Chapter 4- Rude Awakening

I woke with a start, I didn't know where I was for a moment. Looking around I regained my bearings, I was in the courtyard at school. Feeling a light drizzle I stood up to wake up everyone else so we could get inside and not get wet. I walked over to the corner where a make-shift fort was made out of things gathered from the room.

"Guys, get up. It's starting to rain," I yawned. "We should go inside."

They all sat up; Noelle, Katie, Kenzie, Lexi and Clarissa. Plops of rain fell,

"C'mon," I said. "Where do you guys think the safest/easiest defendable room is?"

Katie stretched, "I'd say the nurses' office. There are beds and no windows,"

"You guys do that, I'm going to contact camp and let Chiron know we are coming," Kenzie spoke up.

Clarissa looked at her phone which was buzzing wildly, "it's probably Hunter, and I can't get a service connection so I can't talk to him."

Lexi gave her a look and said "sucks to suck,"

They started picking up. I looked at my friends, 'I need them as much as they need me' I thought. "Let's hustle," I helped everyone through the window and we proceeded though the halls carefully. Kenzie shined a flash light on a water fountain creating a rain bow. She started to say a chant but a recording cut her off.

In a women's voice it said "there is no need for my daughter to pay for an iris message, Noelle, step forward."

Noelle did as told and the voice spoke again.

"Hello my daughter, I wish to give you a gift and a warning. First thing is the gift put your hand in the rainbow,"

Hesitantly she did so. When she pulled her hand out she had a knife about a foot long that reflected all different colors.

"This dagger has the power to send iris messages to anywhere from anywhere and it will always succeed. And now your warning, Ares has gone mad and trapped Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon in his palace. All of the Olympians have tried to rescue them, but none succeeded. Without Zeus Athena and Hera are about to go to war over leadership. The gods are caught between Athena having her smarts and Hera having power. You seven need to recuse the big three as soon as you can. Goodbye,"

My first thoughts were that there was only six of us here. Who was the seventh? And why me? In second grade there was this thing with this leprechaun. I spoke up, "I think we should find the seventh half blood and then go to camp."

Kenzie butted in. "It would be easier if we got to camp first and then had a satyr look for him, or her."

"But Iris told US to find him, and I don't want to defy a goddess," I retorted. "Noelle can you use your new knife to look for him/her?"

"Sure I guess..." She said. She held her dagger up and looked at it really hard. Suddenly a picture rippled. A boy appeared, he had long dark hair, and he was in a car. His hair blocked his face.

There was a gasp, "that's Hunter!" Clarissa exclaimed. "He's the seventh?" She pulled her phone out and started texting him.

Kenzie lunged and grabbed the phone. "No cell phones," she said. "It amplifies your scent to monsters." She sent a text to Hunter and then stomped on the phone. "Let's go,"

I thought about speaking up but I didn't. We all went out the back side of the school towards Kenzie's van. All of us piled in, I had sent a text to my mom saying I was safe and I was going to a special camp, and I'd told her I'd be back after this coming summer. I told her that I was going to be ok and not to worry. She was going too obviously, and I then threw my phone out of the window. Clarissa sat shotgun and told Kenzie where to go. I sat in the very back trying to catch up on my sleep. The girls were chattering wildly. I slowly faded to sleep.