Hello Everyone! Welcome back to the fourth chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO! Fem!Percy Smart! Percy Male!Thalia Male!Annabeth Mentions of abuse

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Chapter 4: I Hate Ground Beef

"Sephie, Grover, are you guys okay?" My mom worriedly asked.

"I'm fine mom," My head throbbed in protest as I pulled myself up from the dashboard. "Grover?" I asked. He didn't answer

"Grover! You need to wake up!" My mom said. I'm pretty sure that she was worried too, but I'm pretty sure that there was some annoyance in her voice too.

I started to worry about Grover, so I unbuckled the seat belt, and tried to turn around to see him. Key word: tried. When I turned my body towards Grover, my arm fell down towards the shattered glass from the window, and glass dug its way into my skin, and I shouted in pain.

"Sephie, are you alright?" My mom asked. Not really, I thought. I just nodded in response.

I turned towards Grover again, but made sure to be careful this time, and seen that he wasn't awake. "Grover," I called, slightly worried. "Grover, get up!" He still didn't get up.

When I thought that nothing could get any worse, it started to rain relentlessly. Thunder and lightning started to light up the sky, and made it harder to hear the loud thumping that was the giant bull-man thing coming towards us. I hope Grover's okay, I thought, ignoring the storm overhead.

"Food!" He started to moan at last. At least he's not dead, I thought.

I happened to look out of the broken back window and seen what made my mom so frightened. There was a giant man-like thing coming towards the car, but it had a hairy body, with horns. That's a demon, I panicked inside my head, but on the outside, I was helping my mom drag Grover out of the car.

"What's chasing us?" I asked.

"Pasiphae's son,but that doesn't matter. When he comes close enough to you, he will smell you and charge, because he can't hear or see very well. When he starts charging, it's hard for him to switch directions, so at the last second you need to dive to the side." She answered.

My mom started to talk about this camp that my dad wanted me to go to, and that is where we were going, but why would he care about a stupid summer camp when he couldn't even stay with my mom and I.

We started to drag Grover up the hill, when my mom said, "Sephie, you need to get to that pine tree! That thing is coming after you, not us. We'll be fine!" My mom's voice sounded panicked, and I made my biggest mistake of turning around. The bull-man thing was running towards us with great speed. We're not going to make it, I thought hopelessly.

"I'm not leaving you guys!" I shouted stubbornly. We kept dragging Grover up the hill, when I heard my mom say,

"Split up!" Her voice left no room for an argument, so grudgingly, I let Grover go, and ran in the direction of the pine tree. I heard the pounding of big feet behind me, so I turned and was met with the site of the Minotaur.

If you're wondering how I figured out what this thing was, my mom always used to read me the myths when I was little, but this Minotaur didn't seem to care that he wasn't supposed to be alive.

It tilted its head downwards, and charged. Just like my mom said to do, I waited till the last minute, and then dove to the side. I got up from my crouched position, and turned just in time to be able to dive to the side again, when the Minotaur charged again.

I started to run to where my mom started to go, and I found her a few minutes later. I heard the loud thumps again, but I just wanted to make sure my mom and Grover were safe.

"Persephone Jackson, what are you doing!" My mom hissed as I ran up to her and Grover's limp body.

"Thank gosh, your safe," I said out of breath. "We need to make it to that pine tree!" I was surprised at the sternness of my voice, but we did need to make it to that pine tree. It was the only place where somebody could hopefully help us with this creature from the not very myths.

"Sephie, watch out!" My mom shouted as I got hit in the back by something really big. Ow, I thought. I got up and turned to face this big guy. He was starting to turn towards my mom and Grover, so I did something that seemed smart in the moment, but in hindsight was actually really stupid.

"Hey ground beef, pick on someone your own size!" I shouted. It turned around at my insult, and if someone could look angry by their body, that was the Minotaur right now. It tilted its head and charged me again. Yet again, I dove to the side, because the Minotaur could not learn its lesson.

That might have not been the best thing to say though, because the minotaur got into the charging position again, but this time it ran towards my mom and Grover. My mom threw Grover out of the Minotaur's way, and stood in her place definitely.

The Minotaur caught on to our shenanigans though, so when it was closer to my mom, it stuck its arms out either side, so there was no escape from him. He finally reached her, and when my mom tried to dive to the side, the Minotaur caught her by the throat and started to choke her.

"Mom!" I yelled, and started to run over to them. It was too late though, because when I was almost there, my mom told me to make it over to the pine tree, before she exploded into yellow dust.

I saw red when I saw that my mom was gone. The Minotaur turned towards Grover, who was laid out right near the pine tree. Oh no you don't, I thought. I ran towards Grover, picked him up, then threw him on the other side of the pine tree.

I took off my jacket and waved it, trying to get his attention. Luckily it worked, and when it turned towards me, I backed up all the way towards the trunk of the tree, and waited. At the last second, I jumped straight up, and used his nose as a jump-board. How I made it up there, I have no idea.

I landed on his neck, when I got the craziest idea. I grabbed onto a horn, and pulled with all my might, when I heard a snap, and then I fell off of his neck and onto the ground, with the horn in my hand. I stood up with the horn, and when the Minotaur charged me, I jammed the horn into his chest, and got back-handed. I flew backwards and my head landed on a rock when I fell to the ground.

I looked towards the Minotaur with blurred vision, just in time to see him explode into the same yellow dust that came from my mom.

I got up from the ground, and walked my way towards Grover, which was hard to do, since I had blurred vision, that slowly becoming black around the edges, and I felt dizzy. I grabbed Grover, and pulled him onto my shoulder. I walked past the pine tree, and was met with the most beautiful sight I have ever seen.

I didn't have time to sight see though, so I headed towards a big blue house, and seen a guy in a wheelchair, and a boy about my age, with curly hair, but I couldn't see the rest, because of my condition, and because of the nighttime.

I reached the porch, and got out, "Help...my mom...Grover." I just finished when I fell to the ground and started to lose consciousness.

I was awake long enough to hear, "She's the one, she has to be." Said one voice. Then,"Hush child, she is still conscious, help me bring her inside." That sounds like Mr. Brunner, I thought, before the darkness finally took over.