I looked to my left and my right and I saw my friends, my twin brother, and some weird looking animals. I looked under my and realized that I was on my horse but it wasn't my horse, it had wings. I glanced up and saw strange things flying in the air. When I looked ahead, I saw more weird and strange things charging at us. I glanced back at my brother and he was mouthing something. "What?" I said.
"Wake up!" he said and shook me. I bolted straight up, it was all a dream. I looked at him and saw he was worried. "You were mumbling in your sleep," he said. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine!" I scorned him, I want it when he gets soft with me. He was the oldest by five minutes. I looked over at the clock, it was almost time to go to school. "I overslept!" I screamed and pushed him out of my room so I could get dressed.
"Where's Erica?" our mother asked to herself. She saw my brother coming down the stairs. "Good morning William. Where's your sister?" she asked.
"She is getting ready. Overslept," he answered.
I ran down the hall, today was the last day of school, and we had a huge test today but was really easy, the greek mythology test. We had to know all the gods and goddesses that we studied. My favorite is the god of war, Ares, is awesome! I love fighting. My friend's favorite gods are cool also but mine is better. Haha!
When we got on the bus, everyone was laughing and giggling about random things, your regular bus gossip. I heard from the first passenger in the front that my worst enemy, Katie, was going to jump me at school but I just pushed it away. I went to go sit down next to my friends. "Hey guys!" I said and sat down next to Nikki, one of my BFF's.
"What you going to do today?" Nikki asked.
"First, I'm going to be the all time baseball champion again this year. Then, I'm going to kick your butts at the video games at the arcade today. And the top it all off, earn my awesome gold belt in kick boxing," I said with a grin. "What about you guys?"
"Mom is bringing some legos. She thinks I'm a kid," Wylie said. He's one of the special kids in school. "Oh! Don't forget we have tutoring today," he reminded us.
Some of the kids that sat in the far back of the bus and somewhere in the middle, got up and loomed over me and my friends(They were the bullies of the bus). There was ten of us and from my count, fifteen of them. "Oh look! It's the stupid dyslexia kids that have to have tutoring because their mental disease!" one of the kids laughed.
Me and my brother stood up and so did Wylie and Amos, we were the big siblings to Willow, Oliver, Nikki, Alden, Nick, and Harmony. "You have a problem with that you big moron?" I asked and got in one of their faces.
"At Least we don't need mentoring," one of the bullies said.
"Everyone needs mentors!" Amos said and pick-pocketed one of the bullies, he was the thief of our group and was good at it. Stealing was in his blood, somehow. We all nodded in agreement. The bus stopped and without letting the bus driver notice, Wylie, Amos, my brother and I sat down and the bus driver got onto the bullies and gave them detention. We all snickered and began quizzing each other over the test.
"Ok, my favorite goddess. Who is the goddess of wisdom?" Alden said.
"Um, would it be Athena?" Nick answered his question and Alden nodded. "Ok, goddess of victory," he asked.
"Duh! Nike!" Nikki said. "That's easy to remember, just think of us!" she said and put an arm around her brother, they to were twins. Same hair, same eyes, their father looked nothing like them.
"That you would be easy!" I smiled.
Nikki smiled also and asked who was the god of music and medicine.
"Oh! Apollo! He's my favorite!" Harmony said. "Ok, so what about the goddess of peace? Oliver?" she asked.
"Oh that's Eirenne. She's my favorite," Oliver said.
"I think someone has a crush!" Wylie joked.
"Shut up Wylie!" he said and punched and we went through all the other gods for the test.
Before we knew it, we were at school. We got off and departed and won't see each other till the last class, gym.
In the distance, a normal looking guy watched the friends depart. He put his hands in his pockets and followed one of the friends silently.
"Oh sorry," Harmony said to the guy. She just dropped all his stuff by running into him. She bent down and started picking his stuff up.
"Oh it's ok," he said and started to pick some of his stuff up. "Everyone makes mistakes," he said.
"Yeah," she said and now got a good look at him. "You must be one of the new kids from last semester. We have P.E and mythology together," she smiled and introduced herself.
"I'm Percy," he smiled. "We have gym next. Want to walk together?" he asked. This magic he had on him was about to fade in a few minutes.
"Sure," Harmony said and together, they walked to the gym.
"Today we are playing baseball. Erica you're a captain and Katie you're a captain," the coach said and we choose players. Katie got all the mean people I hated and I got my friends and brother and this new guy named Percy, he didn't look bad but something in my heart didn't like him, neither did William.
We go out into the field, Katie's team on the outfield and my team up to bat. I held the bat really hard for I was up first. "Bring it Katie!" I yelled at her and she threw it. I hit it and it went flying into the right field. I run so hard that I almost fell. Ironic right? I stopped on third base and saw something strange in the distance but I blew it off. My brother was up to bat next. He eyed Katie with intense heat, he was mad about something. Just then the strange thing landed in the outfield. That person on Katie's team screamed and ran. I saw it was machicanical. It looked like a big tiger. It ran at me and stared it down looking for a weakness but then it opened it's mouth and I ducked when fire went over my head. I rolled and went for it my team but only my friends, brother, and that Percy guy stayed. My friends were better together, we knew how to take care of our own. I looked at Percy and saw him with a pen. "A pen? Really?" I asked.
"Stay back," he told us and uncapped the pen. It turned into a sword! What the heck? What is this mess?
I watched him as he charged the tiger. I spun around and got into my 'weapon', a lead line. I live on a farm and I scare the wolves away kind of like a shepherd and his sheep. I followed my friends as they charged the tiger. I looked at the tiger, Percy, my friends, then at my brother, he got his lead line to. Mother always told us to keep it, it was also our first and last gift from our father. I tied one end of the lead line to my wrist and let the metal part hanging. I throw my lead line when I got close and I hit the tiger in the head. I looked at me and thats when Percy sliced his head off before he could shoot fire at me.
I looked at Percy, "Who are you?" Then I saw it, he was not a thirteen year old, he looked about his thirties and I panicked. I saw my friends were amazed to.
"Percy Jackson, I need to get all of you to safety.
"I'm not going anywhere Nikki said and held her brother's arm.
Oliver looked at the tiger and whispered to Amos, "Let's go with him."
Amos nodded and whispered to Harmony and Alden the same. Willow and Wylie told my brother and I and we nodded. We were more of the big sibs of the group. We said yes to Percy and soon, we found ourselves in New York in a blink of an eye. Alden looked around in amazement and told us a lot of things about New York.
Percy told us about how the greek gods are real.
"Sure!" I said. "If Zeus was alive let me have a free bowl of spaghetti," I mocked and waited for a moment and nothing happened.
Percy sighed and yet again, somehow we were in a taxi with crazy women in the front of the taxi. Percy told us not to worry but all of us were screaming our heads off.
"Going too fast!" Harmony screamed.
We stopped with a popping sound. All my friends got out and Willow dropped to the floor and just laid down. I chuckled and turned around. My friends turned around to when the saw my with my eyes widen. There was a big sign and it said Camp Half-Blood on it. We looked at Percy who was already half way down the strange road. I looked at my friends and we followed him.
We found ourselves in a camp with cabins and everything you could possibly find. The dinner bell rang just in time. "Follow me," Percy said and went into a dining hall. We followed him but soon found out that rumors gone around about new campers. I love getting attention sometimes but rumors won't cut it. I stopped dead on my tracks when I realized what was happening, I felt it in my gut that something would change my life forever and everyone who knows me best knows I don't like changes. I looked at my brother and stepped back so I could be in the middle of our group. Percy took us to the headmaster where he sent Percy away.
"Hello, you can call me Mr. D. I am the-" he said but Amos and I interrupted him.
"What are we doing here?" both of us said.
"Did you even tell our parents?" Wylie said.
"Kidnapping!" Nick said.
"Yeah!" Nikki chimed in.
Mr. D sighed then gasped. We turned around when we heard everyone else gasp. I looked at my brother and I saw it, flames on our heads. I looked at my friends, to my left in Amos's flames I saw a snake pattern, Hermes, god of thieves, sports, and the messenger to the gods. I looked at Nikki and Nick, I saw a crown, Nike, goddess of victory.. Alden had a symbol of an owl and I knew it was Athena, goddess of wisdom. For Oliver, it was a symbol of an olive branch, Eirenne, goddess of peace. Willow's symbol on her head was that of wheat, Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Harmony had a symbol of a dolphin, Apollo, goddess of music and medicine. Wylie's symbol was of a forge, Hephaestus, god of blacksmithing in my terms, I remember things that way. I looked at my brother, William's symbol was a vulture, Ares, god of war. I wanted to look up so bad but I was scared. I saw in my brother's eyes I had the same vulture. Then the flames went out.
We turned back to Mr. D as he spoke. "Well, thats easy. What are your names?"
We all said our names in turn. This was going to fast, I grabbed my brother's and Nick's arm who grabbed who ever was next to them and we walked away.
"Where are you going?" Mr. D said in a huge voice.
I stopped dead on my tracks and turned to face him again. "Going home!"
"No you can't. Danger is still out there waiting for you," Percy said standing up.
"Our parents told us to stand up for what is right!" all of us said.
"This is not right!" Wylie said.
"You basically kidnapped us," Nick said.
"How so?" Mr. D said.
"Think about it Dionysus!" I said then I gasped, how did I know that?
"One, you kidnapped us," Oliver said.
"Two,you sent a weird guy to come 'save' us," Alden said.
"Three,you brought us to this strange place," Amos said.
"Did you even call you parents?" Willow asked.
Mr. D was about to say no and other things about our attitude but Harmony interrupted him, "Didn't think so!"
"Oh!" my brother said out loud and I hit him in the gut.
"We win!" Nikki said.
"End of discussion!" all of us yelled and ran out before anything could happen or say.
We found ourselves at the entrance of Camp Half-Blood. I stopped and looked at my friends.
"What did we just do?" Wylie said.
"That doesn't matter," Willow said.
"What matters is how are we getting home," Oliver said.
We all sighed and sat on the forest floor. I saw Amos dig into his pocket and I saw greek money. "Amos! Where did you get that?"
"Um, Percy," he said.
"Did he give it to you?" Alden said and Amos shook his head no.
"Amos!" all of us yelled at him.
"But!" Amos said and explained to us about how he saw Percy use this for the taxi ladies.
"Oh! Ok let's use it!" Alden said.
Amos used it somehow when I was looking at the entrance. The taxi came and we got in it. We asked the ladies if we could go to Kentucky, our home. They said sure and we got there under a minute. We got out of the car and said our thanks and they drove away. All of us started to go up the steps to my house but our parents came out. Wylie's, Harmony's, Amos, my brother and I mothers came out crying. The other's had their dads come out and hug them.
"Where have you been?" my mother cried to all of us.
We all had different answers but it was thrown away.
"Mom, who is my father?" Amos asked.
"Amos, I told you to never ask me that," she said.
"But do you know?" Wylie said.
Their parents nodded. I heard my friends and brother huff and go off. I was by myself facing my mother. "I always hated liers," I said and followed my friends to the barn. All of us got in there and locked the doors. I went to a corner cursed under my breath. My friends came to me and we all talked about what to do. When we settled to go back, we went up into the hay loft and tired to go to sleep.
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