I had an ingenious idea! What if Percy woke up in WaterBom, a water park in Jakarta?
Disclaimer -
Percy: You own nothing.
Me: Yes I do!
Percy: Not in this story.
Me: Well, I do own the specific plot, not the general one, and I also own Lilly and the Keres/Tenebrae. Not them but the idea of putting them in, except for Lilly.
Percy: But the rest goes to Rick Riordan.
Me: Yup. And yes, I do know that Lilly is normally spelled Lily.
Chapter1: ?
He woke up in a kind of hut-like thing that had mats. There were lots of kids around, and he noticed three other kids sitting by him in the same hut. One of them was a boy and the other two were girls. The boy had black hair and grey eyes, which made him have a sense of almost remembering something, but not quite. One of the girls had blond hair and blue eyes that seemed to say "don't mess with me!" The third kid had brown hair and blue eyes. She seemed to be the first one to notice that he had woken up.
"Oh, god, you're finally awake! Now let's go on The Hairpin! It's the best ride here! Or so it seems. Come on, Bobby! You aren't gonna be left out of this, either!"
"Who are you?" Percy - he guessed that was what his name was - asked.
"Ha ha. I am so fooled by you, Percy. Don't start joking around now. We only have half an hour left until we have to get on the bus to get back to the hotel! Now let's go before the others start to think about going on The Hairpin again!" That brunette girl was trying to pull him up now.
"I'm not joking!" Percy told the other three. "I seriously have no idea who you are, where we are, how old I am. Heck, I don't even know who I am!"
"Lilly, I don't think he's joking," the boy - Bobby? - told her. "Reyna, you get him up to date."
"Fine. You're Percy, age sixteen, just like the rest of us. We're on a trip with our school to Jakarta. You and Bobby are best friends. Lilly and I are friends. Right now, we're at WaterBom, the major water park here, and trying to have fun. Now, let's go!"
They all headed over to one of the taller rides. It took a while to climb up the stairs, and soon they were about five stories up. The four kids stood in the line in complete silence, listening to all of the sounds around them. Reyna and Bobby kept looking around as if someone was about to sneak up on them and kill them. Once they made it to the top of the stairs Percy finally noticed that most of the people had darker skin and were speaking some foreign language.
"Come on, Mr. Amnesia," Bobby nudged him. "It's time to get on now." They all got on the raft and suddenly shot down the enclosed tube slide. At one point, the slide opened up and there was a hugely steep drop of about twenty feet. When they got out, the foursome quickly agreed on going to some other slides until their thirty minutes were up. Percy was starting to feel as if he actually knew Bobby, Reyna, and Lilly.
That is, until the keres showed up.
This is how it went. A girl with nightmare-black hair and matching eyes came up with two of her identical friends just as Percy, Bobby, Reyna, and Lilly were joining the rest of their grade outside of the gift shop. The leader came up to Reyna. "You four aren't going to stand a chance during the competition."
"What competition?" Percy asked.
The girl snorted. "Oh, you don't remember? It's the competition where we see whether you're worthy of us or not. If you aren't, then, let's just say you'll be bankrupt by the end of the school year. How do you think we keep order in the school?"
"Shut it, Jane," said Reyna, her voice as tough as iron.
"My, my. You really are impressive sometimes, Reyna. You are asking to be on the permanent pay list. And same goes for the rest of you, if you try anything against us."
"Jane, let's just get it over with so that we can go back home and be rewarded. Tellus will punish us if we don't get back soon," one of Jane's minions nagged.
Jane sounded annoyed as she said, "In time, Mary."
"What's Tellus?" Lilly questioned her friends nervously. "They don't mean Tellus, like Mother Earth, do they?"
"Come on, Jane. Let's just do it and be done with it!" Mary nagged.
"I agree with Mary," the third girl spoke up.
"Fine then, Sasha. Bobby, Reyna, Percy, and Lilly; say goodbye to your nice, peaceful, lives," Jade sneered.
The three girls - Jane, Mary, and Sasha - all suddenly turned into demons with wings and beaked faces. Then used-to-be Jade screeched, "It is you! You are the one who Prometheus gave Pandora's box to! Where is it?" This startled Percy. Was she talking to him? He must have been, because she was looking at him.
"I-I don't know what you're talking about!" he shouted.
"LIAR! We will rip you to shreds if you do not tell us where it is!"
This seemed like an empty threat to Percy. He almost felt like laughing at her, but even he didn't know why. "Hestia..." he muttered. There was something about a Hestia and Prometheus and Pandora's box. But when he tried to remember it, it slipped away, like trying to hold water in in his hands (Percy had a feeling that he could do that if he wanted to - but, still).
"Hestia? Ooh, a Greekling!" one of the others cooed. Now Percy was confused. He noticed that everyone besides the three monsters, Reyna, Bobby, Lilly, and him, were screaming and running away. He thought he heard Bobby mutter, "mortals" under his breath.
"You're keres aren't you?" Percy didn't know how he new this, but he just did.
"Yes," the same keres answered, "we are. You finally notice."
Bobby was suddenly on the other side of the three things. He flashed a look at his friends that seemed to read "I'll distract them."
"Hey! You ugly chicken demons! Why don't you take a piece out of me!" he yelled at them, his voice quavering.
One advanced on Bobby and, before he knew what he was doing, Percy had taken out a ballpoint pen that he uncapped. It turned into a sword and he ran over to Bobby's defense. Percy slashed out, slicing the ker with great skill, and she dissolved into golden dust. Another came up and knocked Percy's sword out of his grip. So he instinctively ran to the nearest source of water - a wave pool. The ker tried to shred his skin with her beak, but it just bounced right off.
"Percy!" someone shouted. But he didn't pay attention.
Percy felt a tugging sensation in his gut, then the water rose and hit her with such force that she, too, burst.
As he turned around, there was a piercing scream. "Reyna!" Bobby called, looking up at the sky.
Percy saw a large blotch that was quickly growing smaller and smaller. He guessed that the last ker had taken off with Reyna. Percy looked around and noticed that the whole water park had been abandoned, and that he wasn't even wet from his time in the wave pool. Then a teacher came in. She ran over to Bobby, Lilly, and himself.
"Are you three alright?" she asked. "The busses are waiting outside. Let's go before those Tenebrae get back." She turned around and led them onto the bus.
Once they were on the bus, Lilly asked, "What were those things back there? And how did Ms. J know what they were? Everyone else thought that they were a flock of vultures."
Bobby said "They were Tenebrae." Just as Percy said "Keres."
Then Bobby sighed. "Listen, I'll tell you when we're back at camp. Ms. J is going to find us a
hellhound to help us shadow travel there. Then will be the time for explaining."
Just as the bus pulled out of the parking lot, Percy could have sworn that he had seen a man with a Hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts - the same one he had thought he heard call his name - run, give up, and throw something at the bus.
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