Chapter 1
Birthday Gone Wrong
(Sean)

I'm not going to pretend that I never wanted to be a hero or anyone with special powers or an exciting life. The idea of a normal life always seemed dole, I always knew that wasn't my destiny my mother told me that. I am Sean Rush and this is my story. I'm 15 years old and live in Phoenix, Arizona, with my mother Kristina. She has raised me since my father left when I was a baby. I never knew who he was or why he left me and mother, but I always wanted to know him or yell at him. I have a lot of anger towards him, I 'resented' him. That is what my shrink says at least; oh did I forget to mention that I go to a shrink every Friday after school, great way to start the weekend, right. All my life I have had problems and I always had to get through it, like when I was 2 years old I started a fire in my mother's new house and was found after in the ruble and ash holding a dead snake. In addition, the time I was in accidentally sent a kid to the hospital in my elementary, we were playing dodge ball and I hit this kid so hard in the chest I accidentally broke 5 ribs, or the one time, well you get it I've had stupid luck, I just didn't know how stupid yet. So right about the time when I turned 15, stuff started to be weird or weirder. I'll start my story there I guess. It was August 9th my 15th birthday I was there with all my friends, Jonny, Devon, Jason, Emily, Lindy, Caroline, Abby, Emma, and Morgan. We started the party off with swimming in my pool in my backyard, one of the essentials to living in Arizona is having a pool, I love to swim, and then after swimming we ate pizza and drank various sodas. After eating we all start to dance, it was like 9:00 when we started. For some reason my house at night was the place to be according to my friends. The sky at night in my backyard was much clearer, like there was an invisible force field that made all light pollution and clouds not go in our airspace, honestly, it is a beautiful site. We danced under the beautiful sky until like 11:30 at night until the girls had to go home. But all my best guy friends stayed the night with me. Jason he was a 10th grader, but he looked too young to be in high school but he was a cool person, but he always seemed out of it like everything around us was something he never had. Then there was Jonny and Devon they were in 9th grade like me. So we stayed up until 2am or so and played Halo 4, I was killing them all, they all sucked because I was the only one with the game they all had halo reach still. Then we dosed off to sleep.
My dream that night was extremely weird. I was in front of this giant white cabin it had some weird writing on it Latin maybe, I could read it in my dream though it said B. U. N. K. E. R then right before I could read the rest of it. I saw a huge wolf. It was a reddish brown wolf had fresh blood on it and looked like it wanted to find some more meat for her hunt. Do not ask me how I knew the wolf was a girl but it was this feeling like I have seen her before, like a distant memory, but before I could think about it. She whispered in my mind.
"Brace yourself, everything is about to change."
I was so in shock that I just stood there in this daze, and then the she wolf turned around and started to walk away. Then out of know when it turned around so fast and snapped at me with its teeth right at my face.
I woke up with a jolt and screaming like a little girl about to wet the bed, everyone looked at me odd, except for Jason he was just lying on his side looking at me in a sad expression, it was creepy.
"Sorry guys, I'm okay just had bad dream" I was still looking at Jason, he turned around and went back to sleep. Odd, so I went back to sleep and dreamed a normal dream, about girls and me with plying around like a superhero.
I woke up and saw that everyone but Jason and I were in the room. My mother I guess went to work early and the rest of the people left early because their parents came and picked them up early I guess. Jason was watching TV then turned to face me when I sat up.
"Morning man, how'd you sleep?" I grumbled out of my bed and yawn.
"Good, whatcha watching?" Jason smiled and looked back to the TV.
"The history channel, wanna watch?" he gestured for me to sit on the couch. "There talking about how the Roman Empire was formed."
"I love Greek and roman mythology, but I never cared for the boring history part of it"
"So you know about the gods?" he said with a somewhat serious tone, which was well weird.
"Yeah, there mostly planet names like Neptune, Jupiter, Mars, in roman, but Greek's like Zeus, Hades, Artemis, so yeah I know about the gods of mythology.
"How do you know all this?"
"After I saw Clash of the Titans, the 1981 version and I thought that was a cool story, so my mom read me mythology at night instead of normal kids' stories. So I know about the myths."
"Myths…" Jason said under his breath.
"I'm gonna go get dressed I'll be right back, then we can head out for school." Jason nodded still staring at the TV.
I walked away. I went into my bedroom and started to get dressed; I was pulling up my jeans when I heard a step from behind. I turned around and then something happened I didn't see coming. Devon was there, he stepped out of my bathroom into my room and I jumped back startled.
"Devon! Jason said you left already, you scared the crap out of me…" Devon looked at me impatiently and then shifted to smiles and snorted like a pig.
"No man, I just jumped in your shower." I looked at him, his hair was not wet, he did not smell better and there was no indication that he had taken a shower today or probably in the last week, but I ignored it and left with Jason and Devon to school.

I live literally two blocks from our high school, Phoenix High School. The Phoenix was the mascot, our school always lost our basketball games and football games, but we were good outdoors stuff like archers and fencing and boy scouts. Jason was the best at all those things, you name it and he was the best at it. He was the best fencer and Archer and rock climber in the whole school. All the kids loved him and all girls talked about him, but he doesn't notice especially the girl thing. The only thing I beat him in was swimming, and the only reason that is, he never really tries because he does not like water.
When we finally got to school, we headed to Latin class with Mr. Wiener. Which was the best thing, because it was always funny to ask Mr. Wiener a question, he always cringed at how dumb his last name is. Jason was walking with Devon and I before he went to his gym class, then he looked at me very worried or scared even, then he said 'see ya soon' and fast paced to gym, but not towards the gym though. That was weird.
Then Mr. B's Dog that always sat in class barked, and it never has before but then it barked at Devon, then he Attack Devon. The dog bite Devon's leg and I jumped and tackled the dog to get her off Devon's leg, but when I jumped to help Devon and, I hit my head on the corner of Mr. Wiener's desk. Mr. Wiener grabbed his dog and Devon picked me up and ran out of the hall carrying me over his shoulder then everything went black.
I woke up in the middle of the woods and slowly took in my surroundings; I was behind the football field, near the archer range but a little further out. Then there was Devon, he was different now. Devon now had fur like a Bigfoot creature or a bear, he also had hooves instead of feet, and his face was deformed now. He was also starting a fire with a gigantic pot above the fire pit, then coming into complete consciousness I took in my surroundings fully and noticed I was tied up, I moved to try to slip my hand out of the knots but, I accidentally broke a twig on the ground and Devon turned and smiled darkly at me.
"The halfblood awakes."
"Umm halfblood? What's that supposed to mean" After I said that, his face got amused at my lack of knowledge, which annoyed me.
"You still know nothing" he muttered and started to chuckle at me, but I interrupted his laughing.
"Enlighten me then Bigfoot!"
He stopped laughing and looked at me.
"Who your father is, what you are, and they thought you were a threat." He snorted.
"What did you say? You know who my dad is?"
"Well, not really, it could be a couple but he's powerful"
"Powerful? What are you talking about? What is this? What are you?"
"I am a Satyr Nesi, the greatest of my race, all nature spirits fear me. Now if you'd excuse me I'm trying to make Demigod stew." He walked back to his fire pit with pot, he was pouring water into it and I could hear it starting to boil.
"What did you mean a Satyr? And about my dad being powerful?"
He looked at me and got a Madding face.
"Would you like to know," he said sarcastically. "Soon the plagues will come back and…"
Then suddenly he jumped back barley dodging a lightning bolt shot from the sky. From my side I saw a golden sword coming up on my right slowly walking towards Devon and Jason was the swords handler. Jason pointed his sword at the Devon.
"I am Jason Grace son of Jupiter, prepare to be monster dust." Devon laughed at Jason's comment and pulled out a branch with many sharp wooden spikes, Devon charged with full effort but no speed. Jason just sidestepped into his guard and stabbed the monster in the gut. The next thing I saw was a melting Devon turning into a golden dust. That made a little sand pile on the ground and Jason standing right in front; he wiped his blade off with his jeans. Jason turned and knelled down to cut me lose. While cutting me loses, I met my reaching point.
"What was that?! Why are you so calm? You're the son of Jupiter like the god?" I was feeling overwhelmed, I couldn't process what just happened.
"Sean, calm down. Take a deep breath." i complied and took in a deep breath and slowly breathed out. "That was a monster, a deformed Faun probably. Yes, my father is Jupiter and, I am calm because I have trained for this Sean." He cut my final rope and helped me up. "Follow me."
I followed him down the trail walking somewhat fast.
"Jason, he told me that I'm a halfblood." Jason turned sympathetically towards me. "What does that mean?"
"You said you knew the myths right, if my dad is a god and my mother was a human, what would I be called?"
"You're saying my dad is a god?" I laughed, there is no way I am a child of a god, and I am plain and boring Sean.
"And soon we will find out who your father is, but we have to go to your mother and tell her it's time for you to go?"
"Where?"
"I can't tell you yet, but what I can tell you is, you are a demigod, our oracle told us about you Sean and a while ago that's why I was assigned to go to school with you to make sure you were safe." We headed back to tell my mom what has happened today, she might know who my father is. We ran down the block and entered my home.