Page 39 of Zeus' Spark
Raven glares at him.
“Rude. She doesn’t have a choice,” Raven yells. “The Oracle said she’s part of the team that will find the missing students. That team is the four of us, so if we have to fight some damn ugly monsters, so be it. If you don’t like it, you can stay here.”
She’s not happy with Greyson, but everything he’s saying is reasonable. He didn’t ask for this and had a fucking evil boar after him when we got here.
I shrug. “Chill, Raven. It’s fine. He’s got valid concerns. They may be unfounded based on lack of knowledge of me and the situation but still valid.”
“There.” Greyson points to a metal barn-looking thing about five hundred yards in front of us.
“Are you sure that will hold?” Jayden asks.
“If you do your shadow chains thingy, then yes, it should hold long enough for the thing to turn to dust,” I say. “It seems like every time we defeat one the same way they were in mythology, they turn to dust, right? So if we trap it in chains the way Heracles did, then he should go poof.”
“That’s your plan? Trap it and hope it turns to dust?” Greyson asks incredulously, then he yells, “Ow” as Raven smacks him in the back of the head.
“That’s the only plan we have,” Jayden growls.
They’re being way too protective of my feelings tonight.
“Look, I know it sounds crazy, but we’re demigods and have to deal with this all the time. I have observed the way things work in this world, and though the rules are always changing, that’s something that I’ve noticed. If you have a better plan to get rid of the indestructible boar that not even Heracles could kill, then I am all ears.”
Greyson looks at me over his shoulder. “Nope, carry on. Do you have a plan B if that doesn’t work?”
“Have Jayden choke it out with his shadow chain thingy?” I shrug.
“Why aren’t we starting with that?” Jayden throws his hands up in the air. “And stop calling it a thingy.” he grumbles under his breath so only I can hear, and I chuckle.
Oh, all his tricks are going to be called thingies now just to annoy him.
“Because the damn thing is indestructible,” I tell him.
We’re fifty feet from the metal door when the building behind us explodes, sending plaster flying in all directions.
“Jayden, watch out.” I tackle him to the side when a huge piece of brick nearly falls on him.
We land with an “oof.” He spins us so I’m on top of him.
His warm palms on my sides where my shirt has ridden up make me shiver for a second before a roar fills the air and I remember we’re in danger and I don’t like Jayden.
Right? Right.
I don’t like him.
That’s the story I’m going with. Yup.
There is nothing likeable about the son of Hades himself.
I get up and hold out a hand to help him up, which he takes, but he’s too heavy for me to actually help up. He chuckles and takes my hand but does most of the work.
“Come on, you big dumb boar,” Greyson yells.
The door to the barn structure is wide open, and Greyson’s standing in the doorway calling to it like an idiot.
Jesus, are guys really this dumb?
Jayden curses. “Gods, what is he doing?”
He runs over to the door and gets ready for the boar that’s running at fucking insane speeds to the door.
