I don't own Percy Jackson or any of the characters.
For those of you who have read Percy Jackson and the hero's sword… this is a sequel. Except it is also my version of book 5. Enjoy!
I race a policeman
I was lying in my bed… my eyes were getting very heavy. I knew any second that I would fall asleep. There was only one thing bugging me though. My sixteenth birthday was only two months away. It was looming about three in the morning when my eyes got the best of me. They fell like a curtain, and before I knew it… I was in a cornfield.
It was really dark… like as dark as your closet get when you go in there at night… but eventually a triangle moon popped up. I could see dimly now… so I took a little walk. Normally if I could control myself in a dream it was very important. It felt like hours until I heard a rustling in the bushes. I turned around. Just as my eyes flicked to the noise, a mega axe that made the hulk look like a bug, chopped through a line of corn. A scary figure that almost looked half bull appeared. I stood paralyzed in fear, and I reached for riptide. But the beast barreled right past me. I watched in horror as it chopped its axe, a figure burst out of the corn. It was a girl, and our eyes met. They were as green as seaweed, and her dark hair looked very untidy. The moment faded as she jumped into a bush. The beast turned around and swung its axe at me. That's when my eyes flashed open.
I wobbly got out of bed, and my feet dragged me into the kitchen. A blue bagel with some blue and white cream cheese sat next to a note.
Dear Percy:
I have to get up early so I can make it to the retail store and get a good dress.
Love, mom.
I threw the note away like it was nothing. My mom and Paul were getting married in a month… so my mom was busier than ever. I was used to not seeing her for breakfast nowadays. I gulped down the bagel, tossed on some clothes, made sure I had riptide and the shell my dad gave me for my last birthday, and slowly walked to school.
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I made it to school right as the bell rang. It was late September, and school was just starting. Goode high school was as boring as ever, and just like usual, I was greeted by a smiling Rachel.
"Morning Percy." She flounced.
"Yeah…" I replied as I walked into the building. I was still fully focused on my dream. Who was that girl?
I was so fully focused on my dream… that I didn't even notice everybody staring and whispering at me. I just trudged through the day. I was in science learning about carbon dioxide when someone gasped. Naturally I turned around expecting a demon bird or a laistrygonian… but instead… a young muscular policeman with red hair, sunglasses and a moustache that went down to his chin popped in.
"I am looking for Percy Jackson?" He rasped. This wasn't good…
"We have word that he caused the explosion of the fire in social studies class." Everyone was silent.
Then Roy McCarthy (The school bully) pointed over at me. The police officer smiled, and ran at me. He took put some hand cuffs, and put me in a headlock to the desk.
"You're under arrest!' That's when he gasped in pain, and let go of me. Everyone began screaming, and running through the room… while the teacher tried to regain balance. The police man fell to the floor, revealing Rachel with her foot out. She looked like she just killed a police officer. Then again… she might of.
"Percy! Can't you see! That's a lion!" Yelled Rachel as she joined the rest of the screaming kids. Unluckily, she was right. The beard he had stretched down to reveal a fuzzy chin… and kept going to wards his neck. He growled and pounced on me. I ducked and he went flying into the teacher's desk. He leaped up and growled, and sprang again. He extended his claws and I sprinted out the door. I got a few raised eyebrows as I sprinted down the hallway with as pen in my hand… but I managed to charge out of the door. With the lion right on my tail. I didn't need a sign telling m e where to go as I made my way through time square. I juked around people, made the lion run into a cart of hot dogs, and continued my sprint. In a few minutes, I saw the statue of liberty in the distance. I was getting close… and I was panting like a dog on a summer day. The lion nipped my bottom as I swerved around a corner.
That's when a little light bulb popped in my head. I went over to the railing by ocean so the bikers wouldn't fall in… but instead I leaped over it. The lion leaped after me. I willed myself to stay dry, and I formed a bubble around me… that's when I watched like a movie as the lion struggled to swim. Just as I hoped… the beast drowned almost immediately. I loped up to shore, and tiredly trudged to my main location I was after because I heard sirens blaring.
It took a few painful minutes… but I trudged up the familiar hill, and past the same old tree. I was back at Camp half blood.