CHAPTER NINE!:D
I don't own PJO
Jace
"Wait, so you were on my side the entire time?"
I was still trying to recover from what I just experienced. I still had no idea what exactly had happened.
"We don't have time to explain this." Izzy said. "You live around here. Get us out of here without being noticed!"
I lead them through the alleyways, each of us running as fast as we could. When we were a good three or four blocks away we finally stopped for a breather.
"Man!" Levi gasped. "We just took down a dragon! I'm so bragging about this to the others!"
"We didn't kill her," Izzy breathed, dusting herself off, so no one would suspect she was in the fire. "She escaped."
"What? How do you know that?"
"She didn't explode into dust like the others." She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Wait!" I stopped them. "What's going on?"
Izzy sighed, not even looking up at me. "You've probably guessed by now that you're not exactly normal," She ran her fingers through her hair, trying to get the ashes out and fix it so it would at least be presentable. "Well you aren't. You're a demigod―"
"Demi-what?" I asked. She glared at me, obviously not happy with me cutting her off.
"Or half-blood. That's what we call ourselves more regularly. Half mortal, half god." Levi answered. "Like, the gods in those Greek myths and stuff? Yeah, they aren't myths. And, well, they are immortal, after all. They're still here, and they still come down and, well, have kids."
"So there's really, like, that palace on Olympus, and the Underworld, and stuff?"
"Well, yeah, but they move."
"They move?"
"Western civilization." Izzy said. "They move to where the power is the strongest."
"So they're here." I concluded.
They nodded. "Olympus is right here, above the Empire State Building." Levi told me.
I looked up, as if expecting to see it just floating there. "So… if I'm a demigod, who's my dad?"
"Well, we don't know." He said awkwardly. "You haven't been claimed yet."
"And you guys are demigods?"
"Yeah,"
"Who are your parents?"
"Well, my dad is the god of the sea," Izzy said.
"Poseidon." I nodded.
"Names are powerful, Jace. Don't just go throwing them around."
"Oh," I frowned. "Sorry. So you said my. Does that mean you guys aren't siblings?"
"Not technically," Levi started. "No. My mom died when I was like, two. We're not sure how, but I ended up with Izzy and her mom."
It made sense. To tell you the truth, I didn't really believe that they were sibling until I realized they were on my side. I figured, if they were telling the truth about that, why shouldn't they be siblings? They didn't look alike at all. Izzy was kind of small, probably around 5'2, had long, wavy dirty blonde hair, and sea green eyes. While Levi was very tall, definitely more than at least half a foot taller than her, had dark brown hair, and piercing dark brown eyes. The only thing they had in common was being very thin.
"So then who's your dad?" I asked him.
"Hades," He shrugged.
"I thought―"
"No one cares about that stupid names are powerful thing. It's just a dumb phrase some paranoid Greeks came up with a long time ago to get people to not be disrespectful."
"Names are powerful, Levi." Izzy corrected him. "And you should at least respect the gods." He waved his hand as if it were no big deal. She looked back towards where we'd come. "We should get to camp."
"Where?" I asked.
"Camp Half-Blood," Izzy explained as she started walking out of the alley. "It's this, like, safe haven for demigods. We train there. Learn to fight monsters, learn to live out here in the mortal world. Most people just come during the summer, but some people stay throughout the year."
"Like you guys?"
"Well, we normally do go home, but Chiron asked us to stay throughout the year this year." Levi told me. "They've been expecting something to happen, and since we're both children of the big three, we're very powerful, and they wanted us there in case something did happen."
"Oh," I looked right and left then started walking again. "So you guys fight, er, monsters?"
Izzy smiled. "Only when we leave camp. Our scent attracts monsters."
"Your scent," I repeated.
"Yeah," She carefully looked around a corner and turned right. "Children of the Big Three always have a more powerful scent to monsters and satyrs. It works with your skill, too, like how long you've been training and how good you are. The stronger you are, the more your scent stands out."
"Satyrs?"
"Half goat, half man things." Levi told me. "Iz, where are you taking us?"
"I don't…" She stopped and looked around. "Know…"
"This doesn't really look familiar," I told them. "Where are we?" Izzy mouthed something I couldn't make out. "Excuse me?"
"What?" She looked up at me like she was coming out of deep thought. She probably was. "Nothing." She looked around and mumbled, "Major street. We need a major street."
"Sorry," I told her. "I don't know where we are, but if we―"
"This way." She pointed right and started walking.
I looked at Levi as we started to follow her. He shrugged. "For some weird reason, Izzy has really picked up Manhattan. She can lead me almost anywhere."
"I thought you guys spent most of your time at the camp?" I asked.
"We do." He said, confused. "I'm not sure how she does it."
Sure enough, we had reached a main road in no time. And where there are main roads, there's taxis. Izzy had already picked up on this, and managed to grab one's attention within five minutes of us hitting the street. "Long island, please." She said sweetly to the driver.
He didn't question why we were out of school.
And thank you for reading my lame filler chapter
