Andromeda

As always, I was left behind. When Annabeth jumped up, I had tried to scramble to my feet, but she pushed me down, shouting to a nearby girl to come take care of me.

The girl had introduced herself as Katie Gardner. She looked kind of like a fairie without wings, with flowers in her hair and such. I saw Leo and a man who looked suspiciously like my fourth grade History teacher go flying past on a headless horse. I did the reasonable thing. I asked her what the bloody hell was happening.

She shrugged. "Some camper got snatched by a monster is my guess..." After a long silence, she suddenly said," You know what? You remind me of Percy Jackson! A lot. Maybe your'e a child of Poseidon, too!"

"No," I interrupted. "My dad isn't Poseidon. My father's name is Dr. Louis Kirkland. He's got two Ph Ds. We live on the Thames in a small flat. He's good friends with Mr. and Mrs. Faust, though they are, like, a hundred years older than him." I was just reassuring myself now, telling myself that at least some things in my life were believable. "They've got a grandaughter. Her name's Sadie Kane(:P). She's a bit quirky, always carrying around amulets, but she's nice." But then the strange things from my life returned. The day I found a peacock in my tent when we were camping in the North Pole. The feeling that someone was watching me. A beautiful, stern woman watching over me as I slept.

Katie saw my face. "I know, I thought it was crazy when I discovered I was a demigod, too."

I punched the unicorn pillow pet in the face. " But this is bloody impossible!"

Katie shrugged again. "Anything's possible."

"No," I shook my head. "Not this. This isn't real; it has to be a dream..."

"Really? Then look me in the eyes and tell me this isn't real!"

She held out her fist in front of her. She slowly opened it, palm up. And from her palm grew the most beautiful flower I had ever seen.

"But," I whispered. "That's... that's..."

"Not possible?" Katie smiled wryly. "Oh, but it is." She stuck the flower in my tangled mass of hair, stood up, and walked away, leaving me to marvel over the strange phenomenon that I had just witnessed.

"What is real?" I whispered to myself.

Piper

I tried to breath normally, but the spider was the last straw. That morning, Leo had nearly knocked off my head with a wrench. Then, about ten minutes later, he had nearly burnt off my face. And now the stupid, freaking spider. At least it wasn't Leo. (I'm sorry people, but Leo is much more dangerous than a spider the size of Hannibal. That, I am sure, is fact.)

I had gone out to gather some rare flowers from the forest to accompany Lacy's first school dance dress( Is that much to ask?) when I had heard a loud snapping behind me. I had pulled out Katropis, my dagger, but I was already to late. It had grabbed me with its two front legs and I had screamed.

The spider had carried me to her web and started to wrap me up. Think it's interesting to watch a spider ready its supper? Then try being in the bug's point of view.

I had screamed and screamed until she had covered my head with the gross, sticky stuff. She had lumbered off into the forest when I remembered my dagger. I tried cutting through, but it was like trying to cut through steel with a spoon. A plastic spoon.

Then,I noticed a soft spot near my mouth and had an idea. I began to hack furiously at the spot till it was considerably thin and I yelled. The spider came running out of the forest, but I knew that someone must've heard my scream. Someone had to be coming.

The spider muttered," Now that won't do, will it?" and took one great pincer and pricked my side with it. Then, she began to close the hole I had made. At first nothing happened. Then the first waves of agony hit me. I bit my tongue. It felt like my insides were on fire.

I saw a figure, no three figures out of the corner of my eyes. Leo, Chiron, and Annabeth were here. But Annabeth looked like she was having a nervous breakdown and Chiron just wasn't moving. So I guess the only person that could help me was Leo.

He leapt off Chiron's back and charged towards the spider. My vision went fuzzy. The venom was doing its work.

I saw as Leo's hands caught on fire and he jumped onto the monster's back. Then, I blacked out.