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Just a regular day at school. Riiight.

Would you call a day when you discover you're the son of a Greek god "regular"?

Attacked by Ancient Greek monsters "regular"?

Fat chance.

I walked in to school, and met Rider. Yup. Good ole Rider. Strange, kinda weird but hey, this is his, like, millionth school or something. Meh.

'What's up Tategami?' Rider said.

My name. Everyone thinks I'm Japanese. Just 'cause I've got a Japanese name does not mean I'm Japanese. Geez, don't know how many times I've said that.

Anyway, Rider said: 'What's up Tategami?'

'Not much, bro. Keep having weird dreams about Ancient Greek monsters. Musta been that History class yesterday, am I right?'

'I guess so...' Rider said, averting his eyes.

And just then a huge a woman with snakes for legs appeared.

I said something real smart like:'Uhhh... What's with her legs?'

Woah, let's backtrack.

I was thirteen. Regular guy. ADHD. Dyslexia. Oops.

I had a disrupted life. I'd gone to every school in the state of Brooklyn. Yup.

Things about me:

I have ADHD/Dyslexia.

I have black hair that goes far down my neck and into my eyes, with bits that flop into the sides of my face that keep me warm in the Winter.

I don't have a Brooklyn accent, though I live there.

And my dad left when I was a baby.

Yeah so there we were, a lady with snake legs, in full Ancient Greek armour, a net, a trident, and I said 'Uhhh... What's up with her legs?'.

Yup, that's me. Always efficient when there's a crisis at hand.

Then Rider took out those reed pipes he always had with him. I shuddered. He didn't play them so well. Plus when he plays them the plants go crazy. Like that time last year when He nearly strangled a school bully on a school tour with some poison ivy.

But he played them, and they, like, made vines whip out of the ground, wrap around the snake-lady and squeeze until she poofed in to dust. And then I noticed something that had been in the vines. Some bronze.

Afterwards, I wondered why no-one panicked. A Greek monster in the schoolyard, and not a single person noticed. Weird.

I picked up the piece of bronze as one of the bullys, Robby, came over.

'What's up, Japan-boy?' he sneered, then came over and tried to punch me. His policy was beat up first, ask questions later. I hit the floor before he hit me, balanced on a hand and a foot, and kicked him under the chin. He went flying backwards, and hit the ground with a crunch. Dayum. I would so get a conduct mark for that. But what puzzled me was that I'd hit him before he hit me.

His pals aproached me, so I threw the chunk of bronze at them. It sailed right threw one of the guys chests. Weird. They were standing around wondering why it didn't hurt, when Rider grabbed me and brought me to a water fountain.

'Cover me,' he said. So I blocked him from view while he played a tune on his pipes and some plants destroyed the water fountain. Water sprayed everywhere.

'What the hell are you doing?'I asked. Somewhere to the north, near Manhattan, the sky rumbled.

He didn't respond, but threw a golden coin into the spray and said something about an Irish goddess or something.

Then he started speaking. I looked over his shoulder and saw in the mist a half man half horse. I think the history teacher called them 'centaurs'.

'Ah, this is our young half-blood?' he said.

'Yes sir,' said Rider. 'Should we head to camp?'

'Immediately,' the horse dude said. I have many things to discuss with Tategami Inuzuka.'

All I said was 'How the hell do you know my name?'

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