chapter 3 i hope you guys enjoy it, and please don't forget to review and tell me what you think
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After Mrs Stillson told us that she had to leave, she asked us to get back to sleep, but as soon as we laid down I jumped back up saying "Mrs Stillson can you tell me more about my mom?" But she was gone.
"I bet she was amazing, she got the god of war to fall in love with her after all" Jackie said with a smile on her face, trying to cheer me up.
"Thanks, what about your dad, he must have been a real charmer if he got the goddess of witchcraft to fall in love for him" I replied
"Thanks, now try to sleep, we have a big day tomorrow" she said and I heard sorrow in her voice, I wanted to help her but I knew her and she probably wanted to be alone.
I tried sleeping but I couldn't, too much was on my mind. All these years I had thought I was an orphan because my parents didn't want me but it turns out they didn't have a choice, one was killed right after I was born and the other was banned from seeing me. But then I remembered all those stories i read about in Greek history, and now that I think about it maybe I should have paid more attention in class. Anyways I remember how they would sacrifice food to their gods and tried to talk to them, so I got up and picked the left overs that must have been left here by someone a while ago.
"What are you doing?" Jackie asked already half asleep
"Nothing go back to sleep, and remember I'm right here if you want to talk" I replied hoping that she wouldn't think I'm crazy for doing this
"I know you are" then went back to sleeping which was weird because she would never pass a chance to be sarcastic.
I walked up to the fire and dumped the leftovers in there then said in my head "I know this is crazy but if there's anyone there I sacrifice this to Ares, the god of war. I'm really going to need your help dad so please help me out here" I finished and I felt more stupid but I could swear I heard someone say "Will try".
I felt crazy and just wanted to go to sleep but apparently the day wasn't up for me yet.
I laid there for thirty minutes unable to sleep, just thinking about what had happened tonight and what I just did when I heard what sounded like large boulders being shuffled through dirt and suddenly every fiber in my body told me to get to Jackie, I rolled twards her and moved her out of the way, I expected something to happen but nothing did except for the fact that Jackie got up and screamed at me saying "what the hell are you doing!"
"I don't know I just…" and before I could finish I saw something green come flying at her and it pushed her to the wall before she fell down with a sickening "thud", I looked back and I found two things that from the waist up look like humans but from the waist down, they each had 2 huge things that looked like the lower half of a snake for legs
"I told you I smelled demigod, and these two look like they have a bit of extra flavor" one of the ugly things said to the other.
I didn't know what they were or what they wanted, but when I took a look back and noticed red spot were Jackie hit the wall all I could think of was "they hurt her". Then my memory went blank, next thing I know is that there are piles of dust on the ground and that the air smelled like burned rotten meat, so I turned to see how Jackie was doing, I ran to her side.
"Hey, are you okay is your head bleeding" I asked with a heavy breath, I didn't know why I was that tired.
"I'm okay I just hit my back, but that was amazing" she replied
"What was amazing?" I asked then she continues "how you just killed those things, don't you remember"
"No, I don't, why what did I do?" I answered
"well I don't know what happened to you but when you saw me hit the wall and looked back you saw this red paint then your eyes when red" she continued "you griped a flaming sick from the ones Mrs Stillson had used to make the fire and you started swinging"
Then the memory came flooding back to my head like an amazing 3D movie like the ones Jackie and I used to sneak into, but It was more of a flashback than a movie actually. It was amazing, I had picked up the longest flaming stick from the fire and, to put it mildly, gone crazy. I started swinging and I could swear I saw it turn into what looked like a sword made out of fire that I, without knowing, used to deflect attacks that the snake women were throwing at me.
I would dodge one of the snake legs and then jump over the other before I would use my flaming sword of doom to cut the first lady into half and then use it to jab at the other lady's hand, and then I cut the second ladies head off with the sword and swung it back at the one with the cut on it's hand cutting her in half then she started crumbling into dust. But then I couldn't stop I started attacking the cut up parts till they were little pieces before they turned to dust, but I couldn't stop, I started attacking the walls and the ground before I then heard Jackie's voice shouting and the fire sword stopped burning and turned to a piece of wood just like the ones Mr. and Mrs. Stillson had used.
Then the flash back stopped. It stopped just as Jackie was finished talking and I heard her say "you wouldn't stop till I stared calling your name and telling you they were dead.
What was that, it was great and now you have one of those sticks like Mr. and Mrs. Stillson" then I noticed that I still had that stick in my hand so I just put it in my back pocket and said "Let's get you up and back next to the fireplace" I said as I helped Jackie up
"What was that?" she asked "I never saw you fight before let alone kill monster. How did you do it, it was amaz…"
"Amazing I know, you said that already." I interrupted
"Well It was" she continued "how did you do that?"
"I don't know, I really don't" I explained "I just saw you on the ground and I went crazy, It was like I lost consciousness and couldn't wake up untill I heard your voice"
"Awww, you couldn't stop till…" she said in a voice I knew only too well, her sarcastic voice, but I stopped her.
"No not aww, this isn't funny, this is bad"
"why ?, what do you mean ?, this is a good thing, it means we will never be in danger again" Jackie said hopefully.
" No, this is bad. What happens next time I go crazy like that and I can't stop, I could hurt anyone around me. I could hurt innocent people if I ever go like that, I could even hurt you."
"No you won't…" she tried explaining but I interrupted
"It doesn't matter now, you have to sleep and I'll keep watch, and No that's not open for discussion." I expected her to shout or something but she said
"I'm too tired to argue but we'll talk when I'm up" and she laid down for the hundredth time that night and she was so tired it took her about three seconds to fall asleep.
I had to keep watch, but the whole time I was up I was thinking of what had happened a couple of hours ago and what I did, but every time I started to get a sense of pride I would think of what it would have felt like if I had hurt Jackie. After hours of thinking about it I decided I had to get rid of the stick, so I put the stick in the middle of the fire and watched it burn, then I went to sit down, and tried to figure out this whole mess but then I started thinking about the stick and as soon as I did it appeared out of nowhere in my hand. I kept trying to get rid of it but every time I thought about it, it reappeared, till I decided to stop thinking about it.
After hours and hours of trying to figure out my next step I heard a voice behind me saying:
"it looks like I have missed quite a fight"
I jumped towards Jackie and while in midair I thought about the stick and how I probably needed it for another attack and it appeared In my hand, but this time as a the burning blade of death from before.
"Back off" I said to what seemed to be half man, half white stallion
"Take it easy child, my name is Chiron and I'm here to help"
