My Life as a Background Demigod

Flying

We walked back to the quad at school. The school had ended the lock down after we had left. The quad was pretty much empty. 

"How are we going to get to New York," I asked again, "We're in Oregon."

He smiled, "Oh just you wait."

He pulled something out of his pocket, it appeared to be a simple silver whistle. He blew it and at first I didn't hear anything. Great, I thought, he's lost it. 

Suddenly, as I looked down at the pavement, large swooping black shadows appeared, way too large to be a bird of any kind. I looked up and had this day not been as crazy as it already was, I would've thought I was on drugs. 

Two large horses with wings swooped down and landed gracefully on the pavement. One was a chocolate brown with a beautiful black spot over its left eye. The other was a creamy grey with speckles of white all over its soft coat. I reached out to pet the chocolate brown horse - no I corrected myself - Pegasus and it nuzzled my hand. 

"This is our ride out of here." Clover said, and he climbed on the grey Pegasus. The creatures had no saddle, no seat belt, really nothing to keep me from plummeting to my death. And New York. That was like thousands of miles away. I was kind scared. 

I looked up at Clover, who had mounted his horse and he looked back down at me and laughed. "The girl who just killed a cyclops is afraid of a little horse."

Feeling challenged, I climbed up on the horse and started to pray to whatever gods were up there. 

The pegasi took off and we flew into the sky, no one seeming to notice 2 beat up teenagers and a couple of winged horses flying east towards New York.