Legend Of The Demigods' Prophecies: The Tale of the Lost Beast {✓}

Chapter 12

CORAL

"Coral! Coral! FUCKING WAKE UP YOU DIPSHIT" Emmerson screamed in my ear trying to wake me up.
"Yeah! Gods stop screaming already. What happened?" I asked groggily.
"Look at this, you're in so much trouble" he handed me the newspaper and surely I was in trouble. The headlines of the newspaper read:

Three teenagers risk everyone's lives.

Three teenagers all roughly about 16 years of age have caused mass destruction yesterday in the Bloomsburg bus station.

"They had attacked a poor homeless dog, throwing stones at it and what not, this caused the other dogs to come and attack them in order to defend themselves and protect the dog. Due to their foolish behaviour, a whole ass pack of dogs attacked everyone, I don't blame the dogs though it was those kids" says a lady working at the station.

The three teenagers, however, were said to be spotted causing trouble at the East Stroudsburg station on Tuesday. They were, once again, said to be attacking harmless crows bringing trouble to the crowd of people waiting at the station.

Their identities are still unknown but here are their photographs from whatever could be caught on the CCTV cameras.

Currently, the cops are looking for them and they are to be brought to the court for their deeds.

To be continued on page 3…

At the end of page 1 they had put pictures of the three of us, by this time Ciera and Lilianah were awake and were reading the paper with me.

"Shit" Ciera whispered.
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck, we screwed up, big time" I said close to getting a panic attack.

"Why the fuck does the mist even exist? Why couldn't they just see the harpies or the hellhound? This is so fucking bad. What are we gonna do now?" By now I had started to hyperventilate.

"Hey hey, Coral, look at me, look at me, " Lilianah said and I looked at her "calm down, take small breaths, count to 10, 1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10.." I tried to manage my breathing syncing with her counts.
"Better now?" she asked and I nodded "see Coral the world was never fair to us, demigods, we'll just have to find a way out of this" Lilianah said.

"Well, i don't know what the fuck is going on but you've got some explaining to do" Emmerson said looking furious.

So we did, we explained everything to him, most of the talking was done by Lilianah and Ciera because I couldn't speak without hyperventilating, but we managed to explain most of it to him. We left out the part where we might not make it out alive of this quest, obviously.

"Hmm, okay I see, so this is what mom wanted you to be careful about" he said looking at me, I couldn't meet his gaze so I just nodded while fidgeting with my fingers.

"Coral? Look at me" I looked up and was met by his intense yet understanding gaze. That was it for me I couldn't hold it anymore, I started crying. Emmerson was by my side in an instant, he hugged me so I hugged him back, my tears soaking his t-shirt.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" I kept repeating over and over again.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not your fault"
"But I screwed up and now because of me you're gonna get bullied, they'll say you're the brother of a criminal, you don't deserve that I'm so sorry" more sobbing.
"Hey listen to me" he cupped my face and made me look him in the eye "no bastard can ever get away with talking shit about my sister, I don't give a fuck if they bully me, you're amazing to me, you're a goddamn hero you're literally going to save the world, they can say whatever shit they want, I know better" he said and I hugged him tighter, a few mins later I was embraced by Lilianah and Ciera too, and the four of us just stayed there, and I knew I had to make things right.

After we broke apart, we had our breakfast and informed Chiron about what had happened, he said that he'd see what he could do and asked us to not worry about it and finish our quest. Before we left, Emmerson handed us a jar of cookies
“Here take this, have it on your way” he said smiling.
“Emmmmerrrrssonnnn! Now I seriously don’t wanna leave. Coral can’t we just ditch the quest and eat Emmerson’s food?” Ciera asked.
“No Ciera, we can’t, I promise I’m gonna bring y’all back here, but for now let’s go” I said.
“You better remember that promise”
“I will”
We all had our last group hug and bid each other goodbye.

“I wish you knew how to bake cookies like this Coral,” Ciera said.
‘Well, baking and cooking is more of Emmerson’s department, I’m better at horse riding” I replied.
“Like that’s gonna be helpful” Ciera said and rolled her eyes.
“Well, it can be helpful during one situation…”
Lilianah realised what i meant “Oh my gods shut up you dirty ass bitch” she said and we all laughed.
“Okay, down to business, once we get off the cab where are we going?”
“Once we get off the cab it’ll be a five minute walk to the train station, from there we board the train to Youngstown, stop at some place to eat something and then board a train to South Bend from Youngstown,” Ciera explained.
“But hold up y’all do we even have enough money to do this?” Lilianah asked.
“Don’t worry, I’ve got my savings, plus I borrowed some money from my mom and Emmerson, I informed them first of course,” I said, opening my bag.
“Damm Coral, I’ve got some money too so i guess it should be okay” Lilianah said.

Just like that for three days we travelled from one place to the other like homeless people. Except 1) we had homes, 2) we had money and 3) we were on a life threatening quest.
We travelled from Bloomsburg to Youngstown to South Bend to Iowa City to Des Moines. We were forced to take the flight from Omaha to Denver to be able to finish this quest as soon as possible. During the whole plane journey every little turbulence had me praying to my dad, Poseidon, wishing that it wasn’t Zeus trying to kill me. We ran into the hunters in Denver who were supposedly following the trail of a particularly dangerous creature whose name none of us bothered to ask, Thalia introduced us to her new hunters, since we knew most of them there wasn’t much to introduce, but a girl named Eira McCarthy stood out the most amongst them. She was beautiful, like really freaking beautiful but I had to stop my bisexual ass from crushing on her. She had long black hair tied in a ponytail and silver eyes that were so pretty that you could get lost in them. Thalia caught me staring at her and whispered in my ear “don’t you dare fall in love with my hunters” I looked away “shut up,i won’t” and she smiled.

We went our separate ways from there but not before Thalia offered us to join the hunt. We waved her off saying that we’ll think about it. We had a fairly safe and smooth journey from there until we reached St. George, our troubles just seemed to increase as we got closer to our destination.