LUKES Pov
Thalia and I strolled through the forest. We were now about 10 miles away from our home. I was some what surprised to find out. Thalia had asked a pudgy officer how far it was to get from here being the edge of New York to back to our house. And so he said about 10 miles.
"That officer just wanted us to get away from him so he could just eat his donut in peace." Thalia muttered under her breath.
I shrugged. It was afternoon and we were still cooling it in the shadows of the great trees that stood there.
Suddenly Thalia's hand whipped backwards and slammed into my chest.
"What was that for?" I hissed.
She put one finger up to her lips to signal me to shut up. I put my hand to my dagger and gripped its hold. Then I heard snapping of branches of either a bunch of people were walking through or, say, like… a gigantic centipede?!
My jaw dropped and I stalled for a moment. Thalia once again saved me by pushing me out of the way. I must have looked like a falling log cause that was what I felt like. I grabbed a tree for support and I saw Thalia trying, desperately, to cut the monster's legs off.
I lunged at it and in a quick twist of my wrist leg#1 was snapped off. A legless monster would have been nice only if it didn't regenerate in, like… 5 seconds! Joy.
The monster kicked Thalia away like a human flicking away a roly-poly at full force, and the Thalia soccer ball smashed against a tall tree. Even tall and thick the tree bucked and that's when Thalia caught gravity.
She was 11 feet off the ground and she was unconscious. I was being held back by the centipede so I couldn't catch her.
Good news: centipede was stalled for a second and it spat some kind of goo at her and it stuck her to the tree.
Bad news: I was fighting a gigantic centipede one on one and if we died we would get eaten. How fun.
It reared back and turned to me. and the last thing I thought I was going to see was a bunch of sharp teeth in the centipedes gigantic mouth.
And then I fell back. My vision began to get blurry. There was a sharp tweet of some kind of flute and then the centipede walked of into the forest, materializing in the gloom. The last thing I saw was the furry pelt of an animal and then I blacked out.
Yes! That was grover! And you all have to admit that I rocked! Do it or do I not? :)
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