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Chapter 7:
Angelie couldn't believe what was happening. She had been doing some homework, and when she came to ask her mom about a question, there was a sort of mist hanging in front of her face with a boy in it who looked like her: the same dark hair and sea green eyes. And then they were talking about camps, and then a monster attacked. She wondered why they had gone on vacation so suddenly and why her parents were always so nervous. Now she knew, or she thought she did.
Her, a demigod? A daughter of Poseidon? There was no way she would have believed any of that nonsense until the monster attacked. She still didn't. The monster ripped the front door away. Paul handed a knife to Sally and handed her the smallest one. The monster had a human head, except for the fact that he had horns. His voice was deep and weird. From what she could see, it hard three rows of very, very sharp teeth. But when it squeezed through the door, she saw four paws covered in golden fur like a lion's, and instead of a lions tail, it had a scorpion tail, complete with the stinger. Its wicked eyes landed on her. She had never been more scared in her life, but she had to do something.
"You? You are what I smell? Ridiculous! Impossible! But I must," he snarled, rushing forward.
"NO!" Paul yelled, moving in front of her. He looked determined. The scorpion-lion man looked at him. His stinger tail shot down toward him, but her father raised the knife, and at the last second, the tail shot back up, the scorpion-lion man glaring at him.
"Run!" Paul shouted. Sally grabbed Angelie's arm and started racing to the back door, when suddenly, another one came out of nowhere, its tail smashing through the glass, barely missing them. Sally shouted, knocking the tail away from them. Suddenly, there was a loud crash. They turned around. Paul had crashed into the table and was lying there, moaning, as the scorpion-lion man prepared to strike. Her mom rushed forward to grab Paul and drag him out of the way. The scorplion (my name for this 'mysterious' monster) screeched, swatting at her. She raised the knife and sliced the scorplion's paw. It reeled back in pain, screeched, and glared at her. Suddenly, she felt two large, heavy, warm objects wrap themselves around her. She screamed.
And then they were gone, just like that. But she was covered in dust. Sally and Paul were staring, amazed. The scorplion took advantage of their surprise. It brought its tail around, stinger pointed at her mom.
"Watch out!" she shouted, though she doubted they would be able to move before it hit them. She watched in horror as the tail rushed toward her parents. Out of nowhere, the boy she had seen on the screen appeared with a sword in his hands. An actual sword. He swung it at the tail, but just like before, it quickly maneuvered away from the boy's sword. The boy glared at the monster, unafraid. The monster glared back. Her parents got up, coming over to her. Two more came through the door.
"You have caused us a lot of trouble, Perseus Jackson," the monster snarled. Jackson? Jackson, as in Sally Jackson? That can't be right, she thought. There were no such things as monsters and gods and goddess. And she most definitely did not have a brother!
"I will enjoy destroying your life and making it miserable," it continued, the other two scorplion's nodding in agreement. Suddenly one of them burst into dust. She looked around, but no one was there. Percy raised an eyebrow, smiling.
"Really? Because I'm going to enjoy destroying you for messing with me," he retorted. To her horror, the boy charged the monster. It fought back, reaching forward, trying to claw him, or sting him.
"Thalia, go tell Leo to get the boat ready," he said. Angelie just then noticed there was a girl with hair almost as dark as hers and electric blue eyes, reminding her of a punk, standing in the doorway. She nodded and a boy that looked like her picked her up and flew away. This must be a dream, she thought to herself, no one can fly. But it wasn't. She saw Paul head for the garage. She was confused. The boy was fighting really well. Until the monsters became smart enough to attack him together. One of them brought its tail around from one side; the other brought it around from the other side. They were too close and too synchronized to get away from, and even if he hit one, the other one would get him. And unfortunately, he was paying more attention to the first one.
"Percy!" two voices shouted at once. One she knew was her mother, and when she turned around, there was a girl with a cap in one hand, a dagger in the other. She looked angry, and she had blonde, curly hair and stormy grey eyes. Percy struck the first one, turning it to dust, but the other one grazed his side. He yelped, pulling away. Suddenly, there was no girl standing next to her and the last monster shrieked, and went poof! turning into dust. A girl appeared out of nowhere, literally, but she had the cap in her hand. No way! An invisibility cap? Cool, Angelie thought. Her mom rushed to Percy, who was swaying slightly.
"Stupid, stupid, Seaweed Brain! Pay more attention," the blonde girl scolded. He was sweating and shaking a little. He tried for a smile, but he winced.
"Come on, Percy, we'll get you to the ship," her mother said, putting his arm around her shoulder, the other arm going around the blonde's. They hurried outside to the waiting car. She crawled into the backseat, followed by Percy, and then the girl. It took a while, but soon, the car was parked beside the ocean. Percy had passed out. As they hurried him out, two girls appeared. One was the girl that had left earlier, and the other was African American, and had gold colored eyes that matched her golden brown curly hair.
"Oh my gods! Is he ok? What happened?" Golden girl asked.
"One of his stupid plans," Punk muttered, at the same time the blonde girl said, "Manticores."
"What are manticores?" Angelie demanded.
"They are monsters with the head of human with horns, a lion's body, and a scorpion's tail," blonde said. A muscular, chubby, baby faced boy came running up to Percy with a little canteen and a colored square. He opened the canteen and poured some liquid down Percy's throat. Surprisingly, his eyes fluttered open, color returned to his face, and he sat up. Chubby boy gave him the square and he popped it in his mouth.
"We should get going," Golden girl said.
"Okay, and don't worry Sally, I'll make sure Percy doesn't do anything like that again," blonde said, giving Percy a pointed look. He smiled sheepishly.
"Ok, be good and listen to your brother, okay?" her mother said to her, kissing her on her forehead. She stared at her, unbelieving. Her father did the same. Then they went over to Percy. He smiled at them. Her mom kissed him on the check, holding his face gently.
"Don't do anything like that again," she commanded. "And call as soon as your quest is finished. We'll celebrate." Her voice quivered with fear and pain. Tears came to her eyes. Paul went over to Percy.
"Please, do come home, Percy. And good luck," they shook hands and came in for an awkward hug. He pulled away, smiled, waved to both of them, and they took off in the car. Then Percy came over to her. He looked like he was missing them already.
"Hi, I'm Percy, you're brother, which I guess you know already, son of Poseidon," he said. "This is Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto, Frank Zhang, son of Mars, Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite, Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus, and Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena," he introduced all of his friends, each of them raising their hand as he said their name.
"Guys, this is Angelie Jackson, daughter of Poseidon, my younger sister," he said, putting his arm around her. He said the last part hesitantly, as if he didn't want to, or was afraid to. She felt awkward and just wanted to be home.
"Hello," they all chorused. She gave a nervous wave.
"We gotta go, though, Perce," Leo said. Percy nodded, and they all filed onto the ship, setting sail, Percy speeding up the ship, and heading back toward the east.