I was thumbing through my mythology book my blonde hair getting in my way, I push it behind my ears and push up my black glasses, covering my grey eyes. Those eyes had gotten me bullied for years, grey! It's basically impossible! I look up to see our social studies teacher pointing to a sarcophagus and see Jack, the hottest boy in our class which blonde hair and blue eyes talking to his friend. I am interrupted by Rachel asking me,"Elle, can I have a pencil?"
She was truly beautiful with brown hair and green eyes I was imclined to give her one. "Here."
Suddenly the droning of our teacher stops. Everything does. Jack says,"What the hell?"
I put down my book and say,"Is anyone else moving?"
Rachel says,"Me!"
I don't know what to do, but they look to me. Suddenly I am met with a truly horrific idea. I flip to the thirteenth page of my book,"Cronus"
They stare at me and I say,"Of course! It makes sense, Athena, Zeus, Aphrodite, time, Cronus, Jack, Rachel get everyone in the building and get them to meet me in the cafeteria."
I grab my book and run. I run through the kitchen and grab knives and lay them out on a table testing them out and I grab a small one. As soon as they come in I put something heavy covering the doors and windows, I sit on the stage and say,"Everyone needs to listen to me, two stories that's it. According to the Ancient Greeks there were two gods in the beginning Gaia and Uranus. They had kids the Titans. They were lead by Cronus he could control time, stop it, speed it up, slow it, one day he he'd kids of his own the first one was Hestia she was different. He was scared and swallowed her whole. He kept having kids, and swallowing them, until his wife hid one of her children and gave him a rock instead. The child was Zeus, he trained and one day made Cronus throw up his siblings. The youngest, or oldest by order of thrown up, Zeus, Poisedon, and Hades tricked him into dinner and cut him into pieces with his own scythe. They put him into a tomb and threw in deep into the Underworld. He vowed revenge on the gods and all of their children."
I hear collective gasps and looking at the group I can see now that they are demigods. I say,"The twelve major gods are also need to know if my theory is correct, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hermes. These gods would go down to earth and fall in love, all of them except Athena, Hera, and Artemis who I will tell you about later, and have a child then leave. Artemis swore to never have children, Athena gifts children to people who are wise and knowledgeable and Hera tries to keep a faithful marriage. They are called demigods, we are called demigods. Monsters hunt us at all times grab a knife, we need to find a safe place and-"
Suddenly there is a banging at the door. I grab my knife and see Mr. Parker! I move aside the table and let him in. As soon as he sets on foot in the room everyone gasps, it wasn't a foot it was a hoof! Jack grabs his knife and says,"Leave now."
I yell,"Jack no! He's a satyr, he can help us!"
Mr. Parker nods and says,"Jack listen to her, she always was the smartest."
Rachel says,"Are you sure Elle?"
"As sure as anyone can be right now. If I've learned anything from Percy Jackson, satyrs are good."
He turns to Jack, Rachel and I we are the oldest of the seventeen that Jack found we were thirteen. Most of us live until sixteen at most. He hands Jack a sword, Rachel gets a spear and I get a dagger. We examine our weapons and he says,"Celestial Bronze."
I say,"It can kill monsters."
"Exactly, now some of you may have powers that you don't know about when we get there-"
"Where," Jack asks.
"Camp Half-Blood."
"No way!" I shriek,"Does Percy Jackson exist?"
"Annabeth needs your help Ellie, she asked for the smartest children of Athena, we hope that you are, at least you should be."
"Of course, how can we get there?"
"We have a bus from the sixth grade field trip, it's a nice one too."
With that Jack, Rachel and I leave followed by the other kids. They look into their classrooms and I asay,"Can we write a note to say goodbye?"
"Sure."
We each run into our classrooms and write notes.
Jim, Cecelia, Lilly, and Sofie-
This is so sudden, I will miss you all but I have to go away. I can't tell you anything about it other than I will be ok, and I will truly miss you all. I hope you won't forget me, but I also hope that you move on. Goodbye.
-Elle
I wipe away tears as I place my note on Lilly's desk. I look at Jack and Rachel and nod, time to go, and we left leaving our old lives behind.
We sat on the bus, I was scanning through my book Jack and Rachel asking me aboutq what was happening as all of the other kids cried or whispered. Suddenly the bus shakes. Mr. Parker looks out the window and says,"Shit!"
I run to the window and see it, it had large humanish legs and his torso was covered with fur, he had a bull's head and huge horns and he carried a mace, the Minotaur. He rammed into the bus again, I opened the back window and jumped out. I snuck around the edge and motioned for Jack and Rachel to follow. They shook their heads and I snuck forward and threw a rock. He slowly turned and ran straight at me. I jumped aside as his horn tore through my shirt and stabbed my arm. Think Elle, think! I yell,"Asterion!"
He looks at me and gets confused. I run forward and just as I get close he knocks me aside. I fly into a wall and feel my vision fading. I feebly and hoarsely say,"Asterion"
As he turns I throw my dagger and it lodges itself right between his horns. He falls and turns to sand I see Jack jump out of the bus and grab my dagger before the world turns black.
Jack's POV
"DAMMIT!!!"
"Jack, calm down."
I feel calm wash over me like a wave and say,"We should've gone with her we need her!"
I look down at Elle, a huge blood stain on her shirt, I pull mine off and tie it around her wound. Mr. Parker says,"She killed it, how did she kill it?"
"She said something and it stopped, she ran in to kill it but it tossed her aside she threw her dagger and killed it." I said.
He nods and starts driving and says,"It's getting dark, we should be there by morning. Get some sleep."
Rachel lies down on a seat and I sit next to Elle. Her glasses are broken and she has dirt and blood all over her face. I pull out a tissue and wipe her face off, I pull off her glasses and sit by her all night.
I open my eyes and see the sun shining through the trees. I see Elle stir and say,"Are we there?"
"Almost."
"Is he dead?"
"Who?"
"Asterion."
"Who?"
"The monster."
"Yes, you saved us."
"You saved me."
Her head falls and she blacks out again, she's breathing. Good. Mr. Parker says,"We need to walk the rest of the way, you carry Elle and her weapon Jack."
I carefully pick her up and follow Mr. Parker through the woods to a shimmering barrier we all step through it and a girl that kinda looks like Elle says,"You're here! What happened?"
Elle mutters,"Annabeth?"
She crouches down and says,"Yes, what happened?"
"Asterion."
Annabeth looks sad for a moment and says,"Is he dead."
"Yes."
She looks at me and say,"Let me have her."
I sort of shake my head and tighten my hold on her she says,"It's ok Jack."
I reluctantly pass Elle to her and she says,"She'll be better by dinner."
A boy with black hair and sea green eyes says,"I'll get you guys some clothes and explain, the rest of your group can go with Bill."
Rachel and I follow him and he says,"My name is Percy Jackson."
I say,"Elle was talking about you, she was amazed by you."
"Elle was the one that killed Asterion?"
"Yes, was that his name cause, I heard that he was the Minotaur?" Rachel asked.
"Yes, you'll be staying here in the Hermes cabin until your parents claim you."
"Claim us?" We both ask.
"Your godly parent can chose to claim you at any time here, Elle's parent will most likely claim her sooner because of what she did, has Elle done anything else?"
"She led us here, explained what she thought was happening to us and taught us some mythology." I say.
"Oh good, Annabeth will have her fixed up soon."
He tosses us an orange shirt to wear and a necklace with one bead,"Every year you get a new one." Percy explained.
Elle's POV
I woke up in an orange shirt with Annabeth Chase standing over me she says,"Ambrosia always works."
I say,"Annabeth Chase! Wow, I heard that you wanted help with this whole thing right?"
"Slow down there, help would be nice but you need rest. If you have any ideas I would like to know."
"I believe Cronus, or someone harnessing his power, getting revenge on the gods by isolating us, and eventually killing us."
She says,"I thought something along those lines was happening, thanks. We need to go to dinner."
We walk to dinner and I see Jack and Rachel and run towards them and say,"My dagger."
Jack hands it to me handle first and say,"Umm, here's your shirt."
Rachel points to the Aphrodite cabin and says,"Elle, look! Hot guy alert!"
Sure enough all of the guys in that cabin are HOT!!!! I say,"Aphrodite."
We walk up and burn some of our food eat, and go to the campfire. As soon as we sit down an owl burns above my head I whisper,"Athena."
Annabeth runs up to me and says,"Welcome to the family." I sit with the Athena cabin. There is a speech and Annabeth gives me a schedule. Rachel is introduced to everyone after everyone from our group except Jack. A heart appears above her head and she is pulled into the group of hot guys and pretty girls. Soon Jack is being introduced and a huge lightning bolt appears above his head. A collective gasp is heard throughout the camp and he is ushered away. We all go back to our cabins and I ask,"Jack shouldn't exist, the deal, that's why Asterion came after us. His blood."
We all go to sleep ready for tomorrow, for the first day of our new lives.
