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If you asked most people who knew me to describe me in one word, it will most likely be "unlucky". It's the one thing that makes me memorable at school, or anywhere for that matter.Oh, sorry I forgot to tell you who I am, my name is Ayaan Nadine, I am 13 years old and I live with my twin brother and my dad in an average apartment in Queens, New York.I used to live a pretty average life, go to school, read, try to make friends, ect. But as I mentioned before, I am REALLY unlucky, some say the unluckyiest person they've ever met.So, you might be wondering "what do you mean 'used to'?", well, I am a demigod, or a half-blood, whichever you pefer. Then you might be thinking "how do you know?". I'll tell you now. It all started one random Tuesday Morning...I woke up to my dad calling me for breakfast. I missed my alarm clock again, so I got dressed, brushed my hair, and went to the kitchen. My brother, Marco was already finished eating, and was waiting for me and dad. Marco is basically the exact opposite of me. He's quite popular, smart tand very lucky. We don't even look like twins, he's taller, more tanned, he has curly, fluffy hair while I have dyed straight hair (I wanted it to be pink but it came out a dark red). We do have the same sad eyes, like our dad (but Marco has Hazel eyes while I have lifeless blue eyes) but other than that, that's the only similaritelies we have. Sometimes I'm envious, but in the end that's just how life is sometimes."Did you sleep well?" dad asked me."Alright" I responded"that's good""Hey, uh dad?""yes?""just wondering, and I know this is unprompted, but why do me and Marco look so different? We barely even look like cousins, let alone twins.""Well you just so happen to look like your mother""and sadly she died""well, about tha-""I don't mean to interrupt" Marco interrupted "but we have about....5 minutes before the train leaves"The conversation ended quickly, and I continued eating. When I finished, I got ready to leave.My brother and I usually go to boarding schools spesificlly made to help kids with learning disabilities since me and Marco both have Adhd and dyslexia, but I got kicked out of the last one and dad wanted us to go to the same school, so now we go to Harbor View Middle School. Its pretty average, nothing too memorable about it but its safe, compared to all the other schools I've been to. Teachers don't act weird around me (although they do look at me with pity) and the other students aren't as mean. I don't have many friends so I just hang with my brother and his friends. One of his friends, Aaden Cedarwind is pretty nice. We talk about different books, games and greek mythology. He can have a bit of a short temper, and has a bit of a limp, but other than that he is the sweetest people I've ever met.But that day he was off.... When me and Marco met with his friends, Aaden was more jumpy, as if he felt something bad was going to happen."hey, uh, you alright?""Ah!- oh, hi Ayaan, yeah I'm alright""You sure? You seem more skittish than usual""firstly, rude. Secondly, I'm fine, just didn't get that much sleep".He did seem a bit tired, but something still felt off. The day started off normal, history, science, maths, but English was off. English was always my worst subject. No matter how much work I did, no matter how many reasons I had for work I couldn't do (it's not my fault I broke my arm that one time), my English teacher, Mr Richardson, despised me. He looks like your average English teacher except for the fact that he has an eye condition that turns his pupils into splits, which only I seem to notice. When I got into the classroom, Mr Richardson said "late as usual, I see", I responded, "... I'm on time..?""sure you are, sit down". So I did.Them he started rambling on and on and on about some Shakespeare play, and I drifted off to sleep. About a minute later, he yelled "Ayaan! No sleeping in my class!" I woke up with a start, as the other kids in the class giggled to each other. "This is the last time I'm dealing with you dosing off! Outside the classroom now!" I didn't want to get into more trouble, so I left the classroom. He followed after me a minute later. "Do you realise how much trouble you are in?" he asked. His tone was different, instead of the usual irritated look, he had a cold, almost uncanny look. "Uh, yes sir..?" I recited what I always said to teachers when I was called out of the class, the "I'm sorry", "it won't happen again", "you won't call my dad about this?", all the usual. But he just stared. "Now, Ayaan Elanor Nadine, I want you to be completely honest, is it you who's making them go missing?". This would've been a normal interaction, but I never told anyone my middle name... (or the fact I'm apparently making people go missing)"So, is it you?" as he asked this, he began to change, behind him, two wings sprung out of his back, his arms changed into what looked like chicken legs, alot more probably happened, but it was too grotesque to look at, so I looked away. Mr Richardson (who I'll now call Mr. Richicken) let out what sounded like a mix of a chicken clucking and a snake hissing as he reared up in what I think was hind legs. I tried backing up without looking at him, when suddenly, I heard the sound, metal hitting flesh, a sizzle and a small cry, when I looked back, Aaden was holding a glowing bronze sword, just where Mr Richicken was, and below the sword, was a pile of yellowy dust."We've got to get out of here, no time to explain!"Just then, we heard someone screaming, which I recognised as Marco.
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We rushed down to the source of the screaming, we turned a few corners abs then we found him. He was on the ground trying to not look at the thing that was attacking him. Aaden ran up near Marcos side. "Marco are yo-" he looks up at the creature and then immediately looks down, avoiding eye contact. I got a quick glance for the creature before copying Aadan. The creature was a relatively tall woman, but her skin was a grey-ish green and skaley, which it definitely shouldn't be. She seemed to be wearing a white sleeveless dress with a strip of gold being used as a belt. And I'm pretty sue her hair was made out of some kind of creature. She looked up at us and immediately charged.Aaden tried to attack, but before she could get close, there was a 'wshhhhhh' sound and then a 'thnk' as an object made contact with the back of the creature lady's neck. Sadly, it didn't effect her much, but it distracted her. She turned around and Aaden took the opportunity. He stabbed her just as he stabbed Mr. Richicken, and just like Mr. Richicken, she crumbled into a pile of dust. We looked up to see who shot the object (which turned out to be a pencil) to see two of Marcos other friends, Altin Novalee and Levana Tempest. Altin is a tall, tanned person who is always taking things apart and putting them back together. They were holding what looked like a crossbow made out of pencils, rubber bands and a binder clip, they must've been the one who shot the pencil at creature lady. Levana is a short, dark skinned and always falling asleep in class, (and somehow no one notices other than me). Both of them were looking at me, Aaden, Marco and the pile of dust on the ground with a look of both confusion and pure horror, like they just saw their friends get attacked by a strange snake creature lady (which they did in fact, just see)."What, was that?" Altin asked, in their heavy Greek accent. "Listen, all of you" Aaden said in a panicked tone "you all have to come with me, gods I was not expecting there to be this much of you..." he trailed off, when behind us, there was a familiar screech and behind us there was the sound of slithering mixed with talons clicking off of plastic floorboards. "SERIOUSLY WE GOT TO GO" Aaden yelled, and started running past us, leading us on.
I helped Marco to his feet and we all sprinted after him. "DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU" Aaden yelled, and of course because of that comment I was tempted to. I was just about to turn around when we bust out of the school doors. For some reason whatever was chasing us decided to not leave the building.So now that we were out in the clear, I finally got a proper look around, when I then noticed that Aadans legs were suddenly covered in fur, and where his feet should be, there were hooves. It took me a moment to realise what exactly he was
"Wha- yo- your a-"
"a satyr, yeah" Aaden said, now out of breath
"like- from the-"
"yes, like from the greek mythology books we read.." he started to sound a bit annoyed now
"wait, what's a satyr?" Marco asked
"half goat, have human" Altin muttered.
"Wait does that mean there rest of the-" I started
"YES IT MEANS THE REST OF THE MYTHS ARE REAL"
"o-kay, enough questions" Levana whispered. She didn't speak ofteh but when she did it means we all had to stop.
"so, where to now?" I enquired
Just then a loud screech came from behind us. Whatever was chasing us was approaching. Aaden jumped and was back to telling us what to do
"We don't have much time, we'll have to call the grey sisters"
"The grey sisters?" Marco asked, even more confused than ever.
"you'll see them soon, don't worry" Aaden reassured
"Ok now I'm more worried"
"pleassssssse don't panic (I'll probably start panicking too)"
"I won't guarantee that"
Aaden then started sifting through his bag, then after a bit he finally found what he was looking for, he said "aha!" and he pulled out a strange looking golf coin. Next he went over to the curb and without warning he chanted something along the lines of "steehe O harma dioblues", which somehow I knew was ancient Greek aswell as what it meant, it was something along the lines of "yeild, chariot of the damned", or even "stop, chariot of damnation". Aaden then threw the coin into the air, and when it was about to hit the ground, it fell straight through. Next thing we know there is a black taxi infront of us, with three old ladies in the front seat, squabbling about something. "hey, uh," Aaden muttered "sorry to-" the old ladies (who I now presume were the grey sisters) weren't paying him any attention
"I have 3 more gold drachma's"
Of course that got their attention.
"well why didn't you say so?" one of the sisters cacked "hop in!"