Beauty and the Thief [Connor Stoll]

A Killer Date

Cassie yawned as the sound of screaming filled the movie theater. She was on a movie date with her current boy-toy, Eric or Earnest-or whatever his name was-and they were watching the newest horror blockbuster and she was bored as hell. It felt like right about the right time to break up with this kid.

He held her hand tightly as yet another dumb girl in the movie walked down a dark staircase to her doom.

Cassie smiled as she thought about how pathetic this guy was. She was the more popular girls at their Lincoln Prep, and all she had to do was speak and guys would throw themselves at her feet to do her bidding. She'd landed herself into trouble several times for this same reason, as her Dad didn't believe her story of only asking to borrow someone's private jet.

"Oh this is my favorite part!" the boy explains his grip tightening even more.

"You're squeezing the hell out of my hand, can you like let go," Cassie said trying to yank her hand out of his, but he didn't let go and his grip became rock-hard.

She's suddenly startled when the volume of the movie increases making her cover her ear as the screams become unbearably loud. The other people in the theatre mirror her movements and start to head for the doors

Cassie tries to follow suit but realizes that Eric(or Everett) is still holding her hand and eagerly watching the movie, unaffected by the ear-bleeding shrieks coming from the screen.

"Let go!" She screams pulling at her arm with all her might but she stops cold when he faces her and she sees his eyes glow red.

She screams again as some sort of beast crashes out from behind the movie screen. Looking at it again she notices that it's a winged horse with a chariot connected at the back of it. A tall guy with dark hair and bright blue eyes falls out of the chariot.

Cassie turns and shares a confused look with her monster date before looking back at the guy.

"Sorry we're a little late, it's my turn to do the extractions now since I missed out all those other times," He said scratching his head as he scanned the scene, "You're Cassandra Adonis right?"

"Uh... yeah." Cassie eyed the guy warily, before noticing movement in the chariot beside him, seeing the heads of a guy and another girl pop out.

"You haven't run into a guy named Leo have you?" The guy said pulling a pen out of his pocket.

"What?" Cassie felt like she hadn't understood a thing this guy had been talking about since he'd crashed in the movie theater.

"I guess that's a no."He said, sounding slightly disappointed, before running up and clicking his pen.

Cassie gaped in wonder as it transformed into a sword in a flash. Cassie's date swiftly let go of her arm before racing towards the guy too and changing shape into a lizard-like creature.

"Percy Jackson, here to ruin our plans again are you?" A deep gravelly voice erupted from the beast as he faced the guy who Cassie assumed he was addressing to be Percy.

"Yeah pretty much." He said cracking a smile before running up and slicing the monster clean in half.

Cassie stood in shock as the monster crumbled away and Percy started to head towards her.

"Sorry I had to kill your boyfriend, but you didn't look like you were having that much fun with him anyway." He said before laughing at his own joke.

Cassie slowly backed up before speaking up, "Who the hell are you, and how did you do that?"

"Yeah I would love to spell it all out for you now but we're like three hours behind schedule so I'll explain to you on the chariot."

Cassie scoffed, "I'm not getting on that."

"Well, you could always wait here for more killer boyfriends?" Percy said tilting his head to one side, his eyes glinting in the light.

Cassie crossed her arms and rolled her eyes before reluctantly making her way towards the chariot that lay in the rubble of the front of the theater, careful to step over the dusty remains of Eric/Ernest and not ruin her three-hundred dollar shoes.

Stepping out from the ruined wall, Cassie realized that the chariot was a lot larger than it had looked from a distance. Going for a seat opposite of the other two passengers, she watched as Percy climbed in after her and grabbed the reins of the horse.

"Hi!" The girl in the other seat leaned forward stretching her hand out in a greeting gesture, "I'm Meghan, this is all kind of new to me too."

She looked about sixteen with short blonde hair and circular glasses, and she was kind of cute but also way too perky for Cassie's liking.

Cassie looked at her hand before reaching out and shaking it, "I'm Cassie. Is your friend mute?"

The boy visibly tensed up once he realized she was addressing him and stuttered, "I'm Dean."

Dean looked to be about the same age as Meghan. He was Asian with a buzzcut and unsure look on his face like he wasn't sure how he had gotten there-which Cassie could completely relate to.

"So basically Percy said that our parents are greek gods and that the safest place to be at is this camp he's taking up to."

"And you believed him?" Cassie said raising an eyebrow.

Meghan seemed unsure of her decision for a second before continuing, "Well-i mean-he saved our lives right?"

Cassie narrowed her eyes, "So what?"

Meghan pulled back and didn't speak again looking down at the floor. Cassie was a little more than pissed at the series of events that had taken place today. That kid hadn't even bought her popcorn back at the movie theater.

A little while later Cassie could practically hear Percy smiling as he yelled back to them from the reins, "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!"

Cassie peered over the edge of the chariot gazing at open land, sprinkled with trees and hills. She sat back in her seat rolling her eyes at Meghan and Dean's wonder.

The voices of campers progressively became louder as Percy landed the chariot. He was the first hop out helping Dean, Meghan, and then Cassie out of the chariot. He handed off the reigns of the pegasus he called Blackjack off to some blond kid and then led them towards the group of campers pooling at the entrance.

Cassie was startled when a girl walked out of the crowd, up to Percy, and planted a kiss square on his lips.

"Guy's this is Annabeth, my girlfriend."Percy smiled down at her.

"Nice to meet you all." She turned to Percy, "The new campers have been kind of old lately right, they all look about sixteen."

As they rambled on Cassie shivered feelings eyes on her from the crowd. She jerked her head to see a tall elfish-looking boy with brown hair and electric blue eyes staring at her. He continues to stare at her, as Percy introduces them and his gaze intensifies once he reaches Cassie. She glares at him expecting him to look away in fear but her breath catches in her when a lopsided grin takes over his face.

Quickly averting her eyes, she only looks up again once the crowd releases collective gasps. Letting out her own gasp she gazed at the glowing symbols above Dean and Meghan's heads.

Above Meghan's head was the symbol of a dove surrounded in bright pink light and above Dean's was a golden shoe with wings pulsing golden light.

She looked above her own head and sighed, rolling her eyes as Meghan jumped over to hug her, "OMG, we have the same sign and Percy said that means we're sisters! Well technically half-sisters since we don't have the same Dad."

Cassie tuned her out as a pretty girl with a deep tan and long brown hair walked up to the two of them, "Hi, I'm Piper, I'm the Aphrodite Cabin counselor and you guys will be staying with us."

Cassie shot her a bland smile, as her eyes strayed over where the boy that had been staring at her introduced himself to Dean.

"Hi, I'm Connor, I'll be your counselor over at Hermes Cabin." He reached out to shake Dean's hand, staring at Cassie the entire time.