Chapter 2.
Liam pulls my up at my shoulders and I stagger backwards. "Alright cupcake?"
Mr. Oak, our P.E teacher, asks. His top half is normal, he wears a bright orange t-shirt with a blue cap. Yet his legs. They're goat legs. I stare at them. "Good job for the mist, hey? Otherwise we'd both be in a bit of a pickle. Me and you. Mind you, no one really likes spiders."
I have no clue what he's talking about. All the spiders scurried away but I can still feel the webs around me. "What, what's the mist?" I ask.
"Ach, forget about that for now. Let's just say I look like a mortal and you look like you freaked out over nothing. Any ways we better get you to camp."
"Coach, you don't seriously think that she's, a, you know, Demi sang, do you?" Liam asks. I know Demi is French for half but I don't know what sang means.
"This is the fifth gods damn time her mother her sent me. All this time I thought it was you, and I was wondering what was wrong with her."
"Huh?" I ask.
"My cars in the car park. I'm driving." Liam States and I follow behind him.
"Camp half blood is the only safe place, plus Camp Jupiter but we don't go there, for people like us, Katy." Liam explains as he drives. "You and I, we're children of a Greek goddess. I've no doubt that you're a daughter of Aphrodite. You don't look too awful, many of our siblings are like you and don't look too great until they've been claimed."
"Wow, a Greek goddess? So is our long lost grandfather on our fathers side a rainbow." I sigh. "Are you going to tell me what's going on or how long are you going to keep this up?" I ask.
"I'm serious." Liam insists
"And I'm Beyoncé"
"Will you just listen to what I say." His words are laced with sugar and honey and all of a sudden I want to listen to his every word. He's my big brother, I can trust him.
"Although, I haven't heard of any monsters that attack in swarms of spiders. Maybe some sort of shapeshifting creature? Frank could do that, although he wasn't exactly a beast." He ponders. There's a Frank in senior year. "Unless it could be another descendent-"
"Actually, Liam,"
"Harold, don't talk over me."
"You sound like dad." I comment.
"Both of you, shut it." We both fall silent.
"OK, no sign of any monsters, we'll be there in five minutes."
Liam dumps the car at he side of the road and we face an empty valley. "You won't really see much until we cross the barrier. Ah, I forgot to pack. We'll go back later." Liam slams the boot of the car. "Follow me." As he strides down the valley. I tighten my pony tail and follow.