Chapter 4! I'm so excited to write so I'm just gonna shut up and do so.
The car ride was an eternity. I hugged my bag, staring out the window. I hadn't been in the outside world for so long. Even with boarding schools, I don't consider it the outside world because it's just going from one prison to another. I wondered what had changed.
How could my mother, who had never known me, have a summer camp in mind for me? She didn't know me. And why had my dad refused? Millions of questions bubbled around in my brain, but I knew I could not answer them.
"Jo, put your seatbelt on," Holly scolded. I obeyed. "Drive faster," she told the limo driver. The driver obeyed. Everyone seemed to obey Holly. She always got her way.
The limo stopped at a red light. I looked out the window and saw something that bewildered and somewhat delighted me. I saw a monkey on the sidewalk. He was small, even for a monkey, with long tan fur and a bushy tail. He seemed to be looking at me, and cocked his head as if wondering what kind of strange creature I was.
The light turned green, and the driver floored it. We drove for hours, and even though we had left at five in the morning, it was midday when we reached our destination.
"Get out," Holly said.
"What?" I said. "But aren't you coming with me?"
"I'll send your application forms in the mail," Holly said.
And with that I got out of the limo, closed the door, and watched the long car drive away. There it went; my old life.
I turned and looked up at my new life. It was atop a huge hill, so I couldn't see it. I sighed and started hiking up. As I walked, I started to see the entrance. I could make out a huge pine tree right by a stone archway. It took a while with my dyslexia, but I thought it said, "Camp Half-blood". I didn't like that name. I'd been called that a few times at boarding schools, because only half of my family was rich. Of all the schools Holly could put me in, she had to choose the snobby rich-kid ones.
As I got closer I saw something glittering in the branches of the pine tree. Oh, and they decorate the trees with gold, I thought. Great, another snobby school.
I was almost at the top when I heard a low growl. I turned and saw something so bizarre the spider thing with Mandy seemed perfectly normal. I saw a fifty foot dragon with gold scales and razor sharp teeth and claws. I screamed and backed against the pine tree. Ok, I was definitely going crazy.
The dragon stalked toward me. I screamed again. What were you supposed to do if a dragon wanted to eat you? I tried to think, but it was useless. My mind was terrified beyond the point of reason.
The dragon was on top of me now. At the last second I ducked and ran under its belly. The dragon was fast though. He whipped around and roared in my face, blasting me with boiling, stinky breath.
Then things got weirder. Out of the corner of my eye I saw people, kids my age and a little older, rushing over to my aid. They held what looked like swords and shields and they were all dressed in armor so I couldn't see their faces.
The dragon was stalking toward me again now. Instinctively I grabbed a tree branch.
"Don't swing!" shouted someone. I looked and saw a kid step forward. He took off his helmet to reveal black hair and sea green eyes. "He won't hurt you," the boy said. "Just stay calm".
The dragon reared up on its hind legs, ready to strike. Then, the weirdest thing that day happened. I raised my hands instinctively, but the dragon never had his chance to attack. All of the sudden he tripped on a tree root and fell backward into a beehive. The bees swarmed out, stinging him.
I stared in utter bewilderment. I looked at my hands. Was that just a coincidence? Or had I done that?
"How…?" said the boy with green eyes. "Who are you?"
I looked at the boy, but before I had a chance to answer him, I feinted.
So there's chapter 4! I know it's so much shorter than the others, but I'll update soon bye-bye now!