The Huntress

Chapter 4

I struggle to open my eyes properly as I stumble around the dark room. After a while, I realised it was coming from outside, and quietly opened the door. I frowned as I closed it. I'm sure I locked the door last night. I walked into the kitchen just to see Mrs Blount bring down a leather belt on Jake's bare back.

Now I'm fully awake. I launched forward and grabbed the belt from her hands. She stumbles back in surprise and I stand over Jake. I'm aware of the rest of the kids gatheringin the hallway. Mrs Blount glares at me.

"Ms Brown! What on Earth are you doing?" I bit back a rude comeback, because there were children in the room. "I could ask you the same question. Why are on Earth are you beating a small child?" I hissed. Jake crawls away quickly to the rest. Josh embraces his twin warmly and my heart swells when I see Ben stand in front of the group.

Mrs Blount launches herself at me her hands streched out, aiming for my neck. I dive sideways, away from hands. And then she surprises me. She turns around slowly, her eyes glowing red in the dark house. When she hisses, a thin forked tongue flicks in and out.

Her voice is higher that normal and she's hunched over. "Run, demigod." Those two words shoot a new kind of fear through my body. Suddenly 2 sets of wings broke through her clothes and she dove at me. When she's on top of me, I see her fangs, and they're layered like a sharks.

I scream at the kids,"Run! Get out!" A few protest but Macie and Ben get them out into the freezing night. A cold air pushes through the open door and I can see the kids running out into the night. The full moon shines through the door, lighten up the kitchen.

Mrs Blout tried to sink her fangs into my neck, like some sort of vampire, but I quickly kick her off. Her fingers turn into claws, as she slowly stands up. She tries to slice me up, but I dodge her, using reflexes I never knew I had. Quickly she's fed up.

Using her large wings she flies across the room, shoving me out the door and down the concrete steps. My head smashes against the steps and I lay still at the bottom.

Honestly it's a miracle that I'm still conscious. She hisses again and dives at me. I roll on my side and get to my feet. My knees struggling to hold me up, I try to run down the pavement.

I slip and stumble along, but luckily Mrs Blount got her wing stuck in the fence and was trying desperately  to get it un-hooked. I continue to run, blood soaking my hair and dripping down my face. I finally loose her and crumble at the side of a building.

I wake up to the sounds of the loud city. People bustle past, not noticing a girl unconscious at the side of a building and covered in blood. I stumble to the public restrooms and wash all the blood away. I immediately feel better when the water washes away to blood.

At the end, I look slightly decent, only with damp hair. My shirt has already dried. I walked along the road my hoodie up, my head down and hands in my pockets. I reached the public library. I slipped into a chair in front of a computer.

This was my only way of finding things. I search Athena, Poseidon, Zeus, Aphrodite and Hepheatus. I remember that there was another guy, but I didn't catch his name so oh well. The first link that popped up was 'All about Greek Gods.' I was hesitant, but I decided I needed to know so... what's the harm.

I spent about 1 hour reading through all the links and found a very useful link. I dug in my pocket and was thrilled to find some loose change there. I clicked 'Print' and ran over to the printer. I slipped in the change and waited for the papers to come out.

When they did, I folded them and put them in my zipper hoodie pocket. I walked cautiously outside. It was around midday and it was freezing. I wanted to run back inside the library and sleep there forever. I let out a long sigh and walked out on to the streets.

While walking, I decided I would stay on the streets. I was not going to risk going back to some demons home. At least I was lucky. I had only been at Mrs Blount's Home for The Lost for about 2 years.

The rest? Most of them had been there since they were babies.I wondered what had happened to them? I was suddenly worried about them. I debated about going to find them, but decided that Macie probably had taken them to the Police Station.

Macie and the Police Station were good friends. I chuckled at that thought. I wondered if the Police were looking for me right now. I hoped not. "I wonder if they caught her?" I mumbled out loud. I looked left then right then left again and ran acroos the street.

I spent 7 months on the street, and the demon attacks became more frequent. Thinking back to the strange teenagers, Percy, Piper and Jason, I should probabaly call them monsters. I wonder what had happened to them, to be honest.

I still felt a bit guilty about the whole "fake attack" thing. I still can't help but laugh whenever I think about that inccedent. Back to reality. I suddenly heard a howl cut through the dark night. I froze. It sounded really close. I slowly turned around and found myself facing a pack of wolves.