Chapter Text
Percy's pov
7 children, Annabeth, me and the ashes of a monster. You're probably wondering what's going on. But, as always, I had one problem and that was: I have no idea what the heck is going on. Annabeth and I were on a trip to a park and BOOM there's a monster(I probably shouldn't be this surprised at this point though) AND there are a bunch of kids fighting it. Five girls, one guy and one of those snake monsters that Annabeth and I have encountered various times, but in this situation it looked like the snake guy was actually helping them, since they hadn't killed him yet or anything. Annabeth got her dagger ready.
“Woah there, do we really need to fight?” I asked
“They're children, Percy and by the looks of it, maybe even half-bloods. They can't fight that chimera all by themselves.” Annabeth replied
“Yeah but they look like they've got it under control. They probably also have a satyr guiding them. This is supposed to be our day, a day we get to be free, no fighting monster unless it's absolutely necessary. Underst-”
But, as always, Annabeth being Annabeth had already charged for the monster. It just looked, well, messed up, try to imagine a part lion, part horse, part elephant, hybrid with bird-like feathers and you've got what we were up against. Annabeth charged and managed to get a good gash near its stomach. I mean of course she did, being the daughter of the goddess of wisdom and warfare, she would never just 'wing it'. As the monster let out a loud screech, one of the five girls glared at Annabeth.
“This isn't your fight, take your friend and get out of here.”
She held a glowing mace and was a lot shorter than me, the mace had fire. I took out Riptide and tried to get a strike, but the chimera was thrashing too violently, making it hard to get a shot.
“Go back to where you came from. We can't risk you guys getting hurt just because you decided to be reckless. We've got this under control.” Another girl said
“Percy! Water.” Annabeth said, completely ignoring their comments
Right. There was a water fountain nearby, I summoned the water and conjured a huge water dome above the chimera. The girl with the mace looked at me with a bewildered expression, she had chestnut skin and jet black hair.
“How did you-“
“Light'em up, Shah!” the boy called to the girl with a lightning bolt
Lightning bolt girl approached him and by lightning bolt I'm not talking about Zeus' lightning bolt, no this one was way different. This lightning bolt had actual sparks flying off it, instead of just being a glowing cylinder. She touched the guy's swords with it. I was about to call out 'No wait, you'll get electrocuted!' but surprisingly he didn't, instead the swords were surrounded by tendrils of electricity.
The boy threw one of his swords at the monster, well now that I think about it they weren't exactly swords, no these were different they were hooked at the tips and the handles were also different. I'd heard Annabeth talking about these before, they were called…uhh…what was the word…ah yes scimitars. As soon as one of the scimitars touched the water, the chimera went still and dropped to the ground. The chimera, as usual, turned into ash and the snake boy morphed into a human.
“Well you're obviously not normal.” he said
“Not bad,” Annabeth said. “I liked the teamwork.”
I frowned and looked at the lightning bolt girl “Zeus?” I asked
“What?” she asked
”Well you're obviously half-bloods, so who's kid are you?”
Mace girl looked offended.
”What Percy means to say is,” Annabeth says. “You're demigods aren't you?”
”No, not really. We're… reincarnations. There's a difference.” A short girl said
She wore a flower patterned dress and a crown that looked like one those things princesses wear. She also had icy blue eyes.
“A pen? Did you really just fight with a pen? That's your weapon? Seriously?” Flower girl asked
“Nikki! A pen can do a lot of damage. Did you know that the ink of a pen consists of phenol, ethyl glycol or xylene? That's extremely toxic and if someone ingests a lot of the ink, they'll get ink poisoning and-”
“DIE?” Everyone asked, as if they did this all that time.
“Yes!” She spoke. She was dressed in all black and had yellow glasses.
“You! How did you do that thing with the water?” Mace girl stepped forward and asked me.
“I…uh ok so long story short, I'm the son of Poseidon and Annabeth, here, is the daughter of Athena.”
Scimitar guy and the girl with glasses were about to say something when two other people came, a girl and a boy, to be specific. The girl had dark brown eyes, long black hair which was tied back, she wore high-waisted ripped jeans and a navy blue shirt, along with sneakers, she also had glasses. The boy also had dark brown eyes and black hair(his hair wasn't long or tied back though), he wore shorts and a shirt with sneakers. They looked at everyone and took in the sight of the weapons which were still out, the girl's eyes lingered on Annabeth and me a lot longer than the others.
Finally she spoke up, “We leave you guys for like ten minutes and you've already outed yourselves.”
So these two know the other seven kids, maybe they were their satyrs, but that didn't make sense flower girl (I think her name was Nikki?) had said that they were reincarnations, I have no idea what those were, hopefully not more monsters.
“Are you their satyrs?” Annabeth asked
“Satyrs? What no, we're-” The boy was cut off by the girl
She whispered something in his ears, and they seemed to have their own conversation. I caught the words New York, camp, Greek, Riordan, Roshani, but those didn't really help with understanding what they could be talking about. Then, mace girl cleared her throat and the two seemed to notice that they weren't alone.
“Hold up, you said you were the son of Poseidon and the daughter of Athena? Like in the Greek god of seas and the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare? They're real?” Scimitar guy asked
“That's awesome! So Loki and Thor are real! Do they look like they do in the movies?” Lightning girl exclaimed
“Aru, that's Norse mythology not Greek.” Scimitar replied
“How do you know, you're not Greek or Norse!” She shot back
“Pardon them, we thought that only Hindu gods were, well, real.” Mace girl said
“Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, and now there's Hindu?!?” I exclaimed, mostly to Annabeth, but I'm pretty sure everyone heard it.
“Let's start over, I'm Prince Rudra of Naga-Loka.” Snake boy said
“You can call him Rudy.” Scimitar guy stated
“But 'Prince Rudra' sounds way cooler.” Rudy complained
“It doesn't matter, you're Rudy, and that's final. I'm Aiden”
“I'm Aru.” Lightning girl said
“I'm Yamini, but you can call me Mini.” The girl with yellow glasses said
“Hold the phone, how do we know we can trust you?” Mace girl asked
“I agree, how can we trust you?” Flower girl and her look-alike said
“We just helped you fight that chimera.” Annabeth said
“But anyone would have done that, if you hadn't fought it you would've been seriously injured or could've even died!”
“It's a yali, not whatever you said.” Aiden spoke up
“A what?” I asked
“A yali, a hybrid of different animals.” he clarified
“That's the definition of a chimera!” I said
“We should get out of here before more monsters come, let's go to Camp.” Annabeth said
“Camp? Like a summer camp?” Aru asked
Annabeth and I exchanged looks.
“It's not a normal summer camp. Anyway, let's go in Percy's car, it's not safe out here.” Annabeth said
“Again how do we know we can trust you? We-” Mace girl started to say
“We can trust them.” the girl with glasses said
Everyone turned and looked at her, I had totally forgotten about her and the other boy.
“How do you know?” Mace girl asked
“I'll tell you later, but right now, we really need to get out of here, like Annabeth said.” She replied
“Fine, we'll go to this 'camp'. But last time I checked, we shouldn't get into strangers' cars.” Mace girl said
“Okay, we won't go in his car, camp's not far from here anyway, it's in Long Island.” Annabeth said, clearly irritated
“Isn't your uncle's firm near Long Island, Bee?” Aiden asked
Mace girl(or 'Bee') nodded
“Do you guys have a method of transportation?” I asked
They all turned and looked at the girl with glasses.
“Um…okay. I-” She started before she was interrupted by the boy next to her
“No, you are not going to do that, it drains too much of your energy.” He said
“But-”
“No” He said again
“Fine, sorry guys I can't do anything.” She said
“That's alright, we have our own transportation.” Mini said
“TO THE VIMANA!” Aru said(well rather, yelled) overly dramatically
Annabeth and I looked at eachother, feeling very confused.
“A what?”