Percy was never born and The First Great Prophecy still reins , Alex, Benji, and Trudy are new found friends who don't know their demigods let alone that one of them is the child of one of the Big Three and the one mentioned in the Great Prophecy. Demigod head hunters attack their school leaving one of them on the brink of death, the others take on a quest to find a way to save his life before the Winter Solstice. please read and review, i want to here your opinions on this.
The Facility is a "school" that's located in the middle of the desert where kids are sent if they've either 1.) Committed a crime 2.) have no one who wants to take them in. or 3.) both. Hero fit into the last category.
Hero wasn't his real name obviously it was just the name that he had been saddled with after he did something really stupid that had turned out good. For once.
Hero's life didn't usually turn out that well. He'd been kicked out of eleven schools in the past seven years.
The first three for freak accidents that had happened around him, the chem. Lab blowing up, model rockets flying into the principals office, the school tv channel broadcasting the movie three hundred without a dvd on Christmas. You get the point.
Then at six of the following schools he had always met someone who had picked the wrong person to tick off and he had left the school with that boy in the nurse's office with a full facial makeover and singing a much higher tune.
At the penultimate school he had earned his nickname and he wasn't going back to that.
Then at the final one he had finally earned his pilot license and he was flying high over the small town with his instructor when something had malfunctioned and they had plummeted to the ground. Hero had crashed them into the town's Bank and somehow he had survived without a scratch. His instructor hadn't been so lucky.
Without a parent to take care of him he had automatically been shipped to The Facility where he had met his new best friend and roommate Benjamin "Benji" O'Connell.
Benji was a nerd and almost the complete opposite of Hero publically. Hero was made of liquid steel muscles while Benji had little to know musculature. Benji spent more time on his computer or reading than Hero did in his whole life.
The one thing where they were similar physically was that they both had been diagnosed ADHD and dyslexic, though the latter didn't stop Benji from reading though.
Benji had a different story from Hero's entirely. Benji had grown up on his father's farm with many other cousins who his dad had to take care of because their parents weren't responsible.
Benji didn't know who his mom was but his dad had said that they had gone to college together and she had had to leave them because she got a huge offer to work with some famous archaeologist in Greece.
Benji was a certified genius his IQ levels setting records for his age. His dad said his mom had been that way too.
What had gotten Benji to The Facility was just simple mischievousness. Benji was an expert with computers so he had hacked into his school's mainframe and had changed the school lunches to something less toxic. The next morning some Feds had been knocking on the door telling him that he had a choice, go to jail, or go to the Facility. Benji had picked the latter and he was glad he had.
Benji had been bullied as soon as he stepped through the doors of the school but then Hero had come and changed the school lunches to something less toxic. The next morning some Feds had been knocking on the door telling him that he had a choice, go to jail, or go to the Facility. Benji had picked the latter and he was glad he had.
Benji had been bullied as soon as he stepped through the doors of the school but then Hero had come to the school and become his roommate and they had become fast friends. Currently the two of them were sitting at their own table in the cafeteria with Benji sipping at a soda and eating a sandwich while playing online chess against a Russian chess master while typing a report on battle tactics at the battle of Salamis.
Hero had a lightning fast metabolism and was wolfing down ninths on the pizza that The Facility had offered for lunch today. Benji knew something important had happened when he heard Hero pause from his feeding frenzy.
Benji looked up and saw Hero staring at two girls across the room in the lunch line. They were new and beautiful.
The girl's names were Alexandria "Alex" Hale and Trudy Chacon.
Alex was from Hawaii originally but her mother had moved her and her little brother Kale to California, LA specifically, when Alex was nine and Kale seven. She had moved because one of her high school sweethearts had invited her to a premier for one of his movies and they had re-fallen in love.
So Alex had gone from the beautiful beaches, tropical jungles and volcanoes of Hawaii, to the urban grunge and teenage drama of Beverly Hills.
With the marriage had come a new dad Bob, who was an up and coming actor, a new sister Jane ,who was a spoiled brat and three years older than Alex, and Michael a little brother who was a year younger than Alex and who had gone from being a major annoyance to being a major perv in between twelve and thirteenth birthdays.
The one benefit of living in the Hills was that they were never more than thirty miles away from some of the best surfing spots in the city and 'big sis' had finally come in handy for something.
But when Alex turned eleven Jane gained an ulterior motive to taking her to the beach. While Alex was surfing with her new found friends Jane and her friends were picking pockets and stealing from other people's beach bags. They stashed all of their stolen booty in Alex's beach bag.
When Alex got home Kale and Michael who were 'playing soldier' ran into her and knocked her and the bag down sending all of the stolen contents onto the floor.
Naturally Alex's parents didn't believe her story that she didn't know how that stuff had gotten there so they had made her write an apology letter to every single one of the people she had stolen from and returned everything that was stolen to them personally.
Alex had thought it was over after that but now four years after the first instance her sister had done it again but this when they were shopping for a thirteenth birthday present for Kale at the mall.
When her parents found the stolen pair of sexy underwear in her purse they were furious and hadn't even started to hear her side of the story before they had shipped her off to The Facility.
On the helicopter ride from the local airport to The Facility she had met a new friend who would turn out to be her room mate, her name was Trudy Chacon.
Trudy was also from California but the San Francisco area not LA. Trudy's mom was a helicopter pilot in the air force and her step dad was a fighter jock. They were both stationed at an air force base near the city.
Her parents were deploying soon so that had sent her to The Facility because it was where a lot of soldiers sent their kids when they didn't have any other place to send them. Trudy had already been to the school three times so she knew her way around. Trudy had led Alex to the cafeteria and that's where they were standing at the moment waiting to get their lunch.
Alex had an exotic Hawaiian tan and chocolate brown hair that went down to the small of her back. Trudy was Hispanic with the typical brown skin tone and she wore her dark brown hair in a crew cut. She wore an aviator's jacket and large mirrored sunglasses. Her diminutive friend on the other hand wore a spaghetti strapped shirt with a light jacket over it and khaki pants.
Hero on the other side of the classroom quickly stood up taking his try and said to Benji. "I'm going for more." Benji laughed at that and said, "Yeah you're definitely going for the food."
Alex had turned to look at the crowded lunchroom and seen the handsome boy walking towards them to get in line. He winked at her and just as he was about to get into the line two jocks started to fight over something stupid. One threw the other into the boy who went tumbling with the other boy on top of him.
The handsome boy's tray went flying and on it was a half full glass of Mountain Dew which flew from the tray and spilled its contents all over Alex.
The boys were on the ground at her and Trudy's feet and the handsome boy looked up to see a soaked Alex looking down at him. This was not how it was supposed to happen. Hero thought as he looked up at the beautiful girl. What was about to happen was going to be pretty interesting
Hey just a few questions for the readers
Do you like or hate it?
What are some of your ideas for the story and the way I write it?
Do you think the story itself is a good idea?
Any guesses from the characters backgrounds who their parents are.
Just to clarify for the above one.
Hero: no parents whatsoever, blonde hair, handsome, a heartthrob, and crashed a plane into a bank
Alex: short, has long dark brown hair, tan, from Hawaii loves to surf and scuba dive. No dad.
Trudy: no dad, her mom and step father are in the military, tough and a good fighter, where's mirrored sunglasses.
Benji: no mom, his dad met his mom in college, he's a super genius and was on his old school's fencing team.