Prophecy of My Dreams

TESSA

Hi there. I'm Stephanie. Stephanie King. I go by Tessa though. And I guess I'm a demigod. It's still all new to me. It all started on one stormy night, (I know. Very cliché. But that's when it happened.) My dad was acting strange.. different then I've ever seen him. He was pacing up and down the hall, mumbling softly to himself. I had tried to ask what was wrong, but he just said he was fine. 

My dad was kind of handsome, but he was mostly average. He had slick black hair, that he probably spent hours on. He had broad shoulders and a sly smile. His eyes, (my favorite feature, that I luckily gained,) were bright silver. They glowed whenever they caught the light.

Anyways, he was acting weird, and after I asked him if he was okay for the 17th time, he snapped and told me to go to my room. Like I was a little kid! I'm 14 by the way. I also have dyslexia, ADHD, social anxiety, and depression. I forget to tell people these things. 

So there I was, sitting in my room, fiddling with the obsidian ring on my finger, when I felt an.. urge.. to go to the window. Does that sound weird? Eh... Whatever. I walked up to the window and pushed aside the curtain. I saw a flash of movement and narrowed my eyes to see it. 

In the field across from my house, was a silver deer, more beautiful  then anything I've ever seen. I locked eyes with it and became mesmerized. It cocked its head, and I saw something, like a fire, inside of its eyes. I blinked and it was gone. 

I decided that I was seeing things and then just went to sleep. That didn't help. 

In my dreams I was in the field with the deer. It looked at me and bolted into the woods. When I didn't follow it, it came back and nudged me, then ran back in. This time I did follow. 

It took me through the woods until we came to a dead-end, and then it vanished. I looked at the cliff blocking the way. Only it wasn't a cliff. When you looked up, you could see that it was, in fact, a giant. The giant looked at me with hungry eyes, and its large hand grabbed me. It squeezed the breathe out of my and I felt my face turn purple. 

"I can't'nt wait to eash you. Yours is a yummy demigid!" he slurred his words, and I had trouble understanding you. He pulled me towards his mouth, and as his teeth slammed down into my flesh, I woke up, covered in sweat.

My dad was hovering over me. 

"Time to go!" he said.

"Wha-? Go where?" I asked.

"I'll explain on the way. Pack a small bag. Bring the essentials! Meet me in the car! Hurry!" 

"Bu-"

"Hurry!" he rushed downstairs. I grabbed a small knapsack bag and shoved an extra pair of clothes in and a hair brush. I grabbed my tooth brush and some tooth paste from the bathroom. When I got to the door I shoved my shoes onto my feet and jumped into the car. My dad stepped on the gas, as I put on my seat-belt.

"What the hell is going on?!" I ordered. 

"I'll explain when we get there!" he said.

"Get where?" I ask.

"I'll explain when we get there!"

"UPSTAIRS, YOU SAID YOU'D EXPLAIN IN THE CAR!"

"And now I'm saying I'll explain when we get there!"

"WHERE?" I demanded. 

"UGH!" he exclaimed in frustration. He finally looked like he was  gonna break and tell me, but then a huge being, - I later learned it was a minotaur, - crashed into the side of our car. It flipped upside down. My head crashed into the dashboard, and when I looked over at my dad, he was unconscious.

"Dad?!" I exclaimed. I felt the car being raised up, and saw the huge minotaur - (I didn't know it was a minotaur at the time, though) - was lifting us into the air. He then chucked our car into a strawberry field. I went unconscious on impact. 

When I woke up I was in an infirmary. A girl with black hair and pink streaks was staring down at me.

"The newbie's awake!" she yelled. A girl with long, blonde hair and an orange T-shirt walked in.

"I'm Annabeth" she said. "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood! You must be Stephanie?"

"I- Uh. I go by Tessa. Um, where am I?" A wave of panic washed over me, as I recalled the events of before. "Where's my dad? Is he okay?!"

The girl with black hair sighed. "Your dad was taken by the minotaur".

"Copycat" a boy whispered. I hadn't seen him before. He had black hair, and sea green eyes. He smelled of the ocean, though I didn't know how I could smell it from across the room.

"What'd you say?" I asked.

"Oh- Nothing! I'm sorry! I was just joking! My mom got taken by a minotaur when I first got here!" he said. "I'm Percy, by the way". Annabeth glared at him. I guessed she found the joke about as funny as I did.

"What's a minotaur?" I said.

"It's a giant.. thing with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man" the girl with black and pink hair said. "I'm Tori by the way. Tori Zyth. Daughter of Aphrodite. And before you say anything, I never said I enjoy it."

"I have so many questions!" I said. "Where's my dad?! And who's Aphrodite? And a bull man? This doesn't make any since!"

"Come on" Tori said. "I'll show you the orientation video". I followed her to a huge house and watched an old video. And that's how I found out I'm a demigod. And that's all I know! And I have no idea who my mom is! 

Lovely. But..

At least I found somewhere I actually belong.