Miranda Carty

RING~~~~ RING~~~~~~

"Yes! School's finally finished and it's summer holidays!" said Eva squealing and hugging her friends. It was finally summer holidays at Ovenus High and all the students were excited.

Well, except one person though... Miranda wasn't pleased about the holidays since she was living by herself, starting from when she was 12 years old because her father disappeared before Miranda was even born, then her mother leaving her to find another guy to live with.

Now Miranda was 15 and a half and was going to Ovenus High enjoying her life spending with her friends. But when it all came to holidays, she had no friends to talk to since they went somewhere else and she was stuck at home all by herself doing nothing. But this holiday, it was going to be different.

VERY different...

Miranda was walking with her friends after school still grumpy about the holidays. Her friends tried to cheer her up by saying that they will send her messages and call her.

Miranda doubted that because the last time when they said that, she got nothing. Eva, Makai tried to make her happy by buying her favourite ice-cream. When it was time to say goodbye, Miranda hugged her friends saying goodbye then headed towards the bus station.

But while she was waiting for her bus, she saw a boy on the other side of the bus station about little older than her age staring at her direction.

The boy looked cute but when he met her gaze, he looked startled. She looked around to see if he was looking at another person but no one was paying attention. When she looked back, the boy was gone. Just gone like that.

How weird, thought Miranda.

Miranda arrived at home and went to her bedroom. She fell on to her bed. She fell asleep after few minutes. In her dream, she saw the same boy as from earlier.

He had green eyes and dark hair. But there was someone else next to him. He was about her age and he was even cuter.

Seriously, what was it with cute boys these days? Anyway, he looked so pale that he looked like he was going to feint soon and had a dark hair same as the other boy. They were discussing something inside a room. There was blue ice-cream and blue birthday cake. She wandered whose birthday it was.

Then the pale boy spoke up. He was saying something that she only understood some of the words. It was something like;

"A month only left, Percy, Kronos rising and Luke too, gotta, River Styx." Miranda guessed that Percy was the one with the green eyes. Then Percy spoke up.

"How can I do that, Nico? That is too dangerous." so the pale boy was Nico. Anyway she was listening to their conversation until she felt her heart turn to ice.

Percy said "I saw this girl at a bus stop staring at me. Like right at me, but she couldn't have seen me unless she was a half-blood because I had the mist over me to be invisible for mortals." Is that what he had said? Mortals, half-blood and mist.

What on Earth were they talking about?

She got little scared when Percy said that she was a half-blood. Was she half-American half-something else? Wait... she had some lessons at Ovenus High and she had learnt something about Half-blood as in Ancient Greece.

It meant demigod in the real term and it meant half-human/mortal and half-god. Was Percy crazy? She wasn't certainly a half-blood, was she? Then the dream changed. She was in a room full of monsters- and yes, she wasn't joking; there were monster. They were real. A monster near her sniff the air and looked straight at her. She tensed. Was she visible? Then the monster snarled and charged at her-