Starting Over

I woke up with, groaning about having the same damn stupid nightmare. It has been three full months since I took Fiona and ran away from home. Strangely enough we have been chased by some creepy monsters and demons from ancient Greece(Luckily I knew a lot about ancient Greece and their legends). But seriously? We have been chased by three Cyclops, two furies and a hellhound! That bastard of a hellhound left me with a gash on my arm that's six inches long and. I tended to it with some old cloth from a shirt. Fiona hasn’t been hurt to much, just a couple of cuts and scrapes. She hadn’t eaten in three days(I haven’t eaten in five just so she could). Now , she was stirring on the motel room’s bed. Some lady was nice enough to give us a room for free, I guess she took pity on a couple of kids lost and hungry. I left the room, careful not to stir Fiona, and went down the hallway. “BUT MA! THE GIRL LOOKS LESS TASTY THAN THE BOY!” If I didn’t know any better, that sounded like a young girl.

“Shhhh, you’ll wake them silly. And you know a demigod is a demigod so shut up and eat up. A little Cyclops like you needs her strength.” Great, another damn cyclops family. I ran back to the room, grabbed both of our bags. picked up Fiona and ran out of the motel. We were running and I had ran into some woods and ran for an hour before Fiona woke up. Man, this girl could sleep! “Did another monster try to eat us?” She yawned. “Nah, the ladies wanted money and when I told her that we didn’t have any she kicked us out. I didn’t want to wake, now that you’re up do you want to walk?” She climbed down and began to walk along side with me. Us? Demigods? Why did my Dad come back? Why weren't we claimed? What the hell(or Hades now I guess) was going on with my life? We trailed for a long time for what seemed like no end. I got bored and began to sing.

I used to think that I could not go on
And life was nothing but an awful song
But now I know the meaning of true love
I'm leaning on the everlasting arms
If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly

“Wow, you sing like a god.” I jumped around to see where the compliment came from, just to see some blonde girl with stormy grey eyes in an orange tee and denim shorts. She seemed to be in some sort of trance, but not for long. She snapped out of it and pulled out a...dagger? Okay, this is weird. Fiona was hiding behind me and I don’t think the girl saw her. “What kind of monster are you? You better not be a siren that escaped or so help me I will personally drag you to Tartarus!” She was practically yelling at me and I was just as confused as I could of been. “Um...can I get a name...you know?” “What? You can’t tell who I am?” “The only thing that I can tell from you is that if I get too close you’ll skin us alive and feed us to the wild.” “‘Us?’” Fiona quickly peeked her head from behind me. The girl looked stunned then lowered her weapon. “SEAWEED BRAIN! GET OVER HERE!” Before I could completely register what she said, a boy who looked about eighteen came rushing over. He had sea green eyes and short shaggy hair like mines, only his was jet black.

“Annabeth, what's wrong who are theses two?” The kid had taken out a...pen? The pen quickly turned into a sword and it was at my throat before I could even blink. “DID YOU TOUCH MY GIRLFRIEND?” “Dude...your girl tried to kill US! And what is with you crazy PEOPLE! All I want to do is keep us safe, but NOOO! I have to deal with a crazy blonde chick and a guy named seaweed brain who can turn pens into swords. Can’t a guy get a brake!” I snapped. I had a bad temper when I was upset. I nearly blacked out and went to chew the bastard out if I hadn’t felt Fiona tug on me and hear her whimper. I calmed down and picked Fiona up. The boy took his sword back and stared at us in amazement. Fiona was trying not to cry. “My name is Percy Jackson and this is Annabeth Chase. We are demigods. I’m guessing that’s what you two are. Um...sorry about that.”

“It’s cool. I get the whole ‘gotta protect her’ thing. My name is Tyler and this ray of shy sunshine is Fiona. We ran away two months ago and have been chased ever since. I only knew what those monsters were because I like ancient Greece history.” Annabeth began to talk, “So we get to spare you that explanation. Good. Come with us.” Fiona began to cry. It was hard to calm her down. Percy and Annabeth just stood there wide eyed. I asked did they mind waiting for her to calm down and they said sure. I guess they came out here on a date because they had picnic gear. Fiona was still crying hysterically and I was blushing because we interrupted a date. I tried to get her to eat, but she just cried harder. Annabeth had been staring at Fiona for a while. I didn’t think much of it. “Do you guys mind if I sing? It’s the only thing that could calm her down.” Percy smiled. “As long as you don’t sound like me-” “Which is a fork stuck in a garbage disposal” “-thanks wise girl, knock yourself out.” I smiled and began to sing.

Everybody see's it's you
I'm the one that lost the view
Everybody says we're through
I hope you haven't said it too
So where
Do we go from here
With all this fear in our eyes
And where
Can love take us now
We've been so far down
We can still touch the sky
If we crawl
Till we can walk again
Then we'll run
Until we're strong enough to jump
Then we'll fly
Until there is no winds
So let's crawl, crawl, crawl
Back to love, Yeah
Back to love, Yeah

Fiona finally stopped crying and calmed down. I looked up to see my audience wide eyed with jaws dropped. “Um, wow. You definitely don’t sound like me.” Percy said. Annabeth was shaking her head and began to somewhat glare at me. I had no idea what her problem was but she definitely was not in the story sharing mood now. “Can she sing like that?” Annabeth asked as she pointed at my sister. Luckily Fiona was sound asleep by the time she asked. “I don’t know, she never tried before.” “Could you always sing like that?” “What’s with the interrogation? And, yes. Never had a lesson before in my life.” “I’m interrogating because I think I know who your godly parent is. You said you lived with your mom?” She somewhat snapped. “Yea, I had to run away from the-,” I covered Fiona’s ears just in case she could hear the less than favorable language choice I had towards our mother. Percy responded “Well, since we’re on the godly parent topic, I’m the son of Poseidon and Annabeth is the daughter of Athena.”

“Cool. Can you like control the river and stuff?” Fiona asked with a shaky voice full of curiosity. Percy just smiled and Fiona turned around to face him. “I can actually. In the winter, I make snowman that stand six feet tall. Maybe I can show you one day.” Annabeth rolled her eyes and Fiona smiled. She sat up and started nibbling on a sandwich. Annabeth said we should head down to a place called Camp Half-Blood. She explained that it was a safe haven for demigods and that nothing bad would happen to us. Fiona said she wanted to go and we all got up, cleaned up, and followed Percy and Annabeth. I was holding Fiona’s hand. We didn’t go too far before we came up to the camp and I was taken back by the dragon at a pine cone tree with a-golden fleece?-hanging on a branch. We walked past some very not-your-everyday-camp-activities.

Some kids were fighting, some kids were working with armor and others were, I’m not lying, were climbing a wall with lava spewing from the top. “Yo, Percy! I didn’t think you love birds be back yet!” Some kid was shouting. He walked up with a very pretty girl and a- okay? this can’t be any more weird- satyr. The girl and boy were covered in oil and dirt. “What did you think we were up to repair boy?” Percy smirked. “Oh you know, the-” I quickly covered Fiona’s ears. “The ‘wiillld thang!’ Oh, um, didn’t see the little ears right there. Sorry. I’m Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus.” He was blushing. The girl elbowed him and giggled. “I’m this goofy kids girlfriend Calypso.” “Aren’t you suppose to be on some stranded island?” She huffed. “Well someone knows their history. Well yes but not anymore. I’ll have these heroes explain that later.” The satyr spoke up as I released the hands from Fiona’s ears. “I’m Grover Underwood. Um, how old are you guys? We usually go and get demigods by the time they are twelve or thirteen.”

“I’m seven and my brother is fifteen. I’m Fiona.” The color drained from the three people in front of me. Fiona stepped out of from behind me and looked at them with her beaming hazel eyes. They seemed a bit frightened by her, she hides a lot so no most of the time when I talk to people they don’t notice her until I introduce her. This is the first time I’ve ever seen her introduce herself. I was even more amused from the faces of the three kids. I noticed Grover was staring at Annabeth. Annabeth broke the tension. “Okay, Percy take Tyler to Chiron with Grover. Leo, Calypso you guys go back to whatever you guys were doing. Everyone else can scatter. Fiona, do you think you could come with me?” I had barely noticed a crowd had formed until it was dismissing. Calypso and Leo said they would see us later before they left. Fiona stared at me and I bent down to her level.

“These are good people. Go ahead with Annabeth, maybe you guys can find something cool. I’ll find you in a little bit.” Fiona gave me a hug and took Annabeth’s hand before starting off. I refused to walk off until I saw that they were out of my line of sight. Percy grabbed my shoulder. “Come on, lets go see Chiron.”

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