Chapter 2
I turned to look but the girl was already running towards us. I jumped up and headed for the back door. I heard clopping and clinking as we ran. When I turned I saw the monster from my dream the night before. Soleil pushed me out of the way. She grabbed the handle of the door. Mr. Brunner pushed out of his wheelchair. I almost fainted when he stood up. He was half-horse!
Someone flung open the back door. Soleil almost fell back. The person was a guy who looked like he could pass as my brother. He tossed me a pen and said, "Uncap it!" then he ran out of sight. I uncapped the pen. Suddenly a three foot long bronze sword was in my hand. The monster slowed down. She stopped about twenty feet away. "You don't even know how to use that thing, you stupid little useless demigod. Too bad Chiron didn't bring you to his camp sooner," she said. She started to charge at us again.
I jumped up onto the table next to me. Soleil ran out the door. The sword felt light and awkward in my hand. The monster tried to jump up onto the table too, but I hit it in the head with the sword hilt.
"Who's Chiron?" I asked, more to myself than anyone else.
"Me," Mr. Brunner said.
I did not really have that much time to think this over because the monster was coming back at me. I somehow did a back flip off the table and landed perfectly. I held the sword out and circled the table. The monster turned around on top of the table. There was no way I was going to be able to get rid of this thing with a sword this light. Soleil came running through the door again. She was holding up some sort of shield, like one of the ones Mr. Brunner had hanging in his classroom. She nodded to me. I tossed her the sword. She caught it and held it like she was some type of sword-fighting expert.
Now I was weaponless. The monster was coming closer. I looked around, trying toremember what had happened in the dream and how I had gotten the bow and arrow. The last thing I remembered from the dream was looking at my ring and then a bow had just appeared. I stared at my ring. I wished it could just turn into a bow.
Suddenly my wish came true some how. My ring sprang into a silver bow and when I held it up a bronze arrow appeared. I pointed it at the monster as it got closer.
"Leave before I sentence you to the deepest pits of Tartarus!" Chiron/ Mr. Brunner yelled at her. She erupted into flames with a high-pitched war cry.
"How did you do that?" I asked him.
"I'll explain on our way," he said and grabbed my shoulder. Suddenly I was on his back and then Soleil was.
Chiron/ Mr. Brunner crashed through a window, his horse hooves clopping on the tile. We were off the campus in five seconds.
"Take this as an honor. I am a centaur by the way," he said.
"That thing called you Chiron," Soleil said. "Like the demigod trainer?"
"Not like the demigod trainer. I am the demigod trainer. That thing was an empusa by the way. They are vicious monsters that love demigod blood."
"Then why were they at our school? There are no such things as demigods. This is all just a dream," I said, hoping what I had said was true.
"There actually are such things as demigods. You and Soleil must be them. I had always had my suspicions about her," he said as we came onto a road with only fields on either side.
"Demigods are children of the gods though," Soleil said, "So who are our parents?"
"I don't know, but I think you might be the daughter of Apollo. Like I said, I had already had my suspicions about you. You are dyslexic and ADHD, but now that I think about it, so are you, Tess."
"Yeah, I know, but what does that have to do with anything?"
"You're dyslexic because you're first instinct is to read Ancient Greek. You were diagnosed with ADHD because you notice more than a mere mortal."
"Where are we going?" I asked nervously.
Just as I asked we ran down a hill that had a tree with a dragon asleep around it at the top. As we stopped I saw over two dozen cabins. There was a pavilion, a big stadium, a track, and a bunch of sheds with smoke billowing out of them. Chiron cantered to the four-story white house with at wrap around porch. Sitting at the table in the kitchen was a middle-aged man with a Hawaiian shirt and chinos.
"Hello, I'm Dionysus," he said, "I'm the camp's head director. You may call me Mr. D. I don't like you. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!"