This year is the first year I've ever been considered "popular." I've picked up football and I absolutely love it. After practice, Alex and I are in the hallway hanging out. Alex is a cool dude, the star quarterback. We were doing the whole "shoving each other back and forth thing laughing like a couple of goofs" thing. We stop when Alex notices a cute girl walk into the bathroom. He winked and started talking loudly, "We totally dominated the Jaguars last night! I could have swore one of them had a binky when he went home last night!" I had to laugh...he was always showing off. Alex's shoulders quaked as he chuckled; He was a big dude with brown hair and brown eyes and was always scheming up trouble.
"No kidding, I saw it, too. Pitiful!" I spoke back. I didn't mention I saw the kid make a deal with his little sister that if he lost the game he had to have the pacifier for the rest of the night. The girl emerged and shot Alex a smile then walked out of the school. He shot me a look and made his eyebrows dance. I shook my head and took a seat on a bench.
Alex walked over to a water fountain and bent over. I had a great idea. I snuck behind him and dumped his head in the stream. Water was dripping from his dark brown hair. I completely cracked up. He was still coughing water from his nose when he said, "Nice one, but wait till my turn." He grinned wickedly.
Not to be intimidated, I leaned against the fountain. Then, I concentrated hard and soon smelled salt water. The fountain started groaning, I backed away.
"What did you do to it?" I asked, eyes wide, faking fear.
He was staring at it dumbly. "I...I..di...di...didn't..do anything!" He said.
At that moment, I jumped out of the way. Water burst through the fountain and gallons ended up soaking Alex. I busted out laughing.
"You, You, cursed demigods!" came a shrill shriek from Alex. Only, it wasn't Alex anymore, it was Arieda! Arieda is Alex's twin sister. She is crazy smart and is usually my partner in science. I did NOT expect Arieda to pull out something that looked like a short missile launcher from her bookbag.
"Arieda! What's going on?" I screamed. I already had a pretty good idea. Probably some kind of shape shifter. My guess two forms are its limit...more than that is pretty rare.
"Awwww...Percy, are you scared? What happen to the fun and games?" She whimpered. "I know!" she said brightly, "Lets play dodge ball!"
Uh no, that is not my favorite sport. Especially with a run in with some gross mega giants a few years back.
She shot the gun. A ball of Greek fire went whizzing around the hall bouncing off wall. It wasn't really that concerning. Dodging it was pretty easy; it was instinct. While the fire was bouncing off walls like a pinball machine, I took the water off the floor. I was going to try to stop her before more of them went whizzing. I tried to think ice when I threw it at her, but it didn't freeze all the way. I'm still working on that. Before she could figure out what happened, I took my sword out and turned her to dust in one quick motion. Water and monster dust makes some nasty mud.
So, that's what a Halfbood has to deal with. Fun, right? Now, back to what is happening right now...
"Sally, monsters cannot just "pop" into existence...its not possible" Paul speculated. And then they got real detail about the anatomy and what not...I thought monsters were disgusting before.
After about fifteen minutes of zoning out, looking out the car window, we arrived at the bottom of half blood hill.
