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~Chapter One: My Life is Saved…Again

When life gives you a bunch of monsters running loose throughout the world, I doubt you can make even a smudge of lemonade. My name is Percy Jackson and I'm a demigod. I know what you might be thinking: "What's a demigod?". So, basically, I am a child of a god - Poseidon, to be exact. When you're only sixteen years old and walking through the park with your best friend, you don't really expect anything odd or dangerous to happen occasionally. Man, I wish my life could be a lot less complicated.

I figured it would be relaxing to call up a friend before school actually started, not as a "relaxing before school hangout" kind of deal but as an "Oh. Its almost the end of the world, want to chillax?"

My best friend's name is Grover. Something you should know about him is that he's not the average kind of person. Actually he's not a person at all, he's a satyr; a half goat, half human being. At first I was about to faint from this news but now I kind of rely on it in hairy situations. He might not look like it but he can really take care of himself.

"So, Percy, have you figured out what you wanted to do after school?" He asked me while he was drinking a Pepsi.

"I don't know for sure. My top priority in all of this is actually living through school, but afterwards I haven't thought of anything." I fiddled with my fingers thinking of all that's going to happen in the next months or so. Total homework overload.

"Well let's just take it easy and play the cards we're dealt," he started, "but for now let's just blow some steam." He walked over to the monkey bars and literally started to swing off of them. I didn't take him for one to be acrobatic, but DANG this dude can flip and jump. He stuck a perfect landing and started to make his way back.

"You know, I heard Camp Half-Blood was recruiting new guards." Camp Half Blood is a camp where other demigods go to train during the summer to defend themselves against monsters and other things that might want to kill us.

"Really? I didn't know the extra precaution was necessary," I said watching Grover finish his drink and start to eat the can itself.

"Yeah, but, I think it might only be a rumor. You can never be too careful, though." I thought about it and just nodded my head. I couldn't help but think that this all has to do with something bigger than just protecting the camp. What if had to do with protecting something more?

Not to long afterwards there was a gigantic rumbling coming about a mile from the path we came from. We looked back and saw nothing at first but a vague figure in the distance. As we walked a few steps closer we could see it perfectly - a huge creature with a weird distorted face. It was hard to tell but it sort of looked like a skull instead of a natural face. It looked at us from a distance and instantly made a charge for us. Grover and I both looked at each other but we had the same idea in our mind…RUN!

We ran for it ducking through trees and hopping over fences and various sand castles that people somehow made on a ninety degree day. No matter how much space we thought we had gotten between us and the "thing", it always managed to keep behind us. I just got to the point where I asked myself how long this dang park was.

We knew we couldn't outrun it for long but maybe if we made it follow us all the way to the corner of the park, we could pull a surprise attack. I think Grover knew what I was thinking because he nodded in agreement. Because of an empathy link that happened to us years ago, we can understand each other's thoughts. It's a very long and weird story.

We ran, ducked, dodged, and jumped our way through the park until we got to the end. I had Grover set up to be the bait, which he wasn't too happy about but after a talk we finally concurred. He would drive the creature to the very edge of the park, while I come out of the corner and slash the thing to bits while Grover beats it with, I don't know, a can?

After I hit it my plan sort of just stops there. We needed backup, we needed Annabeth. Annabeth is our best friend who's a daughter of Athena so she's basically in love with being smart, strategic, and involved with architecture.

The plan was working so far as Grover was ready for the split. He stood perfectly still at the edge of the park, or as still as someone can be when their legs are shaking from fright. The thing suddenly appeared on the horizon of the park screaming. No, scratch that, howling is more like it. It sounded like it was in pain, and that it was going to enjoy eating our brains like a gourmet meal.

When I got a good look at it I saw that it's face was indeed a skull and that its legs weren't legs, they were pincers. It looked like a crawling insect was coming after us, except this one was huge and drooling at the mouth…no, really, with an actual mouth. It had a human skull face only deformed and completely inhuman.

Remember when I said Grover was shaking? It could be safe to say that Grover is now officially peeing himself to death because of fright. As soon as the gigantic insect got near Grover, I swung with my three foot sword Riptide. I made a huge gash in between its chest and let me tell you just how much blood came out. It wasn't green or insect-ish at all it was full on "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" bloodbath. I didn't know if the thing would die from the wound it had or from the blood loss it's suffering from. I knew it worked because it writhed in pain screeching as blood gushed from the hole in it's abdominal area.

Our moment of celebration ended when it got up quicker than I anticipated and sprang instantaneously to it's feet. Even though my sword was still out, I had to see if Grover was okay, which totally messed up my reflexes as the thing swung its gigantic arms at me.

I managed to barely block the attack with the sword in front of my face and my hand awkwardly squished into my side. I fiercely drove the claw out of my face and hacked at it with a quick strike. It blocked it easily and rammed into my gut with it's giant head. And let me tell you, even when you bathe yourself in the river of Styx, you can still feel some of the impact of, oh, I don't know, a flipping bug the size of a truck slams its head into your gut.

Fortunately, the river of Styx lessened the blow and I dragged my feet into the dirt as I was thrown back. Last year I took a little swim into the river in the Underworld and since then I've been invincible. The only weak spot is a minute place in the bottom area of my spine. Even though I knew that wouldn't hurt me as much I still felt a bit winded. I guess it knocked the breath out of me but I guess I didn't feel a thing.

I raised my head and looked at the "thing" that was now towering over Grover like a tree swinging over an ant. I understood now that Grover and I were in big trouble, even if I have the power of Styx. I charged full force at the thing with my sword Riptide in my hands, swung over my shoulder, ready to slash the creature with everything I had.

As I got near it, I instantly swung and with amazing speed it blocked. The sword slowly cutting through the spiked arm. Blood was, at first, oozing and now gushing out of the wound. I lunged forward a little and had the sword rip clean through the arm. As fast as the thing shrieked, I kneeled down and swung the sword under me, cutting off legs as I rotated around. It kneeled on the ground writhing in pain like any other bug.

I slowly walked up to it with Riptide hanging from my side with blood dripping down the edge into the green grass beneath me. The creature looked at me with grinning boned teeth, and shrieked, only then did I notice a second pair of teeth inside it's gaping wide mouth. I raised my sword slowly and with quick decision sliced clean through its face.

One half of the head slid down and dropped into the grass, but only shortly afterwards the entire body began to evaporate into black shredding of dust. It wasn't the normal monster way to die. I've slain many monsters in my time but normally they just go poof not shhhhhh.

I glanced back at Grover who was finally standing up a bit more straight, as if this is what you call "recovery".

"Is it finally over?" Grover asked as he sauntered towards me as if he did anything supportive.

I glanced back noticing something in the air. At first I thought it was a dragonfly in the middle of my face but as I saw it getting closer it was another giant bug in the middle of the sky. This time it was longer, and much more bigger.

It looked exactly like a centipede except it had hundreds maybe even thousands of legs protruding from the sides. It glided over the entire park and a blanket of darkness slowly crept over me and Grover. Then, suddenly, it just stopped, and fell. Let me rephrase that; it dove.

I could barely keep up with the last monster, so now I just tried to ride the blow.

"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki!" I heard a woman's voice from somewhere, "Some no mai, Tsukishiro!"

Shortly thereafter, a white circle formed in front of me, the snow slowly circling in endless cycles forming an entire pillar. The giant centipede diving into a perfect synchronization with the pillar of ice slowly forming. CHING! The pillar solidified into a tower of ice, entrapping the bug inside.

CRACK CRACK. The pillar now breaking like a shattered mirror. Finally, the entire thing just fell into perfectly cut pieces, falling downwards, towards me. Great…if I didn't die by a gigantic flying bug, I guess ice was right there on top of the list. But the ice started to get smaller and smaller falling back into the circle, then vanishing completely.

"Are you okay?" A figure in a black outfit walked towards me.

Her black hair was cut short beneath her ears right above her shoulders. A single but thick strand of hair was in between her eyes that traveled below her nose. Pure violet eyes looking right at me, her black robe seemed to be over another white robe that poked out at the neck and the arms. The outfit was rolled at the arms showing silver gloves rolled above the elbows with some kind of symbol etched into a kind of plate tied to her right triceps. The belt was a white sash that held her sword sheathe at the right and her feet were clothed in white socks that fit into woven sandals. Her sword was completely white with a circular guard that was attached to a beautiful white handle that carried a long, white, and narrow cloth that was strung on the buttcap. She looked about at least twenty to twenty-eight, but her voice sounded like a high school senior's.

I replied back with the first thing that came to my head.

"Uhh…" I said while I scratched my head, still confused and currently processing everything that just happened.

She raised an eyebrow as if I said something that caught her off guard. As if saying "uhh" wasn't exactly in her vocabulary.

"Well? Speak up! Who are you and what is your purpose here?"

I decided to get my composure and slowly stood up, not noticing how tired I was from this fight. "My name is Percy Jackson. I'm…well…a de-"

"A demigod. I'm not stupid, ya'know," she said closing her eyes as if my entire looks disgraced her. "I meant what are you doing attacking one of these things on your own?"

"Look, I was doing just fine by myself before you interrupted! I didn't need your help."

"If I let this fight go on for even a second more you would have been crushed into dirt. Maybe you should show some thanks to the one that saved your life!"

"Listen, I don't know who you are but-" BAM! I fell to the ground head first. The crazy chick kicked me! I swiftly kicked myself back up holding a huge bump on my head.

She stared me down, her hand on her hips and yelled to me, "Who do you think you are questioning me? I'm the one who's asking the questions here!" her voice sounded somewhat playful and angry at the same time.

"Just tell me your name first," I said trying to sound nice, "then maybe I'll trust you." She sighed. Her sword glowed a silver radiance that then turned into a regular katana with a rectangular guard inscribed with fancy squiggles.

"My name is Rukia Kuchiki. I am a Soul Reaper of the 13 Court Guard Squads."

Again my head was flushed with information I couldn't quite comprehend. So I managed to open my mouth and say something smart. I looked at Rukia straight into her eyes dead serious and said, "Huh?".

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