Percy Jackson
And the
Hero's Sword By: GreekGeek7
Chapter 1: I watch the coolest air show ever
It was a warm night. I slipped comfortorablly under my blue sheets and listened to some familiar sounds. Car horns blaring, people swearing at each other… common Manhattan stuff. Somehow these always helped me get to sleep… but not tonight, butterflies were fighting in my stomach. You can't blame me though, in two days I could return to my second home, camp half blood, and I was one day away from NOT blowing up my 4th school in a row.
It was about 3 in the morning when I decided to slip out of bed and get a glass of water, just to give me something to do. But of course, in my world you can't even get a glass of water without being attacked.
Some water was just about to top my glass, when I heard a slither across the kitchen. My hand instinctively crept toward my pocket where Riptide, my trusty, yet deadly, ballpoint pen. Then, I freaked. I wasn't wearing any pants that had pockets!
I looked around to see what the source of the slithering was. It was hard to concentrate at night with my ADHD, but I managed to catch a glimpse of a golden, slender serpentine arm slip around the corner. A Dracaena was in my house!
Instead of going after me like I expected, it headed down the tiny hall where my room was. I sprinted after it… taking careful steps so I didn't wake up my mom. 2 seconds later, I charged into the room, to see the monster put its snakey hand under my pillow where riptide was. It pulled out its hand, and a ballpoint pen lay there. Just as the snake-woman saw me, I dove for the pen. I prayed to the gods to just let me get it… but I didn't. It side stepped (or side slithered I guess…) right past me. I crashed into my bed, and one of the legs crashed. Suddenly, I got an idea. Right as its arm was about to bite me, I grabbed a half of my bed leg that I crashed into, and jabbed the splintery side into the arm. The monster winced in pain, and stabbed down hard where it's head was. It wasn't as effective as a sword, but in 1 second, an explosion of yellow dust over came my room.
Before I knew it, I crashed into my lop-sided bed. Nothing like a good monster fight to get you to bed, right?
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I awoke to the smell of eggs and bacon, I didn't want to be late today (There's a big surprise) so I tossed on whatever didn't smell like a dead chicken, grabbed my blue back-pack and rushed out the room.
I halted in the kitchen, right as my mom dumped a couple blue eggs on to a plate, and then topped it off with 3 juicy slices of blue bacon. My mom smiled and said "Good morning honey." As she placed the plate in front of me. "Thanks mom." I replied, and mowing down the food.
"So how long do you think it'll take to blow this school up?" Asked my mom casually. "Pshhh…. None!" I stated. "So your gonna' blow up the school before you get there? That's a twist." She said jokingly. "No, I'm not gonna' blow it up at all!" "Well good luck with that dear she remarked as she gave me a big hug and a kiss, as I walked out the door. " Bye" I yelled behind. "Have fun blowing up the school she yelled back quickly, and closed the door. I chuckled to my self and walked to school.
At the time I was just finishing 9th grade at Goode High school. My mom's boyfriend, Mr. Paul Blofis, was the English teacher, which as good and bad. It was cool to have someone you saw often teach you, but bad because he would call on me for everything… Even If I wasn't raising my hand.
School was always boring as Hades, and dangerous, of course, me being Mr. popular gave lots of friends right? Not! I was practically the biggest nerd in school, but I was fine with that, 'cause these people weren't my friends… The people at Camp Half Blood were.
I did have one connection with the popular though… That was Rachel Dare… My friend who saved my life at Hoover dam. She was mortal, but she could see through the mist. Like my mom. She had some sort of connection to the popular kids, and always ended up telling me rumors and stuff. She was really the only person I ever hung out with around here.
Today was going its normal boring way, and I was taking extra precaution. I'd already gone through 5 periods, and was still alive! I'll take that any day. But of course right when I got to my last period, and was feeling good, things went wrong.
It started out like a boring Social Studies unit, until everyone got disrupted by a tapping at the windows. We all thought it was just a bird, but then a load moaning, and squawking took over. I wasn't paying much attention, so I thought it was the teacher. I looked up at him like he was nuts, but he was focusing on the window. I decided to look out to. Right outside, stood 2 two ripped half-woman half bird creatures, with fiery eyes. They looked like the cleaning harpies at camp… except buffer, and eviler…Now, by then students were panicking, and making for the door, but I stayed were I was, and waited to see what happened. Bad Idea. A few seconds later, the evil harpies crashed through the window.
I uncapped riptide, and prepared for attack. It didn't take long before the first one lunged, and slashed my sword as it flew by… but it was gonna' take more than a little scratch to stop these guys. While I was distracted, the other harpie shot a fireball right at me. Being connected to water like it's a life force, I don't burn easy, I just felt warm, but I didn't want to get hit again. They were about to start a double fire ball attack, but made for the nearest desk.
I tipped it over to make a barricade, but the wall didn't last as long as I hoped. The fire burnt right through, and lit the desks around it on fire. I was trapped in fire, and one of the harpies came and pinned me down. I felt hopelessly doomed, until a familiar black Pegasus tackled the harpie away. What's up boss? I heard. "Blackjack… what are…? Where…" Chiron organized transportation and who better than yours truly? I laughed, but before we could continue our little reunion, the harpies charged again. One slashed me before I could block it… and that got Blackjack mad. I mean real Mad! NO ONE HURTS THE BOSS!! GOT IT!! He screamed as flew towards the harpies. He head butted one so hard, it crashed through the roof. So much for not blowing up the school I said to myself. You wanna' a piece of me?! Yelled Blackjack as he dodged a fireball, and hoof kicked a harpie right in the face.
Right about now I wanted some popcorn… and maybe a coke. Blackjack was fighting one harpie, while the other came for me, I didn't have time to react, when it tackled me. I was expecting it to scratch me again, but instead it flew away with my sword! It just got through the roof, when magically, my sword, reappeared. It always did when I lost sight of my sword. It just reappeared in my pocket. How handy is that? I jumped into battle with Blackjack, and was soon knocked back down. I couldn't fly!
Blackjack kicked both of the harpies away, and made a huge gust with his flapping wings, so he could hold them back. Slowly the harpies trudged forward against the wind. When they got about halfway there, and I got another idea. "Blackjack… Keep doing that!" You got it boss! I lunged for the teacher's desk, where the fire hadn't reached. I opened the first box of staples, and tossed them into the wind. Just as I planned the staples acted like bullets, straight towards the harpies. Good idea boss! Keep doing it! I've always wanted a machine gun… I followed Blackjacks orders, and tossed two more staple boxes up. The home-made machine gun worked, in a matter of times the staple- bullet gushed through the skin of the harpie, and a mix of blood, feather, fire, and panicky squawking filled the room. A minute later, yellow dust enveloped the room, followed by another blow.
Blackjack and I fell exhausted to the floor. There wasn't time for a nap though… sirens blared in the distance. I sighed. "Blackjack, take me to camp." Pant. Pant. Ya… ya boss… Pant. And together we flew into the sky.