Chapter 2
Mara
Explanations
Hello my name is Mara Lagrange.
I'm twelve years old. Since my brother forgot to mention it we live in Baltimore Maryland. Like my brother I attend River End Middle School. My life was perfect until our new teacher came. Then it changed forever and not in a good way.
Well after our teacher turned to dust I thought that the day could not get anymore exciting. Of course I was wrong. Now that we just killed our already monstrous teacher we had to deal with the fact that my brother's friend had hooves.
I did not know how to react, part of me wanted to run away and pretend that this never happened; another didn't seem surprised and felt that this was perfectly normal. Tiberius seemed to have the exact same feelings. Following my gut I picked the obvious but stupid choice of staying. Now all I had to do was figure out what all of this meant.
"Start talking goat boy what was that thing."
"That was a Scythian Dracanae, a monster that has the upper half of a human female and serpent tails where their legs should be." answered the nervous satyr.
"Okay for what reason did it attack us and why did you not seem surprised by it?
"Well you see Ms. Connors was here to kill you because of the strong scent you and Tiberius give off. Also, the reason I wasn't surprised is because I suspected her of being a monster."
"What do you mean scent are you saying that we're catnip for monsters like you and her?" asked my now angry brother.
"First off I am not a monster. I am a satyr and it is my job to protect people like you from monsters and to answer your question in a way you are catnip for monsters. Now come on we have to leave I am sure your mother needs to hear about this."
Before we could ask any more questions Lloyd stomped off, put his shoes back on and told us to follow him. As he led us back to our house he explained a few more things. Such as our minds being hard wired for battle being the reason why we were able to do what we did back in the class room and that the reason for our dyslexia was that we are meant to actually read Ancient Greek. At the time I and my brother both thought that this was all a big joke. Next he explained that it was his job as a satyr to protect people like us from monsters so that we could go to a special place to be trained to survive, and that there were many others like us out in the world.
Pretty soon we arrived at our house where are mother sat waiting for us. Our mother is a short woman standing at about 5ft 5in with long brown hair that reaches the small of her back, and her eyes like mine our a light blue. Despite her short stature she is a beautiful woman that could move gracefully with the slightest of ease or take down someone without breaking a sweat. Right now she looked ready to take someone down.
It must have been mother's intuition because she knew right away that something was wrong. She quickly herded the three of us in the house and then shut and locked the door. She still seemed ready to fight but now seemed more relaxed. We were in for a long and hard conversation.
"What happened?" she quickly questioned looking in Lloyd's direction.
"Well Ms. Lagrange to tell the truth your children were attacked today after school by a monster. It may sound hard to believe but you must."
"I am not surprised I knew that this would happen eventually, both their fathers told me that it would. I am just surprised that did not happen sooner."
"Wait! You knew about this and never told us. Don't you think that would have been helpful? Mara and I almost died today." screamed my now enraged brother.
"No it is good that she did not tell you Tiberius because if you knew more monsters would have attacked you."
"Well is there anything else we should know now I mean Lloyd already explained that he is a satyr and it is his job to protect us from monsters like Ms. Connors." I asked finally involving myself in the conversation.
Looking heartbroken our mother responded "You must go with Lloyd to the place he told you about so that you can train to survive. Now before you can argue Tiberius it is for your own good so please just do as I ask. Go with Lloyd both of you and do your best to learn. Just know that I and your fathers will be proud of you."
That was the first time either of us had seen our mother cry and hopefully it would be the last. But now the conversation had me thinking mother had mentioned something about my and Tiberius's fathers. What did they have to do with all of this and why did mother make them seem important. For now it seemed that we would just have to wait and see what the future held for all of us.
In the next couple of hours we packed our things and got ready to leave. Lloyd explained that the place we were going was in New York near some place called Long Island. He described it as kind of like a summer camp for people like us to learn to fight and use the special abilities given to us by our parents. When asked what he meant he then shared with us the most heart stopping fact of all. Both Tiberius and I came from different fathers that were Olympian Gods.
At this point I was ready to fall over, after fighting a monster and finding out my brother's best friend was a goat from the waist down now they wanted me to believe that I was half god, Unlike me on the other hand Tiberius just stayed calm like this was all normal, and he listened as Lloyd and my mother told of the stories of others like us. Demi-Gods is what they called people like us and apparently there have been hundreds through out history that turned out to be Demi – Gods. Some examples given were Harry Houdini who was a son of Hermes the god of thieves explaining his ability to break out of locks; another was George Washington who was a son of Athena the goddess of wisdom which gave him a great strategic mind. Still the list went on and on.
When asked who our godly parents would be we were just told that we would have to wait to be claimed once we got to camp. Although Lloyd informed us not all Demi-Gods are claimed. On that cheerful note let us get back to the car trip.
In all it took about four hours to get there. About a quarter way up a hill our mother stopped the car and said that she could go no further. At first I just thought that it was just a strawberry field but as we got closer I saw everything clearer. There was a tree with a golden thing hanging from it guarded by something Lloyd called Peleus. Further down the hill there was a giant white house and a bunch of really weird looking building and cabins.
"Well here we are you two. Welcome to Camp Half Blood, the safest place in the world, for Demi-Gods."
