Chapter 4
So he opened 4 of his black notebooks and started chanting inside the cave until everything was full of different shadows with different forms, Perseus seeing everything was in order waited for 20 minutes to regain some strength and yelled. "Fog!" while making the image on his mind and using a good portion of his power, after 10 minutes most of that part of the forest was full of black fog except the clearing, so he commanded his shadows to bring all the nature spirits that were from trees and were on a radius of 50 meters.
When he did that a couple dozen male and female nature spirits came pushed by the fog, most were sweating for being a little too far from their tree, however most seemed fine. So Perseus came out of the waterfall, looked at them with his armor on and his spear on one hand and his main notebook on the other, and said.
"Nature spirits, you have been brought here be used for me, you can fight but I don't suggest it, if you don't fight back I promise a quick painless death! If you do, then I promise you will regret it!" he said while with out them knowing made shadows hide in the fog to attack should the need arise, however he wanted to see were his strength was.
"What are you telling us demigod? We have always been loyal to your camp, now you are threatening us?" said a 11 year old looking tree spirit, however when they saw that the demigod didn't lower his weapon they got angry and made wooden branches and clubs come out of the floor and about 19 came towards him and 14 stayed behind, to scared to move.
The nature spirits were never fighters and Perseus had been always fighting against his slaves on the city to gain more experience, also they had wooden sticks and clubs as weapons while he had celestial bronze weapons.
The first 5 nature spirits had no coordination at all and all of them were swinging their weapons wildly so Perseus stopped all of them with his spear and moved quickly behind them and with the wooden part of his weapon knocked them out, the next 3 were a little better, the first moved his club to the sides making it easy to Perseus to parry them away, however before he could thrust his enemy on the shoulder to take him out of action the other two came to his aide and hit Perseus as hard as they could on his shoulder not breaking it, but making it uncomfortable for him to move around.
When Perseus moved to a save place after that hit, he opened his notebook and shadows of dogs came out and bitted their enemies on their arm and legs, some so strong that took out a piece of meat and making green blood pour out, then another 7 came so Perseus used his hidden shadows on the fog to attack 4 of them and knock them out.
After that display of power, the remaining 7 had reinforcements from 5 that had decided to fight back, so then Perseus made all his hidden shadows come out and about 30 of them came out. The small group of nature spirits knew that their win was improbable, one of them saw this, so she took her club up, took a deep breath and said.
"Don't worry my friends, even if we lose here we will do it fighting! We will not accept defeat until dea…" whatever she was going to say was ended by a wooden stick coming out of her back and penetrating her heart, killing her instantly. Everyone looked at who did it and saw that it was the 11 year old looking boy, he and the other people had wooden sticks however they threw it away.
"My lord, we swear loyalty to you until death, and we shall do whatever you want us to, should you let us live! We swear this on the river Styx." All of the people that hadn't fought jet said as thunder boomed on the sky, all the fighters were looking at them with betrayal and a man came out.
"Traitors, you shall pay for what you have done, you betrayed your own kind!" The man said while raising his club to strike down the boy that had killed his comrade, however before he could do anything other nature spirits came out and fought him, and it became a fight between the nature spirits.
Perseus was surprised by this sudden turn of events, he hadn't seen this coming and he found this nature spirits interesting, especially the boy. So when he knew who were against him, he made all his shadows trap them in black fog and know them out.
"Very well, you shall swear on the river Styx eternal loyalty to me until death! Also bring all the other people knocked out or dead inside the cave tied up!" Perseus said while going inside the cave to rest a bit.
Fighting the nature spirits had taken 1 hour of Perseus and getting back most of his power and his shadows about 35 minutes. After all that he started absorbing the souls of those nature spirits that were against him, after finishing, he wrote all the names and personal history of his new servants and wrote them on a different black notebook.
After getting all that finished he made all his servants come inside the cave.
"Everyone, my name is Perseus! Right now you all shall swear loyalty to me and only me! You cannot tell anyone about me or about this place! If anyone does he will die immediately, if anyone enters here you shall attack them on your way out! Now swear it on the river Styx, to do all that I just told you, and that you will follow all my commands" Perseus said, truth to be told, he had been thinking of what to do to them when he was resting, he knew that the could be a threat, but they were useful and very interesting, also he needed people to teach him how to control the power of nature. Because after absorbing them he had gotten their nature power mixed.
"Ok, know I want the person with most knowledge about their nature power to stay here, also the best medic and that boy!" Perseus told them while rubbing his arm.
When every one was one Perseus made a motion for them to follow him more inside the cave, inside there was a couple of oil lamps that Perseus had acquired thanks to his shadow also there was a small pond with water inside, and the water inside had different kinds of fish. All nature spirits were looking at the beautiful fish, and the 11 year old kid was about to touch the fish.
"I highly suggest you don't touch those fishes, they are highly poisonous and one touch could kill you in a matter of hours." Perseus said while resting on a big pile of leaves used as a sofa, the 3 nature spirits hadn't noticed him sitting down however they stopped looking at the fish and started looking at their Lord.
"Ok, your work is to take care of my fish and plants that are in here, all of them are poisonous so try not to die, and I don't want any of them dying, if one does then your life shall end too." Perseus said not looking at the boy in front of him and told him he could go, but he would had to come each day to work on it.
"Your work is to write everything you know about your powers on a book, and on the mornings I want you to be here at 6.00. Ask other nature spirits what they have learned about their powers, I want the book finished in 2 weeks time, if you aren't finished then you will lose an arm." And he told the guy to leave to start working on it right now.
"During the fight I got injured, treat my wound to be healed in 30 minutes, and don't talk, I have things to do." He said while taking out his shirt and letting the nature spirit work on his arm.
While she was working, Perseus was trying to see how strong his nature powers were. He had absorbed about 20 nature spirits souls, so he guessed that he should have the power of 20 of them, and with out counting the boost in strength. So to see how strong his powers were he took a small seed and threw it inside the cave and concentrated on making it grow and grow more, until in front of him there was a huge vine several times larger than normal ones, so he decided to see how strong they were.
After absorbing the souls of the nature spirits Perseus had left he bodies on a small pond full of almost freezing water that he had in the cave, so he commanded the vine to grab one of the bodies and to surround it, he lifted up his good arm and made movements with his fingers of the vines entering the body.
The doctor nature spirit was seeing all this and she was crying as hard as she could for her fallen comrade, however when she saw it was entering the body and destroying it from the inside she got too angry.
"Stop! Please stop doing that to her!" However before she knew what happened she had a hand on her neck, putting so much pressure that some blood was coming out.
"I can do whatever I want with them, and with you too. Now finish curing my arm and go, I will let this go for this time. However once more and I will end you." Perseus said in a low voice while looking at her at the eyes with his dark green eyes and emotionless.
After his arm was better he approved her to go back to her tree. He went back to the camp to be in time for breakfast, in the way back to the camp he saw many nature enemies and different kinds off animals. When he arrived to the camp almost everyone was waked up, he went to have breakfast and he noticed that most people weren't here, most were training, however it wasn't his business so he went to eat a piece of apple, a toast and a juice. When he finished breakfast he went to the cabin to clean his teeth and take a short shower. After the shower he came to a 13 year old boy.
"Hi, do you know when is capture the flag? Also where do we have to meet?"
"Don't worry about that, it is after dinner and we will all go, however remember that you have to go with Athena's cabin team. We have an agreement of being in the same year for the whole summer." The kid told him while going to take sword and helmet. "Also you have to be ready with the armor and weapons for capture the flag after dinner, and don't eat too much." He told Perseus while he opened the door and went outside.
THANKS FOR READING, PLEASE REVIEW WHAT YOU THINK. IF NOT MANY PEOPLE LIKE IT THEN I WILL ERASE THE STORY, ALSO I HAVENT DECIDED IF HE WILL HAVE A PAIRING, BUT IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY HE WILL