I'M NOT A RAT
Percy's pov
This town gives me the creeps, I don't know what it is about this
place, it's just naturally creepy I guess. The town creeps me out, the
hotel we checked into creeps me out, even the people creep me out.
Maybe it just because everyone looks scared like those people in scary
movies that know there's a blood-thirsty monster on the run.
After another sleepless night we decided to visit Ravenswood to see if
we could find anything that would help.
When we reached the old rusted gates of Ravenswood we knew the first
person we saw which was both a good thing and a bad thing. Good
because we actually knew someone who could help out, bad because that
person was the chick from the mall yesterday. Apparently she
remembered us because when she saw us she jumped 10 feet into the air
and ran for the giant mansion that was right inside the gate.
"Mortals," Annabeth scoffed.
About 2 minutes later she came out with some friends there were 2
girls about her age, a black wolf, a leopard, and a gold rat. They
looked like an odd group one of the girls was tall and had long jet
black hair and wore all black the wolf seemed attached to her because
it followed her every move. The other was a little shorter than the
black haired one but taller than Kara, she had short red curls and the
rat was sitting on her shoulder. As for the leopard it stayed close to
Kara. "Listen here Punks," the girl in black said, "If you want to
keep your faces the way they are, you better leave now!"
"Look, toughness, we're not looking for any trouble w―" Annabeth
started moving towards the raven-haired girl.
"You've already gotten yourselves in trouble." the girl cut in moving
in on Annabeth the wolf still at her heels.
They were neck-n-neck, but before Annabeth could shot a come-back the
red head ran and got in between the two girls. "Adriane! Cut it out,
they didn't do anything!"
"Didn't do anything?!" Kara yelled, "That girl punched me!"
"That doesn't mean you try to get even, Kara." she said calmly.
"Who made up that rule?" Kara asked, "If someone messes up my face I'm
going to get even!"
"Look they most likely just came to see the preserve, and we should give
them the tour. Sorry about all that I'm Emily Fletcher, this is
Adriane Char'day, and I believe you already know Kara Davies." she
introduced the others.
"What about your friends?" Grover asked referring to the animals.
"Oh, this is Dreamer, Lyra, and Ozzie." Emily said pointing to each
animal, "Their some of our main attractions here at Ravenswood."
"The rat is one of your main attractions?" I said kind of confused.
"WHAT?! RAT?! I'M NOT A RAT I'M A FERRET!" Annabeth, Grover and I all
jumped back in surprise. Emily, Adriane, and Kara all seemed more
scared than anything. Emily put a hand over the ferret's mouth.