Sorry for not updating for ages!

Esther's POV

I am surrounded by idiots! All of them are idiots, idiots, idiots! I'll tell you, never go to the same school as these two numbskulls: Jeremy and Henry. Seriously, Lana and I had to save their big butts like twice this semester.

The first time, Lana, my classmate and fellow demigod (One of the brilliant ones, and a daughter of Athena) warned us not to open a box she had found that was labeled DO NOT OPEN in bold. But of course, what do you expect? Those fools opened it and unleashed a Stymphalian bird. You must be thinking, that's it... just one miserable bird? But no! For goodness sake, it was a school and there were mortals there.

The horrible demon bird started to chase Jeremy and Henry down the corridor, and the dumb fellow Henry ("Help!") choose the wrong time to crash into me leaving the both of us in a daze. Miraculously, Jeremy remembered that he had a celestial bronze sword and tried to hit the Stymphalian bird with it. I describe that scene as bad swordmanship, very dodgy.

Unfortunately, the bird was to quick for him and dodged the sword blow. Jeremy continued 'playing' with it swinging to the left, to the right, left, right. I could tell the bird was merely annoyed and would rip him to pieces soon if no help arrived.

Thank God Lana was on the way to the washrooms and saw us in our time of need. Remember, bows and arrows are better at killing demon birds than a sword swinging in all directions wildly. Lana aimed and managed to shoot down the demon bird and helped me to my feet," Leave those idiots there to receive a good scolding from the principle."

Sheesh, they really were dumb and unobservant. Now remind me again, why do I even bother with them? Henry was sitting in the corner begging the already gone Stymphalian bird not to eat him while Jeremy was still swinging his sword blindly yelling 'you accursed demon bird! Die!'. Gosh, seriously?

I figured out that because of the mist, Jeremy would look like he was swatting non-existing flies.

"Yeah, let's go. They're a waste of time." I concluded and walked back to lunch with Lana. What a pair of clowns those two are.

The second time, Lana was home for her father's birthday celebration back in Kansas leaving me to watch out for these two goons... alone.

They were definitely trouble magnets. Uh huh, no doubt at that. We were just out in the parks walking and chilling. Henry complained, "My legs are tired, can't we stop to rest?"

After saying that immediately he flopped down on a bench next to a really short guy reading a newspaper. This time, Henry's big mouth got us into a whole load of trouble.

"Oi. Shorty, could you move there a little?"

I groaned, and quickly said an apology, "Henry! Don't be rude! Sir, We're really sorry." The short guy glared at Henry and me. Something had unsettled me about this guy and I fingered my magical necklace ready to pull out the sapphire in the middle that activated my sword, Charybdis a gift from dad. I guess I was too late, the guy lashed out at me with a long knife that seemed to be from a kitchen. I only had enough time to block the knife with my sword. He was a Panes, a race of goat like men who were known to get violent when disturbed. I slashed but he dodged it and retaliated with another blow.

"Oh, shit. He's fast. It's time play dirty." I muttered.

I twisted the ring on my finger and disappeared. The ring was a gift from my mother passed on through the family for many generations, mother had Greek roots too. Unlike Annabeth's magical Yankees cap, my ring only worked for descendants of the ancient ruler of Lydia.

I crept up behind him, unfortunately the ring did not hide my demigod smell and cover up the noise my sword made when it swung through the air. The goat man lunged behind just in time to miss my sword blow. I cursed. By that time, Jeremy was already alerted that the short guy sitting on the bench was actually a monster and stabbed him from behind.

"What took you so long?" I demanded furiously. Henry was cowering like a baby on the bench.

Jeremy grinned crazily," I know you're jealous Es, but I did kill the monster goat."

I couldn't stand it any longer, I've risked my life for these two idiots and I get mocked instead. Jeremy got blasted with water from the nearest pond while I stomped away.

I promise you, that's the last time I am helping those nutcases again. Like in forever. I'll leave that to Lana, they always drive me crazy.

Thanks for reading! Not my best chapter though:(

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~Esther