Chapter 1 - CHRIS POV
It's extremely hard when you find out you're a half-blood, but when you're told by other demigods, and they have no idea what to do and they just run across the country trying to stay alive, it's even harder. My name is Chris, my full name is Christopher Jacobson, I am a son of Thanatos, who if you check on Wikipedia is the daemon personification of death, and so, not many people really like me. I have raven black hair, and dark brown eyes, pale skin, and an attitude that got me kicked out of every school I've been in within a month, and I am sixteen years old. But then I met my friends, William Johnson, a son of Hephaestus, rusty brown hair, and grass-green eyes, he is fourteen, Victoria Lensky, a daughter of Athena, grey eyes, golden blonde hair and a IQ of over infinite, she is also fourteen, then there is Elizabeth Cain, like me she's a child of a minor god, which is one of the reasons why we're quite close friends, she's a daughter of Boreas, she has platinum blonde hair that when it catches the light looks light blue, her eyes are the palest blue I've ever seen, and she is fifteen years old.
I was currently sitting in an alley, in New York City; Elizabeth was resting against my side, my arm draped across her shoulders. William and Victoria were in virtually the same position, sitting across from us. We were all pretty beat up, we just ran into a Cyclops and we hadn't really healed yet. William had a nasty bruise almost covering his entire right shoulder, Victoria had a few scratches on her face from when she got knocked unconscious and fell onto a patch of gravel, Elizabeth couldn't move her left shoulder, it got dislocated when the Cyclops lifted her up by said arm, Victoria pushed it back in its socket, but she couldn't really move all that well, and me well I had a big bruise on my side and tons of cuts all over my body, when the Cyclops thought it would be funny to slam me against a car then throw me through a window of a bakery (closed at the time, thank gods).
We were trying to get to a camp, apparently Victoria's mother Athena told her about it in a dream, it was somewhere along the north shore of long island, and we were making good progress to, if I would have to guess maybe one, two days tops, away from reaching this mysterious camp.
Everyone else was asleep, or I thought that at least, I assumed they would be, as I was on guard, with my metal baseball bat, my weapon of choice, William had a big handheld hammer, like the ones in workshops only a little bigger, Victoria had a knife, and Elizabeth also had a knife but it was bigger than Victoria's.
Elizabeth was stirring, so I wrapped my arm tighter around her, my shift was almost over, it would be Victoria's turn soon, to pass the time I started thinking about how we all met. I'd met William and Victoria at the same time, they'd been on the run for about four months when they met me, I had only been on the run for about two months, well that's what I told them, and as they were two out of three other half-bloods I had met, I was going to stick with them, and apparently they had similar ideas, I remember it was in an alley that I'd met them, I was on the run from a hellhound at about half-two in the morning, I was running down an abandoned street when I turned down an alley, and I literally ran into them, we all fell down and it took me a moment to actually realise what happened, I got up helped William up he was still on the floor, Victoria was giving me a funny look, as if she were detailing everything about me. But then I heard a roar, the hellhound had caught up to me, my little run in with these two kids had put all three of us in danger, before my plan was to run, but I couldn't put these two mortals, as I'd thought at the time, in harm's way. So I charged, it lunged and I took a swing, it was a fairly small hellhound, and it was a small alley, so my swing had caused it to smash its head against the wall, and it didn't look happy about it, it snapped at me, so I rolled to the side and brought my bat down on the things neck, it squealed but then swung it head sideways and hit me into a dumpster, it barred its fangs and lunged, I closed my eyes waiting for it, and when it didn't I opened my eyes to see a weird sight the girl had jumped on the creature's back and stabbed it, I stared as it slowly crumbled to dust, as monsters usually do. I stared in amazement, she stretched out a hand, I took it, a million questions were racing through my head but before I could pick one, she asked me, "who are you?", my initial response was the same as to any other mortal that had asked me that question, of course not that many mortals had asked me, but there was the odd few, "you wouldn't believe me if I told you the truth." I said, "try me, we've said that line a few times too." She replied. I told her I was a demigod, half-blood, a child of an ancient Greek god and a human. When I told her this she was shocked but it wasn't the usual face I see, "we're half-bloods too." , now it was my turn to be shocked. After we had told each other a little about ourselves, like name, age, godly parent, mine did seem to faze them a little, they waited no time in asking if I wanted to stick with them, I gladly agreed, and we all fell asleep in that very alley.
I was took out of my trance by Victoria, she was stretching, turned William carefully over to his other side as so not to wake him, then told me to get some rest, I simply nodded, hugged up to Elizabeth a little more then closed my eyes.
And I dreamed about my run in with Elizabeth, and how I got to where I am now, that was a long story, and one I am pretty sure you would like to hear.