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CHAPTER FOUR: I TURN A BULL INTO DIRT

" διατί μι?" Marilyn was muttering. Translation: why me?

"I don't know. You didn't have to come- someone else could have came," I replied.

"No." She said firmly. "My prophecy said that I had to come with 'the one claimed by all'."

"Whatever." I responded. "Smell any monsters yet?"

Marilyn stopped to sniff and turned. Her pupils turned into vertical slits. "A-a-a-"

She was interrupted by a grunt and hooves pawing the ground.

"Don't tell me- half bull man behind me." I whispered.

Marilyn nodded slightly. "βοηθώ!"

I closed my eyes, hoping that when I was claimed, that that meant that I had a same bit of power over all things.

The grunting became louder.

I quickly opened my eyes and turned towards the Minotaur.

And as usual, Ireally wish I didn't.

This time, because bull man was less than seven yards away from killing me!

Gulp. I really wish I had read "My Mom Teaches Me Bull Fighting" from The Lightning Thief more carefully. At least then, I would know one way to kill bull man.

The Minotaur grunted and charged. He shook his head wildly as he aimed his horns at my stomach.

Uh-oh. Girlie go bye-bye.

"Athena!" Marilyn warned. "Jump sideways!"

What g- oh right. It worked with Percy, so why not for me?

I waited until his horns were less than a foot from connecting with my stomach. But instead of jumping sideways like I wanted, I ended up jumping in between his horns.

Ookkaayy. How the heck did I do that? Just like Percy, I was clueless how I did it.

Bull Man tried to shake me off his head first. Reaction to that: me hanging for me life on a horn.

Action: Bull Man tilted his head and pulled into forward gear straight into an oak tree. Reaction: screaming from me and my hands slipping from the horn.

Action: I fell on the ground in really excruciating pain- I think I twisted my ankle and dislocated my shoulder. Reaction: Bull Man turned towards me and charged again.

Action: I felt horns digging into my side. Reaction: Marilyn yelled as the horns removed from my side and I felt Marilyn's hands on me.

Raise your hand if you think you know what happened to me. It's either:

1. I died in pain.

2.I fainted and the Minotaur attacked both of us and we both die.

3.I lived long enough for me to tell Marilyn to go back to the camp and I die alone.

4.Or, I just plain lived.

Okay, who chose choice 4? None? Oh, I'm hurt. If it was 1, 2, or 3, would I be writing this?

I opened up my eyes in pain. I saw the Minotaur start to charge at us again.

"Marilyn! Run!" I ordered.

"But-" She began.

"Just run! The prophecy says one of us has to die, right?!" I yelled. My vocal cords hurt to speak.

Marilyn paused for a while but then ran away from me.

I closed my eyes again and pictured the Minotaur made out of mud just as I heard his breath. I waited for him to kill me. That would be an easier way to get to the Underworld, of course.

Instead, I felt hands shaking me. "Athena Artemis Dionysus Chiron! Get up!"

I groaned and opened my eyes to see Marilyn. "Where did μινώταυροσ go?"

"Look there." She pointed to where μινώταυροσ, aka, Minotaur, was charging me from.

I turned to that direction...

...And you know- I wish I didn't again.

This time, there was a brown Minotaur hanging over me.

Reaction: ignoring my twisted ankle and possibly dislocated shoulder, I quickly backed up into a tree, shocked to find the monster leaning over me frozen.

Marilyn laughed. "It's not real, Chosen One." Don't ask me- I don't know where that nick name came from.

"What do you mean?" I wondered.

"Um... I think you turned μινώταυροσ into dirt." She stated. She poked Bull Man's horn and it crumbled. "Yup. Definitely dirt."

"Uh-huh. Let's just get out of here." I suggested.

"Uh, Smart-alack, your ankle's twisted- how do you think you're gonna walk?" Marilyn reminded me. "Do you think the water can heal you like with Percy?"

"Well, I did I drown when I fell into the lake? If I survived that without sinking to the bottom, then, Poseidon isn't probably out to get me- hopefully, none of the others are either." I said. "Second, where are we gonna find water?"

As soon as I said water, it started to rain.

I was about to speak until I noticed Marilyn staring at me. "What is it, Goat-Girl?"

"Athena, you know that it's only raining on you, right?" She replied.

"Wha-" Then, I looked around me; she was right. It was only raining on me. "Weird. Well," I muttered when it stopped. "At least I can walk."

Marilyn shrugged. "Whatever you say, Chosen One."

"Oh, and one last thing before we go again," I stood.

"What, Chosen One?" Marilyn wondered.

"Don't call me Chosen One." I ordered.

"Whatever, Chosen One." She responded.'

"Now who's impossible?"

"Uh, you are."

"Ugh!"

Oh wait... I forgot to tell you where this happened, didn't I? Well, where do you think μινώταυροσ would pop up? Uh... Half-Blood Hill. Just like what happened to Percy.