The Redemption Chronicles

2

Im Going Crazy

As soon as they were in the door, they collapsed against it in relief; they managed to get out of school alive .Alex got up and walked into the kitchen to get himself a snack. He came back with his arms full with food. The others looked at him in disbelief. "How can you be hungry, we've just survived being killed by a giant snake"

Alex replied defensively "what? I get hungry in dangerous situations" Jodie sighed in expiration, whereas Odi tried sneaking a bit of Alex's food away from him. "Hey back off its mine"

Odi gave up and went to his bedroom and motioned for the others to follow him, the carer appeared and stopped there progress. "Hi children, how was your day?"

The Carer's real name was Maddie French was looked like a grumpy old hag who looked like she was the stereotypical idea of a witch crossed with Santa Claus and was a woman who vaguely reminded Odi of a Bowling ball, but she was in fact a happy jolly women who liked to cook and loved looking after kids and tried to give them a nice home and went out of her way to stop thinking of themselves as orphans and that they now had a family of their own. Odi reached and gave her hug and said "we had an okay day just the usual" to which Maddie smiled and asked if they would like something to eat. They all placed their orders and hurried to Odi's room. There they started discussing the days turn of events.

"Where did that snake come from?" Alex asked with his mouthful of cake.

"I don't know but we would have been screwed if that hooded guy hadn't saved us" Odi answered

"What I want to know is why he was there in the first place ?" Jodie asked. Everybody thought about that for a minute, unable to answer the question .Odi broke the silence by getting up and pulling out his school books and started to do his homework at that Jodie and Alex left to do their homework, not meeting again until after dinner. If Odi had looked at the window, he would have seen a hooded figure standing on the roof opposite his bedroom. That night Odi fell asleep straight away with a smile on his face but his dreams were far from happy.

He dreamt he was at a summer camp, kids running about in battle armour and a rectangle shape of different styled was a glowing gold on and another made of dark black obsidian but before he could see anymore, he was dragged away and was thrown into an arena, dark shapes sat in the seats and he was unable to make out there features he turned to the shape in front of him and pulled out a Greek style bronze sword and blocked the strike, he went to land his own but the figure whipped Odis sword out of his hand and pointed the tip to his neck. However before he could move he was transported again, but to an abandoned house, the cloaked figure was sitting down looking and talking at a figure in the mist he moved closer to try and here more of the sentence.

"he was nearly killed today by the Python today! Its getting harder and harder to help him, so far he has no idea who he is thanks to the mist and I even couldn't tell who's child he was only that it was something older than the gods but his friends were easy to figure out that they are one of Athena's and Aphrodite's kids he is powerful, even more than Percy."

"I am aware of this" the image in the mist replied angrily "you must escort him to the infernal camp, it is the only place safe for him, that was the deal we struck, it was hard enough convincing my brother to sneak you under Hades nose!".

The cloaked figure didn't reply for a minute. He then said "I appreciate it my lady but how will I get him there, he would need to trust me but he barely knows me". The image in the mist was about to reply but stopped she spoke in a whisper just loud enough for Odi to hear "damn he's here, you will take him to camp tomorrow and make sure he is okay or ill send you to Tartarus" she said gently but the threat must have been worse than it sounded because he froze instantly and said "yes my lady"

"Good now I will expect a report on the way there"

"Yes my lady"

"Now to deal with Odi" The shape in the mist started chanting and Odi woke up with a start, his bed was damp with sweat. He thought about the conversation yesterday as he was getting ready for school and decided to tell Alex and Jodie hoping they would help him figure out who the two people they were walking to school he told them about his dream and asked what they thought about it.

"Its confusing" Alex said." "you're saying they were talking about you and didn't realise you were there and talked about Greek mythology like in Miss Morgan's class, and they said I was a son of Athena and Jodie was a daughter of Aphrodite. Did they mention who you were?" Odi shook his head, that was what was puzzling about his dream, it was centred on him but he still did not understand any of the talking.

"so we are supposedly going to a camp today? Sounds fun. " Jodie said sarcastically as they went there separate ways for the first two lessons .Alex said see you later as he went to P.E and Jodie said she would catch them later while she went to science ,leaving Odi to maths. The day passed like a blur, Andrew wasn't in today so he didn't get beaten to a pulp and he could almost forget about yesterday and his dream. Almost. it was still hovering on his mind when the bell finally rang, ending school and he waited for Alex and Jodie outside the school gates.