I walk to my bus stop. Fall. The leaves are always beautiful. But what I hate is the grass is a sick yellow shade. Crunch. That's the sound of me walking on the hard grass. Crunch. I look behind me. Exactly where I had stepped, the grass is as green as any grass could be. It must be my imagination. I look back again and it's still there. I look at the ground, and study it. In front of me is some yellow grass. I step on it, and the grass there turns green. I bend down and run my hands over the grass. Immediately, my whole backyard and front yard is really green. Whatever. I am totally imagining. I mean, what kind of grass does that?
My best friend Jenny gives me a questioning look And walks over limping on her crutches."It's one thing to study the grass and be still," she begins. "And it's another to just feel the grass like a freaky idiot. What's gotten in to you, April?!"
Obviously, she didn't notice the green splotches. So I check if I was seeing right.
"Do you see it?!" I shout. "did you see it?!"
"See what? April look," she starts.
I stop her. "The grass,it turned green when I stepped on it!"
A look of dismay covered Jenny's face for a moment. Then she recovers. "Whatever." She rolls her eyes. Weird.
The bus rumbles around the corner. "Come on April." Jenny waves me over. "The bus is here."
"Mornin' ladies!" the bus driver calls to us cheerfully as we plop down in the very back.
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"Ok now class." My history teacher says in a crackly voice.
Ugh. I hate Ms. Higgins. "April, Cameron, I need to talk to you." her voice sounds so scratchy.
I feel the whole class's eyes on my crush and I as they snicker, and scoff. We follow Ms. Higgins but she's not outside the classroom anymore. She's near the principal's office. I look down at the floor and feel shame that i need to go to the principal's office as I speed walk towards the room. I look up but she's not there anymore. She's outside, where no one can see us, and where I don't trust her.
"What did I do?" Cameron snaps.
"Now, now." She cackles. "You are not in trouble with me, or principal Land. But you are in trouble with Hades! Now you shall pay, children! Both if you because you took it together! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Excuse me, evil Ms. Higgins," I try to say calmly. "But you must be mistaken. I never took anything. Cameron didn't either. But what is missing? What did I supposedly take?"
"The Helm of Darkness!" She screams before she turns into a vicious looking dog.
Jenny hobbles out the doors at that moment. "APRIL!" She shrieks, drops her crutches and tosses me a Stick. Really? I mean, a stick. Of all things to fight with, a stick.
Her cap falls off and I see tiny short sharp little white things beneath her fluffy hair. She scrambles to cover them up.
I wave my stick. It might be a magical wand.
"Abra cadabra!" I yell. Or not.
I wave the stick. I stab Ex-Mrs. Higgins with it. It breaks. Then it grows back. Man, this is so weird.
I think, ninja sword. and the stick changes to a ninja sword. What?
Ex-Ms. Higgins lunges at me. I swing the sword with no experience. Jenny tosses Cameron a bottle of turns into a dagger. Cameron sneaks up behind the hound. I study Ms. Higgis more closely. Not just a hound. A mythological hellhound.
Cameron gives me a signal to strike at her. I cut her head off as Cameron plunges his dagger into Ms. Higgins butt. And she evaporates.
I turn to look at Jenny but she isn't there. So I gaze at Cameron until we hear a teenager's voice. He is riding on a black horse with wings. And Jenny is sitting behind him along with a blonde.
"hop on!" The boy cries.
Author's note: hey, guys! This is my first Percy Jackson book I've written. I might not know much, so please feel free to correct my mistakes if I have some along the way! Thanks guys!
