A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for not updating, I guess I'll probably only update once a week. About this chapter, it was taken from my earlier story, but I discontinued that story. However I really like this chapter and I think its much more suited to this LOTR/PJO crossover instead. Hope you don't mind reading the same chapter! Don't worry, the story gets more interesting later on, this is just a basic introduction ~

I am Reyna daughter of Bellona: Thanks for your suggestions!

My name is Summer Forrester, and I'm on the run.

I just turned thirteen last week. Sure, birthdays in the orphanage are nothing to celebrate about. In fact, people don't even remember it. At least I was finally a teenager. THIRTEEN. The important double digits. Everything was working out great until the monster tried to kill me.

The monster was a scary woman with serpent trunks for legs. And this particular one seemed to have marked me. No matter what I did, where I hid, it would always be following me. It had crashed through the orphanage on my birthday night and started chasing me. All I could do was grab a knife and start running. To make matters worse, it was not alone. This morning, two gigantic black dogs accompanied it.

So far, I had managed to escape the monster by climbing up trees and/or jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Turns out that a woman with serpent legs cannot climb trees. I really thought I had a chance to escape until the two dogs turned up and started chasing me.

Now I was on the edge of a cliff, holding out a knife. I sneaked a peek at the drop behind me and almost fainted. The sea sparkled far below, glinting a beautiful green colour in the sun. The fall from the cliff would probably kill me, if the monsters didn't kill me first or I didn't get impaled on the rocks below. The woman had a creepy smile on her face and the two dogs were panting eagerly, as if they sensed my impending death.

"Half-blood, drop that puny mortal weapon. You can't kill usssss," the woman hissed. Her voice was really raspy.Half-blood? What was a half-blood? She was correct, though. I had tried slashing at her with my knife, but her cuts healed instantly. She was not mortal.

"You'll never get me," I shot back. I stepped back towards the cliff, ready to fall off if needed to. At least a quick death with a broken neck would be preferable to being eaten by the woman and the dogs. And by the looks of the drool on the dogs' faces, it would be a slow death with me being chewed to pieces. Shivers ran up and down my spine. I wasn't ready to die yet. I hadn't found out the truth about my parents and all the monsters that followed me, but no one seemed to see them except me. I wanted answers.

"DIE!" The woman lunged at me, with the two dogs flanking her.

I closed my eyes and stepped off the cliff. Yet even as my feet left the ground, I knew it was too late. I was too slow and the woman would catch me before I could fall.

Then suddenly, I heard a deep voice next to me. "Whoah girl, don't die just yet." Shocked, I opened my eyes. A boy was standing next to me, his arm around my waist, preventing me from falling,. I stared at him. He had light brown hair and really nice green eyes. They were the colour of leaves in the spring. He had an open, friendly smile and was also quite buff, like he worked out a lot. He was wearing a white cotton shirt and gray trousers. A quiver was strapped across his back and he held a bow in his hands.

"What... who are you?!" I gaped.

"I'm the good guy, here to save the damsel in distress," he grinned. Then his eyes focused on the monsters. "Looks like we'll introduce ourselves to each other later, mademoiselle. We've got something to beat."

The woman was fuming mad. Her hair was standing on ends and her eyes had narrowed to slits. "Another half-blood," she spat. "Don't you heroes ever die?"

"Afraid not. We just keep coming back for more. You know, saving others, going on quests, and other stuff like that," the boy replied cheerfully.

With a snarl, the woman flicked her wrist and the dogs sprang. My heart was in my mouth. I was sure we were going to die. After all, it was the three of them versus him.

The boy pulled out an arrow and attached it to his quiver. With deadly aim, he shot one of the dogs through the eye. The dog dissolved into dust. The other dog was faster. It leaped at the boy and knocked him onto the ground. The boy struggled, trying to retrieve his bow and arrows but he was pinned down. The woman cackled as she moved towards me, standing there defenceless.

Another boy jumped in front of me. This boy had dark hair and his clothes were all black. He held a short black sword in his hands. I was too stunned to do anything except stare. The woman backed away swiftly, chanting something.

"Oh crap. She's calling for reinforcements," the boy in front of me muttered. He raised his sword and slashed at the woman, but she dodged out of his way pretty well, considering her weird legs. Suddenly more monsters appeared behind her. There were more of the serpent-women, a couple more big dogs, and even a few vampire-like creatures.

The boy stuck his sword into the ground and began to speak. I caught a few words of "rise and serve me" but it didn't make much sense. A few seconds later, several skeleton warriors rose up from the ground. They had hanging clothes draped from their bones and grinning skulls. I started screaming. The whole thing was so surreal. It was like the zombie apocalypse had started.

The boy pointed at the monsters. "Kill them!" The skeleton warriors lunged towards the monsters who immediately started hacking and biting them, but the undead beings didn't seem to mind. They just kept pounding the monsters. Arrows also fired from behind me, banishing the monsters to dust. I turned behind to see the brown-haired boy calmly firing arrows from his quiver.

"Jet, why do you have to interfere? This was my assignment, and you didn't listen to me. Who asked you to go first? You're only supposed to watch over me, not take over the whole operation! And look what happened. If I hadn't come, you and the girl would have been killed!" the dark-haired boy snapped.

The brown-haired boy, or Jet, flashed a quick smile at me. "Chill Nico. Look, she's safe, we're safe, its all cool." He continued shooting arrows while he spoke.

"And I'd appreciate it very much if you left the monsters to me," Nico said. "There's no need to keep shooting them." His skeletons were quickly taking care of all the monsters, with only some left.

"Hey, you okay?" Jet stared at me, ignoring Nico. I was wobbling on my feet and the whole world was spinning around me. I felt like I was going to faint any moment.

"Err yeah...! OH MY GOSH!" I yelled as one of the black dogs flew towards me. It was going at such a fast speed that even Jet and Nico were stunned. The dog pushed into me and I fell, backwards into the ocean, with a giant dog beside me.