AN: STOP BOTHERING ME ABOUT THE GODS REACTION! I'M GETTING TO IT! Oh yeah, please review (don't be offended by me shouting at you).
"So we're going to Miami?" I asked as we walked downstairs, back to the gods and Chiron.
"Well the whole movement of the West thing also moved her birthplace and the playground of the rich and famous seems fitting for one of the vainest people out there," Alex replied. We walked onto the porch to only see Mr. D and Chiron out there.
"What happened to the rest of the Olympians?" Alex inquired.
"They got bored," Chiron answered. "So where is your destination this time?"
"Miami."
"The birthplace of Aphrodite?" Chiron seemed puzzled and then he got a little brain blast, "Of course, Aphrodite was born when Kronos threw Ouranos'…. privates…. into the ocean. That makes so much sense!"
"Why was Kronos touching his dad's balls?" I questioned, even though this wasn't the best time.
"That's not important right now Jon," Chiron hurriedly cut this conversation off before it could go anywhere. "Go get your stuff; I'll have Argus drive you to New York to get on a bus."
Alex and I quickly ran down to my cabin, not worrying about walking on people this time, and we packed our stuff quickly. Chiron gave us some huge gold coins that he called drachma and a big sack of cash. I was tempted to ditch the quest and go spend the cash, but I decided that I would probably get fried by Zeus.
It turned out that the guy who had been staring at me with his like thirty eyes was Argus and he was even creepier when all of his eyes were open. Apparently Camp Half-Blood had one of those Hotel vans so we were heading to New York in luxury. The sky was overcast and it looked like it was going to rain, perfect weather for heading in to certain doom. Argus quickly drove through the traffic, for it was not even six yet and no one in their right mind would be awake.
When we were about to enter New York City a gigantic force slammed the side of the vans, sending us sliding to the other side. I looked out the window and I saw a gigantic scorpion the size of a Greyhound Bus. We crawled out of the bus and we took our weapons out. I looked around for Argus, but he was pinned in the van and there was no time for us to free him without getting killed by the scorpion.
"What is this?!" I yelled to Alex.
"It's a giant scorpion!" She yelled back.
"Really? I hadn't noticed! How do we kill it though?" I asked, annoyed at her obvious answer.
"Ummm… Gaia sent this to kill Orion, but Artemis had already accidentally killed him so it went roaming around until it met a hero and the hero killed it by…… cutting its stinger off!" She replied.
I took out my bow, aimed it at the stinger, and let the arrow fly. It shattered harmlessly off of the stinger. I was seriously disappointed, I thought that killing monsters would be as easy as killing harpies, I guess not. I looked at Alex and she was staring at me like I was stupid.
"You have to cut it off from the back! It has impenetrable armor on the front!" she explained. "Gods, you should really think about this stuff first, Jon."
"Whatever, I'll distract him and you can sneak up behind him and whack off his tail," I suggested, dodging the scorpion as it charged at me.
"Oh, so because it's big and mean automatically makes it a man. Jon, that is so sexist-" she began, but I cut her off.
"Alex, this is not the time, go do it!" I yelled and she ran off. I picked up a rearview mirror, that had fallen off the van, and I chucked it, hitting the scorpion right in the eye. He, sorry, it let out this weird sound that was between chattering and a roar.
It charged at me at full speed and I felt like one of those matadors. I jumped to the side, rolling on the pavement. The thing let out its strange roar again and now it was pissed. This time when it charged I didn't jump out of the way I jumped towards that beast. I landed on one of its pincer-things and I quickly ran up it.
Now the thing was really pissed.
It bucked up in the air and I grabbed hold as fast as I could. The thing was whipping me around in the air as I slowly climbed towards what I thought would be its face. Finally I reached the eyes and I let go for a second to grab one of my daggers. I quickly jabbed down into its eye, piercing the black eye. The thing's eye was kind of like a crab eye, pitch black, and it stuck up in the air. Once it had been pierced I became soaked by juice that exploded from it. Yeah, it's as gross as it sounds.
The grossness of the juice and the surprise of finding juice in a giant scorpion's eye made me let go of the scorpion. The thing flung me back and I slid on the pavement. It began to charge at me, but suddenly it stopped and it let out its roar as its stinger fell down. It disappeared into a fine dust, only leaving behind a small pincer.
"Eww, what is that stuff?" Alex asked, looking at the juice on me.
"Scorpion eye juice," I replied and she made a yuck face, "Alex, next time be a little faster killing the monster while I get tossed around and then I won't get covered by a monster's eye juice."
"Shut up, I did it as fast as I could," she retorted, then looked back at the van, "Come on, we need to go unpin Argus."
We walked over to the van to still see Argus trying to unpin himself. He had made some progress, now only his legs were pinned. We climbed into the van and we began to cut everything apart, so we could easily pull it off. After twenty minutes of destruction (it wasn't work it was more like playtime) Argus finally lifted himself out of the van.
"Thanks," he said gruffly. "You two will have to walk from here, I need to tell Chiron that we are already being attacked."
We looked at each other, grabbed our stuff, and then we began walking toward the exit ramp, just as ambulances were speeding towards us. The walk to the Greyhound station wasn't that long, but we were silent the whole way, I had not expected for us to actually be attacked on the way. I had thought that this would be a nice trip to Miami to relax.
"Boarding to Charleston, South Carolina," a loudspeaker blared, bringing me out of my thoughts.
"Is that our bus?" I asked and Alex nodded, taking our boarding passes out.
We boarded the bus and we took a seat in the way back, so we could talk without being heard, and carted off to an insane asylum, for believing in monsters. Slowly the bus filled up until there were only a few seats left and the driver pulled out of the station.
"Well, this is going to be one the most exciting summer vacations we've ever had probably. I mean how many times during your summer break do you get attacked by a scorpion when it hasn't really started yet?" I joked and Alex looked at me, grinning.
"I guess that is one positive thing that will come out of this trip," she agreed.
"Well, the best thing about this trip is I get to have hero meat for dinner!" A man exclaimed in front of us, slowly getting larger.
"Jon, it's a giant!"
My first thought before we began fighting was, no, freaking, duh.
AN: Ok thanks to Bubblegum11 for making me find a more creative and less know monster than the ones used in the books. Keep reviewing and giving me ideas.