Hey guys I want to know what Luke's big fear should be to have in the chapter with the water slide. Review or pm me what you think it should be.
This is not my best chapter I just didn't know how to write this scene hope you like it anyway.
Chapter 11
Leaving camp, everything felt abnormal after being away from society for two weeks. I felt like a child but I wasn't the only one doing it Luke was staring in wonderment out the car window. Argus was our driver. He had eyes all over his body. He had tan skin with blond hair and then eyes littered everywhere some of them trained on the road some on us. He dropped us off at a bus station and with some money. It was drizzling outside and we were about a block from my apartment. I started at the building in the distance. Worrying about what my life is going to be like when I got back.
"It's going to be ok Percy," Grover speaks up reassuringly
"What how did you know I was worried?" I questioned him
"Satyrs they can read emotions. It's one of our things."
I looked at him quizzically "And you were going to tell me this when?"
He shrugged "It never came up sorry."
We started to play hacky sack with an apple from Grovers bag. Luke was so good he could hit it off of almost every part of his body although our game ended abruptly when Grover ate the apple we were using. He blushed and was embarrassed but I and Luke found it hilarious.
When the bus finally came it was starting to full blown rain and I was soaked from when a car drove up and splashed water on us. Getting on the bus, we all sat in the back so we could see who got on or off. On the next stop after we got on three old ladies's got on the bus and sat in the front. They all wore the same outfits but with different colours. They looked like sweet old ladies and they would have been if they hadn't looked like Mrs. Dodds. They crossed their legs in the shape of an 'x' giving one clear message no one was leaving. I looked over to Grover and Luke they nodded towards me letting me know they saw it too.
"Three of them." Grover whisper shouted at me.
"Three of what?" I questioned
Luke looked at me his eyes calculating. When he finally spoke it didn't make me feel very good. "Furies, Hades personal torturers. They are after you, Percy. We have to find a way to get you out of here."
"What about you guys? I'm not leaving you!" I tried to argue with them.
Luke wasn't having any of that, though. "We will distract them as you try to get off the bus.
"And how am I supposed to not be seen?"
The bus was hurtling towards the Lincoln Tunnel. When we were only a few feet away from the Tunnel just before we entered one of the ladies announced she had to use the toilet and then the second and third. They all started to walk towards the back of the bus.
"Now or never. Percy the seats." Luke muttered and shoved me behind him and Grover. I knelt down on the floor. There wasn't much room but enough for me to squeeze through right? (I know actual Greyhound buses don't work like this but I honestly had the biggest writers block trying to figure out how to get her to the front of the bus or away from the furies so let me have this one) I slid under one seat and then another and then another. I got some weird looks from people sitting around but I wasn't about to stop. When I passed the Furies by hiding behind someone's giant duffle bag. They made it to the back of the bus before they turned into their true form as Mrs. Dodds did in the museum.
They started screeching "Where is it? Where is it?"
I stood up looking back at Grover and Luke trying to fend them off trying to divert them from me. I knew I had to do something so I walked to the front of the bus. Looking back, it was a really stupid idea but it was the best I could come up with. When I was at the front of the bus I went to go grab the steering wheel.
"What the hell kid let go" The bus driver yelled at me as I tried to wrestle the wheel from him slamming the side of the bus into the side of the tunnel. The Furies were thrown into the wall of the bus and gave Grover and Luke enough time to actually do something. The other People on the bus were screaming as they were thrown about as me and the bus driver fought for the wheel.
The Furies looked towards the front of the bus glaring at me. They started to stalk towards me changing into their true forms their purses turning into whips, that looked like they were made of molten lava, and the shawls they were wearing melting into bat wings. They all shriveled up even more to look more like evil bat ladies. Mrs. Dodds came towards me. I quickly uncapped my pen and it turned into Riptide. Mrs. Dodds whip wrapped around my hand burning my flesh in the process. I let out a startled yelp as I tried to maneuver my hand out of the whips grip.
All of a sudden Mrs. Dodds tilted forward slightly giving me enough leeway to escape the burning grip of the whip. She turned around towards Grover who was throwing cans at her head. Her sisters were still coming towards me by crawling over the seats. When one of them was closer I swung my sword towards her but I missed only getting her to drop her whip. She lunged towards my pushing me into the seat behind my painfully. I swung my sword towards her middle cutting through it where she promptly exploded into dust on top of me.
Looking to the back of the bus, Luke was taking on the other sister and Grover was on Mrs. Dodds back. Luke looked like he was doing just fine but Grover was being thrown about on her back. Walking towards Mrs Dodds, I switched hands my sword was in and started to fight her from the front.
Just when I found an opening I looked her in the eye saying "I liked you better as a math teacher." Then sliced at her middle.
All of a sudden the bus lurched towards the curb where it proceeded to a stop. The smell of ozone filled the bus.
Luke shouted "Out NOW!"
I didn't argue and the other people on the bus didn't argue either. As I was exiting the bus a camera flash snapped my attention towards some overweight middle age man with the loudest Hawaiian shirt I have ever seen. I quickly capped my sword. The third Fury was still on the bus when it exploded and Luke, Grover, and I were thrown to the ground from the force. Luke was the first to recover and yanked at my elbow dragging me from the ground. Grover was already half way off the ground when Luke grabbed both of our hands and pulled us towards the forest across the highway.
Grover was mumbling "Our bags, our stuff, my cans oh my can they were on that bus."
We stopped after about twenty feet into the forest we stopped.
"Is everyone okay?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Grover answer whereas Luke just nodded.
"Percy your hand." Grover squeaked out looking at my hand in horror.
I looked down at my hand where most of my hand was a second-degree burn.
"Its fine it doesn't hurt that bad," I said lying through my teeth. I hadn't really noticed how bad it was in the fight with the Furies as adrenaline was taking over my system but once the fight was over and we made it into the woods the painful throbbing started.
"We need to find you some water or something to try and heal that. We can't have you lose too much blood." Luke said.
I shrugged in response. We all turned away from the direction of the highway. The sun was starting to set and we started to clearly walk towards wherever. I wasn't entirely sure just glad to get away from the highway.
