Jimmy

I saw Percy flying down towards the school. He landed about ten feet from where I was and got off his Pegasus, Blackjack. He walked toward me and I could tell that he still didn't trust me.

"Okay, what do you want?" He asked.

"Listen," I began "I know you don't trust me, but believe me when I say this… Joanna and I have to come with you."

Percy looked at me like I was crazy. I guess it was because he didn't trust monsters, but I kinda thought he was acting like a dick lately.

"Um… no, you can't come with me."

"Percy, you don't get it. If we don't join you, the titans are going to win! Billions of lives are at stake!"

I could tell I wasn't very convincing by the way Percy was looking at me. I took a deep breath as I realized there was only one way to convince him.

"Okay, you want the truth? Fine."

I told him everything down to the last detail. At first he thought I was lying even when I showed him my license, but then he noticed my Lends.

"So, future man, why are you wearing a scouter?" He asked.

"It's not a scouter, it just looks like one. I told you this. It's a camera."

His smile faded when I said this. "Wait a minute… you've been filming my friends and I this whole time?"

"I know how it looks-"

"How can I trust you now?" He shouted, interrupting me. "How do I know you aren't just taping the camp to find our weaknesses?"

"Because I'm not Greek." I said. Percy was quiet for a second, trying to find a response, but I cut him off. "Do you actually think that a non-Greek monster would get wrapped up in something like this? Monsters in Myria want nothing to do with your war, or even you. The only reason why Joanna and I came to document you was because of a project that was due the next day and we didn't have jack. Now if you don't believe us, that's fine, but just know that you'll only be dooming yourself, your friends, and everyone on Earth including Olympus."

Percy looked at me for a minute, probably thinking of a response. Soon he finally spoke.

"Against my better judgment, I'll trust you." He said, still looking at me un-trusting. "But if you turn on us in any way…"

"You'll kill me, I get it. Not that you can, anyway."

"And what's that supposed to mean?" He asked.

"Well I don't know if you haven't noticed, but I can sort of regenerate."

Percy took out Riptide and uncapped it, turning it into a Greek short sword. "Oh really? Want to put that to the test?"

"Well you can try to kill me, but that's not gonna-"

Percy cut me off by slitting my throat. After that, he took a minute to slash away at me, drawing blood here and there. When he was finished, his sword was covered in black blood. I was still standing with about twenty or so cuts on me, which regenerated in a few seconds.

"Congratulations, you've just ruined my shirt and wasted about a minute of our time. Also, ow."

"AAAHHH!"

A scream came from the school Joanna walked into. Percy and I looked toward it and I instantly knew who the scream came from.

"Joanna!" I shouted as Percy and I ran into the school and burst through the doors. We followed the only sound in the building and soon we saw what Joanna had been screaming about.

In the middle of the hallway was a Lybia, a creature similar to Medusa, but without snake hair and vision that turns you to stone. She looked very young, but with monstrous features making her stand ten feet tall. Besides the snake body, she had green hair, purple eyes, and a smile that could scare any little girl to death.

As soon as we ran in, she spotted us. She was holding Joanna in her hands and was about to take a huge chunk out of her, but stopped when she saw Percy and I… actually, just Percy.

"Half-Blood!" she said as she dropped Joanna and slithered toward us, bearing her teeth.

Before she reached Percy, I stepped in front of him and punched her in the face, sending her into the wall and into the room over.

I looked at Percy. "Make sure she's all right. I'll handle this."

Percy looked like he wanted to argue, but didn't say a word. He nodded and ran toward Joanna. As I looked back toward the beast, she caught me off-guard.

The lybia tackled me back through the hole in the wall and coiled its tail around me, trying to crush me. I tried pushing against the creature, but I could barely hold it.

It was about to strike with its fangs, but it was interrupted by an angry Percy slashing at it. Percy made a deep cut in its side, shedding blood. The lybia screamed in pain as it looked at him.

"Get away from him!" Percy shouted as he raised his sword.

The lybia looked at Percy, which gave me the opportunity to escape. I pushed as hard as I could and gave myself enough room to squeeze out of the lybia's coil.

I landed on the ground and grabbed the lybia, slamming her head into the wall, then pulled her to the ground. I was about to finish her off when something happened.

"NO!" Screamed a voice nearby. I looked to see Joanna as she tackled me to the ground, freeing the lybia.

The lybia knocked Percy aside and slithered toward us. I braced for impact when I hard Joanna shout, "Et stupescere!"

A purple beam shot out from the wand she was holding and hit the lybia in the forehead. The creature flew back through the hallway, turning back into its normal form. I couldn't tell what her normal form was, but I could see its head connecting with the stone wall as it hit the ground.

Joanna let out a breath as she lowered the wand, which disintegrated into dust.

Out of anger, I grabbed Joanna and shook her. "What the Hell, Joanna? I had her! If you hadn't interrupted me, we could have used the last spell to save so much time! Are you…"

All Joanna did was point in the direction of the Lybia. I looked and that's when I saw what she meant. Instead of a beast, all there was on the ground was a passed out little girl in a nun uniform. The lybia was a kid!

"Oh…" I said as I ran toward the child.

When I reached her, I knelt down beside her as Joanna and Percy joined me.

"Kid, can you hear me?" I asked, holding her. "Kid!"

I checked her pulse. Luckily, she was still alive. I let out a sigh of relief.

"W-wait," Percy said "a young lybia? I thought there was only one."

"Oh, no." Joanna said. "There's more of them. On Myria, there's an entire race of them. I think there's… five… maybe six thousand?"

"Holy Zues." Percy said, scared.

"Yeah, and don't even get me started on sirens."

"What's wrong with sirens?"

"Ever since their race came to Myria, they've been taking over the music industry. At least until the eighties."

"Why? What happened in the eighties?"

(Flashback)

-An overview of a city-

GUITARIST: Okay, my mic works. Marty! Try yours!

MARTY (Siren): Got ya! Testing! Testing! One Two THREE!

-There is a large explosion engulfing three buildings-

(End of flashback)

"The mic wasn't even plugged in." Joanna said, looking at Percy. "Thank the gods those buildings were empty."

"Will you two shut up!" I said, looking at them. "Incase you haven't noticed, we have a kid on the ground possibly in a concussion in a deserted school with blood stains everywhere! Sooner or later, the police are gonna notice and I want to get out of here before-"

"Ugh…" Came a soft voice next to me. I looked down to see the eyes of the girl fluttering open. They were purple. I never noticed that before. She looked at me, confused.

"Where… where am I? Who are you?" She asked in a frail voice.

I looked up at Joanna and Percy, who were looking at her in amazement. I guess they were either scared she was awake and inches from me, or the fact that she woke from a coma in less than a few minutes.

"Um… you're in a school. You hit your head and we found you this way." Joanna said. "I'm Joanna. This is Jimmy and Percy." She gestured to us.

The girl smiled. "Oh. Okay. Who am I?"

X

After a while, the girl was back to normal. Not trying to kill us, but walking around, talking, etcetera. She still didn't have a clue who she was, but I did learn her name. Joanna told me her name was…

"Chaos?" I asked, raising my eyebrow. "Kind of a weird name for a little girl, but whatever."

At this time, we exited the school and were walking into the courtyard where we entered. Percy walked ahead of us while talking.

"Look," he said "I don't care what her name is and I don't know what you three are gonna do from here, but I gotta catch up to Zoe, Thalia, and the others before they get too far ahead. Come on Blackjack, let's…"

Percy looked across the lawn, but Blackjack was nowhere to be found.

"I guess the fighting scared him off." I said, walking up to him. I put a hand on his shoulder. "But look on the bright side. At least you've got traveling buddies."

"Oh yeah, just what I need. A dangerous five year old, a psychotic vampire, and a crazy half demon." He shook my hand off of his shoulder and walked off. "Let's just find a bus or something."

I looked at him as Joanna walked up to me.

"Man, what a dick." She said. "He wasn't like that in the books."

I shrugged. "I guess they just portrayed him differently. Who knows, maybe he's not all bad."

Just then, I felt something on my leg. I looked down to find Chaos looking up at me and clinging onto my jeans pocket. I looked back at Joanna with an annoyed look.

"She's not coming with us… is she?" I asked.

"Well, she did lose her memory, and in New York that's something that could get her killed." Joanna said.

"What? You can't be serious. This quest could get her killed."

Joanna jabbed a finger into my chest. "Look, I meet her in the future, which means she needs to live. What would you have us do? Leave her in Manhattan with looters, killers, and gangs, or with us?"

I looked down at Chaos, who probably didn't understand what was happening. She was looking up at me innocently. I can't believe I punched her earlier…

"Damnit, fine. But if she tries to kill us, I'm holding you responsible."

Joanna rolled her eyes. "Fine. Now let's find Percy and get out of here."

"Got it. You find him, I'll find us some transportation."

X

Joanna

I found Percy at a bus stop nearby. Chaos was with me and holding my hand as we walked down the sidewalk. As we walked, people we passed gave us weird looks. I guess it's uncommon in America for an emo-looking woman and a little girl with strange attire and weird hair to be walking down the street holding hands. I think some of them thought we were cosplayers because a group of kids asked if we were characters from Heaven's Lost Property, whatever that is.

We walked up to Percy and sat down on the bench he was on.

"You really shouldn't run off like that." I said, looking at him.

"What do you care? Monsters are supposed to hate demi-gods." He said, not even giving me a glance.

I shrugged. "Nah, most of us just want to be left alone. At least the non-Greek ones. I don't really speak for them."

"I don't care. All monsters are the same to me."

I scowled at him when he said this. I stood up and stood in front of him. "Look, you can't judge a monster by what other monsters do. Think about it, have Jimmy or I ever tried to kill you since we came here?" No answer. "Fine. Be that way, but sooner or later, you're going to have to start trusting us."

As soon as I finished, a blue Toyota Corolla pulled up next to us. It looked nice except for a few scrapes here and there and didn't make any funny noises. The only problem was that the window on the driver's side was shattered and in the driver's seat was Jimmy.

"Ha ha! Sup bitches." Jimmy said. "Check out my ride."

"Yeah, a corolla. Fancy." I said sarcastically.

"Hey, give me a break. This was the only one I could find without an alarm. The ones that went off I had to destroy, and… well it's a long story. Anyway, get in."

I opened the backseat door and let Chaos in while I walked over and sat in shotgun. I looked over at Percy, who had his arms crossed.

"Well?" Jimmy said. "Get in."

"Please tell me you didn't steal that car." He said, pretty cross.

Jimmy leaned out the window. "Do you want to catch up to them or not?"

Percy looked at Jimmy for a long time, but finally he opened the door to the back seat and got in.

"Sweet." Jimmy said as he shifted the car into "drive." "Lucky for us, I know where they're going."

Jimmy stepped on the gas pedal and sped off.

X

We must have driven for at least a couple of hours. In that time, Jimmy and I got in a fight over what song to play on the radio, Chaos wouldn't stop staring at Percy because she thought he "smelled good," and we were running out of fuel. Turns out that the car's gas tank was only half full, so we had to stop at a gas station to refuel.

We pulled into the station and parked next to a gas pump. Jimmy unbuckled and look at us.

"Okay, I'm gonna get gas and a new shirt. You three want anything?" Jimmy asked.

"Nah." I said.

"I'm good." Percy said.

Chaos shook her head.

"Okay, brb."

Jimmy opened the door and went outside. Chaos looked at Percy.

"What does 'brb' mean?" She asked.

"I have no idea." Percy responded.

Just then, Jimmy opened the door, got back in the car, and closed it in a flash. He was looking straight ahead, scared.

I looked at him, concerned. "What? What's the matter?" I asked.

"They're here. Zoe, Thalia and the others." He said.

"What?" Percy asked. We looked out the back window to see the van from camp and Zoe, Thalia, Grover, and Bianca standing at the gas pump talking.

"Great. What now?" I asked. "If we just stay here we'll look suspicious, and if we get out they'll recognize us."

That's when Jimmy had an idea. I could tell because every time he has one, he gets this look in his eye that scares you depending on what it is.

X

Thalia

"I'm telling you, they're coming out with an Iron Man movie. It's gonna be awesome." I said, trying to convince the others.

"No it is not." Zoe said. "I may have been with the hunt for so long, but I have watched enough movies to determine that Hollywood will ruin it."

"They do have a knack for doing that." Grover agreed.

I scowled at them. "Fine, believe what you want to believe, but I'm telling you, it's gonna be… wait…"

Everyone else looked where I was looking. At the gas pump opposite of us was a green haired little girl holding the gas pump at a blue Toyota Corolla. She noticed us looking at her and waved while smiling. After the gas stopped pumping, she put the pump away, but she looked at the car like she was talking to someone. She nodded at it, then walked into the store.

I was confused why a little girl would be doing this kind of stuff, but I put it out of my head. It was probably some young, busy mother or something.

X

Jimmy

Chaos opened the door and got into the back seat.

"I'm back." She said joyfully.

"Awesome." I said. "Did you get a shirt?"

"Yeah. Here you go." She said, handing me a white Hello Kitty t-shirt.

I looked at it with confusion. "Okay, very funny. Seriously, where is it?"

"That's it." Chaos said, smiling. "I saw it in the store and thought it was cute."

I looked from Chaos to the shirt again, observing the anime cat waving at me. Suddenly, I heard Joanna burst out laughing.

I closed my eyes and sighed. "God damnit."