I stepped out of the car and grabbed my purple backpack. I strode over to my friend, Josh. He's my only friend, mostly because of my anti-socialness which isn't a bad thing, except that people always harass us because I'm a girl. I really don't see why, because he's as attractive as a rat is to a middle-aged suburban housewife. We headed over to first period, Mrs. Kingsley's class and sat down.

The rest of the day went by fast, the only bad part was that I had to go to third period computer class, and the teacher, Ms. M talks so slowly you want to scream at her. But after that, the day went by pretty quickly. After school, Josh and I headed home.

"Did you see the substitute's nose? It was bigger than the grapefruit I had for lunch!" Josh said

"I know, right? I had to keep my head down so I wouldn't get a detention for lau- Josh, why are you so pale?"

Josh pointed to the direction behind me. I immediately understood why he was so frightened. Three of the cheerleader started coming in our direction with sinister smiles. Normally, they would just ignore and walk arrogantly past us, but it was obvious that something bad was going to occur if we did not get our butts the hell out of there.

We ran faster and faster, which is extremely difficult to do with the awkwardness of the backpack. I looked behind, and I saw that the cheerleaders had turned into some bat/ goblin hybrid and began to fly toward us. We escaped as far as the community park, and usually there would be children playing on the swings or see-saw, but not today. We were alone. Josh and I hid in the slide so that they wouldn't find us.

"Silly mortal, did it not occur to you that we kindly ones have the best sense of smell in the Bay area?"

Maybe now wasn't a good time, but I was realizing why I hated the cheerleaders so much. Claws and wings? Ya, not very likable.

"Cal, did you just hear what they called us?" Josh asked.

"Mortals, why would they say that?" I said.

"Maybe because they're not?" he replied .

Suddenly, a huge screech came out of one of the "kindly ones" I guess you would call. We could feel them getting closer and closer, until they were right on top of the slide.

"We can sense that you are here," one of them said.

Suddenly, we heard a noise that sounded like a bag of dust being ripped open. We came out of the slide to see what it was, and saw a boy a little younger than us in emo clothes and a black sword.

"I'm Nico," the boy said.

"Hi er, Nico, thanks for saving us," I said

"All three kindly ones at the same time? I have to report this to camp." He muttered.

"Camp? What's that?" asked Josh.

Nico began to walk away, Josh and I looked at each other as if to say, "Is he just going to leave?" we began to go back when Nico said,

"Aren't you guys coming?"

We both decided that if there were more monsters, we would probably live longer if we went along.

Suddenly, he whistled in a shrill, high, tone, and a HUGE, I mean BMW sized dog came out of the shadows and started to head for us.