For this story its two chapter's every Tuesday and Wednesday, so I hope you enjoy this story! Favourite, Review and follows are appreciated. on with chapter two,
Chapter Two - Percy -
We arrived at the safe house at 4pm, where we started unpacking. The safe house was stocked with, dummies, a gym, weapons cupboard behind a false wall and everyday essentials. The building looked to be like an old storage facility that had been bought by the agency, in Long Island Sound, where agents stayed for how ever long needed, in Manhattan.
For someone who has never been to school and just had an education in fighting and killing, to say I was a little nervous was an understatement. I could tell Nico was the same as he was bouncing nervously on his heels, the ADHD kicking in. I could already tell that school was going to be a bitch, having dyslexia doesn't help either. Chiron told us that we have ADHD and dyslexia because at a young age we were hardwired for ancient Greek for code language as well as Latin, so reading English was going to be a task. The ADHD is part of our battle reflex's so we can anticipate moves and move quicker under certain circumstances. How ever it does mean we can't sit still long enough so, it does have its problems.
I started training on the dummies, practicing my hand to hand combat and knife fighting techniques, after I got changed into my tank top and shorts. Soon Nico joined me and we had a fully blown fight going on, blocking, punching, kicking, throwing each other to the floor and walls. After an hour of practicing we had bruises and busted lips but we healed quickly, a healing defence that we were implemented with at a young age as test subjects. we sat down at the table and reviewed the assignment once more, whilst eating dinner.
"So you'll take Luke and I'll take Ethan?" Nico asked glancing up at me as we ate dinner and read the files.
I nodded, "Yeah, we just have to remember to keep a low profile and not blow our cover. Which reminds me, no guns on our person. We have a special compartment in the bags for one gun so." I shrugged.
Nico confirmed, "I agree, we can strap our knives to our legs, under my sock for me, you are just going to have to deal with having it around your leg and hope no one notices. Just don't wear any tight jeans." He chuckled.
I smiled and carried on reading over Luke's profile. He was 5ft 10, shorter than me, and he looked familiar. Too familiar. I couldn't place my finger on it, but I'm sure he is a son of one of the thirteen, I concluded.
"Luke maybe an ex agent, he looks like one of the Olympians." I voiced my concerns to Nico.
He scanned the profile before saying, "His father is Hermes. Not an ex agent, his mother was an agent before she went insane on an assignment."
I nodded, relieved we wouldn't get recognised. We continued studying the files until we called it a night, and collapsed onto our beds and slept for the night. I was woken by Nico shouting at me.
"PERCY GET UP, WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE!"
I glanced at my clock and rolled out of bed and padded my way to the bathroom. I showered, brushed my teeth and got dressed in simple clothing, strapped Riptide around my leg and rolled the leg of the jeans over the top. Thankfully it concealed the knife. I had a pair of simple stone washed grey jeans and a white t-shirt advertising a band called Rush. I needed to blend in at this school. I threw on my combat boots, and my leather jacket before we slipped out our front door. We flicked on the light switch and stepped into our vehicles. Ray Bans on, we started up our engines, the pair roaring and grumbling to life, and drove out the main door onto the open road. It was a half an hour drive due to traffic and we arrived just before 8:45am. We parked in the school car park, passed all the turned heads, and sprinted into the school.
We probably looked lost as a guy on crutches with short curly brown hair and a goatee came up to us,
"Hey, you're the new kids right?" We nodded, "If you want to hang out with us at lunch you can, I'm Grover Underwood."
"Perseus, but every one calls me Percy." I shook his out stretched hand.
"Nico Di Angelo, call me Nico." He grinned.
"Nice to meet you, I take it you need to go find the office?" Grover questioned.
We nodded and he told us to follow him. We gave him a grateful smile and wandered through the halls, everyone whispering and staring at us as we walked. We rounded a corner to see a woman in her late thirties, brown hair with make up, standing behind a glass sliding window, talking on a Bluetooth. We knocked on the window, it slid open and the woman gave us a warm smile.
"Ah, you two must me Nico and Perseus." The woman spoke in a Canadian accent.
"Its Percy, Ma'am, and yes we are. Can we get our schedules please."
The woman nodded, "Of course, of course. Let me just get them." The woman walked off to the back where there was a filing cabinet. She rummaged through for a while muttering our names.
"Ah here we are." She pulled out two pieces of paper and handed them over to us.
"Have a nice day, and welcome to Goode." She said in a cheerful voice.
We said our thanks and walked back over to Grover. Our dyslexia was kicking in and we couldn't tell what any of it said. After a couple of seconds the words began swimming off the page. I sighed,
"Grover, can you read our schedules please, we have dyslexia." I asked, rubbing the back of my neck sheepishly.
We gave him our schedules and his eyes widened, "They are the same apart from your chosen classes. Maths with Ms. Dodds, then English with Mr Blowfis, then double PE with Coach Hedge, and then lunch. You have the same time table as mine too. Then you both have science with Mr White, Percy has Marine Biology after with Mr Triton, Nico has Latin with Mr Brunner, and then you both have Greek to end the day, everyday actually, with Mr Brunner again."
The bell wrung once for the end of form, Home room for the American's, as he concluded and he showed us to our lockers. We put the things we didn't need in there and turned to go to first period.
"Hey Nico." I whispered. He looked over at me,
"Yeah?" He wondered, eyebrow raised.
"Isn't Ms. Dodds one of us?" I wondered. He thought about it and his eyes widened in surprise,
"Yeah she is actually, retired now but funnily enough she used to be our math teacher." He let out a short burst of laughter.
"This should be fun." I concluded as I opened the door to Maths. Ms Dodds was half way through talking when we entered,
"Now today- Ah." She froze, as she looked at us, eyes wide. We didn't like her at the agency, so we and the Stoll's used to play pranks on her.
She composed herself while we tried to stop ourselves from bursting out into laughter,
"Sorry we're late, Miss. I'm Percy Jackson and this Nico Di Angelo." I could feel every ones eyes on us, and not in a good way. They were eying us up, the girls checking us out and boys sizing us up. My gaze rested on a beautiful blonde girl with grey eyes. She was staring at us differently, not like the other girls who were mentally undressing us, but in a more analytical way. Her grey eyes would make anyone back down but I'm used to that stare from Athena. At least Blondie's eyes are prettier- I shook my head mentally. No you can't think like that, they whipped love and feelings out of you in the Agency so this shouldn't happen. I mentally scolded myself. Ms Dodds cleared her throat,
"Well then, take a seat. Perseus," I glared at her, "Take a seat next to Miss Chase and Nicolas, next to Miss Grace."
We both grumbled about how she used our full names, as we noticed two girls remove their bags from the chair beside them and looked up at us. Nico wandered over to the girl that had short, spikey black hair. She looked tough to be honest, she'd make a good agent, and I walked over to the blonde from earlier.
She gave me a warm smile as I situated myself next to her in the seat. I returned it and pulled out my notebooks and textbooks that were already in our lockers.
"I'm Annabeth." She whispered to my left. I shook her hand as I responded, her hands were soft. Stop it Perseus, I thought.
"Perseus, but everyone calls me Percy." she smiled and turned back to the front.
This was where I became lazy, Ms Dodds was teaching Nico and I the same stuff she taught us at the Agency, so we zoned out. I could tell Nico had, when he fell asleep next to the spikey haired girl, who was also asleep. I broke out into a smile and chuckled quietly. Annabeth glanced at me through the corner of her eye and turned and laughed lightly when she saw the two of them. Her laugh was really melodic and so care free. I liked her laugh. Stop with the feelings, you can't do this, you have to focus. You can't get involved with a civilian. it's too dangerous. I thought to myself. my defences went up and I looked over to Annabeth. Our gaze met and she saw the tension behind them.
"You okay?" she wondered, her eyes flitting all around my face.
I nodded and hummed in reply. She raised an eyebrow and returned her gaze to the front of the class. Every so often I could see her sneaking a glance at me through the corner of my eye, so I laid back in my chair and sighed. I was thinking over my assignment and how it will all go. Will it come down to assassination? Would we finally get Kronos? I need to train some more if I come face to face with the man himself. I looked down at where my knife was hidden in my leg to see part of the hilt exposed against my jeans. I stretched my leg out and returned to my thoughts. I got so lost in my thoughts that, Annabeth nudged me.
"Time to go to your next lesson. You sure your okay? You spaced out the entire lesson."
I looked up to see concerned filled, grey eyes. Why did she worry about someone she's just met? I nodded in reply. she brushed it off as we walked out the door,
"ADHD too?" she wondered as we walked around the corner, Nico behind us.
I nodded and Nico came up next to me and the Grace girl next to Annabeth.
"Yeah," I sighed, "Dyslexic too. We just transferred here, we were home schooled for a while and thought we needed a change in scenery." I told them, a complete lie but, I can't tell them we are agents now can I?
the Grace girl groaned from beside Annabeth, "English now with Blowfis." she grumbled under her breath. "I'm Thalia, by the way." she gave me a quick smile and looked me up and down. I nodded,
"Same, Nico and I have got double PE after." Then our eyes widened in shock, we forgot about our knives. I bit my and pulled Nico into the nearest toilet, after mumbling a 'be right back.' The girls gave us a quizzical look and stopped outside the door to wait for us. we checked each of the stalls before entering two of them and pulling out our weaponry. We placed them in our secret compartments and exited the toilets,
"Thanks for waiting, you didn't have to." Nico smiled.
Thalia waved it off, "No problem, you don't know where to go anyway." She smiled, with that we all made our way to English. What we didn't expect was who would be in the lesson.