Chapter 17

                                    

                                          


                          
Alexa 
                          
So... we crashed land and, according to Zake, we were in Arkansas, which was pretty far from chicago
                          
"If we leave tomorrow, we should reach Chicago by the day after tomorrow," Willow said, "we could camp here tonight, and leave first thing in the morning."
                          
I noticed that Willow seemed more happy since last night, and that she and Zake seemed much more comfortable together. I decided to ask Willow later. 
                          
After we set up camp, and the pegasi ate some grass and roamed around, I found myself next to Willow. 
                          
"So...," I asked her, "what's going on between you and Zake?"
                          
Willow blushed and said, "So you kinda guessed huh? Is it quite that obvious?"
                          
"Well, since last night it seems a lot more obvious."
                          
"Fine," she said, and then went on to tell me what happened last night.
                          
"So you do like him," I said, gleefully.
                          
"I guess..." she said, grinning.
                          
"'Lex, don't think what I know you're thinking'," I mimicked her, "'I don't like him and that's it'."
                          
She laughed. "You wanna go collect some firewood?" She asked me,
                          
"Long time since we actually talked."
                          
"Sure," I said. Then I turned to Zake and said, "Zake, I need you to go with Willow and collect some wood. I'm too tired to go and listen to her talk non-stop."
                          
"Sure." He said.
                          
Willow turned to me and murmured, "I am soo going to kill you for this."
                          
I laughed and said, "What? Don't you want a small date with your new boyfriend?" 
                          
I ran away before she could kill me.
                          


                          
Almost immediately after Willow and Zake left, I heard a hissing sound and knew a monster had found us. I looked around to find Dex and saw that he had his daggers in his hands which meant he had also heard the roaring. I got my knives and walked in a circle. 
                          
Suddenly I saw the monster. I am not as good at names as Willow but I remember this one. It was a Gorgon. I remembered that they died just as other monsters. All I had to do was put my knife into its body and it would disintegrate. Sadly, it wasn't as easy as it sounds.
                          
Dex slashed at it but the gorgon just dodged the dagger and gave Dex a nasty cut on his head. Dex fell down. His face was turning a bad shade of green and I knew I had to do something fast.
                          
I was just about to jump at the monster when, all of a sudden, it froze and disintegrated. At first I thought that Willow and Zake had heard us and come to our aid. But then I saw a girl with glasses and a dagger in her hand and it did not look Celestial bronze. Beside her stood a boy of about 15 holding a kind of sword. They both wore purple t-shirts with some writing on it. That's when I got to know who they were. 
                          
I walked upto the girl and asked, "Demigod?"
                          
"Yup" she replied.
"Camp Jupiter?"
                          
"Yup." 
                          
"Ok then, now that I kinda know who you are, and know that you are not bad, we can get to introductions later, but first could you help me fix my friend here?"