Daughter of the Gods

Chapter 1

Alright. My brother was right about being a demigod.
My life was great. I had a mother, a brother. I didn't know my father but I was happy.

Then everything turned upside down. Let me explain. When I was little, about eight years old, I was at a picnic with both of them in a forest, next to a river. My mother went to the car to get something and my brother went to help her. After five minutes or so I herad a car engine. More precisely our car.  They had left me there. How can you leave an eight years old alone in the woods?! At night!

The sun was going down. I wanted to stay there and wait. But I somehow knew they weren't going to come back. So I went to search for a safe place to spend the night. As I was walking I was thinking Yeah. A safe place in the woods. At night. Couldn't they just leave me next to a gas station or something?

I was following the river. That's what my instinct told me to do, as if it were talking to me.
The bushes behind me rustled. I stopped and looked back. There was nothing. I continued my walk. More rustling leafs. I satrted to walk faster. And faster. And faster until I realised that I was running. Then I saw a snake tail coming aut from a bush. Then a lizard snout. Then a head. Then more heads.  It was a huge monster. I can tell you now that it was a Hydra but i didn't know then.

I ran as fast as I could. The Hydra seemed to be having fun. After miles of running I saw lights ahead of me. Just before I hid behind a pinecone tree the monster got me with one of its heads. It suddenly let me go. I mean it dropped me.

I was perfectly fine. But the Hydra disappeared. A girl was standing next to me with a bow in her hand. She took me by the hand and we went into a big house (the big house). I saw a man with a horse body (Chiron) and he eplained to me that all the monsters, the greek gods and demigods were real and that my place was here with them. Then they asked my name.

Oh. I forgot. Let me introduce myself. I am Tess Jackson. Technically I am a daughter of Poseidon as my brother is Percy Jackson but I don't really feel like one. It is a bit confusing for me too. I spent almost all my life in the Apollo cabin. Don't ask why. I was pretty good with the healing thing so they thought I was a child of Apollo. And about the girl with the bow. She's Sunny, daughter of Apollo. She was my best friend until she left for college.

I can't say that I am tall. Let's take Nico di Angelo for a reference. I have long brown hair and dark brown eyes and I wear glasses. I often use my sword in combats. I am one of those demigods who wait all their lives for a quest but never get it. I saw many of my friends go in quests and never come back but I always dreamed of going on one.

Now I am almost eighteen and the dream that I had since I was little has turned into a nightmare.