Hey, Selene Akai here, just sayin' hello and welcoming you to this fan fiction. Get this: I've already finished this! This is the first fan fiction I ever actually finished! So, the entire thing will be uploaded, eventually. In the meantime, some quick specs:
*OFF CANNON! I wrote this before I even knew Riordan would bless us with a sequel series
*The gods are super out of character. Get over it.
*I was not smart enough to think of the Percy Jackson story, and therefore do not own it.
And that's about it. Enjoy!
Breathe Percy, just breathe, I told myself when I met the new algebra teacher: Bobby Dupree. He was a total monster. If I could just get him in a closet, or isolate him in his classroom…wait. Why was he here? Monsters only hide in schools to get students and this is a high school. There shouldn't be any demigods in high school! Maybe there was one who was already claimed here…it is a private school. Whatever, this guy needed to get killed. I hadn't touched Riptide in about a year, I missed the action.
In case you're wondering, I teach a new elective at Musgrove Prep titled: Classic Mythology (Greek and Latin "mythology"). How did I end up being a teacher? Hades if I know. I hadn't come across any students showing the tell-tale signs of ADHD and dyslexia. I hadn't sensed any Mist, and I'd think Chiron or Grover would've told me if there was a demigod at my school. Whoa- monster alert!
"Hello, Mr. Jackson," this guy had a creepy-deep voice.
"Mr. Dupree. I trust you've settled in nicely." I put on my 'adult' voice.
"Yes I have. Good day, Mr. Jackson." He walked away. I shivered. That guy was going down.
"Mr. Dupree!" I called after him.
"Yes?"
"When is your planning period?"
"Fourth period."
"Mine too. We'll have to eat lunch together some time. Bye now." I thought my day wasn't going to get any stranger. Then my fifth period showed up. Austin Faire was in that class.
"Wassup Mr. Jacksonian?!" He skateboarded into my room. I didn't really care. Austin was a lot like me, except he was good at avoiding fights instead of throwing the first punch and had attended this school since around the trip into the Labryinth. He was crazy though.
"A pop quiz," I grinned in spite of myself. I'd been dying to give one of those quizzes where all the smart kids go crazy because they don't understand why all the answers are the same and the "dumb" ones figure out that they're all B. I had even written "Classic Mythology" on the board with a capital and underlined "A". Half the class was going to fail. Ha, this is hilarious.
"WHAT?! Oh. Or should I say, A?" Austin grinned at me. That's why he's my favorite student. "So, how's life?"
"Life is…life," I shrugged.
"Are you gonna say what's wrong?"
"One: what makes you think something's wrong and two: sit down and stop being nosy."
"I know people Mr. J, and you are unhappy about something."
"Number two," I replied. He sat as the class came in. "Come on, take your seats, there's a pop quiz."
"Losing sleep?" I ignored Austin. "Mom sick? Baby sister mad at you?" The bell rang and I passed out the quizzes. Austin didn't even read the questions and handed it in. I sat on my stool and wrote a zero. "What?"
"Read the questions and learn the answers. I know you don't know."
"I DON'T KNOW EIRTHER!" Ah Mary, my hamster. She works and works and works but never actually gets anywhere. She can spit out information but say x=y instead of y=x and she'll break down.
"Wow. Someone didn't pay attention in class," my best student and second favorite, Bella, handed in her paper. "Clever trick Mr. J." She smiled at me. Bella was absolutely in love with mythology. This class was nothing to her- she already knew all of it. Maybe she was the demigod. No, she sat way too still. She might have a heart attack of joy if I told her the truth about me and everything else though.
"I got it!" Austin shouted as everyone else tried to figure out what the hell was going on. He got back up, I added on the one and the zero to make his zero a one hundred and he whispered: "it's your girlfriend." I froze. "I got it didn't I? You broke-up, right?"
"List all thirteen Olympians," I said sternly.
"I thought there were only twelve!" Austin groaned.
"Are there? List them and explain why there are twelve."
"Zeus, Poseidon, Hades," I said Bella dying in the background. "Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hermes, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus and Aphrodite."
"AGH!" Bella was practically foaming at the mouth. "Can I tell him why he's wrong?"
"Go for it. I think you and me are the only ones who know the answer since everyone thinks this is a BS class."
"It is." She replied.
"Only if you pay attention."
"Right. Anyways: first off Hades isn't an Olympian. You forgot Hera and technically there are 13 because, according to some accounts, Hestia- goddess of the Hearth sits stoking the fire in the Olympian Council and she gave up her seat of power to Dionysus because she wanted to keep the peace- I forget why there was going to be a fight. Right?" I gave a thumbs up.
"Good girl. Anyone who was paying attention just heard an answer to one of the questions." The whole class groaned. "We've been here a whole year guys, come on. This is first semester stuff." I deducted from Austin's quiz.
"Again?"
"Shh. And obviously you didn't know the answer to that question. You gotta learn to use your clues and learn from them man. No be quiet, everyone is trying to take a quiz on last semester." The quizzes slowly started coming in, as if my words had triggered their memories.
"Definitely your girlfriend," Austin muttered, putting his head down. His whole table was shaking from him being antsy. Freaking Austin. Yes, Annabeth and I had broken up after…five years…and yes I'd bought a ring but I realized that we weren't mean to be together. It was constantly playing in the back of my mind after I bought the ring 'this isn't right, this isn't right' and apparently Annabeth had been hearing the same thing so we agreed it was break-up time. It's been almost two years, why was I even thinking about this now? We'd been friendly our last summer at camp and I haven't seen her since. Was that it? We were really good friends-I guess that's what's bothering me. I'd call her when I got home. Why did I still have that ring anyway?
"Okay, I'm bored, time's up. I guess I need to go over all of this. Again. Hand it in, come on." Once they were all in I tacked on, "oh and in case you didn't notice every single answer was 'A'. It's even on the board."
"What?!" Bella shouted in alarm. "Fifteen was so 'C'!" I looked at the question. Who is considered the greatest Greek hero? A) Hercules B) Dionysus C) Percy Jackson D) Romulus
"Okay, I'll give you that one because you picked me. But quit being such a kiss- brownnoser." She raised an eyebrow.
"That's you?"
"Of course it's me, why else would you pick it?" She blushed and sat down. What? I spent the rest of the class period re-teaching basic concepts in mythology. This was just sad, I mean, at least I tried in school. These kids, come on, they weren't even drawing on their knowledge from movies. Who is Hercules' father? You'd think they'd all put B) Zeus but some people were shouting out Hermes and Ares and Hera! Come on! Even the completely inaccurate Disney cartoon taught you that!
At the end of class, Bella lingered. "Question?" I asked her. She opened her mouth and then closed it again.
"No. See you Mr. Jackson." She sped out the classroom. Maybe she was a half-blood. Maybe even a Roman- no she's too sweet for that. She'd have to be a Greek. "This is too much for one day," I muttered to myself. In sixth period I emphasized how easy this quiz was supposed to be. "Only one person got a one hundred and that was a technicality I won't accept from anyone else. Austin almost made it but I asked him a random question he couldn't answer so I deducted. Please don't disappoint me." They did. "Oh come on! You guys, we went over all this- why can't you at least realize all the answers were A?!"
"But…the answer to 15 is C," Jessica said with confusion.
"You're the second person to say that. Why? It says Percy Jackson! Why am I the greatest Greek hero?!" I'm not saying I'm not but hey- she's not supposed to know that.
"Wait, you're Percy Jackson? Oh my gods!-d. God. Oh. My. God." I stared at her for a second.
"Whatever. Let's go over these questions." After the bell rang Jessica ran up to my desk and screamed. "Why?"
"You're P-P-PERCY JACKSON! AH! Oh my gods!"
"Jessica, what are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about the Manhattan Battle- duh! And the Greece Battle where you fought the Giants!"
"What do you know about any of that?!" Huh?
"I'm a Daughter of Aphrodite and Bella is a daughter of Hermes."
"Seriously? I can't see it."
"She learned how to control her ADHD when she'd not fighting. You're Percy Jackson! Me and Bella are such huge fans!"
"Stop! Calm down."
"My swordsmanship blows, help me out?"
"Are there any other demigods at this school?"
"Not that I know of."
"Do either of you have Mr. Dupree?"
"No."
"Good. Stay away from him." She was about to start jumping, I could see her shaking. "Go to your dorm!" She giggled and bounced off. I shook my head. How did Will deal with the fan girls? (Will Solace, Son of Apollo, had become a world famous recording artist).
I ended up not calling Annabeth, something told me not to. Meanwhile, over the next three days, Bella was oddly quiet in class (she was usually the resident know-it-all, our own, personal Hermione) and Jessica couldn't get enough of me. "Bella please tell Jessica to leave me alone! She's driving me nuts! I'd give her detention but I think that's what she wants."
"Sorry about her Mr. Jackson. She's just so sure you're the Percy Jackson- who's just a story! A modern fairy tale!"
"What makes you think I'm not?"
"Well, other than the fact that it's a story…come on, Percy Jackson- a school teacher?" Ow. "Not to mention he's supposed to be a serious hottie." Ow. "And you're not even ADHD or dyslexic. Austin's more likely than you."
"Oh, so you think he's hot?" She shrugged. I asked for that. "But Austin isn't ADHD or"
"He's never been tested but come on, I've known him since first grade. He's a total spaz." She cut me off. "And about Jess, don't mind her. She just loves the story because she thinks the hero's relationship with the Daughter of Athena best friend is super cute." Ugh. Stupid Daughter of Aphrodite.
"Me and Annabeth broke-up two years ago! I mean, come on, the whole camp knew."
"She didn't believe it- wait. 'Me'? As in you? As in, you really are the Son of Poseidon?! Ah!" Oh gods. "Seriously? I'm standing in the presence of the greatest hero ever? The guy who saved Olympus twice?!"
"Okay, that's enough talk about my ex-life as an RPG player," I said as the next class came in. "Get to class."
"BYE MR. JACKSON!" she ran out screaming. I shook my head. Although it was pretty awesome that I was legendary. Still, there were more important things going on. Like Mr. Dupree. And Austin. Oh crap. I dashed to my computer and checked Austin's schedule. He had Mr. Dupree sixth period. I had rethought my slaying plans, I couldn't do anything without arousing suspicion, but now that I knew there were at least two, possibly three half-bloods here, I couldn't just stand by idly. I didn't have a choice- I needed to alert Chiron. After sixth period I went to my personal rooms, pulled back some curtains and made a rainbow. "Chiron, Half-Blood Hill,"
"Hello? Percy? How are you?" The old centaur looked just as I remembered him. And suddenly I felt guilty for not visiting.
"I'm alright. I'm pretty sure there's a monster teacher at the school I'm at- Musgrove Academy- where Bella and Jessica go to school. And I think there's an unclaimed demigod in my class."
"In your class? But you're a high school teacher, aren't you?" my trainer looked confused.
"He was never diagnosed with the demigod disease, but it would make sense if he had it. Some demigods are going to slip through the cracks Chiron, we both knew that when I made my request."
"Hm, alright Percy. The semester ends in two months. I'll send Grover."
"Isn't he a little old to"
"To pretend to be a student, not to pretend to be an assistant teacher. There's already a satyr checking out the 6th graders."
"Really?" Nobody tells me anything.
"Yes. And he believes he's also found a demigod. You wouldn't happen to be able to bring them to camp this summer, would you? The vans will be full from all the demigods flying in and you know the way."
"I'd be happy to. If Austin really is a demigod, I'm curious to see whose kid he is." Chiron smiled.
"Wonderful. I'll see you at Camp."
"Wait, what do I do about the monster? I can't just turn my coworker to dust."
"The Mist, Percy."
"Will the Mist find a replacement teacher?"
"Yes."
"Oh. No problem. See ya Chiron."
"Hold on- I've heard some rumors about," he looked embarrassed to be asking, "you and Annabeth."
"Seriously? We broke-up two years ago."
"Really? Yes, I do think I remember that. That's odd. Oh well, so long Percy! I look forward to seeing you again!"
"Goodbye," he cut the connection. I ignored all the constant commentary about my girlfriend-ex, I mean- and focused on getting Mr. Dupree, alone, and slaying him. And the fact that Grover was coming! I hadn't seen him in awhile either.
And there's chapter one! Are you intrigued? Remember, I already finished it and I'll update regularly. It's really short, maybe four more chapters if I cut it up, so if you want to follow it...or review. reviews work. Um, now if you want to do both...or don't. It clutters my inbox and no one reads my Tumblr but I still blog my butt off so you know I'll continue to post on a story with zero , I'm gonna stop babbling now...bye.
~ Selene Akai