Synopsis: Bay has been working at The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee for the past three months with her best friend Grayson. Everything changes one day when the hydra suddenly appears and Bay has to defeat it. Join Bay on her journey to Camp Half-Blood and her interesting life at camp...if she even gets there.

"And here is the beautiful recreation of the statue of Athena!" I say to the small school tour group following me. It's the last school tour of the year. As soon as I turned seventeen, I signed up for the docent training class at The Parthenon downtown, and I've been working here for three months now. I obviously don't get paid, but it keeps my mind busy and the only classes I've been good at in school are English and Ancient Greek History. Well, it was really Greek Mythology, but I always called it Ancient Greek History. I want to believe that the gods exist, but I know it's wishful thinking. I would rather the Greek Gods be watching over me than the Christian one, but that might just be because I've been surrounded by Christianity my entire life.

"Why is this even important?" A kid grumbles as I let the group walk around the upper floor, and I walk over to the group of freshmen that have been complaining since we started the tour downstairs. They all grow silent when I walk over and I roll my eyes.

"Greek Gods can be symbols on what humans need to focus and work on the most. They were created in the image of humans, rather than humans being created in the image of them." I say and some of them nod, but the kid from earlier shakes his head.

"Then why spend so much time focusing on one god or goddess?" He asks.

"If you have to ask why you should focus on Athena, goddess of wisdom, you obviously need to study more about her." I say and his friends begin to laugh. He opens his mouth to reply but I walk away, something about that kid just makes me want to punch him. There have been a lot of kids like that coming to The Parthenon lately. Nashville is known as the Athens of the south, but most people do not take that title seriously.

But I stay here in Nashville, and I plan to stay here to help teach future generations about the Ancient Greek gods and goddesses. I had a terrible first teacher when it came to the Greek mythos. A lot of kids down here have a similar teacher and I hope I can become a teacher to teach them about the good and the bad things the Greek gods did. I think that the ancient greeks were right to follow the gods. They teach valuable lessons, good and bad. They teach us to be wise, not to marry your family, and to be brave. Those are some pretty good things to know.

"Hey Bay, time to wrap up this last tour." My friend and co-volunteer Grayson says as he pats my head. I nod my head and my dark brown hair falls out of the bun I put in. I pull it back into a bun and hold my right hand in the air to get the attention of the school group.

"Red team, gather up please!" I say loud enough so they all can hear me. The teens eventually make their way over to me. "I hope all of you have learned something while visiting the Parthenon today. Please come back soon and spend more time looking at our exhibits and learning more about the Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses. Have a safe trip back to your school, and have a good day!" I say in an upbeat tone despite being exhausted from having so many groups in a day. The mass of kids walk out the large doors to enter the building and I immediately turned to Grayson.

"Go ahead to the break room and get ready to leave, it's been a long day." He says giving me a sympathetic smile. I smile gratefully back at him and go to the break room and grab my bag. I work a later shift since I'm in school till one and The Parthenon doesn't close until four-ish. I put on my backpack and walk out into the main room. I walk to go say bye to Grayson when I see him fighting a large creature with five heads. I blink thinking I may be seeing something, but no. There's a fucking hydra in the Parthenon.

Welp.

I guess the greek gods do exist. Suck it, Jesus.

"Bay get out of here!" Grayson yells as he sees me. I hide behind one of the large pillars in the building, dodging a head coming towards my direction.

"I am so not leaving you Grayson!" I yell back. "You have another sword I can borrow?"

"Look in my bag!" He yells back. "There should be a dagger in there!" I run to the break room and grab Grayson's bag before running back into the main room. I see Grayson's body unmoving on the floor, the hydra walking around the room and I freeze. I can't see his bright gray eyes, but he is breathing, barely. I look back to the hydra again, paying special attention to it's five heads. One is a little larger than the others, that must be the immortal one. All I need to do is cut that head off, and I'll be safe.

That's easier said than done.

I quickly rush to the other side of the room where Grayson dropped his sword. The hydra tries to follow me, but the space between the pillars is too small for the hydra to fit through. I take a deep breath before peaking around the pillar. It's back is turned to me, the monster is watching Grayson move behind the other pillars. I then did one of the stupidest things a person could do in this situation. I ran quickly and jump on the monster's back. It immediately trashed under me and one of the heads tried to hit me off but I dodged it. I found the slightly largest head and took a deep breath.

'I know I am not the wisest person to be doing this lady Athena, but please help me.' I thought before I raised Grayson's sword. I aimed and brought the sword through the base of the monster's head. The monster turned into an explosion of green dust and I hit the ground hard, Grayson's sword flying out of my hand towards the statue of Athena. I hold the arm I landed on and look for Grayson. He's slowly walking towards me, holding his side.

"You okay?" He asks.

"Probably better than you are right now." I shrug my shoulders and sitting up before I wince. A sharp pain ran up my arm. Grayson smiles sadly up at me before looking to my side. He raises his eyebrow before bending over to touch the head of the hydra? "Why did that not turn into dust too?"

"Spoil of war." He says simply. "Now, we need to send an IM and get out of here as soon as possible."

"An IM?" I ask. "How is an instant message gonna help? And why do we need to leave? We need to call an ambulance, you're hurt."

"Oh, yeah officer, I just got hurt by a hydra. That'll go over perfectly!" Grayson says sarcastically. I wince again and look down.

"Sorry." Grayson sighs at my response and I look up at him. He reaches into his pocket and grabs a golden drachma?

"An IM is an iris message, the greek gods and demigods way of sending messages quickly." Grayson says. I open my mouth to respond but just shake my head.

"Alright. What do we need?"

"A rainbow." He says simply before grabbing the Hydra head and my bag.

"You're going to put that in my bag?" I ask.

"Is there anywhere else we can put it?" He asks.

"The trash." He just glares at me and I grin sheepishly before grabbing my favorite book from my bag before stuffing the head inside.