Chapter 36

A/N: okay I'm a dumbass, 🙈, in the previous chapter I gave the wrong location. I said that they needed to go through the Bronx and then go to Staten Island... camp half-blood is in long Island, lol, so yeahhh the journey is apparently longer 😅 my bad g

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[Third Person's PoV]

It took everyone a few minutes to get their bearings together and not fall head first. They shook their heads trying to clear the distortion, which worked after a while and the ringing in their ears stopped.

"Well that was an enjoyable experience" Lucian said with a grimace.

"What even was that?" Annabeth asked with a hand on her head as if was getting a headache.

"That was banshee, also known as a wailing spirit." Lucian informed her.

"That doesn't sound like any Greek monster's I know"

"That's because it isn't Greek it's from Irish"

"Then what the hell was it doing anywhere here" Thalia asked irritatedly

"How am I supposed to know?, it's a dead spirit, my dad is the lord of the dead, he could probably control other types of spirits, they don't have to be exactly Greek for him to control."

"Let's just keep walking and try to get to camp as quickly as possible" Luke suggested with a sigh.

"I think it's better if we get to a less crowded location." Lucian countered.

Luke looked at Lucian with a raised brow, "I can sense skeletons and more ghosts coming in our direction. And they will be here any minute now"

"So what do we do? Should we try and get awa–" Thalia didn't even get to finish her sentences before Luke interrupted her

"We will fight them all of course" Luke instantly interjected.

Everyone gained a serious expression and started running away towards a discreet location away from every Lucian Summon a griffin and had it protect Grover.

He turned towards the others and said, "It's better if I fight the ghosts that are coming, and you fight the skeleton warriors."

They nodded their heads and the army of ghosts and skeletons soon appeared.

Luke didn't hesitate and immediately withdrew his sword and ran towards the skeletons wearing Greek armor who were wielding a sword and shield.

He tried to cut the first one in his way but the skeleton just ended up blocking it with its shield.

Seeing that, Luke kicked it, throwing it off balance before smashing its skull with the sword.

Another skeleton tried to take that opportunity and stab him with the tip of its sword but due to his superior speed Luke was able to maneuver out the way.

But another skeleton used that opportunity to cut his arm. Luke looked at his bleeding arm in annoyance before he started picking up his speed.

He ducked, pushed, kicked, and slashed his way through the skeleton, some managed to cut him but due to his speed he managed to dodge them so they weren't able to gravely wound him.

Mid battle Luke thought about what Lucian talked about and the use of using your godly parents idea for your and being creative with it.

Although he didn't want to use anything related to his father, Luke couldn't just run away from it his whole life and deny how helpful they would be, especially when they were always in constant danger due to monsters always finding them.

Luke took a few steps back from all the skeletons and closed his eyes as he put his sword away.

"Be creative" He whispered to himself.

He snapped his eyes open and started running towards the skeletons empty handed, he became so fast he became a blur.

Luke got towards the skeletons and the first thing he did was steal a sword from the skeleton, disarming it and stabbing it in the skull with it.

Luke was using his abilities related to the god of speed and thieves, and stealing all the skeletons' weapons and using it against them.

The skeletons couldn't do anything when their shield and sword disappeared from their hands and ended up in Luke's hand, where he proceeded to eliminate them.

When the skeleton tried to retaliate with their fist Luke was already ahead of them and smashed their shield against them breaking their bones.

Luke took the shield and turned it sideways where he proceeded to build momentum with his speed and send the shield flying like a disc, where it would just cut through them.

Meanwhile as soon as Luke made his move Lucian did the same. He waved and twisted his scythe around while running towards the spirits of the dead.

In front of him were Makhai, fiery spirits/daemon of battle and combat. Lucian swung his scythe at one of them but they ended up blocking it with its dual blade.

But Lucian used his shadow and impaled it with a shadow tendril, but before he made another move another Makhai with an axe came and swung it down on Lucian.

Lucian blocked with his scythe, due to the force and strength of the Makhai Lucian was placed on one knee in a stalemate, but before he could do anything else another Makhai with twin daggers came running towards him.

When Lucian saw that he waited for a bit for the spirit with the twin daggers to get close, before rolling out the way and taking a large swing of his scythe, taking them both out at the same time.

Three more Makhai went and engaged into a battle with Lucian wielding a spear, a sword, battle axe, respectively.

The one with the battle axe went into an aggressive offense and started swinging his Axe. Lucian had to take a step back and dodge, which caused the daemon to miss and strike the ground just a few centimeters away from him, causing cracks in the shape of webs to appear on the ground.

Lucian stumbled which the other Makhai used as an opening, the one with the sword ended cutting Lucian's forearm meanwhile the one with the spear ended up thrusting his spear in his shoulder.

"Argh!" Lucian cried out in pain. Which ended up angering him. He pulled out the spear from his shoulder and pulled on it while taking a step back pulling the Makhai forward.

Lucian swung his scythe from a downward angle and impaled the Makhai, with a grew glow it quickly crumbled to dust.

The Makhai with the battle axe swung his weapon towards Lucian sideways, Lucian seeing this blocked it with the pole of his scythe which sent him flying and rolling on the ground.

Making him groan in more pain, as he stood up Lucian decided to get creative with his powers.

He put his scythe inside his shadow and as he did the Makhai decided to run towards him with their weapons ready.

Lucian willed his shadow to wrap itself on the blade of his scythe, when he felt it was enough and the Makhai were close approaching Lucian swung his scythe releasing a dark shadowy arc, taking the two Makhai by surprise and cutting them both.

The arc then dissipated into black smoke after it traveled a few more seconds.

Lucian seeing that it worked smirked, "Oh Yeah baby, daddy Lucian is getting excited"

Lucian looked at his bleeding shoulder for a bit and then back the Makhai, "I'm Fine, I'll live"

He put the blade of his scythe back in shadow while still looking at all the Makhai that were advancing, "Come to papa"

And swung his scythe in a wide sideways arc sending a dark shadowy slash towards them, some of the Makhai managed to move out the way but some weren't so lucky and ended up being exorcized(?)....