I was relaxing in my hammock on my back porch. Just as I closed my eyes, somebody tipped me out of the hammock and I landed with my face in the dirt.

"Darcy!" I groaned as I got up. I turned toward the red-headed girl and glared. She was still giggling.

"That was so funny!" My other friend, Briana, came up behind Darcy and she began laughing too.

I sighed. My friends can be so mean sometimes. Oh ya just gotta love 'em.

I hit the two of them in an attempt to get them to shut-up when suddenly Briana decided to go all black-girl on me.

"SARAH. DO NOT HIT ME. IF YOU HIT ME ONE MORE TIME, I AM GOING TO HIT YOU BACK. HARDER." She stormed out the back gate and Darcy began to follow her. Darcy glanced over her shoulder and gave me a somewhat apologetic smile when there was a loud thud.

Darcy ran over to me. "WHAT WAS THAT?" she asked, sounding terrified.

I shook my head. "I have no idea…" Neither of us noticed when suddenly it got a LOT darker over us. We were sitting in the shadow of Delphyne, a huge dragon. Of course neither of us knew this at that time.

"Why did it just get so dark?" Darcy asked, glancing around nervously. I looked around us and when I finally looked up I let out a loud shriek. Darcy followed my gaze, and she too let out a scream.

On instinct, we sprinted towards the back gate. I was in the lead, and my hands were shaking so much that I had trouble with the latch.

"Sarah!" Darcy screamed. "Hurry up! Whatever that thing is, it's gaining on us!" I heard a hiss come from behind and I let my fear take over. I kicked down the gate and me and Darcy ran out of the yard.

"Over here!" I whispered. We hid behind a bush as the dragon-like creature stepped out of my backyard. I could see Briana walking home, not noticing the fact that a giant dragon thing just came out of one of her best friend's backyards.

The dragon was hovering directly over our bush. We cowered, terrified of what it might do to us. It breathed in through its nose, looked around one more time in search of us, and then gave up.

But then, it found a new target. And she was completely oblivious to the thing looming over her.

"NO!" Darcy and I screamed in unison. But the monster didn't even turn around, it just kept advancing on its target.

A/N: Hey everybody! WHO DO YOU THINK DELPHYNE THE DRAGON'S NEW TARGET IS? This is my first Percy Jackson fanfic, so I hope ya like it! Also, feel free to read my 2 other stories. For those of you interested in my story "A Change of Heart", I apologize for not having updated that one. I have MAJOR writers block. Feel free to review that story with ideas for my next chapter. and of course I want you all to read and review this story! Thanks so much to anybody who reads this story! Not next chapter, but sometime soon I will probably have an OC contest. This story is almost entirely OC, but I might have some of the characters from the actual series be in it. Thanks again to anybody who plans to stick around 'til the end of the story! :D