Just writing this whilsst listening to Chameleon Circuit (dr who band)... how amazing is my life...
My magic tool belt malfunctions and no-one is happy
Leo's POV
"Oh, my gods, Leo, you have GOT to be kidding me!"
That was Connor, shouting at me. I mean, he had good reason to. We were in the middle of a fight with Stymphalian birds, but my tool belt was kinda messing up. I asked for a hammer. What did I get? Breath mints.
"Ha… ha… ha… oh. Arghhhhhh!" I screamed. Not quite as stealthily as I would have liked, I turned and promptly ran away. Oh, I forgot to mention – my head was on fire. That happens sometimes. Stupid spontaneous combustion.
I guess now would be a good time to tell you what's going on. After the prophecy, Rachel had this notion that we had to head to England. So we did; the five of us, Percy, Annabeth, Connor, Travis, Nico and I. It was like Harry Potter – following the spiders, except we were following the monsters. They led us here, to a mini-forest in the heart of Buckinghamshire. The cute little sign at the entrance to the wood named it as Pepperboxes Woods. And that leads us up to now.
Oh, my head has stopped with the whole 'I'm on fire!' thing. I ran back into the clearing.
Annabeth fished something out of her backpack – an iPod? I wasn't sure that now was the time for listening to some tunes, but Annabeth continued regardless. She clicked the screen, and some unearthly sound erupted from the speakers. Once my ears had adjusted, I recognised it as one of Chiron's favourite artists – Frank Sinatra. The birds made an ear-splitting shriek and ascended into the sky.
Annabeth smiled "I always keep that song at the ready; you never know when a Stymphalian bird flock may attack!" she said, looking smug.
Suddenly, I heard a shout of "Carter, what the hell? Stop messing around!" Then came an odd chorus of splashes, followed by a strange gargling/choking sound and… was that a horse?!
"Another normal day in the life of a demigod" I thought, as we went over to investigate.
Just wanted to thank all you awesome people who like this story! To the guest user - I'm glad you liked my prophecy, they're suprisingly hard to write :)
Meggymoocow out.