I'm going to try get a new chapter out everyday guys! I'm going to hammer these out but with all the college work I have now, the most I can do is one a day in the evening when I get home I'm going to try my best, as usual a review would be helpful, but feel free to enjoy chapter two of Dealers Choice!

Chapter 2: Life finds a way!

I slipped the ring onto my finger and could not stop staring at it! It had such a stunning design that I really couldn't peel my eyes off it. I touched the top of the ring as I was seemingly drawn to it and I yelped as it expanded into an imperial gold spear-no it was javelin or a Pilum as they are more commonly known in Roman history, I knew my school classes had come in handy. This is awesome! I thought as I took a few swings and accidently broke one of the vases I had on the table in my living room. Guess I should have thrown that out ages ago, so I quickly threw down the javelin and grabbed a dustpan and brush and began sweeping up the broken vase and I went out to the balcony and dumped it over the side into the huge compactor below.

I closed the door of the balcony and went back to pick up Verdict, but in its place was the ring, seems it can turn back to the ring any time it wants to, as if it has a life of its own! I slipped the ring back onto my finger and felt a sudden jolt go through me as if I had been shocked by lightning and I just shuddered and sat down on the couch, because I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep so I just closed my eyes and listened to the sounds I could hear throughout the building. The bang of the people above me in bed, gods know what they are doing but I could simply guess, the beeping of the traffic going by outside the building and my mind just racing as the ADHD kicks in with the boredom.

I felt myself slowly drifting off to sleep and suddenly I heard a huge crash and half the apartment wall gave way as I sprang up and brought the javelin out and pointed it towards the hole. My best friend aka Jerry came out of the hole and stalked towards me across the apartment, so I swung Verdict low and tried to break his legs, but of course Verdict then slipped out of my grip and flew across the room and impaled itself on the wall on the far side of room. I had a 'OH SHIT' moment as I dived behind the couch as Jerry leapt at me destroying the couch in the process of my diving behind it. I scrambled back against the wall, luckily enough next to Verdict which I pulled out of the wall and I stabbed it into Jerry's paw which was closest to me at the time and he yelped as I then got up and charged at him with a roar and he jumped out the building and I just simply jumped out after him and landed with a crash into the concrete.

I screamed out in pain as my feet made contact with the pavement, but I knew I had to keep going so I got up and ignored the intense pain in my feet as I charged after the hellhound or soon to be hellhound I hope! This bastard has chased me for so long and I knew I had to end it now or it will never ever end. I quickly ducked through the alleyways and jumped over signs following the hellhound until he eventually turns into another dead end, the same one from earlier on! I laughed thinking about how I'm finally going to kill this hellhound and be rid of him forever with my new weapon Verdict. I grinned again seeing the street lamps reflect off the weapon and how good it will be to finish him off!

Just as I raised the weapon to kill him once and for all, he charged me, knocking me down and he jumped into the wall and simply…vanished? Now…now that is something you don't see every day.

I slowly made my way back to my apartment and thought about today thinking about how I made a really bad choice and sat contemplating what I should do, until I realised I should go do what my neighbour said to do in the first place and go join this legion. She said it was our -kinds only safe harbour from the monsters if you're not experienced. So now I knew what I had to do! I had to back to the Caldecott Tunnel and join this legion, I could then truly learn how to master my weapon and discover more about my heritage, more then my neighbour knew anyway, I remember she told me last year shortly before I met jerry that I had to go search them out, because my father had trusted her with looking out for me.

I knew I had to make a decision soon and so I did, I packed a backpack, put Verdict back onto my finger and slung my backpack across my shoulder and went to knock my neighbours door. She opened it and when she saw me she smiled "Blake" she said sounding happy to see me to which I replied "Tara" and offered a smile in return "I am now going to head to camp and actually join the legion this time. I assume you heard of what happened earlier on when I first arrived?" she smiled again and nodded handing me a bag which I opened to reveal gold coins "use these in an emergency, they are from your father and I whatever I could scrounge up around the apartment anyway". I thanked her and then wondered how on earth am I going to use these in shops? I gave her a quick hug of reassurance and turned and walked down the stairs still limping slightly from the fall earlier as the adrenaline had all but gone now.

I limped outside and jumped into the nearest available cab and said, "Caldecott Tunnel please!" he turned to look at me and said, "you sure kid?" and I just simply nodded and glared at him hoping he'd take me there straight away. I handed him the wad of cash I had saved up from old job selling apples on the street corner. So, I just sat back and relaxed as the driver took me out of San Francisco towards the Caldecott Tunnel, the way back to this camp. I began thinking I made the wrong choice as the taxi pulled into the tunnel and my mind starting racing, but it then clicked, and I realized what I must do. I must train, so I can kill Jerry, it really is my only goal now in life since my stupid father left after my mother died in child birth.

I growled in frustration at the thought and slammed my hand against the seat in front of me startling the driver who swerved the vehicle towards the wall of the tunnel and he slammed into it at high speed and overturned. I cried out in pain as my head hit the seat in front of me and my vision went red, I then heard a voice in the front of the vehicle cry "stupid demigod thinks he can flee from me" I looked up through my squinted eyes and saw a man staring at me through my window, well he was upside down…wait no I was, as I unclipped the belt and hit my head off the roof, now the floor and he grinned at me as he looked at me with his one eye. Wait hold on! One eye? In the middle of his forehead? I didn't get time to think as he slammed his hand through the window and grabbed me by the top I was wearing and pulled me through the glass which cut my back in the process of being pulled out of the wreckage.

He finally got me out until I realized that he was my driver and then I was pinned up against the car as he sniffed the air around me, possibly trying to see whether I would smell good cooked or just raw as I am right now. "you do realize I'm better cooked then I am raw?" he smiled showing a few sharp teeth left in his gums, and oh gods the breath that came out of his mouth hit me like a stack of bricks. It was vile and made me gag. "a son of Janus! This is a rare find indeed" he chuckled as he slung me over his shoulder just as an arrow came out the middle of his chest and he cried out in pain before turning to dust making me drop to the ground with a grunt and I looked up as two teenagers ran towards me and my vision just went black.

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