Hello. My name is Jake Patterson. I am one of the 1, 200 mortals chosen to be heroes.
The Olympians decided they needed more heroes for a completely new war: The War of the Immortals.
What they did is choose 1, 200 mortals between ten and twenty years old as heroes. Those people could choose up to five powers.
I chose telekinesis (ability to move things with the mind), hydrokinesis (ability to control water), pyrokinesis (ability to control fire), electrokinesis (ability to control lightning, thunder, or electricity), and charm-speaking.
It started when I was thirteen.
I woke up and got out of bed. I went to the bathroom to take a shower.
After I got dressed, I went back to my room to get my things for school. I got my homework and pencil bag.
I started to wait for the bus. When it got there, I went out and got on the bus. After about thirty minutes or so, we got to the school.
Oh great. Another wonderful day at school, I thought.
It was third hour when the classroom wall suddenly exploded about fifteen feet away from me. Dust and rubble went everywhere. A ray of sunlight popped in.
So did the monster. It looked just like one of those enfields in the myths. It had the head and the front talons of an eagle. It had the middle body of a lion. It had the hind legs, tail, and rear of a wolf. And it seemed like it was after me.
It opened its beak and made a sound that was a mix between a squawk and a roar.
My instincts, which I didn't know I had, took over and I grabbed its nose and somersaulted over on its back. I kicked its sides and it obeyed for some reason. It ran out of the giant hole in the middle of the wall and immediately extended its wings.
We were soaring in the sky, right above the small town of Captiva, FL. I had no idea where we were going, but I was too caught up in the moment.