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Mortals meet Greek world

I guess I should start from the very beginning. My name is Marie Laroche, and yes, I am French. My parents always thought that I was crazy. When I was a child, I always saw different weird monsters following kids my age to a weird hill with a golden shiny thing in a branch of a pine. I used to pass over that place to go to school, which was in New York. The first couple of times, I would tell my parents about what I saw, and they would tell me things such as: 'Oh, my little girl, what an imagination' or 'Oww, how nice'. They said it in a kind way, but I knew they were worried about me, and I just couldn't understand why they couldn't see it, but after some time, I stopped telling them, because it got up to a point that I was afraid of going to a psychiatric hospital. This didn't happen every day, but it happened every week, at least once. After two years of looking at them, I started seeing that almost every time one of those boys appeared, a boy with messy black hair and big sea green eyes appeared along with a beautiful blonde girl with grey eyes. They would kill every monster in a couple of seconds as if they had known each other for years. They were more like a monster-killer machine. The only monster they had some more trouble with, were with what I called 'bigdogs'. They were a gigantic dog with gigantic claws and teeth. Nevertheless, when one of those came, a hot slightly pale and a little short boy with volcanic black eyes, a black shirt and trousers and black hair would sometimes appear and yell something to them and made them disappear in a big hole full of darkness. I had always dreamt of meeting that boy. He seemed… interesting. And yesterday was that day.

I used to be one of the girls that presented and showed the school to the new students. I was considered to be a nerd, and, eventually, I got bullied. However, that didn't kept me from the hope of making new friends, at least for the first week.

Everyone was at the hall, chatting and excited at who would be the new students when the headmistress walked to the scenario. After saying the usual recommendations and info, she presented the new boys and who they would be presented with. After a few students walk up to the scenario, they called him.

'Nicolas di Angelo', said the headmistress. I looked in disbelief as the same volcanic eyed guy I had seen so many times before enter the scenario.

'He will be helped by Marie Laroche. Welcome to High School', finished the headmistress.

At this point I was more excited than an Argentinian winning the World Cup. Nevertheless, I had to keep cold in order to make him feel comfortable. I walk towards him and presented myself.

'Hi, I'm Marie' I said as we shook hands.

'I'm Nico. Nico di Angelo' he answered me.

'Welcome to Tirrex High School. Your locker is in front of mine, which is pretty far. Once we get there we will search for your schedule'

'Okay'

'So –I said as we started walking towards the lockers- are you a single child?' I answered so as to break the ice.

His face suddenly turned to anger and just then to sadness.

'I… I had a sister, but she… lives with my dad. But I have a half-sister that lives with me' he answered.

'Oh. So you get to see her right? Where does your dad live?' I asked, with some concern and some curiosity. As soon as I said that, we turned right in the corridor just to find ourselves in front of the Football team, the ones who always bullied me.

'Hello misses Rocky. Do you still see those little monsters? OH OH, WATCH OUT, A BIGDOG!' Mathew, the captain screamed, scaring me out and mocking me. Nico just looked me with a major interest.

'Shut up Mathew. Let me welcome the new guy'

'Oh, the poor little boy. Okay, why should I let you go? What can you do? Or what can HE do?' He said he as the worst insult he could have said and his five friends laughed.

Nico looked amused until they talked about him. That's where everything started.

'You want to see what I can do?' he asked the boys.

They all stopped to look at him and fell in a burst of laugh.

'Yeah, sure –Mathew said- why not?'

And that's when everything was turned upside down. Nico jumped and kicked Mathew's face, then dodge three or four punches and judo flipped one of them. Four to go. At this point everyone was watching how Nico was beating all alone the rudest guys everyone had probably met. I couldn't help but notice how fast he was and that every time he moved a black mist appeared behind his moves, even though that was probably his black shirt combined with his movements. After some minutes of dodging punches and kicks from the guys, he grabbed one of the guy's arm and jumped on it, breaking his bones. His scream was heard all over the school. The other three guys, Mathew included, ran away. Nico approached one of the guys, Thomas, and told him.

'Tell the others I don't stand bullies, okay?'

Everything Thomas could was to nod. 'Very good' Nico said as he approached me. 'So… where are the lockers?' I was surprised he wasn't even sweating.

We walked down the aisle to where the lockers were. We, or shall I say him, was receiving amazed looks and glares, but he ignored them. We got to the lockers and then we got the schedule. Classes passed normally and we sat together at lunch.

'So, is it true that you see monsters?' he asked me.

'No, of course not! Why would I see monsters?' I said a bit doubtfully.

'Marie, tell me the truth. Do you see monsters? It may be very important'

'Well, kind of' I said, relieving a pain and fear I had of telling it for so many time.

'When or where did you saw them or see them? Have you ever seen them here?' he asked.

'Not here, but when I go to school, I pass over a place with a shiny thing in a pine branch, and I sometimes see a boy followed by different monsters and sometimes a boy with sea green eyes and a blonde girl that go and protect the newcomer. I… I sometimes see you fight bigdogs…'

'Do you know your both parents?' he asked concerned.

'Mhh, yeah. Why?

'Oh, so you are just mortal. Okay. I'll explain you all. But first, did you just say you saw me?'

'Yeah, when the big dogs come, I sometimes do. Anyway, what do you mean by mortal? Of course I am mortal. We all are mortal. Right..?' I asked him, partly nervous partly shy. I think I blushed, but I don't remember.

'Well, remember when I told you my sister lived with my dad? Well, I didn't lie, because she is dead'

'What are you getting up to?' I asked, now thinking that seeing monsters wasn't so strange.

'What do you know about Greek mythology?' he said mythology in a mocking way.

'To tell the truth, pretty much, I always loved my Greek and Roman history classes'

'Good. The only thing is that they are not myths. Hades, the god of the underworld… he… is my dad'

'Yeah, sure. And I am trans (no offense, just something weird to say)'

'Look', he said, and pressed his finger into his lips. Suddenly, everything went silence. Nobody was talking or was able to. I tried to speak. I opened my mouth, but no sound came out of it. He took his finger out and everything came back to normal.

'So, who is my father?' he said with a devilish smile on his face

'Okay, keep going' I said. I wanted to hear why I could see all the monsters and the other things, because I knew not everyone could see it.

'You aren't a demigod, since you know your two parents, so that leaves one thing. You are a clear sighted mortal.' He said as if everything had been explained. I wanted to know more, to know everything I had seen what it meant.

'So…'

'So you can see through the mist, which is a magic curtain that separates the mortal world from the Greek world. Nobody knows too much about it or why some mortals can see through it, even though some demigods can manipulate it, like my half-sister I talked to you. The place you have seen is called Camp Half-Blood, a camp for demigods. The golden thing in the branch is the Golden Fleece, which has been brought back by the guy with green eyes, Perseus Jackson, and Annabeth Chase, the blonde girl. He is the strongest demigod in millennia and the blonde girl is his girlfriend, that's why they fight so well together. Regards the guys that try to get in followed by monsters, they are demigods trying to reach camp. They have a scent that attracts different monsters, so they run away from them. That's also why we can't use modern technology, they spread our scent. Oh, and the so called 'bigdogs' are in fact hellhounds. They are a monster created by my father, so I can just tell them to leave and they disappear underground. Is that all- he spoke to himself-. Yeah, that's all'

'Oh, hum, okay, I'll go to the bathroom.' I told Nico.

I arrived to the bathroom and started to process everything. After all, I have just been told that instead of a crazy freak I'm special. And that Greek mythology and gods are real. I started thinking and my mind just started to go crazy and I blacked out.

I woke up the other day when my alarm went off to go to school.

'Crap- I thought- how did I even get here? Probably someone found me and told my parents to bring me here and I've been asleep until the other day. I gotta go to school' as soon as I said that I threw up. 'Guess I am staying', I told myself.

Suddenly I heard another voice. Nico.

'Nico? Are you there?'

'Yeah, I'll clean that up. It's my fault.'

'It's your fault that I threw up?' I said not quite sure if believing him or not.

After he quickly cleaned it up, he looked at me, directly in the eyes and said:

'Yeah. It's because of the shadow travel. Sorry.' And with that, he turned towards the corner of my room and disappeared in a black mist.