Chapter Two

Posted 10.11.10

833 words

"On… land." Poseidon had said. Percy finally got what his dad meant by that. Obviously he knew that any amount of time spent out of his strongest environment, namely the ocean, would weaken his powers, but this seemed sad. His nearly catatonic state was the result of his reconciliation with dry air. He now cherished even the slight mist in the air, for the fractional amount of safety it provided. If he was in dire need, he at least could transport out of there.

However, land did have its advantages. For one thing, his mom lived here, in Manhattan, which he has come to believe is the greatest port city in existence, minus the very grumpy river spirits and the water pollution. Although he was not as much a naturalist with "hippie" type views as a satyr, protectors of the Wild, he did care for his element, and every bit of water pollution irked him to Gods end. Anyway, on the subject of his mother, she seemed ecstatic. She had her family back together again. She kept repeating those lines, especially the word family. This unnerved him a little bit, for although he did love his mother to the ends of the world, Paul Blowfis, sadly not blowfish as Poseidon and Percy had hoped, he did not know. He did not see how the three of them in one space made a family unit. His family was underwater and with the Greek Gods and their legitimate and illegitimate children, even though the two groups stayed apart. However, he could see how happy this man made his mother, so in the end that was almost all it took for Percy to accept him, but he was still wary.

Tomorrow was the day he would have to start school, and he was extremely disappointed. He already had limited powers to use on land, but absolutely none of these things could be seen by ordinary mortals, therefore there will be no powers to use at school. This dampened his spirits. The only good thing that had happened that Tyson had Iris Messaged him earlier. The conversation had gone something like this.

"Percy, I am so happy to see you! I miss my big brother so much. But are you having fun with your mom. And you missed the big peanut butter celebration. Except, Dad broke it up, saying something about his love for his game room or something. He told me to make sure I said that to you when I talked to you, so is that important? Am I missing out on a secret code? Ahhhhh, it is a secret code. Hey everybody come here, Percy is going to tell us about a secret code!" Tyson rambled on until Percy finally and graciously cut him off.

Percy began to work his way through Tyson gibberish, "Hi Tyson, its good to see you too Buddy! I am having a lot of fun here with my mom, but tomorrow I have to start normal people school, where they misinterpret the old stories and call them myths. Anyway, tell Dad that I hope his game room survived, I wouldn't want him to have to rebuild it or something because we all know how he is about creating plans…" Tyson and Percy broke out into a fit of giggles. "Anyway man, there is no secret code. I have told you this before right. You know me and Dad, talking in code is for the lame who actually make a plan to make a code to speak in later. That would just not be in our nature. You make sure to pass that onto everybody, ok? Anyway, How was the peanut butter party?"

Tyson once again set off into a story, "PEANUT BUTTER! Well, everyone was there and we were all chanting as they loaded all of the peanut butter onto the loading dock and separated it into the two piles, one made with sea salt and one made without. Ohh, that reminds me, I saved you a special jar for your first day. I hope you like it! Anyway, they we all dove into the peanut butter and some people were eating it and some people were passing it out, but I guess there might have been a stampede of sorts cause a wall fell down, but no worries. We are currently patching that all up! Sorry Percy, but Daddy's calling me to come help him out, so I got to go. Also, see I learned, I didn't try to hug you through the IM this time! Bye! I miss you!" Tyson yelled, then he slashed through the message and the connection was lost.

Percy now sat down, eating his sea salt peanut butter, special delivery from Hermes, and a gift from Tyson. He wished he could go back, but he now realized that life keeps moving forward, and you have to also, unless you want to get pushed down by peanut butter hungry Cyclopes.

Author's Note:

First Things First, Of course I did not count these words in my official word count, even though Fanfiction does. Secondly, I realize this chapter is a little wordy and not much happens. Sorry but I needed it to get to my next chapter where, guess what, Annabeth comes in. Also, Please Review. Especially let me know if you think I should have some Mom drama in there, because I left this tunnel open for excavation, because Percy did not grow up with her. Secondly I would like to thank all four reviewers namely: hpswst101, CoolWater123, LemonStickInsect, and Waterpoloplayer. Secondly I would like to thank all of you guys who subscribed to my story alert, however if you do not review, I do not know what you want from this story and I may take it, in your eyes, the completely wrong direction!

Finally, and this about sums it up, PLEASE REVIEW! I would say read and review, but since this is a the bottom I am going to assume you already read it. Love you guys!

~ReadingK's