Chapter 2: I am Claimed
The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that the bus moving. Initial reaction, Oh no, not another monster. But to be perfectly honest, I was too tired to really care. And the atmosphere (I think) was different; it didn't feel like I was in danger. In fact, I was rather comfortable leaning against someone. Lazily, I looked up to check who it was, and immediately tried to sit up-right.
"Ah, I see Sleeping Beauty as awoken." Jason said mocking my sleepy state.
"Shut up, Jason." I said tiredly, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. He always came up with the most ridiculous names.
"Um…sorry?" Another voice replied. I looked across to another seat. A boy about 15 sat there, looking a little surprised.
"Jason", pointing at the one next to me, "and Jason." pointing at the boy in the other seat. He nodded. "And who's driving?" turning to face the front, I found a girl about 16 or 17.
"I'm Annabeth." She looked into the mirror and smiled. The first thing I noticed about her was her eyes. They were an amazing shade of gray, with glints of extreme intelligence and…sadness, I think.
"Anyway, where are-oh, wow! We're in New York." I had looked out the window just as we passed a sign that said 'Welcome to New York'. "So how did we manage to drive 5 hours in a Maryland school bus and not get pulled over?"
"This isn't a real school bus; it was shrouded by the Mist. It's actually a charter bus." Annabeth replied.
"Okay…why New York?"
"We're heading to one of the safest places for kids like us."
"For runaways?"
"No, for demigods." Annabeth looked back to see my reaction. I had wide-eyes and on 'o' for a mouth. I looked at Jason for an explanation, and I never heard him talk so much before, not that my constant questions helped.
"So, you think one of my parents is a Greek god? That can't be right." I sighed, leaning against the window. I think we had crossed into Long Island by then.
"Why?" The new Jason asked.
"Because I had two parents." I said.
"Wait, you 'had' two parents?" Jason Kudo asked.
I turned to look at him. "You never noticed? Jason my parents haven't been around since I was 3."
"Why?" He can be so clueless sometimes.
"Because their dead, Jason." Everything was extremely quite.
"Oh, Alex, I'm sorry." Annabeth said.
"It's not that bad. I don't remember a lot about them, but my brother wrote a whole bunch of these sayings and jokes my parents used to say; so they really aren't gone." I had to smile at the last part. My brother was Mathew Moore and extremely overprotective, but only caring if I was okay and happy.
My brother…I thought, soon I sat up straight. I started digging in my pockets for my phone.
"You okay?" Jason Kudo asked.
"Yeah, but if my brother finds out we neither of us made it to school, he's going to flip." I said, stressing out.
"I already called him. He knows about everything that happened so far." He said taking my phone and slipping into my backpack. "Besides, I think you've got bigger things to worry about."
"Like what?" I had highly doubted that things could be worse. But, as usual, I was wrong.
"Look up." He said pointing and staring above my head. I looked, and there was a glowing blue trident and the Earth, like a miniature globe floating over.
"Annabeth, Jason, I believe we've found Percy a little sister." Jason Kudo said.