Stubborn, A Leo Valdez story

chapter 1: Collision ( Elora P.O.V)

        I try to shut the door of the little trailer I've been staying at, as quietly as I possibly can. So I dont wake up my sleeping foster dad even though I know hes passed out drunk. I dont want to take a chance there can never be a repeat of that one night again ever. I shudder even thinking about it. As soon as im 5ft out the door the bitter winter cold has already seeped into my bones. "I hate the cold" I mumble to my self as wrap my leather jacket tighter around me and continue to walk to the bus stop.

       About half way there this girl is walking down the same side of the street as me but the opposite direction as soon as she sees me her eyes gets wide with terror and she books it to the other side of the street. I dont know why im different or why people are scared of me they just are. Even my own friend Conner treats me like a ticking time bomb. The only thing I really have to look forward to is going home and reading the newest book in the percy Jackson/heros of olympus series. Right now im on the latest book The Mark Of Athena, it takes me longer than most because of my dyslexia but I suffer through.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,"  I hear someone yell and Im startled out of my thoughts, looking up all I can see is a mess of curly brown hair before this boy came out of no where knocking me down and cutting my arm in the process.

"What the hell!" I yell out at him trying not to show pain in my voice. "huh sorry," he mumbles. Now that I get a better look at him he seems familiar but I cant put my finger on it, he has brown super curly hair and I think brown eyes and looks like a trouble maker. "Um your bleeding" he says while offering his hand to help me up. I look at my arm and it is I have about a four inch slash on my arm. I ignore his hand and get up and brush the snow I can off my ass.
"Umm maybe because you cut me when you ran into me captin obvious." I say my voice dripping with sarcasm. "Im so sorry first time with one they said how are you going to fight if you dont have time to bulid some..." he started rambling "Wait," he gets a confused look on his face, " that wasn't supposed to cut you."

Just then the rest of his crew came up, "ummm why did you stop." A girl with cinnamon colored curls says. I take a full sweep at the people now surrounding me, all together they make a pretty odd group but for some reason look kinda familiar. Next to the kid who knocked me down was this seriously pretty girl with brown hair in a braid and next to her was this guy with blond hair and icy blue eyes, then this tall guy with a baby looking face was holding hands with the girl with the cinnamon curls and lastly was this guy with pale skin and black hair with a aviator jacket.

"I uhh ran into this chick and my sword uhh cut her." The kid who knocked me down said. "What that doesn't make any sens-." The pretty girl started to say but when her eyes landed on the blood dripping down from the cut in my jacket stopped. But before she could finish what she was going to say she was interrupted by a loud screech. "ummm what the hell did you guys piss off?!" I ask them. And all their heads whip back towards me.

       "Who are you?" the blond guy demands, "are you the reason we're here? Where are we?" He finishes. "Woooah man, I need you to back up real quick. This guy runs into me full force knocking me dow-." But I'm interrupted by another loud screech. "Um guys maybe we can finish this when we don't have a kindly one trying to kill us." The pretty girl says before I can continue.

       "What the hell is a kindly one?!" I yell. But my question is answered as I see a woman I guess but she has been through the ringer with gray sagging skin and black rimmed red glowing eyes with sharp black talons that could rip anything to shreds, and to top it all off huge black wings that she was using to come at us with full speed. The kid with the curly hair who knocked me down gently pushes me behind him and then all of them go into battle mode. I watch shocked as they make a half circle around the monster  and all go at it, and before I know it the old hag is now a pile of dust.

       They all turn their attention back to me, and the blonde kid says again " who are you?" I glare at him "I'm just trying to go to school, and you guys are making me late." I snip back. "So your just a normal kid?" The pretty girl asks her tone a lot nicer than the blonde dudes. "Uhh yah but I really gotta go I can't miss the bus and trust me it won't wait. This was fun and all but I gotta go." I go to push past them but the curly haired boy grabs my uninjured arm before I could go.

       "Wait, you need medical attention for that arm and uhh I hate to be the one to tell you this but," I make eye contact with his deep brown eyes, " your a Demigod and we need to take you to camp." And then it hit me, I must be dreaming I look at each of their faces again it finally clicking where I know these kids from. They walked right off the pages of my book into my life.