All becomes strange
I almost get kicked out of all the schools I go in. when I go into a school, there is always a jerk, girl or boy, that turns up after a week at that school. Then, a few months after the jerk, or teacher, comes to school, she or he will turn into something weird, like a scorpion like body with spikes on its tail. but it still had a human head! Weird! Sometimes I have nightmares about these creatures. Arg. But this was the strangest yet. Sort of.
I leaped on Jane, but she flicked me like I was a rag doll.
"You want to fight me, now? You haven't got one scrap of celestial bronze on you!" Jane laughed. I had no idea what was going on, let alone celestial bronze. "Why, if you want to fight me, then at least be prepared." And even as she said it, she grew wings and had snakes for hair, she grew teeth like a vampire, and, the scariest of all, she grew in size. AHHHHHHH! CRAZY AINMAL ON THE LOSE!
I did what any brave rich girl would do. I screamed for help.
"Quiet, Miss!" the bat-vampire-medusa-thingy covered her hand over my mouth.
Someone must have heard me, because I heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"I will destroy you, daughter of Demeter," apparently Jane didn't hear the footsteps. And I heard Lily, a servant, and my best friend. She through open the door with a rolling pin in her hand. She is one of the cooking servants. When she saw the creature, she yelped and stared hitting her with the rolling pin. Then another servant, Doug, came in with a golden sword. The creature looked up, and once she saw the sword, she growled and dodged, but Doug was faster. He slashed at her again, and with one touch of the sword, she perished into dust.
"Wa-what-wa-whats goooing o-on?" I finally made out.
Doug said; "I-we-will explain when we get to camp." As if I knew what he was talking about!
"I'll take care of your dad, Dhe." Lily said. She rushed out the door. I had no idea what she meant.
"Grab money, your valuables, and your story. Things to keep you busy. You're not going to come back in a while," Doug warned.
"But what about clothes, tooth brushes, and beds?" I asked, quite disoriented by the medusa-thing.
"They have it all at camp."
"What camp?"
"I'll explain later."
"You always say that."
"Get your stuff!"
"Then get out of my room."
"Fine. But I'll be waiting," Doug got out of my room, closed the door, and looked under the door.
"Doug, I can see you." I said. He humped and got to his feet.
I sighed. I knew I was moving. I trusted Doug. And definitely Lily. I slid into my secret garden where I keep all of my secrets, and one of my secrets is that I can seem to grow anything. I just seem to know what's good for any plant. Dirt and flowers is where I can think best.
Sadly there's always one problem. Every once in a while flower facts pop up in my head.
Anyways, my secret garden is where I keep my secrets, my valuables, an Indian arrowhead, an old book about the earth, - so I can measure roots and see where they should go, so on and so fourth, an emerald, my purse, which holds all my money, and a plant that I discovered. Its silvery-blue-green, softer than lamb's ears -the plant- and it glows. I found it when I first came here. It grew in little bunches, and I did some experiments on when to plant it, and apparently it can only be planted at the full moon. I call it Moonlight. I slid everything into my gray back pack. But my stories, ones that I write, I put in a green bag. With it I brought a few extra changes of clothes, just in case.
I heard Doug call out something, probably something like, 'hurry up!' I had some room left in my back pack, so I stashed papers and pictures of India, family and friends, pencils and extra blank papers. I ran out the door to meet Doug and Lily. They had a couple bags each, too.
"Follow me!" Doug said in a hushed tone. We ran towards the main room, and a maid shrieked when she saw us. I stopped in my tracks, but Doug ushered me on. We sprinted down the hall to the front door. Lily through open the door and slammed it behind us.
I could see the garden, with its beautiful and prefect circles of bluebells, violets, begonias, and quite a few professional cut trees. The water fountains (there's only two) still in place. So many flowers, so many trees, but I couldn't feel the warmth as I do in my secret garden. It was too prefect. To cultivated. Too tight. In my secret garden, I let things grow loosely but things still had their place. In here, at the front garden, things were tighter than a military school. I had I place in the yard where I controlled a little circle. People always said that was the lousiest part of the garden. I try to make it neat and beautiful. But people still said it was too messy. I was planning to put some walls around my small circle, so no one could judge my piece of land. My garden was the most wonderful place in the front garden. To me. I guess that's all that counts.
"Come on!" Doug said, shaking me out of my thoughts.
Where are we going? How are we going to get there? By foot? I seriously doubted that where were going was as close as the naboiughrs.
"Call a taxi," Lily said, as if it were obvious. I stepped up to the busy road, raised my right hand, and a taxi imidetly raced over to us. Doug, Lily, and I climbed into the back seat.
"New York, New York." Doug said to the taxi driver.
"New York!" the taxi driver exclaimed in his ruff voice, "That's too far." How `bout I take you to Medford and call it a deal?" Medford was a city near Boston.
"How much will it be?" I asked, finally gathering up the courage to speak.
"Mmmmm. . . `bout 26 bucks?" the driver reasoned.
"Deal," Lily automatically said. What in the world was she thinking?! I didn't have 15 dollars! And what is there in New York? Ok, yeah, it's like the most famous city in the U.S., but, really, why are we going there?
We raced through highways to Medford. Lily, next to me, ducked my head at random times. I had no idea why. When she did, I always looked at her, in a way that clearly said: What the heck?
When we got to Medford, the taxi driver kept on, well, driving. Ok, I thought. Maybe he's goanna take us to the other end of Medford. But when he got to the end, he kept on driving. I was about to ask two questions to the driver; Why are you taking us past Medford and Why are you taking us east instead of northwest? And I knew we were going east because the rear view mirror could tell us what direction we were going.
I had almost gathered up all the courage I needed to ask the driver these questions. But Doug took out a little silver square locket, which looked like it had a memo on the inside. He opened the locket and the golden sword I had seen earlier- that Doug had used to skewer that monster thingy- grew out of the memo. The locket was now a sword, perfectly balanced in Doug's hand. He slowly made the sword go through the drivers seat; but instead of making a mark in the seat like it should be, the sword just passed through the seat like it wasn't there.
But when the weapon got to the driver, he growled and turned to dust. The car stopped abruptly.
"What did you just do that for?" I cried.
"Just as I thought." Lily said as if I had never spoken.
"Yeah. If he was a real taxi driver, at least we wouldn't have to pay the bill." Doug said, ignoring me.
"But if he was a real taxi driver, then he wouldn't have been hurt at all."
"So? These mortals are always liars. I wish the sword would kill them all. I have been thinking about get a sword like that Luke guy. . . . ."
Lily gasped. "You wouldn't dare! Also, if the sword would kill mortals too, then there would be no more demigods, and gods and goddesses would rule the world. They would be bored out of their minds!"
"Mortals don't worship the gods any more. They're all caught up in this science. It makes no sense! H3O-''
"It's H2O, actually-'' I said, but again Doug kept on talking like there had never been an interruption.
"-it means bubbles, and that is ridiculous! Poseidon needed a bit of oxygen, and so did his animals! Abandoned all the gods!"
"But times change, and there are still a few mortals out there who worship the goddesses and gods! And think of all the demigods out there! Centaurs! Satyrs! Even monsters!" Lily screeched.
"The monsters don't warship the gods-''
"Would you just say goddesses for once?!"
"Why should I? Other than Artemis, all the goddesses are stuck up!"
"Do you want me to call Hera?! Cause you're asking for it!"
"You can't call Hera on command! So I just recommend you shut your sappy mouth!"
For some reason, Doug and Lily were getting bigger and bigger as they shouted and cried. The yelling reverberated in my ears like an earthquake. I didn't know much about what they were talking about, but obviously they were arguing.
Suddenly, I felt like I wanted to sink in to the ground. Forget about the car. I hated cars, anyways. Bad for the earth. The Earth. . . . . . . . . .
I opened the door of the car, the handle was so tall, but I had to open that door into the grassy ground. Doug and Lily didn't hear the creaking of the cab door, which I didn't mind. I closed the door and lay in the ground.
I could hear Lily and Doug's argument in the car, but their voices seemed distant; far way. Getting farther and farther away. . . . . . . . .
I sunk into the Earth, felling its warmth and love. All that mattered was the Earth.
Suddenly, I felt vibrations, and very strong ones, too. It shook me around, but not enough to throw me out of the ground.
Then they stopped.
"Ah, Dhe," A voice said inside my head. It was very soothing, hypnotic like voice. "You must help me." I tried to speak, but my voice didn't work. I thought, 'Who are you? What are you? Help you with what?' Apparently, this creature could read minds.
"I am Gaea, the Earth goddesses. You must help me." Just then, another voice came inside my head.
"No." The other voice was quiet and sleepy. The first voice, named Gaea, was hypnotic, as if she was hypnotitised. But the second voice was sleepy, as if it were asleep. "You must help me. I am Geb, the real earth god."
"Dont listen to them." Another voice cam inside my head, the most awake and strongest. "I am Tellus, the best Earth goddesses. You must help me." All of these voices argued with each other.
I was being torn from limb from limb; my mind went from one voice to another, and trying to make sense of all this, all at the same time.
Suddenly, I shot up from the ground and slammed back down again.
Unfortunately, I tried to land on my feet, and I didn't realize how far I had been off the ground. I heard my leg give away. I yelled out in pain. The arguing between Doug and Lily stopped abruptly. "Dhe?" I heard. . . . . . who? Was it Lily? Doug? "Dhe?" I heard the voice again. It was loud and slow; a deep voice. Doug and Lily ran out of the car. And-and- they were huge. Both were calling Dhe! Dhe! but their movements were slow and their voices deep and slow.
"Here! Here! Lily! My leg-'' I tried to move, and I yelped in pain. "AHHH!" I screamed. Everything was so gigantic. . . . . . . . . .
Then things started to get smaller, Lilys and Dougs voices were getting higher, faster and their movements growing faster. . . . .
I soon realized that myself was getting bigger, my bones, my skin; and my broken leg.
It was a never-ending pain. My leg was broken, growing, and the world was spinning randomly. Doug was grazing on a bush, which was a cactus, then a bunch of stars. . . . . . . and Lily was a helicopter, then there was a wagon in the air. . . . . . . . . . . .
I blacked out.
