Lost Son of Hades
Percy
It was just another day at Goode High School, Dr. Boring was off on another rant about how amazing Shakespeare was, Percy could hear the low hum of the fluorescent lights; and the monsters outside the window.
Wait. Monsters?
He looked outside again, and it wasn't just his imagination. Right there at Percy's high school was a sphinx. He quickly excused himself from the lecture with the usual, "I'm not feeling so good need to bathroom!" and ran outside. He could hear the sphinx talking to some of the elementary schoolers while walking farther and farther away from the playground.
"…oh you liked that riddle Sarah? How about this one, as I was going to…"
"Yay! Yay! Talking kitty!" the little girl, who must've been named Sarah, interrupted.
"Now, now little one you must not interrupt me when im…ah!" The sphinx was interrupted, yet again and ever so stylishly by Percy putting himself and Riptide between the monster and the kids.
"Hey Sarah, you guys got very far from the playground you should hurry back before the teachers find out."
"R-Really? Oh! Ok…"
"don't worry I won't tell," and with that the kids were running back to the monkey bars and Percy had a chance to properly size up the sphinx. As he focused solely on the task at hand, he realized he might be in trouble. This sphinx was bigger than the one he had faced in the Labyrinth, just skinnier like it was…
"You were going to eat them! They're just kids!"
"oh don't act so surprised its hard to find meals these days Perseus Jackson. However it seems a rather deluxe meal just took their place." It let her eyes roam all over his body so much that Annabeth would have gladly ripped them out. So Percy did the natural thing, he charged.
The sphinx just laughed at his foolish move and quickly swiped at him with her claws, but Percy just leaned just out of reach and cut her front leg with his blade. The monster made another slash at him with her other paw, simultaneously protecting her now bleeding other one. But this did one more thing as well, cross her front legs.
Seizing this opportunity, Percy lunged to one side causing the sphinx to trip up for a second, which was enough time for him to dig Riptide deep into her back causing her to explode into dust. Of course he had to have worn his only dry clean only shirt that day. It was a dark blue button up that wasn't really his style but his girlfriend got for him and he was seeing her after school later after school. He realized he was supposed to be in the bathroom just as the final bell rang for school to be out. He sprinted towards the high school building to catch his stepfather Paul, to catch a ride home.
Percy cursed in Greek a little louder than usual, so when he got in the car he expected Paul to scold him again.
"Percy you can't run in front of my car like that I almost hit you, c'mon man your mother would kill m….is that monster dust…?"
"Yep.."
"alright you get a pass, but only if you tell me details."
"Promise not to tell mom?"
"Our secret."