Hey, guys. Sorry this has been late, I just haven't been finding any inspiration, and I've also on a holiday. I hope you can forgive me? Thanks, MidgleyMacbeth.

Chapter Six – Next level weird.

All was going well. Reece explained that Camp Half-Blood is on Long Island, which I honestly hadn't heard of until that day. We talked Camp Half-Blood, Greek Mythology, he gave me a quiz so he could try and figure out who my father was ahead of time. Then the conversation turned personal, and even though he answered my questions, I could tell he wasn't speaking the whole truth. I decide to leave it.

I was rather enjoying myself actually. But all good things have to come to an end. Reece was just finishing telling the story of how he found out about CHB and when he was claimed, when this one did.

"I overheard Chiron quizzing the Athena cabin, and there was this one question that no one could answer! Chiron wanted to know that if he were taken hostage, and there were at least twenty guards, ten of them monsters, and Chiron was all tied up. What would you do?" Honestly, I zoned out at that stage. His words were blending together, informing me that there was a possibility that I was getting tired.

My mind wondered, what would this Camp be like? Would I have brothers and sisters, real ones? If so, what were they like? Would they like me? Dread filled me like water being poured into my body, filling my feet and all the way to my head. Would I be bullied again? Reece obviously didn't notice the look of pure dread that was displaying itself on my face. I snapped out of it just in time to hear the end of the story.

"… And after I said that, the whole Athena cabin looked at me like ohhhhhhh! And Chiron said that that was the answer, then the owl just popped up above my head, just like that! Cool uh?"

"What? Oh, yes… cool." I replied hastily, which earned me a look of curiosity and concern. Just so he would stop looking at me, I leaned forward and tapped the driver on the shoulder.

"How long until we are there, sir?" I asked. The taxi driver was taking us to the airport, where we were going to fly to New York. We had been in the car for half an hour and I was already running out of things to say.

"About an hour, miss. The traffic is unusually slow today." The driver frowned, clearly confused by something.

"Do you know why?" I asked politely.

"Well, it might have something to do with that tall scrawny lady with fake bat wings standing in the middle of the road, miss" I looked at his face to see if he was being sarcastic, and then hurriedly looked out the window when I realised he wasn't.

What I saw then was beautiful… I mean in an utterly terrifying way. It looked somewhat human, except for the clawed feet, and the two sets of wings sprouting from the bald women's back. I gasped. As if it heard me, the beautiful-terrifying thing whipped its head around at me, it had glowing red eyes. It looked at me, and grinned, like it found what it was looking for.

"It's a Fury." Reece told me while grabbing my wrist, making me face him. "Just do what I say, okay? I think it's after you." I nodded. He turned to the driver. "Stop. Now!" The driver must have heard the urgency in Reece's voice, since the tyres screeched so loudly, my ears were ringing when it ended. I don't think this monster's friendly. As if reading my mind, Reece told me the plan.

"Unless you can make friends with this monster, stay in the car, I'll go out and… distract it. While I'm doing that, I want you to make a run for it. You know those coins I gave you earlier?" I nodded. "Make a rainbow, throw a coin in, and say 'O, Iris, Goddess of the rainbow, show me Chiron at Camp Half-Blood.' And then explain what's happening. Hopefully we will get some help. Only come back if the situation gets worse."

I nodded again. Reece slowly got out of the car. Just then I felt as if someone else was watching me, someone who's not actually here. I turned around to face the front of the taxi. I turned to see my step-sister Elizabeth looking at me through wide eyes, glasses slightly askew. She was all misty, so I knew she wasn't really there.

"Fury," I tell her, not sure if she can hear me. "help."

Elizabeth sort of faded out a few moments after that. I looked out the window, and judging by the way Reece was losing a battle with the fury, the distraction wasn't going so well. I urged to go out and help him, but the sane side (if there is one) of me told me that I was unexperienced and I should do what Reece told me to. So I did.

I silently opened the door and slid out of the taxi. I slowly crawled away, constantly looking back to see if Reece was alright. He kept dancing out of the way when the rapidly growing Fury lunged at him. I knew it wouldn't last long. And it didn't. I was about twenty metres away from where the now empty taxi was when I turned around to see Reece snatched up in the massive claw of the Fury.

I gasped, it happened so fast that I almost didn't notice it. The fury threw Reece down with so much force that I heard a crack. I raced to where Reece was lying motionless on the ground. I raced towards the Fury, instead of away, like I was told to. Stupid.

"Oh, no… please don't be dead." I checked to see if he was breathing, he was, but it was very faint. I didn't have much time. The Fury moved its arm over its head as if it were about to swat us away like flies, which it was. I needed to get away from there, To Camp Half-Blood. I felt a tugging sensation in my gut and just like that, We were pulled into the darkness…