Yes, I have a new story, mostly because I have a new idea. Recently, I found a gap in my life where I had no internet so I got a book to read.

This book just so happened to be The Son of Neptune. I haven't read the others in a while and I don't have Mark of Athena yet. But anyway, I decided I wanted my own take.

So, Brief outline: Three British Demigods of minor or lesser known Gods are sent over to America following the end of The Last Olympian. Set from their separate points of view for the moment.

(Title may change)

Chapter 1

Nick

Nick Hurst would have been quite content to read his book for the entire flight. He probably would have managed it had there not been some disturbance three rows back. Some girl was yelling at the parents of a kid apparently kicking the back of her chair. He could hear the kicking from his seat as the kid started kicking harder in response to the girls yelling. Most people were ignoring the scene, either sleeping or engrossed in something else. In fact no one else was paying attention. Except one girl with glasses who was twitching, she was sat in the central section, aisle seat just behind the row the kicking child was on.

He crawled up to kneel on his chair and watch instead of watching through the reflection of someone's glasses. It was now with a more direct view he could see the kid didn't seem right. Of all the places it had to be on an aeroplane. He glanced at the girl with glasses who had stopped twitching and was studying him intently.

For a few seconds his eyesight went fuzzy and a glowing overlay appeared on the girl, instead of the casual clothes she was wearing it looks like some sort of Greek armour. He only vaguely recognised it from his mother's mild obsession with the ancient Greeks. He looked back to the kicking child only to freeze, that wasn't a child. That was a very ugly baby with wings.

This wasn't good. He had been warned he might see strange things by his mother, especially in this fuzzy mode. His mum had said it was a gift. He had never figured out how hallucinations were a gift but had always acted like they weren't making him seem crazy.

The ugly cupid thing started shifting, sharp teeth growing along with claws. Red eyes looked at him briefly, locking his gaze. Suddenly it looked to the glasses girl. The girl glared at the baby thing and it hissed when she stuck her tongue out. It made to lunge across the aisle at her but a small glint darted between them and the most unearthly screech sent Nick trying desperately to block it out as he slid back into his seat.

The noise finally stopped and Nick ventured up again to look, the cupid baby thing has what looked like a bronze straightened paperclip sticking out of its eye.

Jenny

Jenny Lancaster knew she wasn't fully human. Her dad had always refused to comment but Jenny knew. She often knew things she shouldn't, things that no one else thought of, and things that weren't supposed to exist. Like now, there were two other people who were being disturbed by something that other passengers were completely ignoring. The girl nearby was directly being annoyed, the cherub like creature was kicking the back of her seat. The other guy just seemed curious as to what was going on, she couldn't blame him, the noise was distracting.

She watched the guy clamber up to look over the back of his seat, in the corner of her eye she was still watching the ugly thing getting more vicious, it's teeth subtly growing. She quietly snorted in amusement. This only attracted its attention and it turned to her, she looked back and fixed it with a glare as her hand moved to straighten out the paperclip she had been using as a bookmark. It was a kind of pretty one she'd found in her dad's office, a nice bronze instead of steel grey. She saw the baby tensing ready to let loose and flicked her hand. The paperclip seemed no more than just a slight glint in the air before piercing the ugly cherubs eye.

Eve

Eve Knight wanted to throttle the child inhabiting the seat behind her. She wanted to drop kick it out of the airplane. She tried to calm down, taking some of her anger management counsellor's advice, 'take deep breaths until she felt peace'. She'd never managed to find peace but she'd pretended enough times to fake it.

It wasn't working, with each breath she took the kicking got harder. She got up her seat to face the thing and let loose with her words. Yelling felt better than taking deep breaths anyway. She barely stopped in her tirade when the child started looking less like a child and more like a freaky thing. It didn't matter to her, she'd seen stranger things. She kind of wished she'd got her sword with her but apparently she wasn't allowed offensive weapons in her hand luggage. She was itching to gut the thing and see if it's insides were even vaguely human.

Out of the corner of her vision she saw movement and pushed back on her chair, wanting to keep well clear of whatever it was. Seconds later any noise was drowned out by the most annoying sound since the vuvuzela trend. This carried on for a full minute before the ugly cherub burst into a small cloud of shiny dust. Left on the seat was one of its sharp teeth The glint of paperclip by it. Eve swiped both quickly before returning to sit in her seat properly. She knew the tooth wasn't her spoils but the seatbelt on sign had lit up as the airplane approached JFK international Airport. It wasn't her spoil of war to keep so she would return it when they landed along with the bit of bronze coloured metal.

Nick

Nick kicked his bag in frustration and the sixth taxi he tried to get drove off. Even if they didn't have someone in there they just left. He snatched up has bag and stalked over to the bus station, looking at the times to get him to when his mother had told him to head towards. As he walked, grumbling about how stupid America was, he collided with someone trying to read a piece of paper. He took a few steps back to regain his balance and realise it was the glasses girl from his flight. The girl looked at him and then back to her paper. She offered it to him.

"Can you read this?" she inquired. Nick took one look and shook his head as the letters started rearranging themselves in front of his eyes. "That's good." Nick frowned, how was that good? He nervously ran a hand through his dark locks, pushing them out of his face. "I'm Jenny. I need to go where you're going."

Jenny

Jenny was still puzzling over the tooth that had been trust into her hand by the girl from the plane as she left the airport. A backpack rested low on her back bumping her as she walked. She'd twisted the paperclip into a hair grip that kept her short hair from blowing in front of her glasses. Outside the terminal she fished out the note her dad had given her, it appeared he had forgotten she was dyslexic and there was no easy way to decipher it otherwise.

As she glared at it she felt something push her, almost sending her sprawling forward. She wobbled a bit before managing to stand properly and looked at who had knocked into her. Interestingly enough it was the boy from earlier who had watched the incident on the plane. He was like her, so there was a good chance he was going where she was. Now she just had to make sure.

Eve

Eve was waiting for her bus, it was growing dark and she held no hope for getting to her destination before it was fully dark. It wasn't that the dark scared her, in fact she loved the dark, she loved what it represented. Absence of life. But that in itself was always worrying, her counsellor had lectured her to no end on appropriate thoughts and how she wasn't normal for thinking like she did. It was bad enough she was dyslexic, but with a morbid personality too. Well, she was popular with shrinks.

The bus arriving drew her out of her thoughts and she waited in line to get on. She didn't want to go by bus but she had been told it was the easiest way. For her it was also the most annoying, so many people crammed into a small metal case. She managed to scare people away from sitting next to her, some opting to stand instead of be near her. Her personal space mostly remained intact.

Just as the bus was about to close its doors, two teenagers dashed in panting slightly. They quickly paid their fair and scanned the bus, initially they had seen people standing and figured they would have to as well but there was a girl, who both teens remembered from the flight, sitting on her own. They ambled down, stumbling slightly as the bus started moving and squeezed onto the small seat beside the girl. Eve pointedly ignored them, staring out of the window and trying to inch away. Nick and Jenny didn't try to push their luck and talk to her. Jenny knew she was also heading the same way, they could try to talk to her when they got off at their stop. She hadn't thanked the girl for the tooth and her paperclip back and so she felt rude.

There was only a single lamppost that marked their stop in the dark. The sun had long since faded. Eve hated the fact the two other teens were getting off at her stop, they would probably try to talk to her and relate to her.

There were no buildings nearby, only forest. Eve relished the thought of exploring it in the dark.

"We're safer in trios." Eve turned and saw the girl looking at her pointedly.

"So find another kid." She didn't want any followers, never mind they might not even be going in the same direction. There was a sinking feeling in her gut that said they were. Without another look at the duo she marched off into the forest not caring if they followed, she wouldn't be able to stop them.

As she hiked, Eve was getting the feeling she was being watched, and she didn't think it meant by the two chattering a fair distance behind her.

An arrow thudded into the trunk of a tree where her head had seconds before been. A small volley pierced through the gaps in trees towards her. It took some instinctual ducking and weaving to avoid most of them, a few skimming her and slicing clothes and skin. She took a few steps back to try to see who had shot but found herself quickly stuck to something. Twisting around told her she was stuck in a souped up spider web. Fantastic.

The chattering from the kids got louder as Eve tried to think up ways to free herself. From the shadows across where the arrows had come a figure stepped out. A female figure with eight spider legs and a bow. Arachne, Eve's mind supplied for her before she'd even tried to figure out what it was. Pulling at her arms she writhed around, trying to escape, or at least find a weakness, but they were stuck fast. She hoped when the others got to this part the arachne would turn her focus to them and she could work on freeing herself.

The two finally came into view, no care about stealth or that there might be a danger to them. Well, the guy did, the girl had glanced around almost wildly before focusing on the arachne. She tugged the boys arm and subtly pointed out the eight legged creature.

Nick

To his credit Nick didn't panic when the glowing green eyes of the arachne focused on him, it smiled and started walking towards where he and Jenny were standing. He started walking pulling Jenny along with him, only to push her way when the arachne changed course to follow him. He only slightly panicked when he was still its target. His eyes met that of the arachne and the creature slowed, its alertness fading. He quickly looked away, the glowing creeped him out. This had the unfortunate effect of allowing the creature to become more alert.

The arachne was a bit too close for his liking a Nick stumbled around trying to escape it. Eight legs were faster and more nimble than his two. He though he was doomed when he managed to walk into a low hanging branch, hidden in the shadows of the forest. As he looked the glowing eyes of the arachne became all he could focus on. He saw it falter and avoid his eyes, pinning his arm to the ground with a leg.

He almost cried out from the pain, it was like thousands of tiny hooks digging into his skin along with the pressure from the creatures weight. A human hand reached down at him and closed around his throat. His eyes fluttered closed, not wanting the glowing green orbs to be his last sight.

End Chapter 1

More will get explained in the next chapter. You don't get it all at once.