Chapter 1

It was a normal day, until the blood thirsty monsters came. I'm Sheila, a twelve year old that goes to Bella Vista Middle School. I live in an apartment with my little annoying stepsister Anna. She looks nothing like me, I have dark hair, dark skin, and green eyes, but she has blond hair, light skin, and brown eyes. I only have my mom and my stepsister living in a tiny apartment in California close by the school, so I can just walk.

Like every day, I go out and meet my friend Kate, her skin is dark since she likes to go out and garden, she usually gets there early so then she won't get in between the student traffic and because she has to use crutches.

During my most favorite class, social studies with Mrs. Casey, a thirty year old woman, but it was hard to tell with her timeless face, with blond hair and light skin, I was very interested when we were learning about Greek culture. Mrs. Casey too was paralyzed and has to use a wheelchair. She rolled over to me and said," Sheila, you should know most of this because…" but she didn't finish and continued teaching more about Greek gods and goddesses.

When we were on our way to gym this obnoxious bully named Josh, my worst enemy, comes and shoves me and Kate. He is so mean, and very big. I think he's seventeen because he's hairy and has a lot of pimples. He bullies every kid in the entire school and anyone who makes him mad, even the teachers.

"Ready to be demolished?" asked Josh meanly, I asked "What are you talking about?"

"We're going to have so much fun playing dodge ball" with an evil smirk on his face.

When I looked at Kate, she pretty much was frozen and couldn't move. She started moaning for food. Luckily, I had a cheese enchilada in my lunch pack and gave it to her. Once she smelled the cheesy goodness, she almost bit my hand off eating the enchilada in ten seconds.

Once she finished, we went to the locker rooms and changed into our school colored PE clothes. Once we were out we ran a lap and did stretches. Our PE teacher announced that we are going to play dodge ball, when she said that I was terrified. The most terrifying thing was that Josh was the other team's captain, so basically it was the jocks against everyone else in the class. When we started, everyone got out except for me, but it seemed like that they were only aiming for everyone else but me.

When I was the only one left, Josh had that evil smirk on his face again as he smiled the rest of his body changed into a dark green monster with wings, I think he was a gorgon. He charged right at me, but once he was about to hit me Mrs. Casey said a spell. Once she said it, Josh was only a pile of golden dust.

When everything cleared up, Mrs. Casey toke me and Kate to my apartment. Once we got there my mom asked," Is it time?" Mrs. Casey answered, "Yes."

Then my mom toke me to the airport and said," Sheila, you are going to New York with Mrs. Casey and Kate, your protector."

I asked why.

She only said, "There's a safe place for you there. You'll go on the plane with Mrs. Casey and Kate. I will see you in a month or two with Anna. Remember be strong and I love you"

I replied, "I love you too," then walked away slowly forcing myself not to cry, but I had too. I only cried softly remembering to be strong, not just for me but for my mom too. Once we got on the plane, I was terrified. I never liked going on planes it just makes me nervous, so I went to sleep, but I only slept with nightmares. I dreamed of my mom crying and my little sister trying to comfort her. When I saw that I immediately woke up and just watched a film that was on.

When we got there, Mrs. Casey hailed a taxi and gave the driver directions to a beach on Long Island. When the driver asked why, Mrs. Casey just shoved a fistful of money and the driver just drove the rest of the way. When we arrived I only saw a farm house and a strawberry field. Once we got closer, I realized many cabins in the shape of a U, a beach, an auditorium, and a rock climbing wall that was leaking some kind of red slime.

Mrs. Casey introduced me to an old man, wait the waist up was an old man and the bottom half was a horse, I think his kind are called centaurs. He said his name was Chiron and that Mrs. Casey can come up from her wheelchair. When he said that I thought that Mrs. Casey was going to fall over, but she came up as a centaur, but her horse half was pure white.

He also said Kate can take off her pants and shoes. I thought that was going to be embarrassing, but again I was wrong. When she toke them off it revealed a pair of furry legs. She said, "This is much better!"

He asked me if I had ADHD and/or dyslexia, I said no.

He asked me if I knew who my father was. I only said that I didn't know anything about him except that I knew that he loved the sea. Chiron only said that it was interesting and that he'll see me at dinner and at the campfire. Then talked with a grey-eyed, tan blond girl with a book in her hand and a boy with dark hair and green eyes like mine. Once they were done talking, the girl and the boy introduced themselves the girl said her name was Annabeth ,daughter of Athena, and the boy was Percy, son of Poseidon.

Annabeth asked, "Do I know you? You seem very familiar"

I answered, "Yeah, I was thinking of the same exact thing." When I said that, Percy looked very confused. We answered the question together, Warfare, and laughed. Percy was really confused now and asked, "What?"

I answered, "My uncle and her dad are friends. My uncle toke me to San Francisco to see her dad's collection. When I got there I got bored and just started talking to Annabeth."

Annabeth continued," We hit it off, just talking about science, math, architecture, and books. Sheila is really smart and she was only 8 at the time." We laughed.

After that laugh, they showed around the camp. They showed me all the cabins, and to be aware of the Hermes cabin because they might pickpocket you. They also showed me the beach, when we were there I didn't want to leave, and the rock climbing wall that was oozing lava.