New Beginnings
Chapter 12
Written by rachel76
Edited by Don Kaufman

The list of characters mentioned in this story belong to the various authors that created them. This is a fan-fiction story.

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We wake up when the alarm sounds out again at 6:30 AM, “BZZZZZZZ . . . .!!!!”

We get ourselves ready for the day. In fact, it is a repeat of yesterday morning. We leave the hotel at 8 AM. It takes an hour to arrive at the entrance to Camp Half-Blood. I drive the SUV onto the property and park it with the others. We get out of the SUV. I get Robert’s baby carriage and set it up. Then Brianna places Robert into the carriage. Brianna has Robert’s satchel on her shoulder. I have the fairies’ satchel on my shoulder.

As we make our way to the small lake, we get greeted by the some of the demi-gods who see us.

One of Aphrodite’s daughters bends down to look at Robert. Robert smiles. “Look at that smile on that cute face of his.” She gets up and looks at us with a smile, “This is just to let you know, I am glad you both came. This is just what we need to push us to work harder. I’ve heard already from many of the demi-gods they want to be stronger and quicker like you.”

Brianna, Robert, the fairies and I smile. “You’re welcome.”

She then turns around to find her other sisters. We walk down the trail to Percy’s water side cabin. We see him trying to remember what he did yesterday. As soon as he senses us, he lets the water stream flow back into the small lake. He turns around to greet us.

“Good morning, Moore family.”

“Good morning, Percy.”

“So, how do we attack demons? Do we kill them or not?”

“You do not kill demons, Percy. They are already condemned to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. But, you can give them pain and shame when they meet Azazel.”

“All right, what is the first thing to do, Richard?”

“I am going to create ice images of the demons that I met so far. That way, you have some idea what they will look like. If we are going to be in Japan, we need to come up with a plan that will do just that.”

Percy and I walk out onto the water. I raise my left hand upward. I quickly create a lower class demon from the water. Then I freeze it into ice. I keep it hovering in front of us. “The first move is ice. When ice is around their throats, you can keep them at bay. If they try to touch it, they won’t be able to, because it is very painful to them. There is another way, Percy. Send ice darts to their hearts. Again the pain is very painful. The best approach is to create a water bubble. Then create a million ice darts from it. To make it more painful, have those ice darts and collars blazing with fire.”

“Won’t that melt the ice?”

“It won’t Percy. Remember, you must make the ice harder than steel.”

“I see, then it won’t melt.”

“That’s right. Since I haven’t learned the fire element, I will need help. I can use Levi’s and Shiri’s flame attack. It can also come from my dragon memories. You can have ice objects lit up with fire before or after you send it to them.”

I create an ice dart in front of me from my right hand. I have it floating in front of me. Levi flies in quickly. He changes into a dragon fairy in a little flash of light. He shoots a small stream of fire at it. The ice dart is now aflame with fire! I quickly send the ice-fire dart at the ice demon image’s heart.

“If they are flying around, won’t some of the ice darts miss them? Won’t they try to fly away?”

“It’s possible, Percy. I can put a homing spell on the ice darts so it will hit their hearts. But, what we can do, is to create an icy arena to hem them in. Then, I’ll need a simple box to contain them. It will be coated with ice on the inside. Then we can send them in shame to Azazel.”

“How big should this box be?”

“It can be the size of a shoe box. A million demons can fit inside it. They will be very uncomfortable.”

Percy smiles, “That’s good. All right, let me try to make a water bubble and make a million ice spikes from it.”

I melt the icy demon image and return the water to the lake. When the ice dart melts, the flame is put out.

Percy concentrates on the water. He brings up a water bubble that is five feet in diameter. He concentrates on the water bubble. He quickly creates a million ice darts from the water bubble.

“Whew! I did it. I need to practice that some more.” He lets the ice darts melt and flow back into the lake. He brings up another water bubble. This time it is a lot faster and easier for him.

“All right, what is the next the part?”

“My fairies, will you please come here?”

“Yes, father, mother. We are coming.” They all fly over and hover in front of me.

“I think it is best that you stay with Brianna and Robert while Percy and I are facing the demons in Japan. If any of them try to break away to attack her, then she will need help.”

Tiger speaks for them, “We understand, father, mother, Omega. We’ll be there to protect her and Robert. We know you are capable with your memories and Shaolin training that you can defeat them easily.”

Then they all touch and hug my face. I smile when they do that. Then they fly back to Brianna and Robert in Percy’s cabin. I smile as they fly back.

I look at Percy. “The next step is to get the ice darts on fire.”

“What if we are separated?”

“You can still send the ice darts to their hearts. Then my dragon memories can light them up later. If we are together, back to back, we can create a water bubble around us. Then the dragon memories can light them up from within the bubble.”

“Hmm . . . that’s a good idea. All right, we’ll wait and see how it goes.”

“Now, what I am going to do for you is some target practice. I am going to bring up multiple ice objects and have them flying around you. Your task is to use the ice darts and hit the ice objects.”

“How many ice objects will you have flying around?”

“I think a hundred is enough for now.”

“Gulp, all right, a hundred ice objects it is.”

I concentrate on the water in the lake. I sweep my hands and arms in a fluid motion. I quickly bring up one hundred water balls. I make some of them flat like plates. I then start moving them all around Percy at various distances. I keep to a random pattern to keep him guessing.

Percy gets set. He brings up a water bubble that is two feet in diameter. He quickly turns it into a hundred ice darts. He concentrates on his destination. He sends out the first five ice darts. The five ice darts quickly hits five flying ice objects. Then he sends twenty ice darts at the targets. Again, they all hit the targets. He pauses and thinks very hard, “hmm . . .”

“Richard, is it just me, or am I just lucky?”

“Think about it, Percy. What is said about the body? What is the primary component in the body.”

“It is said the body contains mostly water.”

“That’s right, Percy.”

Then Percy smiles, “So, that means I can shoot these ice darts anywhere I want to. It will curve around until it hits them.”

“That’s right, Percy.”

“Hah, hah, hah, . . . I love it!! Now I just need is some fire to light them up! All right, more target practice!!”

He quickly sends the rest of the ice darts at the flying objects he didn’t hit. Soon, they are all sporting an ice dart on them.

I concentrate on the flying objects. I quickly have the ice darts melt onto the objects. This time I bring up four hundred more ice objects.

“How many is that, Richard?”

“That’s a total of five hundred ice objects.”

“Right.” He concentrates on the lake water. He brings up another water bubble. He quickly creates five hundred ice darts. He sends them flying around until each ice object has an ice dart. He has a big smile on his face.

“Now I am going to do a thousand flying ice objects. We’ll do that five times until you are comfortable with it. We should see five ice darts on each one.”

“I understand, Richard.”

I bring up another five hundred flying objects. I have them flying around in a random pattern.

Percy gets set and brings up another water bubble. He quickly creates one thousand ice darts. He has them flying around and hitting the targets successfully. Then he creates another water bubble and does the same thing. This continues until we have done it five times.

I bring in the objects down to us to inspect ice objects. We see five ice darts on each one.

“Yeah! All right, I’m starting to get a full understanding of what it means to be a son of Poseidon. Is there a weakness against water?”

“The element rotation to learn is air, water, earth and fire. Air and earth are opposites while water and fire are opposite.”

“So, if fire is brought in against us, my hope and yours, is to have a great command of the water element.”

“Also, I have command of the air and earth element. Earth shields can be brought up to protect us if there is no water around us. I can command the air to blow the fire somewhere else.”

“Do you think I can bring in the water vapor from the air around us?”

I smile at Percy, “What do you think, Percy?”

Percy smiles back, “Then I’ll try it after the lunch break.”

“That sounds good to me, Percy.”

We both laugh together, “Hah, hah, hah, . . . !!!”

We all leave together and make our way to the dining hall. Chiron comes walking up to us.

“So, how did Percy do today?”

“He did great, Chiron. He was able to control the ice darts and hit my thousand flying ice objects five times each.”

“Excellent, Richard. So, what is next for him to learn?”

“He is going to try and bring in water from the air around us.”

Chiron looks at Percy, “So, do you think you can do it?”

“If Richard says I can do it, then I can do it.”

“That’s the attitude to have. Richard, I have another weapons demonstration at 3 PM today. It will be five different weapons from the ones you used yesterday.”

“Yes, Chiron. We’ll be there at 3 PM.”

“Are you still planning a water fight with your fairies and Percy tomorrow, Richard?”

We all look at Percy. Percy smiles back.

“Yes, I think he’ll be a lot better prepared by tomorrow.”

“That’s good. Now, let us have lunch together.”

We enter the dining hall together. We sit at the same table arrangement near the front. The fish that is served up is cod. It is seasoned and blackened slightly to have light crunch to it. There are two different vegetables on the side. We get done in 45 minutes. We exit the dining hall once the tables are cleared off and delivered to the kitchen.

Percy and my family return back to the small lake. Percy and I walk out onto the water.

“The first step to bring out the water vapor from the air is to get let fingers reach out to it. Feel the coolness in the air.”

“What would happen if I’m in a dry desert?”

“It will take longer to draw out the water from the air. You should always have a skin container filled with water. If it is taken away from you, then you can sweat it out through your skin.”

“I’ll need to remember that, Richard. Thank you.” Percy extends his hands and arms outward. He concentrates on the moisture in the air. “All right, I can feel the moisture in the air.”

“Now, with your mind, focus on that moisture and gather it together to create small water droplets.”

Percy concentrates on the moisture, he is imagining that he is bringing it together to create the water droplets. Then right before him, he creates hundreds of water droplets. “I did it!”

“Yes you did, Percy. Now keep that going until you create a water ball. Freeze it to ice. Then melt that ice back into water. Then reverse that process so it dissipates into the air.”

“Right.” He concentrates again, he coalesces more water from the air. Quickly, he creates a three foot diameter water ball. He freezes it to ice. Then back to water. “How do you make the water become water droplets?”

I bring up a water ball from the small lake. “Watch this, Percy.” I spread out the water ball to a water sheet to make it thinner. Then I concentrate on making a checkerboard from that sheet of water. It breaks up into one inch square water portions. Then I concentrate again and making those pieces smaller. Once they are droplet size, I quickly return the water droplets back into air as moisture.

“I see it now. I’ll try that, Richard.” He forms the water ball into water sheet. He breaks it apart into small squares of water. Then he breaks them down again to make them smaller. Once, they are droplet size, he dissipates the water droplets back to moisture in the air. “Whew!! That was mind work out. All right, now let me do it again.”

Quickly, Percy is able to do that five times in a row. By the fifth time, his mind is at ease and more calm. He senses the water all around us.

“That was fantastic, Richard!! I love it!! So, what else is new for me to do?”

“You need to detect water objects coming right at you from your backside. It stems in that you were able to detect me before we came to your cabin.”

“All right, I’ll turn around and see if I can stop your water balls before I get wet.”

I smile at Percy, “That’s right.”

Percy turns around and walks about one hundred feet from me. I bring up a one foot diameter water ball. I send it flying toward him. When it is five feet from him, he turns around and stops it in the air.

“I think I need to extend my sensing range, Richard.”

“Yes, that is a must, Percy.”

Percy turns around again. I send another one foot diameter water ball at him. When the water ball is about thirty feet away, he turns around to stop it.

“Percy, try to stop it without turning around. I going to send ten water balls, one at a time at you. Keep them all hovering in the air.”

“Okay, Richard.”

I send a water ball at Percy. He stops it thirty feet from himself. I send him four water balls to him quickly, one at a time. The fourth one he stops it before it is two feet from his head. Then I do it again with the last five water balls. This time he stops them all when they are about twenty-five feet away from him.

“Whew! This is a great mind practice, Richard. I must keep at it until it is automatic.”

“That’s right, Percy. Because tomorrow, there are going to be two water fights. One will be with my fairies first. Then from seeing that, let’s hope you better at it.”

“Then I look forward to the challenge. Come, it is almost 3 PM. Let’s get to the amphitheater for another weapons demonstration.”

Brianna and I take turns pushing Robert’s carriage to the amphitheater. When we get there, we see it is filling up fast. I walk over to the table to see what weapons are there. I see a pair of nunchucks, two iron claws on one chain, a three-segment pole, a seven-segment pole, and an envelope.

“Open the envelope when you do the last weapon demonstration.”

“Okay, Chiron. Chiron, can I have someone up here using the three and seven-segment pole. I need to show some defensive moves.”

“That’s fine, Richard. It will be me. All right, demi-gods!! Pay attention now!!”

I pick up the nunchucks first. I quickly spin them very fast in all sorts of maneuvers and directions. I even catch them under my armpits from time to time. I would let the other end hit the ground, then it will bounce up as I continue with the moves. Once I am done with the nunchucks, I pickup the two iron claws on one chain.

I hold the chain in two places, so the iron claws are swinging in two circles. Then I let it go out from me, then quickly hold onto the iron claw to make a bigger circle with the chain as I spin it around me. Then I lift the chain upward and spin it like a helicopter above me. Then I come back down. The last maneuver is letting the chain wrap around my waist.

Every claps and cheer at seeing this demonstration. I uncoil the chain and place the weapon back onto the table. Then I pick up the three-segment pole. Chiron comes up and takes it from me. I step and let him get used to the weapon. Then he swings the weapon at me. As soon as it is extended, I come up with my hands and arms to touch the end of the pole segment. Then I let it hit my forearms to block it.

The demi-gods are holding their breaths as much as possible.

Then Chiron tosses me the three-segment pole. I do some different maneuvers like letting it extend outward and moving it in a circle about myself and above my head. I end that weapon use, then I pick up the seven-segment pole.

They see it is a bit more complicated because of the aditional joints. Chiron and I basically do the same moves as with the three-segment pole.

I put the seven-segment pole on the table. I pick up the envelope and open it up. “All right, what is the last weapon to show for the day?

I take out the folded sheet of paper and open it up. I read, “Create a weapon that we might see at the Ultimate Last Battle.” I look up at Chiron. “All right, I’ll do the unexpected.”

“That’s what I’m counting on, Richard.”

I look at everyone in the amphitheater. “There is a weapon that I know that is coming from Azazel. He wants to capture the greatest legendary beasts and send them here to assault Earth. One of them is the Kraken. I met the Kraken when I visited Hades at Charon’s Docks. I gave him some words of encouragement and a warning. The Kraken and Persephone were both taken by the demon, Amy. We found them both chained, Hades had no choice to let Amy go with his hostages. Amy would have killed her right then and there. Here is the true size of the Kraken that I saw chained. I won’t make him solid.” I sweep my hand and arm. I quickly create the full size image of the Kraken.

Needless to say he is huge. His body and head is about two hundred feet in diameter. The length of his body is a half-mile long. All of the demi-gods have their mouths open in awe. Then I quickly make the image disappear.

Chiron walks up to me, what are the words you told Hades, Richard?”

“For Hades, Azazel has laid a Titan trap for Persephone. Don’t come alone to Hell World. He will need family and friends for help. Then I will take back a piece of my robe.”

“Who told you to say those words, Richard?”

“The Angel of Death himself. His name is Samael.”

There is a hush over the crowd. “Gasp!”

“Our family met him during one of our sleep dreams before we visited their realms. He gave me different words to the three other pantheon gods of death. There was a different result from each one.”

Chiron looks at everyone in the amphitheater. “Richard will find a way to release the Kraken from his chains. We must have positive thoughts that our Greek god parents are successful in rescuing Persephone. So, with that in mind, we are done for the day. Tomorrow, there will be a water fight between Richard and his fairies. Then after that it is another water fight with Percy. Let’s hope he is a lot better this time. It will be here in the amphitheater for all to see at 9 AM. Okay, let’s get ready for dinner.”

We exit the amphitheater and make our way to the cabins and the SUVs. We see everyone is in deep thought with what happened today.

We get ourselves loaded up in our SUV rental. I back out and exit the property. I drive back to our hotel in Melville. We do the usual in getting cleaned up and ready for dinner. The fairies have their dinner in the room, while we have ours in the hotel restaurant. We see another great sunset on Long Island. We then change clothes and get our beds ready for the night, onee everyone is tucked under the covers, I reset the alarm clock for 6:30 AM. We get to bed by 10 PM. We all have a great night of sleep with no warning dreams from the Creator.