Oh, sweet Lord, This isn't happening! Grover smashes against the double doors and we dash quickly out into the hallway, with Alecto flying in close behind us from the basketball court. I quickly slam the double doors seconds before Mrs. Dodds can pass through the doorway, she immediately panics and tries to stop herself during mid-flight. Her face smashes hard against the glass and cracking it slightly; it then flattens and deforms as she slowly slides down. I don't have time to stop and laugh when she pops back into sight; her eyes are now completely red and filled with rage. I quickly take a large bench and drag it across the double doors, Grover grabs my hand and drags me away. I struggle and pull my hand out of his grip and glare at him.

"What's the idea?" I huff,"I'm slowing"

A crash and the sound of glass hitting the floor sounds out through the hall. I gasp in horror as Mrs. Dodds flies through the broken window with ease, I take a few scoots back.

"Tara, follow me!" Grover panically ushers me quickly to follow him, with the sound of a screech and the flapping of wings from behind me: I gladly follow his orders. Grover leads me through hallways, sharp corners, and training rooms. He slows down and picks up a ten-pound barbell, when I run past him he hurls the weight at Mrs. Dodds. It smashes against her neck, she gives out a gasp of air and smashes against the floor.

Grover and I continue to run endlessly through hallways and training rooms. Another screech sounds out and echos throughout the gym. Mrs. Dodds or Alecto, whatever she is, must have gotten lost in the gym or something because her screeching has begun to soften. I give a sigh of happy relief, I take a look at my surroundings. We're at an emergency exit at the far side of the gym, a staff only area.

"Tara, quickly!" Grover whispers as he carefully opens an exit door, the alarm sounds and screeching follows. I then find myself in the middle of the Gym parking lot. Grover takes a pair of keys from his pocket and hurries down an endless row of vehicles to a beat up car, painted an ugly green grass color. He turns back at me and again ushers me to follow him again with urgency.

I raise an eyebrow, "Uh, dude I think I can get home from here"

"Tara, Please-"

"Haha! Found you!" A screech comes from behind.

"Although a ride home never did any harm!" I scream as I quickly run and leapt into the passengers' side, Grover shoves the key into the ignition and floors it, running over Mrs. Dodds in the process. The car does a swerve and stops; Grover floors it again and moves that car out into the street. Terrified, I hold tightly onto the car restraints for dear life as Grover swerves around honking cars, animals, and trees. Yes, trees for some reason Grover decided traffic was too slow and decided to drive on the sidewalk. I hyperventilate, as the car tore through the wind at the speed of light like in one of those Star Wars films, I yelp and force my eyes close when Grover speeds through several red lights.

"Tara you can open your eyes, we're almost through the worst of it." Grover sighs with relief.

"Oh no, you p-psychotic g-goat man, not happening!" I shudder and shake my head.

"Psychotic goat man?" He chuckles at my comment, "Listen if you open your eyes and I'll answer all your questions."

I open my eyes with caution and my vision is filled with the cruelty of bright city street lamps. I groan as my eyes try to adjust to the sudden change of lighting, oh what I would give just to be sitting at home right now, drinking a Dr. Pepper and watching TV. Before I begin to bombard Grover with questions, I pull my dirty-blonde hair back into a simple ponytail and then check my face in the car mirror for any additional claw marks or scratches other than the long scar on my right cheek.

"Alright goat man, what was she?" I pop the car mirror shut and turn to Grover to begin my interrogation.

"A fury"

"You mean the ones from Greek mythology?!"

"Tara why is that such a surprise, I'm a satyr"

"You're a satyr?!" I can't believe this, I mean I saw the goat legs and everything, but this is just- I don't know"

"Yes, I know", He turns slightly to look at me, "and the fury we just ran from was Alecto, seems like you really made her furious, more than I've ever seen."

I shake my head in disbelief, "That's impossible, if Greek creatures exist then the-the Greek deities of Olympus-"

"Exist also", Grover confirms, "I understand that this might be hard for you to believe, but please try to keep an open mind about this."

"Keep and open mind?!" I go irate, "A couple of hours ago I was in school, now I'm getting chased by an evil crazy bat lady who wants to rip me to shreds!"

Grover sighs, "Listen, Tara, most demigods-"

"Most demigods?!"

"Half human, half god", He explains, "They sometimes act like this when they first learn about this"

"You think I'm a demigod?" I slam my hand on the car dashboard making Grover jump a little, he shakes his head slowly in reply.

"I was born from Eric and Susan Paige!" I yell, "Not from Susan Paige and some idiotic Greek-"

"Tara!" Grover hushes me, "Do you want one of the Olympians coming after you for insulting them?"

"Listen," He adds,"Monsters only attack demigods and she attacked you"

"That doesn't prove anything!" I scream, "She could have wanted to kill me simply because I insulted her, a lot!"

"Did she say anything to you?" He asks, ignoring me, "Anything at all?"

I roll my eyes and think back a couple minutes ago, when Alecto was drenched in water. She called me a daughter of Poseidon, butterflies rise in my stomach and I begin to feel nauseated. Everything, washes over me at once like a freight train, I want to hit something. What if my mother has lied to me all these years, maybe my father was really my step-father. What if my whole life has been a huge lie. Grover pulls the car with urgency when I start cursing furiously and slam my fist on the dashboard.

"She called me a daughter of Poseidon", I clench my fists into tight balls.

Grover looked at me like I just told him aliens help the Egyptians build the pyramids, "That's impossible, there's only one child of Poseidon-"

"It's what she said!"

"Tara trust me, when I say you're not a child of Poseidon-" He puts his hand on my shoulder to comfort me, I quickly shrug him off.

"Does it matter?!" I began to cry a little, don't judge, "My entire life could be a lie!"

"Well, at least, you're not dead"

"Shut up!" I roll my tear filled eyes in annoyance, Grover sighs, starts the car again, and swerves it back on to the road. I sit there silently as I try to figure this out, is this a dream or is this real. I glance through the car window and notice that my street was coming up. I smile a little, maybe my mother can shine a light on this matter. Everything is going- I look over my seat and watch my street sign shrink slowly as the distance between us becomes larger.

"That was my street!" I shriek at Grover, "Just where do you think you're taking me?!"

"Listen I'll explain when we get there", Grover insists, "All you need to know right now is that it's safe"

"Safe? Grover Underwood stop the car this instant and let me out, now!", I retort.

Grover shakes his head, "Tara, if I let you go home, you'll endanger your family." He turns to me again and gives me a sympathetic smile, I turn and avoid his gaze. I could be home right now in my mother's arms.

"Do you want that, Tara?" He continues, "Believe me, when I say Alecto will sniff you out, no matter how much you run or hid."

I shake my head not wanting to believe any of this, Grover places his hand on my shoulder and begins to rub it slightly. He glances at me before turning back to the road, his eyes filled with sympathy. My eye lids become heavy and my breathing slows, I rub my eyes and yawn a couple of times.

"Sleep, Tara" Grover soothingly says like an ancient enchantment.

(~)

My eyes slowly open and I yawn, smiling I wipe the sleep from my eyes, stretch, and remember that strange dream I had about satyr, Greek gods, and my teacher turning into a psycho bat monster that wanted to kill me. I'm taken out of my trance when something hard smashes against my warm bed, no not a bed- a car window. The face of my crazy transformed bat teacher blurred across the glass screeching and I lost it.

"Tara, Calm down! we're almost there, but Alecto found us!" A voice sounds behind me, Grover. We're no longer in the city, but on a dark country road, God knows where. He spins the wheel and the car does a long swerve to the left on a narrow road. This is real, this is actually happening. I look out the window again, we drive by some broken down farmhouses and white picket fences that read "PICK YOUR OWN BERRIES" on it.

"Tara-"

"You kidnaped me!" I growl, punching Grover hard on the arm, he gives out a loud yelp and looses control of the car a little bit. I gasp and I take the wheel putting it back on course. Grover swats my hands away and takes back the wheel. He glares at me and floors it down the road, dodging pot holes.

"Are you insane, You could have killed us!" He screams at me.

"Sorry- Pay attention to the road goat man!"

"I'm a satyr!"

"Yeah, whatever I forgot- watch out!"

Alecto flies by and throws a stone at the front window, the window smashes at contact and I quickly duck as the stone rips past my head. Grover quickly swerves the car again, I'm guessing he hit Alecto, because the car bumped against something, hard. Grover stops and backs up the car, it quickly runs over something. Hopefully Alecto. He stamps his hoove on the accelerator and car jolts forward at high speed.

"Come on, come on- We're not that far!" Grover says over and over to himself. I lean on the edge of my seat, wherever we're going I just want to get away from Alecto. Maybe even far away from Grover, maybe he's the one who caused all this. An explosion from the back sounded and the car started losing speed, fast. Grover panics and hits the accelerator repeatedly, hoping that it would do something. The car slowly came to a stop, we're out of gas. To make matters worse, a screech sounded out in the distance behind us.

"Oh, Crap!" Grover huffs out, "Tara, get out we have to make a run for it"

"Are you crazy!?"

"No, the place isn't that far from here, there's Thalia's tree!" He points to a hill before he opens the car door and runs over to my side, unlocking and opening my door. He tries unbuckling my seat belt, but I quickly slap his hands away in annoyance. The car is safer than the outside.

"No!"I testify.

Another screech sounds, closer this time.

"Well, who am I to argue with logic!"

I leap out and run after Grover as the screeches grew even closer. A smile plasters over my face as the tree and the hill grew closer, if this place is safe like Grover says, then it might have a phone. I'm too caught up in my thoughts to realize the screeching grew too close and now follows with the flapping of wings. I'm picked up and thrown several feet, I quickly act and roll on the grass.

"Why won't you die!?" An inhuman voice rings out above the trees.

A black mass quickly flies above me a swooshes down, this time knocking me over at full force. I try positioning myself up, but the black mass takes hold of my wrists and sits on my chest. Alecto smiles evilly and leans in close to my face, chuckling. I immediately shut my eyes and whimper.

"Use the water Tara", A female voice enters my head.

"What?"

"I said time to die, honey!" Alecto brings her talons up ready to slash my face, a figure runs by screaming and tackles her. Grover! I quickly sit up and watch Grover relentlessly bang his fists against Alecto, which in my personal opinion wasn't doing much to her, except make her angrier. She hisses and throws Grover against a tree. He lets out a painful groan and clenches his sides. Alecto laughed manically as she closed in on him. I look around for something to throw at her or something to distract her, nothing. I leap to my feet and I prepare to charge at her.

"Feel the plants around you, feel the energy, empty your mind, feel the water that surrounds you"

I clench my head as the voice sounds again.

"Take the water from the plants and save the satyr, he hasn't got all day!"

Alecto now stands over Grover with her talons raised, I scream and reach out at Alecto. She screeches as water slams against her and pushes her back a couple of meters. My eyes widen and I look down at my extended arm.

"Not bad, look behind you"

I do as I'm told and turn around to find a dead tree and some patches of dead grass. I smile, I don't know how this is possible, but I can so get used to this. Grinning, I turn back to Grover and Alecto. Grover looks at me like I'm an alien, Alecto screeches and launches herself at me again. I give a sly smile and extend my arm out quickly again. A small stream of water shoots out and splashes against the ground before it can reach her. My mouth drops.

"You idiot! You have to focus on the water's energy!"

Alecto wraps her arms around me and throws me against a large tree, head first. I cry out in pain as I land at the base of the tree, rolling my ankle in the process. My sight becomes hazy and I see what I think is Alecto approaching me, talons ready to strike. What happens next I can't really explain, a figure comes out of nowhere with a golden sword and slices her in half. With a squeal, she turns into dust. My rescuer, what I can make out of his features at the moment, is a young man with dark hair and eyes that are the color of the ocean.

"Tara!" Grover's voice is the last thing I hear and the young man running to me is the last thing I see before darkness overtakes my vision.


Hey guys, sorry that this chapter is late! I was busy with school. Anyway, Tara finally made it to camp half-blood! Let me know what you guys think, likes or dislikes. I'm all ears.