I had just turned on my screen when my mom pulled me away from my computer. In retrospect, I'm sure she meant that going was my priority, but I was panicking at the time. I could not be responsible for my actions. She pushed my bag into my arms and then started shoving me down the stairs which was a good thing, because when I got down there Freddy was pushed up against the wall by a monstrous looking woman, big black feathers hanging from its arms.
I wasn't sure what to do and I just panicked. My mom has a different idea. She tackled the birdlady, not dissimilar to how she would her opponent in one of her fights. "Run, boys! I can handle this thing." She punched it in the face.
"A harpy. Minion-level monster." I said quietly to myself. I looked over quickly and helped Freddy up before shoving him back toward the garage. "I'm only worth a minion-level monster?"
"Oh, I'm fine. Thanks for asking." Freddy said before reaching into his pocket and handing me a y-shaped stick. "You ever used a slingshot before?"
"Are you kidding?" I watched him grab a set of keys from our key box and then turn back toward the cars. "I've played and beaten Every Legend of Zelda game at least twice."
"Well, that'll have to do, then." Freddy said before pressing the button on the remote. A few feet away a large yellow H3 Hummer beeped in response. "Hummer. Perfect."
"I thought you satyrs were supposed to be all enviro-friendly." I said, getting into the passenger's seat.
"Not when we're killing monsters. Then we need a Hummer." He said starting the car. "Now, get up and start shooting harpies."
"I don't have any Deku seeds!"
"What are you talking about?" Freddy said as he pressed the button to open the sun roof. "Just pull back, aim, and let go. And be quick about it." I looked at him still a little confused, but stood up anyway. I held it up as another harpy zoomed from the sky and started chasing the car. I pulled back and sure enough I felt a pellet a little bit bigger than a marble grow between my fingers. I took aim at the harpy and let go. The band snapped and the marble shot through the air and hit the harpy in the shoulder, where dust started to pour out.
"They're made of dust?" I shouted into the car. Freddy looked up and then swerved to dodge a car that was coming around a corner.
"I'll explain later! Keep shooting!" He shouted before turning left away from the highway. I was confused, but I assumed that maybe there was some secret tunnel to the camp or something. I was a little bit distracted at the moment.
"I'm worth more than minion level monsters, you stupid harpy!" I shouted, pulling the band back again and letting go, firing another marble at the harpy which hit it in the wrist and took its hand clean off. "What are these things—"
"Later! Keep shooting!" He took a few more quick turns and then stooped quickly at the end of a road, the Hummer screeching to a stop. The harpy kept coming and I had to duck quickly back into the car as it raked its claws over the top and flew over us. I turned and fired another marble at it which hit it in that same shoulder, knocking its wing off. It spun out and landed in the highway to our right where it exploded into dust on the hood of someone's car.
"Why are we stopped?" I asked before hearing a loud screech and seeing two more harpies appear off in the distance. I panicked a little and looked at Freddy's face. I followed his eyes and at the end of the road was a Giant man dressed in a large pair of athletic shorts and a muscle shirt.
"I hate Laistrygonians so much…" He said quietly before flooring it.
"Lieutenant tier. That's much better." I said with a little smile. I sat in my seat and held on tightly as the Liastrygonian started to head into a house. Taking a look around, I realized we were in some lower class housing on the east side of town near the highway. I didn't know who lived here, but seeing the Laistrygonian walking toward that house, I figured out quickly that there must have been another demigod and that this Laistrygonian was not for me. The Liastrygonian turned just as Freddy let out a girlish scream and mowed into him, exploding him into dust all over the hood of our Hummer.
"Okay. Stay here. Keep shooting at the Harpies. I'll be right back." Freddy said before getting out and running toward the house, his hooves clopping on the asphalt. I grabbed the slingshot again and stuck my head out of the way just as a Harpy stuck out her claws at my head. I ducked back down and then turned around and shot a pellet at the monster. It hit her in the ankle and took her foot off, but I suddenly felt to clawed hands grab me under my shoulders and yank me out of the car.
This was it. I was dead. I closed my eyes and waited for the other harpy to start clawing at me, but instead they turned and started carrying me. I started struggling and stabbing the end of the slingshot into its hands and it finally dropped me on top of the house that Freddy had run into. I landed hard and rolled off, landing in the backyard.
"Come, master." A deep raspy voice said. I felt a large hand grab me by the ankle and lift me up. He lifted me up onto his shoulder. "We shall bring you to base after we eliminate these two." I looked ahead and saw Freddy being lifted up by what a Laistrygonian while he clubbed him over the head with what looked like a field hockey stick. I panicked a second and then put my slingshot against his head and snapped a pellet right into his brain. It screamed and turned to dust under me. I fell onto my feet and ran up to the Laistrygonian fighting Freddy and put the slingshot against his eye, firing another marble right into his eye..
"What are we doing here?" I asked him quickly before launching a marble at a nearby harpy and then pushing him through the backdoor of the house.
"Lindsey! Come on! Let's go!" Freddy shouted up the stairs.
"Lindsey?" I said quietly, my eyes widening. I heard footsteps and soon saw perfectly tanned legs wearing a pair of jean shorts walk down the stairs. Lindsey Blackman.
"What are you doing here?" We asked each other, looking each other up and down.
"Are you a satyr, too? I had always wondered if—" She asked, but I stopped her.
"What? No! I'm demigod or something!"
"What? Me too!"
"Yes, yes." Freddy said, shoving them out the front door. "You're both demigods. Let's hit the road."
The back door flew off its hinges and a Laistrygonian came charging through. I fired a marble at the giant then quickly ran after Freddy and Lindsey as we all piled into the Hummer.
"Sunroof, Peter." Freddy said as he started to back up. I could hear Lindsey screaming from inside the car and when I looked to the back of the car, I could see why. Luckily, Freddy swerved out of the way of the oncoming car and then got back onto the road, heading for the highway. I stuck my head out the sunroof and looked around. It didn't seem like anything was coming until I saw a Laistrygonian barrel into a car and start to chase us.
"You might want to…go faster or something!" I shouted before taking aim. I fired and the marble hit him in the chest, but didn't slow him down at all. "Do you have a grenade or something! Or a bigger marble setting at least?" There was a screech and I looked up just as a talon clawed my cheek. I could feel blood start to pour down my face and I quickly fell down into the Hummer.
"Oh, my gods…oh, my gods…" Lindsey said, her hand floating over my cheek. Her hand started to glow and my face felt tight for a second and then the bleeding stopped. "How did I…" I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror and saw that the cut on my face had closed along with the cuts from earlier. I turned back toward her a second just as the rear windshield shattered and two claws reached in and clawed at Lindsey. I pulled her back toward me quickly and then fired a marble at the Harpy which fell back enough.
Suddenly, I felt my skin start to get hot again. I don't know if it was annoyance or the fact that I was sitting this close to Lindsey Blackman or if I was mad at seeing her get hurt, but the slingshot fell from my hand and I stood up out of the sunroof. A harpy flew right at me, but seemed to get knocked out of the way by something. The wind picked up around me and I felt my hair whipping around my face. The wind blew faster and faster, surrounding me until I started to lift into the air. I felt arms wrap around my leg, but I didn't stop. I saw harpies trying to fly away, but they were sucked into the cyclone circling around me, causing them to slam into each other. I wondered what the mortals around me must have seen through the mist as a tornado seemed to be contained with a bright yellow Hummer's sunroof as it entered onto the highway headed for Manhattan.
There was something about it. As the wind circled around me, I felt powerful. I felt unstoppable. I had this urge to take control of this highway and move everything out of the way, not caring for who got hurt in the process. A smile spread across my face as I started to direct the tornado and I turned toward the Laistrygonians chasing us. I moved my hands up and then forced them at the Laistrygonians. The cyclone suddenly moved off of me and traveled down the road before it smacked into the Laistrygonians, whipping them around like a blender until it dispersed leaving a cloud of monster dust behind us. I fell back down to my feet and managed to duck back into the Hummer before everything starting to go hazy.
"Peter? Peter?" I heard Lindsey say before I passed out.