Ammy: I has finished it! Finally ;A; Okay, if you guys read my other story "Life Sucks, Don't you think" I would like to inform you that I hate Anuis and all she lives for and she can die in a hole for all I care, so I'm not gonna continue it until I start liking her again. Anyway, on the bright side, I wrote this due to the insistence of my friend, Amy. So yeah, the characters are real people, who are my best friends in my middle school. Before I forget, they actually look and act this way in real life, so yeah, I'm not gonna reveal their last names, 'cause I'm using real people with this.
Nico: Well, that was a mouthful, this chapter is long enough already.
Ammy: Oh shush Nico! Anyway, I don't own Percy Jackson our my friends, Percy belongs to Rick Riodan and my friends belongs to themselves!
Chapter 1: Step 1: Kill a Monster
Karina I
Karina yawned softly, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. "What's going on now?" Karina asked softly so only the two people next to her can hear. Ironically, the two people next to her were her two bests friends, Kyle and Fawn.
"Oh nothing much, but we're waiting for the new Latin teacher." Fawn replied boredly.
"So basically nothing happened yet." Kyle explained, looking at people talking, but a manga book visible in his hands.
"Oh~." Karina replied sleepy. She stared at her friends, Kyle, who looked similar to herself, tan, short, and his hair, which touched his low neck, plus had an upside down "v" bangs, also had big, thick black glasses under his dark brown eyes as he kept reading his manga book. 'What nationality was he again?' Karina wondered. For some reason every time he told him what part of Asia he was, she would always forget the next few minutes, so Kyle gave up on telling her.
Then she looked at Fawn, who was intently staring at the door waiting for it to be slammed open to reveal the new Latin teacher. Fawn had her bangs braided today, Fawn also had the same length of hair as Kyle, but a little bit longer. Unlike Kyle and Karina, she had no glasses, had a paler complexion, as well as a darker brown eyes than Kyle, though her eyebrows were a darker shade of black, one time Karina asked her about it and she simply said "It's a genetics thing." and ended the conversation at that.
Karina, herself, didn't really care about her looks, always steering away dresses and skirts, but only wearing it when her mother asked, just for her mother. She scowled at the thought, but glad she was wearing her favorite ripped jeans, not wanting the boys in her class look at her legs, oh so so glad she was wearing jeans Karina thought happily. Having short hair on the bottom of her neck and long bangs that curled at her cheeks, but strangely her dark black had a red hue in her hair, having caramel eyes plus blue glasses!
'Such a color clash' Karina mused silently, combing her hair with her hands, she began thinking of her tan complexion and how messy her hair was, at that she scowled.
'You only have messy hair because you don't comb it~' a voice teased her. 'Shut it' she replied back, 'Damn ADHD...' she scolded herself, yeah she had ADHD, so did Fawn and Kyle, but nobody really knew about that, except for those two of course. There's also the thing about her parents that nobody knows abo- 'SHUT UP' Karina yelled inside her head.
'My heads so messed up that I could beat anyone's as-' BOOM there goes Karina, no like, she literally went up about 5 ft. in the air and she exclaimed "なんてこった!"* Everyone looked at her weirdly, even the new substitute teacher who was in mid-way writing his name.
"Well... Pardon that intrusion-" to that Karina blushed like no tommorow- "My name is Mr. Brunner,** and I will be your substitute teacher until they find another teacher that has- Ah, how should I put this? Not crazy?" This caused people to chuckle, not only from this statement, but because this guy was in a wheel chair.
"And just because I'm in a wheel chair does not mean you can ridicule me" Mr. Brunner hummed as students who laughed blushed with embarrassment.
"Anyway, we have a few new transfer students among us, please, do come in dears." Mr. Brunner continued.
BAM! Goes the door as a group of teens came in the room. 'Wow, the door is getting more abused than ever today huh?' Karina mused silently, chuckling all the way. There were three boys and two girls.
"Introduce yourselves please." Mr. Brunner asked politely The tallest out of the group stood forward. 'What is this, military school?' Karina thought, as she began to observe, yes, she was still a bit tired, but she was interested in the transfer students.
"Uh, Hi, my name is Percy Jackson and I'm 16 and uh..." The guy now dubbed 'Percy' trailed off. This made most of the girls swoon, causing the shorter male standing next to Percy glare at every girl in the classroom who swooned.
'Awh, how cute, the uke is jealous of his seme *heart*... WAIT!' Karina mentally slapped herself, 'WHY THE HELL AM I THINKING THAT, THEY'RE REAL GUYS, NOT THOSE CHARACTERS FROM THE YAOI MANGAS YOU READ!' Karina mentally scolded herself multiple times, not noticing her friends giving her weird looks.
'Ugh, she's thinking of yaoi isn't she...' Kyle shook his head, knowing fully well that his friend was thinking about Shounen Ai/Yaoi between the tall guy and short dude. Fawn thought instead though 'She's totally thinking about yaoi...' Fawn sighed, not wanting to think what was going on with her friend's mind. Both friends looked at each other and nodded in understanding, while in a middle of sweat dropping.
"And you little one?" Mr. Brunner asked to the shorter male.
"... My name's Nico Di Angelo." Nico replied slowly, scowling, obviously not liking to be called 'little one' but accepted it anyway, for whatever reason Karina didn't care and her gaze went on to the next person.
"Hi! My name is Grover Underwood, pleased to meet ya' guys!" the second tallest guy exclaimed, but for some reason, Karina felt like he wasn't as he seems to be. But her eyes traveled to the girl to his left. But still felt uneasy as the adult-like teen began to daydream.
Don't ask her why she knows who's daydreaming or not, she never knew why, she just... knew... Her mother always told her she inherited her trait from her father, and always smiled the brightest when her mother compared her to her father. Karina smiled at the memory, but quickly snapped out of it as the girl introduced herself.
"My name is Annabeth Chase, nice to meet you guys." Annabeth bowed a little bit, even one of the guys wolf whistled Annabeth's head snapped up so quick that Karina thought it would break, but surprisingly, it didn't. Annabeth quietly growled and glared, trying to find the person who did that, unfortunately, she didn't...
The last girl, who wan't that visible to Karina until now, she stepped forward and said "Hey guys!" to that Karina, Kyle, and Fawn's heads snapped up, paying more attention than ever, Karina knew that peppy voice, she was 100% sure of it.
"Hi! My name is Amy! Nice to meet you all!" Amy exclaimed cheerfully. Yeah... Karina absolutely knew that person, the one that moved away to Long Island, Amy, who was the happy go lucky person in their group... But... Why was she with those guys and where was she for the past two years? Questions bobbed in her head, why? Why was she here? Karina could swear that she had swirly eyes.
"Since today is the 1st week and my 1st day here, you students get to chat away and get to know each other " Mr. Brunner exclaimed as he clapped his hands. The first thing that Karina did, was hop out of her seat and skip over to Amy and gave her the most bear crushing hug that she has ever given in her life. 'Hey. I'm a hugger' she silently thought.
"K-Karina, y-your crushing me..." Amy squeaked out. "A-ah, s-sorry~..." Karina said sheepishly, but a little blush was evident on her cheeks that she was a bit embarrassed.
"So, where have you been for the past two years?" Kyle bluntly asked. Fawn then elbowed him in the ribs. "Ow! What?! I'm just being honest!" Kyle squeaked, obviously hurt, but Percy watched with amusement.
"So~ Fawn, Kyle, Kari- WAKE UP!" Amy exclaimed tiredly, forgetting her friend does that from time to time.
"WAH! I'M UP NO NEED TO SPRAY WATER ON ME MOM!" Karina yelped, jumping up 2 ft. This made the group laugh, including the transfer students.
"A-ahahahah! Wha- what's up with that?" Nico said through chuckles. "We- we don't know either, it's always like that!" Fawn said, still laughing and clutching her stomach.
"S- Shut up!" Karina whined, very embarrassed. Her ears were a little bit red, scratch that, a lot red.
"W-well it's nice to meet you guys that Amy always brags about!" Annabeth said, also laughing, but a bit quieter.
"T-thanks!" Karina, Kyle, and Fawn said in unison, happy that their good friend talks about them still.
"Ah~ that was a good laugh~" Percy sighed happily. The bell rang and everyone said 'See you later!' and went off to their classes.
As Karina was walking down the hall, trying not go to sleep, a cold shiver went up her spine. She turned fast to look for the presence that caused that, but to her unsatisfaction, she didn't. 'I have to be more careful about that...' Karina thought as she went through loops and turns to be sure not to be followed.
"- And it was like that all day!" Karina told Fawn, who she was stalking er, I mean following! Yeah, let's go with that.*** Who was following Fawn to their last period, gym.
"Maybe your just imagining things, you know, like last month where you thought you saw something in shape like a giant and it wasn't there because you didn't sleep well? It's probably like that." Fawn answered.
"But I slept at 6 o' clock pm, that means I had 13 hours of sleep!" Karina exclaimed as they walked into the girl's locker room.
"...You usually sleep more than that right?" Fawn questioned as they exited the locker room.
"... Maybe... I just hope that this feeling goes away." Karina said worriedly as they sat on the floor, waiting for their teacher.
"What feeling?" a voiced asked as both Fawn and Karina jumped, as Karina jumped back a few feet.
"Ah! I'm sorry, did I scare you?" Annabeth said.
"YES!/Yes.." Karina and Fawn said at the same time. Which made Annabeth say 'Sorry' once again.
"But seriously, what feeling are you feeling?" Annabeth questioned lightly. Eyes turning serious as she spoke that sentence.
Karina and Fawn looked at each other, making faces like: 'You tell her! Your feeling it!' and; 'YOU TELL HER! She's scaring me and I'm tired.', 'Lame excuse, but seriously tell her.', 'No.' was the reply, and then Fawn had to play dirty, 'I'll take away your chocolate privileges ', 'NOOOOO! NOT MY BABIES! Fine! *sniff* I'll tell her! Just don't take away my chocolates.'. But since Annabeth just met them, she didn't and couldn't read their faces, so onto the story!
"Um... Well" Karina began, "I have this feeling someone's watching me, like you know, glaring and sending chills down my spine, and, it's like their watching 'till I let my guard down or somethin'" Karina then told Annabeth about the past month having felt that way, and seeing a silhouette of a giant a few days before.
"No... They couldn't have caught to you so fast..." Annabeth muttered "What?" Karina said. "Nothing, just talking to myself." Annabeth reassured, or at least tried to, Karina knew she held something back, but didn't press any further.
Karina then slowly closed her eyes, but she snapped awake and held her arm out to protect herself, sweating and panting heavily.
"Ah? What's wrong Karina?" Amy asked worriedly as she was in a pose that she had her hand out and crouched.
"N-nothing, just thought I saw something." Karina stuttered, still panting, but not as heavily as before. It was a white lie, she did sensed something, and that something was not human, Karina was sure of it. 'Damn it, I can't sleep without that thing trying to get me!' Karina inwardly cursed as she realized she couldn't sleep.
"Hey, you sure your okay, like, not going to the nurse or anything?" Fawn asked, worried about her friend who usually slept at this time, while waiting.
" 'm fine" Karina said a bit quietly but loud enough so Fawn could hear her. Fawn nodded, but decided to keep an eye on her friend.
Later, all the boys came out except for Grover because of his weird muscle disorder, 'probably faking it, 'cause Karina swore that he bolted for the lunch line when he heard there were enchiladas.****
A whistle blew, catching everyone's attention. Their usual two teachers were replaced by one women and one guy.
"Alright kiddies! Your gym teachers had something to do and had to take a break, we're your substitutes today!" the shorter women exclaimed.
'Should that woman look like that?' Karina thought as she looked at the woman. The shorter one, Mrs... Mrs... Mrs. what? Something- something was giving her trouble on reading the teacher's name tag. Karina didn't like the sound of that and tugged on Percy's shirt, and strangely, it caught his attention.
"Need somethin'?" Percy asked. Karina nodded quickly and beckoned him to go closer so the teachers wouldn't hear her. But then...
"MRS. -! KARINA'S WHISPERING TO PERCY!" a squeaky voice yelled, Karina whirled around, not to glare at the girl, but look at her teacher dead in the face, she was more worried about why she didn't hear a name after the 'Mrs.' part.
And strangely, the shorter teacher was right behind her, looking and staring, sending shivers to her spine. Wait- shivers? Oh crap, Karina thought as she realized what was going on. The teacher held her wrist and tugged, like she wanted to rip it off, the a thought popped into her head, she did want to rip her wrist off!
"Now honey" the shorter teacher hissed, wait, 'OH CRAP' Karina screamed in her mind, but no words were coming out of her mouth, she couldn't fight back either. "What do adults say about talking when an adult is talking hm?" the short teacher mused, sure, she was like, 5 inches shorter than Karina, but she had a death grip, like she killed with these hands only before, 'and she probably did' Karina thought miserably. Then a thought popped into her head, a stupid idea, but the best she got.
"Um, Mrs.?" Karina faked innocent "What" the short women hissed, 'Probably thinking she'll let me have my last words before she eats me' Karina groaned 'Bad thoughts Karina, bad thoughts..' and continued with her plan, "What happens when a vein stops circulating when someone or something has a death grip on part of the body and it becomes paler?" Karina questioned 'Because it's happening to meeeeee~!' she mentally cried crocodile tears.
The so-called teacher immediately released her, "Ah, than that would be bad, you wouldn't taste that good..." the teacher thought, "Taste, Mrs.?" Karina said, while backing up, trying to have a place to run, and rubbing her right wrist, which was gaining color back.
Karina looked at Fawn, Kyle, and then Amy and looked at them and made a face that said 'THIS WOMEN IS NOT HUMAN, RUN, NOW!' and luckily since they been friends for a long time now, they got the message, but Amy grabbed Percy, Nico, and Annabeth before sneaking out through the emergency stairs.
'I feel I'm forgetting something... OH CRAP THE OTHER ONE!' Karina ran through the short teacher and hurried to the stairs, not even bothering to think on why nobody screamed on what happened next.
As Karina turned the corner and saw the most disgusting thing she has ever seen, a huge wolf(?) was hovering over over her friends, but that wasn't the inhumane part, the inhumane part was when she realized it wasn't just a wolf, it was a huge wolf that was standing on it's front two legs, like it been forced to walk that way, Karina also noticed that he had so many scar wounds that Karina felt sorry for the poor little guy, pup, wolf-thing. WHATEVER! The main part was he was gonna gobble down her friends!
So Karina did the most stupidest thing a person could do at the minute, no, not call 911, but she did hop on the wolf and tugged at his neck, which caused him to howl so loud, Karina was tempted to let go and cover her ears, but didn't very well knowing that if she did, they were doomed, she kept hold, just in time for them to escape.
But they didn't, in fact Percy took out a bronze sword from a pen, how'd he do that anyway?! Anyway, we're getting out of topic, so Annabeth took out a dagger, Nico took out a black sword, Amy had a bow and arrow, as well as wearing some kind of winged sandals and Grover, who poofed out of nowhere and that wasn't the strange part, he didn't have any pants.
Then, the most stupidest thing came out of her mouth, she said "NO! Don't you dare hurt him!" with such emotion that they lowered their weapons.
"Why not?!" Nico exclaimed, he really looked down right murderous right now. 'And yet he's so cute!' Karina mentally slapped herself, 'NO NEED TO THINK OF NICO AS ONE OF YOUR SLASH CHARACTERS KARINA' she scolded herself.
"'Cause it's not this guy's fault!" Karina exclaimed, "Can't you see this guy is in pain, we got that lady to blame for that!" she continued to defend the wolf, and as she was doing so, the wolf stopped fighting as he listened to this half-blood who was defending him, even though he was trying to hurt her friends, maybe, just maybe, he might have a right master for once. Then he heard hissing, and started to growl.
"Huh?" Fawn and Kyle said at the same time, as they began to blink away their eyes and began to see something blurry and green. "WATCH OUT!" Fawn exclaimed at the same time appeared and gave Karina a pillow.
"WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?!" Karina exclaimed as she whirled around and as she moved to look behind her, the Sheep Pillow Pet mystically turned into a really awesome sword, and it slashed through the snake lady, aka the short teacher.
"... That.. was... so-" Karina started "Horrible?" Nico questioned, "Terrifying?" Grover added, "Incredibly stupid?" Annabeth said seriously, "Cool?" Percy asked, which gave him weird stares, "Hey, it was pretty cool." Percy huffed.
"It was so awesome!-" Karina finished as she soon realized she fell asleep on the wolf's back.
Dreams, ah, where to start with dreams? Well, it was weird for Karina, most of the time she didn't have any dreams, but on those small times she did have dreams, they were either really weird and/or really screwed up.
Like this one for example; she dream't of a sheep in the middle of the large field, weird huh? But something happened that made it more weirder was that the sheep had wings on his head. It gets extremely weirder than it already is when the sheep put up his head lazily and looked at her and said: "Be careful, my child, beware of the land and skies, Zeus is still upset about my tricks, so travel only on water, I'm serious, travel on water. Poseidon is still on my good side and I trust him to be careful when it comes to you. SO ONLY TRAVEL ON WATER!" the sheep boomed.
"I GET IT DUDE! Travel on water, got it." Karina screamed back at the sheep, then sighed as she figured the sheep was only looking out for her. She sat on the grass, and patted her lap. "C'mere" she sighed as the sheep trotted and sat on her lap. She then started petting the sheep, but still staring at the wings on it's head.
"Apology accepted~" the sheep sang sleepily. "But I'm sorry I wasn't there for you child, even when you needed me the most, Zeus' blasted rules keep me from seeing you or any other of my children at anytime, and since Gaea woke, Zeus has been restricting the time on gods and goddesses daily visits." the sheep sighed.
"As much as I want to talk more with you, you need to wake my child, wake and help us get rid of these blasted giants, for you are tied with one of them."
That part, Karina didn't understand so well as she faded from the dream, but the last things she heard from the sheep was: "Stupid reality, why couldn't everyone just stay asleep, that would make the world so much easier." the sheep huffed as she drifted back to reality.
"...a...e" a voice sounded echoed through Karina's ears. "Wa...p" the voice was more clearer, "WAK... P..." 'nope, try again man' Karina thought amused as she still couldn't hear the voice clearly... Then cold water splashed on her.
"GAH! I'M UP, I'M UP, NO MORE WATER!" Karina exclaimed but her forehead hit somebody else's.
"Owwwwwwww..." Karina groaned, now fully awake, she started seeing double, but now it was downright blurry, 'Ah, I don't have my glasses' she realized.
"Um, do you have my glasses?" Karina asked to the golden blob. "Ah! S-sorry!" the blob replied, she frowned, this guy's too uptight, too much discipline in the brain... But she was glad her glasses were back, she couldn't troll people without it.
Now that she could see, she could now troll people into another level! But she looked at where the golden blob use to be, instead, there was a built, hot, blonde guy.
"Um, sorry 'bout taking your glasses, b-but it was broken a-and I got it fixed so-" the guy started but Karina interrupted "Thanks for that." she smiled, it was too hilarious on how this guy radiated 'I'M INNOCENT' auras, she could of swore she saw flowers behind him.
"A-ah, your welcome... Um... My name is Jason, welcome to Camp Half-Blood...?" the guy named Jason said awkwardly. "Ha ha, what's with the question mark?" Karina is gonna enjoy teasing this one.
"Ah, I'm sort of new here too-" Jason was interrupted by a slam "New my butt! C'mon Sparky, you've gotta stop saying that!" came a new voice, Karina chuckled, she was gonna like this guy, and Sparky? That was just plain hilarious!
'Sparky' blushed like no tommorow and said "Don't call me 'Sparky', Leo!" huffing all the while.
'Leo' ignored him and turned to Karina and asked "Well hello! You must be the new recruit Aquaman was talking about! Well, welcome to Camp Half-Blood! Just so you know, I am the master of this place so you wil-" Another bang is sounded as the door was kicked open.
"Valdezzzzzzzz." the girl hissed, "How many times have I told you don't lie to the new kids!" the brunette roared.
"Oh, 'bout a gazillion times! But Beauty Queen, no matter how many times you charmspeak me, I can never stop lying, so ya' just wasting your energy on this~" Leo sang, Karina could tell he wasn't much of a singer, covering her ears, she wonders what exactly is Camp Half-Blood?
"Camp Half-Blood is where you train and have a safe home away from monsters." a warm voice said, making Karina look to the side and saw Mr. Brunner... who had horse legs, like seriously, the bottom half of him is a white stallion, the top half is human, is she hallucinating?
"No, my child, you are not insane, nor dreaming, in fact, your sword man ship against the empusa***** was very valiant for a beginner." Mr. Brunner smiled approvingly. Karina didn't know why, but she felt warm when he said that.
"Um, thank you, but where is-" Karina began but was rudely interrupted by yet another voice; "Well Chiron, seems to me that you have found yet another brat." the voice yawned loudly. Karina didn't liked to be called a brat, but this man is tired, and seemed like he had pulled an all nighter, so she wasn't that mad being called an er-... kid, everyone needed their sleep, even this guy.
"Well, to explain why your here, you are what we call 'demigods'. Your mother or father is one of the minor or Olympic gods/goddesses and because of that monsters will chase you everywhere you go if you have a strong enough scent. This is where Camp Half-Blood comes in, this camp gives you a 'sanctuary' to learn and train as a demigod so you could defend yourself during the times where you need it. The common traits of a demigod is ADHD and Dyslexia, so young lady, you've been a good listener so far, tell me, do you have one or both of those traits?" the guy in the Hawaiian shirt asked.
"I- I have ADHD sir..." Karina replied to the man, when she was little, her mother taught her to show respect to adults that need respect, and this guy's presence sure seem important, so she added 'sir'.
"Ah, I like this one, shame she isn't mine, well, young lady, My name is Dionysus, but call me Mr. D, what's yours?" Mr. D asked.
"My name is Karina, sir" Karina replied, wasn't Dionysus one of the twelve Olympic gods?
"Ah, Caitlin is it? Well, nice to meet you, any other questions before I go along?" Mr. D asked her politely, totally ignoring the fact that her name is Karina and not Caitlin but since her middle name is in fact Caitlin, she also decided to ignore it and replied "Yes, just one, Mr. D, where are my friends?" Karina asked as politely as she could.
"Oh, no 'Who's my mother/father' or 'This isn't happening to me' or maybe 'Your not a god!/ I don't believe in this!' oh! How about 'That's not my name!'?" Mr. D complained. "No, Mr. D, I'm just wondering where Fawn and Kyle are..." Karina stated.
"Oh... Well, you are even higher in my list then I thought you'd be, well, your friends have been claimed and in their respected cabins, and Amy is back to her regular duty as the mini 'Hermes' and delivering goods back and forth here and Mount Olympus. So, yes, they are indeed fine, as well as the wolf that carried you in. In fact, he's right outside watching the pet hell hound." Mr. D answered.
"Thank you Mr. D" Karina bowed lightly, and then she look to 'Mr. Brunner' and asked him as Mr. D went out of the room; "So, your not really 'Mr. Brunner', huh?" This made him chuckle "Why yes, Mr. Brunner is just an alias, my real name is Chiron, my dear" he smiled warmly at her, "Now that we're officially acquainted, let's have Jason, Leo, and Piper give you a tour to Camp Half-Blood, hm?" he clapped his hands and begin to trot outside the room.
Karina looked over to the three and then said "Well? Let's go already!" as she began to drag the trio to outside the same room.
As she walked out the big house, the weird sheep's words kept repeating in her head: 'Be careful, my child, beware of the land and skies' 'of course when he meant skies, he meant Zeus, but why land? And what did he mean as 'my child'?' Karina pondered at this as she opened the big house's doors to reveal Camp Half-Blood.
*It roughly translates to "HOLY CRAP!" sorry, my Japanese isn't good ^^' and no, I'm not Japanese, I learned it by watching anime, I'm actually Vietnamese
**I wonder who this is XD
***Haha, I actually do that, you know, follow Fawn when we go to Gym XD
****WOW. Way to go and almost blow your cover again Grover!
*****Was it spelled like that?
So, how was this first chapter? Tell me in the reviews! I'm still deciding whether or not to add couples in this, but then, must people don't like my pairings. OTL TT^TT
Oh! Before I forget, I want to thank my beta-reader and friend DigitalMaster1100 for reading this and putting in his opinions on this story~ BTW he's in this too, cookies for those that get it without asking him!