Heja's POV:
Being driven by a man with eyes everywhere on his body should be fun. Should. Not if failing within 48 hours meant a war. And a big one as well. The ever so faint smell of blood came in my nose. I noticed Thea lifting her shirt just a tiny bit to check her bandages, then immediately opening the window to get rid of the smell. I looked away again, knowing that if she won't mention it I don't have any right to do so myself.
We got in NYC and that was the farthest Argus could bring us. "Good luck." He said. Yep, I noticed an eye on the tip of his tongue. We were walking around, wanting to go to the airport by train and then fly, despite how dangerous that was, considering we're a bunch of demigods in the land of an angry god. But it really was our only option. Until...
We turned a corner and I heard the sound of a donkey. Margo might've thought of the ultimate slay queen alpha called Hestia, I thought: Imma follow it.
So, being me, and completely ignoring the calls of the group I started speeding up, half running and half walking to the sound. I turned another corner, and what I saw.. my gods, it was...
Amusing.
Now look, hear me out. Normally I'm deadly afraid of spiders. Remember that weird dream I had, with those POV switches and where my part was with the spiders? If that was real life me I probably would've either gagged, screamed, or just puked in disgust.
But this was different. It was a spider, but also a.. donkey? Looking at it as it stood still I saw it wasn't a huge spider with a donkey mounted on top, it was a donkey that literally had 8 donkey legs.
"It's a monster." Fenris panted as the rest of the group caught up to me. "Spider donkeys are rare these days." He added. "Take ages to reform down there." Theo finished. "Good, because then it won't come back in a long time." Margo said aggressively as she drew her sword. "What? NO!" I yelled. The yell made the spider donkey snap up and run away. "Oh fuck this." I heard Anathea sigh faintly as I ran after the spider donkey. A few moments later the group followed me.
To mortals it probably seemed like I was chasing a dog or something. I hoped it was a golden retriever. I love those big floofballs. When I was young I used to beg my dad for one, but it was unfortunately the one thing he said no to. "Your stepmom's allergic to them and we already have three young kids to take care of. You can have a dog when you're grown up, or when me and mom are retired and have time." He used to say.
I turned another few corners until I was in an alleyway. I saw a tight opening between two walls and, ignoring physics, I figured the donkey must've ran through the narrow space. So I did the only logic thing in that situation and followed the spider donkey's route. My shoulders were almost touching the two walls next to me but I could fairly easily walk. I walked quickly.
"Jesus this is taking long." I said. I started speeding up a bit, wanting to know where the spider donkey went. I ignored the scratches that got on my shoulders (i was wearing a t-shirt) When I finally got out of the narrow alley it was so all of a sudden I fell to the ground. When I got up, I looked around in amazement. I was inside somewhere. "Did I get in some shady apartment complex or something?" I wondered out loud. The walls echoed a bit so I just screamed, wanting to hear my echo. "AAAH" I yelled. Tiny little "AAAH"'s came back to me. I remember Thea ranting some myth about how Echo's got created to me when we were younger. Thea.. I shook my head. I didn't really know what to think of it.
I stared walking down the corridors. They were very maze-like. I felt like the more I walked the more I got lost, until I heard the familiar sound of the donkey again. I turned one more corner and I saw it standing in all its pride. "Hey there." I said. Exactly three milliseconds ago I made it my life goal to tame that monstrosity (/pos)
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The Lightning Thief (Argo/hbh's Version)
FanfictionNOT SO BAD TRIGGER WARNINGS: CURSING, BULLYING BAD TRIGGER WARNINGS: GORE, NIGHTMARES, (CHILD) ABUSE, ANGST (isttgs there's so much of it), TRAUMATIC FLASHBACKS Just a Percy Jackson AU with the Half-blood hoes 4.2/Argo III I own none of these charac...