The Lydia Chronicle Book 1 The Bird

[[File:Mount_Olympus.jpg|thumb| Book 1: The Bird

A picture of Mount Olympus as the Book cover]] The Bird is the first book in The Lydia Chronicle. It starts off Lydia's trace towards making a new home. This is the book where she discovers that she is a demigod. Now Questions reveal themselves as Lydia must take a stand up against the forces of the Supernatural world of The Ancient Gods.

Characters of Importance
Lydia Knight: A demigod who has been traveling to the far ends of the country trying to find a sancturary where she can live in peace. She is the leading character of the story.

Violet Makenzee: She is a child of Hades, she enjoys making people suffer at first impressions, but she is actually nice and calm to talk to.

Crystal del Mar: She is a child of Poseidon, she was named by her father ironically as it is a word that is always paired with the sea. Her name is spanish for 'of the sea'.

Jackson Rios: He is a child of Athena and he has no relations to Poseidon even though his last name means Rivers. He also has a crush on Lydia.

Chiron: The director of activities at Camp Half-Blood and also he is the person that is put in charge while Mr D is out on his usual 'buisness meetings'

Mr D: Also known to many as Dionysus or Denis. He is often known as the drunk that got in trouble and is now cursed to drink Diet Cola and spend another century with demigods, the one species in the known cosmos that he dispises.

The Bird
Hi there!

I am Lydia Knight. For the most of my life I had always been told I was. . . normal. And for most of my life I believed almost everything my mother had told me. I mean what can you say, when you have someone that doesn't see everything you do, you gotta agree to disagree.

Not that my mother was blind or anything. I mean, compared to me, she actually had wonderful eyes, so far that she could even know when I was lying. My mother had that unique trait of hers. Anyways, besides that she didn't understand who I was. I mean besides the fact that I had a difficult life as a normal kid, I also had trouble at school too. I was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia. What a horror right?

I mean yeah, ADHD it was kinda like a second blessing. I mean I'm a girl, we're always hyper. But the thing about the Dyslexia was I loved to read. Sadly it always challenged me. But the thing about me was I never gave up.

I gazed now into the wormhole of a alligaqtor-like creature's mouth as I fend it off with just my bear arm. I wondered what the hell was this. I was ok with the classical, bullies even wild animals stalking me to and from school, but for an alligator-like creature to appear at school that didn't seem right. Especially in California.

I grabbed the monster's snout and bashed it down until it closed it's mouth. With that secured, I pushed the big alligator backwards and made my way toward the door. It didn't take long for it to catch up to me as it suddenly knocked me down on my butt. As I rose to my feet, I wiped the bits of scratches away from my face and made a signal for everyone to evacuate the room as quickly as possible.

I was scared of everyone getting hurt, and the voices in my head weren't helping any bit whatsoever. I tossed my bag in the air and waited for the creature to focus on it rather than me. When it took the bait I suddenly slid underneath the beast and lashed out at the beasts belly. In a sudden cry of agony, the beast raddled over and feel unconscious. I quickly retrieved my bag and made my way as far wasy from Scarlet Academy. I knew better than to stick around considering how I had no weapons and wasn't trained for this monster to fight a losing fight.

As I made my way outside, the voice in my head kept telling me to head west. It talked about the Atlantic Ocean and the others. I wondered what was that about. I knew if I had continued with the whole voice in my head routine, I would either go psycho or end up dead in no time.

After getting home, there was a man dressed up in an italian suit that had long black hair and stormy cloud blue eyes. He sat on the kitchen counter as he laughed and smiled at my mom. It was weird, my mom usually spent her time alone, but she had been willing to waste a few minutes of her life for this italian suit wearing man. The man seemed to have bad higiene considering he didn't even shave off his hundreds of year old beard. If anything he looked like father time in a suit.

"Hello, Lydia I see you're doing fine this afternoon." He smiled and I could see a bit of pain in his eyes. They suddenly flickered and then I saw myself alongside two kids that had a really bad attitude. One of them had black ominous hair that seemed to also retain a streak of mid-night blue in it. The other has lovely california blonde hair and sea green eyes. Taking a deep breath I noticed the guy take a sip of coffee.

"Hi, do I know you?" I asked undermining his authority in my home. I wondered who he was, considering all the wierd stuff that happened today. I was still shaking off that aligator monster.

"I suppose you don't considering, you were a baby when I last paid you two a visit. But you could say, I'm a very close relative of yours and your mothers."

"Well, nice to meet you I guess. I'll be in my room. Call me when dinner is ready." I headed towards my room and then suddenly the very man that had hardly introduced himself decided to speak with me.

"Lydia, I know what happened today at school."

"What?! Already damn, Principal Hearmen is starting to get on track of things, sadly it wasn't my fault. And I know I'll be changing schools again this year, Either way it doesn't matter right?"

"What If I said I knew of a great school for you to goto, although its quick a stones throw away from here." He mentioned.

"How far is it?"

"New York." He smiled.

My eyes buldged out of my face as he said the city's name. "New York!" I said with envy. "Like the city of theather and arts. The number one place that never sleeps. Where do I sign up!"

"You don't just sign up, it's more like a test of survival in order to enter this school." The man stated.

"Ok, how do I get there." I brushed off his comment and stuck to the whole school in New York.

"Its more like a summer camp, but Im sure it will help you with all the other academic functions of school. This will help you be away from all those monsters and the mean old nasties."

"But in New York right?"

The old man chuckled. "Yes, yes it's in New York. More Exactly Long Island."

"Oh." She looked down disappointed to find out it wasn't New York City. After a while she got over it and focused on what he had to say.

"Don't be so discouraged, eventually you'll love it. It's a school for gifted children, like you. It helps keep you away from danger like that monster and also with your learning disabilities, ADHD and Dyslexia."

"Ok, am I gonna fly there or walk?"

The man looked at me a bit understanding in the question. He took a deep breath and then nodded. "You'll be walking, but if your fast enough you could take a train to Arizona and walk the rest of the way there. I mean it's up to you unless you'd like to walk all the way there."

"How about not going at all." I said with attitude.

"It's not a matter of choice or not, that monster was only the beginning, if you continue living around mortals, you will attract the attention of worse enemies than that. Just make it to Long Island and then you'll be told everything. Oh and please do so before the summer solstice, which is June 21st."

"What?! in Four days! That can't be possible, it take a week to get to the other side of the country by car!"

"not to worry, besides you'll have assitance, just be packed and leave by sundown. I've informed you mother of this situation and for the record my name is unimportant for now. I must be going, if I'm home too late, my wife gets paranoid." With a flashy smile, the man stormed off.

I was left with only one decision and that was to leave home and make it to Long Island in time. With only four days and an aligator on the enemy's side I had a feeling things were going to get much worse much faster.

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