Allison
TYLER
I wiped the sweat off of my brow and breathed deeply whilst I pushed my sword into its sheath. I shook my sweat-dampened hair and fell against the brick building behind me. My knees gave out, slowly causing me to slide down. I could have sworn that was her. It had to have been her. She was blonde. She had blue eyes. She was beautiful. She was Samantha. But, she wasn't there. I looked away from the golden pile of dust and closed my eyes, rolling over onto my knees and punching the wall. Shit. I needed to stop thinking about her. Yeah, I killed a monster and it probably would have killed another demigod, but I had to focus on finding my sister. I couldn't focus on Samantha anymore. She wasn't my only priority anymore.
I heard wings flutter and the sound of hooves trotting toward me.
"Tyler, you alright? You don't look so good." the Pegasus, River, said into my mind.
River, my stubborn Pegasus-horse, was the only thing that I was allowed to bring with me on my quest besides non-living objects.
"Yeah, River, I'm fine. I just miss her." I groaned, cradling my hand and leaning my head against the building.
As the months had trudged on, River'd become my best friend. He was, at this point I'm most certain, my only friend anymore. He's been with me through these miserable four months and he's seen me break. He's seen me get myself back together. He's seen the sides of me I never even wanted myself to see. I didn't have to look at him to know what look he was giving me.
"Hey, we have company." he said to me.
"Gods, not again! I'm so warn out. I can barely breathe without my chest almost collaps-" my protests were cut off when I turned and saw a girl.
She had strawberry blonde hair and pale blue eyes. She was tall and fair skinned. She looked at me with concern.
"Um, you killed that thing, didn't you? You saved that girl?" she asked, not even bothering to say a hello or anything.
"You saw her, too?" I asked, jumping up.
"Uh, yeah," she said, confused, "why wouldn't I have?"
"I don't know. I thought I was going crazy. Wait, you saw the monster?"
"Yeah. Why could I see that and no one else could?"
I stared at her in amazement before turning to River.
"River, we've got another member." I said, smiling.
He glared at the girl and huffed.
"She can walk." he told me.
Ignoring him and wondering what his problem was, I mounted him. I held my hand out for the girl.
"Come on." I told her.
Nervously, she took my hand.
"What's your name?" she asked, wrapping her arms around my waist.
The memories of Samantha holding onto me flashed into my mind. I had to stop doing this to myself.
"Tyler Wright. You?" I asked, leading an unhappy River into the skies.
"Allison Wilson." she said, as a loud clap of thunder sounded through the atmosphere.
"Ha. Zeus doesn't like her either." River chuckled as I caught a glimpse of a blonde girl running into an alley.
SAMANTHA
He saw me. I let him see me. I hit my head against a shop's wall. The plain gold ring in my hand burned with disappointment and the hatred was back. That jerk left me. Not to mention, he killed my practice monster. I huffed and turned on my heels, walking into to none other than Jason Wyatt. He looked at me and raised an eyebrow.
"Are you okay?" he asked, full of concern.
"I'm fine. I just feel like killing Tyler." I said, truthfully.
"You saw him, too?" he asked, his face darkening.
The night Tyler left and we told the twins, Jason ended up breaking his head after punching Tyler's cabin over and over again. He felt so betrayed, but then again, we all did. I sat down on the ground, holding the ring. I threw it on the ground and as it hit, it bounced whilst shattering. As it shattered, the shards materialized into a wooden bow. The Epirus bow appeared in my hands and I walked out of the alley. I remember the day Apollo gave me this gift. It brought back an emotion cloud of memories that I didn't feel like reliving.
"Sam... Sam! Where are you going?" Jason called after me. I rolled my eyes.
When Tyler left, everyone was worried about my lack of protectors more than my broken heart. So, they put Jason in his place.
"To kill something." I say, walking faster.
"Sam, you can't kill everything you see!" Jason snaps, appearing in front of me a split second after wind blows my hair in front of me. I look down at it as it falls to a new, shorter length. It was now cut to my mid-back, which made it easier to manage and it stayed out of my eyes.
"Watch me." I say, daring him to argue with me.
He puts his hands on my shoulder and looks into my eyes.
"I know it hurts. It hurts us all!"
"I'm not hurt. I couldn't care less." I say, my voice steady and even.
"Y-you don't mean that." he said, his face softening.
"I do." I say, shrugging his hold off of me and walking off, not to be followed.
~X~X~X~
After killing a giant, a certain son of Hades and daughter of Aphrodite find me in an old tree house. The tree house use to be mine, still is even though I don't use it as much, and is just a little ways into the woods behind my parents' mansion. Come to think of it, I'd been using the run down thing more often. Just to escape.
"Hey." Tony said, offering me a smile.
"Hi." I say, looking away.
I'd changed. Even I'd noticed it. I didn't cry as much, in fact, I haven't cried since the night he left. I wore more fitted clothes, but that was for training. I wore darker clothes. My hair was shorter. I was less whiny and dependent. I barely even talked to my brothers anymore, but that's not either of our choices. I looked back to them.
"We heard about it." Katelynn said. "Were you glad?"
"I didn't speak to him. I don't want to. I'm not going to." I say, stubbornly.
"You're in love with him." Tony rolls his eyes.
I laughed which caught him off guard.
"I'm not in love. I've never been in love and I never will be. Especially not with Tyler Wright."
All the air seemed to thicken and I swear it wasn't me. I climbed out of the tree house, bringing out my bow once more. I'd be the end of monster-kind if I kept this up.
So.
1: Who likes "bad-ass" Samantha?
2: What will happen with Allison and Tyler?
Please review to answer and give feedback :) thanks!
xGabby
