Percy's POV
It was a normal day of camp. Just the usual some sword fighting ,fighting with the Ares Cabin. Nothing special….Yet. So all the campers went to bed , I thought there was a storm brewing , the clouds looked suspiciously dark , and the leaves were dancing in the wind. But I didn't think much about it and put my head on the pillow. I fell asleep immediately.
Stella's POV
Tonight's the night , I thought. But before I begin. I should tell you something about me . My Name is Stella Parker, sixteen years old and an Orphan , or at least I was raised in a I live in New York My parents dropped me of here when I was a new born. But I don't want go all emotional here , so anyway. In my whole Childhood , Ive been getting in to trouble. But I swear I'm not looking for it .So long story short , I wanted to leave this stinking old orphanage , where I had no friends, because everybody thought I was strange , different from everybody else. So last week , I met this nice guy in the cafe down the street , where I work. I was just about to take his order , when we started to talk. My shift was about to end anyway. So this guys name was James something ,I don't remember. In the end we were talking for about two hours. He told me that if I wanted a place to stay I could come and stay here , and with that he gave me a business card and left. I looked down" Half blood Hill „ Never heard of it , but hey I have a thing fort he unexpected. I smiled to myself , went home and started packing.
So now I am sitting in the Subway on my way to Long Island. It was five o clock p.m , and I was almost alone in the wagon. There were 4 other people with ones nearest to me were a mother with her daughter. They were playing a hand game. Then there was a guy who was about 27 nodding his head to music that he was listening loudly with his headphones. The music was so loud even I could here it. The last person was a man , even though he was sitting I could tell that he was huge. He was wearing along leather coat , that went all the ways down to his ankles. He also wore a black fedora , which he had pulled deep in to his face. He looked like he was sleeping. I was probably just being paranoid , But I had to admit he was kind of weird.
Only two more stations and I was there. The guy with the music got out , which only left me with , the happy family and mister weirdo. I had printed out the directions to the place in the Internet cafe two blocks away from the orphanage. It looked like it was a farm , but I wasn't to worried I was thinking it would all turn out right.
So after I got out of the station , I had to walk for a half an hour until I was there , it didn't matter I liked me Happy Family and Mister Weirdo got out. I started walking uphill when I suddenly felt a tap on my back. " Your not going anywhere.." a deep monotone voice said behind I turned around. This was not good. Mister I'm so cool in my long black cloak was standing in front of me. I tried to be brave and said " Who do you think you are?". But it didn't come out very strong , my voice quavered."I am your biggest nightmare..." And with that he took of his black I saw their was way beyond normal. Instead of two there was one eye in the middle of his head. The Iris was so black I couldn't see the pupil.
With that I ran , i ran faster than I ever had in my life. But of course it wasn't fast enough , big boy was already behind me. When suddenly I was lifted in the air. I already wanted to thank my hero looked up and saw quite the opposite. "Honey, how are we doing today ?" What I saw was even worse than my one eyed nightmare. Carrying me up in the sky was a Harpie.
Great , just great! What now? I tried to not freak out. Thank the lord the people at my place were really paranoid and gave all the kids a little pocket knife. Ha , didn't think I would ever use that. Somehow I managed to wriggle it out of my pocket , and started slashing at her huge claws. Let me say it worked out alright ,but ah I didn't think about the consequences. So here I was falling through the air and definitely freaking out. I was preparing my self for a very heavy fall. I waited and waited but it didn't come. "Not so much the hero now , are you ?" Slowly I open my eyes which I has tightly shut. Right in front of me was Mister Cyclops but somehow he was even bigger than I had seen him last time. We were standing in the middle of the field. I could already see the farm." I have to get up there , something told me that there I would be safe of all these guys." Just as I had finished my thought I saw one of the huge fleshy fists hitting me in face. Everything went black and I felt myself flying threw the air and hitting the ground. Slowly my sight came back , I felt warm blood all over my face, I tried not to faint and got to my feet , staggering.I was not going to give up.
And again i started running toward the barn , behind me i heard the loud foot steps of the Giant. " I would like you to meet my friend" He bellowed. What now? I would have run much faster if I would have known what was about to hit me. Suddenly I heard a loud hissing noise and in front of me , landing with a loud "BOOM" one the floor , was a huge scorpion. And by huge I don't mean as big as car, in huge i mean enormous. And of course it was coming straight at me , its tail raised high. I still had the dagger ,so I don't know what hit me, I started running toward it. I used its head as a platform to jump on its back. Miraculously it it was really angry , especially when I started stabbing it in the head with my knife. I had to find a week spot !I didn't realise it at first but the scorpion was actually running uphill , so we were getting closer to safety.
The sky was pitch black and it started thundering , and of course to make things worse it started to rain. But didn't seem to bother the creature I was riding it was slashing around when I hit right in the must have been a good cut , because its legs were buckling. But to my misfortune ,it slashed its tail hooked into my shoulder and ripped itself all the way down to my waist. I had never in my life experienced such a pain. It heard so much I couldn't even scream.I could feel the poison flowing into my blood , numbing me. But somehow I got back to my wits and dragged myself toward the house. when I heard the Harpie . She started picking down on me. It struck me that she didn't want to kill me fast , she wanted to kill me slowly. Her sharp claws were cutting in my body , causing me even More pain than I already had. but for some strange reason , as I was about 20 feet away from the barn, She flew away screaming. Not that I cared I was struggling to keep my self conscious and get myself to that door.
When I figured I wouldnt make it anymore I started screaming for help , the last thing I saw were people running toward me.
I was safe.
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