Hello, my faithful readers. (I always wanted to say that! Haha) But seriously, I hope you checked out the new cover image. I made it on Pages. I tried to make it cool-looking.
Now we are moving on up (to the east side- I love that song -yeah, we're movin' on up to the east side (ignore this I love quoting songs)) to Detroit with Dawn! I'm excited about this chapter! BTW- Dani is short for Danielle, but Danielle was way to girly for her. Her nickname is Dandi- like as in "Dandelion"since she is a daughter of Demeter.
DANDI WEILDMAN
Dawn and I were hiding from a group of dracaenae in an abandoned train station. We had been holding off attacks like this for days. My mind reeled back to when I ran into Dawn…
My stepmother just kicked me out. She called me a danger to her family, attracting monsters to kill her children. She didn't care if the monsters were a threat to my life. She told me to leave and never come back, or else she would kill me.
So I went in the alleys, hiding from the city, afraid someone or something would find me. I scrounged for food, found blunt knives and metal pipes in trash bins, learned how to survive. I lived in the shadows.
I was wandering the alleyway looking for food, and then a glowing flower appeared above my head. I mean, like, right in front of me. It was headed in the direction of the bus stop, so I followed it. Well, it was glowing.
It lead me to Dawn. I didn't know who she was, but she caught my attention as she was getting off the bus. She was carrying a knife, which didn't seem to bother anyone else. She looked right at me and started heading towards me. She crossed the street into the alley.
"You're like me?" I asked. "Monsters come after you?" She nodded. We made a silent agreement right then and there- we were not going to hurt each other.
We'd been fighting monsters for days- black wolves, giants with one eye, women with snake-hair, and we had each other's backs in every battle.
Now, we were trapped in an impossible situation- ladies with snake trunks for legs, dracaenae, Dawn called them, were surrounding us in the center of the old, abandoned railroad station.
All of a sudden, a battle cry was heard from the outside. I heard several dracaenae stifle screams as golden dust flew everywhere. Dawn and I ran out from the old ticket office. A girl wearing silver with an arrow drawn in her bow was standing on the rusted tracks and another younger girl with olive skin and dark hair was behind her holding a silvery sword.
The older girl came over and said to Dawn, "This is Alex." She nodded at the dark haired girl. "We should get back to camp and introduce them to Chiron."
Dawn nodded in agreement. "This is Dani."
After that, we got on the train to New York. Kaya, the girl in silver, explained why the monsters attacked- I was a daughter of the Greek goddess Demeter. I came up with a nickname for myself, since I hated the name Danielle. Everyone would call me Dandi, since the dandelion was a plant and my mother was the goddess of plants.
So Dandi was my name, and that's how it was. Everyone, even I, forgot the horrible past of Danielle Weildman. I was becoming someone else, the person I wanted to be, which was still me, just without the stepmother and alleyways.
But no one sane could ever truly do away with a past that awful.
