Chapter 6, Amanda's POV, Whose kid am I anyway?

As I walked away from that store, I started thinking. That guy acted really weird. Why? Does it have something to do with me? I remembered from the books that demigods sometimes got special powers, but I thought if I was a demigod, mine wouldn't be anything special. I went into an ally way and took the knives out of the box. They were a little dull but after a quick sharpen they should be well enough to use against enemies, but how they would work on monsters was questionable.

I put one knife on my belt and hoped no one would see it while I put the others in my backpack. Then I tried to act as casual as anyone carrying a knife could, and wandered through town some more. Whose kid was I anyway? I tried going over my personality and keen features.

-Strawberry blond, frizzy hair

-Green eyes

-long nimble fingers

-persuasive

-smart

-musically talented

-good at archery

-Creative

-Hit on at school (not usually pleasing)

-isolated, but friendly

-funny, play tricks

-basic knowledge of medicine

-fear of dogs

So far as I could tell I was not a child of Ares, since I wasn't aggressive of mean spirited. So far as I could tell I was not a forbidden child with extraordinary powers. So I wasn't the child of Ares, Hera, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Artemis, or Hestia. I might be a child of Hermes, jack of all skills, talented at none.

I knew how to fix things, but not as good as a Hephaestus kid, so that was out. I could help in the garden, but not as good as a Demeter kid, so that was out. I was not a juice lover or a party person, so Dionysus was out.

So far that left Hermes, Apollo, Athena, and Aphrodite. Not to mention all the minor gods. Ugh... This could take a while.

I was not as skilled a hunter or as pretty as Adonis, Don't like night except for the stars, rivers I just like to watch. More of indoors person, so even though I was born in the spring the spring goddess isn't for me. Adonis, Nyx, Styx, and Persephone: slash, slash, slash, and slash. Not strong, so not the god of strength. I sleep, but not as much as Hypnos kids. Hardly remember my dreams. Heracles, Hypnos, and Morpheus: no, no, and no.

Not the greatest at choices, so not him. I'm very youthful, but I don't think the goddess of youth has kids, does she? Revenge, maybe, I usually just let it slide, so no. Janus, Hebe, Revenge, all off the list.

Finally I just gave up. There was no way I was going to go through the entire list of gods before night fall. I needed a place to stay and it was already getting dark! In my search for knowledge I seemed to have wandered outside of town. "Great." I muttered to myself, I was about to turn back when I saw a giant sign that said MOTEL. That was convenient I thought A little too convenient. I was tired, hungry, and I didn't know where else to go. So I ignored my suspicion and walked toward to the motel.

As I entered the Motel, there was someone sitting at the desk. He was asleep, and he slept kind of like Stan from the ware house; drooling and snoring, in other words really gross. "Excuse me?" I said approaching the desk. He continued snoring, I was afraid of having another Stan incident so I just decided to look around.

This place looked pretty vacant, except for me and the clerk in the lobby. I looked over at the registration and all the room keys were there. Huh, that's strange. I thought, then why would the clerk be here? The clerk awoke with a start, shaking me out of my thoughts.

"Excuse me," I said, "I would like to check into a room."

"Yes a customer! I mean...uh... yes, of course. As you can see all the rooms are open, so which one would you like?"

"The closest room would be nice thank you." I said, that way I could make a hasty escape if necessary.

"That would be the first one on the left one floor up." He said handing me my key.

He made me carry my bag up myself, the nerve of him! So when I went up the staircase and turned left into my room I discovered it wasn't much. It was just a small room with a double bed and a small bathroom, which was all I needed really. It covered all the necessities and was in my price range, perfect!

I plopped my backpack on my bed and looked for a good book, when I noticed the last book was gone! I checked again only to notice that the Heroes of Olympus series was gone too. Not only that but also the demigod files book and the ultimate guide as well. This had to be a sign of some sort. Someone wouldn't just steal some of my books, and I wouldn't just lose some of them either.

I then heard some serpent like noises outside my room and remembered some stuff I learned from the series. 1) How chain establishments magically pop up all over the place because of monsters, and 2) how monsters like the taste of demigod. So -just to be safe-I packed up my stuff, crawled out my window and ran. I only looked back once to hear a bang and hear a loud hissing noise fill the night.

A/N: OH! What do you think happened? Is she safe? Again probably not, but still I want to know! One more thing I want to know? Who do you think their parent is? Check out my profile and vote on all the options.