The Crossroads: The Stolen Memories

Portal

We followed Logan quickly slipping out of the bus.

"Wait, what about the others on the bus?"  I asked and ran into the bus before anyone could respond.

"Listen up.  We all have to evacuate the bus right now for your own safety."  Luckily they listened and left the bus.  I told the bus driver the same thing but he didn't listen.  I ended up dragging him.

"What was that for?"  He said facing me.  "Who are you to act like you are the owner of my bus.  You are a----"  There was an explosion.  I looked at the engine of the bus and it was completely ruined.  The bus driver was speechless.

"Zoe." I saw Bianca and Logan running away and I followed them.  We ran for a while but I'm not sure what we were running from.  We stopped to catch some air and sit down for a while.

"Where are we going?"

"Not sure but away from there.  I had a dream the other day about being in the woods and it was raining.  There was a monster.  Maybe more than one monster, it was kind of blurry."  Said Logan.

"Are you sure we aren't running towards the monsters?  Also where are we.?"  Said Bianca.

"The bus driver said somewhere in Missouri."

"Anyone hungry?"  I said checking my watch.  It was 7:48 p.m. and we hadn't eaten anything since breakfast.

"Yes."  I pulled out sandwiches that we were supposed to eat for lunch but never got to it.  I also had strawberries from the fields and other fruits from Flynn who had them from the Demeter cabin.  I bet he got it from Lucy.  We munched happily on the food.  We didn't know where we were.  I could probably do a direction spell.  I pulled out my wand with the intention of doing that but before I actually did the spell I got distracted.  And not because of my ADHD.  I heard footsteps getting closer and closer to us.  I didn't think Bianca or Logan had heard them yet.

"Guys, do you hear that?"

The listened closer and the footsteps became louder and louder until it seemed like they were right next to us.  I did a complete 360 to see where the sound was coming from but it seemed like it was coming everywhere.  And then the footsteps stopped and it appeared in front of us.  I didn't make sense how I couldn't see them before.  There was an army.  An army of monsters, men, and other mythical creatures.  And leading them was Aesop.

"What does it take to get rid of you?"  I said in the most exasperated voice I could manage.  It wasn't hard.  Monsters snarled at me but didn't attack.  There was an enormous one in the back.  And I mean enormous.  It looked like a boar.  And then I recognized it, the Calydonian boar.  I saw numerous other monsters I couldn't name.  At the front of them all were Aesop and his army.  I couldn't help but notice Ajax wasn't with them.

"Where's Ajax?"

"Your tiny little cut nearly killed him.  He was burning from the inside.  You are a witch.  A witch that doesn't deserve to live.  ATTACK!"

"Run."  I screamed over the noise.  I'm not sure if they heard me but we all ran.  As we ran it started raining.  Typical.  A voice in my head kept saying, "Stop the feud.  It is the only way."  It was so annoying.  It got louder and louder every time it was said in my head.  I was fine but Logan looked sick.  I couldn't tell with Bianca.  I was shivering like crazy, despite the fact that it was a summer day.  We ran for a long time with the monsters close on our tails.

"Shut up."  Screamed Logan who stopped running.  He started fighting one of the bigger monsters, taking out little monsters along the way.  Bianca did the same to another monster.  I had to get us out of here.  Not completely knowing what I was doing I grabbed my sword and started drawing a Hecate wheel in the dirt.  Once it was finished I said, "ταξιδέψει στο Λας Βέγκας." It means travel to Las Vegas. The Hecate wheel started turning into a portal.

"Logan, Bianca come over here."

"I'm a little busy."  Said Bianca.

"Come on."  I yelled in the sternest voice I could manage.  The ran over to me.

"Jump into the portal and then I'll close it."  They did.  First Logan, then Bianca.  Each second, I was getting more tired.  Then I jumped in and closed the portal before I passed out.