Light from Water: Chapter 12

Jaxon's POV

We swam down to Atlantis and I saw Ion for the first time clearly. He was around seven feet tall, with strange patchwork skin, some of it grey and wrinkled, some of it tanned, and some of it soft and pink like a baby's skin. He had snakelike red eyes and wore orange and pink armor. His long blonde hair reached his neck. He held 2 longswords and grinned. My father's palace was completely destroyed.

"Two new snacks. Seafood and a solar lamp to cook it with." he said.

I put Fusion in dagger form and charged. I jumped into the air and stabbed him in the shoulder. He howled and was about to stab me when Josh shot him in the face.

"Stupid son of Hyperion!" Ion shouted. "Can't you see we share the same father?"

Looking back on it, I saw he was right. They had the same pointed ears, the same blond hair.

Josh glared. He pulled a Dao sword (a 2-foot long curved knife) and started to fight Ion.

"Stupid...demigod!" Ion said.

"That's demiTITAN." Josh corrected. "Because, unlike you, I am a son of Hyperion."

Josh began to glow orange. Silver streaks appeared in his hair, and his eyes turned black. Green markings appeared all over his skin, and I realized what my father had meant when he said "Opposites attract".

Josh was a fire elemental. I was a water one.

I focused. My skin turned shiny and my eyes glowed green. We charged Ion. Our weapons met, the points fusing into one, and impaled themselves in Ion's head. A flash of violet filled our vision, and Josh was thrown backwards.

"JOSH!" I shouted.

"Jaxon...get me to camp..." Josh moaned. I grabbed him and swam up. Ion grabbed my ankle.

"Not today, demigod." he said.

"Actually, YES today." a voice said.

I turned, and what I saw almost scared me.

Athena stood there, her grey eyes calculating.

"Go, Sea Scum, before i change my mind about saving you." Athena said. I was launched up by the current, and everything went black.