Chapter 2

Hey guys! Sorry I took forever my computer broke and I had to get it replaced. So, anyway if you guys have any ideas about monsters and such just pm you like.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Percy Jackson characters, just the plot and Scylla Rivers.

I lay in bed that night thinking about what happened today and how my life is starting to change. I just can't rap my head around how my mom of all people would keep so many important secrets from me. Why would she do something like this, was it because of my dad. Every time I try to talk to my mom about something that has to do with him she opens up a little and I can tell just from the way she talks about him that she really loved him. But she said that he had to leave on a trip. But I don't think she is telling me everything, of course she isn't telling me everything. Why would he just leave us though, did he not want me and my mom anymore? Once I tried asking her about that but she said that he loved us both and didn't want to leave us, but in hers eyes there was something else.

I go back to thinking about how I controlled the water, but the strange thing is that not all the water was from the sprinklers. Some of it was coming from my hands too. I just can believe I got attacked by storm clouds, and how first thing tomorrow when I get to school I have to meet David so we can leave. Mom wants to go along but I insisted that she shouldn't go with us. What happens if we meet some more of those clouds or as David called them venti, she could get hurt. After I got attacked David also started talking about how I have to be careful so they don't find us especially since there is a war going on. Whatever that means, he said that he has to watch me at all times. Creepy much . I get that he is trying to make sure nothing happens to me but seriously, what kind of person goes up to another person after being attacked by clouds and say " I have to stalk you 24/7 because your supposedly 'different' from everyone else." Don't you see that I get that but that doesn't mean I have to go to a stupid camp for it that is halfway across the bloody country. It turn over to face the wall and before I know im tired my eyes slip shut and I fall into a somewhat dreamless sleep.

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I am woken by the sound of screams. I hurry and put on my glasses that are sitting on my nightstand and grab my old softball bat lying next to my bed. Always have to be prepared. I walk to the now muffled screams that lead into our small kitchen and see a monster, its back is facing me with its spiky scorpion like tail swinging around, and I walk cautiously around it and see it has a face of a person and a body of a lion. It's holding my mother down against the table a paw covering her mouth to drown out her screams; I catch my mother's eyes and see freight in them. I charge at the beast and swing my bat a hard as I can against the beast's tail. Bad idea! It just turns around unfazed, bears its hideous fangs and says my what do we have here, a demigod or should I say a child of Poseidon. You're quite small for your age but what size does matter when you're dead. Your death shall be our victory in the ancient lands.

"What the hell are you and what are you talking about."

For I am the great Manticore and you're not as bright as I thought you would be, but the war is finally happening and it would be my pleasure to bring Gaea your head!

It's fast as shit, oh god it's getting closer! Think Scylla think. Okay look for any weaknesses. As it comes closer it swipes it tail at me trying to stab me I dodge it easily and jump to my feet. Instead of charging again it grabs my almost unconscious mom from the table

"Mom!" as soon as the words left my mouth it stabs her with its tail in the side.