Author's note : Beta - Tia the Typewriter. Liz, Maia, Kiara, Cecil and Mars belongs to me and my friends Everything else belongs to Rick Riordan.
Maia : Um, welcome to our tale. Chapter 1 - We accidently vaporised our science teacher...
Kiara : we didn't mean too! it was an accident! we didn't know that would happen!
Liz : We hoped, but we didn't really know.
Mars : ...can we kill him again..?
Everyone : Mars!
Me: errr...enjoy.
Chapter 1: We accidently vaporise our science teacher.
The Cafeteria was overrun with voices, they mixed aimlessly with each other. Another typical day at New College. Beside the food counter sat a round table that looked as normal and boring as the rest of the room, the five teens around it were anything but.
Cecil Evergreen was tall boy, he had soft earthy green eyes, but his hair was often the source of argument. He often insisted it was black, but when he stepped outside it was obviously really dark purple. This abnormality showed how different he was from the world around him, however he was not the strangest on the table.
He was the oldest of the group next to him was a girl, the second oldest. Kiara Everhart. Her hair was unmistakably black, her eyes were stormy grey flecked with electric blue. Her personality was in a word -shocking. She was the most cheerful person at college, but some days she would look -glare- at you in a way that makes you feel like you should be dead. Luckily it was a good day. Her laugh rang out over the voices of other students.
The next in line was Elizabeth Jäger, she had soft brown hair with kind blue eyes. She was always joking and taking the mick of friends and enemies alike. She never to seem to run out of jokes, they often wondered if she had some sort of Bat cave for jokes.
The second youngest was the scariest teen in college. Mars Draco, if her name didn't scare you, her looks and deminor surely would. Her eyes looked black, she had long strawberry blonde hair. Or, liquid lava as she called it. When talking to her the phrase ' if looks could kill' would often cross your mind. She would smile, but it would never reach the darkness in her eyes. Her speciality - medieval torture.
The youngest was a girl with dark brown hair, her eyes were a rich ocean blue that sometimes seemed green in the sunlight. Maia Redfern was the calm one of the odd group, though her rare bouts of anger were beyond terrifying, she was usually relaxed. Today she sat eating chips, listening to the others talk. Best way to be/stay a friend - don't touch her chips.
"So, who has what next?" Liz asked, she reached over and pinched a chip from Maia. Maia glared at her, holding a three pronged fork as a weapon.
"That is my chip!" Maia growled, Liz ate it.
"Yuck, too much vinegar!" Liz regretted taking the chip. Not because of Maia's none existent anger, but because Maia loved drowning her chips in vinegar and salt.
"Guys, it is obvious Maia is addicted to them. We have to help her through this hard time." Mars said, everyone laughed. Maia signed and continued eating. "Anyway, I have Pierre. " The whole table groaned. Pierre, a French science teacher. By French , he was born in France. He was a terrible teacher that no one liked. He seemed to go out of his way to bully Maia and Mars who were the only two dumb enough to take his classes.
"Well, I'm done for the day!" Liz smiled.
"Myth club is on today." Maia said, finishing her chips.
"Oh, yeah! Great! We covered Aethiopian Drakon's last week, right?" Liz asked
"And the Lydian Drakon's before that." Cecil added rolling his eyes.
"We have basically covered every Person, thing and monster that have Drakon's in it's name." Kiara said, looking through her note book. They all looked at Mars.
"What? I like Drakon's." She shrugged, looking around them innocently.
"Yeah, we kind of guessed. Anyway, Liz, seeing how your free next. If we give you the drachma (normal English money) for this week, fancy going shopping for snacks and drinks?" Maia asked anticipating more potato based snacks.
"Yeah, count on me. Elizabeth Jäger, snack God of the world will aid you in your mission of tasty treats." Liz smirked. Everyone laughed, Maia just shook her head. They handed Liz the 'myth money' as Kiara stood, swinging her bag over her shoulder.
"Well, I have to go. Starting an assignment today. Wish me luck." Kiara smiled, she pushed her way into the crowded cafeteria. Soon they others rose a left, Liz got up and started making a mental list of snacks and drinks.
1 hour and 30 minutes later, Kiara, Cecil, Maia and Liz stood in the myth club meeting room.
"Where's Mars?" Kiara asked looking at the clock for the third time that minuet.
"Pierre..." The other 3 said together.
"Still? Gods, I hate that guy." Maia sighed
"If one of us says here, the rest can go and pled with Pierre to let Mars go." Liz said preparing to vote herself for the waiting, no one wanted to go to Pierre.
"Liz, it isn't like we are running into battle. But I would rather face a balverine then Pierre." Kiara muttered, the video game Geek was always spouting Fable facts.
"Why don't we all pack the food into our bags. Then we can all go. The myth team battles an Ancient enemy! Pierre." Cecil said, they all laughed, they packed up the snacks and drinks and headed to Pierre' classroom. Maia was the one who knocked on the door as she had this teacher before.
"Who is it?" Pierre asked in his heavy accent. The 4 myth members entered the class apprehensively. Mars looked at then relieved. This was the first time all of them had gone to see Pierre.
"Sorry, sir. But we need Mars for our club." Kiara told him. Pierre nodded slowly. Mars smirked and started packing up her stuff.
Pierre watched them weirdly, This was the first time all had seen Pierre at the same time.
"Thanks, see you..." Mars said, everyone froze as Pierre knelled over.
"Pierre! Sir?" Cecil asked worried, His body began changing. The 5 teens stood back and watched in horror and fear.
"Oh my gods... Kiara is anything in that book of yours..?" Maia asked "He looks like..."
"A Stymphalion Bird...Man-eating birds. Reputed to strip anything they attack..." Kiara stopped, blood draining from her face.
"Kiara?" Liz asked slowly. "What does it say?"
"To bones..." Kiara finished "We are so dead!" Kiara looked up at Pierre who was almost completely transformed.
"Does it have a weakness? What else does the book say?!" Maia asked fear filling her body.
"Um...horrible sounds. That is its only weakness...I think..." Kiara said, flicking through the book desperately.
"Oh, I have this guys." Liz pulled out her phone and typed something in. The Pierre bird screeched, ready to attack.
'Baby, baby , baby~oh!' Liz's phone blasts out a Justin Bieber song The Pierre bird Screeched, turning into yellow dust.
"Oh my..." Mars said
"Now, we run!" Kiara told them and her friends didn't need to be told twick.
Kiara sent a message to her mom, as did the other teens. Explaining what happened, they didn't dare hope their parents would believe them... but it was worth a shot. They ran to the bus station and the first bus that arrived. They had no idea where it would take them by as long as they were nowhere near the college they didn't care.
"A Stymphalion Bird..." Kiara muttered. They had got off in a new area of the city. They had no idea where they were, but it had a large forest area.
"Greek myth..." Cecil sighed, they trudged through the forest. Cecil sat on a fallen log. "They shouldn't be real..."
"Maia?" Liz asked, looking at the youngest. "You're Pagan, can you ask the Greek gods for help?"
"It doesn't work like that." Maia said. "Besides, I am just as confused as you." Suddenly her phone went off. "Hello? Mom! Mom. I'm fine." The teens watched her. "Yes they others are here, were all fine. Oh...okay. Rue? Who's that? What? Wait mom!? What do you mean? Mommy!" She stood and put her phone down.
"So?" Kiara asked
"She says someone called Rue is looking for us. She just said be careful and don't use our phones." Maia sighed. "Oh, and head to the biggest city we can think of..."
"Well, we may as well keep going to London, and hope we meet this Rue." Liz said. "It can't get any stranger than this."
"Rue is a character from the hunger games, she died." Kiara muttered
"Kiara, not helping." Cecil looked at her.
"Sorry." Kiara said looking away. The teens continued though the forest hoping to find another road.
"Guys..." Maia muttered, everyone stopped. On a branch sat 5 birds, starting from the left was a Seagull, Eagle, Robin, Hawk and then a Raven.
"Shouldn't the bigger bird be eating the Robin?" Kiara asked
"That Eagle shouldn't even be in England." Cecil said. They stood watching the birds, whilst the birds sat watching them. For a while, it turned into a strange staring contest.
"Okay, this is creeping me out. let's go." They continued their way. They found another bus stop. They took a bus to the train station to get a train to a faraway city. London.