?: My life hits restart

I blinked open my eyes to perfect, clear blue sky. I was lying down somewhere. I sat up groggily and looked around. I was lying at the base of a hill, at the top was a huge pine tree, and wrapped around the base was . . . a large purple mass. It looked a bit like coils. I couldn't quite tell from where I was.

I stared harder at my surroundings; I was beside a desolate dirt road. Where was I? I had no idea where I was. Wait a second . . . I . . . I couldn't think of anything. I racked my brain harder, I couldn't remember anything. I couldn't think of my name.

That wasn't good. What had happened, I didn't know anything! Okay, calm down, said something inside of me. But I still started panicking, where was I? Who was I?

Next I knew, there was a horrible wailing from across the road. I shot to my feet and stared towards the direction of the sound. What the heck had that been? I shivered, my heart started racing. Something was wrong. Suddenly this green-snake-woman thing bolted towards me.

Then she was on me. There was a dagger in my hand. Where had that come from? The woman thing flew at me, I screamed. Her face was just inches from mine; horribly scaly and green, with fangs. My hand moved forward on its own accord. I pushed hard in to the creature and twisted with all my might.

Dracaena, the word flashed in my mind. The word sent a tingling down my spine. Slowly the creature dissipated into nothing but gold dust. I started shaking and let go of the dagger. It fell to the ground, where it glittered against the grass under the sunlight.

What had I just done? Where had that dagger even come from? What had that thing been? There were too many questions suddenly running through my head. None had answer. And I really wanted some answers.

I heard voices from behind me. Whirling around I saw people on top of that hill with the pine tree and cables. A few had bows, most had swords, and one had a spear. Who were they? They were all staring at me, and behind me. They started running downhill towards me. I stepped backwards. I didn't like people charging at me with weapons.

Then I heard noises behind me. Great, being charged from two fronts. This was just getting better and better, especially considering I had no clue who I was. Then I realized that the people from the hill were probably after whatever was behind me. I turned around. I really shouldn't have done that.

There were . . . a lot of monsters, for a lack of better words. There were about a dozen of those snake-woman things. As well as giant dragon-serpent creature. And it was about as tall as a two story building.

I froze at the sight of it all. I wanted to scream, I wanted to run, I couldn't though. There were so many. Even with the people coming behind me, I couldn't even muster the strength to move.

Then the warriors behind me were around me. Charging the creatures across from me. There was pure chaos all around me. Monsters were disintegrating, some of those people getting hurt and thrown around. I could see that the people from the hill were loosely forming a ring around me. Oh great, trying to protect the amnesiac - I really was starting to hate what little of my life there was.

The giant thing was suddenly looming over top of everything. It shot . . . something at me. I knew it was aimed for me, but it was strange. I couldn't actually see what it shot, but I knew it had shot something. Like it was invisible.

I dropped to the ground. I squeezed my eyes shut and pressed my hands over my ears to block out the noise.

Good gods! This is a miserable way to die! I screamed in my head. Gods . . . where had that come from? It set my mind on fire. This couldn't be happening.

Suddenly the whole air seemed to vibrate with living energy. It tingled and swirled, then exploded outwards. A force so shattering, I managed to hear the screams and cries, despite my hands.

The life and energy seemed to drain out of me. I open my eyes and removed my hands. I looked around. Nothing. Just those people, looking just about as confused as I was. No weird creatures, nothing. Well, that certainly was odd.

"What just happened?" someone asked. Shakily I stood up. All heads turned towards me. I blankly looked around. Who were these people? And where on earth was I?

My head reeled, I felt strangely hollow. As if there was nothing in me. What had happened? That giant thing couldn't have disappeared so suddenly, could it?

The crowd parted in front of me. Two people walked towards me. They looked like they were around 19 or 20. The girl had curly blond hair, and stormy grey eyes. The boy, he sent a jolt through me. He had black hair and green eyes. But he - he almost seemed to be . . . glowing. He almost looked like to me he was glowing. I felt sick.

They walked up to me; I took a small half-step back. Who were they? I felt like I should know them. Especially whoever that guy was.

"I'm Annabeth," the girl said. Her gaze almost seemed to look inside and analyze me. Something about it was familiar.

"My name's Percy," the boy said, "who are you?"

I stared at them. Percy . . . that named set my body a-fire with energy. I had heard it before. I wanted to reply that I didn't know. I couldn't manage to open my mouth. Slowly, the world around me dimmed into total darkness.