Camp Half-Blood: A Day in the Life

Felicia Boone: Tycheros Soritas

August 16, 2009 - The Battle of Manhattan

Ring, Ring...

"Hey, Mom? You haven't been answering my calls. Are you okay?"

The message went to voicemail.

Felicia's mother hadn't answered any of her calls all day, even though they had made a pact to call twice everyday - once in the morning, and once in the evening, since she had moved to Brooklyn a year ago.

They hadn't missed a call ever.

"Can you go faster?" She asked the taxi driver who was behind the wheel, just as they entered the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel.

To her luck, she had managed to catch a taxi just before the state announced that all connections to Manhattan would be closed, for some strange reason.

"Can't, ma'am. This is already a bad idea as is."

Felicia sighed, leaning back on her seat and checking her phone for any sign from her mom. Still none.

She had already bribed the driver enough to keep going, even when he had insisted multiple times that it was a bad idea to keep going.

A thousand dollars to get to the end of the tunnel. She had to repeat, so that the driver would keep going. Her gambling money had payed off.

Felicia had been extremely lucky ever since she was a child, and it was sometimes unnerving.

A near death bus accident when she was two.

Won the lottery at six, and again at twelve.

Raised enough money for her Mother's cancer fundraiser at the last hour.

"What can I say, Felicia? It's just in your genes." Her mother had always joked, but Felicia was afraid she might never here her voice again.

"Hey, Ian?" She asked the driver, recollecting his name from a sticker on his bumper.

He did not respond.

"Ian. Sir." She shook his seat.

The man was asleep.

Felicia panicked, grabbing the steering wheel from the backseat and trying to maneuver her way down the tunnel when the shape of a woman stood in the distance, unmoving.

In a panic, Felicia swerved the car to the left, ramming into a wall as she jumped out the door, pulling Ian with her, using him as a landing cushion, to the misfortune of the man, who was unharmed at still asleep.

Dazed by the impact of the crash, Felicia wobbled onto her feet, stumbling over to the woman. "Help.." She muttered, but she was not met with assistance.

The woman hissed, revealing fangs, and then leaped at Felicia, mouth wide open.

Stumbling back, Felicia landed back onto the ground as she saw herself reflected in the fanged woman's eyes, but in a split second, something slammed into Felicia, sending her flying yards back into the tunnel as the monster lunged into the crashed taxi.

Another green thing - a vine, she noticed, slithered down into the car, as moments later, with the vampire-thing still scrambling to get out,

it exploded.

With a shriek, Felicia got back onto her feet, staring at the flames in horror. Everything had been going too fast, and she needed a second to process the events of the past minute, but she did not have a minute.