Author Note: This is my first Thuke, so please don't rip me apart. It should be anywhere between ten and twenty chapters, but we will see how it works out.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Warning: I am officially ignoring the official ages, I have made Thalia one year older than Luke so I can count her time spent as a tree as homeostasis. That way, I can just say that during her time as a tree, she simply did not age.
Ages
Luke: 9
Thalia: 10
Meeting
Luke pov
As I moved down the substandard suburban street, I glanced around at my surroundings warily. Each side of the gravel road was filled with one story homes and behind one side of them was a dense pine tree forest. A few individual trees stood in yards and by the road.
I stuck to the very right edge of the road, ready to bolt into the woods at any sign of trouble. I could maneuver through tight spaces better than any monster I had encountered so far.
What I wasn't expecting was to be attacked by another child.
A metal trash can lid flying Frisbee style straight toward my head alerted me to her presence. I barely noticed the metal disk in time and ducked with only a second to spare. I regained my full height and spun around to see what kind of new monster threw Frisbees.
It wasn't a monster.
Charging at me with a baseball bat was a girl who looked only slightly older than myself. She had cropped dark hair, bright electric blue eyes, was wearing Gothic clothing, and seemed intent on killing me. She practically glowed with power; I'd never seen someone so radiant in my life.
I was about to turn and flee when a shield appeared on her arm. It held the image of a gorgons face and paralyzed me as if it were the real thing. My heart raced as the girl reached me, and I forced myself to crouch down and draw a knife from my boot. I rolled into the street to avoid her first swing.
"Strike one," I muttered as the bat passed over my head. She glared at me.
"Shut up, monster!" she yelled, brandishing the bat at my face.
"Aren't you the monster?" I asked tentatively, edging backwards in case she decided my head made a good baseball.
"Of course not! I'm a demigod!" She exclaimed proudly, and closed the distance between us again. "If you're not a demigod, then what are you?" She extended a hand toward me, waiting for a response.
"I must be a demigod too," I shrugged, accepting her hand as she helped me to my feet.
"Alright then," she grinned, "we should stick together then, 'cause I was always taught to look after younger kids like you." I tried to protest, but she ignored me, "But if I have any reason to believe you're a monster in disguise, I will end you." She shook my still grasped hand, and I gulped once.
Even though I wasn't a monster, after our brief skirmish I knew this girl could likely beat me in single combat. I had to be careful; she could turn on me at any moment. Girls couldn't be trusted.
"Ok." I managed to say, "Same goes for you."
She stared me straight at me, her electric blue eyes crackling as she sized me up. Then she grinned. "I think I'm gonna like you!" She let go of my hand. "The name's Thalia."
"I'm Luke." My hand felt cold without hers as I smiled back. "Nice to meet you."
This conversation was the first step of our long journey together.
End note: I can't wait for the Demigod Diaries to come out in a few months; there is a high possibility of Thuke occurring in them. Hopefully the pairing will finally become canon.
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