Heroines of Camp Half-Blood

Jessy

'Ugh, where are my friends when I need them?'.

That kept running through Jessy's mind as she was being chased down the hallway once again. These bullies just never stop! She turned the corner and ran straight into Leyna. Leyna was the main bully, and she was always after Jessy and her friends. Jessy scowled up into Leyna's cold black eyes. Wait…black? Was that a normal eye color? Leyna grabbed Jessy by the collar and pushed her against the wall.

"Hey!" someone shouted from behind them. Leyna turned around to see Zaspel, Evey, and Hannah standing there glaring at her, arms crossed.

"Leave her alone Leyna", Hannah said calmly.

"rrrrrr.", Leyna growled. Black eyes? Growling? What was wrong with this chick today? She left and Jessy ran over to her friends.

"Thanks guys. Hey did you notice anything strange about Leyna today?"

"Yeah", Evey said "What was up with her eyes being all black?"

"I have no clue", said Zaspel. "Well at least it's the last day of school; we won't have to deal with her and her gang for three whole months."

"Woo-hoo!" exclaimed Evelynn.

"Save it for our end of year party at the park tonight Ev" Jessy laughed.

"Woooo!" cried Zaspel as the merry-go-round made another full rotation.

"Ahhhh! Jessy stop!" exclaimed Evey. Jessy always loved to push her friends on the merry-go-round as fast as she possibly could, without making them puke of course.

"Hey has anybody seen Kenz?", asked Jessy.

"She's hanging out with Max" Evey replied with a smirk. All six girls had decided to spend the last football game of the year at the park instead. They'd been there for almost two hours and up until that point it had been a relatively warm summer night.

All of a sudden the breeze went dead. The swings stopped moving, and the street lights flickered.

"W-what's going on?" asked Erika.

"I don't know", said Julia.

Then she came. Leyna and her gang walked towards them from behind a tree.

'How did they all fit behind ONE tree' Jessy wondered. Leyna stopped about a yard away from them.

Jessy instinctively stood in front of her friends as if to protect them. "What do you want Leyna?" she spat at the 'she beast'. Jessy wasn't normally so confident, except for when it came to her friends.

"We're her for you stupid little demigods" Leyna hissed back. Something was oddly raspy about her voice today, and it was creeping Jessy out. But she stayed between Leyna and the friends confidently. That confidence drained the second Leyna and her gang started turning into an actual 'she beast'. Their heads wriggled like snakes and their bodies started to morph together as their hands turned to large scaly claws. The girls stood there with their eyes wide and jaws trembling.

"W-what the..." said Zaspel.

"D-d-did they just t-turn in to…" asked Hannah.

"Th-theres no way…" Erika cried.

"B-but they're no-ot real..." Evey stammered.

"I-I thought they w-were just in those books…" said Julia.

The creature bared its fangs…on all three heads.

"H-hy-hydra!" Jessy screamed. The girls scattered and ran as fast as they could through the park. Jessy had heard of all sorts dangerous weirdos that hung out in parks at night and stuff, but a hydra?! That was pushing it a bit much. She heard screams behind her and turned to see Evey and Julia up in a tree just out of the monster's reach. Jessy quickly ran back and started throwing rocks at all three heads. The beast whirled around to face her and hissed.

'Great…now what?' she thought. 'Me and my over protectiveness!' She ran to the school with the hydra behind her snapping its fangs and shooting small bursts of flames at her. She tried to ignore the smell of her shirt burning as she searched for an open door. When she finally found one she burst through them and sped down the hallway as the doors broke open and flew to the sides, taking some wall with them. Leyna had chased her down the hallway so many times Jessy had lost track, but this was new.

Jessy quickly ducked into the bathroom and to the last stall and locked it, although that wouldn't do her much good. She got up on the toilet seat and crouched down hoping she could go unseen. She heard the doors fly open and the scraping of claws slowly making their way through the restroom. Then it went silent. Jessy held her breath and hoped the monster would leave… Bam! The first stall exploded into flames. Then the second and the third. The heat was overly intense and the room was glowing orange. The fourth stall erupted in flames and Jessy screamed.

Leyna let out a hissing laugh and Jessy didn't have to be as smart as Julia to know what came next. She covered her head and waited to be fried. Hey, dying to save your friends isn't a bad way to go, right? But the blast never came. She heard a deafening wail and a loud poof. Jessy got off the toilet and slowly opened the stall door, her hands shaking. She shook her head in disbelief at what she saw. Standing there amongst the flames, holding a bow and covered in gold monster dust, was John.

"L-loppnow?!" she stammered. He looked over to her and smiled.

"You alright?"

"Y-yeah but…dude where are your pants?", she asked as she stared down shocked at his goat legs.

"Figures that's the first thing you'd notice", he smirked. Jessy let out and exasperated gasp and punched him in the arm, hard. "Ow! Hey c'mon I just saved you and you're gonna beat me up?"

"Right sorry, let's get out of here before the flames cook you into a lamb chop", she nervously joked running past him and back to the exit.

"Hey!" he yelled back running behind her, "wait for me!"

When they got outside the school, John lead her to a large white van. She crawled through the doors to see all her friends there and unharmed except for their burned clothing. She turned her head to see Hannah up front with another satyr. He looked just like…no way.

"Jake?" He turned around and nodded before turning his attention and nervously smiling at a blushing Hannah.

'Oh god' she thought to herself. John closed the door and sat down by Erika. Most likely he was her protector. Which meant Jake was Hannah's. They drove off for what felt like hours with the girls asking a million questions at once. What just happened, were they dreaming, why John had goat legs, and lastly:

"Where are we going?" asked Jessy.

John looked at her and said "Camp Half-Blood".

The girls sat there in disbelief, no doubt fangirling a little on the inside. Normally they wouldn't believe it and just say that, sadly, Camp Half-Blood just didn't exist. But after the night they'd just had, they'd believe almost anything. Finally, the van came to a stop on top of a hill.

"We're here" Jake said as John and the girls exited the van.

"Ladies," John said, "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood".