Crossroads of Two Worlds

3- A Bit of Healthy Shock

Waterloo Station

3:52 PM

"What you're saying is that I, the most invisible girl in school, the most invisible person in the city, am a demigod?"

Maya nodded carefully, her eyes lasering into mine. I shrugged, leaning back into the grey plastic bench in the empty train station, "I'd love to believe you, but it's quite the tale, so... prove it. It's nothing personal, I swear, but for me to believe that you're a daughter-no hang on, granddaughter of Poseidon and Athena and I'm a daughter of Zeus... well, even for a person more trusting than me, this would be hard to believe. Prove that your story is real."

She raised her eyebrows, "I'm surprised that even after the experience of the fight at the school you still don't believe me. You're as stubborn as my brother! But, I do understand."

I simply raised my eyebrows back at her, waiting for my requested proof.

She looked around to check if the station was really empty before she stood up and began walking towards the lobby area of the train station, where a large fountain of water tumbled over black and white marble and into a pool. Pennies littered the bottom, some old and some new. She walked over to the fountain and stared down at it, into the pool.

I stared just as hard as she did but nothing was happening, and I said so, "is something supposed to be happening?"

She rolled her eyes but smiled, amused, "look up."

I did as told and was amazed. Thousands of tiny water droplets hung suspended in the air above me, some of them encasing pennies. If it were any darker in here and if those droplets glowed any more I'd have thought they were stars. Apparently I had been too focused on her hands to see the droplets rising, one by one to float above us. Then they all fell back into the fountain with a tiny 'plunk' when each one hit the rippling water. She turned to look at me with her eyebrows raised and I nodded slowly with my mouth slightly open, "Okay, I believe you now."

She smiled, but it soon melted into a frown. She sighed and sat on the cold stone of the fountain, I followed and sat next to her as she spoke, "That's not all of it, though. I haven't gotten to the hardest part yet. I have to bring you back to Camp Half-blood. It's a demigod camp where we go to learn how to survive and how to fight. The more powerful you are, the more monsters will find you and try to kill you like what happened today. I'm sorry, but I really do need you to come with me."

I shrugged, a smile pulling at my lips, "How is that the hardest part? Of course I'll go."

She tilted her head, her eyes inquisitive, "You would give up your life that easily?"

I shrugged again,  "I don't really have a life. My mother is always working and my father is apparently busy being an ancient god or some crap when I thought he had just up and left us, so I really have no reason to stay. I have no siblings to stay with, and I have no reason to stay for any friends or schooling. So sure, I'll go with you to this camp. When do I leave?"

Maya still stared at me, almost in awe, when she said, "As soon as we can. Tomorrow would be ideal, but I understand if you have to come up with a story to tell your... relations."

"Just my mother, I'll do that when I get home, if you are ready to go tomorrow I can meet you here at, say, ten in the morning?"

She smiled, standing up with me, "I will see you here tomorrow at ten o'clock."

At that, my new friend turned and walked away. Her torn shirt blew in a breeze that wafted into the underground station and her hair whipped around her shoulders.