Cresent Moon

Chapter 5: Protected 1

Not much of a Author's note in this one. Oh yes! Sorry for the lateness of the last one, and probably this one also! :D!

Eve: As saddening as it is, Wild Jaded Author does NOT own Percy Jackson. She only owns me, and any other OC that comes in this story. EXCEPT FOR ARMANI DOVE AND AREN belong to Xed Alpha. And if they're new Characters that don't belong to her, She'll warn you ahead of time. Wild Jaded Author is NOT a theif.

Me: Thanks Eve.

Eve: Anytime.

Me: On with the show!

Eve: Aren't you forgetting something?

Me: O.o Yes!

Daughter of Hecate: Um.. that's a valid question, my Freind is currently drawing pictures, but until then, I guess this is what they both look like, or as close as I can get them: cgi/set?id=5097 1599

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Eve -1st Person until told other wise-

I walked quickly down the street, keeping my eyes trained around to the shadows around me. I jumped slightly when I heard rats scurrying across the alley-way I took as a short-cut to Percy's. Being the night-person I am, and the fact that I have nobody at home waiting for me, it really gave me time to explore the crime-filled city I called home. I sighed, and cut across another alley-way. Growing up here, was an intresting experience to say the least. And if your like me, with no parents to rein you in, you can learn all about them. Now most teenagers would see my position and take full advantage of it. But not me, I've been alone since I was 5, and in nine years alone, I had completely memorized the entire alley-subway-streetway-travelway map of New York.

Now, a twelve year old girl traveling around the alleys would seem supious to most, but they never saw me. It was a skill that I had learned after some druggie saw me when I was seven and dang near shot me. 'Who shoot's at a kid?' Was my only thought as I was running away from the guy. I closed my eyes, the memory burned clear through my mind, as if it was engraved.

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A little girl, clad in a ripped jeans, and an old beaten hoodie, crept around an alley-way, being as silent as a mouse, and moving as quick as a bird. A Cresent moon hung in the sky, she looked up breifly from her hiding spot as a cop car drove by. Once the car was gone, she crept out from behind the trash cans, and crept down an alley, with her back to the alley and her eyes where the cop car had dissapeared.

After she realized they were gone for good, she let out a breath. "What the hell? Where the Hell did you come from, kid?" A voice hissed from behind her, causing her to freeze, she felt the cold metal of a gun at her head, and imeaditly snapped her eyes closed. She felt the guy lean in closer, "I said, 'Where'd you come from, kid?'!" He pratically shouted in her ear.

She looked up and saw a man, around late 20's early 30's, tan-skin, brown hair and green eyes. She let out a soft whimper, before answering, "No where, I was just walking home..." She managed to say without stuttering. The guy, -clearly unconvinced- removed the gun from her head, and stared at it for a second before glaring up at her, "You've got three seconds to get your butt out of my alley before I put a bullet in your head!" He growled, And she stiffened before turning around and running down the alley way.

She had just made it past the row of trash cans, before she heard the thing she had been dreading. "THREE!" and a bullet shot and hit the trashcans she had hid behind. This caused her to jump and run faster, all the while she thought some very nasty things about the druggie.

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I sighed and shook my head, "He needed to get off what ever he was on..." I muttered, walking down the alley-way when I walked back onto the main road. I looked across the street at a restruant with a sign that said, "Chi" in green neon on the door. I sighed and made my way towards the resturant, 'If I'm going to have to leave, I'm aleast going to have dinner at my favorite place.' I thought, but that little voice in my head had other ideas.

You promised Percy you'd be back soon! It hissed, and I rolled my eyes.

No. Actually HE told me to be back soon. And since when do I listen to him? I thought.

Child, would it hurt to listen to him? It muttered, just as my stomach grumbled. I winced,

Yes, considering all I've had today was a peice of pizza. I thought, ending the conversation as I walked into the resturant.

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Sorry guys for the short-ness of this chapter.