Percy Jackson would have enjoyed his ride on Blackjack if he had not been attacked by a bunch of loud metal birds.

They were gliding along quite peacefully with blackjack humming songs rather loudly and amazingly out of tune, and Percy was even 'this' close to falling asleep on the back of Blackjack. When suddenly the sound of squawking and metal whirring woke him out of his daze. He sat up up and pulled riptide out of his pocket. It took Percy a few moments to realise what was making this horrendous noise.

'What do we do boss? Do you want me to kick them out of the sky?' Black jack said while staring at the metallic birds.

"No blackjack that wouldn't do anything except cause me to fall about 1000 feet down. We have to be as loud as we can" Percy stated.

'Great plan boss, but what exactly are we going to make noise with?' BlackJack whinnied nervously as the metal birds were slowly getting closer.

"Oh, right. Well. I guess we just scream and fly away as loud and as fast as possible?"

Percy was extremely skeptical about his plan, but it was the best he could think of. So, Percy clung onto the sides of Blackjack and started to scream bloody murder. Blackjack started to make a weird whinny/neighing noise, while pulling his wings in tight and dropping vertically down with the huge horde of stymphalian birds directly on their tail.

The pair dropped down so fast that Percy felt as though his stomach was about to come out of his mouth, but just as percy almost puked, Blackjack pulled up and started to make his way towards a large forest.

'You all right boss?'

"Never better!" Percy said while clutching his stomach forcing the contents of his stomach to make its way back down to where it belongs.

The pair flew into the forest with the birds still on their tail. Percy clung onto the back of Blackjack as he turned on his side and squeezed himself in between to large trees. Once Blackjack had straightened up percy looked behind him to see that nearly half the stymphalian birds had smashed into the trees and were flapping around furiously trying to get there beaks out of the timber. Percy turned back around with just enough time to move his head out of the way of a giant tree branch that could possibly have taken his head off.

'Sorry boss' Blackjack whinnied apologetically to Percy.

"Don't worry about it, you just keep doing what your doing and I'll look after myself" he replied quickly as he violently threw himself as far forward as he could to avoid yet another branch.

Slowly as the two zig zagged their way thought the forest the number of birds died down.

Eventually there were no birds left and Blackjack flew up through the canopy of the forest and back into the sky. It wasn't until then that Percy realised that his knuckles had turned white and his palms were close to bleeding from how tightly he was holding on.

'Well that was fun wasn't it boss?'

"Yeah, I had heaps of fun, wish I could do that everyday" Percy replied, sarcasm dripping out of his words, "remind me that I owe you some extra doughnuts, that was some impressive flying back there"

'You truly are the best boss in the whole world, you know that right?'

"Thanks Blackjack, but remember the deal is only on if we are in LA by lunch"

'Well, lucky we are there now then!'

Percy looked below him, not realising how fast they were actually going until then. Poor Blackjack must be working double time.

He looked out into the beautiful view in front of him and saw nothing but thousands of buildings and winding roads beneath Him.

"Well, now we just have to find one girl out of 4million. How hard could that possibly be" he said to no one in particular.

Hannah was having a crazy day even before she was given advice by a crazy man on a tricycle.

Hannah day was going pretty normally, the usual utter madness of school. She was holding her books and packed lunch close to her chest as she walked through the corridors of the school dodging and ducking in between flying bodies, books and bags. She finally made it to the door that led outside and swore silently as she hit the side of the door frame.

Hannah quickly recovered, rubbing her arm while walking to her usual position on the back oval to meet her friends who were already sitting in a perfect circle.

Hannah sighed as she realised she was going to have to force them to move out of their perfect formation.

It's not that Hannah didn't love her friends, but sometimes she felt as though she was an outsider, the one that just sat there and occasionally made comments. Hannah's mind was never really into what they were talking about, she was usually day dreaming and creating ridiculous stories in her mind. Ones that involved Hannah's life being one full of adventures and mystery.

Time slipped away as Hannah stared into space thinking about nothing really in particular, and before Hannah had finished eating the bell went and she stood up and slowly walked towards class, dreading her upcoming economics test. She had been up all last night and was absolutely exhausted. But her effort in staying up late last night proved worthless as she had done pretty much everything except study.

Once she had reached the classroom she shuffled her way slowly to her designated spot, dodging people as they scrambled to gather any last bits of information that they can gather about today's test, whether it be from a book, or interrogating poor Alana, the smartest girl in the class. Hannah took her seat that was up the back of the classroom.

She didn't like it up the back, it's just everybody complained if she was at the front.

She hadn't been shunned to the back of the class room because she smelt really bad, it was because of her height. She stood over everybody else at a height of 6" foot. Hannah hated her height, it was one of the many insecurities she had about herself.

Compared to a lot of people she really wasn't that tall but, compared to the all the girls at her school who were a perfect 5"6, she was like a giant. Morgan's nickname for her was the gentle giant. Morgan was her only real friend, and of coarse, it was typical that they didn't go to the same school. Hannah was stuck in this hell hole with her only friend living half way across LA.

Hannah was startled out of her thoughts as her teacher started to shake the test in front of Hannah's face impatiently.

"Ms Parks, do I need to throw water on you or will you manage to stay awake and on task this lesson?" Mrs Edmonds spat at her.

"Sorry Mrs Edmonds, it won't happen again" Hannah mumbled back at her keeping her head down low and trying to avoid eye contact.

"I better hope not" Mrs Edmonds turned on her heel and walked back to the front of the class. Everybody had become silent and they all had their eyes on Hannah, she could feel her face go red in embarrassment. Oh, what Hannah wished she could tell Mrs Edmonds, but she would probably get expelled.

Hannah was saved from the 30 sets of eyes staring at her as Mrs Edmonds started to explain the usual nonsense about how long they had and how cheating was un-acceptable. Blah blah blah. Once again, she started to stare out the window and she watched as a huge flock of birds making horrible shrieking noises flew past her and started to make there way to the nearby forest.

"You may now start your test"

Hannah inwardly groaned as she picked up her pen and started the first question.

As Hannah walked home she had the strangest feeling that she was being watched. Of coarse Hannah knew better than to believe that someone was actually following her, but to be safe she started to quicken her pace

As Hannah turned the corner she thought that she saw a boy with raven black hair jump over a fence, but when she went to go check it out he wasn't there anymore. She shrugged it off as her mind playing tricks on her, after all she did pull and all-nighter the night before, but when she saw home once again across the road, she knew something was up.

She ran across the road to go meet him but as soon as she got close to him he looked back at her and starting jogging away. Hannah started to run after him in pursuit and just as he turned the corner...

"HEY! What do you think your doing?"

Hannah jumped back in confusion. A man in an expensive looking suit had just turned into a driveway in front of her. Hannah started apologising when she looked up at him and stopped in her tracks.

Was this well dressed, well groomed and sophisticated looking man riding a tricycle?

Hannah had to blink just to make sure she wasn't going crazy. But sure enough he was riding a strangely large, golden yellow tricycle.

"Why do you look so confused young lady?" He rudely snapped at her.

"Sorry, not to be rude but you are riding a tricycle" she cautiously replied.

"Ooh well that explains it doesn't it, may I ask what age you are?"

Hannah wasn't sure whether or not she should answer him, she had always been warned never to talk to strange people and this man definitely could be classified as strange. But for some unknown reason she still answered to him.

"15, turning 16 in a week" she blurted out, then quickly clasping her hands to her mouth before she said anything else.

"Well that makes a lot more sense doesn't it" he answered confidently. Well, no actually, it doesn't, she thought scrunching up her face. He must of seen the face she pulled.

"Ah, you mustn't have been found by him yet. Well let's just say that this birthday is going to pack a punch, and by that I mean your mind may or may not explode from all that will occur."

He must have seen the horrified look that Hannah had gained.

"I'm just joking with you. Sheesh, you need to lighten up. But in all seriousness you could possibly go crazy." He said slowly drifting of into thought, " It might even start to happen earlier, it really depends"

Then, as if on que his 'tricycle' started to grow into what looked like a golden chariot, but just as fast as it happened it quickly changed back into the tricycle, but if hannah concentrated she could still see the outline of a majestic golden chariot. It was like her mind wanted to see something but her eyes wouldn't let her.

"Let me give you a bit of advice, don't go to school on your birthday. If I were you I would try and find someone, and you will know by then you that someone is" he put one hand on her shoulder and gave her a large smile. Hannah didn't smile back.

Just as he was about to say something his phone started to ring. He grabbed it a started speaking to it so fast Hannah could barely comprehend what he was saying. All she could pick up were the names George and Martha and something about rats. He hopped back onto his 'tricycle' and speed away surprisingly fast, considering it was a three wheeled kids vehicle.

Hannah stood on the side of the rode, still in shock about whether or not that had actually happened. Once she recovered her wits she started to count her fingers.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five.

Well this isn't a dream.

Still in shock Hannah forced her legs to move. And even though all they wanted to do was to collapse into a pile of jelly Hannah's legs struggled onwards towards home.

Though Hannah was completely lost in thought, one image had become stuck in her brain. She couldn't move it out of the way. Perhaps this person was that special 'someone' that the strange man was talking about.

But how could she possibly find him again. There are 4 million people in Los Angeles, there was no way she could find one boy in that many people. But then again he did a memorable face, definitely one that she could never forget.

All she really had to do was find a tall tanned muscular boy with raven black hair and the greenest eyes that you have ever seen.

AN

YAY! Sorry that it took so long I've got exams next week so I've been "studying" like crazy! Any ways hope you enjoyed!

*Gives you all virtual kisses*

Bye my little pancakes