So thank you Xx-Bella-Woods-xX for reviewing. Yes, they're all supposed to be like 12 in the books but this is based on the movie. I don't have the patience to go back and re-read the book ;). I actually wrote this whole thing based on a screenplay I found as stated in the first chapter. It's actually really good and you all should read it. Onward! Here's chapter two!
Later on, Grover and Percy sat inside a crowded subway train. Grover was silent and Percy was anxious.
"Would you please tell me what's going on? What's all this stuff about my powers and me having something! And where's Cassie? She wasn't at school when we got back." Percy ranted.
Grover tried to shh him, paranoid, "Quiet. Keep your voice down. They could be listening."
"Who?" Percy asked exasperated, "Who could be listening?"
"Not here." Grover whispered, "Not with all of these people around. No one can be trusted." He glared at an elderly lady who was staring at him. Percy shook his head.
Later, off the subway and into a working class neighborhood, Grover and Percy hurried up into Percy's apartment building, anxious and tense. Grover started explaining some things, "I'm here to keep you safe. I'm your protector." When Percy laughed Grover asked what was so funny.
"Nothing. It's just... well, you..." Percy was interrupted by his friend.
"What? You think because I'm disabled I can't kick some serious whoopass? Think again." Grover replied, not offended, but haughty.
Once inside the apartment, Percy caught sight of Gabe Ugliano, his 39-year old, sloppy, overweight stepfather sitting at a table playing cards with four poker buddies. Several empty beer bottles were laid on the table. Gabe lifted a butt-cheek off his chair and let one RIIIIIP. "Sally? Hey? Can we get a couple beers?"
Percy's mom, Sally, entered with a six pack in her hands. Although the attractive, beaten-down woman seemed aged with a hard life there was a toughness, an inner strength, a radiant glow about her. Gabe took the beers and looked at his friends, "You know, guys... If God wanted men to get their own beer, he wouldn't have invented women..."
Sally forced a smile as Gabe gave her a sloppy kiss and grabbed her ass, "Just kidding babe, c'mere..."
Percy nearly exploded, "Get your hands off my mother!"
Everyone turned in surprise, especially Sally but she quickly turned delighted, "Percy!" She rushed over to him and embraced him.
Percy continued, "Disrespect my Mom again and you'll get your ass kicked out in the street."
"Yeah? Let's see what you got-" Gabe stood in a drunken rage and grabbed Percy by the collar. Grover brought down his crutch hard on top of Gabe's foot. Gabe cried out and Grover made a really fake apology, "Oh, geez. Sorry. New crutches." Grover removed his crutch but this time slammed in into Gabe's balls. Gabe crumbled to his knees, the wind knocked out of him. Grover then turned to Percy's mom, "Sally, Percy has to go to camp now. He's in danger and they're after him."
Sally nods and Percy wonders how she knows more than he does. "We'll take Gabe's car. Let's go."
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Sally was at the wheel. It was dark out and there were in the middle of nowhere. Grover sat in the back nervously gobbling Cheetos and checking a road map. Percy turned to his mother upset and worried, "Mom, I don't know what's going on. But I didn't steal anything."
"I believe you, honey, I do," Sally cut in, "I know that you're scared and confused right now. Trust me, I didn't want any of this for you. I thought we could have an ordinary life. But nothing about you could ever be ordinary." Sally tried to smile comfortingly at her son but it did nothing to ease his stress. "We're going to a camp. For people like you. And your father."
"Great," Percy muttered, "A camp for losers."
"You're father was not a loser. He was a great man." Sally protested. But Percy scoffed.
"Yeah, a great man who abandoned his family." Percy said sarcastically.
"He didn't abandon us. He had to leave. He couldn't stay in our world." Sally said mildly. Thought Percy could tell it still upset her to talk about his dad.
"Who was he? E.T?" Percy joked lamely, not at all in it as he wanted to be. He hoped his dad was E.T. Then he'd know what he was dealing with.
"Percy, you know all the myths. They're not really myths. You saw the Minotaurs. There were Gods in Greece a long time ago but they tend to follow the heart of the West. They've been settled in America for the past two centuries." Then Sally turned to him and said, "Percy... you're a demigod," To say he was shocked would be an understatement.
"I was young when we met. Your Father was unlike any other guy I had ever met. He was just... dazzling..." Sally dazed.
"They're always dazzling..." Grover muttered. But Sally ignored him, "We were very much in love and then you came along and everything was perfect. But he had to leave. He had no choice. The Gods are responsible for the entire universe. But he loved you. Leaving you was probably the most difficult thing he ever did."
Percy seemed lost in thought for a moment, digesting all the information, "What was his name?" Sally was just about to tell him who his Father was when a loud inhuman roar filled the air. Grover looked out the window when suddenly...CHUD! A cow landed in the road in front of them.
Sally swerved, screaming, and the camaro flipped onto its side, careened off the road and skidded into a ditch, coming to a stop beside the vast forest of pine trees. Smoke poured from beneath the hood. Percy grabbed his head in pain and checked on his mom. After seeing she was fine he looked to see Grover who just said, "Is it just me, or is it raining cows?"
The car suddenly shakes as something very large, very heavy, runs towards them. Percy looks out and see cows being thrown into the air, flying left and right. The monster headed towards the car as Sally cried, "Everyone out!" She threw herself against the driver's side door but it was jammed shut. Percy tried his door but it was jammed too. Grover removed his sneaks and started stripping off his pants.
Percy's eyes widened, "What are you doing?"
Grover looked at him, "My job." He lifted his feet, revealing that they were thick furry hooves.
Percy stared, shocked, "Whoa. Whoa. Whoa!... You're half donkey?"
"Goat actually," Grover muttered. He pulled back his left hoof and with a powerful kick shattered the rear window and climbed out assisting Sally and Percy out as well and there he was, a satyr, "Follow me."
With tremendous speed and agility, Grover galloped toward the forest with Sally and Percy right behind. They sprinted off as the thing picked up the camaro and hurled it in their direction. It flew towards them smashing through the trees. Sally tackled the two boys as the car flies over their head, just missing them by inches and lands with a crash only a few feet in front of them, "I always hated that car."
The quickly got to their feet, hearing the smashing and breaking of trees behind them. And they see an old wooden archway with faded Greek letters on the top spelling CAMP HALFBLOOD.
The three of them run for their lives and Grover shoves Percy through the archway. He looked back to see that his mom has stopped, "Mom! What are you doing?"
"I can't go any further." Sally gasped.
Percy wasn't having it and he reached for his Mother's arms and tried to pull her through the entrance. But an invisible force field prevented her from entering, "I can't go through. I'm not like you." The Minotaur was stomping closer. "I love you, Percy. Now go. Please."
Percy looked at her like she was out of her mind, "I'm not leaving without you!"
"You have to. You're meant to." Sally said simply, pulling her arm free. She took a step back just as the monster arrived. Percy reached for her again but the Minotaur grabbed her before he could. "NO!"
The beast lifted her by the neck despite her struggling, kicking and pummeling. It closed it's fist around Sally's neck and she melted into light, becoming a shimmering, golden form. There was a blinding flash before she disappeared. Percy yelled out, "MOM!"
"Percy! Don't!" But Grover's cries fell on deaf ears as the teen ran up to the Minotaur and leaped onto it's back. The creature tossed him off like a rag doll sending him flying into a tree. He fell onto the ground. The beast lowered it's head and charge him, but Percy just missed him when he rolled out of the way. The beast plowed into a tree head first and the horn got stuck. With a loud roar it pulled back its head but the horn snapped off, and was now stuck in the tree.
Furious the monster raced toward Percy and Percy ran to the tree and pulled the horn out. Percy stabbed the creature and it howled in pain, black blood pouring from the wound, and fell to the ground... dead.
Percy began to grow weaker and faint. He whispered a pained, "Mom." Before everything went black.
I know it's – exactly half – shorter than the first chapter but like I said, I'm separating them on when I think they should end, not by length. Remember to REVIEW! Like Xx-Bella-Woods-xX
