Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson that belongs to Rick Riordan at all.On with the story.
Summary: Andromeda Jackson has alway felt that the things in the world were a little off, especially when her twin brother suddenly disappeared, at the age of 4 no less. She just never gave the things she felt were weird or out of place the time of day. Until on one field trip to a museum where, like every other field trip she had, something went horribly wrong.
A/N: So, welcome to my fanfic series "Children of the Sea." This is "book one" in a sense. I will have a story out, at some point, that will be like a prologue to this one. It will explain where Andromeda's twin brother disappeared to. It will be a Percy Jackson and Fate/ Stay Night Xover fanfiction. So look forward to that people. Now on with the story !
A 12 year old girl and her friend were sitting on a school bus full of, very annoying, children of the same age.
The girl was Andromeda Jackson, she has black hair and beautiful sea green eyes. She has a very feminine face that, just by looking at her you could tell that (in the future) she would be a very beautiful woman.
Suddenly something hit her friend, a fairly tall boy, who looked like he was held back multiple times, by the name of Grover Underwood, on the head.
Andromeda looked at what hit Grover, whe saw it was a, smallish, chunk of a peanut butter and ketchup sandwitch.
Seeing another one hit Grover, Andromeda's protective instinct flared as she muttered "I'm gonna kill her." Grover chuckled nervously saying "It's ok ... I like peanut butter."
He dodged another chunk of the sandwitch, which was thrown by a redhaired, freckled girl ugly enough to make roadkill be crowned as Ms. America.
"That's it." Andromeda started to get up, but Grover pulled her back down.
"You're already on probation." Grover says "You may be the top student at Yancy, but your temper has got you to too much trouble, if you do anything you'll be expelled."
That was true, dispite her grades in school her temper was legendary, and it got her in trouble every time she acted on it ... not that she would admit that at all.
Andromeda scoffs "Please it's not that bad."
Grover looks at her with a deadpanned expression "When Nancy made fun of Mr. Brunner because he was in a wheel chair. You ran right up to her and punched her so hard you rearranged her face."
"Psh ... I did that bitch a favor. Remember what her face looked like before I "rearranged her face" as you put it."
At this Grover shivered in disgust and horror. Back then her face made Medusa look like ... well ... Aphrodite.
Grover shivered again, thinking "I still can't believe that there was someone more ugly than Medusa." and with that they waited for the bus to stop.
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The students, Mr. Brunner, a balding man in a motorized wheelchair, as well as the other shaperone teacher Mrs. Dodds.
Mrs Dodds was an elderly woman with bony fingers. She was wearing a black leather biker jacket and black jeans.
She was, in a word, evil. Whenever someone had detention she would make you go to each classroom and make them clean out both the text books and the chalkboards until past 12:00 a.m.
Andromeda made it a point to, not to get in trouble when she's around. Mrs.Dodds seemed to hate Andromeda, but she absolutely loved Nancy, to the extent that when Nancy does something bad (like always) Mrs. Dodds never seemed to notice.
However, no matter how evil she was, when it came to teaching pre-algebra she was a genius. When it came to class Mrs. Dodds didn't descriminate against those she hates. She taught them all, even Andromeda, fairly.
But back to the story.
Mr. Brunner taught latin (which Andromeda was surprisingly fluent in, as well as ancient greek), and currently he was leading the museum tour, explaining facts, mythology and a bunch of other stuff.
Andromeda and Grover were listening intently while taking notes on anything Mr. Brunner. Behind them were Nancy and her small group of "friends", talking and laughing at some of the statues that they passed.
Mr. Brunner stopped them at an ancient greek grave marker, a stele as Mr. Brunner called it, for a girl about their age.
Andromeda had enough when Nancy made a joke about the naked man on the stele.
"Nancy, shut the fuck up before I rearrange your face again! Some of us are trying to learn."
That shut Nancy up quickly.
"Ms. Jackson did you have something to add?" Mr. Brunner asks, grateful that someone what listening to him teach. "No sir, I was just telling Nancy to shut up so I can continue to take notes in case we have any tests in the future." Andromeda responds politely, putting emphasis on the word tests.
This made a lot of students pale when they realized there might be a test later on.
"I see, well then how about you tell me about the tapestry behind me." Mr. Brunner tells her.
Andromeda looks behind him, and smirks a smirk that made a lot of boys blush.
"That's Kronos eating his children." Andromeda says.
Mr. Brunner nods his head "Indeed it is now, can you tell me why he did this?"
"Kronos was the King Titan, and his mother, Gaia, fortold that his children would rise against up against and cast him from the throne. Hearing this Kronos fell under the "curse of kings", paranoia. When his children, the gods, were born he ate them, one by one.
However, Kronos's wife, Rhea, was tired of Kronos eating his children so when Zeus was born, and Kronos came to eat him, Rhea hid baby Zeus and gave Kronos a rock instead. Years later, when baby Zeus grew up, he returned to fight Kronos. But before the fight he tricked Kronos into ingesting a mixture of mustard and wine, forcing Kronos to expel the gods, who being immortal grew up inside Kronos, from his gut, by vomiting."
"ew!" the majority of the female students intertupted
Rolling her eyes, Andromeda continued "The gods then banded together to de-throne Kronos" she finished.
"...Huh, that must've been one hell of a family reunion. I can just imagine the gods saying to Zeus "Hello little brother, we've been trapped inside the old man for all these years, and are covered in stomoch acid and vomit, let's hug!" Andromeda added to lighten up the mood.
This caused everyone (minus Mrs. Dodds, but she was somewhat amused) to laugh, even Mr. Brunner let out a chuckle
"Well done Ms. Jackson. I couldn't have said better myself. Yes what Ms. Jackson said is true. The gods did over-throw Kronos, and using his own scythe cut Kronos into pieces, and scattered them in Tartaros, the deepest part of the underworld. Now on that happy note. Shall we go outside and eat our lunch."
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A while later, Andromeda and Grover were sitting on a bench infront of the water fountain, away from the other students so as not to be associated with the other assholes of Yancy.
"I'm bored" Grover whined.
"Hi Bored I'm Andromeda, nice to meet you." Andromeda quipped, causing Grover to look at her with a deadpanned expression.
"That's not what I meant and you know it." Grover said, in a dry tone. Andromeda just chuckled.
This caused them not to notice Nancy sneaking up behind Grover, not until she dumped her entire lunch on Grover's head.
"Oops." Nancy stated with a smirk.
Andromeda, having stopped chuckling after Nancy dumped her lunch, saw red, she stood infront of Nancy (who moved to the front of the two) and Andromeda could have sworn she heard the sound crashing waves, when she punched Nancy.
Unknown to her just as Andromeda punched her a small tendril of water grabbed the back of Nancy's shirt, and, when the fist impacted, yanked her into the fountain.
Andromeda stood above Nancy with a cold stare.
"Andromeda punched me!" Nancy yelled out.
Mrs. Dodds suddenly materiallized beside Nancy with a triumphant smirk, like she was waiting for this all year.
After promising to get Nancy a new shirt, Mrs. Dodds turned to Andromeda, poked out her boney finger and spoke in a tone similar to an old witch from Halloween cartoon. "Now, honey-"
Andromeda cut her off by flipping her the bird saying "Piss off, ya old witch."
Grover was stunned, he couldn't believe Andromeda had just told the, literally, scariest teacher at Yancy to "Piss off" and to add insult to injury called her an "old witch".
If it were any other teacher he would have laughed. However Mrs. Dodds was the one teacher that Grover, truly, feared.
Mrs. Dodds, fuming from the insult, told Andromeda to follow her, which she did.
Grover would have stood up to help Andromeda, but he was still stunned. When he finally snapped out of his trance he looked to see Andromeda disappear in to the museum.
He looked to Mr. Brunner, and walked over to speak to him about the situation.
With AndromedaAndromeda followed Mrs. Dodds through the museum. She was somewhat proud (for what she said to Mrs. Dodds) and somewhat nervous (because of the fact that after the insult Mrs. Dodds got pissed off (just like she told her to, lol)).
Finally they stopped in the museum's Greco-Roman section. Mrs. Dodds was glaring at an image of the gods, like she wanted to pulverize them (which in the mood she was in was entirely possible).
After a few seconds Mrs. Dodds turned to face Andromeda.
"You've been givin' us trouble, Honey." Mrs Dodds spoke.
At this, Andromeda rose an eyebrow, confused, Andromeda was a model student, sure she had a temper, but, aside from punching Nancy, she couldn't think of anything that would give Mrs.Dodds that impession of her.
"Ma'am?" Andromeda voiced confused.
"Confess, and your punishment will not be as harsh." Mrs. Dodds spoke in a harsh tone.
Now this had Andromeda extremely confused.
"I don't-" Andromeda tried to voice her confusion, but she was interrupted by Mrs. Dodds.
"Your time is up!" With that Mrs. Dodds mutated into a hideous monster, by growing wings and that was it (she couldn't get any more monsterous than she was in her human form).
Mrs. Dodds flew toward her with a screech, intent on ripping Andromeda to shreds.
Andromeda rolled under her and stood back on her feet.
Suddenly a shout of "What ho, Andromeda" drew her attention to the door of the exhibit to see Mr. Brunner throwing a pen towards her.
The pen, in mid-air, shifted to form a xiphos, an ancient greek sword. Andromeda caught the sword just as Mrs. Dodds charged at her once more.
Andromeda swung the sword with an untamed grace, that somehow came naturally to her, into Mrs. Dodds' left shoulder and the sword came out her right hip (when Andromeda finished the swing).
And with that, Mrs.Dodds evaporated into golden dust, but there was an ominous chill in the air, like Andromeda was being watched by the demonic, charcole colored eyes that belonged to Mrs. Dodds.
Andromeda looked around to see that Mr. Brunner had disappeared.
She looked to her right hand to that the sword was gone, and in it's place was an ordinary pen.
Andromeda narrowed her eyes in suspision, and as she did so the pen's image flickered to the image of a sword once more.
She looked at the sword for a few seconds before she noticed a pen cap on the ground.
She picked it up and looked at it curiously before the cap suddenly flew out of her hands and onto the tip of the sword, which upon doing so turned back into a pen.
Andromeda looked at the pen for a few seconds more before she took off the cap of the pen and before her eyes it turned into a sword, before she put the cap back on and putting the pen in her pocket, deciding to keep the pen incase another monster situation happens again.
She went to the museum gift shop and found a pen that looked exactly the same as the one in her pocket, and a new shirt for Nancy.
And she went back outside to the fountain where Nancy was picking on Grover.
Nancy, when she noticed Andromeda, said "I hope Ms. Kerr kicked your ass"
Andromeda rose an eyebrow and thought "Who? ... something's going on here. Better play along."
"Bitch please, all she wanted me to do was buy you a new shirt." Andromeda said as she threw Nancy the shirt.
Nancy looked at the shirt, and with a shrug walked into the museum, to use the bathroom, to change.
Scene BreakAt the end of the field trip the students were getting on the bus to head back to Yancy.
Andromeda was acting how she normally was, so as not to draw suspision to herself, when Mr. Brunner wheeled up to her.
"Ms. Jackson, I believe I lent you my pen during the tour," Mr. Brunner spoke.
"Oh right, hold on I'll get it." Andromeda reached into her left pocket, where the replacement pen was (the real pen was in her right pocket). "Here ya go Mr. Brunner" she said as she handed the pen to him.
Mr. Brunner looked at the pen for a moment before taking the pen from Andromeda.
"Ah, thank you Ms. Jackson" Mr Brunner thanked before he wheeled off to get into the bus.
As Mr. Brunner left, Andromeda stared at him in suspision, remembering how he threw her the sword/pen. She smirked before she followed him onto the bus and sat next to Grover.
A few minutes later, the bus left the museum, and started to drive back to Yancy.
A/N: So that's the first chapter of My "Children Of The Sea" series. Now I know some people will be wondering why I made Andromeda smart. And the answer is that, girls are naturally smarter than boy, and before any of boys in there call me a feminist I must state that I'm a boy who is not afraid to admit that girls are smarter than him (and I'm pretty smart). Besides if you think about it, Percy was a boy and he was pretty dumb towards the beginning, but he had talent when it came to battle. I'm going by some Ancient Greek facts here too, Ares is a male and was physically stronger (like a lot of modern males) and Athena is a female and she was mentally strong (basically wicked smart), and both of them are Gods with the same authority, war, but they represent the two sides of war. Basically if Percy is smart/talented when it comes to straight up fighting in general, then Andromeda will be smart/talented in general, this includes in battle (but not to the same extent as Percy)So anyway, please review I could use some feedback to learn how to better the story.Later.