Author’s Note: I wrote this just after finishing Percy Jackson and Olympians and before reading Heroes of Olympus and Trials of Apollo so there may be some things that are different in this to those, because I haven’t finished reading the books. Also, this doesn’t really follow any time in the actual timeline. Finally, this uses characters, places, things, and ideas from Rick Riordan’s imagination.
Chapter 2
We were running again.
River and I were a yard away from Chiron, who after telling me I am a “demigod,” which by the way aren’t real, had become a centaur with a horse body, which scares me because it looks so real.
“River, how close are they?” Chiron asked.
River stopped, and when he did, I felt like I was going to faint. My head was spinning, and my sides hurt. He closed his eyes and put his face to the sky, like he was trying to smell something.
Chiron looked intently at him, waiting for a sign. “River, I can hear them. How close are they?” Chiron seemed to be getting annoyed, but that second, River’s eyes flew open.
“They’re here,” he said.
When I turned around, I saw who he was talking about. A woman was standing behind us, but not just any woman, a woman with a lion body. A Sphinx was in front of me.
