Hi disclaimer see last chapter
Thanks to WingedButterfly, .PR, Vallet, vixen1994, hummingbird23 , xider , olivenater2000 and Daughter of Apollo 14 for their reviews and kind words.
Please review it helps me inspiration wise and lets me know people like my stories. Feel free to point out any mistakes.
Percy ran into the kitchen pulling on his shirt and Sally Jackson smiled fondly she missed Luke but at least she had one of her boys.
"Mmmmh smells nice! What's for breakfast?" Percy asked.
"Blue pancakes!" Sally replied smiling.
After Percy had eaten his breakfast he ran out the door for the bus shoving his books in his bag as he went.
On the bus Percy sat at the back and waited for his best friend Grover Underwood to get on at the next stop. Usually people left him alone but today it seemed that Nancy Bobofit and her friends couldn't resist talking about him from the seat in front of course they had to do it so loud he could hear.
"I heard that his dad was some loser who just got his mum drunk did it and then left." Suzie one of Nancy's friends told the others.
"I heard his dad saw his ugly face and jumped out the window!" Another one of her friends, Stella, said.
"I heard he and his mum took some beggar of the street and his mum adopted the kid. And the once he's all well the kid went and done a runner leaving ickle little Percy all by himself!" Nancy told her friends and Percy had finally had enough.
He stood up, walked over to Nancy and said in an icy voice, "Don't you ever talk out my brother like that!"
"Oh, look baby's upset." Nancy said to her friends and then turning to face Percy she said with fake diplomacy, "I doubt that he ever cared about you I bet he just wanted a place to stay!"
Percy was about to punch her when he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Grover standing there, "Come on Perc just leave it."
Percy sat down and Grover asked him, "What was it this time?"
Percy sighed, "Once when I was little my mum took me to the park and I met a boy there, his name was Luke Castellan." Grover tensed at the name but Percy didn't noticed and continued, "He had nowhere else to go so mum and me took him home. Two months later mum adopted him and five months after that she married Gabe and then two months after that Luke disappeared in the middle of the night. We filed a missing person report but he was never found."
The rest of the ride went in silence with Grover wondering if the Luke he knew was the same Luke Percy was talking and Percy lost in memories of Luke.
Percy sat in the back of his class as his algebra teacher Mrs. Dodds collected the permission for the trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When Mrs. Dodds got to him she gave him a colder glare before walking off to the front of the class and demanded everyone follow her outside to the bus.
When they got off the bus Percy shoved his earphones in to his ears having no plan to listen to his teachers. Halfway through Mr. Brunner's lecture on Greek gods Mrs. Dodds tapped him on the shoulders and when he took out his earphones told him to follow her. Percy was worried Mrs. Dodds was notorious for giving out big punishments for small things (and for hating children) and for some reason she really seemed to dislike Percy. Percy followed Mrs. Dodds into a side room that he wasn't even sure they were supposed to be in and looked around for her until he heard a scream, "I know you have it give it back!"
He looked up and saw Mrs. Dodds standing on top of some very precarious scaffolding. Percy stumbled back as Mrs. Dodds' face and clothes turned in to a dark horrible thing that looked like leather and she grew wings. As she swooped down towards him he ducked and thought about what to do when Mr Brunner his Latin teacher and Grover walked in and Mrs. Dodds flew out of the widow. Percy recovered almost immediately and started asking questions, "Did that just happen? What was that?"
But Mr Brunner and Grover ignored him and started talking in hushed voice. Suddenly Grover grabbed Percy's arm and pulled him out of the back door of the museum.
"WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?" Percy exploded as soon as they got outside.
"Percy the gods are real." Grover said bluntly. "And you are the son of one."
"Oh yeah right!" Percy said sarcastically.
"Percy, I'm serious, the gods are real and I'm your protector."
"You're my…protector?" Percy said, disbelievingly, eyeing Grover's crutches.
"Yes," Grover said and walked into Percy's apartment building. Percy had to run to keep up with Grover and he thought for being on crutches Grover can really move fast.
When they got into the apartment Gabe and his drinking buddies were inside playing poker.
"Mrs Jackson Percy needs to leave, now!" Sally nodded grabbed the car keys and the three of them left.
Percy was sitting next to his mum in the front of the car while Grover was sitting in the back. "Why are you getting rid of me?!" He demanded angrily.
"I'm not getting rid of you," his mum replied calmly. "It's just a summer camp, for very special people."
"So you're sending me to a camp for stupid people."
"No Percy it's to do with your father."
"My dad?"
"Yes, Percy he was a very good man."
"So why did he leave?"
"He had to." Mother and son stared at each other for a minute until Grover yelled, "look out Mrs Jackson!"
Sally turned the wheel sharply to avoid the big dark shape in the middle of the road but the car hit a boulder and turned on to its roof. After a couple of minutes of trying to break through the car windows with no success Grover pulled his pants down and Percy asked, "Whoa! What are you doing?"
"My job!" Grover replied and pulled his pants off completely.
"You're half donkey?" Percy cried as soon as he saw Grover's bottom half.
"No, half goat! Now come on!" Grover responded as he kicked the cars window out and climbed out.
Percy climbed out after him and handed him his crutches, "Dude you're going to need these."
"No I won't but you're going to need this," he said and past Percy something.
"This is a pen. This is a *pen.*" Percy said confused.
"Just click it!" Grover yelled as the Minotaur attacked. Percy clicked the pen and was shocked when it turned into a full grown sword. The Minotaur launched itself at Percy and Grover but they ducked and rolled out the way. Percy's mum was not so lucky; the Minotaur picked her and crushed her like a grape. Now Percy was mad he launched forward and sliced it in half with one strike. Percy almost collapsed to his knees but was caught by Grover who lifted/dragged him over the camp boundary hoping nothing else could go wrong but as soon as they started walking towards the infirmary they bumped into Percy's old brother Luke. "Percy?"
Luke said disbelievingly and Percy looked up not believing his eyes. "Luke…" he said softly and then passed out.
See you in chapter 3
Secret
