Chapter 11I hate Mind men, and dragons, and Leo ValdezHunter

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I finished packing just as a problem of bronze, ruby's and tobacco sauce flew down from the sky. 'Problem' said Mind man 'kill it' I hate him. I ignored him and ran outside to see what all the commotion was about. It was a dragon, of course, a giant dragon made of metal.

"Hello, tiny demigods!" called out Leo who was sitting just behind it's head. Branwynn laughed, she was sitting behind him. They landed and Leo slid off.

"Hey niña, Get over here" leo called motioning me over. I walke over nervously eyeing the dragon. "This is Festus, he's going to be your ride to wherever your going. And your steering." He said with a mad glint in his eyes. I looked at him startled. He laughed and pulled me to the Dragon.'kill it, kill it, kill it.' said mind man. Leo helped me onto Festus's back. There were three seats build it with padding and seatbelts. I buckled myself in and looked at the dragons head. Festus turned his head and looked at me. His teeth rotated. "he likes you" exclaimed Leo excitedly. He smiled and ran to get Oracle, leaving me with my thoughts (not the good ones), a dragon, and Branwynn who was buckled in behind me. He ran out and helped Oracle buckle in. 'kill her, and the dragon, and the other girl' said mind man no, that's stupid, we need them for this quest I thought back. I gripped my bag and slid it over my shoulders. I leaned low over Festus and rubbed his side. I sat back up and felt slightly better, I turned and looked at Leo who was grinning like a maniac. "If you need to go somewhere and you don't want a dragon then press this button here. If you need a dragon again, then pull this lever. . ." on and on and on he went until we new all of the stuff to know. I nodded and listened slightly. I sighed and rubbed Festus again. I thought about where we had to go. I closed my eyes as a flash of pain stabbed through my skull. when I opened my eyes everything seemed fractured. I rubbed my head and nodded again. Leo smiled happily and said that we ought to be going. I looked at Festus's head and smiled. Festus spred his wings and leaped into the air. with a single flap of his wings we were fifty feet in the air. I looked down and saw people waving up at us. I looked ahead and smiled bigger then ever. "Southeast, to Wherever!" I called excitedly. Festus turned and Started flying southwest. I closed my eyes and let the wind whip past me. My hair flew back and finally I felt free. 'your weak! Your cowarly, but still your coming exactly where you need to be.' Said Mind man Dude, can you do me a teansy little favour and shut up! I retorted. 'Fine but you will soon meet me is person' said Mind man good for you, now let me sleep. Chapter 12Um, were not going Southeast, were in BrooklynOracleI opened my eyes and looked around. I felt something pulling around my waist. I looked down and saw a belt around my waist. I looked down at my phone and checked the time. 7:00 we had left at 5:00 so we should have been flying over the sea but we were flying over a city, a huge city. "hey guys, GUYS!" I hollered "where are we!" They jolted awake, Branwynn looked down turned green and looked ahead shrugging, Hunter looked back and also shrugged. She Yelled something but I couldn't hear it. She pointed down, suddenly Festus tilted down and sailed down. We landed just outside of the city I undid my belt and slid out of my seat. I looked around and stared at the city sign. in all caps it said BROOKLYNN. "guys! we've gone west instead of east" Hunter ran up behind me and stared at the sign. Branwynn had run to the bushes nearby and was throwing up. Hunter raised an eyebrow and shrugged "well I never got that hamburger so let's go and get one." She walked to Festus and pressed a button on his foreleg he folded and crinkled until he was a suitcase. Hunter grabbed it and started walking away towards the city. I followed, Branwynn stumbled after us. Hunter walked through the city looking at sign after sign. Finally we reached a bridge, that's when all of the universe broke loose and almost killed us in the process. I hate other dimensions. A huge snake rose out of the water. It was mottled green, grey and brown, Had a ridge of blue scales along it's back and, of course, it had wings. I immediately tried to find it's species in my mind. Dancenia from planet luntion? No they weren't green they were purple, grey and brown. How bout a basilisk from Pluto? No they didn't have wings. I was stumped, I pulled out a knife Connor had given me before I had left, I watched as it lifted it's head it's fangs dripping acid and water. He, I thought it was a he, glared at us with his muddy amber eyes. Then he struck. Hunter danced away and closed her eyes opening them and watching a spear materialize in her hand. Branwynn flipped away and drew her two swords. They both charged and I followed clutching my knife tightly. Branwynn reached it's head and drove her swords at it's eyes. The monster lifted it's head high and thrashed howling in pain. Hunter stepped back to avoid its tail and was about to strike when the bridge crumbled below her plunging her into the river. I looked down to see a web of cracks spreading from the edge. The bridge crumbled and I fell into the cold, dark water.

All I felt was pain and cold. That was until I was dragged from my would be grave and into hell above.


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