"Jesse," I stated calmly, still looking at the place Nyx was not 5 seconds ago, "I'll give you 5 seconds to explain what thehellis going on, or I will-," I didn't get to finish my sentence because Jesse started explaining crap to me.
"You know all those Greek gods and goddesses you heard about in school? Well they are all alive and you are actually the son of one of them. There is a safe place where we can go that protects people like you, demigods, we call them, or half-bloods, called Camp Half-Blood. They send sayters to look for demigods and bring them to camp. By the way, I'm a sayter. I know a wilderness spell that can yake us as far as New Jersey, but after that, we need to walk the rest of the way, avoiding monsters and such that hunt demigods down because of reasons. They are able to track you using your demigod scent, which seperates you from mortals, basically making you a walking satilite for monsters. So ready to go?"
I fainted.
Yeah I know. Not very heroic, but I'm not a heroic person.
AndI'm sorry, but what would you do if a bomb shell like this was dropped on you.By the way, the Greek gods are alive and you are one oftheir childern!
So I fainted, and when I came to, I was at a Murphy's. I smiled, because there was one thing my parents taught me.Where there's a Murphy's, there's a Wal-Mart.Thanks dad.
I looked around at the area I was in, and sure enough, there was a Wal-Mart twenty meters away. I saw Jesse exit the Murphy's with a bag full of items like food and drinks.
He walked over to me and asked, "You okay?" I gave him a smile to show that I was and pointed to the Wal-Mart. "I have 40$ and an empty quiver. Sports section," I said/commanded.
Jesse bit his lower lip. "I don't think that's a good idea." "Why not," I asked. "Monsters don't die when hit by Mortal steel. It has to be celestial bronze or imperil gold." "Well does it hurt," I asked again with an eyebrow raised. "Well yeah, but-." "Thats good enough for me," I cut him off, as I marched towards the Walmart with high hopes.
Time Skip 30 minutes
20 minutes later, I have a fully stocked quiver of steel arrows. As I was walking down the Wal-Mart parking lot, I saw a large hole. That I somehow didn't notice before. Inside the hole was a bubbling, melting hot, metal. It looked a mix of...BRONZE AND GOLD!
Jesse ran over to me and saw what I was looking at. "Oh no, Bruce. We shouldn't be here. Especially you." He sounded worried, like it was something more powerful than Nyx. I pointed to it, and asked, "Is this the metals you were talking about earlier?" "Yes," he admitted, "But don't touch it!"
I had two options. Touch it and suffer the consequences, or leave it and miss something that could save our lives in the future.
And so, swollowing all of my nervousness, I dipped all 75 of my arrow tips into that metal mix. It cooled the minute it came out of there. "Cool," I said, still marveling at it, when a woman's voice said, "Yeah cool, but also OURS, stupidmale."