Percy Jackson and the Forgotten Heroes

5 - MJ gets twinkle fists

Peter's P.O.V

I had no idea what was going on, but there was no time to question anything. I had been awoken at 3 in the morning by screaming and a lion's roaring and looked out of my bedroom window to see Lucas, Anya and Zephyr running from a strange creature that looked like a mixture between a lion and an extremely large goat. They had turned down into the alleyway right next to my apartment and were cornered by the creature. I changed as quickly as I could into my Spider-Man outfit and jumped out of my window.

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I stared in awe down the alleyway at Pippa as she made the creature dissolve. The man I'd met a week ago in the pizza restaurant, who'd introduced himself as Percy Jackson, knelt before Pippa and said "Hail, Pippa... Daughter of Ares, god of war and a huge thorn in my side."

I gently placed Zephyr on the ground and stepped towards Pippa and Percy to ask what the hell was going on when I saw something in the corner of my eye. Someone was standing down the road, calmly watching us.
Zephyr, in his delirious state, slurred out "Who... That?"

I mumbled, narrowing my eyes "I don't...know."

The person saw me looking and bolted. Instinctually, I followed, sprinting after them. They had a head start on me but I was faster. I was catching up when I glanced ahead of them to see MJ, casually walking down the street towards me. The figure saw her too and suddenly darted to the right down 70th Road.
MJ stopped in her tracks "Peter?"

I froze "MJ?"
With each passing second, the figure was getting further and further away.
"Sorry, bit busy, can't stop!" I sprinted off after the figure. Behind me, I heard footsteps as MJ ran after me.
The figure didn't even make it halfway down the road before I reached them.
I halted to a stop "Who are you? Why were you watching us?"

The figure was around 19 years old with wavy dirty blonde hair and a mask covering her face. She whirled around and tried to punch me but I ducked out of the way. I shot back up and kicked them in the chest. It hit harder than intended and they landed on their back 5 feet away.

Unperturbed, they flipped back onto their feet and pulled something out of their pocket. It was a knife, stained a rusty bronze colour. She charged at me with it and I sidestepped a bit too slow. I was certain I was going to get stabbed in the side with a knife, again, but she just barrelled past me. It was like the knife had passed through me, but that was obviously impossible.
The girl cursed under her breath in a language I didn't recognize and turned back around to face me.
I was still confused about how the knife hasn't hit me when I was so certain that it would that I didn't move quick enough to dodge the girl's next attack. The knife was aimed straight at my heart this time and there was no way I would escape this one.

MJ - who had been running down the street after us this whole time - yelled out "No!" and reached out to help, but she was too far away to do anything.

A blast of energy shot out of MJ's hand and hit the girl in her chest. She stumbled backwards, shocked but not injured.
I stared at MJ and she stared right back at me, her mouth agape, equally as shocked and confused as I was.
Behind me, a dark purple mist began to coalesce around the girl, thickening until it obscured her from sight.

"No, wait!" I called out "Who are you?!"

When the mist dissipated, she was gone.

I turned back to MJ, a deathly silence hanging in the air.
She stared at her hands wide-eyed, still in shock.

After a while, she said "....What the hell was that."