Piper's POV:

I hadn't slept in a week, I was weak, I had been chased across the country by monsters. I had learned the truth just a week ago. I was a demigod. There had always been something different about me and now I knew. My father. Oh gods, my father. As soon as he had told me and given me a wand, from my mother he had said, we had been attacked by monsters. Me, not knowing how to use the wand had fled. I looked back at our house, one last time, and I saw my father, dead. Gone, forever. Now I was in New York City. I wandered in between people, dodging and ducking. 

"Excuse me," I said to an elderly man. "Pardon me," I said to a young mother. 

I slipped into a dark alleyway to regain my breath. I looked through my backpack. Half a bag of beef jerky, my phone, an empty water bottle, and 5$. It was not enough how would I survive? Suddenly I heard growling from behind me. I slowly turned around. A bull like creature was growling from behind me. I did the logical thing. I screamed and ran for my life. Literally. I bumped into two people. A young teenage couple. 

"Sorry! In a little bit of a rush!" I shouted as I ran by. The girl sighed. 

"Oh look Percy! It's your best friend!" But the girl wasn't pointing at me. She was pointing at the Minotaur. Wait. Were these two people monsters!? I turned my wand on them. 

"What type of monster are you?" I asked, my emerald eyes flashing. 

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! We are demigods too!" The boy holds up his hands. 

"You are?"

"Yes." I decide to trust them. I need too.

"Fine. CAN YOU HELP ME KILL THIS!!!!!!!!" As soon as I say that something hard hits my head. I crumple to the ground. The last thing I see is the girl standing protectively over me and the boy taking a pen out of his pocket that turns into a sword.