Chapter 2, My brother breaks an arm (not his own)

Heads up guys, this chapter's going to be a bit short. It's also going to be from an OC's point of view. I have other stories I've been meaning to work on, plus I decided to outline summaries of this story's chapters before I write them. Don't expext a pattern with my uploads. My chapters on this story could be a few days apart, or a few months apart.


Raven

I knew I shouldn't have let that crazy...whatever he was, drive my mom's minibus. Then again, it might not have been his fault. If my stupid brother hadn't gotten into a fight with that girl the old guy was with, or tried to grab the wheel to go back, we wouldn't have crashed. But I'll let him tell you that story.

Anyway, my head was spinning from the crash. Even after Annabeth pulled me out of the now burning minibus, I could barely think. I saw that Percy guy pull out my brother, Zane, his short black hair messed up and his forehead bleeding, his black leather jacket scratched up from the crash and his black jeans the same way. Jason and Piper pulled out our friends Luna, a redheaded girl with a ponytail (I have one too, but my hair's brown), wearing a grey hoodie and green shorts, and James, a guy with brown spiky hair, wearing a brown vest, yellow T-shirt, and green pants. Sierra, a girl with long black hair tight jeans, a red tank top and leather jacket, pulled out that old satyr, if that's what he really was, out. Sierra was the girl whom Zane had gotten into the argument with that crashed the minibus. If you're wondering how I know their names, the introductions took place later.

James and Luna were unconscious, the satyr guy, Hedge apparently, was stirring, talking in his sleep, like he was watching a football game. My brother probably had a concussion, but was starting to wake up. I could tell when his blood red eyes opened that he was ok. I'd always thought his eyes had a freaky color, but mine are heterochromatic, gold and silver, so who was I to judge? Speaking of which, both of Luna's eyes were silver, and seemed a bit brighter at night. James got lucky in the 'normal eyes' department. His were a deep forest-green.

"Are you guys ok?" Annabeth asked as she and her friends carried us up the hill and put us down, letting Zane and I lean against a nearby tree. James and Luna had been laid on the groud next to it. For some reason, just being next to the tree seemed to make me feel like I was healing faster. I looked up and saw some strange gold blanket hanging from the side away from the road, a serpent-like dragon coiled around the trunk, most likely guarding it.

"Yeah. I think we're ok." I said, right before the minibus exploded.

"What happened back there?" Percy asked.

Before I could answer, this weird monster landed on the remains of the minubus, crushing it on impact. My mom had told me and Zane about something like this. She called it the Chimera, a monster with the tail of a snake, which was hissing at us right now, the body and head of a lion, and the hind legs of a goat, which was the other head. Oddly, the lion head seemed to be on the goat head's neck, as if the lion took control so the chimera could walk bipedal.

"Stay here!" Percy shouted as he, Nico, and Jason ran to fight the creature. They drew swords, one bronze, one gold, the other a black metal I didn't recognize. They started attacking the monster like they did this on a regular basis. When the snake's head lunged at Percy, he rolled out of the way, letting the snake take a bite out of the ground before its neck got slashed, spraying blood like a hose. When they tried attacking the goat head, it breathed gusts of fire a them. It was really fast on its feet...or claws...or hooves...whatever, so it was slashing at them, and after a while, they were starting to tire out from having to dodge around so much while trying to slash the monster too. After a few dodges, Percy and Nico drew the goat's fire while Jason's sword started to charge with electricity. As soon as Percy and Nico drew the goat head to face Jason again, it got a blast of lightning in the face.

The goat head went limp, but then the monster stood on its hind legs, just like I thought it would. As soon as that happened, Jason flew up and shot another blast of lightning at the lion, somehow electricuting it enough to kill it. As if fell backwards, Jason nearly fainted and fell to the ground, being caught by his girlfriend Piper.

Percy stared at the chimera's body for a few seconds, rubbing the back of his head. "This isn't right." he said.

"What's the problem? You beat it!" I shouted at him.

"Yeah." Percy agreed. "But its body isn't dissolving."

Annabeth looked at him in confusion, then stared at the monster in similar disbelief. "He's right. Monsters are supposed to vaporize when we kill them. This one's corpse is still here."

"There's something else. I've fought the chimera before. Back in St. Louis. The goat and lion heads were side by side."

"Will someone please explain to me what the hell's going on already?!" Zane shouted.

Before they could answer him, another chimera leapt out of the woods and made a sound that was somehow a hiss and a growl mixed together.

Percy and Annabeth stared in disbelief, both drawing their swords again. Annabeth's looked like it was made of some kind of bone. "That's impossible." Annabeth said in disbelief and shock. "There's supposed to be only one."

"But there's two of these things! So what are they?!" Percy shouted.

My eyes zeroed in on one of its clawed forelegs. The talons were covered in blood, my mom's. I had to fight back my tears with all I had to avoid losing it around my brother. I needed to be strong for him. But when I looked at him, I could see him seething with anger, building until he glared with absolute hatred at the thing.

"YOU!" he shouted. He shot to his feet, making a run for the monster. The guys who had saved us tried to stop him, but he shoved them out of the way without even slowing down. I tried to run after him, but Leo held me back.

"STOP!" Percy shouted at Zane, but my half-brother didn't listen. He just ran for the chimera, screaming in rage. As soon as the monster saw him, it raised a lion paw and prepared to either smash or slash him. As he brought it down, time seemed to slow down. I was screaming for Zane to come back. I'd already lost my mom that day. I couldn't lose him too. But there was no stopping Zane from throwing that punch. As soon as his fist collided with the chimera's lion paw, I heard a loud, resounding, echoing crack through the air. I was horrified. For a moment, I assumed the chimera's strength had crushed Zane's skeleton.

But when the chimera roared in pain and pulled his foreleg back, dangling it like an injured dog would, everyone stared in shock.

"What the Tartarus?" Nico said.

Zane didn't even seem to get that he'd broken a monster's arm. He just started climbing up the other one onto the beast's back. The snake head lunged for Zane, but he caught it by the length of its fangs, slamming them into the goat's eyes. It screamed as Zane stomped on the snake head, shoving it so it could embed itself in the goat head. He then kept his food on the snake head, then grabbed its neck and pulled until he ripped the snake's head from the rest of the tail. The chimera seemed more disoriented than before, as if the goat head was trying to stay in control, but the lion head was fighting to stand up. Zane immediately grabbed its horn and pulled with all his might, breaking it off within a few seconds and jumped off the creature's back, right before the goat head died, allowing the lion to take control. It stood up, staring at Zane, who immediately threw the horn with unbelievable strength, not to mention enough accuracy to make it land in the lion's mouth and actually stick out through the back of the goat's neck.

The chimera made choking noises before falling to its knees, then landing on its lion face. Zane stared at the face down corpse, panting heavily before he doubled over and passed out, either from the concussion or exhaustion. Regardless, I ran over to make sure he was ok, picking him up in my arms.

"Get him to the Big House!" Nico shouted, putting his hand on my shoulder to lead the way. I ran for it, fearing for Zane's life, but also amazed by what he just did. Those other guys had almost died taking down that one chimera, but Zane took out the other one in just a few seconds. What that girl said about him being a demigod was starting to make sense, but even after it happened right in front of me, I could still barely believe it.