Chapter 2
I'm A Demigod
Okay I admit it, I closed my eyes so when I didn't die after a few seconds. I looked up and saw that my friends were running towards me. Angie grabbed my arm and Heather seemed to be looking around, "Are you alright?" I looked at her nodded my voice lost. As I looked around no monster and as if to answer my thoughts Heather looked at Angie, " Its dust, we must move." Angie agreed and pulled me with her as she dropped the bow, which Id like to say disappeared. Like it never had been there. She and Heather flagged down a cab, with me still just looking at them, was this real I hoped and hoped, it was a dream Id wake up from and laugh, to the usual me eating floor in the morning cause of my dad, but no it didn't happen. I was pulled into the cab and the driver set off towards my home at Angie's request. I didn't say any thing till I was safely inside the apartment. My dad was there he looked very pale as I walked in Mr. Brunner sat in his wheel chair waiting next to my dad.
"James!" He yelled and jumped from the chair he had been sitting in and hugged me I almost started to cry, but stopped myself and hugged him back, "Hey dad, how was your day?" I said in a shaken voice trying to not cry. I almost felt the big man smile as he pulled me away, "James, we have to talk." I smiled still trying to pretend what just happened didn't, "Cant we have the birds and the bees talk with less company." I said this with as much joking tone as I could, which came out as more of a meek flat tone. My dad smiled sadly and sighed, "I don't think Ill be given you that talk for a while but, " He turned an looked at Mr. Brunner, "James," He said it with a sigh, "Your a demigod." I looked at him, demigod wasn't that a term that had been, wait no that wasn't it that was some thing else, demigod some thing to do with ancient times but I couldn't pin it down, "What is a demigod?" My dad smiled, "It means your mother was a Olympian goddess." What? I said in my head. Mr Brunner coughed and we all looked at him, "Mr. Edon, I must be on my way the two ladies over there will take your son to camp." He rolled past my dad and stopped at my side and nodded at me before rolling out of the apartment. I looked at my friends, "Camp?" They nodded, "Half-blood camp, is an interesting place." Heather said her words were abit harsh as she said it and she looked at my father, "He needs the bow his mother left for him along with some cloths and that will be all." He nodded his eyes full of worry but at the same time I saw a hint of excitement my dad was the adventurers type. Which to say the least kind of made me the same way I was scared, out of my mind, but I couldn't wait.
My dad came out handing me a bow made of a polished yew it had a set of silver arrows in a quiver. I smiled and looked up at my dad, "What is this its..so cool." I held it up to the light and saw letters on it not English but Ancient Greek and I could read it, an I did out loud, "To my son may you hunt be bountiful." I stopped and looked at my dad, "Whose is this?" My dad smiled, "Yours its from you mother, but no more questions you must go." He handed me a backpack and pushed me to the door and whisper in my ear as he did this, "You are some thing special and I will love you forever my son, now go and hunt well." He shut the door behind us as he did I thought I saw a tear in his deep blue eyes. I finally let a tear run down my face as I did Angie and Heather began to look around I hadn't notice them slip out they must have done it when I was looking at the bow. Which I slung over my shoulder with my bag and looked over at my friends, "Were do we go." was all I could say due to another tear running down my face. I didn't sob I just couldn't hold back the tears, there were so many things I wanted to ask but I had realized some thing, that thing that had tried to kill me, wasn't the boss. Mr. Huff had been and guess what he was still alive and probably after me so I had to get far away from my dad to protect him.
As we got out of the lobby I noticed that the girls had flagged down another cab an had started to get in. I followed suit and sat next to Heather she had take of her glasses and tide her hair back she looked much better that way, I thought. An as if knew what I was think she turned and smiled, "You know its bad to stare at people." I coughed, "Sorry just, I've never seen you with your hair up." It was Angie who chimed in, "Don't get any ideas, were hunters of.." she stopped as she noticed the cab driver listening and she glared at him. He turned his eyes back to the road and there was silence again. What had she been about to say. A hunter of... a hunter of what, I sighed and looked out the window some how I felt that this day was going to get worse before it got better.
We stopped about a mile or so out of the city and she paid the man, I really hadn't been paying attention to were we had been going, but I had noticed how she had paid the man with a hundred dollar bill and had told him to keep it, Heather keep checking over her shoulder. As Angie watched the man drive off she also began to look around, "What is it?" I said and walked over to her.
She didn't look at me but she had nodded the way we had come, "Their coming, we need to get going before we are caught." I looked at her then the way we had come, an I swore I heard a roar, it sent a shiver up my spin. I turned and began to walk Heather and Angie noticed this, "Were do you think your going."
I turned an looked at them, "I'm going, I'm not standing around waiting for them, so start leading to were we need to go. An If you would answer some of the questions I have." I know blunt right but I had this feeling that what ever was nipping at are heels was bad and I didn't want to stick around to find out. They both nodded and began to walk next to me.
I coughed to get there attention. Angie nodded, "Okay, what you want to know first?" I though then looked at her out of the corner of my eyes, "You were about to say something in the cab about the hunters of some thing, what was that?" She smiled, "Out of all the things you could ask that's the first one."
Her and Heather seemed to laugh for a second an it was Heather who answered me, "We are the hunters of Artemis." I looked at her, "What is that?" I thought it sounded important and Artemis wasn't that a god from ancient Greece or some thing. Heather smiled and looked forward, "We are the hunting partners and maidens of Artemis her self." I know I had to be looking at her funny cause she looked at me and giggled a bit, "You don't believe me?"
I stopped and thought about that question, "I don't know what to believe after being attacked by that monster with one eyes and watching you guys kill it." Angie spoke up this time, "It was a cyclopes that you killed." I looked at her, "A what?"
Heather just shook her head and Angie rolled her eyes, "Come on Cat you cant tell me youve never heard of a Cyclopes before." I have to say that I've only head of a comic book character called that but as I thought about it more I remembered, "Wasn't there a Cyclopes back in all those myths about the Greek heroes?"
They both smiled, "Yep that's right." Angie patted my head, "Look Heather he does have a brain." I frowned and pushed her hand away. "Fine." I glared at Angie, "Then hears a question why is it after me and what is this camp?" They both seemed to think about it as if there was some thing they were keeping from me, I didn't like that, weren't friends suppose to trust each other.
Angie answered me, "Well its after you cause you a half blood or demigod, an before you ask that means you are half god and half mortal." I just stopped and looked at her, "Wait like that old hero in the Disney cartoon?" Angie smiled, "Yeah, except without the strength bit." I looked at the ground then looked back up when Heather coughed, "We should really keep moving we don't have a lot of time to sit around." I nodded and keep walking my thoughts on what had just been said. Me a son of a god, wait, "What god, not like god, god right some one else?" They both laughed at me.
Heather shook her head, "No not god, a Greek god." at this I looked confused, "You mean like Zeus and Hades?" They nodded though I think I saw them flinch at the name Hades but that could just been my imagination "So who is my mom then?" I said it with a soft tone almost asking myself, they both looked at me then away. There it was again that feeling like there was some thing being hidden from me, "Who is it?" I said it a bit louder and with a sharp angry edge to my voice.
Heather looked at me, "We don't know we were just asked to come and help watch over you seeing as the Hunters of Artemis have been helping at camp half blood with the whole gathering thing." I looked at her I'm sure my face said, uh what gathering thing. Angie answered my stupid look, "Gathering the other children of the gods." She hadn't looked at me when she had said it but I swore she said it with a very unhappy face, like this was beneath her ,"So does that mean were not friends." I said this then realized that both them had stopped I turned and looked there face showed me what I wanted to know. Both of them looked hurt with a mix of anger in their eyes.
"Of coarse we are your friends, you stupid boy!" Heather was the one who yelled at me then stomped away, I watched her then looked back at Angie who smiled sadly, "Were your friend Cat, we care for you a lot we couldn't think of you as any thing else, heck I think of you as the little brother I never had." She walked up and gave me a big warm hug. " I'm sorry I didn't mean to.." I didn't finish as she just hugged me tighter, "Its okay and don't worry about Heather she will get over it and be her normal self in no time."
I nodded and pulled away from Angie and turned to see Heather waiting looking back at us I nodded and she did as well turning and walking me and Angie rushed to catch up. We walked some more before I asked my next question, "So will I ever find out who my mom is." They both smiled again, "Yeah she has to clam you when you turn 13, Percy Jackson made all the gods promise that they would clam their kids at the age of 13." I looked at them, "Whose Percy Jackson?"
"He is the son of Poseidon and the Hero of the Titan War." I looked at her, there had been a war, "There was a war, when." She looked at me, "Oh, last year." I looked at her surprised, "What how is that it wasn't on the news." Heather spoke next to me, "The mist, it keeps things like that hidden or didn't you notice how you didn't see the cyclopes true from till later." I nodded, it made sense, "But what is the mist?"
Angie kicked a rock in her way, "Its a old magic it hides thing like a veil, making sure humans cant see whats really going on." I nodded thinking that was really cool, that and magic was real I so knew it. I opened my mouth to get ready to ask another question when a loud roar came from right behind us and I turned around to see some thing that would forever be burned into my mind.
