FULL SUMMARY:

Christian Tucker is a child of Apollo and her demigod mother at the age of 17. She's been fighting her whole life to protect her siblings from monsters. When her and her family finally settle down her mother is killed and she's left alone with her 3 siblings to make it to Camp Half-Blood. What they're all hoping to find there is peace, safety and family and the option to stop running. Upon arrival to CHB she gets more than what she bargained for and life gets more hectic as she falls for a certain Golden Boy and enters a weird love square and has a quest to complete for her father. Rated T-M slow burn

CHARACTERS AS MENTIONED:

The Tucker's:

Mary Tucker - Mother - child of Aphrodite- Deceased.

Christian Tucker - 17 - daughter of Apollo and Mary.

Blaise Tucker - 15 - son of Ares and Mary.

Maya Tucker - 12 - daughter of Hephaestus and Mary.

Courtney Tucker - 7 - mundane - daughter of Mary.

DISCLAIMER:

This story belongs to Rick Riordan. I'm just borrowing his characters.

Chapter 2: Hot Ride

The next morning I'm waking up to Blaise telling me to wake up and let's go. I jump out of the bed fast. I can smell fire burning.

"What's going on!?"

"Monsters. They caught our sent," he says pulling on his shoes. Maya is tying Courtney's boots while I grab my bow and arrows and slide my knife into my combat boots.

When they're done Maya arms herself and Courtney has her dagger ready.

"We gotta go-"

As I'm telling my siblings to let's go a huge fireball crashes into the room next to ours. It knocks down the wall that connects our two rooms and it's burning everything fast.

"Come on," Blaise shouts. We're running out of the hotel room when a foot kicks me in my chest. The wind is knocked out of me and I fly back into a wall.

"Cyclops!"

I lay there disoriented for one second before I'm up on my feet again. I get my bow ready and begin launching my own personal volley of arrows.

Blaise and Maya are battling one cyclops while I handle the second. Courtney is out of the way. She's using her childlike size to our advantage by weaving some celestial bronze rope, that Maya had created, between the two giants feet.

At the last second when the monsters realized they were going to be trapped I ran to her aid and pulled hard on the thin rope. They came crashing down.

Maya and Blaise were ready with their swords and beheaded both monsters. I grinned at Courtney with a huge smile.

"That was great!"

"Court that was amazing," Blaise added while Maya and her high fived one another.

The moment is interrupted by a roar in the distance.

"Time to go."

I scan the lot for a car to steal. Every car that was there was either obliterated or stomped on. The white Lexus was the only car that was standing so we hot wire and steal that one.

As we speed away in the rearview mirror I can spot a cyclops in the distance where the Motel 8 once stood.

The medallion is swinging back and forth from the rear view mirror. I hold it in my hand and feel ease course through my body. We made it out of there in one piece.

My chest hurt like hell, but it wasn't anything that I couldn't take.

"So where are we going?"

"Jacksonville. We have to stop and get something."

Blaise nodded. "From our old town?"

"Yea," I whisper.

"Mom's diary?"

I nod my head solemnly. Our mother had always told us that everything we ever needed to know would be in a diary she left in Jacksonville. We lived there at one point in time and she buried it in her "grave".

In the backseat Maya was twiddling and working on something whole Courtney did "school" on the tablet that Maya had built for her so that she didn't miss out on her education.

I turned my eyes back to the road and we rode on in silence to Jacksonville.

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/

When we got to the city is was still plenty of light outside. The cemetery that we were going to was out in the open. Cars and pedestrians walked right by it. It was gonna be really hard to dig up a grave without being noticed.

I parked the car and we all got out.

"Maya stay in the car with Courtney. I don't want her to see this."

"Ugh! She's seen other stuff, why does this matter?!"

"Because I said so. Now stay in the car," I said in a commanding tone.

The 12 year old rolled her eyes but sat back in the car anyway.

I rolled my eyes too before walking into the cemetery. Blaise and I searching the tombstones for our mother's name.

"There!" Blaise is pointing at a headstone with a carving of two doves on it.

The name Mary Leanne Tucker stood out etched in the grey cement block.

"Caring Mother, loving daughter and courageous warrior. February 14th, 1980 to July 1st, 2015," Blaise read aloud. "How- how could it have the right date?"

I shake my head.

"Why does mom have a grave anyways!? This is stupid. It doesn't make sense." Blaise looks distressed.

I place my hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay. We need to dig up what we need and get our asses out of here," I say calmly.

He nods solemnly and I reach into the book bag and pull out a shovel.

"Tell me if you see anyone coming."

He nods and I start digging. I'm not even halfway deep when I hear police sirens going off.

"Christian we gotta go!"

"But the diary!"

He looks at me momentarily then nods his head. I see him run towards the parked car. Maya gets out with Courtney and he gets behind the wheel of the car and drives it off the lot. He swerves into the oncoming traffic at an illegal speed and the police cars chase him instead of coming into the cemetery.

I go back to digging. My muscles are burning but I put in extra work this time. I could hear sirens wailing in the distance and more police cars coming by.

"Here," Maya pushed me aside and threw something into the 3 foot hole I had managed to dig.

She yanked my arm and I followed her, running the opposite way of the hole. Within a few seconds I heard a boom and we were flying before crashing into the ground.

"Ooww," I groaned.

"Get up," Maya is saying as she tugs me upward. I groan again. That fall awoke the pain in my chest.

I stand and we run back to the hole that is now the size of a small crater. There in the center is a golden box. I slide down into the hole and snatch the box up. It's heavy and hot from the explosion. I give it to Maya who can withstand the heat.

"C'mon!"

We jog to the parking lot where Courtney is standing. She looks distraught.

"We need Blaise to get back here," Maya says.

I nod my head.

"Maya does Courtney's tablet have a Bluetooth signal? Like a way to access the Bluetooth in the car?"

Maya's eyes light up and she grabs the tablet typing furiously onto its keys. I hear a voice pop up on the screen.

"Blaise," I yell.

"Woah! How'd you guys- Maya you're a genius," he yells back.

"Thank you."

"Blaise you need to get back here we have the box."

"Well there's a problem. I think I have half the city's police squad on my ass and a helicopter overhead for a news crew."

I curse under my breath.

"Okay listen come back we'll figure out a way to get going. Drive back fast," I tell him.

"Don't worry I'm there." As he says that the call ends and he's there screeching to a halt in front of us. Police cars are about 300 yards away.

He gets out and he's grinning hard. I shake my head and get into the car, everyone else following. I stomp my foot on the gas and we're going.

"I can't believe we're in a police chase," Maya says.

"We need to go faster," I say looking for controls. There's a button I hadn't noticed before with a sun shaped symbol on it. I close my eyes and silently pray.

"Christian this really isn't the time to be sleeping," Blaise says nervously. I open them and tell everyone to put on their seat belts. When I hear the clicks I press the button and we're shooting forward at a speed I wasn't sure a car could even go.

/-/-/-/-

By the time the car stops I'm dry heaving.

When my breathing is under control I turn around and check for all of my siblings. They're all flushed in the face and breathing hard.

"Where are we," Courtney asks.

I check the GPS. Long Island, New York is the location it flashes.

"Guys we made it to Long Island," I whisper shocked.

"Woah," they all whisper.

I stare at the dashboard and check our surroundings. We're parked near the Empire State Building. We all get out of the car to stare at it in amazement. There are people walking on the sidewalk looking at us without a second look. I guess people that were bruised and dirty wasnt unnatural for them.

"We should find the camp," Blaise says snapping us out of our awe.

I nod my head and we all head back into the car.

Getting into New York traffic was the worst thing ever. I couldn't fathom why the streets were so busy.

By the time we're out of traffic the sun has gone down and it's getting dark outside and we're driving on a road lined with trees.

We continue driving in silence when Maya breaks the silence.

"Do we even know where we're going?"

I don't want to tell them that I'm lost, so I lie.

"Yeah," I say racking my brain for any hints my mom might have dropped, "mom said we'd have to find half blood hill."

The car falls silent and then Courtney speaks up.

"A hill like that one," she says pointing to our left.

I turn my head and sure enough the hill was there.

"Yes Court. Like that one."

We drive to the side of the road and get out. I stick our mother's diary into the backpack.

We all get together and stare at the car that saved us from possibly be taken to jail and cyclops.

We start walking towards the hill using the moonlight as a means of light.

I curse under my breath when I remember the medallion.

"Hold on. I forgot something in the car," I tell them before running back.

I open the car door and take the medallion off the mirror. I jog back to where my siblings were.

I show them the medallion. Blaise scoffs while Maya rolls her eyes.

I put it around my neck and feel ease spread through my body. With a nod we start our trek.

-/-/-/-/

When we get close to the hill we see a tall white pine then a noise in the distance.

We stop and look behind us. There's only the sound of growling and the sound of something big running towards us.

"Come on!"

We pick up our speed running up the hill as fast as we can.

The hill is a little slippery and Courtney keeps losing her grip on the grass.

I grip her forearm and pull her up as we ascend the hill. The sounds of our pursuers are getting louder.

We make it over the hill and the entrance is there. A huge sign saying CAMP HALF-BLOOD hung over the two tall pillars.

Blaise runs through first and Maya follows. I urge Courtney to go in after them but she runs smack dab into a wall. It looked as if she had run into a clear wall.

She looked back at me with terror in her eyes and I know i reciprocated that terror. The two that had already made it in turned around.

"What's wrong?!"

"She's not a demigod," I yell, "go in, find someone that can help."

Blaise nods his head and they both start running. I push Courtney behind me and pull out my bow and place an arrow in its notch.

I stand there silently waiting and listening for an attack. I feel Courtney's hand grip my shirt tight.

"Arm yourself," I whisper to her.

My heart is beating radically and I'm regretting not applying a salve to my bruised chest.

Nothing comes and suddenly it's there. A Minotaur.

I stare in terror as the hairy beast runs my way. At the last second I dodge to the left, grabbing Courtney with me. The monster runs into the force field and is knocked down. I run to the tree with Courtney, urging her to climb high into its branches.

The Minotaur is on its feet charging in my direction and I decide dodging isn't going to help me win, but fighting would.

I release an arrow and it sails and lands in its right thigh. That doesn't stop his pursuit. I launch another into his shin and another in his stomach. They also do nothing. I glance behind me and see my sister is up high. I turn back to face the monster and he's close now, I dodge left again and stops himself before he runs into the tree.

Before I can get up he's grabbing me by neck and my legs are no longer on the floor. I stare at the animal head and notice a missing horn. I mice to grab the other one, but it seems the bull knows all too well what I wanted to do. The grip on my neck tightens and I hear a faint scream from above.

I reach for the knife in my boot, but my body won't move. There are spots dancing in front of my eyes and I feel the urge to close them.

I try to pry the fingers from my throat but he's too strong. A sob racks through my body and I thrash my body around. The medallion around my neck is swinging and I grab ahold of it. Strength surges through my body and I think I begin to glow.

The Minotaurs eyes grow wide and I lunge for my knife burying it in its neck deep. The grip from my neck doesn't cease, however, it tightens. As I watch him slowly disintegrate I start to believe I will too.

I black out as my limp body hits the floor and the faint sound of my name being yelled.

(A/N) Thank you so much for the review! I hope everything makes sense and if it doesn't it will in chapter 3!