Disclaimer: All characters belong to Rick Riordan.
"Shall we start reading?" asked Thalia.
"Before that you will have to answer a few questions. And we will ask more at the end of each chapter to guess the godly parent. Everyone got it?" Athena asked.
"Okay... the first question is whose children are not here?" asked Demeter.
Annabeth in reply, stood up and said "Dionysus, Hera, Hestia, Apollo, Artemis, and yours Lady Demeter"
"No need to call us lord and lady. Call us by our name" said Zeus, shocking all the demigods at the other side of Zeus.
"How many big 3 children are there?" asked Perseus, interested in knowing if he had any siblings who were not jerks.
"Well...there is totally 5 children of the big 3... We won't say which 5 though" Percy said.
"One last question before we start though...what are we like in the future?" asked Apollo.
"What! The god of the oracle does not know about the future! The world is about to end!" cried out Percy, Leo, Frank, Jason, Nico and the Stolls as the girls rolled their eyes and muttered "boys...".
"Read and find it out Apollo." Said the demigods, frowning.
"Who is going to read it first?" asked Hermes, as he held the first book. "Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief" he read out loudly.
"Why should it be about me!" whined Percy as the others laughed at his reaction.
"I will read it Lord Hermes" said Rachel.
The gods summoned some couches, and everyone sat together like one happy family.
'I ACCIDENTALLY VAPORIZE MY PRE-ALGEBRA TEACHER'
"A weird title right Percy?" asked Leo as the people present nodded.
"Read and find out why it is so..." said person replied as he shared a look with Grover on what is to happen.
'Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.'
"As if we wanted to..." Said the future demigods, surprising the gods and old heroes.
'If you're reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is:'
"Is Percy giving an advice?! Run for your lives" shouted some boys and Thalia exclaimed said person rolled his eyes.
'...close this book right now. Believe what-ever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.'
"Wish we could do that now" wished all the demigods especially the big 3.
'Being a half-blood is dangerous.'
"Check"
'It's scary.'
"Double check"
'Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.'
"Triple check"
The gods were now curious and worried about the future demigods.
"Seems like Percy is on a roll!" said Thalia as the 7 and Nico nodded.
'If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened.'
"Lucky ignorant mortals..." muttered the Stolls.
'But if you recognize yourself in these pages-if you feel something stirring inside-stop reading immediately. You might be one of us.'
"We are so bad is it Percy?" asked Grover.
"I didn't mean it that way" muttered Percy, blushing as the others snickered.
And once you know that, it's only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.'
"Those were pretty good ideas ...Percy" said Annabeth, pecking him on the cheek.
"I can be intelligent you know..." pouted Percy as everyone laughed.
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
"You didn't warn us Percy" the future demigods said in a singsong voice, as Percy glared them.
"My name is Percy Jackson."
"No, it is Peter Johnson" said Thalia as Percy pouted, making everyone laugh.
"It hurt right here cuz" he said, putting a hand over his heart.
"I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York."
"So, you are labelling yourself as a troubled kid Percy?" asked Annabeth, giggling at him.
"Am I a troubled kid?"
"Yes, you are" they said as the said person pouted and protested. Rachel chuckled reading the next line.
"Yeah. You could say that."
"See! Even you agree Percy" said the demigods as everyone laughed at him including the gods and old heroes.
"I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it..."
"Short yes...but miserable?" trailed of Annabeth, fearing what happened to him before he came to camp.
"You guys have no idea" said Percy as the other future demigods other than Leo frowned.
Leo understood Percy as he was almost the same. Wear a mask showing that your happy, being sarcastic showing that you are fine... While, you are depressed and in need of support or love.
He had also heard Percy's screams one night in Argo II just after the Tartarus incident. As he was awake, he went to check upon Percy, who was screaming about someone to stop beating him, showing he was abused.
Later on, when Percy calmed down, he had asked about this and Percy had told him everything that had happened to him and he had also sworn on the river Styx not to tell anyone until given permission.
'...but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field trip to Manhattan- twenty-eight mental-case kids'
"And there you go, labelling yourself as a mental case kid" said Reyna to which Percy maturely stuck his tongue.
...and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff.'
"Sounds interesting..." said Annabeth and Athena.
"Sounds like torture" said the boys and a few gods (Apollo, Poseidon, and Hermes)
"Roman stuff? Who are these Romans?" asked Orion.
"Well basically there are Roman gods in the future aka Greek gods with split personality case. Like Zeus becomes Jupiter, Poseidon becomes Neptune, Hades becomes Pluto, Athena becomes Minerva, Ares becomes Mars, and so on..." said Jason.
"And 4 of us here are Roman demigods" said Reyna.
"So...you say that there are Roman gods who are the Greek gods with split personality?" asked Perseus. "You will read about it too. Just wait" Percy said.
'I know-it sounds like torture. Most Yancy field trips were.'
"Don't remind me of that" groaned Grover.
"You think it was torture Percy?" shouted Annabeth before her mother did it.
"Hey! I said field trips were torture not the museum!" said Percy.
"Are you my daughter Annabeth? Athena asked.
"Yes mother. How did out find out?" Annabeth asked puzzled. "Your grey eyes are a dead giveaway." Said Athena.
"I'm Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena." she said as the other demigods silently made a pact to make it tough for their parents to find out.
'But Mr. Brunner, our Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so I had hopes.'
"That's new Percy" said Rachel sarcastically.
'Mr. Brunner was this middle-aged guy in a motorized wheelchair. He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee.'
"Is it who I think it is?" asked Perseus.
"Yes, it is" replied Percy.
'You wouldn't think he'd be cool, but he told stories and jokes and let us play games in class. He also had this awesome collection of Roman armor and weapons, so he was the only teacher whose class didn't put me to sleep.'
"You sleep in class Seaweed Brain?" Annabeth screeched.
"Of course, he will sleep. He is interested after all" Jason said with sarcasm, making everyone laugh.
"Don't blame me Wise Girl. Having ADHD and dyslexia doesn't help here you know..." Percy said.
'I hoped the trip would be okay. At least, I hoped that for once I wouldn't get in trouble.'
"Man... I jinxed myself here..."
"When have you gone without trouble somewhere Percy" Hazel chuckled.
"She is right Percy... you are always a trouble magnet..."
"Shut up Grace..." Percy said referring to both the Grace siblings.
'Boy, was I wrong.'
"Of course, you were. No denial" said everyone who knew Percy.
'See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.'
And the whole room was filled with laughter as Percy was groaning in embarrassment. He hated the book with all his heart for the upcoming chapters.
"You fired at a school bus with cannons?" asked Leo.
"What were you aiming at?" asked Jason, still laughing.
"You will never want to know why. That one who I aimed at was more annoying than Nancy and almost equally annoying as my step dad..."
"Was that person that bad? Are you exaggerating Percy? Nany was the most annoying mortal in the world!" asked Grover. He knew about Nancy and was curious about it though he didn't know about Gabe. But Leo understood the level the mentioned person was in.
"Before we read on... Paul seems to be a nice guy and who the hell is Nancy?" asked Thalia.
"Well...I had a step dad before Paul and everything will be in the book..." said Percy as his mood darkened.
'And before that, at my fourth-grade school, when we took a behind- the-scenes tour of the Marine World shark pool, I sort of hit the wrong lever on the catwalk and our class took an unplanned swim.'
Again, the room erupted into a fit of laughter. The only ones who weren't laughing were Ares, Dionysus and Hercules.
"Only you Percy...only you" mumbled the demigods.
"Next time, take us along Percy!" cried out the Stolls.
"We want more!" cried out Leo, Jason and Frank.
"Are you my son by any chance Percy?" asked Apollo and Hermes laughing.
"Better luck guessing" said Percy winking at them.
'And the time before that... well, you get the idea.'
"No Percy we want more!" Clarisse shouted along with the Stolls
"These are gold Percy. Keep it up!" said Apollo and Hermes.
"This trip, I was determined to be good."
"Keep wishing Percy... it is a long shot" commented Piper, as everyone stopped laughing.
'All the way into the city, I put up with Nancy Bobofit...'
"See, you asked who it was. Read on and out will understand why Percy said so." Said Grover, shivering. The demigods payed more attention to the book, wanting to know how she annoyed Percy and Grover.
'...the freckly, redheaded kleptomaniac girl, hitting my best friend Grover in the back of the neck with chunks of peanut butter-and-ketchup sandwich.'
Now all of Grover's friendswere fuming.
"I am going to kill that that bitch if I meet her" shouted Thalia and Annabeth, furious on the fact that someone will do something like this.
"Relax girls, it is all in the past..." Grover tried to reason with the girls, but they were still fuming.
"Sounds like the modern world is crazy from all these descriptions..." said the past demigods as the futures laughed.
"Wait and read on. You will find out what happens" they said.
'Grover was an easy target, he was scrawny. He cried when he got frustrated. He must've been held back several grades, because he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin.'
"Thanks for this description Percy. It really describes our best friend very well" Grover said a little annoyed.
"Hey! Don't blame me. I didn't know much about this world back then and I was just 12!" Percy protested, whining, causing everyone to laugh.
'On top of all that, he was crippled. He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.'
"Way to blow up your cover Grover!" exclaimed Thalia as the others cracked up, making fun of him and tying to visualise the way Percy portrayed him.
"Thanks for the introduction Percy" the mentioned person said sarcastically.
"Sorry but not sorry G-man" Percy said and laughed.
'Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his curly brown hair, and she knew I couldn't do anything back to her because I was already on probation.'
"I am going to kill her if I see her" growled Nico, Thalia and Annabeth.
"I wish I had done that though..." said Percy wistfully.
"Why didn't you?" asked Clarisse "I want a fight now!" she whined.
Ares looked at her and asked, "Are you my daughter?" Clarisse groaned and muttered "Yes dad. Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares. But you will never find out my Roman brother!" she said smugly to her father.
'The headmaster had threatened me with death...'
"How can a teacher threaten a student to death!" shouted Annabeth as the past gods were confused, not knowing about the future way of things.
'...by in-school suspension'
"Oh!" was all Annabeth could mutter, embarrassed as people started cracking up. Percy just wrapped his hands around her and pecked her cheek.
'...if anything bad, embarrassing, or even mildly entertaining happened on this trip.'
"That's not fair!" mumbled Hazel. "Why should one be suspended for another person's mistake?" she exclaimed as Frank tried to calm her down.
"Well... teachers thought that I was annoying and never like me so..." Percy said looking down.
All the future demigods were seething now at what happened to Percy.
'"I'm going to kill her," I mumbled.'
"Do it Percy!" chorused all the demigods.
'Grover tried to calm me down. "It's okay. I like peanut butter."'
"Seriously Grover? In your hair?" asked Piper as Aphrodite was looking like she would throw up.
Seeing his wife's plight, Hephaestus went to her and held her hand as his wife appreciated his gesture, earning a smile from Leo and Piper.
'He dodged another piece of Nancy's lunch. "That's it." I started to get up...'
"You never want an angry Percy after you..." said Nico, shaking his head and shuddered, thinking about what happened to him.
The other future demigods nodded, having witnessed Percy in action, while the past gods and demigods looked confused.
"And why is that so Nico?" asked Perseus as the other gods looked curious.
Nico, thinking of that day he had witnessed that overprotective angry form of Percy, shuddered and said "Just trust me. You will not want to see it. Especially when someone threatens his family or friends."
Hestia smiled at hearing Percy's loyalty and overprotectiveness.
'...but Grover pulled me back to my seat. "You're already on probation," he reminded me. "You know who'll get blamed if anything happens."'
"She was annoying to the core!" exclaimed Percy as Grover agreed with his best friend.
"Did you always get blamed for others fault in school Percy?" asked Theseus.
"Most of the time yes as I was labelled a trouble maker even though I did nothing so..."
Percy trailed of.
"If I get my hands on those teachers then I don't know what I would do!" said Hazel, fuming. The other futures were shocked. Hazel, the sweet girl they knew was shouting out loud?
'Looking back on it, I wish I'd decked Nancy Bobofit right then and there. In-school suspension would've been nothing compared to the mess I was about to get myself into.'
" What happened Percy?" asked Orion. "seems like it was worse as you describe it..."
All of Percy's friends were worried as the gods were worried and curious on what happened and looked at Percy, who was looking at Grover, remembering what happened that day.
'Mr. Brunner led the museum tour. He rode up front in his wheelchair, guiding us through the big echoey galleries, past marble statues and glass cases full of really old black-and-orange pottery.'
The Athena pair had a dreamy look on their face at this.
'It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.'
"Actually, it is older than that – "
"Continue reading Rachel" Apollo said, not wanting to hear a lecture from Athena on the subject.
Athena glared at Apollo.
'He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age. He told us about the carvings on the sides. I was trying to listen to what he had to say, because it was kind of interesting...'
"Is Percy actually listening to something for once!" asked all the future demigods.
"Hey! It's not like I find everything boring and zone out!" Percy protested.
'...but everybody around me was talking, and every time I told them to shut up, the other teacher chaperone, Mrs. Dodds, would give me the evil eye.'
"Is she a monster by any chance?" asked Frank.
"You will know as you read it Frank" said Percy.
'Mrs. Dodds was this little math teacher from Georgia who always wore a black leather jacket, even though she was fifty years old. She looked mean enough to ride a Harley right into your locker.'
"Eww!" two voices screeched at the dress style. "That is too old fashioned" screamed Aphrodite.
Piper's eyes widened as she saw Jason and Leo's expressions at her screeching. "I am turning into mo-"she stopped just in time but Aphrodite noticed it.
"Are you my daughter Piper?" she asked.
Piper sighed "Yes I am. Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite."
"Is she who I think it is?" asked Hades.
"Yes, it is lord Hades" said Percy and Grover.
This set up Hades to ponder a bit. He only sent furies after children of the big 3 so... his eyes widened at his conclusion. 'Mostly Poseidon's boy due to the eyes' he thought but kept silent at his discovery.
'She had come to Yancy halfway through the year, when our last math teacher had a nervous breakdown.'
"It is definitely a monster" said the Stolls, wondering which one was it.
Nico was pondering now. Didn't Percy call Alecto some pre-algebra teacher called Mrs. Dodds? If it was her then... Nico's eyes widened as he realised who this was but kept his mouth shut.
'From her first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy Bobofit and figured I was devil spawn.'
"Hey that's – "
"Don't break the suspense Thals. Let the gods guess out who that is please."
'She would point her crooked finger at me and say, "Now, honey," real sweet, and I knew I was going to get afterschool detention for a month.'
"What is with this honey thing?" asked Leo.
"That was harsh for anyone dude!" said Jason and Perseus.
"Tell me about it" said Percy as he looked at Grover again.
Annabeth kissed him and asked Rachel to continue.
'One time, after she'd made me erase answers out of old math workbooks until midnight...'
"She said you do it until midnight and you said it was only until 10 bro! why didn't you tell me?" Grover said, feeling hurt.
"Sorry G-man. I didn't want you to worry about me" Percy said, turning to Grover.
"No problem bro. No offence taken." Said Grover.
Hestia smiled at this while Artemis looked shocked as she couldn't believe a humble man was ever born.
'I told Grover I didn't think Mrs. Dodds was human. He looked at me, real serious, and said, "You're absolutely right."'
"Way to blow up your cover Grover!" said the Grace siblings, Stoll brothers and Annabeth, as the said person blushed in embarrassment.
'Mr. Brunner kept talking about Greek funeral art. Finally, Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and I turned around and said, "Will you shut up?"'
"Percy...you did yell at her that time you know" said Grover.
Percy blushed at this.
'It came out louder than I meant it to.'
"Of course, it did Percy" said Rachel as people chuckled.
'The whole group laughed.'
"Why should they laugh at you Percy?" asked the Stolls asked seriously for once.
Percy frowned but didn't say anything. Leo, looking at Percy, made a small smile towards him, telling him that it was alright.
The ones present in the room shut up but didn't drop the topic.
'Mr. Brunner stopped his story. "Mr. Jackson," he said, "did you "have a comment?" My face was totally red. I said, "No, sir." Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele. "Perhaps you'll tell us what this picture represents?"'
"I bet ten drachmas that Percy doesn't know what the picture is" said Leo, the Stolls, Hercules and the Grace siblings as Nico, Frank, Hazel, Piper, Theseus, Orion and Perseus bet that he would guess it.
'I looked at the carving, and felt a flush of relief, because I actually recognized it.'
"Pay up losers" cried out the 7 demigods who won the bet as the losers grumbled at their loss.
'"That's Kronos eating his kids, right?"'
"Why is it that one!" groaned all the children of Kronos, especially the five who were eaten by him.
'"Yes," Mr. Brunner said, obviously not satisfied.'
"Oh, come on Chiron! He doesn't even know about the gods yet and you are asking him to explain these?!" asked most of the demigods and Rachel.
"Do you realise that you are shouting at books guys?" asked Percy and Grover as the said people blushed.
'"And he did this because . . ." "Well . . ." I racked my brain to remember.'
"And you forget it at that time and you say you recognised it?" asked Athena, raising an eyebrow.
"Just read on Rachel." Said Percy.
'"Kronos was the king god and—"'
"GOD!" thundered Zeus. "You call him a god?"
"Relax dad. I'm sure he would correct himself." Said Perseus.
"Also, he didn't know much about the gods then." Said Annabeth as Zeus calmed down.
'"God?" Mr. Brunner asked. "Titan," I corrected myself.'
"See, he corrected himself uncle" said Orion and Theseus as Percy smiled at them discreetly.
'"And . . . he didn't trust his kids, who were the gods. So, um, Kronos ate them, right?'
"That we didn't know Percy" said Clarisse and Reyna, sarcastically. As the others snickered.
'But his wife hid baby Zeus, and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead. And later, when Zeus grew up, he tricked his dad, Kronos, into barfing up his brothers and sisters—"'
The five gods shuddered at this, thinking of that memory.
'"Eeew!" said one of the girls behind me.'
"Right Eeeww!" explained Aphrodite, as her husband, seeing her pale face, rubbed her back soothingly, making her ponder on why she wanted to date Ares on the first place even though she loved Hephaestus with all her heart.
'"—and so there was this big fight between the gods and the Titans," I continued, "and the gods won."'
"Only you Percy, only you" said Clarisse, throwing him a small smile, which went unnoticed to the other except Percy.
Even though everyone thought they were like enemies, they never knew that they were actually very good friends and respected each other after the second quest.
"How did you sum up years of fighting in just one line?" asked Athena.
"That's Percy for you" the future campers said as Annabeth pecked his cheek.
Athena was still trying to figure out Percy's parent and narrowed her eyes on her daughter at seeing her dating someone.
'Some snickers from the group.'
"But he answered it right..." said Hestia, frowning.
"You will know it soon aunt Hes" said Percy as the gods looked at him shocked and Hestia beamed at him.
Seeing Hestia this happy after a long time made the gods happy too. Hestia was happy that someone had at least recognised her and called her affectionately.
'Behind me, Nancy Bobofit mumbled to a friend, "Like we're going to use this in real life. Like it's going to say on our job applications, 'Please explain why Kronos ate his kids.'"
"Maybe I need to do that" said Athena as everyone groaned.
Rachel continued reading.
"Any guesses on who my parent is yet?" Percy asked the gods, "You just have a few more minutes until you read it out and I also gave you a clue."
Athena was thoughtful and had a guess. "Are you one of the big 3 children?" she asked.
"Close enough" said Reyna.
"Wait! You are Poseidon's child, right?" asked Hades.
"There! Someone gets it right before the goddess of wisdom" said Percy. "How did you figure it out though?" Percy asked.
"Your eyes are a dead giveaway Percy" said Hades
"Oh! Well, I am Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon." He said as Orion and Theseus hugged him, happy to have another brother.
"Well I am a son of Zeus and my namesake is a son of Poseidon?" asked Perseus and snickered.
"What's wrong in that?" asked Leo.
"Well their rivalry I guess" said Perseus, raising his hands in defeat.
Zeus was about to comment on Poseidon having a son as Percy cut him off. "Don't say a word. You have 2 children from the future standing here along with 2 of Hades too."
'"And why, Mr. Jackson," Brunner said, "to paraphrase Miss Bobofit's excellent question, does this matter in real life?"'
"Busted" muttered some demigods, even Hercules, having taken a liking on the son of Poseidon after reading for some time.
"Stop pushing him hard Chiron" said Orion.
"Do you realise that you are talking to a book bro? asked Percy and Orion blushed at this.
Rachel mentally laughed as she read the next line.
'"Busted," Grover muttered.'
"Hey! we think like a goat!" exclaimed the demigods (Nico, Leo, the Stolls, the Graces, Perseus and Hercules) who had commented the same as the others including the gods snickered.
'"Shut up," Nancy hissed, her face even brighter red than her hair.'
"How is that even possible? Her hair is redder than R.E.D's" said Grover, as people tried to imagine the image.
'At least Nancy got packed, too. Mr. Brunner was the only one who ever caught her saying anything wrong. He had radar ears.'
"More likely horse ears but all the same" said Apollo and Hermes at the same time and hi-fived.
'I thought about his question, and shrugged. "I don't know, sir." "I see." Mr. Brunner looked disappointed.'
"Now it is too much Chiron" commented everyone. And it was true. Asking someone who didn't know about the gods a question like that was unfair.
'"Well, half credit, Mr. Jackson. Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who, of course, being immortal gods, had been living and growing up completely undigested in the Titan's stomach.'
The five gods shuddered again at the scene as Aphrodite looked queasy.
'The gods defeated their father, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld.'
Nico, Annabeth and Percy shuddered at this, which only the demigods (past and future) noticed but didn't question yet thinking of asking about it at the end of the chapter.
'On that happy note, it's time for lunch. Mrs. Dodds, would you lead us back outside?"'
"How is that a happy note Percy?" asked Leo.
'The class drifted off, the girls holding their stomachs, the guys pushing each other around and acting like doofuses.'
Hermes eyes lit up at the new word and wrote it down in his notebook.
'Grover and I were about to follow when Mr. Brunner said, "Mr. Jackson." I knew that was coming.'
"Seems like many people had made you stay back kelp head" said Thalia.
"You have no idea Thals" said Percy.
'I told Grover to keep going. Then I turned toward Mr. Brunner. "Sir?"'
Everyone where now interested and were listening to the narration.
'Mr. Brunner had this look that wouldn't let you go— intense brown eyes that could've been a thousand years old and had seen everything.'
'Very observant' thought Athena but kept quiet.
"Probably he would have" said Hermes as everyone nodded in agreement.
'"You must learn the answer to my question," Mr. Brunner told me. "About the Titans?"'
People rolled their eyes at his words.
'"About real life. And how your studies apply to it." "Oh."'
"And that ladies and gentlemen is the smartest frequent reply you could get from Percy" said Nico, only to have a shower, courtesy to Percy.
'"What you learn from me," he said, "is vitally important. I expect you to treat it as such. I will accept only the best from you, Percy Jackson."'
People shook their heads on Chiron's tactics.
'I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard.'
"He did it for your good Percy. You know that right?" Annabeth said as she hugged him.
"I know it wise girl but I was only 12 then and didn't know about gods you know?" said Percy. Athena narrowed her eyes at them but decided to give them a chance. 'Maybe he wasn't like old Barnacle Beard' she thought.
'I mean, sure, it was kind of cool on tournament days, when he dressed up in a suit of Roman armor and shouted: "What ho!..."'
Some people snickered at that.
'...and challenged us, sword-point against chalk, to run to the board and name every Greek and Roman person who had ever lived, and their mother, and what god they worshipped.'
"So that's how you had an idea about roman gods too during your first day at camp Jupiter?" asked Reyna. She had always been curious as to how he had known about romans even though he was a Greek.
"Sorry but that was also one point. Though there is another reason to it too" said Percy.
"What is it then?" she asked.
"Will tell it to the council at the end of the chapter." He said, shutting everyone's mouths temporarily on the topic.
'But Mr. Brunner expected me to be as good as everybody else, despite the fact that I have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder and I had never made above a C– in my life.'
Athena was horrified at that but didn't comment.
'No—he didn't expect me to be as good; he expected me to be better. And I just couldn't learn all those names and facts, much less spell them correctly.'
"But now you know it bro" said Leo.
Percy nodded, worrying the council as to what had happened in the future.
'I mumbled something about trying harder, while Mr. Brunner took one long sad look at the stele, like he'd been at this girl's funeral.'
"He had been probably" said Dionysus, speaking for the first time, surprising the present people who had forgotten of his existence.
'He told me to go outside and eat my lunch. The class gathered on the front steps of the museum, where we could watch the foot traffic along Fifth Avenue.'
Everyone leaned forward, anticipating on what happens next. No one noticed Hades backing away from Poseidon.
'Overhead, a huge storm was brewing, with clouds blacker than I'd ever seen over the city.'
Everyone looked at Zeus, who shrugged.
'I figured maybe it was global warming or something, because the weather all across New York state had been weird since Christmas.'
Everyone who weren't there at that time were confused as the old Greek campers (Annabeth, the Stolls, Clarisse, Percy and Grover) looked sad.
'We'd had massive snow storms, flooding, wildfires from lightning strikes. I wouldn't have been surprised if this was a hurricane blowing in.'
Everyone now looked between Poseidon and Zeus.
Demeter asked, "What is happening here?"
"We don't really know. Just read on. It's in the future as it is" they replied.
'Nobody else seemed to notice.'
"Mostly the mist" muttered Hazel and Rachel.
"What made you two mad?" asked Hestia.
The two just shrugged.
'Some of the guys were pelting pigeons with Lunchables crackers. Nancy Bobofit was trying to pickpocket something from a lady's purse, and, of course, Mrs. Dodds wasn't seeing a thing.'
"Don't ask me. Shes not mine from what I read. If she were mine, she would have done it already" said Hermes.
"yeah we would have" said the Stolls. "Oops!" they said as Hermes looked at them.
"Are you two my children?" he asked.
"Yes, dad we are" "Conner and" "Travis Stoll" "sons of Hermes" they said and sat next to Hermes, probably talking about pranking the council.
'Grover and I sat on the edge of the fountain, away from the others. We thought that maybe if we did that, everybody wouldn't know we were from that school—the school for loser freaks who couldn't make it elsewhere.'
"Did it work?" asked Frank.
"Nope it didn't work out." The duo said.
All the others were meanwhile thinking of how Percy seemed to be having low self-confidence and lonely before he came to camp. The only thought in their mind was 'What had happened to him? Where was the sarcastic and annoying Percy they knew of?'
'"Detention?" Grover asked. "Nah," I said. "Not from Brunner. I just wish he'd lay off me sometimes. I mean—I'm not a genius."'
"Don't even think that low about yourself Percy" scolded Annabeth as the others who knew him agreed.
"We only call you seaweed brain due to your impulsive actions and not due to the intelligence idiot" said Nico.
"Nice to know that Neeks" said Percy.
"Don't call me Neeks" the said person commented.
'Grover didn't say anything for a while. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?"'
Everyone laughed at this.
"Sorry to not come up to your expectations Percy" said Grover.
"It did help me cheer up actually. Thanks G-man" Percy said in reply.
'I didn't have much of an appetite, so I let him take it.'
"But that is impossible!" said all the future campers.
'I watched the stream of cabs going down Fifth Avenue, and thought about my mom's apartment, only a little ways uptown from where we sat. I hadn't seen her since Christmas.'
Those who didn't know Percy's mom were curious, especially Poseidon since he knew he would not be with any woman and chose carefully.
'I wanted so bad to jump in a taxi and head home.'
"Mama's boy" muttered Ares.
"What was that again?" asked Hera, shutting him up effectively.
And before you ask why no one was angry with Hera for her actions, she had explained every action she did in detail, earning the demigods pardon.
'She'd hug me and be glad to see me, but she'd be disappointed, too. She'd send me right back to Yancy, remind me that I had to try harder, even if this was my sixth school in six years and I was probably going to be kicked out again.'
Athena's eyes widened in horror. "Six schools?" she asked. Even though she didn't know what a school is exactly, she knew it was knowledge related.
"And there are more to come milady" he said as her eyes widened even more.
'I wouldn't be able to stand that sad look she'd give me.'
Hestia, Artemis, Hestia and all those who knew Percy very well smiled at the mother son relationship.
Mr. Brunner parked his wheelchair at the base of the handicapped ramp. He ate celery while he read a paperback novel. A red umbrella stuck up from the back of his chair, making it look like a motorized café table.'
Both the mechanics eyes lightened up at the idea. No one noticed the excited look Leo had at the idea though.
'I was about to unwrap my sandwich when Nancy Bobofit appeared in front of me with her ugly friends—I guess she'd gotten tired of stealing from the tourists—and dumped her half-eaten lunch in Grover's lap.'
All of Grover's friends growled at this.
"I'm going to kill that bitch if I see her" shouted Thalia but stopped before she showed her powers.
'"Oops." She grinned at me with her crooked teeth. Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.'
"That description is horrible Percy" said Rachel.
"Why did you have to ruin Cheetos for us dude" whined Leo, Jason, Nico, the Stolls and Frank.
"What is Cheetos?" asked the old demigods.
"We will tell more about the modern world after the chapter" said Reyna.
'I tried to stay cool. The school counselor had told me a million times, "Count to ten, get control of your temper."'
"How many times Percy?" asked Frank.
"Huh?" asked Percy.
"I asked how many times have you gone to the counsellor?" repeated Frank.
"Oh! I haven't kept count of it" said Percy sheepishly.
'But I was so mad my mind went blank. A wave roared in my ears.'
"That is the Percy we know!" said the demigods.
'I don't remember touching her, but the next thing I knew, Nancy was sitting on her butt in the fountain, screaming, "Percy pushed me!"'
Everyone cheered at Percy for teaching that girl a lesson as the person looked at Grover and shuddered.
'Mrs. Dodds materialized next to us.'
"What monster is she?" asked Athena, noticing that Nico and Hades had found it out.
"Just keep reading, you will know" said Grover.
'Some of the kids were whispering: "Did you see—" "—the water—" "—like it grabbed her—"'
"So, you are really a child of the big 3 huh?" asked Dionysus, looking at Percy.
"It seems that you didn't pay attention when I said that but yes I am the son of Poseidon." replied Percy.
"Shall we eat after this chapter please" asked Leo.
"We shall discuss all the questions at that time and we will eat after this chapter Leo" said Hestia.
'I didn't know what they were talking about. All I knew was that I was in trouble again.'
"When are you not kelp head?" asked Thalia.
Poseidon, even though calm outside, was panicking on what happened to his son in the future while the others were curious on what he did.
'As soon as Mrs. Dodds was sure poor little Nancy was okay, promising to get her a new shirt at the museum gift shop, etc., etc., Mrs. Dodds turned on me.'
"Now what will happen?" asked Theseus.
"I guess the usual 'I am going to kill you' dialogue I guess" said Hercules.
'There was a triumphant fire in her eyes, as if I'd done something she'd been waiting for all semester.'
"Creepy" said Leo as the others nodded.
"What kind of a monster is she?" wondered all the demigods and gods except the four.
'"Now, honey—" "I know," I grumbled. "A month erasing workbooks."'
"Never guess your punishment!" yelled Hermes, Leo and the Stolls.
'That wasn't the right thing to say.'
"Of course, not" huffed Hermes, shaking his head.
'"Come with me," Mrs. Dodds said. "Wait!" Grover yelped. "It was me. I pushed her."'
"Some people were confused o why Grover would say that as they knew he got scared easily. The just kept pondering on what monster it was.
'I stared at him, stunned. I couldn't believe he was trying to cover for me. Mrs. Dodds scared Grover to death.'
Grover shivered.
'She glared at him so hard his whiskery chin trembled. "I don't think so, Mr. Underwood," she said. "But—" "You—will—stay—here." Grover looked at me desperately.'
"Why are you so desperate and insistent even if it scared you?" asked Thalia, who was dreading on what is to happen.
Grover just looked at Percy instead of answering her.
'"It's okay, man," I told him. "Thanks for trying."'
Hestia smiled at him. She can see that he would be loyal till the end while Artemis was shocked as she had never met a decent or modest male in her life who wasn't corrupted on the go.
'"Honey," Mrs. Dodds barked at me. "Now."'
Hades backed up more, dreading Poseidon's reaction to the monster. He knew how powerful his brother was when he is angry and didn't want to face him.
'Nancy Bobofit smirked. I gave her my deluxe I'll-kill-you-later stare.'
Everyone who had seen that glare shuddered. Especially Nico who said, "You never want to be on the receiving end of the glare at any time."
The gods looked at the demigods and chose to stay silent until Ares opened his mouth.
"I bet my glare is scarier than yours!" he said, trying to challenge Percy and put on his best glare on the demigods, who looked ready to laugh.
"Now its my turn" Percy said and glared his medium glare, making everyone, even the gods shrink down in their seats.
Percy then stopped and laughed. "If my medium seemed to scare you Ares, then how will you react to my worst one?" he said as the gods kept silent wondering how the glare had scared them that much.
'Then I turned to face Mrs. Dodds, but she wasn't there. She was standing at the museum entrance, way at the top of the steps, gesturing impatiently at me to come on. How'd she get there so fast?'
"Of course, she is a monster" the demigods said.
'I have moments like that a lot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it. The school counselor told me this was part of the ADHD, my brain misinterpreting things.'
"It is just the mist, not the ADHD" said Athena.
'I wasn't so sure.'
"Good to know that your instincts are intact" said artemis, surprising everyone who thought she was a male hater.
"Now you are feeling soft for a boy Arty" Apollo said only to receive an arrow inches away from his manhood.
'I went after Mrs. Dodds. Halfway up the steps, I glanced back at Grover. He was looking pale, cutting his eyes between me and Mr. Brunner, like he wanted Mr. Brunner to notice what was going on, but Mr. Brunner was absorbed in his novel.'
"Chiron! At least notice what is happening!" practically everyone shouted.
'I looked back up. Mrs. Dodds had disappeared again. She was now inside the building, at the end of the entrance hall.'
Everyone held their breadths, anticipating on what is to happen.
'Okay, I thought. She's going to make me buy a new shirt for Nancy at the gift shop.'
"I wish it were true..." mumbled Percy, making everyone worried.
'But apparently that wasn't the plan.'
"Of course, it wasn't" commented Conner.
'I followed her deeper into the museum. When I finally caught up to her, we were back in the Greek and Roman section. Except for us, the gallery was empty.'
"It is obviously a trap. You should choose your own battlefield rather than let others do it" said Athena.
"I know that now" said Percy.
'Mrs. Dodds stood with her arms crossed in front of a big marble frieze of the Greek gods. She was making this weird noise in her throat, like growling.'
Everyone were now nervous on what is going to happen.
'Even without the noise, I would've been nervous. It's weird being alone with a teacher, especially Mrs. Dodds. Something about the way she looked at the frieze, as if she wanted to pulverize it ...'
"Maybe she did" said Orion.
'"You've been giving us problems, honey," she said. I did the safe thing. I said, "Yes, ma'am."'
Many demigods gasped. "When does Percy do the safe thing!" asked Thalia, leading the others laughing at him as he pouted.
'She tugged on the cuffs of her leather jacket. "Did you really think you would get away with it?"'
"Away with what?" asked almost everyone present.
They were all curious to know the answer as Percy, Grover and Annabeth stole glances at each other.
'The look in her eyes was beyond mad. It was evil. She's a teacher, I thought nervously. It's not like she's going to hurt me.'
"Wrong there Percy" muttered Apollo, worried about the boy.
'I said, "I'll—I'll try harder, ma'am."'
"Percy is trying to be polite?" gasped Nico, earning a free shower.
'Thunder shook the building.'
"What is seriously going on here?" asked Athena, looking at her father.
Zeus just shrugged, wondering what happened himself.
'"We are not fools, Percy Jackson," Mrs. Dodds said. "It was only a matter of time before we found you out. Confess, and you will suffer less pain."'
"Less pain?" questioned the others, paling a bit.
"It's ok guys. I'm here right?" Percy asked, as the others seemed to calm down a bit.
'I didn't know what she was talking about. All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorm room.'
Everyone laughed at this and Apollo, Hermes, the Stolls and Leo got dreamy looks.
'Or maybe they'd realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.'
Athena's eyes widened at this and shouted, "There is nothing wrong in reading idiot" as some others snickered at her expression.
'"Well?" she demanded. "Ma'am, I don't . . ." "Your time is up," she hissed.'
Everyone were listening as they held their breaths.
'Then the weirdest thing happened. Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn't human. She was a shriveled hag with bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me to ribbons.'
Everyone's eyes widened.
"Is it a Fury!" asked the past demigods as Percy nodded.
"You sent a Fury after my son?!" shouted Poseidon at Hades. Even though he had known his son only for some time, he had grown attached to him.
Hades paled a little. ""It...it is in the future! I don't know why I did it!" he said truthfully.
"Why didn't you tell us about this!" the futures apart from Grover shouted.
"I didn't think it was important for you to know..." Percy whispered, looking down sadly.
Annabeth's glare softened as she hugged him.
"You are important for us Percy and every single detail is important for me. No more secrets after reading the books okay?" she asked as he nodded.
Rachel started to read after Hestia calmed Poseidon down.
"You have some bad luck bro/cuz" said the 4 past demigods.
'Then things got even stranger.'
"And how is that possible?" asked Frank.
"Just wait and watch" Percy replied.
'Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute before, wheeled his chair into the doorway of the gallery, holding a pen in his hand. "What ho, Percy!" he shouted, and tossed the pen through the air.'
""What's a pen? And what are you going to do with it?" asked Ares.
All those who knew what it was just smiled.
'Mrs. Dodds lunged at me.'
"If anything happens to him then I will send you to father, brother" threatened Poseidon as everyone shivered as they knew Poseidon never gave empty threats.
Hades was praying for the sea spawn to be out of this safely.
'With a yelp, I dodged and felt talons slash the air next to my ear.'
"Nice instincts boy" complemented Artemis, making the others in the past look at her in shocking surprise.
"What did you do to my sister cuz?" asked Apollo.
Percy just shrugged as Artemis just asked "Is it wrong that I say something about males?"
'I snatched the ballpoint pen out of the air, but when it hit my hand, it wasn't a pen anymore. It was a sword—Mr. Brunner's bronze sword, which he always used on tournament day.'
"Oh." Said Ares as he heard the line.
The other demigods who hadn't heard about these concealed weapons became interested.
"Cool" they commented.
'Mrs. Dodds spun toward me with a murderous look in her eyes. My knees were jelly. My hands were shaking so bad I almost dropped the sword.'
"Wimp" muttered Ares, only to receive glares from everyone.
"That was his first monster mind you dad. He didn't even know about Greek mythology and had no training either" said Clarisse as the others were stunned at her standing up for Percy.
'She snarled, "Die, honey!" And she flew straight at me.'
"What is with her saying honey!" cried out Leo.
'Absolute terror ran through my body. I did the only thing that came naturally: I swung the sword.'
"How does it come naturally dude?" asked Hercules.
All the demigods were in a sort of truce with him, wanting to know more about him before judging him more, even though they had already beat him up at their arrival.
"Instinct I guess" came the reply.
'The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed clean through her body as if she were made of water. Hisss!'
Everyone were looking at Percy in awe. He had defeated a Fury at the age of 12 without any training.
Percy was shuffling in his seat, hating the attention he got.
"That was...wow" all the people present exclaimed.
Percy blushed at the praise, making Artemis raise an eyebrow at the modesty.
'Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan. She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air, as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching me.'
Most of the demigods shuddered. "I hate that feeling" the muttered.
I was alone. There was a ballpoint pen in my hand. Mr. Brunner wasn't there. Nobody was there but me. My hands were still trembling. My lunch must've been contaminated with magic mushrooms or something.'
"Seriously Percy? Magic mushrooms" groaned Annabeth.
Travis and Conner were looking at each other with a mischievous glint in their eyes.
"Don't even think about it" shouted everyone, knowing they were up to something.
The said brothers pouted at this.
'Had I imagined the whole thing?'
"Unfortunately, you didn't" said Reyna.
'I went back outside. It had started to rain.'
Zeus was again getting a few glances from the others while the campers who were there at that time looked down sadly.
'Grover was sitting by the fountain, a museum map tented over his head. Nancy Bobofit was still standing there, soaked from her swim in the fountain, grumbling to her ugly friends.'
Some people snickered at the image.
'When she saw me, she said, "I hope Mrs. Kerr whipped your butt."'
"Who?" asked everyone except Percy and Grover.
Rachel smirked as she read the next line.
'I said, "Who?"'
Everyone's eyes widened. "We all think like Percy" they all shouted.
'"Our teacher. Duh!"'
"How?" asked Nico.
"The mist duh!" said hazel and Athena at the same time.
'I blinked. We had no teacher named Mrs. Kerr. I asked Nancy what she was talking about. She just rolled her eyes and turned away.'
"That was rude" said Hera.
'I asked Grover where Mrs. Dodds was. He said, "Who?" But he paused first, and he wouldn't look at me, so I thought he was messing with me.'
"I guess I should give you lying lessons Grover" said Hermes.
"Lesson 1. Never hesitate when you lie" shouted Hermes and his sons.
Grover gulped. It is going to be a training session.
'"Not funny, man," I told him. "This is serious." Thunder boomed overhead. I saw Mr. Brunner sitting under his red umbrella, reading his book, as if he'd never moved. I went over to him. He looked up, a little distracted.'
"You are good at reading expressions and people, you know Percy?" said Rachel.
"Then why was he so obvious to his girlfriend?" asked Thalia innocently, only to receive a free shower from a blushing Percy.
"Shut up Thals" they muttered.
'"Ah, that would be my pen. Please bring your own writing utensil in the future, Mr. Jackson."'
"The way Chiron is acting is as if Percy hadn't fought one of the worst monsters for the first time" said Frank as everyone nodded.
'I handed Mr. Brunner his pen. I hadn't even realized I was still holding it. "Sir," I said, "where's Mrs. Dodds?" He stared at me blankly. "Who?" "The other chaperone. Mrs. Dodds. The pre-algebra teacher."'
"So that's why the title is 'I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher' uh?" exclaimed Piper as everyone agreed, finally understanding the title.
'He frowned and sat forward, looking mildly concerned. "Percy, there is no Mrs. Dodds on this trip. As far as I know, there has never been a Mrs. Dodds at Yancy Academy. Are you feeling all right?"'
"Now that is a true lie" Hermes said proudly. "But he still needs help in changing topics and pep talks" he muttered as everyone nodded.
"So there ends the chapter. Who is reading next?" Rachel asked.
"Before even thinking about reading the next chapter, you have to explain a few terms from the modern world and have lunch I guess" suggested Perseus.
Everyone agreed with him and proceeded to the dining hall.
A/N: This is the second chapter of the book and I hope you all like it. A small opinion from you readers. All comments and criticism accepted. Just a reminder. The same book is also published under the name Blast From the Past by Rasnak in Wattpad.
Thank you for reading!
Rasi10
PUBLISHED ON 13 MARCH 2018
