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Chapter 1: Found a Home

Káno POV

My name is Káno Soarings and I am walking through the forest on the Long Island Sound near New York with my twin sister Sophia. We ended up coming here after weeks of traveling. We had ran away from the Orphanage we were in at Georgia.

We came here because shortly after we left, we started having weird dreams. Whenever we go to sleep, we would hear a woman's voice saying 'go...come here...', while we saw images flash of the forest and an arc way saying something I couldn't quite make out because of my dyslexia. We were having urges to travel a certain direction. I always thought it was caused by our ADHD, but because we had no where to go we decided to follow the signs. Well, I decided to follow the signs. Sophia always does what I do without question and never lets me out of her sight. I tell her all the time,' We can do what you want too', but the reply is always ' Whatever you want to do'.

She is a very shy and gentle person, really easy to talk to. She has Long blood-orange hair that reaches all the way down her back to the top of her legs, and some of it almost always covered one of her reddish orange eyes. Her skin is soft and has a light tan color. She has fluffy cheeks with pink lips. She isn't fat, but she isn't skinny either. It was like she was directly in the middle. She was wearing blue jeans and a yellow shirt, with white shoes.

My hair is a little curly and spikey, and just long enough to cover my eyes but usually, like my sister, only covers one of my eyes, while the rest sweeps upwards. My skin is a little tougher than hers, but still considerably soft. We both have the same skin tone and reddish-orange eyes. My cheeks are a little slimmer than hers but still there. I was a little more leaner than some, but I still had a healthy amount of muscle tone. I was wear a black ripped pants and gray shoes. I was wearing a gray shirt under the red zip-up hoodie I always wear. We both had backpacks full of stuff like clothes, soap, toothbrush and paste, food and water, etc.

Our Journey here was very hard and nightmarish. We saw and were being chased by weird monster like creatures(AN: I might have a story all about there travels). But when we tried to tell or show anyone, the wouldn't believe us. I once tried to fight one that looked like a giant black dog with the knife I have, but it passed through it like it didn't exist. So we spent most of our time running.

We were walking down the sound silently when my sister grab my arm.

"Yes?", I said.

she pointed behind us,"look, something's coming!" she exclaimed in her soft voice.

I turned around and saw in the distance trees falling. And each tree falling was getting closer and closer to us.

"We gotta go!", I yelled as I pulled her to start running. As we are running I see a hill with an arc with words. It looked like the one we saw in our dreams. "Go to the hill!"

I look behind and the trees falling are really close, then I hear a loud hiss-like roar that shook the ground. I trip over something and fall to the ground, I look around to see what did it, and I saw a wavy sword. It was about three to four feet long. Though it looked broken and cracked everywhere, the sword seems to be glowing a bronze color. I picked it up and looked around too see that Sophia had stopped running to see if I was ok.

"Keep going, I'm OK!", I said.

"Hurry! Its getting closer!", she replies.

"I have an idea, just keep running!"

"But I-"

"Please!" I cut her off

She looked hesitant for a moment, but said "Be careful...please...", before running to the hill. I turned around just in time to see a serpent like creature slide out of the tree line. Its head was snake like but with more hardening features. It was like a giant serpent creature about 30 ft long. It was covered in big, night black, plate-like scales. Its eyes were a venom green that sends me shivers looking at them. But I can't back down now, not while Sophia is in danger.

With the sword in my hands, I ran at the snake like creature. If I can't stop it, I can at least distract, I thought. The monster lounge at me with its big fang like teeth, and that's when my mind went into its own sort of frenzy. I rolled to the side instinctively. When I got to my feet I see the monster's head rise high, then shoot down on too me. I jumped back just in time to see its head crash to the ground. Seeing it's head in front of me, I took a chance that slashed with the sword, hoping it actually does some damage but not expecting it to. Surprisingly, it sliced through the creatures head and it roared in pain. So it does work... I look up and see its dark red blood flowing down its head. It let out a hiss as its body quickly slithered around me, trapping me within the fence of its body. The serpent creature lounged for a low attack. I jump high enough to get over its head, and I took this opportunity to stab deep into the base of its neck. I tried to pull out the sword while the monster tried to throw me off, but it was stuck. Crap. I had to let go and jump off its back as the end of the tail slapped down to where I was. I landed in the open and spun to see the creature rolling over and stare at me with anger in its eyes. I saw the sword still sticking out of its neck. I smiled as an idea popped into my head.

"What's wrong, you mad? Come at me bro! I know you can do better than that!", I yelled at it, and started running to it.

Apparently it understood me as it let out an enraged earth shaking hissing-roar and darted at me. It was so fast it was almost like a blur. As we reached to met each other, I side-stepped letting it rush past me. As it did so I gripped the sword, still running and pulled as hard as I could. I felt the sword slide down the creatures back, still in its back, and off at the tail. It broke off at the end. I spun around and saw the creature split in half. It fell to the ground, then suddenly turn into golden dust.

"Well that was...interesting." I said. I saw one of the monster's giant teeth laying in the dust. I picked it up and turned towards the hill and saw Sophia and other people running towards me with weapons in hand.

Sophia POV

I was running up the hill towards the arc way. As I got closer too it I understood it to say 'Camp Half-Blood'. I saw three people standing and talking next to a Big Tree. One boy and two girls. I as ran up to them I see them turn to me.

"Hey there!" said one of them. He had jet black hair, and eyes green as the sea.

"Wel-", he started, but I interrupted him. I had to hurry. My Brother was down there with that thing, and I wasn't going to leave him down there.

"P-please help me! My brother is down there with some monster! He stayed down there so I could come here!", I said almost crying. It pains me to know that my brother is alone.

The boys face turn from a cheerful one into one full of seriousness.

"How many monsters are there?", his voice full of concern. He actually believes me. Mabey he can help. I see the people behind him carrying curvy swords like the one Káno had found, but in better condition. And one of them had a bow.

"I-I don't know! I think one, but really big! it knocked down trees as it move!"

Then we heard a loud hiss-roar in the distance.

"let's go!", said the boys a the three races down the hill toward the roar.

In the middle of running I noticed the green eyed boy didn't have a sword. But as soon as I thought that he pulled a capped pen. What is he going to do with a pen against a giant monster? But then he uncapped the pen and I saw it change into a three foot long bronze sword. I was surprised at first, but then I thought,'Well, me and Káno have been chased weird monsters, so this isn't as surprising as it should have been'.

When we got down the hill I could see Káno standing in front of a giant black serpent like creature. It had the sword Káno had found sticking out of it behind its head.

"Its a Drakon!" said one of the girls, but then I heard Káno Yell,

"What's wrong, you mad? Come at me bro! I know you can do better than that!", then he ran towards it. The creature roar and it shook the ground underneath us. What is he doing?! The creature darted to him at amazing speed. Right before they ran into each other, Káno stepped to the side. He grabbed the sword and slid it down the monster's back still running. The blade broke as it slid of the end of its tail. The creature now in two halves fell down. Then turn into a golden dust.

Káno had picked up something from the dust. He turned towards us then started walking.