Chapter 1
I was... 12. 12 years old, and my entire life changes.
My name is Zach Mint, and my life is abosolutely bonkers. I mean it. Tea-spilling, crumpet-dropping two times ten mad.
As it turns out, my best friend, Alex Light is a Demigod. You know, like in Percy Jackson. I know, it's rediculous. But, apprahently, it's the truth.
That was Wednesday. This is Friday. I was on the front porch, watching the dogs use the bathroom... on the lawn. Not surprisingly. I just happened to look up, and freaked out. I mean, like "Oh, my god, my pants just got pulled off by a 219 foot purple labradoodle, over a pit of fire" freaked out. There was a box. A big, spinning blue box. And it was floating over my house.
O...kay.
There was a guy, leaning out of it. That made it even weirder. He was wearing a Bow-tie. That's all I remember.
Well, at least those aren't weird.
Had I remembered more, I would have known what was gonna happen to me.
But, I didn't. Then, the guy disappeared inside, and the box flew to the right, and kinda... evaporated.
I went to bed that night with a LOT of things on my mind.
All those things were just the begining.
I woke up the next morning, and there was a key on my pillow. It was an odd key. It was similair to a short sword, with a rounded off end. It had some triangles in a pattern on one side, and a pattern of circles and lines on the other. And the weirdest thing? It was glowing yellow.
"I must be going crazy." I said to myself.
"You got that right." said a voice in the corner.
I turned, and looked. And I saw the bow-tie guy in the corner of the room.