The Son of Neptune

PERCY

Percy woke up dizzy and completely confused. He was lying beside a bush in a place he had never seen before in his life. He stood up, stumbled and bumped into a tree. He fell back down hard.

"Ouch!" he mumbled "Now where in the world am I?"

A nearby bush moved, and he instinctively turned around to see what it was. He then found himself lying on his back with a long sword at his neck. He looked up at his opponent. She was tall and thin teenager about 15, with strawberry blond hair in a messy ponytail. Her sky blue eyes had a mischievous look to them. Her fingers were long and twitched as if she wanted to pick pocket or strangle someone. She wore a purple T-shirt and jeans full of holes with a scabbard on the side of her hip.

"Who are you?" she demanded.

It then struck him, he didn't know who he was.

"I have no idea" Percy replied.

"Don't play with me"she shoved the sword further into his chin.

"I'm honest!" Percy yelped"I don't know who I am, where I am or what I am!"

The girl removed her sword from Percy's chin and put it back into its scabbard.

"Alright then, I will take you to Lupa, but no funny business!" she said.

"Something tells me that this is going to be a long day." Percy muttered under his breath.

The girl led him through thick forest, his dizziness was not helping at all as he walked into yet another tree.

"Ouch!" he yelped.

"Baby " the girl said "You've only been hit in the nose about 20 times and that shouldn't hurt, besides you should stop walking into trees"

Percy muttered some ...um... colourful language under his breath and stomped forward (unfortunatly he stepped into something unpleasent and smelly).

First I lose my memory, then I can't walk straight, now I'm being taken by some warrior to meet Loopy. Can it get any worse? And what's on my shoe? Eww!

Percy thought.

A couple of minutes later they came to a large wall of humongous wooden stakes. The wall was surrounded by a trench filled with wooden stakes and there was no walkway leading to the entrance.

"Century Reyna, reporting with prisoner!" the girl shouted.

Thanks for the warm welcome! I hope I enjoy my stay as a prisoner. Can I get room service in my cell? Percy thought sarcastically.

A draw bridge lowered itself and Reyna led the way across. Two guards dressed in armour fell behind them to lead the way.

Inside the fort was filled with small cabins surrounded by small tents with a campfire in front. The cabins were in the shape of a U. This struck a bell in Percy's brain, but he couldn't remember how or why.

Yup, I'm having one of the worst days of my life. It was true that this day was rotten, but Percy had a feeling that he'd had a worse one.

Reyna led him to a large marble building. It was surrounded by columns and had a large fire pit decorated with mosaics. Two guards stood in front of the entrance. Reyna walked up and said something in a language that Percy didn't understand. She then turned to Percy.

"Alright lets go see Lupa."