a note from birdie;;
i'm going to be updating this a lot, sometimes two chapters at a time. this one's short because it's a filler about the mysterious dozing girl. so yeah. i own mdg and noah and charlie, who you'll meet later. :3 but everything else belongs to mister riordan.
Her feet thudded against the dry ground, ebony sneakers with the messy ties digging into the tough, rocky soil and coarse grass. She exchanged a fleeting glance with a dark brown cow spotted with white, a small black calf frolicking at her hooves. The scarlet-haired girl turned away, shaking her head and sprinting off once again. She knew he was still chasing, still jogging at his languid pace just tickled pink to chop the head off a little godling with his spiked cudgel.
The girl looked behind her, and screamed.
Or at least she thought she screamed; no sound came out. Not even a breath. The cry deep in her lungs was knocked loose and dissipated as the giant creature that her fear-blurred mind managed to identify as some kind of giant raised his burly arms, brandishing his cudgel with the shiny silver spikes. The girl cringed and scooted away, but not before he swung and one little spike found a spot right on the side of her head, scarily near her temple.
A shriek died on her lips as she felt herself falling, reaching her hands out to steady herself but only succeeding in making her balance even worse and making her land even harder on the cold ground. She began sobbing, both in pain and in fear, and blood dripped through her crimson curls and down her cheeks. "Oh Gods…stop, please…"
But it got on it's knees, lowered itself, raised the cudgel over it's head, and prepared the deadly strike. Unfortunately, it wasn't exactly deadly. Or harmful, for that matter. Since the girl ripped a plain bronze dagger from her belt and plunged it into the hairy chest. Starting from the wound, it's body began to disintegrate into yellow dust that carried in the wind.
But the young girl didn't have time to celebrate. Her vision had been smudged into a giant blue and green and white blur, and she lay down on her back to attempt to regain her sense of balance. Instead it only blurred more, her eyes rolling back and her body curling in to itself, her eyesight gradually darkening until at last she was left with nothing.
The young lady awoke at dawn, which seemed strange to her. It had been just past breakfast time when that monster had first started chasing her. A hand raised to the side of her head, the tender skin shrieking in pain and the tiny black scabs brushing against her fingers. But the main part of the wound was still oozing blood, unbeknownst to her. The girl frowned and rose to her feet, swaying slightly, and began her staggering walk to find someone, anyone, who could help her out.
She didn't know how long she walked- only how far, and that wasn't much due to the throbbing in her skull and the dizzy smears over her sight. But something, something tinted a reddish color appeared. The female lunged blinding for it, stumbling profoundly in search of the doors.
At last her fingertips came in contact with something cool and smooth, like steel. She yanked on it and a door opened, a whole new set of colors bleeding into her vision. Overwhelmed by this, the girl took a few uneven steps forward, before sinking to her knees and then the ground.
The last thing she felt was a pressure on her head; her eyelids quivered and flew open. Instantly she regretted it, as the world swirled sickeningly into one blob. She blinked once, and found something she never expected to see. A face, eyebrows pulled down in concern and a bit of annoyance, skin swarthy from much time in the sun, inky black hair cropped short, and molten brown eyes narrowed suspiciously. But then, the colors swam together even worse than before, and she closed her eyes once again, gladly sinking into oblivion.
