back, he also woke up with daze in his eyes and confusion on his face, which turned into fear as he saw the gloomy appearance of the tall and dark-haired Enychta slowly walking towards him.

Everyone felt a sense of fear and dread at every step the man took, his eyes were deeply golden as the oppressive aura emanated off of his body with waves, his magic bubbling up and exploding around him, destroyed the ground he stepped on as his feet touched it, shadows all around him moved like a piece of cloth being blown by the wind, fluttering flair as it moved and danced in the wind. His shirtless body attracted some stares as his upper to his sexy form, sweat dripping him completely wet as he stared down at the dark-skinned teen, in his hand a big fucking hammer on his back! His bulky form was intimidating, and his stare made people tremble in fear, like sheep in front of a lion, shivering in fright, a fear that came from within and was inly natural.

Everyone was quiet and nervous. What happened?

"Eny, please, calm down." Like ripple in a still lake, the voice echoed across the silence and nervousness of the camp as their heads turned to see Luke, he was also without a shirt and sweaty, his whole demeanor was tense and angry as he walked slowly towards the beast that stopped getting closer to the dark-skinned teen who by now fainted from fright. "He is okay now, let's go back to him, okay?" Luke called and touched Enychta's arm, in an instant everyone sighed when they saw Luke hold the beast's hand and pull him away from everyone. They were sincerely scared shitless, their heads turned towards the unconscious teen and pondered... What did he do to make the Beast so angry?

As he left, however, Enychta's eyes glowed red... This was not over yet.

-10 Minutes Early-

"My my, what an eye candy~" Pruno chuckled, holding daggers as he was training his throw, throwing dagger after dagger towards the enchanted targets of the Nyx Cabin, just recently established but one of the most magical ones due to Enychta's practices on Enchanting Magic, he would create several different items with random enchantments on them. They were enchanted with enchantments from [Float], [Movement], and [Heat] to [Cold], [Breeze], and even [Recover]! Each rune does as the namesake suggests, but some of them are very limited, like the [Float] and [Movement] runes that have weight and speed limit.

Pruno was using one of such magic items right now!

He was throwing daggers and darts at several floating ranges that moved around in different speeds and heights, it was good training for him since he was not naturally talented for ranged weapons like most of Apollo's children, he was better at what Enychta called "Nature magic"... He tried some of the things Enychta asked him to do, which were strange, like touch a big tree and thinking of another tree and trying to connect them both to open a portal on each tree to teleport... It was a great idea, really, but he couldn't do it well, he could connect both trees magically which was great, but he was not able to open a portal.

Back to what was distracting the pink-haired boy was the shirtless due that were sparing, their weapons clashing and making sparks fly due to the sheet speed at which Luke was attacking and how impressively Enychta was defending the attacks using a heavier fighting style, full of sweat on their body as they've been fighting for more than two hours now and were having fun since Enychta was kinda aroused by the fight, making both boys slightly embarrassed as he had a boner while fighting! A huge sword between his legs was not Enychta's only weapon, he also had a big warhammer crafted by Hephaestus's children who happily crafted this weapon to break bones and crush hopes, it was made to destroy! It was even given the name Καταστρέφω, Katastréfo, or simply Destroy.

Luke had his trusted weapon, a thin and light sword with a sharp blade, but mostly made to poke and stab other than slash and cut, a golden rapier-like sword that he used as he ran faster than anyone could see, but Enychta could feel him because his sense of danger was very powerful! In fact...

[Skill] Danger Sense: 10%

A mystical sixth sense that has been inside you for a long time, only awakening now due to your caution nature and not your previously paranoid personality that refused to get yourself in high danger that could awaken this ability. Well, now you have it, you are able to feel danger approaching you and can react accordingly to the situation. It is also an instant [Skill] due to your high senses and natural danger sense.

He got a new skill! Also, now only that, but thanks to Luke, he also was able to get new proficiencies with weapons and even evolve them into a new and terrifying [Unique Skill]:

[Unique Skill] Weapon Mastery: 04%

Every single weapon! You can wield any weapon with great proficiency, even if you never touched the weapon before, even if it is a Unique Weapon designed for a "chosen one", or even if it is cursed and has a personality of it's own, you can wield it with great proficiency. This makes you immune to anything harmful that may affect you while wielding a sword, a great example is if the weapon is cursed, while you wield it you are completely immune to it, but once you let go of the weapon, you can be affected by it. However, spending long periods of time with the cursed item makes you completely immune to it too.

Gets [Inanimate Speak] Extra Boon.]

[Inanimate Speak: You are able to hear inanimate objects voices, if they have consciousness, and emotions/aura if they have a Soul Spark.]

That was when Enychta started to hear the whispers of the weapons, both his hammer and Luke's sword were aggressively flirting with each other each time they clashed, Enychta knew these weapons did not have a consciousness, but they had something interesting... A spark of soul, not only did the weapons had that, everything had that! The ability to get a conscience and become intelligent... This was amazing! And before you ask how the weapons were aggressively flirting when they didn't even have a consciousness, well, that was only Enychta's and Luke's intentions that fused together with the weapons as they clashed together.

Back to Pruno, who threw another dart towards one of the targets, just to miss it and watch it fly off, he was aiming at a target that flew around faster than the others, and that one was one of the only ones he didn't hit. The dart flew and all Pruno heard was someone screaming in pain, he sighed and shook his head, he had accidentally hit someone again! He slowly walked there to apologize to the person when he suddenly saw a red blur, he dodged to the side as a angry dark-skinned teen rushed through. He held his spear in hand and had just tried to impale Pruno with it, he successfully dodged because Luke is faster than that, but what came after he did not expect!

The spear was thrown towards him, it wasn't that fast, it just caught him by surprise, and that was what doomed him. The spear went through his stomach and he could only cry in pain as a hole opened on his stomach, thankfully it wasn't on a important organ! The spear impaled him and firmly held him to the ground, the teen was probably a child of Ares! Short tempered and has a fucking strong spear... He coughed blood as his hand went to the spear thag imbedded him to the ground, his eyes were open wide as he felt pain and shock that he didn't even hear Enychta shouting his name and rushing towards him...

Luke got there first, he immediately began to give him first aids and checking his injury while whispering sweet words of comfort. Pruno smiled weakly at him, he only heard a thump sound followed by a cry of pain, he saw someone flying off on the distance as Enychta pulled the spear off of him and instantly he grunted. A glow emanated from Enychta's hands and Pruno felt pain as his damaged organs instantly regenerated and returned back to normal, but the pain was enough to knock him down.

Enychta looked at Pruno with concern, fear, and anxiety as Luke held him in a princess carry. He was fine, it took almost all of Enychta's magic and stamina to instantly heal him, but it worked. His eyes turned towards the flying object, his eyes glowed golden as he trusted Luke to get Pruno to safety as he ran towards the flying bastard that had the guts to hurt his Pruno. He didn't know that, but, the shadows around him and even his shadow began to move like snakes, like cloth being blown by the wind...

[New Night Magic Learned]

[Night Terror: You are the monster under the bed, you are the shadow that moves through the night, you are the most horrifying thing someone can think of.

Effect: Applies [Fear] to viewing targets.]

-Scene Cuts-

In Heaven, under the Library of Knowledge, Nyx felt a shiver run through her body and her mind... Her child just became more connected to the night, and she didn't know if it was a good or bad thing... Why? Because of what she learned!

-A few moments ago-

"So, tell me darling, what do you want to know~?" said Mephiziel, Blessing of Knowledge and sole known librarian to the Library of Knowledge that contained all known and unknown knowledge that came from the Sky Daddy himself. "I want to know... Who is the father of my child." She looked serious, but Mephiziel just raised an eyebrow and sighed, saying: "Honey, you know there's DNA tests out there, right?" Nyx face palmed instantly, she shouted: "I know! It's just, the guy was not mortal and mom doesn't want to tell me who he was! I want to know, so i came here, I couldn't find him anymore after we did it... He vanished."

"He just went to get milk or something... Or maybe he is the avatar?" Mocked Mephiziel, while holding up a golden book with the title glowing in a white light, the words were in a language unknown to mankind. He flipped through the book that seemingly had endless pages, because the size of the book or the quantity of pages never changed. "Let's see here... Queen Elizabeth's death date... nope. Atlantic Kingdom's location... Nah. What the Spice Girls really really want... Oh, this is surprising! But no... Ha! Found it! Enychta Astérie, Son of Nyx, Primordial Goddess of the Night and- Oh no."

Suddenly, the letters on Enychta's name turned red and black, showing another name.

"Son of Lucifer... Prince of Hell-" Before Mephiziel could read the name that had replaced Enychta's name, the book flew towards another angel, this one, however, had twelve wings... A Virtue. "So he is back..." The angel whispered before closing the book and vanishing.

"Well, that guy was rude." Mephiziel commented while Nyx felt it, her child got more connected to the night.