To those reading my other story Story Time With the Gods I apologise. My mum took my laptop away because of exam week and then I went to Spain. I know that excuses don't make up but I only managed sneaky in school check ups. Anywho I decided to post this because I wanted to know how it turned out and it was already half written when I went away so yeah... Please continue.
Disclaimer: I do not own PJO.
Gone With the Mist.
Okay so recently for some strange reason, the mist has gone from the mortal world. All the humans know about us and they'll do anything to capture us. Getting Demigods to Camp has been hard considering Satyrs are no longer safe. Only trained Demigods go out to schools to rescue others. Trained Demigods like me, Percy Jackson. I can just tell this is gonna go wrong.
I was walking to lunch thinking about how the monsters had it easy. They could go out into the world, not be captured; if they were and if they died they could just come back. Like those annoying candles that don't blow out. There'd be a perfectly innocent Demigod hiding in the world and then they'd get attacked by monsters, and then by the very mortals they protect.
As I walked I saw the Flyer.
You see someone with a weapon?
Is that person fighting some kind of monster?
Most likely it's a Demigod.
These things draw in monster to cities where they wreak havoc and cause multiple deaths. NOT TO BE TRUSTED. If you see someone you think is a Demigod please call this number below:
Untrue and unfair. Mostly. Unfortunately there were other posters, ones more likely to get us caught:
Demigod description:
Dyslexic.
ADHD.
Single parent family.
Troublesome, usually multiple schools on account of monster attacks.
Protective.
This description was pretty accurate. Demigods were hardwired for battle: ADHD. They were hardwired for Greek: Dyslexic. They were Heroes: protective. They were constantly attacked by monsters: troublesome. But the Mist used to cover that up. The monsters were just animals or in some cases they looked human. But either way Demigods were always to blame. If it was freak accidents like it used to or a monster. They had one parent because the other was a God who was too busy and also not allowed to see them.
I walked into the canteen and went to go sit with my friends. I didn't have many, I was a trouble kid. But I did have four awesomely amazing friends. Aspen, as auburn haired girl with hazel eyes. She was a real nature type girl. Tucker, a blonde cowboy dude. He wasn't really a cowboy but he wore check shirts and a belt buckle. He looked like he had just walked out a ranch every morning. Aiden, an athletic guy. And last but not least Callie, a small toothy girl with flaming ginger and a huge personality.
"Hey Perce." Tuck said as I sat down.
"Hey."
"Morning losers." Jonathon Hop said as he came and stood by us with his ugly cronies behind him.
"It's the afternoon idiot." Aspen muttered to him.
"What was that?" He said glaring at her. "Just because you're a girl doesn't mean-" He was interrupted by Gabriela Sway, head of the rat pack.
"They indentified another one!" She screamed as she came into the canteen. Everyone went silent and looked at her. "Look! It says here: This boy, roughly the age of thirteen is here pictured fighting giant black dogs. He is most certainly a Demigod. If seen anywhere please call this number: *random number. This boy brought on an attack in Central Park yesterday afternoon, no mortals were harmed but some are now having severe mental problems." She then started showing people the picture.
"Gabriela!" Jonathon yelled. She perked up when he called her over. She walked towards us with her rats following behind.
"Hey Jonny!" She giggled. Then she looked at us. She threw down the News paper onto the table. I took one look at it and groaned. On the front was a boy with dark hair and wearing an aviator jacket. He had a black stygian iron sword drawn and was fending off a dozen hellhounds. Nico what have you done? I thought to myself.
"Whadaya think losers?" She said smirking.
"I think you're annoying me." Callie said. "Go away." Gabriela pouted.
"Jonny." She whined.
"Hey watch your mouth carrots!" He growled. Callie hated being called carrots. She took it real personal.
"Don't call her carrots!" Tuck growled back.
"I'll call her whatever I want, Woody." Tucker blushed and sat back.
"Look here Jonny boy-" Aspen threatened.
"Oh no, it's the tree-hugging pacifist coming to get me!" Aspen didn't really know what to say to that.
"Hey now-" Aiden started.
"Whatcha gonna do? Tell on me?" Jonathon said cracking his knuckles.
"Jonathon go away now." I said giving him my deluxe-kill-you stare. His eyes went wide as he backed off with Gabriela and their ratty friends.
"Way to go Percy!" Aspen smiled.
"That was awesome!" Tucker said.
"How did you do that?" Callie asked.
I smiled sheepishly. I probably shouldn't have done that. Jonathon was pissing me off though.
"Uh... I dunno." The looks on their faces said they didn't believe me but they let it slide.
"Gabriela left the paper." Aspen noted changing the subject. We all looked at it.
"I don't think Demigods should be hunted down." Callie said bravely. I smiled at her.
"Neither do I." She looked at me.
"You don't?" She asked surprised. Tucker looked around nervously.
"I get what you mean. I really doubt they ask the monsters to hunt and kill them." Aspen agreed.
"Guys..." Tucker said glancing around. We all looked at him. "Look I get what you're saying, I really do but can we talk about this somewhere else?" He bit his lip.
"Why? There are loads of Demigod fans." Aiden spoke up. That was true. They were obsessively stalking demigods, they were almost as bad as other mortals, you know the ones that want to capture us. They were also just as bad as the monsters who were trying to maim/kill/capture us. Welcome to my world.
"Look, my dad is part of the people who capture them and if he found out that I was in favour of the demigods then he would kill me." He took a breath. "I'm not saying I agree with him! It's just... I don't want him to know." He looked at us pleadingly.
"That's OK." I said. "We don't have to talk about them in public." Even if it was more for my benefit than his. He gave me a sad smile.
"Thanks Perce."
"S'OK." As selfish as it is, I didn't do it for Tucker; I did it so I wouldn't be found out. It wasn't that I was scared. I could handle myself. It's just that I'm out here in the real world in case I come across and demigod who needed my help. It was hard though, with demigods being caught left right and centre.
Thankfully only a few demigods had been caught. Camp had a few teams of demigods who would go to rescue capture demigods. I really wanted to be part of this team but as Chiron said, I was needed undercover. Not many people had managed to keep their cover. I honestly had no idea how I'd managed to keep mine so long. Unfortunately as part of my being undercover it meant I hadn't been able to see Annabeth (my awesomely amazing girlfriend) for ages. We got to Iris message each other all the time but it wasn't the same.
"Aw Hell!" Aiden cursed as he spilt some chocolate milk on his top. "Or aw Hades, I guess." I fought a smile.
"C'mere idiot." Aspen smiled as she used her napkin to wipe the milk.
"Uh... Thanks." Aiden mumbled blushing. The rest of us stifled our laughs. It was obvious how much they liked each other, they just couldn't see it. It kinda reminded me of Annabeth and me. I sighed.
Lunch passed relatively uneventful. I left the cafeteria early and went to the toilets that were abandoned. I focused on the water in the pipes and created a thin mist.
"O goddess of the rainbow please accept my offering. Show me Chiron at Camp Half-blood" I threw a golden drachma into the mist and it disappeared. I was dangerous to make an Iris message at school but I needed to.
The mist shimmered and then focused on the rec room in the big house. Chiron was sitting at the ping-pong table Annabeth was there too.
"Percy!" Annabeth cried. I grinned at her.
"Annabeth!" My heart did a crazy giddy dance in my chest. Not the right time, I told it.
"Ah, Percy. Why do you call? Have you found someone? Do you need the extraction squad?" Chiron asked.
"No, I saw the paper today. Gab- someone was shouting about it." I told them. Chiron looked down. Annabeth's smile faded.
"Nico arrived this morning." She said. "He's safe don't worry about that. Even if wasn't he could just shadow travel away."
"So many young heroes in danger." Chiron sighed. "Never before has there been so much danger for half-bloods." In the background I heard yells and someone shouting "No! I can't be a... a... halfblood!"
Chiron sighed again. "I better go deal with that." He wheeled away leaving me and Annabeth alone, sort of.
"Percy so many people in danger and there's nothing we can do! At least before the new halfs were somewhat happy at knowing why things were the way they were." My head started spinning trying to figure that out. "At least they had somewhere safe! But now... Now they can't... won't... don't trust us. At least our borders still keep people out." She buried her face in her hands and I wanted nothing more than to hold her in my arms and stroke her hair. To tell her things would be OK in the end. But this was a stupid Iris message.
"Annabeth..." Suddenly the end of lunch bell rang. She sighed.
"You should go." She swiped the mist before I got the chance to say goodbye.
Lessons were boring and pointless. I wanted to scream that it was all useless. I was trained to kill monsters, I had held up the sky, I had fought and won against Ares and Hades, I was the saviour of Olympus and here I was. Stuck in the middle a school filled with people who if they knew who I was, would call the DEC (Demigod Experts- or so they thought they were- and Capturers) or in some extreme cases would attack me themselves.
"Mr. Jackson would you please tell us what is meant by that?"
"Uh... What?" I stammered breaking away from my thoughts. Miss Rodds smirked.
"Now honey." Warning bells went off in my head. "You really should listen more." Please don't be a monster, please don't be a monster, I chanted in my head. "Miss Blarose could you please tell us was meant by that?" A girl named Kitty Blarose started talking and I pretended to listen. In my peripheral visions I watched Miss Rodds. She didn't look like Mrs. Dodds –Alecto – had. The kindly ones had no reason to come after me, I was pretty sure Hades wasn't mad at me at the moment. I eyed her suspiciously until I was certain she wasn't going to turn into a crazy leathery bat with a fire whip.
When the lessons ended at the end of the day I went to go find Paul Blofis, my stepfather. I walked up to his classroom and knocked. No reply. I gently pushed the door opened carefully.
"Paul? You here?" I asked weary.
"Percy!" Paul exclaimed. I turned to the sound of his voice. He was sitting at his desk with Miss Rodds standing above him. "Yes- Um we need to go. So goodbye Miss Rodds." Paul jumped up, grabbed his bag and pulled me to his car.
I climbed in and asked him what that was about.
"Percy..." For one crazy second I thought he was gonna say he was cheating on my mom but I knew that couldn't be true. "I think Miss Rodds suspects you." He finally got out.
"Oh thank the Gods!" I blurted out. Damn ADHD.
"What?" Paul asked confused.
"Oh I mean... I had a feeling something was weird about her but if she's just suspicious then..." I quickly covered.
"Oh... Well I still think it's something to worry about." Paul continued.
"Sure." I said.
"I think we should tell your mother."
"What? No! She'll freak out and insist I move schools!" I cried.
"Percy that may be for the best."
"No it wouldn't! I have a duty and... And if I leave just when she starts to suspect it'll seem suspicious." I tried to sound convincing but I think it may have failed. Paul was silent for a while until eventually he said "Fine, we won't tell her for now but if the situation worsens then..." He let that hang in the air as we continued to drive.
Aw Hades.
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