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"Yes, help you. His father cannot help him himself, so he sent me." Athena said before turning back towards Blake. "The fates have a very interesting future for you, demi-god. You will be of importance to the gods so we will let you live. For now." Athena said with a gleam in her eyes. Next thing the duo knew they were several hundred miles away in the Kansas countryside.

Blake and Nick looked around at the landscape surrounding them. As far as the eye could see was flat farmland. To the right was a large wheat field. It stretched on until it reached to hazy horizon. Blake looked to the left and saw the same thing, but with corn. They seemed to be on a dirt path that divided the two fields. They decided to stay on that path for it had to lead somewhere. The relentless sun beat down on the pair with not one cloud to stand in the way.

"The journey begins…" Nick said looking down the long path. They couldn't see the end, much less a turn in the distance.

Blake followed his point of vision and groaned to himself. It was going to be a long journey to their destination in New York. "The journey begins." Blake repeated as they both stepped forward. The first step of many.

Several hours later they heard a large noise behind them. About a hundred yards back was a large black creature writhing in pain on the ground. Blake and Nick ran back to find a Pegasus with its right wing outstretched. The Pegasus was making a god awful noise that was probably attracting monsters like crazy. Standing next to the Pegasus was two teenage girls. They were trying desperately to try and calm the frightened beast. Blake's eyes were immediately the closer of the two girls. She was dressed entirely in black. She had on black combat boots, black skinny jeans, she had a black belt with spikes sticking off of it, and lastly a black tee shirt with skull and crossbones imprinted on it. She had gauges in her ear and a nose ring. Her hair was streaked with red and purple highlights.

The two girls looked like light and day they were so opposite. Compared to the gothic looking girl, the other girl was wearing: silver Toms, skinny jeans, a pink and white striped blouse, and a tan cardigan. Nick pulled out his reed pipe and started to play a tune. The injured beast slowly started to calm down, and eventually laid down his head to go to sleep.

"Thank you so much," The second girl said appreciatively.

"Not a problem. I can't stand to see an animal in pain." Nick replied as he gently stroked the Pegasus's mane. "As long as you aren't monsters in disguise that is," Nick said hoping they hadn't walked into a trap so soon.

The second girl laughed nervously. "No, we're demi-gods. I'm Callie and this here is Ellie." Callie said pointing at the gothic girl.

"Don't worry; I'm looking for a new name. Ellie is too nice of a name for how I look." Ellie said with a self-conscious frown. Callie started to laugh but quickly muffled it when Ellie glared at her.

"I'm Nick. I'm a satyr as you can see," Nick said pointing down at his still bare legs. He hadn't bothered with the pants or fake feet since there was no one here and the mortals wouldn't of been able to see it anyways. "And this is my charge, Blake."

"Nice to meet you," Blake said offering his hand to first Ellie then Callie. They both shook it. "So what are you guys doing out here in the middle of nowhere?"

"Chiron had gotten a IM message from a satyr out in Oklahoma saying he needed help. They were being swarmed with monsters and he couldn't defend himself. Chiron sent us with Simba here-"Callie started before she was interrupted.

"You named the Pegasus after a lion?" Blake interrupted curiously.

"Not important to the story. Now shush," Nick scolded Blake.

"Anyways, Chiron sent us to bring the satyr's charges back to camp. When we got there it had been too late….The satyr and the three demi-gods were dead." Callie said sadly with a tear starting to form in her right eye. She quickly caught herself and turned back into the cheerful Callie of a few minutes ago. "Then when we were flying back towards camp we saw one of the bloody Karpoi-"Callie said as she was interrupted again.

"Stupid grain spirits," Ellie muttered.

Callie ignored her and kept going. "It was the wheat one. He kept flying up to us with his husk-like wings. We tried to shoot him out of the sky, but Ellie must have reached too far or Simba turned too fast because Ellie fell off. Simba caught her before hitting the ground, but his wing must have been hurt somehow. I bet it was that cursed Karpoi boy I would love to make some cereal out of him. Anyways that's where we're at now." Callie said as she sat down next to Simba.

"He should be fine, but no flying for a while." Nick said setting her fears to rest. Just then they heard snickering in the wheat field to the right.

"That punk is going to wish he never lived," Ellie said as she pulled out her bow and arrows. She pulled out an arrow that was tipped with Celestial Bronze. She notched the arrow into the string. She pulled back the sinew and then released. Next thing they heard was a crunch as the spirit of the wheat was struck by the arrow. All they could see was a pile of Cheerios.

"Nice shot!" Blake said impressed.

"Why thank you," Ellie replied as she put the bow back to rest net to the quiver on her back. "I'm a daughter of Apollo."

"Do you mind if we travel with you guys?" Callie asked Nick ignoring Ellie and Blake's conversation. She had seen her shoot thousands of times before so she knew she wouldn't miss.

"Sure why not. Blake here puts off enough scent two more aren't going to make a difference. And with Ellie's shot you guys will be useful." Nick said with a smile.

"Hey! It isn't my fault." Blake said feigning a hurt pouting face.

Nick just chuckled. "Keep telling yourself that," He joked with another laugh. Callie and Ellie joined in his laughter when they saw his angry face.

"Fine then. Be that way," Blake huffed. He knew it was a joke, but they didn't need to know that. Blake turned towards Callie and pretended to ignore Nick. "So who is your godly parent?"

"Athena." Callie said as she closed her eyes in the shade. She was glad to be out of the hot sun.

"Sweet! She seems cool." Blake said admiringly.

Callie looked at him confusion evident on her face. "You've met her?"

"Yeah she saved us from these wild horses and this crazy dog. " Blake said as if it was an everyday occurrence to have the goddess of wisdom save him.

"Nice," Callie said hiding her anger. "More than she's ever done for me…" She muttered to herself. Nick heard her, but chose not to say anything.

"I don't know who my parent is…" Blake said sadly.

"I'm sure you'll find out soon enough," Callie said reassuringly.

"We need to get moving. We can't stay still very much or else monsters will come searching." Nick said looking around carefully. He had said it would be no problem, but protecting three demi-gods is harder than it looks, especially with one being as powerful as Blake, and as untrained as Blake.