I don't know how long I was out for. A second, a minute, or even a day. But when I came to my senses and woke up I knew I wasn't in Kansas (or Maine) anymore. What gave it away? Maybe it was the fact that I wasn't standing on a cliff edge with Dr. Throne. What I was standing on however, was a pure white square platform with tiles patterned everywhere. Upon closer observation I saw that the tiles on the platform was very shiny. Reminiscent of marble. I looked around my environment and noticed that I was alone. I walked to the edge of the platform. Outside of the white square platform was just an endless black void. Absolutely nothing. I started to panic. Where am I? What happened to Nico and Bianca? How about the new kid? and most importantly of all, How can I get back? Before I could continue on with my little panic attack, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I jumped away scared from the sudden touch and almost fell off, but the same hand that was on my shoulder pulled me back onto the platform.
After taking a quick second to catch my breathe and calm my heart, I looked back to teach the poor son of gun who scared me in the first place a lesson. Unfortunately I don't think I can this guy a lesson. Standing at almost seven feet tall, dark curly hair with a beard to go with it, heavily muscular, wearing a green sleeveless shirt that has to be three sizes too small, dark denim jeans, and a pair of brown boots. Physical appearances aside, what really caught my interest was the tattoo of a lion on his left shoulder. A deep baritone voice shook me from my thoughts and it sounded exactly like the voice I heard on the cliff edge. "Hello there young Alex," he says and I just kept gaping at him. "We need to have a quick talk, before I offer you something."
I was sitting on the floor after all the information that was given to me. I couldn't believe what he just said. The ancient Greek Gods are real. A small part of me wanted to ask the if it's true that Hercules had an attack power of over nine thousand, but I refrained from doing so. Instead of dwelling on the fact that God's actually exist I turned to the man in question.
"why'd you bring me here?" I asked. After a few seconds of silence he responded while smiling and gripping my shoulder, "I've been watching you," I shuffled back from the now creepy muscular guy.
"You caught my interest with your whole hero obsession and I have just a few more questions for you." He continued on.
"Uh, thank you?" I said unsure wondering where this is leading and how I can get out of here as soon as possible. "why'd you decide to run after your friends?" he asked suddenly. I was thrown off by the question, but answered it.
"I don't know," I said while looking down, but I turned up to look at him in the eye "It was the right thing to do." I said with a strong conviction. It was what a hero would do. The man started laughing.
After about a few seconds of this he looked up to me and said, "Do you know what all heroes have in common? when asked why they decided to help someone in need, they responded with the exact same thing you said."
I responded with an unsure thank you and again tried to move away from this guy before he does anything.
"I've decided!" he exclaimed loudly before letting me go.
"You will be my champion!" He said before everything went black again.
My fist connected with Dr. Thorne's face and he was sent flying. A few hundred yards away underneath a crumpled tree and a dust cloud laid the doctor. Everyone stood in shock at the scene that just unfolded in front of them. Even the new additions to the group stood there in disbelief. The girls in silver had their bows lowered and stood with their jaws hanged open. Even Grover and the two girls he was with. I looked down to my hand and the memories of the last few moments in the other world entered my mind. What the hell happened over there?
"what the fu-" Bianca was cut off by the arrival of something.
Standing a few yards away from me was a mixture between a lion, a scorpion, and Dr. Thorne. It had the body of a lion with it's brown fur and mane, but the tail had a stinger and sharp protrusions coming from the end of it, but the most disturbing feature had to be the face of my vice principal on it.
"Y-You insolent child!" it began yelling at me while it's tailed rose higher.
"What I was doing to those children was strictly business," he stalked closer and closer. I positioned myself in front of my group.
"But for you, it shall be personal." before he could lunge at me, I put my hands up in a traditional boxing stance, but before anything between us could've happened, an arrow pierced his side and he fell in pain. A silver arrow. I looked to my left and saw the girls in silver from earlier had their bows drawn. The thing decided that it was too much trouble to try and get at us growled and jumped backwards towards to ocean below. When I ran over the edge I didn't find anything. He just vanished. Like magic. Nico decided at that moment to speak up.
"That was so cool!" He exclaimed, but it wasn't if what the man from earlier said was true then things we're about to get worse.