AN: Hey, this is my first ever story, it is set after HOO and is not long before TOA (I'm not sure if I will include TOA yet), don't own anything except for OCs. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter 1: When on the run, life's not fun.
Even before the monsters attacked, I'd had a bad day. We had run out of food and money, our shelter had fallen down and then we had gotten lost in the woods. Of course the monsters attacked us then, they couldn't give us time to sort out our lives and get them back on track before making them worse. These monsters were new to us, they looked like big, black dogs dogs charging at us.
We tensed, drew our weapons and got ready for battle. We includes me and my two friends. First thing you need to know is that we've all ran away from home, my friends have a parent who didn't want them and my mum died three years ago, and I've run away from my relatives and several foster homes. Another similarity is that we all had our other parent fail to show up for our entire lives, so far. I mean we're all 13-14 and we have no idea who they might be. When things get real bad we used to joke about who they could be (none of them ideal), but that stopped a while ago.
My name is Archie, my friends are Dom and Karen. Dom has light brown hair, the greyest eyes I've ever seen and is a way better strategist then Karen or I. Karen is tall, has blonde and almost electric blue eyes. Now I haven't looked in a mirror since almost two and a half years ago, when I ran away from my last foster home, but they say I'm shorter than average, very scruffy looking, my dark brown hair, an absolute mess with twigs and dirt all through it. I have a slightly tanned complexion (I'm latino) and my eyes have this strange golden colour. The weird thing is they kinda look to me as their leader even though Dom is more suited for the role.
Anyway, weapons wise, Dom has a golden coin that when flipped, turns into either a sword or javelin. Karen has a shield/watch that she stole from a defeated monster, and a short bronze sword, and I have a black, iron golf club which doesn't work as well as their weapons but somehow still disintegrates them if I hit hard enough.
So 5 black dogs appeared out of the trees and attacked us, I wondered what they were doing so close to New York as they tended to stay away from big cities. It's like there is something about cities that scares them away. We raised our weapons and took a battle stance when, I spotted an arrow fly through the trees and disintegrate the nearest monster, the others yelped and turned but two more followed each killing another monster. The other two started running when a guy, dressed in all black and with extremely pale skin, so he looked like he'd either died or was a living version of death, appeared in front of them and slashed them with a sword that sucked them into it.
"Come with me" he said. "Uh, thanks" I replied "Who are you?"
"Nico di Angelo" he said, then paused momentarily while studying me. "Now it's your turn."
"OK, this is Dom Smith, she's Karen McKauley and I'm Archie Vasquez." At the sound of my name he masked a look of surprise. "We're going to take you somewhere safe" he said.
"We?" Karen asked "Me and Will over there." Nico responded by pointing by to where Will was appearing through the trees.
When I saw him, I gasped, he looked exactly what I thought Apollo from the Greek and Roman myths would look like as a human, with blonde hair, blue eyes bow in hand and a quiver on his back and then I noticed that this guy, Will, was more like a laid back healer than a fighter.
"Nice shooting, but you should have left more for me." Will smiled "Thanks, I've been practising and why should I have?" I couldn't help laughing, the way they talked as if they've been bantering like this for the past month, was so casual and normal in this crazy world. Nico and Will started laughing to, while Dom and Karen, stood there awkwardly and I realised, they wouldn't understand, because they didn't understand my past.
Will looked around nervously. "We better get moving, are you coming or not." It sounded like an order, but I took it as a question. "Yeah, c'mon guys." then to Nico "Where is this safe place?" He looked at me as if he was wondering where he'd seen me before and said "It's a camp that's not far from here, just over those hills." It wasn't actually far, just a couple of minutes walk.
Along the way I was trying to talk to Nico, asking why we had to go, but he shut me off every time. Eventually he said "This will be hard to understand, but it will get easier with time" I noticed Dom and Karen listening intently as he carried on. "Everyone at this camp has a special parent and you do as well. Now how much do you know about the Greek and Roman gods." I hesitated before replying, "I've heard about the Greek ones for my life, you know in stories and stuff and I think the Roman gods were the Romans interpretation of them, so they would be more warlike and stuff." Dom and Karen nodded in agreement. "Then this will be easier to understand for you. The Greek gods exist and they move to the centre of power in the world, at the moment it's America. It's the same way they moved from Greece to Rome. Now in the stories they fell in love with mortals a lot, having demigod children with powers and stuff and they seem to not have changed much because they still do it. So everyone at this camp has a godly parent, and I suspect that you didn't know one of your parents." We shook our heads. "Well the one you didn't know was a god/ Now since they were in Rome almost as long as they were in Greece, Their Roman aspects are still around and there's a different camp for the Roman one's. If you are a Roman demigod we'll send you there as soon as we know. When we arrive, after a few hours or so, you should be 'claimed'. That means that your godly parent will send a sign claiming you as their child. Was that a good explanation, Will?" Will looked up from where he was staring. "Yeah good enough they might want to read the book though." Nico grinned. "Remember the orientation video by your dad." Will grimaced. "That was absolutely horrible."
As we started up the first hill I said. "So you're dad Nico, is he Hades, lord of the Underworld." Nico nodded. "And is your's Will, Apollo." Will's smile slackened. "Yeah he is, he's not much of a father, especially now that the power of prophecy isn't working."
Just then we crested a hill that overlooked Camp-Half Blood. A voice in my head told me "I shouldn't be here, I'm meant to be somewhere else.
AN: Thanks for reading plz review, will update ASAP (probably in about a month), check out my sister's stories (KadmeRead), for more weird greatness. She is my Beta.