Percy
Percy woke up on a nearly empty charter bus, sitting alone in the front seat, right behind the driver.
He tried to remember where he was, but no thoughts came. It was like his brain had been wiped clear, he tried to remember something, anything, where he was, who he was. Nothing.
He guessed he probably had a pretty strange look on face, but then he became aware of something else. Sitting a few seats behind him were two teenage girls around his age…fifteen maybe sixteen? Okay, that was scary, he didn't know his own age.
He dared to turn around to get a better look at the girls. One looked like a California girl, short hair so blonde it was almost white; she also had a tan, blinding white teeth and sky blue eyes, with a few freckles dotting her nose. The other girl looked completely different. She had deeply tanned skin like the other girl, but instead of blonde hair she had long wavy dark hair, not as black as Percy's, but pretty close, that went most of way down her back. Her eyes were the most startling thing about her. They were green and blue mixed perfectly together. Looking at her eyes Percy was reminded of the sea, a nice warm feeling that seemed to spread through him.
Unfortunately both girls eyes were narrowed him with ferocity. The blonde one whispered something to the other girl, and Percy wasn't sure whether or not he was hallucinating but he was pretty sure he saw the dark haired girl pull a dagger out of her jacket pocket. Okay, that had to be seriously violating charter bus regulations.
Both girls seemed to notice him looking back around the same time. They locked eyes for a second. That second seemed to be forever for Percy, who was racing ideas through his brain trying to figure out what to do if they attacked. How could he defend himself? He instinctively reached into his pocket and pulled out a pen. Great, he though, I can defend myself with a ballpoint pen.
Then he realized something. The girls were afraid of him. He clearly recognized the look of fear on their faces.
He figured it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, but he decided to go talk to them, they were the only ones on the bus who seemed to take any notice of his strange appearance.
The bus stopped at a red light, now or never, he said to himself. He took a deep breath and walked back to where they were sitting, and stepped into the sear across the isle from them. Yep, definitely a dagger he said to himself as he sat down. A dagger ready to kill me.
"Who are you?" the dark haired girl asked harshly.
"I don't know." Percy replied honestly. "My name is Percy. I just like woke up on the bus, I don't remember anything, who I am, or how I got here. I came over here because you two are the only ones who noticed how I just appeared here."
Both girls stared at him intently.
"Do you think he's half-blood?" the blond one asked.
"Maybe", the other one replied."He's not a monster, I can tell that much."
Half-blood.
That word sounded so familiar, Percy tried to search his brain, to find that little piece of information. But he couldn't. There was nothing there.
"Do you really not remember anything?" the dark haired one asked.
"No, nothing at all. I don't even remember my last name." He said.
"Should we take him with us?" she asked her friend, the blonde one.
"Yes. Defiantly. Something strange is going on, with Jason missing, and that strange vision I had...we can't take a chance, he could be important."
"He should have been claimed by now." Said the other one. "He's way older than 13."
Percy had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, and he was about in interrupt their conversation to ask, but the bus driver slammed on the emergency brake, and the bus skidded off the road and stopped in the grass.
"Oh no." One of the girls said, Percy was so dazed by the sudden stop he couldn't tell who had said it.
The bus driver had stood up and was walking back to where they were sitting. Both girls suddenly had weapons drawn. The blonde one had a golden archers bow with an arrow already notched, while the other girl had a wicked three foot long sword drawn. He had no idea where they had the weapons stored before.
Percy didn't know why, but he found himself reaching for the pen in his pocket.
The bus driver was taking off his cowboy hat and under it...
Percy didn't know whether he felt like laughing or fainting. The guy had a pair of ram's horns under hidden under his hat. If they weren't in danger, he probably wouldn't laughed.
All thoughts of laughing disappeared from his head when the ram guy pulled out a spear from behind him and prepared to charge.
"Every single time." The dark haired girl muttered to herself. And raised her sword to strike.
Unfortunately, she never did get the chance.
"Well, well, well" said the ram guy. "Look what we have here, three half bloods"
By now the mortals on the bus had all realized something wasn't right and had run off the bus. Percy wasn't sure what they saw, but it must have been pretty scary judging by all the screaming he heard.
Percy uncapped his pen. It elongated into a deadly three foot long celestial bronze sword. The girls looked fazed by his swords sudden appearance, but didn't dare to look over for risk of being run through by the spear.
The monster hissed and retreated a few steps at the sight of celestial bronze.
The blonde haired girl fired an arrow straight toward the ram guy, but he dodged quicker than Percy would've thought possible.
The ram guy suddenly turned and sprinted off the bus towards the rapids.
"Get him!" She yelled. And both girls ran off the bus and through the panicked tourists.
Percy figured he better follow, since these girls were the only people who seemed to have some idea who he is. Well them and the ram guy. But he guessed the girls would be a smarter choice.
Percy pushed his way through the crowd of tourists and toward the river. The girls had the ram guy cornered between some rapids and a larger boulder. Percy ran over to join them, looking back on it, he wished he would've stayed on the bus.
The ram guy pulled something off his neck, it looked like a necklace, but then he realized there was some sort of whistle on it.
He put it to his mouth and blew it. The shrill, high pitched sound seemed to go for miles. The bus windows shattered, both the girls and Percy covered their ears from the piercing sound.
Storm clouds started to gather around the river. By now all the tourists had fled. Percy thought the clouds were just really low, but then he realized the clouds were descending, forming shapes like mini funnel clouds.
"Venti." The dark haired girl said and cursed in Latin.
Two of the strange storm cloud funnels came down and hovered a few feet away from him.
One of them looked down and the ram guy. "Your job is done." he said and ram guy dissolved into mist and disappeared into the storm clouds.
The blonde girl shot arrow after arrow but they all flew straight through the Venti.
"The master will reward us greatly for the capture of these demigods." One Venti said to the other.
Demigod.
That same sensation came back to Percy. He had definitely heard that word somewhere before. Where? He had no idea, but at least it was something.
By now the storm was wild, waves were splashing 10 feet in the air, lightning was striking the ground, and tornado force winds buffeted the kids.
That's when the real battle started.
The dark haired girl screamed at charged straight at the closest Venti. Percy had to admire her braveness; those Venti didn't look too friendly.
The blonde haired girl had discarded her arrows, realizing they were no good against the Venti, and now was drawing two gold hunting knifes.
Percy figured he didn't really have anything to lose. So he did the logical thing. He charged the Venti with just a sword.
Surprisingly he managed to protect himself pretty well with a sword; he saw an opening and went for it. The second his sword made contact with the Venti it disintegrated into sparkly gold dust, covering him. Not really my style he thought to himself.
He was about to run and help the dark haired girl who was fighting the other Venti, when he saw the blonde haired girl being pushed toward the rapids by a powerful gust of wind. She tumbled over the edge and fell in the water. The powerful current starting to pull her down stream, pulling her under water along the way.
"Reyna!" the other girl screamed desperately, but there was nothing she could do, if she tried to run to the river she would be killed by the Venti.
Percy made a split second decision and jumped into the water.
"NO!" the girl screamed and tried to fight her way over to the water.
Percy wasn't really afraid of drowning; he remembered that he actually was a good swimmer and jumping into the water felt natural to him. What he was afraid if was being smashed into the rocks.
Unfortunately that fear seemed to come true very quick when a jagged rock blocked the current of water he was swimming down.
Well, he thought to himself, this is it.
He closed his eyes and prepared to collide with the rock.
Nothing.
He opened his eyes and realized he had already hit the rock, dead on. He didn't have time to think why it didn't hurt at all because he heard the muffled scream of Reyna a few feet down the rapids.
She was clinging on to a rock for dear life screaming for help. He tried to cross the water but the current was to strong.
Focus. He said in his mind. I can do this.
It seemed like a miracle, but the current began to lessen, and the water became calm. He waded over to Reyna and pulled her out onto the beach. She seemed fine, just a little shaken up. He was about to lay down too since going down the rapids had been pretty exhausting, but then he remember the dark haired girl who still must be fighting the Venti. He ran to help, but realized he didn't have his sword; it had fallen out of his hand in the river. He silently cursed.
Just then, he felt something inside his pocket. He reached in to check, and pulled out the ballpoint pen. No way, he thought as he uncapped it and the familiar bronze sword elongated in his hand.
He ran to help and was about to jump in, but it turned out he didn't need to. The dark haired girl was screaming and charging the Venti, and by the looks of things, she seemed to be winning. The strangest thing was the water. At first Percy thought it was just the storm but then he realized the girl was controlling the water, with every scream a wave crashed into the Venti, knocking it down and soaking it with water. With one final stab from her sword, the monster disintegrated into golden dust.
The girl looked up and noticed him watching.
"Where is she?" She demanded. "Where's Reyna?"
Percy led her back to where he left Reyna, she seemed even better; she was sitting up against a rock, talking into some kind of walkie talkie thing.
She looked up and noticed they had come back, well more specifically, she looked at the dark haired girl. "I called camp" She said. "They're sending a team to come get us."
"Good". The other girl said back. "Are you hurt?"
"Nah". Reyna replied. "Just a few cuts and bruises, I'll be fine.
The dark haired girl turned to Percy. He still didn't know her name. "How did you survive the rapids?" She asked him. "Who are you?"
"I keep telling you" He replied. "I really don't know. What about you? I mean, with the water, how did you do that? Who are you?
"I am Natalie", She said. "Daughter of Neptune."
So? Did you guys like it? I already have the second chapter written, so if you want me continue, tell me! Highlights of the next chapter: The son of Neptune, the Neptune cabin, something surprising about Jason at camp, Natalie's story, Roman camp half blood. So why I picked the name Natalie. PPPPercy-PPPPoseidon: JJJJJason-JJJJupiter, AAAnnabeth-AAAAthena, continuing the trend, NNNNatalie, NNNeptune. So the ram guy. in The titans curse, when Nico and Bianca find out they are demigods, Nico says something like "Like the bus driver with the rams horns! I told you that was real!" Ram guy returns! Tell me what you think!