Something hit my head. I opened my eyes and closed them just in time so a pebble didn’t hit my eyeball. “Wake up!” another pebble hit me. “I hate that song!” Dan exclaimed as a pebble hit my nose.
“I’m up! Stop throwing stones at me!” I commanded, shaking my head to get out of my daze from my dream. “How could you not like that song?”
“I can’t control what I do or don’t like, but I certainly hate that song!” he complained.
“For a son of Apollo, you have really bad taste in music,” I glared at him. No one could say that they didn’t like that song and get away with it that easy. I shoved my things into my bag.
“For a daughter of Demeter, you are very corny,” he joked in return.
“You got that right,” I snapped as I swung my bag over my shoulder. “How far did we travel yesterday?”
“Ten miles at most, still in Ocala,” he sighed, realizing that we had a long way to go. I wanted to ask if he would like for me to try to get some travel, but I remembered that Artemis said that he wants to complete this quest on his own.
“Have you ever done this?” I wondered, crawling out from behind the dumpster and patted my boot to make sure that my dagger was there. I pulled it out to see inside of an oyster, the part that is blue, silver, and shiny. The blade was some sort of gold and was about six inches and extremely sharp. The handle had a carving of a quarter moon, my favorite phase.
“I have only gone through this once, but I made it.”
‘Did the finder that lead the quest make it?’ I thought about asking him, but it wouldn’t be fair.
“How were you claimed?” I asked as we started walking North.
“I was brought to camp and started training when I got there. When I first picked up a bow and arrow, I got a perfect bull’s-eye. On my second shot, I split the first arrow, and there is very difficult. The symbol of Apollo appeared above my head,” Dan explained.
“Speaking of heads, why did you through rocks at me to wake me up? Of all things?” I asked, kicking a small rock that was on the sidewalk.
“Because, the last time I tried to wake you up, you smashed your head against mine.”
I rolled my eyes, “Well I am sorry about that.”
“No problem, try not to do it again.”
“Would you like me to stop talking in my sleep while I am at it?” I sarcastically offered. The way that I wake up was not simple.
“That would be nice.”
I heard the clacking of hooves on the road behind us and turned around to see a dark horse pulling a dark wagon. The stage coach was mostly covered in black.
“Do you see that?” I gestured to the coach.
“See what?”
“The creepy stage coach and the creepy horse and creepy everything?” I said in a harsh whisper.
He looked over his shoulder. “Okay, remain calm and just ignore it,” he walked a little farther away from the road.
“What is going on?” I whispered.
“I will explain it to you later if we can get away from them,” he started to walk faster, this time he just walked away from the road. I followed.
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Silenced (Demigod Story)
FanfictionBeing a demigod is hard enough with all of the monsters that attack, but Floret has to go through it all without being able to talk. Her life is hard enough but then she must also deal with who her mother really is... (To read from Cali's pov, read...
