John was sat on the couch, gripping his hands nervously, after he had finished recounting his dream to Chiron. He looked up to the centaur.
"You think it was just a dream." He stated.
"John, it was probably just a dream." John dug his nails into his hands. "A nightmare, nothing more. I'd recommend trying to get back to sleep."
"yeah, you're probably right." He replied looking down at his hands before he heard a cough from behind him.
"You said this figure had blue eyes?" Dionysus asked and john nodded.
"Why do you ask?" John inquires.
"No reason." Dionysus declares before leaving the room.
"John, don't worry about it, you've never shown any prophetic abilities." John looks back down to his hands before nodding.
"Sorry i disturbed you, I'll just go." John says before leaving quickly.
Once outside, he lets the warm air hit him, before deciding on going for a walk along the property line. John kept thinking back to the room, and the man with piercing blue eyes. What scared him the most was that John had felt power radiating from himself. In that room he remembered feeling stronger than anyone and it only grew as old blue eyes started carving his skin.
He looked up to the full moon in the sky. John was knocked out of his thought as he heard a girl scream. Without thought, he sprinted from the spot to where he thought he heard the scream, passing by Thalia's pine while silently wishing he had put shoes.
He saw a short girl covered in mud back up against a tree. His eyes were drawn towards the monster in front of her; a lizard like creature although were a tail should be there was a second head.
John started waving his arms around and yelling, "Hey over here you big ugly brute!" The lizard's front head turned away from the girl and on to him. "oh shit." Both of the lizard's heads looked at him curiously, john suddenly felt more vulnerable before turning his head to the girl and pointing to half blood hill, "Go over there, you'll be safe!" He shouted as the monster took slow steps towards him.
"Quoi?" she responded and the monster turned a head back towards the girl.
His eyes widened, "Aller là-bas!" he said in a bad French accent while pointing.
John started yelling random insults at the monster while going the other way. "come on you giant wannabe dragon!" He picked up a wayward stick and threw it at him. The creature let out a screech before charging. "Go!" he yelled at the girl before dashing in the opposite direction, the monster pursued john.
While running he turned his head and saw they, yes, the thing was following him. He turned his head around again, just to see the thing spit what looks like acid at him, to dodge the attack he dived behind a tree.
Hoping he had given enough time to the girl to get to camp, he decided to get back to half blood hill. He stopped to catch his breath before he heard the snap of a twig and saw the thing behind him again. John cursed as panic ran through him; he started running back to camp. He saw the entrance to camp and the girl, thankfully safe inside.
With a final burst of energy, he dashed towards the entrance. Just before he passed the entrance he felt the monster swipe at his ankle, but with a stroke of luck, it just knocked him forwards, straight into camp. He rolled onto his back and crawled backwards, adrenalin slowly leaving his body as he panted.
He pondered for a moment before he remember, "I'm an idiot", and he mumbled to himself and stood up. The girl looked at him with worry in her eyes. "Μιχαήλ." He whispered and a short sword appeared in each of his hands.
He looked to the creature, who was slamming into the barrier obviously trying to break it, before throwing the sword in his right hand with utmost precision. The sword went straight through his head and the creature started collapsing into itself before finally vanishing.
John limped slightly as both sword disappeared, and he sat down on the ground.
"Thank you." The girl said with a thick French accent, which was very different to johns light Australian accent.
John nodded and looked at his bare feet, caked in what looked like dirt and most likely blood. He looked up at the girl, "You're welcome." He let out a heavy sigh, "Er, Francais?"
The girl let out a small smile and nodded, "Francaise." She corrected, "I am girl, so it is feminine."
John nodded, "Thanks."
"You're welcome."
John stuck out his hand, after the girl decided to sit next to him. "John."
"Emeraude." She said as she took his hand and shook it.
The two looked up to the sky, before Chiron camp to collect them.
"So, what happened next?" Finn, a tall, not quite as tall as john though, boy asked.
"Nothing really, Chiron sent us to the infirmary, got my feet healed and he sent me to bed. I think he wanted to question the poor girl, ." He says while the two boys started quickening their pace as they jogged. "told me not to tell anyone for now," he added hastily.
"Oh you rebel" Finn snickered. "How did Chiron know you were out there?" Finn asked, pushing his sunglasses back up his face and effectively covering his misty sea green eyes.
"No clue, I'm sure he has freaky radar for things like that." Finn let out a chuckle. "You freak me out sometimes." John states after a pregnant pause.
"Why's that?"
John shakes his head. "Dude, you're blind, I get you're basically Toph from avatar and you can feel where you're going but it's still weird, you'd think after all these years I'd be used to it." Both boys let out a chuckle.
John thinks back fondly to when they were both eleven and Finn was getting picked on by older campers, a few weeks after both of them had arrived at camp, because he was blind, refused to wear shoes and, for a son of Poseidon, had no control over water.
Older campers kept goading him; john remembered some insulting remark about Finn's bare feet. Moreover, johns having noticed the ground start to shake, and having enough of the insults. He had had enough, took off his right shoe, and threw it at the main bully. John coming next to Finn and looking somewhat grumpy.
Finn, although very independent and not wanting anyone to help him, accepted John as a comrade.
John remembers when the bullies charged and he took a step back in slight fear while Finn created a six-foot deep crack in the ground that they all fell in, and that no one was really willing to help them out of. Six years since they have been friends
The two boys having been friends ever since.
John snapped out of his though when Finn asked him a question. "So, the girl's a demigod, like us, but whose daughter is she?"
"Absolutely no idea." John responds.
"Hey, wait up!" Both boys stopped and turned around to a girl's voice.
It was Alejandra Vitale, John's half sister; she came to a slow jog. Her brown, chest length hair was in a braid, as usual.
"Hey Finn," she says sweetly.
"Hey Alex, you look pretty today." Finn says with a smug smile.
"Shut up Finn," she says while laughing and Finn smirks. She turns to john, "Are you okay, john?"
John shrugs, "Yeah, why?"
"Last night, you had a nightmare, you looked really shook up about it before you left the cabin and you didn't come back to the cabin until about three in the morning." She stated.
"Thanks for worrying Alex, but I'm fine I promise, I just needed some air." He says.
"Okay, but if you need anything I'm always here." She says before walking off.
"she's a nice person." Finn says once she's out of earshot.
"Yeah, but she worries to much about others and not enough about herself." He states and Finn nods in agreement.
They both started jogging lightly once more, not talking. John took peacefulness of the surrounding, mainly the nice view of the lake.
Suddenly he hears a voice cry out for help and he stops and looks to his left and finds himself in an unfamiliar field. He has a full three hundred and sixty degree look around. The field surrounded with hills, a few rocks and trees dotted around.
He turns around and sees a girl standing directly in front of him. Shorter than him by roughly five inches, making her roughly 5'7, round face with a sharp chin and soft brown eyes. her Black slightly parted bands and brown hair looked very unique, John thought, and familiar.
"Who are you?" She asks.
"My name is John; I'm a son of Apollo, from camp half blood." He says, "You're a hunter of Artemis, aren't you?"
She nods, "Name's Blake, where are we?"
"I don't know." He says. "Was that you asking for help?"
"Yeah, I might've been slightly scared about the fact that i was transported to a field in the middle of nowhere." She says rapidly.
"hey don't' get pissy with me just because..." John was cut off by a loud screech. "Oh not again."
"What was that?"
"No clue, I say run." He says rapidly.
They looked to the ground, roughly half a mile behind them starts to rise. Slowly two huge horns start to poke out from the ground along with more sharp and jagged looking rocks as well.
"I second that idea." The girl says before running away from the beast, John follows suit.
Dodging the trees and rocks that seemed to try to trip the two up. John tried calling his swords, but that failed. They continue to run, with no real direction except straight on. A louder ear-splitting roar is heard and both of them fall to the floor. John looks over to Blake, she has closed her eyes to try to help block out the sound. He turns his head to catch a glimpse of the beast.
His first thought, is it looks like a triceratops but with Minotaur horns, not to mention the dark greenish grey of its skin and the pale grey of its horns and rocks on its back and its mouth was full of razor sharp teeth. What terrified him the most though, was the fact that its size, in height it must've reached upto thirty feet tall and in length probably about seventy.
"Oh god." John says before grabbing Blake by her shirt and pushes her in front to give her a head start before moving himself forward.
Both of them running, john turns his head once more while running and sees that the beast has started running towards them.
He turns his head forward and crashes into something.
Now john was on the ground, wait, no, lying on top of a person. John takes in the fact that his nose was touching the pour soul that was underneath him.
He took in the feature of the boy, left eye bigger than the right, nice jaw line and nose, black hair.
"Sorry." He says getting up and offering his hand to the other boy.
"It's alright, Ignacio, in case you were wondering." The other boy, Ignacio says once he is firmly on his feet again. "Are you okay?" He asks loudly.
"Yeah, sorry I should've been watching where I was going." John says, noticing the other boys hair was in a high ponytail.
"Hey, dude what happened?" Finn says coming up behind john, effectively making him jump slightly. "running off without me, what is up?"
"Tell you in a bit." He says, then directs his attention back to the shorter black haired boy. "Sorry again i really didn't mean to run into you."
"Really it's no problem at all, just be careful next time okay." Ignacio sys loudly with a hint of laughter in his voice
"Wow you're loud." Finn says in a bored tone, john whacks him on the arm
"Sorry" Ignacio replies defensively
"Ignore him he's just a dick." John says, "Come on, Finn, let's go get lunch."
Okay first chapter done, I'm really proud of it actually, I re wrote it about four times.
Anyway, it is still open, and I would like more girls to be honest. And more bad guys.
But, if you want to send in a bad guy just keep in mind that the bad guys are heroes for the other side (I'm paraphrasing George R. R. Martin here I believe).
I probably should have put that oc's will die, its not safe, no one is safe (im chaneling my inner G. R. R. Martin lol)
Although if you do send in an oc, i do not want anymore offsprings of the big three, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Hephaestus, Demeter and i also do not want anymore roman gods. I don't mind if they are related in anyway just not a directs offspring.
Also thanks for the reviews, and the constructive criticism, because i really do want to improve my writing.
And i also wanted to credit all the ocs that appeared in this chapter :
Finn, W.R Winters
Alejandra, TheGoddessOfWriting
Emeraude, Red blooded being
Blake, Reduced20
Ignacio, Wolfie McCoy
Thanks again everyone who sent in an oc, all oc's have been accepted for the moment and everyone has a key to the plot at some point.