(A/N Hello! I have branched out of writing TV show fanfics and ended up in the PJO and HOO fandom! I hope you enjoy my story, please no hate. This is my first fanfic based on a book. Thank you for giving this a shot! Updates will probably be slow because I have five other books going on at the same time.)
"Arina, please stop tapping your feet." My teacher ordered as I stood impatiently beside her.
Ugh... don't you hate it when the teacher calls on you to do something? Today, Miss Mitchell said I looked 'lonely', so now I'm her partner for the field trip. I wanted to work with this new kid who just transferred, but NOOOOO, I'm stuck with my teacher who doesn't believe I'm ADHD. She just thinks I need some 'help'.
Miss Mitchell was this four foot five, mousy, brown-haired woman who always bossed around kids as if her life depended on it. I get she's a teacher an all, but can she lay off telling me I'm 'disruptive' and 'impulsive'.
"Well, we're justing standing here doing-" I began.
"We're observing the wildlife here, Cossy," Luther Davson pointed-out with a teasing look, flicking his blond hair to the side of his face.
"I told you to stop calling me that stupid nickname." I hissed, clenching my fists and willing myself to not punch the smug look off his face.
Luther Davson, a basic jerk who can't even get my goddamn middle name right. It also sucks that he's taller than me by like three inches.
"There's nothing wrong with your middle name." Miss Mitchell stated, ignoring Luther's alterations to it.
My full name is Arina Cosma Morales, but for some reason, my teacher thinks it's Cossy. My mum is an addict, but I don't think she could've been high enough to name me Cossy.
"Anyway, what wildlife are you even talking about? There's nothing here but trees," I said, gesturing to all the oaks and pines surrounding us.
"Yeah, why aren't there any animals here, Miss Mitchell?" Asked one of my other classmates, Julia Thomas, who was fiddling with her notebook nervously.
"Hm... that is somewhat odd," Miss Mitchell agree before looking around.
"Maybe Cossy scared them off with her yelling." Luther snickered to his partner, which just so happened to be the person I wanted to be partners with.
"I wasn't yelling," I spat, crossing my arms.
"Maybe they were scared off by your-"
"SHUT UP!" I yelled at him before losing my balance because of a miniature earthquake.
Massachusetts was on a 'spider web' of fault lines according to my old science teacher, so minor earthquakes always occurred. I've been experiencing earthquakes there since I was five, basically.
As quickly as the earthquake appeared, it was gone. Unfortunately, at that moment my teacher decided that I was being rude towards Luther.
"Arina, that's it, go to the school bus and wait there until the tour is over!" Miss Mitchell ordered, pointing towards the edge of the forest.
"But he-"
"And because you seem incapable of getting there without causing trouble, Julia, go with her." She finished, giving me a look that meant it was the end of the discussion.
"C'mon, let's go," Julia stated, giving me a sympathetic look before motioning me to follow her.
I gave my teacher and Luther one last glare before marching angrily with Julia towards our yellow school bus.
"Why does Miss Mitchell hate me so much?" I complained.
"I think she has a crush on Luther's dad, maybe that's why she's being so nice to his son," Julia suggested as we walked, twirling her brown hair.
"Well, I hope he doesn't like her," I spat.
Julia gave me another look before shaking her head. From there, we stopped talking. However, I did notice something change in her behaviour the moment we arrived at the school bus. Also, there were two adults I've never seen before whispering together in front of our bus.
"Hi, Mrs. Abercombie, hi, Miss Johnson," Julia greeted, seeming slightly dazed.
"Hello, sweetheart, what do we have here?" One of the adults asked, her voice sounding sickly sweet.
Another thing I noticed about them, they reeked. Damn, they smelled awful! How isn't Julia noticing it? Also, how does she know them?
"Arina got in trouble by Miss Mitchell," Julia elaborated, still seeming dazed.
"Oh, really?" The other lady asked.
"Who are you two?" I inquired suspiciously.
"Arina? What are you talking about? These are our teachers, we've had them all year." Julia seemed shocked that I didn't recognize them, her glassy blue eyes widening.
"Is this a joke?" I questioned her, turning to her skeptically.
"I'll let them watch you, I don't wanna miss anything. I'll give you my notes later," Julia said before waving to me and walking back to our class.
"C'mon deary, let's go for a walk." One lady stated, before leading me away from the school bus with the other lady trailing not too far behind her.
I cast one more look at my class and saw them all walking further into the woods, almost all of them completely ignoring me. Well, except for one kid who seemed confused about these two 'teachers'.
His name was Leo.
"Where are we going?" I asked Miss Johnson, finally figuring out who was who.
I stuffed my hands into my jean jacket's pockets, trailing behind the two smelly ladies.
Miss Johnson was about five feet tall, same with Mrs. Abercombie. However, Miss Johnson had this weird twitch on the left side of her face while Mrs. Abercombie had an odd limp. Otherwise, both of them seemed like relatively normal ladies.
"We're going for a walk to chat with you." Mrs. Abercombie answered me instead.
"Why?" Something about these two teachers seemed weird, for one, practically everyone seemed to think they're my teachers, and two, they smelled really odd.
I know I already said that, but they smelled REALLY weird. A solid 8.9 out of 10 for grossness.
"We want to talk to you about your, um... grades." Miss Johnson answered sweetly.
I nodded along, still feeling apprehensive about the duo. Something in my gut told me they were bad news, and my gut's usually right.
Well, in my opinion, it's right.
"Ah... a beautiful field, what a perfect place to have lunch." Mrs. Abercombie commented with a devilish grin, making me automatically tighten my backpack straps as we slowed to a stop at the edge of a field.
"W-what lunch?"
"You," both ladies suddenly turned into hideous vampire-like creatures before letting out a horrifying screech. I immediately ran.
I was running through the chest-high grass, which wasn't that tall for an adult but I'm extremely short, 4'5 to be exact. Not the ideal height when you're running for your life from monsters. Also, I didn't tie my auburn hair back so it kept on whipping in my face.
"I haven't smelled a demigod this delicious in years!" One of the monsters exclaimed in glee as she chased me.
Did she say, demigod? That can't be- I thought before tripping over something and face planting into the ground.
"End of the line," the monster said, standing a metre away from me with a victorious grin. Unfortunately for it, that victory was short-lived.
Suddenly, a silver arrow impaled the creature causing it to explode into gold dust. The second monster glared to the right of the field and murmured something before bursting into dust too.
I pushed myself up carefully, popping my head above the grass carefully and seeing roughly two dozen girls around my age in silver parkas.
"Come with me," one of them stepped out of the forest. The moment I saw her, I knew she wasn't normal.
How did I know? Normal girls don't have silver eyes.
(I'm transferring this story to Instagram so I'll be updating some of the older parts and editing them to my liking. Thank you for understanding!)