Hey guys! Back with another chapter, maybe shorter, maybe longer, who knows. Thank you to the two people who reviewed, it made me feel great when I saw reviews for the first chapter. Most anyone doesn't really take the first chapter seriously, so thank you for encouraging me.
I stayed there for 1 more year planning my escape. Once I was ready, I gathered all my stuff and extra food I grabbed and put on my backpack.I wore a red t-shirt with a pink jacket over it. My blond hair pulled into a ponytail, I wore blue jeans and my tennis shoes. I looked in the mirror the last time, looking at the startling blue eyes staring back at me. I left my room and yelled over the railing. "I'm going to check on Christopher and Joshua!"
"Don't take too long." My dad had been kind to me ever since that woman had come. I was relieved that it was easier, but I still needed to leave.
"I won't!" I quietly shut the baby fence on the stairs and placed some toys in the way. Yesterday I had installed a string connected to the fence, so if it gets pulled it would throw all of my collection of marbles onto the landing.I ran to their bedroom and picked up Christopher. "Come on, we have to be very quiet. Don't let daddy hear us."
"Are we sneaking out?" Christopher looked at me with curious eyes when I picked up some of his toys and held them in one hand. "I really want to get out of this place."
"Yes we are, so be really quiet or else we'll get caught." They both nodded and I forced them to promise that they won't do anything unless I told them to do something. We silently walked down the back stairs and I quietly opened the back door. Christopher went out first and then Joshua followed him.I placed the toys into the basket which I had connected to a tripwire so it will launch all of the toys at him. I also poured my failed science project for slime that built itself into different things, which turned to mush and was really sticky, so he would get some real fun. When it was my turn and I had to shut the door, I heard dad.
"Jasmin, what are you doing? You have to go to school." I shut the door without making a noise and I told the twins to run. Before we started running I heard the string pull and the marbles fell, a loud thump and cursing coming from the ran from behind the house onto the street. "Jasmin Grace, get back here with your brothers now!" He ran from the front door, failed slime and marbles sticking all over him while th liquid part of the slime trickled from the side of his face, and we quickened our pace. He stumbled before starting to run after us again.
I quickly glanced at the paper to know where we were going and how to get to Camp Jupiter. It was 40 miles from my house and I had to walk, so it would take a long time to get there on foot. "Come on! Run!" I yelled to my 7-year-old brothers and they quickened their speed.
"Get back here right now or you're all dead!" He was very far behind, but I didn't want to take any chances. We ran for blocks, cars stopping when they saw me and my brothers running across the street. I kept looking back at the paper and looking to see how far our dad is from us. He kept running for 2 more blocks then stopped, out of breath.
I was getting tired, falling behind of my brothers. They had enough energy to last them for miles. "Come on sis!" They were rushing me now. I looked back and could no longer see our house or our dad.
"Let's stop at the forest, alright?!" I had to yell over the wind or else they would never be able to hear me.
"Fine!" They didn't sound happy about it, but they didn't want to lose me. They could have gone without me, but they would have no food or protection from me. Plus, they cared for me as much as I cared for both of them.
When we got to the edge of the forest, we take a food break and rest break. I give them each an apple and some water. "Don't worry, this is only a snack break, we'll eat more later." They finished up their apples and we started walking through the forest. All we had for protection was a nailed baseball bat that my dad stuck nails into maybe last year or so, but it wouldn't be much against a wolf or something. We kept moving and for an hour all we saw was trees. After the hour passed by, we came into a clearing. We went to the end of it and there was a freeway.
We kept walking on the side of the freeway, we had run through the freeway to get to the other side of it, and I kept looking at the paper the woman gave me. When we got under another bridge, things went a little less smoothly. Everything happened really fast. First, I was standing in between my brothers walking by a door in the middle of the bottom of the bridge. Then I feel myself being pulled back and losing my grip on my brothers' hands. I turned around and saw a teenage girl holding onto the back of my shirt. I tried to hit her with the bat but she hits it out of my hand. I saw a hawk land on one of my brother's arm and pulled him in the air. Christopher screamed as the bird carried him higher. I yelled, "Chris!" and ran towards him. The girl let go of me and the bird started flying down, lowering Christopher back to the ground. I hugged both of my brothers then turned towards the girl. She seemed to be confused for some reason, and she kept looking at the bird that was next to her, flying up and down in the air beside her. She looked older than me by 4 to 5 years or so, wearing normal teen clothes as I was. She looked tired, mabe a little beaten up by life I would say, and well fed.
She looked at the bird and said, "Do it." and the strangest thing happened. The bird morphed into a boy. More of a teenage boy, around the same age as the girl, and a little taller than her. She must have seen my expression because she turned to him and nodded, sadness in her eyes.
He nodded back sadly. "What's your name?" He directed the question to me, but I stayed silent. "Don't worry, we won't hurt you. We just want to know who you are."
"Sis, are they your friends?" Joshua looked scared, and I did my best to assure him that it's alright.
The girl looked over at the cars passing by. "Let's go inside, it isn't safe to speak out here." She opened the door next to her and went through.
The boy signaled me towards the door. "Ladies first." I slowly went through the door, my brothers following me. The door led to a tunnel that ended to an open field.
"Woah, what is this place?" I looked around and saw beauty everywhere, but I wanted to know where we were before I went off walking over to the buildings over the were buildings in the distance, standing tall behind the fields. Some of the closer buildings looked ancient, like the roman buildings I've seen in history class.
The girl looked at the boy and he nodded. "This is Camp Jupiter, where the roman demigods come."
I looked towards her quickly. "This is where we were looking for. We made it." I looked down at my brothers, who started dancing around in circles.
"Who sent you here? Did Juno?" The boy asked me. "First of all, who are you? Second of all, how did you get here?"
"Who's Juno? A woman named Athena gave me this paper and told me to get to the camp, but I didn't know which one to go to. She circled two camp names, but this one was the closest to where I used to live. Why? Do you know who Athena is? Do you know why she brought me and my baby brothers here?"
The girl sighed."We don't know her personally, but from what you have told us, she wanted to send you to Camp Halfblood. Don't worry, in the meantime I think you should speak to someone. She will tell you who your mother might be."
I know, mean cliffhanger. The next chapter will be short, but please don't get mad at me. I am trying to copy and paste this all in the right order. My brother actually messed around with its document, so I have to read each sentence before putting it on here. Please review what you think and I will PM you to thank you.