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Chapter Five

Calli

The birds caught their attention by screeching. Mechanical, flesh eating birds. Perfect. It was an ear piercing screech and Zack was the first one to take action. He grabbed his bow and latched an arrow into it, and shot it, of course the arrow just bounced off the metal of the bird. There was three of them, but if arrows couldn't do anything then Zack couldn't do much of anything. While the horses flew and tried to dodge the birds, Calli got up and took the hair clip out of her hair.

Once she did, and pressed the middle of the flower the flower clip shifted into her sword, which had vine like designs down the blade of it. Rudy seemed to be concentrating on one of them, and Daylan pulled out his dagger. Aphrodites weren't known to carry weapons that often. Calli held onto the handle of her sword looking at the birds. One gold one, two silver ones. The gold one seemed to be the leader.

"Take out the gold one, and maybe the other two will leave." Calli yelled over the sound of the wind and screeching. Zack nodded and then latched another arrow and then aimed it at the golden birds eye. Smart. Calli looked at the golden metal bird as well and then looked at the flying horses. She pushed past the other three holding onto her sword and she jumped onto the horse, gripping its hair with her free hand. Daylan looked at her.

"Be careful Calli!" He shouted and she nodded. She gripped onto the horse and her other hand held her sword as she went to strike at one of the birds. She hit one of the silver ones but it just moved back and then dove at her. She was knocked off the horse. Thankfully, Rudy reached both his hands out and managed to grab one of her wrists before she fell. It was stupid of her to try and do that that. Daylan reached over and grabbed her other wrist and while Zack destracted the birds by shooting arrows the two of them pulled her up into the chariot.

The birds dove in and made the attempt to grab a beak full of flesh but Calli was pulled up into the chariot in time. Calli got back into her feet and she looked at the golden bird and she grabbed her sword and threw it at the bird, and nailed it in the heart it would seem because steam started to rise from it and the bird flapped its wings before it fell from the sky. Though the other two birds continued to fly at them to well...eat them. They each had to duck each time a bird woould sweep down to try and peck at their bodies.

"We got to fend them off or something. Aim for the chest area, it seemed to work." Calli no longer had her sword, she would have to wait for the hair clip to come back in her hair. Daylan gripped his bladed and then looked at Zack.

"Zack, take the blade, fire it like an arrow." Daylan handed him the blade and Zack put it onto the bow, and then pulled back the string. Calli and Rudy were busy ducking down and trying to avoid the two birds trying to pick off their flesh. Zack aimed at a bird that partically went after Rudy and fired it into the birds chest. The mechanical bird steamed up and lie the golden one, fell out of the sky.

Now their was only one left who seemed bent on destroying the chariot. Calli didn't know what they would do if the chariot went down. They were only just now passing into Ohio and she only knew that because she could see the huge signs that read 'Welcome to Ohio.' The silver bird pecked it's beak at the chariot. The only ones who had weapons would be Rudy with his magic and Zack with his arrows. Zack was doing his best to shot the last bird in the eye thinking it might help or something.

"Zack how stable are those arrows?" Calli asked and he took his eye of the bird and over to her.

"It takes a lot to break them." He said before launching another arrow but it just bounced off the metal. Calli reached over and grabbed an arrow from the quiver, even he was running low on arrows. Daylan had lost his dagger, and Rudy was concentrating on casting a spell, which in a moment, a blast of fire came from the book that he held open and it went directly to the bird.

It damaged the metal and it seemed that it would go steaming down from the sky but before it did, it rammed it's body into the chariot hard enough that the horses up front lost control and the chariot, as well as the bird went crashing down from the sky and down into Ohio.

Calli seemed to the be the last one awake, because everyone else was hovering above her. Her back hurt, and she felt..concrete? She opened up her green eyes and Rudy grabbed her hand, helping her up from the ground and she hissed out in pain.

"What happened?" She questioned. Daylan was the first to answer.

"The chariot got knocked out of the sky and so did we. We were out for a while..its night time." He said and pointed up. Calli looked up, and it was indeed night time. She noticed the golden chariot in pieces and ruins off to the side. Zack seemed to be on high alert, looking to the side.

"How are we supposed to reach were we are supposed to go?" Rudy asked. Calli cleared her throat.

"Well it said west. We are in Ohio and I don't think Ohio is were Demeter would be trapped...we have to figure out some clues are something while we are here, how we are going to fix the chariot, I don't know." She then looked at Zack whom was spaced out.

Daylan tapped his shoulder. "Earth to Zack." Zack then looked down at him. "Sorry I was just thinking." They were in one of the many alleyways of Ohio, the broken chariot off to the side and four Demigods standing there, confused and unaware of what to do. Though there was silence, there wasn't to much of it because the silence was broken by the shouts of two girls.