Mythics

chapter 1

I was recently found and delivered to the Demigod District, an entire city just for demigods. It lies nearby to Huntsville. Anyways, I was found by a guy with greasy black hair, a nose that was side ways, and blue eyes. He didn't speak, but he found me, and started walking up to me, lifting me up, and carrying me to his car, where I sat now. It was about an hour long ride, and during so, I had read the pamphlet introducing me 7 times, called my mom and said what was happening, and played solitaire using a deck of card I found in the glove box. I knew we were finally there by the sign that said:Demigod district! Welcome to your home sweet home!

Just from my view from the street, it was amazing. People walked in and out of store, with bags of armor, or weapons, or some other thing. it was bizarre. we drove for a little bit longer, and we finally reached our destination, a house. It wasn't too fancy, just a normal house. we walked in, and found a guy waiting for us. "Thank you Aaron."he told grease hair. "dissipate." the person turned to clay and fell apart. "I gasped,and stepped back. "Don't worry. He was just a shabti. He wasn't even real. I can't say a word and dissipate real people." he studied me, before tossing me something. "Look." It was a mythic beginner pack. I had never really played mythic much, just occasionally borrowed a deck from my friends and played it. For those whom don't know, mythic is a game kind of like pokemon, but slightly different. I got Kymopolea, Eros, Horus, the physicians cure, some hieroglyphs, and a manticore. There was also a wrapped statue. I earnestly opened it, and found a a guy who would have been naked if not for the loincloth wrapped around his lower half. he had scruffy black hair, and wings that looked like the night sky. He had a pedestal that said MORPHEUS. The man nodded his head. "Interesting. Come on, we've got to go to your house." he then walked out the door, and to the same car I just got out of. I got in, and made small talk. "soo... what's your name?"

"Jared." he didn't ask mine, and I got the feeling he knew everything about me already. he drove in silence until we reached what looked like a long row of apartments. he parked at one and told me, "5th floor, 16b." I got out, found the room, and gasped as I entered. It looked like one of those one room houses from the outside, but inside was different.

there was a hallway, with doors every couple of feet. at the end there was a common room where 2 or three kids sat playing a video game, and one kid was just reading. "Um, hello?" The gaming kids didn't respond, though one of them shouted, "Come on, Cleo! It took me five hours to build that!" the kid on the right looked angrily at the kid in the middle. The girl reading got up and walked over to me. "Hey, I'm Trix. Welcome to the Morpheus house. What's yours?" She had vibrant purple eyes, and blonde hair with a pink streak in it. "Name's Jeb. By Morpheus, you mean like, the statue I got? Or that guy from the Matrix?" I asked.She laughed. "The statue we all got. The statue is magic. It'll always be who your godly parent is. Anyways, let me show you around. The gamer on the right is Leo, middle is Cleo, and left is Neo. They're triplets. They haven't stopped playing video games since they got here. I don't even think they sleep. They just relax half their brains all the time, like dolphins." I frowned. I didn't remember much about Morpheus, but I remembered he was the god of sleep. A thought had just occurred to me. "Shouldn't we be all like, sleepy all the time and stuff?"

"Don't get us confused with the Hypnos kids. They sleep all the time. Morpheus is the god of restful sleep. Anyways, this is your room." She opened the door,and I gasped. Inside was a king size bed, with a pillow covered in what looked like upside down fish hooks. there were posters of star wars up, and a beatbox hung on the wall.

"so, why is my pillow covered in fish-hooks?"

(I could not get a picture to work. Just look it up)

"It's called Svefnthorn. It's a norse rune for restful sleep. As a child of the god of dreams, you tend to drift away on the current of the dreams, but the runes help you stay in your dreams. Once I tried sleeping without it, and ended up in someone else dream. It's sort of a precaution until you learn to not be pulled away by the current of dreams." I nodded like I understood everything she just said, even though I didn't understand any of it. "We don't really have strict timetables here, this is just a safe place for demigods,but I recommend going to the Pegasus stables. Nothing is more fun than riding a flying horse." She smiled at me, as if she had just given me some amazing advice. "Where might the Pegasus stables be?" I asked.

"Oh, yeah! I forgot. Here ya go!" she hand me a folded paper the size of my palm. I unfolded it a couple times, and soon it was the size of my wing span. "This is a map of the DD. The pegasus stables are... here." She pointed to a spot a couple of blocks away from the apartment house things. "Okay, thanks! Oh, one last question. How do we pay here?"

"Good question! Well, it's not that easy to explain. you see, the DD is in six districts, because it accepts six different types of demigod. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Polynesian, and Mayan. As far as anyone can tell those are the only types of demigods there are. But each has their own payment, so we made our own. She flipped a bronze coin towards me, and I caught it. "These are called nummum. We earn nummum by doing work, like cleaning pegasi, helping make food, that kind of thing. You get a daily allowance of 2 nummum a day, which is enough for microwave lunch and dinner. Anyways, go ride some horses with wings!" So, I used my map to try and find my way to the pegasus stables. On my there was a guy begging for money. at first glance he looked normal. He was skinny, shirtless, and playing some pan pipes. the only thing that ruined it were his goat legs. The satyr was doing sort of a tap dance while playing a rousing jig on his pan pipes.

he had a hat set in front on him, saying "tips" so I did the natural thing. I took my nummum and tossed it in the hat, and continued walking. soon, I reached the pegasus stables, and found a girl my age brushing a white one. She was kind of pretty, in that kind of hardworking way. "um... hi." because I'm just smart when it comes to pretty girls. "Hey, find some other way to earn nummum. I'm volunteering here." She looked downright deadly with that brush,so i decided to step back. "N-no, I just want to ride one."

she sighed. "One nummum. pay up front with the owner."

"I ah, don't have any money."

"A new guy? Look, I ain't about to let you fly one of these babies without paying. I might as well just get rid of my nummum now if i did that."

A hare brained idea popped into my head. "What if I exercised them for you? I could give you my nummum."

She appeared to think this over. "Alright. You can exercise them. But I'm coming with!"

Soon, we were flying on pegasi, me riding a pearl white Palimino called Don, the girl riding a black stallion called Fisher. We were riding incredible fast at the head of the pack, to the point where I could barely hear anything over the wind whistling in my ears. "What's your name?" I shouted to her over the winds. "Kat! Daughter of Epona!" she shouted back. "Yours?" I could barely hear her. "Jeb! Son of Morpheus!" We touched back down in the stables. I looked at Kat and laughed. Her hair was straight back, like she had a blow dryer to her face. She growled at me "Don't you dare laugh at me! Mention my hair to no one." She looked like a feral animal.

"Okay, okay. I won't. I mean, I will! I mean- I won't tell anyone!"

We went up front to get paid, and the guy there gave us our nummum. She got 2, and I got 1. But before I could give it to her, a roar echoed through the building. Kat cursed. "Cueca de Maui! A Giant spider! Get your weapon, Jeb!" She ran towards the sound of the roar, and I followed, even though I had no weapon. It wasn't long before we reached. Now, when I heard giant spider, I thought okay, a large tarantula. This thing would make that tarantula cry for mommy. It was like a 2 story tall tarantula that works out at the gym every day and is on steiroids

It looked directly at me, and fired it's web, wrapping around me, trapping me. and then it lifted me up, ready to eat me.

dun dun duuuuuunnnn! what a cliffhanger! I'm evil. Honestly though, that took a while! I mean, it might not seem like it, but this I had a lot of love put into it. And time! Honestly, though, I'm as excited for part 2 as you are! just the story was 1600 words! my hands hurt just thinking about it! Anyways, I can't wait to make the next chapters, because I do not know where this is going, and i want to find out!

(what, you expect me to know the plot line?)

If you want a laugh, translate Cueca de muai