Although it's true that not every day was a happy day, there is always a handful of days that everything always seems to be perfect. The day when the teacher of your least favorite subject is replaced by a fun and cheerful substitute, who always seems to find a way to sneak a short, educational yet entertaining video. The day when you sit down to lunch and find that everything was your favorite, plus all of your friends sit together because coincidentally everybody brought a lunch from home and nobody had to wait in the line the entire time. The day when you decided to get creative and post some inspirational art and quotes, greeted by tons of likes and encouraging reviews. Yessir, everybody had those days.
Or so it seemed.
For Chidori and Vivianne Harper, it felt like everyone had good days except for them. The sisters' lives are taking turns for the worse every single day. It was always the same; the sun never seemed to radiate the right temperature, always below or over. A pop quiz seemed to always happen in the weeks that they were too busy to study. Nobody ever invited them to any party, and they didn't have any other friends except each other. Well, and also a guy with a wispy beard named Grover, he didn't exactly count as a friend though, as he only popped up now and then to say hello. The sisters had busy parents who were pretty much always on business trips, leaving the two pretty much alone most of the time. With that note, let's take a peek into their lives, shall we?
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"You ready Chi?" Vivianne called to her older sister as she slipped on her shoes. Vivianne was rather short for her age; she had freckles, forest green eyes and dark, long, wavy hair that curled ever-so-slightly at the tips. On that day, she wore a gray t-shirt with a knee-length white skirt and a pair of gray sneakers,
"Coming!" called Chidori, aka Chi, scuttled down the stairs with her backpack. Chi shared similar features to Vivianne, the same wavy dark hair and forest green eyes, only Chi was taller and had no freckles. She wore a light green t-shirt with tan shorts and light green Heelys. "Let's roll,"
"Was that pun?" Vivianne asked, rolling her eyes as she opened the door,
"Maybe," replied Chi, popping a tic-tac and gliding out the door. Vivianne exited after Chi and locked the door. You see, the girls weren't allowed to drive. You would think they could since they were old enough and all, but nope. They walk to school every day, the main reason why Chi preferred Heelys. On that particular day, they were able to get around halfway to school before they were interrupted by a certain guy with a wispy beard. He looked rather disheveled and was panting hard,
"Chidori! Vivianne! I need you to come with me right now!"
"Um, why?" asked Chi,
"No time to explain," he huffed,
"What about school?" questioned Vivianne,
"Just come with me! Your lives are in danger!"
"What?"
"Please! We need to go right now or-"
He was cut off by a loud and deafening roar echoing across the streets. A giant serpent-like creature was advancing towards them, venom dripping from its mouth and landing on the ground with a horrible sizzle,
"Drakon!" he yelled in terror, "Don't make eye contact with it! Just run!"
And that was when the Harper sisters finally believed him, and they took off. He ran a bit more slowly than the sisters but eventually, when the drakon started gaining on them, he kicked his shoes and pants off. That was already weird on its own, but it became even more bizarre when under the pants and shoes he had furry goat legs and hooves. Again, normally this would have been beyond weird to the sisters, but now, being chased by a drakon, they didn't question it very much. He ran much faster now, as the sisters followed him to Half-Blood Hill, the Drakon grew dangerously close, the venom turning the grass yellow the moment it touched them. It let out another roar as it charged them.
"Don't you have some way to kill it?" Chi demanded as they raced up the hill, which was hard since running in Heelys was already difficult on its own, let alone uphill and on grass,
"I don't have a weapon, and even if I did we wouldn't be able to kill it!" Grover yelled back,
"How reassuring," grumbled Vivianne. The drakon hissed, made a gurgling noise, and spit at them. The saliva flying through the air, narrowly missing Chi, hitting a tree and burning a hole straight through the trunk,
"Oh come on! Its spit is venomous and acidic?!" complained Vivianne as she dodged another glob of flying saliva,
"We're almost there!" he yelled. They had reached the top of the hill and could see lights of a camp-like place in the valley downhill, "Hang on!"
In a final burst of energy, they sprinted down, straight into the camp. Chi and Vivianne could barely remember the loud yelling and screaming of multiple other kids before they both blacked out.