Fire and Metal: Chapter 4

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Weapons and War Games: Lance's POV
Felicia is such an idiot. I told here repeatedly not to climb that blasted wall before she was ready, and she flat out refused to heed my advice. Now she's went and gotten herself hurt. Neil gave me a look like, sorry, I didn't think this would happen. We rushed down to the base of the cliff and picked Felicia up. "Where do we take her?" I asked.

"To the infirmary, in the Big House."

We took here there and told Chiron what had happened. "She's been here for barely a day, with nothing dangerous attacking her, and you let her get in the infirmary already?" Chiron berated Neil.

"Sorry, I promise that won't happen again." Neil said sheepishly. Chiron driibbled some golden liquid into Felicia's mouth. Noticing my inquiring look, Chiron said, "It's nectar, drink of the gods. It heals demigods in small amounts. But too much, and things'll get ugly."

I'm beginning to think everything here could potentially cause some sort of death. I mused, and continued watching over Felicia. Before long, she had come around, and the first words out of her mouth were: "It wasn't my fault Lance, I had no idea I was affectedly so badly by heights."

"Yeah, whatever, you're good now, I wanna resume the tour and learn of some more things that can kill us." I joked.

"There is just one more thing that has a high chance of hurting you — Sharp, celestial bronze weapons." Neil said seriously.

At this Felicia perked up, "You mean like this?" And she tugged on the necklace Mother had given us. There was a brief flash, and a spear nearly her height popped into existance.

"How...?" I gaped. Neil appeared equally surprised.

Felicia shrugged, "I don't know, I was messing with it before we got here, and this happened, I was too scared at the time, so I hooked it back up to the necklace, and it shrunk back."

"Let's go, I'm gonna take you to the Camp Forge, and maybe get you a weapon, Lance. Then we can start on sword training." Neil decided.

Felicia put her spear away, and walked with us. "Why is it made of, what was that you called it..., celestial bronze?"

"It is one of the few substances that can kill monsters. Mortal Steel merely passes through most monsters." Neil replied. And we resumed walking in silence.

We arrived at the Camp Forge. There were several people there, and there was a constant clanging sound. A red glow shimmered throughout the forge, from the raging inferno where people where softening metal and banging on them with hammers. Felicia appeared elated. She reached into the flame and took out a lump of glowing red, hot bronze. "Felicia! What are you doing?!"

"Nothing, just —ahh!" She broke off as she noticed the bronze was glowing hot. "Wait, that wasn't hot at all!" She began kneading the lump in the fire, until it became something like a hammer. With a dissatisfied grunt, she tossed it back into the fire. Neil recovered from his look of amazement, and said, "There will be better tools for blacksmiths, if you need them. And from what I'm seeing, you could very well be a daughter of Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and fire."

