Hi everyone! This is a new story, it will most likely be pretty short, but if you read this then PLEASE REVIEW!
Hi. My name is Annabeth Chase, and I'm seven years old. I live in my house with my daddy and my step-mom. My step-mom hates me, and my daddy tries to ignore me. I have two step-brothers, but they're too little to do anything. I hate my life right now. Monsters come almost every day to my house and try to kill me and my family. But at the moment I was sitting on my bed, trying to read a book. I wasn't able to, of course. The doctor said that I was dyslexic, which meant that I couldn't read. I think the name of the book was aiFyr Tlase. That didn't make any sense to me, but apparently it made sense to everybody else in the world. I sighed, stomping my foot on the ground. I heard dad yell from downstairs;
"Annabeth, stop it! You're too old for temper tantrums!" Then my step-brothers crawled in my room. They might not have been old enough to play games with me, but they were old enough to know when I was in trouble and how to annoy me. Bobby stuck his tongue out at me while Mathew started singing
"Ha-ha, ha-ha!" Over and over again. I plugged my ears and looked out my window, but I could still hear Mathew bugging me. I walked over to them and shoved them until they got out. Then I slammed the door in their faces. I could hear the boys go downstairs, yelling something about how mean Annabeth was. A minute later, daddy and my step-mom came into my bedroom.
"Annabeth, we know you can behave better than this." My step-mom started. "Annabeth, you know better." my dad added. They gave me a boring speech, then left the room. My dad paused at the doorway and picked up my book that i had thrown at the door.
"Annabeth, you should be treating your fairy tale book better. Now, where did I put my ring..." and left the room.
For the rest of the week, my dad only said goodnight to me, but that was all. On Saturday night I lay in my bed, long after everyone else had fallen asleep. I was thinking about how unfair life was, with Bobby and Mathew picking on me, my dad ignoring me unless I did something to my brothers. And my step-mom. I couldn't handle it any longer. I silently slid the window open, and crawled out. I jumped down onto the grass and ran into the forest. For a moment, panic seized me. What was I doing? I was only 7, and monsters kept coming after me. But then I pushed it away. I was Annabeth Chase, and Annabeth Chase did NOT get scared. So I kept running.
I was hiding in a can, probably a trash can, but I didn't care. I could hear somebody-or something sneaking up. Earlier, I had found a huge hammer that had killed quite a few monsters, so I figured that I could beat whatever this was. I crouched lower ready to pounce, when lid suddenly disappeared. I launched myself at whoever this was, swinging my hammer at its head. It caught my wrist and my hammer got hit out of my hands. I started crying.
"No more monsters! Go away!"
The person holding me said
"It's okay!" He was barely able to hold me. "Thalia, put your shield up. You're scaring her." The other person tapped a shield and it shrank down into a bracelet. Immediately I felt less scared, and continued struggling. The person looked at me.
"Hey, it's all right, we're not going to hurt you. I'm Thalia. This is Luke. I looked at them suspiciously.
"Monsters!" He shook his head.
"No, but we know all about monsters. We fight them too." Slowly, I stopped kicking him. I stared him in the eye.
"You're like me?" I stared at them suspiciously
"Yeah," said Luke, "We're...well, it's hard to explain, but we're monster fighters. Where's your family?"
"My family hates me." I said, "They don't want me. I ran away." Thalia and Luke glanced at each other, and I knew that they had went through the same thing. Thalia turned to me.
"What's your name, kiddo?"
"Annabeth." Luke grinned at me.
"Nice name. I tell you what, Annabeth-you're pretty fierce. We could use a fighter like you." My eyes widened in surprise. Here was a person that I had just tried to kill and he was calling me a really good fighter?
"Oh, yeah." He took his knife and turned it, putting the handle in front of me. "How'd you like a real monster-slaying weapon? Works a lot better than a hammer. I smiled and grabbed it. It felt comfortable in my hand. "Knives are only for the quickest and bravest fighters, they don't have the reach or power of a sword, but they're easy to conceal and they can find weak spots in your enemies armour. It takes a clever warrior to use a knife. I have a feeling you're pretty clever." I stared at him, I loved him already!
"I am!" Thalia grinned.
"We'd better get going, Annabeth. We have a safe house on the James River. We'll get you some clothes and food." I liked them, but I was still suspicious.
"You're…you're not going to take me back to my family? Promise?" Luke put his hand on my shoulder.
"You're part of our family now. And I promise that I won't let anything hurt you. I'm not going to fail you like our families did us. Deal?" I giggled happily.
"Deal!"
"Now, come on," Thalia said. "We can't stay put for long! Luke grabbed one of my hands and together we turned from the alley and ran into the woods.
Over the next few weeks we fought more monsters than was countable. At themoment, we were fighting one right now. It was disgusting, all green and scaly. I didn't know what it was, and apparently Luke and Thalia didn't, either.
"DUCK!" Yelled Luke. Me and Thalia both dove for the ground and the monster's claws swiped the air where we had been standing a moment earlier. I was fine, but while we had dived Thalia's head hit the ground a bit, and she was dazed. Luke yelled at us again.
"ROLL OVER!" i rolled away from Thalia, but she was still dazed and didn't move in time.
"AAAAAAAAAAAGH!" She screamed as the monster's teeth started biting her leg. I couldn't stand to see Thalia in so much pain, so I jumped on the monster and drove my knife into its body. I screeched, and stopped paying attention to Thalia and stared at me with its piercing red eyes. I was frozen in fear. I tried to take a step back, but I fell. The monster reared up, about to drop on me, when it fell to the ground, limp. Luke stood beside it, His knife covered in monster guts. We all stared at the monster while it slowly disintegrated before our eyes. Luke turned to Thalia.
"Can you stand?" She tried to get up, and then fell.
"No. Is there anywhere close that we could go for help?" Luke grimaced, but he told Thalia that there was a place, but he didn't want to go there. I begged him to; I knew that if Thalia didn't get help soon then she wouldn't be able to move her leg at all. It could get infected, the bite might not be able to close up, anything could happen. Eventually he agreed, but didn't look happy. He looked at a compass, then helped Thalia walk, and together we walked east. What I didn't know at the time was that he was taking us to his old house, the one that he swore he would never go back to.
So there's a story for you people who want to read something like this! I will continue, I just realized that it will take more than 1 or 2 chapters to write this. So I'll update more or less every time 2 people review, bye! (And review! :P)