Author's Note: The point of view these chapters will go through will change. Just as Rick Riordan had done with The Heroes of Olympus, the chapters will go by the five characters: Hera, Danai, Evdokia, Thanasis, and Chrysoula.
Just a brief warning because it will most likely be confusing since I give no indication of what character I'm going to write for next. The list above gives insight on how I'm going to publish the chapters. Unless, of course, something needs to be brought up for the sake of plot progression.
Danai didn't appreciate how monsters decided to attack her friends with gross weasels when she was just coming back from vacation.
It had been a brief vacation of two days, but it felt like eons. Danai had finally gotten her poster for her art classes down after a week-long of hard-work. She had cleaned up her room, studied for her upcoming calculus quiz (Danai was smart in some cases), and played a game of Tetris with Evdokia do get a bag of Cheetos. All in all, her two-day vacation was quite good.
Oh, but those strange monsters couldn't wait until Danai had at least gotten out of the school's parking lot. She was walking up to those double doors that had a "Welcome Back, Students!" banner swaying from the brick pillars. Danai had seen that same banner for two years and absolutely hated the white on it. The Sun plus white words were not how Danai wanted to start her day.
Anyway, Danai suddenly froze when a low hiss came from behind her. She turned around and saw... a snake? What was a snake doing here? Who lets a snake in the school perimeters? How did nobody else find this snake? There was literally twelve other people who looked at the snake in pity as if it were a lost puppy.
When the snake (could it be called a snake? What snake was silver?) breathed fire, Danai decided it was best to go. But how she wondered. The snake was probably faster than her (to be fair, most things were faster than Danai), so she couldn't outrun it. Also, it breathed fire, Danai was pretty sure some metal doors wouldn't stop this stupid snake.
The snake hissed as Danai finished saying stupid. Okay, so now it could read minds? What was this thing?
Danai looked around and spotted her friend, Evdokia, running towards her with a bag of hot Cheetos. Oh, how nice of you, Danai thought, the hot Cheetos will match the hotness when I get burned alive! If Evdokia wouldn't have stopped running at that exact moment, the snake would have turned her into ashes. Danai had always wondered why snakes could be scary, now she had her answer: if it could move faster and breathe fire, then it's scary.
Evdokia seemed just as confused as Danai. She kept looking back at the snake, which was still just hissing little flames out, then Danai, then back at the snake and so on. Finally, she asked, "Danai, why is your snake blowing fire? Did you let it eat a blowtorch? I told you not to do that!"
Danai literally choked. "You idiot, how are you even in honors classes? And no, I did not let the snake eat a blowtorch." The snake hissed in agreement. "Also, I have only seen this snake today. Why would I own a snake?"
The snake continued spewing out little things of smoke. Danai thought it was calming down until it started choking like a cat does when it's about to spit out a hairball. In seconds, a skeleton of a weasel (Danai doesn't want to be quoted saying that) popped out in a puddle of acid. Now Danai was more confused than terrified.
"What. The. Actual. Heck." Evdokia described Danai's mood so perfectly it almost hurt. Evdokia started backing away out in... well, when you just saw a snake vomit out a weasel skeleton, it was hard to describe the emotions that one felt.
Somehow, Evdokia managed to get up to the stairs of the school in three seconds. Danai had to be impressed for that one. "You coming?" Evdokia called from the top of the stairs, still glaring at the snake in a colorful array of emotions. Danai saw disgust and confusion as the main ones.
"Yeah... Yeah, I'm coming." Danai eyed the snake as she made her way to the doors where Evdokia stood. They were late by ten minutes, but they didn't care. They were known to be late for class every day and their teachers stopped counting them as tardy.
The snake didn't make any sign to move, which the girls were fine with. Frankly, they wanted the snake to go away and crawl into a hole and let itself die by its own flames. But it didn't, it just lay there with its gray eyes and started spewing out a column of smoke.
"Wait." Danai lunged for Evdokia's arm. Surprisingly, she made Evdokia stop. "That snakes remind me an awful lot like those basilisks that we had to learn about, right?"
Evdokia blinked as the realization washed over her. She sent out a quiet, "Ohh..." then shut her mouth. "If that's true," she said. "Then that would explain why none of the other kids saw it. Those... basilisks were from Roman mythology, right? Then..."
"What did they call children of gods and mortals? Because I'm pretty sure that only those off-spring and other powerful forces were able to see monsters like that." To emphasize her point, Danai pointed to the basilisk.
"Demigods. You don't think..." Evdokia looked at her hands in wonder.
"Yep, I think that was the point, Evdoks."
A sudden cry of anger sounded off into the distance. The two girls looked at each other before running into the school building as the basilisk scurried after the girls, still spewing steam.