A friend of mine told me that publishing during the evening would be more noticed and help get more advice and criticism to improve my writing. So, here's another chapter.

I don't own Percy Jackson or any of its characters

Yancy College of Science and Technology- Experiment Lab #9

Knock! Knock!

"Come in!" Percy shouted, still focused on his laptop.

The door swung open, and Mr. Brunner strolled in looking mildly annoyed. "Perseus, you wouldn't happen to know where Grover is, would you?" he asked in an accusing manner.

Percy took his eyes of the screen and looked at his mythology teacher with a 'hurt' expression. "Are you saying that I had something to do with Grover's sudden disappearance?" he asked in a 'shocked' voice. "Mr. Brunner, Grover and I are the best of friends. Why would I ever-"

He was cut off as the worn-out teacher made his way towards the white curtained part of the room that contained a shadow running. Mr. Brunner pulled down the curtains to reveal a shirtless Grover trying to run on a treadmill as Nancy monitored his health. He had on an oxygen mask that really wasn't helping him keep steady breaths and a heart monitor that was beeping its lights off. Every time he slowed down, Nancy would pull a syringe out of her pocket, a threatening look appearing on her face. Thus, Grover would start running even faster.

Grover's face turned into one of hope as he finally noticed Mr. Brunner. He frantically waved his arms, believing that he had been saved.

!

Grover looked at his back and noticed a needle sticking into it. 'Oh,' he thought. 'That wasn't there before…'

His brown eyes rolled up as his body went limp. His legs wouldn't hold up and toppled over, resulting in him falling face-first on the still-moving treadmill.

Mr. Brunner looked at Percy with a deadpanned expression. "Care to explain this to me?" he asked.

Percy gave a defeated sigh. "Ok, ok. I needed Grover to help power up my lab. Apparently, I used up too much electricity and caused the building's electric bill to skyrocket."

His saddened face turned into a proud one. "But that's ok! From now on, this lab will run on G-Force!" he exclaimed, holding up a victory sign with Nancy cheering in the background.

"G-Force?" the teacher asked.

Percy nodded excitedly as he pointed to the now red-faced unconscious boy.

Mr. Brunner rubbed his temples. 'Of course,' he thought. He had dealt with many strange people for millenniums, but Percy really took the cake. Even for people of his kind…

"So, how'd it go, my assistant? Do we have enough?" Percy asked in a curious tone.

Nancy quickly made calculations, added variables, carried the number, and scribbled in her notes. She then gave a bright smile. "According to the data, Subject #1 just needs to run 12,583 more miles to power up the lab for another month!"

The duo gave a cheer as Mr. Brunner looked wearily at them. He was getting too old for this.

"Uncle, is that you?" Grover mumbled. "Can I come, too?"

Yancy Academy, Floor 1, Room #19

"I expect you all to have your work done tomorrow!" Mr. Brunner said as the class was dismissed for next period. "And don't forget to turn in your permission slip for the museum field trip!"

As he started sorting out the students' work, Mrs. Dodds walked up to his desk with a smile on her face.

"I can't wait for the trip," she said. It was true. The trip would be a perfect opportunity to isolate the Jackson brat and take back what he stole.

A chuckle escaped the teacher's mouth. "Neither can I…ha… ha ha… HAHAHA!" His chuckle turned into a crazed laugh.

Mrs. Dodds was taken back by the sudden change. She put up a nervous laugh. "You must be very enthusiastic about your subject."

"Hah!" Mr. Brunner exclaimed. "No, I'm enthusiastic about Mr. Jackson not joining us."

The new information got her attention and place a small amount of fear into her. She needed to stay near that brat.

"Oh, why's that?"

He shrugged. "Mr. Jackson has never been on a school trip to anything that's not science related. Since field trips are optional, he isn't required to attend any. And quite frankly, the teachers are happy about that." His face dropped. "Except for Mr. Kinahan. That poor, poor science teacher. He'll never be rid of him for 4 more years…"

What?! NO! She needed that brat to go on this trip or else her master will have her head for not completing the assignment!

"Maybe," she tried," I could look over him instead of going."

Mr. Brunner looked at her as if she'd lost her mind. Slowly, his mind started working again. "Well, there's good news and bad news to your suggestion. The bad news is, you're required to go on the trip as you're the assistant Greek Mythology teacher."

Darn! "And the good news?"

"The good news is, you're required to go on the trip for your sanity as well."

What?! Curse that brat and his insanity! She gave a low growl that couldn't be heard. Now what could she do?!

"Hello, Mr. Jackson," Mrs. Dodds greeted as Percy left his English class.

"Hello, Mrs. Dodds," Percy said, not giving her a glace as he was too absorbed in his blueprints for- is that a gun?!

The assistant teacher focused back on her task. "I heard that you don't usually go on school trips."

"Yes," Percy confirmed as he was still trying to get the measurements and material correct.

Mrs. Dodds gave a supportive smile. "Well, we can't have that. All students should attend a trip if they can," she said in her best teacher voice she could.

Percy gave a shrug. "I'm not interested in boring ancient stories."

A tick mark appeared on her head as she tried her best to not kill him now. 'Soon, very soon. And very, very slow…'

"Oh? But aren't you excited about their new exhibit?" she asked sweetly.

"I could care less about a new section for some Greek hero," he said dismissively.

Mrs. Dodds smirked. "But it isn't about a hero. It's about a Greek… animal."

Percy perked at the mention of a new tes- er, animal. He slightly moved his head so that he could see Mrs. Dodds but could still focus on his invention. "An exhibit about animals in a museum? What kind of animal is it?"

'Good! He sort-of bought it. Now then, to convince him…'

"Instead of telling you, how about I show you?"

She quickly summoned a monster from the Underworld in her palm and showed it to Percy, who quickly analyzed it. It was a bright orange sea snake that was definitely native to the Mediterranean. However, there were some odd features about it. It had sharp ear-like gills on the sides of its head and small centipede-like legs throughout its body. And did those eyes just change color?!

Percy was in disbelief. No, no marine-creature had those descriptions, and he would know; he's studied basically every water creature in the world. So how…?

'A new species?!' he thought excitedly.

He reached out to grab it only for Mrs. Dodds to withdraw her hand. She than wagged her finger. "Ah, ah, ah," she said, teasingly. "This is only for the students who are going on the field trip."

Percy scowled. "Fine, I'll go."

'Just you wait, you little worm,' he thought, eyeing the creature. 'Your entire body and all of its information will be mine! Mine I tell you! HAHAHAHA!'

Huh? Mrs. Dodds swore she just felt the snake shiver.

Public Museum of European History

"And here, you'll find a statue of Kronos eating his kids," Mr. Brunner said in a dejected voice as he glared at Mrs. Dodds. He had never disliked another staff member until now.

"Mr. Jackson, mind telling us about the story behind this?" he asked.

Percy quickly put the dead rat back into his lab coat before looking at the statue. Which crappy part of the Greek mythology was it again…? Oh yeah.

"Kronos was the King of Titans. When he sliced up his dad, he was given a warning that his kids would overthrow him, thus resulting in him getting paranoid and eating his kids, the Gods."

For some reason, Sally made sure to fill Percy's head with knowledge of everything surrounding the Greeks. He wasn't sure why though. It wasn't going help him in the real world after all.

Mr. Brunner nodded. "That is correct. Now, can you tell me how knowing this might help you in the world?"

As Percy opened his mouth, the teacher cut him off. "And in a normal explanation, please. Without any 'what if' scenarios." That got Percy's mouth closed.

After thinking for a few seconds, he shrugged. "I'm sorry, but I really don't know how these myths are gonna help us at all. After all, they're just plain old stories by an ancient civilization to explain why things are the way they are."

Thunder rumbled as Mr. Brunner now looked a bit nervous. "W-well, I'm sure you'll come up with a reason soon. Now class, this way to the Jason and the Golden Fleece exhibit…"

As the class followed the wheelchaired teacher, Mrs. Dodds pulled Percy out of the group and into a different direction.

"Come now, Mr. Jackson. This way to see that other Greek exhibit," the assistant teacher said.

Percy quickly formed a smile on his face as his hands started getting jittery at the thought of dissecting that magnificent creature. He had his tools ready in his pockets at a moment's notice. He even made sure to make them extra sharp for this experiment.

They arrived at a secluded room with nothing in it. There were no paintings, no statues, …

'And no distractions,' Mrs. Dodds thought with a grin. Perfect.

Suddenly, Mrs. Dodds pushed Percy against the copper walls. Her fingernails grew long and sharp as she placed them across his neck.

"Where is it?!" she demanded in a rough and dry voice.

Looking confused and strangely calm, Percy simply glanced back at her. "That's what I was about to ask. Where's the creature you promised me?"

She growled as she dug her nails deeper into his flesh. "Don't take me for a fool, Jackson! Where is the item?!"

Ok, now Percy was even more confused. "What item? I thought this was about that sea animal you showed me?"

"STOP PLAYING AROUND! THERE IS NO CREATURE, YOU IDIOT! NOW, WHERE IS THE HELM?!"

Time slowed down, and the world stopped moving as Percy took those words and processed it in his head. 'No creature, no creature, no creature…'

Seeing that he was out of it, Mrs. Dodds let go of her grip before flames surrounded her. It burnt off her clothing as she changed shape and grew wings, claws, and fangs. Her skin turned darker and darker as the flames kept eating her.

They were soon extinguished as she spread her thin, long wings. Her form looked like one of a burnt bat.

"You said I'd have it…" Percy muttered as he stared at the ground.

"What are you going on about now?!"

Percy paid her no attention. "You promised I'd get one… that I'd get and dissect that creature…"

He then looked at her with a fierce glare. His green eyes were practically glowing and made her flinch.

"Since I can't have that creature… I'll take you instead!" Percy shouted as he charged at her with a scalpel at hand.

"Fool!" She flew straight towards Percy and slashed his shoulder with her sharp talon-like foot.

Percy winced in pain as he covered his now bloodied shoulder and fell on the floor.

Mrs. Dodds flew up onto the chandelier hanging from the ceiling. "What can a boy like you possible do to someone like me?!"

As Percy got up, a sinister smirk grew on his face. "What can I do? I'll show you what I can do... with the power of science!"

He opened his lab coat and revealed vials of cooled, chilled colored gases that were spread across his coat. On his right, there were flasks filled with red-colored gas. On his left, there were flasks that were twice the size of the red ones which were filled with blue-colored gas. He reached into the back pockets and pulled out a gun that looked exactly like the one on his blueprint, a small pistol.

Mrs. Dodds scoffed. "Bullets won't affect me, stupid mortal."

"Oh?" Percy said, grinning. "Who said they were filled with bullets?"

He loaded a red flask and a blue flask into the barrel, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

She saw it coming and flew to her right.

"Ha, I t-"

BOOM!

A mild blast appeared from the shot and caught Mrs. Dodds. She covered her pointy ears from the loud sound and felt a burn on her left cheek.

'What?! Ho-'

She didn't get to finish her thoughts as Percy reloaded his pistol and fired again.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

She didn't get a chance to recover as she kept flying right and avoiding the shots as Percy kept reloading and firing his gun.

Soon afterwards, she landed back on the chandelier. "You may be able to injure me, but you're far from killing me, brat!" she snarled.

Percy gave a dark chuckle. "Do you know what I call my heat gun?" he asked.

"As if I ca-"

"It's called," Percy interrupted," the Rain Dance." That wicked smirk irritated her.

"Rain Dance? What kind of na-"

She stopped talking as she started noticing the walls around her. They were wet. Dripping wet. She looked down. The floor was basically flooded with water.

"So, you finally noticed?" Percy said. "The red vials are pure hydrogen while the blue vials are pure oxygen. And this gun does a fine job of heating them enough to form a chemical reaction."

To show his point, he fired the gun straight at the ceiling.

BOOM!

As usual, an explosion occurred, but now, she could see water falling out of from the blast.

"Now," he continued," I've got you."

He placed his pistol back into his coat and lifted his hands. As if by command, the water raised up with him and surrounded Mrs. Dodds. She tried to escape but to no avail.

Percy clasped his hands together, and the water closed up on her.

"Now," he said in a frosty tone. "Freeze."

The water hardened and turned to ice, freezing her body but left her head out. Due to her inability to move her body now, she fell onto the ground.

She groaned from the pain but recovered and glared at Percy. "So, you know what you are."

A chuckle was heard. "Of course. What kind of idiot would I be if I didn't find out by now?"

"You will pay for this, you half-blood!"

"That's right!" Percy laughed hysterically. "Fear me! For I am a MUTANT!"

…

…

"What?"

"Yes! That's right, a mutant!" Percy said, triumphantly. "And you are, too!"

Mrs. Dodds slammed her face onto the ice covering her body. An action that was noticed by Percy.

"What, are you not?" he asked, a bit confused.

"NO, YOU IMBICLE!" she screeched at him. "YOU'RE A DEMI-GOD! A FILTHY, IDIOTIC DEMI-GOD! I'M THE FURY, ALECTO!" More and more veins could be seen from her bald head.

Percy's face went from smiling to blank. "Wait, you mean like those stories Mr. Brunner always talked about? The children of gods and mortals?"

"YES!"

Huh? "You mean that all those Greek myths are real?"

"MOST OF THEM, YES!"

Quickly rebooting his brain, Percy thought long and hard about what he heard.

His lips curled up into a smile. "So that means all those monsters and creatures are real too, right?"

Alecto sighed. "Yes." As soon as she reformed, she was going to stay far away from this crazy half-breed.

Silence entered the room for a long minute until Percy started laughing hysterically. "This- this is wonderful! More experiments! More tests! More subjects!"

He turned his attention to the Fury who shivered. His face was covered in a shadow, but his glowing eyes and dark, sinister grin could be clearly seen.

"But for now," he said, slowly," let's start with you." He pulled out his sharp, very sharp scalpel.

For once, Alecto was afraid of a mere demi-god. A demi-god who's clearly insane. An insane demi-god that had her well-being at his hands.

Oh no!

"FOR SCIENCE!"