File one Katarina’s journey to past and future

Today was a day that started like any other but it ended in a nightmare. Dad woke me up at six o’clock but like always I was already awake. That had two reasons, one I’ve been having nightmares lately and they look so real and second because when the moon goes down I always get this weird feeling that wakes me up. But to come back to the story I got up, put on my school uniform and did my necklace on. That necklace was the only thing I had with me when dad found me on his doorstep. I will explain this men is not my real dad, I have no idea who my parents are. I only know that when I was dropped with Dean, my dad, I was only a month old. He named me after his just passed away wife and adopted me after he told the police he found a child. After been in the missing kids system for one year Dean adopted me official because nobody was like that’s my baby. Together we named the day he found me on his doorstep my birthday and that is today. May thirty-first two thousand fourteen today I became sixteen en also today was the last school day before summer vacation and my last bow and arrow training before the championship. It was supposed to be a busy and fun day but no my life had to be turned upside down. But I am getting ahead of myself so I got dressed and went down the stairs with only seven steps and landed in the living/ dining/ kitchen/ entrance.

“Happy Sweet Sixteen Katarina”: was what my dad shouted happy. He had decorated the room with pink, blue and silver decoration even the cake and my present had those colours. “Dad you shouldn’t have”: I told him and I meant it we don’t have allot of money. The only reason I go to this rich kid school is because I won a scholarship otherwise I probably didn’t even went to school. And not because I am dumb no I take the highest level there is. “Ofcours you don’t turn sixteen every day”: he smiled and started cutting the cake. Meanwhile I opened my gift, in the box was a beautiful Swiss army knife the one I wanted. Dad and I love camping and hunting not really weird when you think about it, I mean we live in a cabin in the woods. “You like it?”: he sounded insecure, “Duh I love it”, after that I hugged him and kissed his cheek. For breakfast we had cake and the left overs I did in a box to take with me to school. “Well you need to go it’s still the same distends”: he joked and pushed me out the door. outside on the porch stood my bike but next to it was another present, silver bow with matching arrows and quiver my old once seemed to have disappeared. “Dad”: I shouted and he came running towards me while I held up my new stuff. “You are insane this must have cost a fortune”. He had looked at me with a surprised face but didn’t said anything. I kissed him again and cycled away. My lunch + cake left overs in my basket and my new bow and quiver on my back. We didn’t had enough money for me to go with the bus to school so that’s why I cycle everyday 75 minutes to school. I won the scholarship with an archery contest when I was ten. At this school I met my best friend June, she is awesome, she has hair that looks black but when the sunlight hits it, it is dark green, she has light green eyes and light brown skin like caramel. Further is June obsessed with saving nature, Greek mythology, something she got me into too, and she love, love loves animals. Also she only wears dresses with the school uniform blazer. Here they are very flexible with the uniform rules. I where the whole uniform because girls are only allowed to wear skirts and dresses and I only own jeans.

After I cycled through the busy morning traffic I saw the school appear in front of me where June was standing with a bunch of green balloons for me. I stalled my bike took the stuff out my basket and walked towards her. “Happy birthday”: June shouted and run to me and hugged me when she was next to me. Like always she smelled like grass, bark and summer rain. “Hey June”. “What did you father gave you?”. “Well this” I said and showed her the pen-knife, “And this”: than I showed her the bow and quiver. For a second I thought she looked shocked and maybe now I think about it maybe she was. “Cool, let’s go inside”: she said and pushed me inside after she looked around like always. Inside we went straight to our lockers to get our schoolbags and I put my bow, quiver and lunch in my locker. “Hey black beauty”: greeted Lucas me like he did every day. Lucas was the 23 year old help of my archery coach, Lucas was also teacher in sword fighting. I only took archery but Lucas helped coach Dodds always with retrieving arrows and putting the targets in place. “Hey Lucas”. “I heard it’s your birthday today”. “That’s right but see you after school it’s time for Greek”. I closed my locker with a bang and walked with June to the Greek classroom. I get always so bored there, how hard I try I just can’t do Greek, that’s the only thing I can’t. Spanish and English no problem but Greek not my thing. It’s a death language so not interesting, but I love Greek mythology and they use allot of ancient Greek, so that’s the only thing I take Greek, for understanding mythology. But school was school I am not going to bore you with that. After the last lesson I said goodbye to June who took off to some summer camp by a lake more she didn’t want to tell me. After that I went to switch my backpack for my bow and quiver again. I went to the dressing room and switched my uniform for my normal outfit, jeans and plaid. Lucas and coach were talking about something while some boys and girls were shooting arrows. “Aha our birthday girl”: shouted coach and everybody stopped shooting. I got some congrats and then coach took me to the special training room. I trained speared from the others because I had a higher level. The training room was some sort of laser tag parcour with pop up boards you have to shoot. “Nice bow, new”: coach said. “Yes coach birthday present”. “That would come in handy”: he sounded sinister, first I thought it was my imagination but as about more from today I don’t think it was my imagination. I got special arrows with little plungers on them and hold my bow left because I load with my right hand. Lucas blind folded me and spun me around. When he stopped he took the blind fold of and training begun. I walked around the maze and shot everything I was supposed to shoot.

The first three times very thing was okay but the fourth it started to get messed up and that is what ruined my day. I walked around the maze again but now the cardboard figures where Greek monsters. I was almost at the exit when Lucas jumped out of nowhere and attacked me with a sword which was half silver half bronze. I had no real arrows my quiver was on the other side of the maze. Lucas stroked and I blocked it with my bow. “Lucas what the hell”: I shouted but he only smiled at me really creepy. Behind me I heard a hissing noise when I turned I saw my male coach transform into a female Fury. If that wasn’t enough June walked in and run into the maze. Before the Fury struck I swung at him with a knife I suddenly had and he / she vaporized into yellow powder. Lucas and I both looked surprised but he recovered and attacked me again. I tried to block his strike again with my bow but he cut my hand only the bronze part of his sword went straight to me and the silver part made cut. June run back out of the maze and knock Lucas out with my quiver. “No time to explain go here and take this and this”: she said and gave me a little backpack, my quiver and a piece of paper with an address. “Go sweetie I will see you there”: she said and disappeared in a green mist cloud than I realised June’s skin was light green instead of caramel. I was so confused by everything I just did what June said without thinking. I got to my bike and just started cycling to the address (Address camp half-blood, Delphi Strawberry Co, Half-Blood Hill, Farm Road 3141, Long Island, New York) she gave me which is an hour by bike. The first half hour everything was fine except for the pain in my purple turning hand but then I heard hissing again. I looked behind me and saw a Basilisk and it was not the kind you saw in Harry Potter. This one was about 1 foot long, green with a crown of white spikes and it spit fire. I took an arrow out my quiver and threw it to it luckily I hit it and it also vaporized in yellow mist. Because of that thing I didn’t saw the two other Furies above my head until the dove towards me and knocked me off my bike. Somehow I broke my fall and started running. “Quick before the border”: hissed one of them, “Yes, yes”: hissed the other one back. During their talking I took two arrows and fired them. One caught the arrow the other one vaporized to yellow dust. “You Bitch”: the last one hissed to me and dove to me. I was at the foot of the hill when the Fury flew over me, I avoided her attack and started running up the hill. “HELP”: I had shouted, I was almost sure this was the place June wanted me to go. I was at the top of the hill when the Fury dove to me again this times her claws first. I jumped away from her but she stabbed my own arrow into my back. I shouted from pain and fell forward I started rolling down the hill which made the arrow break and the pain worse. I stopped rolling and everything went black. Now I am awake for a while thinking about today. It has to be real what happen because the pain is to real for my head to reconstructed but if it was real it’s just to crazy. When I think about leaving I hear a door open.