Krano

Ever since I learned I was a demigod, things have just not gone right. I still don't know who my godly father is, I'm attacked by monsters at every town I go to, and even worse I don't know where I'm supposed to go!

Sorry, let me introduce myself, my name is Krano, I know, weird name for a kid who was born and raised in a small town in the middle of Kansas. My mom told me when I was old enough to understand that I'm a demigod, which was a bad idea though we didn't know it at the time. Apparently when a demigod knows what they are, it makes it easier for monsters to find us. And monsters did, indeed, find us.

It was a bright and shiny day, the skies were clear, the flowers were blooming, and the monsters were killing. The town I grew up in is like a smorgasbord for monsters. Almost every kid that I grew up with were demigods. Our parents were all trained to be monster killing machines, usually it was only one or two monsters that arrived, but after a while more and more started to come. The parents had been out numbered, they were killed along with a lot of the younger demigods. Those of us who could fight fought. Some died, some lived to fight another day. When the last wave of monsters were killed we decided it was better to bury the dead and go our separate ways.

I left with my two best friends, Ashley and Chuck. Ashley was a daughter of Aphrodite, though you'd never know, she acted as if she were as ugly as a dracanae. Chuck is a son of Ares, he's 6 feet tall and completely jacked. For some reason I was always the leader of us three, but after my 18th birthday it was apparent that I should be the leader of our group.

See, apparently I'm the reincarnation of Achilles, the great hero from the stories. I was flooded with memories from my past lives. Achilles, Genghis Khan, son of Ares, and George Washington, son of Athena.

Now you're probably thinking, "Wow! That sounds great!" Well, you're wrong, I have a huge guilt conscience. Seeing the faces of all the people Khan had killed really killed me... most of them didn't deserve what happened to them. Sometimes I wonder how I can be the reincarnation of such a brutal being, and at the same time be the reincarnation of such a fantastic man as Washington. I guess it just goes to show, everyone has some evil in them, but its the good they do that really makes a big difference in their reputation...

Now, back to the present. We'd been hiding in an old abandoned bus station northern Manhattan, so far no monsters have attacked but right now I'm not so sure we're safe.

Before the army of monsters had wiped out the town, my mother had given me a box. Said it was from my father. Inside there was a pocket watch, a sword key chain, and a map. She said that the watch held special powers, and once my father claimed me I would be able to unlock the powers it holds. The key chain spread into a longsword when I pulled the little blade. The map, my mother had said, would lead me to a safe place. A place where Demigods could go to be absolutely safe. I'd been following it ever since we left the town.

It said that the camp was on an island... it was called Long Island... I don't know where it is but I'm determined to figure it out. That's the problem when living in seclusion, you have no knowledge of geography at all.

I walked out of the station, flipping a drachma with my thumb, when I tripped and the drachma fell out of my hand and over the curb. It vanished from sight and I was just wonder where it went when I heard the roar of an engine.

"Guys?" I called into the station. Ashley and Chuck came out just as a yellow cab labeled "The Gray Sisters" pulled up.

The doors swung open and a voice came out from the driver's side. "Are you just going to stand there or are you going to get in?"

I looked at Ashley and Chuck and shrugged. I got into the mysterious cab to find three very old looking ladies who, get this, didn't have any eyes or teeth... well I shouldn't say that, one had an eye and another had a tooth. There weren't even eye sockets... just flat skin... I couldn't help but think I'd seen them in a movie before.

"We are the Gray Sisters," one of them said, though it came out like "We arb uh Gray Sippters" because she was missing her teeth. "Where can we take you, kids?"

I looked at the map and said, "The safe place for Demigods."

"Right," the driver said, revving the engine. "Camp Half-blood it is!" She put the car into drive and the cab shot forward with such speed the bus station was a small dot on the horizon with in 10 seconds...