Brice Gallan, Son of the Travel God
Book 1: Son of the Thief
Chapter 1: Furies, and Hydras, and Gorgons, OH MY!
My day was perfect today until now. After school I was out on my fishing boat with jenny my best friend. We always went out to sea on clear nights. But I should explain a little first. My name's Brice, Brice Gallan, I'm a 15 year old orphan living in New Jersey with my best friend, Jenny Deronto, a mechanic and also a orphan, and my buddy Walter Bestinburg in our small house in Allentown and our large fishing boat. Tomorrow was the day Jenny's shop was closed so we went star gazing on our ship. We lay out on the deck next to each other as we watched the sky. I had dirty blonde slightly spiked style hair and green eyes. I was about 6`7`` with a blue shirt and khaki pants. She was 5`8`` had brown eyes and a blonde ponytail. She wore a dark green t-shirt and black sweat pants. Her skin was the slightest bit tan as mine was pale. School also went easy for us both. Nothing big at all happened so this was the best chance we got. Grease was all over her shirt from fixing up the engine of the boat and she had a smudge of grease on her face. "That grease really fits you." I chuckled to her. She wiped it off and wiped it on me smudging grease on my face. We just laughed and stared up. "So, the freak and the mechanic together at last." a voice said. Oh great. Our faces got red as those 7 mean kids from school walked on board our ship. We got up and took some steps back. "Now" one said in a low voice "We have you alone Son of the Thief." "What?" I said. "The boy doesn't even know who he is!" one chuckled. Jenny looked just as confused as I was. "What's that supposed to mean." The 5 in the center started to laugh. I stepped back as they moved in towards each other and started to change as the two on the end changed too. In a few moments we stood before a large dragon type thing with 5 heads, a woman with snake for hair, and a woman/bat thing getting ready to attack us. I knew the names of these things. I remember because I just had a history class on Greek myths today. "The thing in the middle with 5 heads is a Hydra." I said "What!" she said. "Just listen, the thing with snake hair is Gorgon, and the bat is a...Flury? No wait Fury." "You know this how?" she asked. "Weren't you paying attention in history?"I said "Nope." "Stop chatting so we can end your life already!" The fury screeched at me and dived. I flinched in defense but when I looked up there was just a pile of dust and instead of her being there was a kid with Raven black hair, orange t-shirt, and blue jeans. He had a bronze sword in his hand. He stabbed the gorgon and hydra and looked at us. "Hi, I'm Percy Jackson, would you happen to be Brice Gallan?" he asked me. "Yeah" I said. "Then could you take me to your house, I need to talk to you." "Are we in trouble?" I asked. "No" he said "but we need to hide fast or more of those… ah." He looked at Jenny. "Things- "THINGS!" Jenny cut him off. "THOSE THINGS WERE MONSTERS!" "Wait, you saw monsters, not something else, you're a Half-Blood." Percy said. "What!" She yelled "I'll explain later just please take me to your house so I can explain but we need to hurry. Aright?" "Well…" I said "lets go."