DEVOTION, percy jackson

PROLOUGE

Yall this is so bad i promise that it will get better just power through.

Tallulah had had a really bad day. Like a really bad day. 

 First off, she missed the bus to school. Every time she walked past her teacher, she found her teacher staring at her. Her lunch had gotten stolen. And to end off the amazing day she was having, she had to walk home, in the middle of a Missouri winter. 

Fourth grade days usually weren't like that. After all, it was fourth grade. It involved long division and multiplication, not creepy teachers and walking home. Everyone has to have bad days eventually, right? 

When she got home, exhausted from her disaster of a day, her dad asked her what was wrong. As she told him about her day his facial expression became one of concern, and maybe even fear. 

"Tallulah, I think we need to talk about a place you should go. It's like a summer camp. You can stay as long as you want. It will keep you safe." Her father told her. "What do you mean? I am safe, right?" she asked.  "Yes Lulu, for now you are safe. I think this summer we you should go to the camp. You can visit whenever you want." Tallulah said ok and dropped the subject. After all she had better things to do. 

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One day a couple months laters, Tallulah was headed to leave when her teacher, Mrs. Palmer, asked her to come into her classroom to talk. Tallulah said ok and went in. When the young girl was fully in the door, Mrs. Palmer closed the door behind her. 

Tallulah was walking to stand in front of her teacher's desk when she heard a click, click, click, that sound awfully like claws. As Tallulah was turning, she said, "Is everything ok? Did I do something wrong?"  As she turned her question turned into a blood curdling scream. 

Standing before her was a demon bird lady. 

She was massive, had snakes on her head instead of hair, had tusks, wings, and brazen claws. "Man, you are ugly." Is what Tallulah said in response to her appearance. This apparently wasn't the right thing to say and caused bird Lady to scream and come at her with her claws bared. 

Tallulah grabbed the closest thing to her, which happened to be a pair of scissors, and hit bird lady in the face. She heard a screech as she ran out of the door into the hallway. 

Bird Lady chase her through the hallway. It was a good thing bird lady's aim was horrid, and Tallulah wasn't two inches taller, or else her head would have been taken off by various school supplies and weapons. 

Tallulah ran through the empty hallways in search of someone who could help her. She looked over her shoulder  only to find the hallway empty, and when she turned back she ran straight into someones chest. 

Standing before her was the  school's PE teacher, Coach Hedge.  Tallulah panted with exhaustion. "Coach, some bird lady is chasing me!" The girl exclaimed. As if the monster was summoned, it burst through the doors of another room.

"Well, shit." Coach said as he pulled out his baseball bat. It was a shimmery gold. He ran right up to the monster and screamed, "DIE DIE DIE!" He dodged and he swung until all that was left of the monster was dust.

"What the hell just happened?" Tallulah asked. "And why the heck do you have hooves?!" Coach sighed and said, "Lets get you home."

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Tallulah normally didn't let teacher's drive her home, but she figured since he saved her life this could be an exception.  Coach pulled into her driveway and watched as Tallulah opened the front door.

Inside her dad was sitting at his desk doing work. He looked up when Tallulah gave a timid, "Dad?" His eyebrows screwed together in concern. "Tallulah? Gleeson?" Tallulah, with the help of Coach Hedge, told him what happened. 

"Its time, George. She is too powerful. We don't know the extent of what she can do yet." Coach said. Tallulah's dad gave a small sigh and nodded.

Tallulah sat while the two of them explained how she was a demigod. She sat while they told her about camp, and the mist. 

"Why do you have goat legs?" Tallulah asked Coach. He laughed and explained how he is a satyr.

Tallulah said goodbye to her dad a meer three hours later, not knowing when she could come back. She sat in the passenger seat as Coach drove her from Saint Louis to Long Island.

They walked through the border and through the strawberry field until they got to what was named The Big House. Inside there was a man with the body of a horse. All he said to her was, "Welcome to Camp Half-blood, Tallulah Storm."

authors note:

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this is gonna be horrible but hopefully i get better.