A/N: Hello thar! Long time no see, eh? XD Apparently, I'm alive! I'm also BURSTING with inspiration lately. I just haven't been able to write anything due to school. Spring Break was my lucky escape to hopefully get things started again!

And on that note, I must say that I am not Rick Riordan, nor do I own Percy or the Olympians.

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A/N: (4/25/11) Seriously guys, I didn't want to have to say this but, GET SOME IMAGINATION! I mean come on, I'M not the type of person who would include something in a story without having a logical explanation for it!

Oh, and for everyone who keeps mentioning that any friend would confront a boy who broke their best friend's heart...I get it. I need to change that part. You don't have to keep mentioning it. Really.

I looked at the picture in front of me. It was of me and my dad when we were at Puerto Rico during summer vacation. I was 7, and those were the good days. Now I'm 14, and we're moving again. I recently got expelled from my last school due to my anger issues. Let's just say that this boy broke my best friend's heart and well, it didn't look pretty. Now I don't get to see her, or him, ever again.

This isn't the first time this has happened. I've been expelled from at least 5 other schools, all because of the same thing. Hey, I can't help it that I'm overly defense of my friends. It's been difficult though; each time we've moved I've had to make new friends, and let me tell you, it's not easy. Sometimes I feel like they just don't understand…

I finished packing the last of my things and headed out to the car. My dad (and the movers) were waiting for me in the carport. My dad helped me load my stuff into the back of the moving van and then we got into our own car. Our destination was the Chicago airport, we were moving out to New York. Sure, I was super excited, I mean, we're talking about New York here! But, I was also confused; this is the farthest move we've ever done.

The first half hour was very quiet, all except for the radio, which was now playing Katy Perry's California Gurls. I decided to break the silence.

"Dad? So how come we're moving all the way out to New York?"

He hesitated to answer, but finally he sighed and said, "Leah, I should have told you this when you were older but-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, I've heard this speech to many times before. Are you trying to tell me I'm adopted?" I partially smiled to myself in the backseat.

"Well yes, but, there's more."

The smile was wiped off my face. "More? What do you mean?"

He sighed before he said "Leah, on the day I adopted you, I was sitting at home reading a book. There was a knock on the door, and when I opened it, there was a basket on my doorstep. In that basket was you." His eyes were on the road the whole time he told me the story.

"Daaaad, that story's so overused!" I joked.
"Hey, I can't help that's how I found you!" I could see his smile in the rear view mirror.

Sure, I was a bit surprised, but I had my suspicions about this before. I mean, Carter (my dad) has shaggy dirty blond hair and I have wavy chocolate brown hair. Also, I have brown eyes and he has green eyes. He's never mentioned anything about a wife either…

Eventually, we got to the airport and boarded our plane. Man, It was a boring flight from Chicago to New York! First of all, the plane somehow killed my fully-charged iPod, so that ruined part of my plan. If that wasn't bad enough, I had a little kid kicking my back seat, and if you know me, you would know that I'm not exactly the person to put up with that. After the kicking subsided, I decided to take out my book and read it. I eventually fell asleep after 30 minutes of reading.

I awoke to a crash like thunder. I opened my eyes to see the biggest thing I've ever seen in my life. It had the head of a bull, but the body of a man, the size of a body builder to be exact. Wait, I learned about this in History class. What were they called again? Mintyman? I didn't anymore time to think on it before the beast spotted me.

"D-d-d-dad…" I shook his arm.

"Yes Leah?"

"What is THAT?" I pointed to the beast hoping that he would see it too and that I wasn't just high off of airplane peanuts or something.

"JUST RUN!" said my dad, grabbing my arm and pulling me towards the back of the plane. I looked around the cabin, a couple of passengers were staring at us strangely, didn't they see the probably-one-million-pound furry mutant standing in the aisle? By now it had spotted us and was charging towards us, luckily we were faster, although, I still had no idea where we were heading.

"Dad, where are we going?" I said repeating my thoughts.

"To the emergency exit! We'll have to parachute to safety!"

"Parachute?" I wasn't too fond of this idea. I wasn't afraid of heights or anything, it's just well, when you're running away from a mythical creature, everything comes as a shock. My dad suddenly handed me a weird backpack looking contraption.

"Yes, now quick put this on and JUMP!"

After I had gotten the backpack-thing on, dad grabbed my hand and we jumped from the plane. I somehow managed to turn around in the air and saw the creature look down upon us from the plane and roar. I looked back a couple of seconds later as the beast, now shrinking from my view, jumped from the plane itself. We were too far away from him to reach us though.
"Leah, open your parachute." My dad said, pointing to the string I had to pull. The snap back took me off guard for a second, but as a regained focus, I saw the mutant-man-bull-thing pass below us, plummeting to the earth.

I had no idea where we were when we landed. We abandoned all of our stuff on the plane when we jumped, including the maps. All we knew was that we were at the base of some hill. The beast-thing was there too, but he didn't survive the impact of his fall. I stood there for a while, looking at it. Something wasn't right.

"Dad" I said

"Yes, Leah?"

"Tell me the truth" I looked up at him, straight through his glasses and into his eyes. He sighed before he began.
"Leah, the story I told you before was partially true. Like I said, I was reading a book when there was a knock on my door, but when I opened it, I didn't find you. I found a peacock."

"A Peacock?" I was so confused.

"Yes, when I went to investigate, the bird moved to reveal an egg. There was a message tied around the peacock's leg, it said: Please take care of this egg, you won't regret it. So I did. The days passed by and the egg grew in size each day until it looked like it came from an ostrich and not a peacock. When the day came that the egg finally hatched, to my surprise, there was a baby lying in its place. That baby was you, Leah."

WOAH! Isn't that something for a shocker! Man this is my longest chapter ever! Well, review and tell me what you think. Please politely point out any mistakes too, remember, only YOU can prevent fanfic fires! (No flames)