The Time-turner Chronicles

|2| Chapter 16: Trouble in Manhattan

Christmas morning was a blast! Spending the day with my mom, eating blue food and talking about my mom's plan to study and write a book. Since Gabe suddenly turned into a stone statue

(Thanks Hera!) and mom sold it.

We used the money to get me to Meriwether College and mom used it to start her study again. Yeah all was good I had everything a demigod could desire, a loving mom, blue food, christmas presents and a Egyptian Goddess in your backyard.

Okay maybe the last part was a exaggerated but nonetheless it was a bit annoying.

School had been boring this year, I met Tyson and he kept the monsters away, I hung around with him, showed him the city and brought him food since I had an unlimited credit card from Lotus Casino. Hemera helped me with studying which was surprisingly still annoying to do. Luckily she had the habit of telling me the answers before I could even think about the question.

So I was watching tv on the couch while my mom was typing away in her study room working on her story when I noticed something crawling over the floor.

A scorpion.

"What the Hades?" I mumbled as I saw a black scorpion crawling over the floor making his way to the window.

Since when do we have scorpions in Manhattan? I decided to see what it was doing. When it reached the window I saw the outside street and what I saw filled me with horror.

The entire street was filled with scorpions. Like a massive wave the crawled over the streets, all heading towards Queensboro Bridge.

Clicks, hisses and more terrifying sounds could be heard throughout the city. "Ah rats!" A mortal shouted running away from the scorpions.

This confirmed one thing. The mist was hiding these creatures which meant something goddy (not a word but Meg loves that word) was going on here. More mortals copied the screams and ran away from the scorpions.

"Rat Plague!" someone yelled however all the mortals were ignored when they cried out. Instead of a mass panic most people started to look around in annoyance.

Just another day of a demigod. 'Follow them.' Chaos said excitedly.

This made me pause.

See the point is, Chaos had been 'Inactive' this year since I left camp, she told me she did not want to watch me go to school so she was mostly silent doing whatever she did when she was not bothering me. Aether only showed up when I threw Matt Sloan inside a trash bin after calling Tyson trash which got a good chuckle out of the immortal.

Nyx said she had to do something and that she would not be seeing me till next summer so that left Hemera who stayed and helped me through the boredom of school.

'Hey Chaos decided to take a break from doing nothing?' I asked.

'Follow the scorpions, they lead to our next adventure!' Chaos said, her voice brimming with excitement.

'Sorry but I have vacation beside it's christmas.'

'Sure let the entire west civilization die.' Chaos mumbled.

'What?'

'Yeah, if you want to help the world go follow the scorpions that will be fun.' Chaos exclaimed.

'What about mom?' I asked.

Suddenly I felt that my body lost control as I opened my mouth and I said without wanting to. "Mom I am going on a dangerous quest, see you within a few days if I survive it, you know demigod stuff, you can punish me afterward!".