Child of Kronos

Chapter 1: A Big Dog and Some Mean Teachers
I woke back up with Selena shaking me awake. "Wake up! We're here," she said.

We were finally at the museum. Our class was going on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was 11, and Selena was 12. My friend Barry, was 13. I stared at Selena's eyes. They were yellow, almost golden. That's weird. She was wearing a dark jacket, and she was telling Barry to lay off on the enchiladas. Barry was this weird kid with a leg injury or something. He kept walking weird and stuff. I had blue eyes and a white jacket, with pure white hair, so we made up the weird part of our class.

We walked up the front steps into the museum. After getting in, all the kids oohed and aahed and generally pretending to be interested in what they were looking at. The teachers. Mr. Steve and Mrs. Stines walked around and made sure we did have any fun at all. Mr. Steve had dark hair and black eyes, and always wore black. He had pale skin, and he was creepy. Mrs. Stines was very old, and wore a pink sweater.They seemed to look extra at our group, staring at us intently.

"Step outside, Selena and Joseph." Mrs. Stines said.

"Wait!" Barry said. "Can I come, too?"

Mr. Steve glared at him, and he said, "Nevermind," but he still looked like he wanted to come.

"Ha, Ha!" Bruce laughed."You're going to get detention for the rest of the year, and probably-"

"Stop." Selene said firmly. Suddenly, Bruce froze in place, his mouth still wide open and his eyes wide.

We came out and walked for a while until we reached a place with woods. Mr. Steve said," Students, we need to talk. But first, we need to kill you."

He snapped his fingers and a dog rushed up to him. It was cute, until it started growing. Suddenly, it was the size of a minivan. Then it was as large as a tank. Finally, it became the size of a single family home. The dog was translucent, and had three heads, all of them licking their lips in anticipation, awaiting Steve's orders to turn us into Selena and Joseph dog biscuits

"What... How..?" Selena mumbled.

"We'll explain later. In the Underworld." Mrs. Stines cackled.

"Attack them!" Mr. Steve ordered. Then I knew we were screwed.

Said Dog Tries to Eat Us
When you're faced with a giant canine behemoth, the first thing you would do is run. We scattered as the dog pounced but missed, knocking over a fifth of the forest in the process. The dog ran after me, and I had just enough time to dodge his next leap. Then, it came after Selena, who was not so lucky. It jumped right above her, and I shut my eyes tight and waited for the SNAP! and CRUNCH!.

But instead, I heard, WHOOSH! BLAMMO! I looked up and saw Selena totally fine, but the three headed dog was sprawled onto the grass a crowd of dead trees littering the ground around it. Even Mr. Steve and Mrs. Stines looked stunned.

"Impossible! She can't possibly be, no." Then he tensed. "More people are coming." Mr. Steve snapped his fingers, and the teachers and the dog disappeared into the shadows.

"Hey guys! I'm here! I got help for- whaat?" Barry burst into the woods, and stared in shock at the wreckage. Then another guy came along, with sandy blonde hair and blue eyes, and a bronze sword in his hand.

"What in the Hades-"

"Yes, Hades. I smell death." Barry saide

"You're absolutely right! We almost died!" Selena replied.

"That's not what I mean. What happened?"

I told him what had happened, about the evil dog and the weird wind thing that selena used on the dog. "Cerberus? Here? I thought that Hades and the Kindly One-"

"Wait what? Cerberus, Hades? And what's a Kindly One?"

"Let's start with the basics." The blonde guy said. "Hey, I'm Luke, and you're a half blood."

"A what?"

"Not mortal. Half human, half god."