Introduction
A letter. One that was addressed to me, Ryan Fletcher. I'm 17. Who would send me a letter with no return address. Luckily my parents, Kate and David, where still at work and my sister, who was my twin, also had a letter. This is scary. It has my sisters full name, Elizabeth, on it not Ella which is what she likes to be called.
"Ryan, what are you looking at you have home... Is that letter addressed to me?" Asked Ella. I just nodded my head. "And you have one to."
"What do we do with them?" I asked
"Well isn't it obvious. We open them." With that my sister grabbed her letter off the table, and broke the seal. I grabbed mine and opened it, too.
Dear Mr. Ryan
We regret to inform you that your parents are not who the say they are
at least not your mom.
My name is Chiron, the very same from the Greek myths.
But the are not myths.
They are reality. Your mom the the goddess Athena.
This may sound crazy at first but if you believe me look inside the
envelope.
There is a knife that can kill the monsters that come for you.
You may be angry with me because now that you know
who your mom is they will come for you.
If you believe me and wish to be safe come to this address
Half-Blood Hill, Farm Road 3.141
Long Island, New York 11954
In hopes that you come safely
Mr. Chiron
P.S. You probably have 30 minutes before they find you.
When I looked in the envelope, the indeed was a small dagger made of some metal that was unknown to me. Well if my mom is Athena, who is the goddess of wisdom and strategy, that would explain the good memory, but not our grades. We know the material but we just can sit still and concentrate on it.
"What do you think about this, Ella?" She was just standing still holding a dagger that looked like mine. "Ella, are you ok?"
"Fine." She said but I knew that she was not. See, my mom and my sister had this special bond. They both liked to go see movies, even though my sister had a hard time sitting through them, but they still loved them. They wove these bracelets out of para-cored. When she found out that her mom was. It her mom, that must of come as quite a shock.
"Ella, I know that this may sound crazy but..."
"We need to go this address. Ya I know. But do you have any money because I don't it's in mom's car." My mom and sister share a car and me and my dad share a truck.
As I walked down the hall to my room I herd Ella yell for me to hurry up because we might have company. I turned the corner to my room grabbed my wallet, and raced back to the front hall were my sister grabbed our bags that we have prepared for another hurricane, like Sandy. In them were clothes and some food.
Also while I was going to my room I grabbed my dad's hunting rifle (and I know why would he have a hunting rifle in the middle of New York, but let's just say he did a yearly hunting game out of the state.) and brought it out with me with some extra shells.
As I grabbed my bag I heard the sound of breaking glass coming from the kitchen. As we ran into the room I saw the strangest thing. It was like a mix of all big dogs and had anger management problems. I raised the rifle and aimed down the sights like my dad had taught me. When I pulled the trigger it blasted the beast backwards but it get right back up.
"That should have killed it!" I yelled at Ella who had her dagger out and threw it at the monster. As soon as it touch the dog thing, the dog disappeared in a puff of yellow dust.
"That was a Hellhound" said Ella, "You know the ones that the old Greek hers had to fight."
As we picked our way though the broken glass we found a girl, who looked about our age, at the door and she was holding a dagger that looked as if it was made out of the same metal that our daggers were made out of.
"Who are you? And why are you here?" Inquired Ella.
"I should ask you the same thing. But, my name is Annabeth Chase. I am here to help you get to Camp Half-Blood."
"Nice to meet you Annabeth. My name is Ryan. My sisters name is Ella. Now I have one question for you. How did you know to come here? The letter said that it would take 30 minutes for them to find us. Also how do you are not a monster, too?"
"If I had wanted to kill you, I would have done it when you distracted by the Hellhound. Also I am a half-blood." As she said this my sister grew pale because she probably hoped this was not real and wanted it to be a dream. "We need to get out of here there are probably more monsters coming this way."
As we ran out to the road Annabeth pulled out a golden coin form her pocket and yelled something in another language and threw the coin into the road. As it hit the pavement , the coin disappeared.
A gray cloud of smoke stopped in front of Annabeth and the door opened.
"Welcome to the Chariot of Domain. Where can we take you outside the general New York area, one more Golden Drachma for each person." Said a voice from inside the taxi. "Get in" called a different voice.
I looked at Annabeth and Ella. Annabeth nodded and we all got in. "Camp Half-Blood" called Annabeth.
"Darling," said one of the voices, "Please pay in advance this time, unlike last time you did not pay us all of the money."