Chapter Three

Moon’s POV

I looked at the two in distaste, I did not want to be stuck on a tour with them. But I couldn’t help but notice how the girl had said “Gods”. As in, more than one.

“That’s alright Ms. Emily,” the boy says with a wide smile. “We have a friend that goes here. She showed us around the other day.”

As if on cue a curly haired blonde girl with grey eyes walks in. She grins as she sees the twins and hugs each of them.

“Lenzie!” Emily says with a wide smile. “Oh, you never told me you had such a charming friend.”

Lenzie grins and throws her arm around the girl. “Charming you say? Huh, well that’s certainly one word to describe her. Not the one I’d use, obviously.”

Emily looks taken aback and the girl just glares at Lenzie.

“Ohhh,” Lenzie says. “You meant him.” She hooks her finger towards the boy. Then gives him a look of fake thoughtfulness. “Eh, I guess he’s alright.”

I couldn’t help but smile slightly and walk up to her. “Hi, I’m Moon. Moon Dragon.” I hold out my hand.

She smiles hesitantly, and takes my hand. “Lenzie Smith, daughter of Athena.”

The girl elbows her in the ribs.

“Meaning I’m really smart,” Lenzie says. “Like, really smart. Because I can’t actually be the daughter of Athena right! Of course not.”

“Smooth, kinda dumb aren’t you? Daughter of Athena,” the boy mutters while the girl facepalms.

Before I could blink Lenzie’s fist was smashing into his nose.

“Oooowwww,” he cries. “Not again! I just got out of the hospital!”

“LENZIE!” Emily cries, rushing around the counter and going straight to the boy, leading him towards the door marked NURSE. “How could you?!”

“I’m sorry Ms. Corbin. But deal with him as long as I have and you’d do it to,” Lenzie says.
The minute Emily and the boy disappear Lenzie and the girl high five. Just then two people walk in.

Another girl and boy, the girl had dark brown hair and gold eyes. And the boy had black hair and green eyes with what seemed like pieces of silver and grey.

“Hi, I’m Nikki,” Nikki says. “This is Derek. We’re your tour guides.”

“No thanks,” the girl says. “I think I’ll manage.” With that her and Lenzie walked out.

“I’m up for the tour,” I say hesitantly.

Nikki shrugs and says, “Follow us then.”

After walking a while in silence with them occasionally pointing rooms out I speak up, “So who are the two other new students?”

“No idea,” Nikki says. “But since they seem to know Lenzie I don’t want to know.”

“Why not?” I ask. What can I say? Just like everyone else I love gossip.

Nikki hesitates, “She’s… weird.”

“How so?” I ask.

“Sometimes she shows up with scars and bruises all over,” Derek says. “Like she had been fighting an army or something.”

“Abuse?” I ask.

“No,” Nikki says. “Both her parents are presumed dead. She has some unknown parent that is like a foster parent or someone. But I don’t know, it just seems like abuse would be, different. The cuts, they’re too narrow. Too perfect. Like a blade. Once it even looked like she had been clawed by a bird.”

I frown trying to process that information. Just then someone bumps into me from behind. I lose my footing and fall on my butt, my books flying everywhere. I look up and glare at the person. It was the boy, his nose somehow perfectly fine.

“Oh my gods, I am so, so sorry,” he says, his eyes wide and panicked.

He holds out a hand, which I take after some deliberation. After he helps me up he leans down and picks up my books.

“I’m sorry. Really, really sorry. I should have looked to see where I was going.” He throws a glance behind him. He seems on edge. “Have any of you seen Quinn and Lenzie?”

Quinn? I think, completely confused. Oh wait, maybe that was the girls name?

“They went that way,” Derek says pointing.

“Thanks,” the boy says. With that he goes to run away when I notice something red pooling under his shirt.
“You’re bleeding,” I say, reaching out to grab his arm.

He looks down like he just now realized it, “Huh.”

That was all he said. Then he pushes past me and starts running. “So are we all going to follow him or just me?” I ask.

Nikki and Derek share a look and grin, running after him, causing me to have to catch up.

The boy was running at full speed, and damn was he fast, Nikki, Derek and I had a very hard time catching up with him. He darted down the halls and dodged people like a pro.

“Where’s he going?” I gasp out when he turns down a hallway with a dead end sign on it.

“This hall leads to the pool,” Derek says. “Come on, I know a shortcut.” With that he goes off down a side hall. It was a dimly lit hallway and it ended pretty quickly, revealing a metal door, which Derek pushed open.

I stare out at the room inside, it had bleachers on one side, and in the middle was a big pool filled with dark blue water.

The boy bursts in through a door on the other side, just as two more of the doors burst open, revealing the girl, Quinn, and Lenzie. The two of them run right onto the water, as does the boy. They meet in the middle. They just ran on water. And now they were standing on it. It was almost like it had somehow solidified underneath them.

Derek and Nikki looked absolutely perplexed, guess this wasn’t something that happened often.

“Mutt!” Lenzie says. “What the hell is going on? There hasn’t been a Chimera in this part of the world for years! Much less three! What happened?”

Mutt skids to a halt, “You say that like you expect me to know.”

“You don’t?” Lenzie snaps.

“You’re the daughter of Athena. You figure it out,” Mutt says with a smirk.

“Enough!” Quinn shouts as Lenzie opens her mouth. “We have to kill them before they hurt a mortal.”

“I didn’t bring a weapon,” Mutt says.

Lenzie shakes her head, “None of us did. This was supposed to be an extraction mission. Not a fighting mission.”

“So how do we fight three Chimera without weapons?” Mutt asks.

Lenzie and Quinn sigh unanimously. Lenzie shakes her head like she had already given up on him. Quinn just facepalms. She seems to do that a lot.

Then Quinn reaches her hand towards the water, her blue eyes glow slightly. The water raises up to meet her hand. Slowly crafting itself into a sword, which she hands to Lenzie.

“Oh,” Mutt says. Before shrugging and reaching out and doing the same thing as Quinn.

All three doors burst open just as they all had at least two swords and a few daggers. Made out of water. Something seriously odd was going on. Each door held a humongous creature. With the head of a lion, body of a goat and tail of a snake.
“Cool,” Nikki mutters. Derek elbows her.

Each Chimera stalks forward, but the minute one set foot on the water it unsolidified, making the creature drop into the pool. Mutt also disappears under the water. Coming back up a minute later, grinning.

“Dead,” he says gleefully. “Only two more now!”

Lenzie rolls her eyes but a small smile was formed on her lips. One of the Chimera leaps at them, trying to make the distance. Lenzie rolls under it and runs to the one still on the edge of the water.

Mutt and Quinn stand side by side, watching as the Chimera descends. As it was coming down it opens its mouth and breathes, fire? Quinn jerks her arm up, almost like she was going to protect her face, she crouches down as she does it, Mutt dropping down beside her. The water surges up with her arm, creating a barrier between them and the fire.

After the fire extinguished the water wall drops. Mutt and Quinn both attack the Chimera, their battle was over in seconds. Just then a scream erupts through the room. Loud and full of pain and horror.

“LENZIE!” Mutt screams, his eyes wide. I frown, were they dating? It didn’t seem so at first but now it kind of did. He runs forward as she falls, making the water rise up to soften her fall as he drops to his knees beside her.

Quinn runs straight for the last Chimera, leaping over it and landing behind it she ducks under it’s tail. The Chimera growls and turns around, only to notice that Quinn was no longer there. She slashes at its side, trying to get underneath it’s armour like skin, but it seemed to be proving harder than it had been on the other two.

She ducks and rolls barely escaping the fire from its mouth. She throws a dagger at it, a shot that should’ve went right through the things eye. Instead it bats it away like it was nothing.

“That hasn’t happened before,” Quinn comments, staring it in the eyes for a second. “You’re not an ordinary monster are you?” Cue the growl. “Mutt, get Lenz out of here. Take those three idiots with you.” She says, nodding her head towards us. Mutt nods slightly and picks up Lenzie.

Quinn crouches down again, in a battle stance I guess. Her sword in one hand, a dagger in another.

Mutt appears beside us, “Hope you didn’t eat breakfast.”

Then water surrounded us and we were all sitting in our seats in a class. The whiteboard read, WELCOME TO HISTORY CLASS! Mutt was sitting in the seat beside me the second the bell rang. Lenzie was gone, and Quinn wasn’t here.