Ch 1: I'm a WHAT?
Why, Hello. I'm Terra. I would tell you my last name but there is always the off chance that they might be listening in on us. So, for now, you may just call me Terra. I live in the state of Minnesota. I am of average height for 6th grade student with short, light brown hair and electric blue eyes. I'm balanced out almost perfectly between girly girl and tom boy but I'm leaning more in the tom boy direction. I'm in love with Greek mythology and the Percy Jackson Series. I just happen to be dyslexic and have ADHD. I'm adopted so I don't know who my real parents are. I had always thought I was completely normal. Well, as normal as a person with dyslexia and ADHD can be. Oh, how wrong I was. I'm Terra, and this is my story.
The school bell rang, signaling the end of 5th hour Science. I grabbed my books and headed downstairs to my locker, going with the flow of the "traffic" that had suddenly formed in the hallways. "Terra!" a familiar voice called. I turned to see my friend, Shadow, running up to me. I smiled at her. All my friends, including my best friends, Shadow and Sparrow, weren't in my Science or Math class. For Math and Science, our grade split into two groups, one for the regular Math kids and one for the advanced Math kids. I was in the advanced group. Math master, that's me. I'm surprised that I'm even in the advanced Math class, actually. Because of my ADHD, I'll get distracted and forget to do it until about 9 o'clock at night. But, then again, I still get it done. My dad thinks I'm some sort of Math genius and signs me up for all this extra junk but in reality, Math is my least favorite subject. I always get in trouble by my Math teacher for reading in class instead of listening but, let's face it, even though it's important, yada yada yada, doesn't make it interesting! Whoops! I'm getting distracted again. Back to reality. Shadow ran up to me, her long black hair blowing behind her. Her dark brown eyes radiated with her joy. When she caught up to me, she smiled. "We're more than half way there. Just three more classes and then we're free for the summer," she said, excited. I nodded. I looked around. "Hey, where's Sparrow?" I asked. "Here I am!" A voice called from behind me. Sparrow pushed her way through the mass of students to join us. Sparrow had dark brown hair that went to her shoulders and sea green eyes. "Glad you could join us," I said to her. She bowed. "I am honored to be here," she said, in mock formal voice. I laughed. Sparrow and Shadow, like me, both have ADHD and dyslexia. "Come on, guys! We got to hurry up!" Shadow said, impatiently. "Well, Sorry!" Sparrow said, pretending to be annoyed. We walked to our lockers and put our books inside. Next was lunch, so we passed by the multipurpose room to get in line for lunch. It was chicken nuggets day. After we got our food, we sat down at our usual table. The others were already there. Maria was trying to get Ann to give her some of her chicken nuggets. "Come on, Ann! You never finish them, anyway!" she said. "You're not touching my food!" Anna said back. They continued to fight over the food while Shadow, Sparrow, and I sat down. We started discussing how messed up the Percy Jackson movie is. (We'd seen it a while ago but we were still talking about it.) "It wasn't anything like the book!" I said, angrily. "I know! They completely changed the story line!" Shadow said. "And they deleted my favorite part! I like when they went to the water bed shop," Sparrow added. "They also got rid of him jumping off that one bridge and Clarisse trying to shove his head in the toilet! In fact, Clarisse wasn't there at all!" I said. I heard a laugh from behind me. "You guess still talk about that lame book?" an all too familiar voice said. I turned to see "them". Samantha and Britney and the rest of their stuck up gang. Samantha was a star athlete on the basketball team while Britney was just "popular" because she was pretty. And they could get away with anything. They had the teachers wrapped around their fingers. In my opinion, Britney is the worst, but Samantha is the one who makes all the rude comments. Britney laughed at what Samantha had said. "Yeah. That's so old. Go get a life," she said. Shadow turned to look at Britney, her eyes seemed almost black. "Go get one yourself, you little stuck up brat! Do us all a favor and jump off a cliff!" she said, angrily. Britney flinched but didn't reply. We all turned around and went back to our lunch. I smiled at Shadow and she smiled back. Shadow was anything BUT a girly girl. We finished up our lunches and put our trays on the dirty dishes pile. Then the teacher came and it was off to 6th hour.
6th and 7th hour was a breeze. Before I knew it, it was 5 minutes until the end of 8th hour. 8th hour was extremely boring so I took out The Last Olympian and started rereading my favorite part. I sighed. "Ah, Nico," I said so quietly, you'd have to be right in my face to hear it. Nico de Angelo was my favorite character in the series and my fictional crush. I glanced back up at the clock. 1 minute. Our class started the countdown. "59! 58! 57! 56! 55! 54! 53! 52! 51!" The count began. I looked back at my book. If only my life were as interesting as Percy Jackson's, I silently wished to myself. "44! 43! 42! 41! 40! 39! 38!" I didn't know it, but Shadow and Sparrow were wishing for the same thing. "30! 29! 28! 27! 26! 25! 24! 23!" I joined in the countdown. "19! 18! 17! 15! 14! 13! 12! 11! 10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5!" I smiled to myself. Look out, summer. Here I come. "2! 1!" The bell rang and the class erupted into cheers. Summer has officially started. I met up with Shadow and Sparrow again. We planned on meeting up at the park later today.
"See ya later, Mom!" I called as I walked out the door to go to the park. I had a white bag slung over my shoulder. I called it my "emergency bag". I always brought it everywhere I go "in case I need it". The contents of the bag consisted of a first aid kit, a flashlight, a map of the USA, a compass, a reusable water bottle (full, of course), matches, and "emergency money". You never know when it might come in handy. Shadow thought it was silly. Well, let's see if see still thinks it's silly when she's trapped in the woods, all alone. Those kinds of things could be really useful! Anyway, I spotted the park and saw Sparrow and Shadow already there. I run up to them. We ended up talking and playing for hours and before we knew it, it was 9:30 and we were the only ones at the park. Or so we thought. The sun had now set, finally making us realize how late it was. "Wow. It's really late. We should probably head home," I said. They nodded in agreement. Just then, something big and grey flew through the air at us! We all dove out of the way as the trash can hit the ground where we had stood just moments before. "What was that?" Shadow shouted. Then we heard it. Then sound of heaving breathing. We turned towards the woods to see a creature that had the body of a man and the head of a bull. "Minotaur," we said in unison. The Minotaur looked at us, unblinking. Then it bent it head and charged. Straight for me! Then I remembered what they did in the Percy Jackson books and I sidestepped it right before it hit me. I ended up ramming the swing set. It shook it's self off. It looked angry now! Then it turned and ran at Sparrow! Only now it had its arms out, preventing Sparrow sidestepping it. Then, my friend did something amazing. At the last moment, she leaped into the air, jumping over the monster and grabbing one of its horns. She pulled so hard, that she actually ripped the horn off! The bull-man bellowed in rage. Then, Shadow got and idea. She picked up a stick and threw it at the Minotaur. "Hey, ugly!" she shouted. I gave her a, What the heck do you think you're doing, look. She just winked at me. In that wink, Sparrow and I got the whole plan. I nodded as the angry Minotaur turned to my friend. I climbed up, into a nearby tree. The monster shook its head and charged at her. Wait, wait, NOW! I leapt from the tree, landing on the Minotaur's head. It let out an enraged yell and tried to shake me off. "Now!" I shouted to Sparrow. She ran up to the Minotaur and stabbed it through the heart with the horn. The monster bellowed and then turned to dust, causing me to fall to the ground. Shadow grinned. "And, that's how it's done!" she said. We all sat down on the ground, suddenly exhausted. I looked from Shadow to Sparrow. "So…does this mean we're demigods?"I asked. They looked at each other and then nodded. Then, Sparrow's eyes got wide. "Does this mean that everything in the Percy Jackson books is true?" she asked. I thought about that. Then I answered her. "I think it does, Sparrow." "Then you know what we have to do, right?" Shadow asked us. I took on a puzzled look. "We have to go to Camp Half-Blood!" she said. I was full of mixed feelings. Excitement, sadness, worry, joy. But I knew Shadow was right. Then I remembered something. "If the Percy Jackson books are true, then how come we were attacked? In the last book, the Titans were destroyed and Hades isn't attacking demigods anymore. So, who?" We thought about it but couldn't come up with an answer. "Well, we'd better get moving before another monster finds us," Shadow said, standing up. Sparrow and I got up, too. I took out my map and compass. "New York is….that way!" I said, pointing to the left. "New York or Bust!" Sparrow shouted and off we went. We walked until midnight, when we all collapsed in the woods. "So tired!" Sparrow said. I grabbed a bunch of rocks to make a makeshift fire pit and grabbed some wood and threw it inside the pit. I ripped apart a piece of old homework I had found in my pocket and threw it in the wood, using the matches to light it. Soon, we had a nice fire going. I grinned at Shadow. "Not so silly, now, huh?" She rolled her eyes. That night, we sleep on the forest floor. Camp Half-Blood, here I come!
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