My name is Bobby Smith. I'm a daughter of Hermes. My best friend is Safire Ransome, a daughter of Poseidon, and we're going on a quest together with Courtney, a daughter of Demeter. Dunno her last name.
Everything was going fine. Until I fell asleep. I know, I know, real smooth. But I didn't get to sleep, and I was exhausted. One minute, we were walking along, the next, I'm snoring. Don't ask me where we were. You'll find out.
Demigod dreams are tough. They are never normal dreams, they're glimpses of the future, past, and present. So this dream terrified me.
In the dream I see a giant Dark thing. It's face was covered by a black hood and it had long fangs. It had thick sharp claws dripping with something slimy. I would bet every one of my drachmas that they were poisoned.
"I hear they are on a quest?" It says. It's voice is deep and scratchy, definitely not human.
"Yes. They are coming here." Says a high pitched and smooth tone. I see a skimpy monster. It's also covered by a hood, with long, thin, limbs tipped with sharp claws. It's eyes glow red and purple.
"Good. Let them come to Seattle. Then send an attack to them." Says the Dark one.
"Yes master. I will not fail." The lesser monster disappears in a storm of cherries. I want to laugh and taunt the monster, but decide against it, and wait to see what the big one will do.
Instead, I wake up in a cold sweat. I see Courtney is awake, but barely. Safire's kinda drooling. Children of Poseidon thing? Yeah, I've seen Percy sleep before. When he's not annoying the heck out of me, he's pretty cool.
Just for the record, I hate men. So do NOT get any ideas.
"You can go to sleep Courtney. I'll take the next watch." I say. She nods.
(Time skip to the morning.)
I yawn. "That was nice." Safire and Courtney nod.
"Yep. I love sleeping almost as much as I love annoying Percy. And I LOVE annoying Percy." Safire agrees.
"Come on, let's go to some greasy food diner. I am in desperate need of a burger and fries." I suggest. Safire nods and Courtney shrugs.
We exit the forest, but not before I change out of the clothes I slept in, which are all wrinkled, dirty, and stained with the morning dew.
We walk into a diner. I order a regular burger with fries and a milkshake. Safire orders a cheeseburger. Courtney orders some fries.
"With great power comes great need to eat greasy food." I say. Safire grins. We finish our food.
"Well this is good. No monster attacks so far." Safire says, glancing around.
I also take in our surroundings. Nothing seems out of the ordinary.
She spoke too soon. The lady who gave us our food turns into a empousa, and a giant hellhound appears next to her.
"Jinxed it." Safire groans. A bunch of imperial gold tipped spears appear in my hand. A bow and arrow appears in Safire's hand. (That girl never ceases to amaze me.) Courtney draws her dagger. The hellhound lunges at her, but she jumps out of the way. I figure she's got it covered.
I throw my spear at the empousa and it takes her arm down with the ship.
"I hate those things. They think they're so special." Safire mutters. She shoots an arrow at the empousai and nails it in the eye. The monster hisses as the hellhound turns to dust at Courtney's hands.
The emposa raises her arm and another hellhound forms, catching Courtney off guard. Safire shoots an explosive arrow at it and it explodes. My spears disappear and my bronze magic sword appears in my hand. I slice at the monster's chest and it sinks it's fangs in my arm.
Pain shoots through me. I back away. Safire gets hit in the leg by a dart, thrown by the monster. Courtney gets hit in the stomach by another one. We stand together.
"Well, I guess this is it." I say. Safire nods.
"Nice fighting with you." "We charge in 3... 2... 1-" the empousa turns to dust, with a spear and two arrows in the pile. My spear flies into my hand, I squint around, looking for the owner of said second arrow. Instead, I see a pair of evergreen eyes I had hoped I'd never see again.
"Kai." I snarl. He smirks, leaning casually on the doorpost. He fingers a bow in the hands, with a quiver strapped to his back. He has clean cut blond hair, which is slightly ruffled. Wearing black pants and a blue V-neck, he makes quite an intimidating figure.
"Bobby. Long time no see."
"Why are you here? To get back at me for taking the glory on your quest?" I ask. His eyes narrow, evergreen tendrils of light shooting through them..
"I just saved your lives. Be more grateful." I purse my lips and put my hands on my hips.
"We don't need your help. Ugh. I guess we owe you." The words are forced and highly reluctant. And he knows it. But he smiles.
"Let me heal your wounds Bobby Smith. We have a lot of catching up to do."
(Time skip)
My arm is in a sling. Nectar and ambrosia work amazingly, but they take time. Safire takes my uninjured arm and leads me away from Kai and Courtney, who are making small talk by the camp we've set up behind an abandoned store.
"Spill. Where do you know Kai from?" Safire asks. Her eyes are narrow with suspicion and she is tensed up. I sigh.
"He is a son of Apollo. Major jerk. He thinks because he's good with healing and archery he'll rule the world someday. At one point, we were friends. He chose me to go on a quest with him, and I accepted. But then I defeated and saved the people that HE was supposed to defeat and save, and he turned into a jerkface. Only guy I ever respected except for Travis, and he's gone." Safire frowns.
"Sounds like the kind of guy I would hate." I crack a smile.
"Oh yeah, because everyone else just loves glory-hungry a-holes." We both start laughing. We walk back to Courtney and Kai and pack up our stuff.
"Where are you going?" Kai asks, frowning.
"To finish the quest derp bag." I say. He scowls. "Oh yeah, and you can have this back." I take off the sling and throw it in his face. My arm cracks a little, but there's minimum damage. It is worth it anyway, from the look on his face.
"That's a nice look for you." Courtney says. Safire chuckles.
"Toodles Kai!" I say. He glares at me. I grin, and we leave.
We're walking along.
"We won't ever get to Seattle by foot." I mumble. (Chiron told us to go to Seattle, for future reference.) Safire nods.
"Let's take a train." I say. We walk over to the train station and get three tickets West. We sit on the train, and I doze off, hoping for a dream-free rest. I was wrong.
I was at camp. Everything was frozen. I ran to the Demeter cabin. Lucy was frozen too. My eyes widen, and I run to the big house, seeing Chiron frozen. I see myself, on an IM, looking horrified.
"Who did this?" I ask. I hear Safire's voice.
"The Boreads. Khoine. Any psycho god or Titan... This is the land covered in frost..." the dream fades away, and I wake up in a cold sweat. Safire and Courtney are sleeping. I sigh.
Nightmares suck.