A/N: Sorry for the long wait, and the shorter then usuall chapter. Anyway here you go.
Kyle's POV:
Kyles life sucked, and what sucked worse was the fact that that was all he knew about it. He looked around again. He was on a bus with a bunch of other kids, all sleeping, goofing off, or flirting. On his left there was a sleeping girl holding his hand. As a general rule he didn't object to holding cute girl's hands. What did disturb him was that he had no clue who the girl was. She had black hair, and a pretty face. His eyes rested on her sleeping form for a moment before his eyes moved to the form of a boy on his right. He had woken up and was grinning at him with brown eyes.
"Kyle, I brought some cheez-whiz just in case someone needed to be pranked." he said grinning at the girl on my left as if he did this sort of thing often.
"Ummm who are you?" I asked.
The kid just grinned as he had been expecting this.
"Mmmmhhhhhhh" the girl made that strange sound people make when they aren't quite awake, but aren't asleep either.
"Cora, Kyle's nobly trying to distract me so that I can't prank you, but it won't work." He lifted up his cheez-whiz like it was a sword and prepared to spray her.
She opened sea green eyes, and grinned at me, before her hand went up and snached the bottle with inhuman speeds just as the kid reached for the nozzle to open fire.
"Seriously what's going on here." I asked.
"Oh, I was just showing Leo why he should never prank me. Because it never works." she said smugly.
The kid, Leo I guess started to say something, but I cut him off. "Seriously who are you guys?" I said coldly.
"Kyle I am your father." Leo said in a bad imitation of Darth Vader.
Cora looked at me and said "Leo I-I think he's serious."
"Nah this is just revenge for one of my ingenious pranks." he said.
"No I don't even remember these so called 'ingenious pranks' why would I be getting revenge for them." I asked even more coldly.
"What happened to you bro? Did you hit your head or something? Maybe if I hit it again..." he responded with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
Cora looked at Leo sternly "We are not hitting Kyle on the head." She said sternly
"Alright cupcakes. We'll be there shortly." said a voice. I looked up to the front of the bus, and saw a short guy twirling a baseball bat. "When we get there stick with your partners and get the worksheets done. I want complete sentences too!"
Half the bus groaned.
"Oh, and try not to fall of the sky walk. Seeing as if anyone dies at the grand canyon I will have extra paper work." he said.
"Nice guy" I muttered.
Cora smiled, and raised an eyebrow. "I always thought so too"
"What's going on back here?" I looked up and saw the little guy right above me giving me a strange look
He knows I though absolutely certain from his searching gaze
Fortunately Leo saved me from having to answer. "We were just... uhhh debating whether it would be rude to ask you to use your megaphone since we can't hear you Coach Hedge."
The guy looked at me once more then unclipped something from his belt, and walked to the front of the bus. He sat down with his megaphone in his lap, and began staring at me.
I was about to say something to Cora when he stood up in said through his megaphone. "Ok, cupcakes we've arrived. I want you to leave the bus in an orderly manner."
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Leo's POV:
We got up, and waited till everyone else had left the bus. One of the disadvantages to sitting in the back. As we walked to the door I couldn't help noticing that Cora, and Kyle weren't holding hands like they usually were. We stepped out the door, and I groaned. There was Mr. Teeth, as I had began to think of Dylan. The annoying popular kid.
He roughly shouldered me out of the way so he was beside Cora and said "Why are you hanging out with these losers. You're my partner sweetheart."
Kyle narrowed his eyes. I glanced at them and shivered. His blue eyes always looked like they belonged in a madman's head. For some reason his crazy, untamed, brown, curly hair only made the ladies like him more. Who knew girls found a guy who looked slightly crazy attractive? I wouldn't have guessed, but maybe they didn't see it that way.
Cora's sea green eyes also narrowed, but she followed Dylan.
Kyle made a step towards Dylan, but I put my hand on his shoulder. "Cora doesn't like us fighting her battles."
He gritted his teeth, but nodded. I put my arm through his like we should go skipping of together, and said "Hi, I'm Dylan the psychotic, egotistical, moron. I want to date myself, but I'm to stupid. Would you like to date me instead? You're so lucky!"
He looked at me, and said. "Leo, you're weird."
I just grinned. If only he knew the half of how strange my crazy, messed up demigod life was, but all I said was "Yeah, you may have mentioned that a few million times."
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Kyle's POV:
We sat on the skywalk there was was a storm brewing above us, but it strangely was only over us, and not the rest of the world. I was actually trying to do the worksheet we had been given, while Leo just tinkered with stuff. I suddenly felt a compulsion to go talk to the leader. I got up, and handed the sheet to Leo. "If you actually feel like doing something useful feel free." I muttered.
I walked up beside the leader, and he said. "Did you cause this?"
What did he mean did I cause this? He couldn't mean the storm could he?
I was about to answer when he said something "You don't smell like a monster. No, you smell like one of them. Are you the special package?" He pointed his thumb back at Leo.
"What do you mean 'one of them'?" I asked confused. "And what's this 'special package'"
He twirled his baseball bat and said. "Don't play dumb with me kid. I know you're different. I've never seen a demigod so good with the mist, that even Cora and Leo would be convinced that they know you. Unless they're in it with you of course, but they would have told me if that was the case. "
"Demigods? Mist? I don't remember anything. Not even my last name." I said.
He looked in my eyes for a moment then said "Great, you're telling the truth. My life just got a lot harder."
"Of course I was telling the truth" I snapped.
Suddenly the wind kicked up, and the clouds looking darker. Normally I loved storms, the wind in my hair, and the feeling of being totally soaked by the rain, but this storm felt different. It felt malevolent, like it wanted to consume the entire world in chaos.
The coach must have felt it too, his eyes widened, and he barked loudly "Everyone of the sky walk, back inside now!"
Kids started rushing to the doors. I saw Cora, and Dylan struggling to hold one door open. Leo was fighting a losing battle against the winds, trying to hold the other door open. I ran over, and helped him. After the last kid was through we started to get in ourselves, when Dylan stepped back, and the winds intensified, rippling through his Texas cowboys jersey. Sadly the wind closed the doors before we could get in,
"Now that the mortals are gone we can begin." he smiled. His body suddenly changed into swirling black vapor with his eyes as sparks of electricity.
I saw Cora draw out two daggers, and Leo had twin hammers in his hand. Were those on fire? Without even thinking I slipped my hand into my pocket, and drew out a coin. I flipped it in the air, and I was holding a beautiful, golden sword. My mind slipped into a different state, and I began to watch Dylan like a cat watching a mouse trying to analyze the way he stood, and different other slight things like the fact there was no weapon in his hand.
Cora leaped at him, her form as graceful, as a cheetah pouncing on it's prey. Dylan just laughed, and flicked his hands. She went flying over the edge into the canyon.
"Save her" said Coach Hedge
What the heck? What does he want me to do? jump over the edge? That would be crazy. So of course that's exactly what I did.
I screamed as I fell. I angled myself, at Cora and felt myself speeding up. I grabbed her, and we kept falling. I relaxed, and prepared myself for impact. Just as I relaxed I felt my shirt rip, and my muscles straining. At the sensation I tensed up, and opened my eyes. I looked at my back where the sensation seemed to be coming from. What the? I had wings! I tested them out, and flapped them. We had already slowed a lot when I unintentionally unfurled them. The flap was enough to slow our decent, and even make us rise a bit.
Cora screamed, and I nearly dropped her "You... you have wings." she said
"Yeah... I noticed weird huh?" I responded. As I flew us up my wing muscles hurt a lot. It was hard to go straight up, and carrying Cora certainly didn't help.
When we got to the sky walk I set Cora down. I looked up, and saw that Leo was struggling to hold on to the edge of the skywalk on one side while Dylan, and someone else were holding the coach down, about to deliver the finishing blow. I was torn as to who to help, but I saw Cora's daggers flash, and one sunk into the body of each creature.
I ran over to Leo, and helped him up. "You... You have wings." he said sounding amazed
"Funny Cora said the exact same thing" I mused
I heard, an enraged snarl, as Dylan drew Cora's dagger from his arm.
Cora grabbed Coach Hedge's arm, and dragged him back to me, and Leo. I saw that the other creature had been impaled by Cora's dagger, and had dissolved into a pile of gold dust.
Dylan snarled, and said "Now you die sweetheart." as he fired a ball of crackling blue electricity at her. I spread out my wings, which were enormous. I probably had at least a thirteen foot wing span. The electricity bounced of the wings, and destroyed part of the barrier that was supposed to keep people from falling of the sky walk. It had been really successful so far huh?
He snarled again growing frustrated. "You'll just have to die first I guess." he said. He held out his hand, and a sword made out of pure electricity materialized in his hands.
Fortunately my sword had landed nearby. I dived for it, and grabbed it. Unfortunately it had landed by the spot where the barriers between you and a fall to your death had been destroyed. I misjudged and fell into the Grand Canyon for the second time that day. I flapped my wings, and rose above the sky walk. I dived at Dylan with my sword out in a powerful downward slash. He blocked, but the force of my blow drove him down to one knee. He got up and we went at it gold against electricity. I quickly found that I was losing however. He was by far a superior swordsman.
"Even if this isn't my preferred method, I've been fighting for thousands of years little demigod. You will die by my hand, and my master will reward me." he said
I realized he was right he was simply more experienced. Without even thinking I leapt into the air, and flipped the sword as if it was a coin. When it landed it was a golden lance.
"What are you doing half-blood?" Dylan snarled
Without even think I shouted "Pro Romam" As I attacked again. This time I had the upper hand. I hovered above the ground a few feet so that I had the equivalent of a height advantage, and if the sword hadn't been my best weapon this certainly was.
After we had fought a few minutes we heard the strangest sound. The whinnie of a horse. We both looked up, and saw a carriage being pulled by horses. Except these horses had wings!
Dylan leapt into the air, and started flying towards the clouds "We will meet again demigods, and then I will destroy you!" he shouted angrily.
I was about to follow him, but I felt Cora's hand on my shoulder, and she said. "Leave him."
I nodded, and said "If he could fly why didn't he use that when we were fighting. I was definitely using my flying abilities."
Leo shrugged, and said "Maybe he was too stupid"
I laughed, but I stopped laughing, as an extremely angry looking figure climbed out of the chariot.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Anyway please review, follow, and favorite. I should have another chapter up sometime on Monday.