The Heroes of The Camps

I'm not scared of heights per se, but falling over the edge of the Grand Canyon changed my whole perspective on heights. Ira and I fell over the edge of the Grand Canyon, me screaming my head off and Ira just looking around, confused.

"Hey, uh, Ira? Yea, we're falling!" I snap, struggling to get over to my boyfriend. Ira snaps out of his trance and looks around. "Oh, wow. We're falling." He says dumbly. I roll my eyes. "Yes we are and we're going to die!"

I tackle Ira's chest and loop my arms around him. The wind is shrieking in my ears, making it hard to hear anything.

The ground was rising up pretty quickly to meet us, and I closed my eyes, preparing for death. I felt a gentle thump and then nothing. With my eyes still closed, I say, "I'm dead. I'm dead all right." I hear a quiet chuckle. "Open your eyes."

I obey the voice and open my eyes. I gasp. We weren't dead. Ira, with his arms wrapped around my waist, was floating above the ground. "I-Ira?" I stutter, my blood pounding. "Hold on." He tells me. Gripping harder, I close my eyes again.

We shoot up so fast, I feel like I lost my stomach. "It's like the wind is supporting us," Ira whispers, still bringing us up. The next thing I know, we're on the skywalk. And it's utter chaos.

We're on there no longer than a few seconds when Ira suddenly pulls out a golden sword. "Ira, w-where did you get that?" I stammer, my teeth chattering from my soaked clothes. He points up and I see these weird looking horses. "Venti." Is all he says before attacking these things.

I look around, not believing my eyes. I see Nurse Harry fighting these weird horses with no pants, Ira's a tornado, he's all over the place. And Phoebe, she's unconscious.

"Phoebe!" I scream, racing over to her. With the skywalk soaked with water (where'd that come from?) I skid to my knees. Phoebe's still breathing, so I know she's fine. "Demigods!" A voice screams. Forgetting Phoebe for the moment, I look and see Ira. One of the horses he's fighting has got him cornered. "Son of Jupiter, you and your demigod friends will die!"

Although Ira looked pretty confused, and kinda scared, he sneered. "Yeah, right." With Ira and the horse back in battle, I turned back to Phoebe. Out of the blue, a boy in a chariot appeared along with a girl. They're wearing jeans and a t-shirt that says Camp Half-Blood.

The chariot lands jumpily and before it even stops, the boy jumps off. "Where is she?" He demands at me, ignoring the fight going on. I hear a scream and Nurse Harry is pulled into the skies by some stray horses. "Harry!" I scream, but the girl, who has wavy hair (don't know what color, I'm color blind), grabs me by the arms and restrains me. "He's gone!" She says, struggling to keep me in place.

Ira walks over, his head drooping. "He's- he's gone." "Why don't you tell us what happened?" The girl suggests despite the boy's silent protests. I try my best to explain, but with Ira so shaken up, and Phoebe unconscious, and the rest of the class who-knows-where, I couldn't do much.

"Where is she?" The boy demands again. "Where is who?" Ira asks shakily. The boy grunts and without another word, bends down and picks Phoebe up, walking back over to the chariot. "Come on." The girl says gently.

"Who is he looking for?" I finally ask, not really bothering to ask where we were going, as we get on the chariot. The girl looks at Ira, Phoebe, then me and says, "His girlfriend. A girl named Echo Jackson."

Notes

There, Alec. I got the chapter up. Happy?

-Nala