The blue streaks off lightning crashed around her. The air bending to her will. Rain pouring, the Earth roaring, yet the fire was still burning. Seconds passed as it crashed, all of it. Thunder broke the silence. With that it was thrown away as the world came crashing down.
What a weird dream I thought. I'm Maleah, Maleah Kemp. Before this boarding school I hadn't really had a formal education. I glanced over at Thalia and saw her sleeping, my best friend. Well I didn't know her before this horrible school. When your smashed in a room with an unfamiliar person you become familiar with them like you've known them your whole life.
"Thals," I whispered," Thalia get your ass out of the bed," I screamed.
She groaned so I did the smart thing and jumped in the shower as fast as possible. The warm water felt good on my skin. For some reason I shivered. I had 3 weeks left of school. I wanted it to all be over. All of it. Why did I have a freaky feeling in my stomach like it was going to be over sooner than I thought.
"My turn," Thalia said through the closed bathroom door. Her voice was slightly muffled and she was lucky I could hear her at all through the water.
Fine I thought. I got out and dried off. I looked though my clothes. I finally decided on a pair of grey skinny jeans with a volcom white, black, and red tee. I dried my hair and brushed it. My natural blond hair dangled almost to the middle of my back. The blue streaks where staying in surprisingly well, thank god they weren't turning gray
I ended up sprinting to class 'cause I was late, but I really didn't care. My personal feelings on school where that I learned less in a concrete block, than I would if I were out in real life. Not being sheltered and sugar coating life.
"Ahh, Miss Kemp, I see you are late. Take your seat and don't disturb the class again!," Mrs. Blaylock yelled.
I did a 'yah whatever' mumble thing but she ignored it. The class was on biology. I practically fell asleep, but Thalia woke me up. I was mostly staring at Mrs. Blaylock's hair. I mean you should have seen it. She has gray hairs that go a little past her shoulders. The grays were mixed with black hairs. Then to top it off she had purple/pink streaks in her hair. BLAHCK!
By the time class was over I was done. The rest of my classes were a blur. Thalia and I got back to our room and we both fell on a chair.
" I'm gonna go somewhere I don't know were but somewere," I announced.
In a flash Thalia was out of her chair and in front of me. "um.. can I go with?," she asked shakily. Her demeanor was interesting and as she got up I noticed the tension in her shoulder bones.
I nodded. We walked out of the dorm building and Thalia had disappeared. But like 20 seconds after I thought that she had ditched me she came running around the corner telling me to come with. I slowly jogged over to her and saw the weirdest taxi ever.
It was smoky green and it spelled 'taxi' wrong.
"Hay it's weird but cheap and it'll take us to a place I know you can clear you head," she said.
"Kay but let me go pee first."
She said ok, and I headed off to the bathroom across the street. I smelled so nasty. When she wasn't looking I ran back to our dorm and got all the necessary stuff I needed. Clothes, toiletries, all that. I texted Thalia saying I would be there in a while.
I ran in the opposite direction of Thalia, and booked it to the subway. I knew she would look for me soon. But I needed to be gone and just be alone. I fast-walked onto the subway and headed over to Long Island where I could catch a train to the actual area.
Percy's POV
"Ahhhh,"s and,"eehhh",s filled the room. Little small people darting all over. I, Percy Jackson, could not handle 12 little seven year olds. I knew the one person that could get this under control. I bet your all thinking 'Annabeth'. No, I used my powers to contact Nico. Yup it was a Big Three thing.
No later was he here all the little kids stopped, dropped what they were doing and well ran over to Nico. They clung to him and said," Hi! Nico." For some weird reason they all liked Nico. Now, the feelings where not mutual. Nico didn't like anyone since the war. I had been multiple months since the end of it all and the new summer was coming. I gave him a look of 'thanks'.
I headed over to the Greek Building. It was built after Kronos. All greek studies were in there. I hated it, but Annabeth would be there. I walked in and ran over to were she was. She hadn't seen me so, I snuck around her. I clapped my hands over her eyes. These flirty playful games had been going on for about 2 weeks.
"Guess who?," I asked.
"Percy, I'm in the middle of something."
"Come on please," I begged.
"Fine," she said icily.
She told her greek class to read until they finished chapter 7 then they were done. But we both knew that they would all probably just skip out after we left. We walked out hand and hand. With our fingers locked she squeezed my hand. I squeezed back. Annabeth erupted into laughter.
" I never officially got to say hello," I stated.
"And how would that be," she asked lifting one eyebrow and half leaning in. I pulled her into a hug and we kissed. It was the kind that steal your breath away and really make you think about the sweetness of summer.
" I-gasp- really like gasp- hellos," she said.
"Me-gasp- too," I said while putting my arm around her waist. We were right next to the hill. We didn't think about anything just stood there. A peircing cry and scream filled the air. It hit me like icicles. I turned and looked at Annabeth… she had froze. But we knew what was happening. We sprinted for the hill and couldn't see anyone or anything. We looked past Thalia's tree and saw it. A small girls figure on the grass who quickly got up took a knife and tried to kill the monster. She fell and tried to roll over but...