Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of the Percy Jackson books. If you're a true fan, you'll be able to tell the difference between characters Rick Riordan made up, and the one's that I made up.

Finally, it's the last day of school, I thought as I sat on the bus with Alexis and Audrey. The one bad thing about school ending today is that everyone on the bus was so loud. Can't we have peace and quiet for a change?

I sat there, talking with my two sisters and some of our friends as we were heading towards our school.

"I still don't understand why your parent's can't give you guy's cell-phones!" My friend, Patrick said.

"Neither do we!" I shouted over the loud talking of everyone on the bus "We want phones; they just don't think we should have them!"

"Why not?"

"I don't know. They never told us."

"Well that sucks."

"It sure does," Audrey said "Then again, our parents barely use their cell-phones either." The bus came to a stop in front of Maplewood Prep School, the academy my two sisters and I attend.

With it being the last day of school, every hallway was littered with posters that read things like "Remember everything you've learned", and "Don't let your brain cells die over break" and "Have a knowledge-full summer!" and a bunch of other happy slogans that pretty much,─ no, did, make me want to throw up.

Another great thing about it being the last day of school was that it wasn't even the length of a real school day. It was only like three hours long.

Here at Maplewood Prep, we spend the entire day with whoever our homeroom teacher is, and I was so glad to say that my homeroom teacher is Mr. Brunner.

Mr. Brunner is this guy in a motorized wheelchair with a scruffy beard and thinning hair. He's middle-aged, I guess. He looked somewhere in his 40s or 50s. He's usually always seen in a frayed tweed jacket, which always smells like coffee. He's my Latin teacher. You wouldn't think he would be real awesome, but he was, for a teacher at least. He told stories and jokes and because of my family's interest in Greek mythology, I was able to keep focused in class.

I'm so grateful to have him as my homeroom teacher instead of Ms. Ramirez. I'm not sure if it's just my imagination, but she seems to hate me and my sisters. Like I-wanna-watch-you-die-slowly-and-painfully-and-be-the-cause-of-it hate. It's fairly easy to get on her bad side, and she seems to love everyone who isn't a friend of mine, or Alexis, or Audrey's. She has dark black hair, ice-blue eyes and pale skin. She had freckles and crooked teeth, so whenever I think of ugly, I think of her.

Luckily, if you know what I mean, she doesn't love too many people. We have tons of friends and stuff, it's just, it would be a bit nicer if she didn't hate me as much as she did, you know?

So anyway, I was sitting in homeroom when the morning announcements came on, and after about two minutes, Mr. Brunner said

"Well, it's the last day of school, and you know what that means…" I love how he sometimes does this sort of thing. Giving you a cliffhanger on what he's about to say, like in a fan fiction. "Do anything you want!" He put on his glasses and rolled his motorized wheelchair to his desk. Suddenly, people began going to their lockers and coming back with iPods, Cell-phones and one or two people had brought laptops. Then, there was Alexis, Audrey and I, with no electronics, and no fun.

Up until our friends came along with their electronics.

"Hey." All of them greeted us. They all took seats next to us and smiled.

"So, having a nice last day of school?" Nicole asked of us. Nicole is this huge tree-hugger. She only eats 100% organic food, recycles everything that is considered "recyclable", and hates litterers. Once or twice every week she goes into the forest and picks up trash that people used to decorate the place with. She has silky brown hair, and bright, bright green eyes. Nicole can be strange, but she's nice to Audrey, Alexis and I. An interesting fact about her is the fact that in the right light, her skin and sometimes even her hair looks slightly green. She says it's all natural and she has nothing to do with it.

"I guess. It doesn't really feel too much different than any other day." Alexis stated.

"Well," My friend, Robert said "At least you won't have to show up to this rat-hole tomorrow." We laughed. I'm not sure if it was just me, but Robert appeared to have a crush on my sister, Alexis. She sometimes appears to be flirting with her. But of course, I could be mistaken.

So we talked for a bit and played a few board games and went online with Robert's smart-phone. After a while, we got bored and decided to do something else. The one problem: We didn't know what to do.

Before long, the hideous hag herself, A.K.A Ms. Ramirez walked in. Apparently, she wanted to talk to Audrey, Alexis and I, but I had a funny feeling she had no reason to.

We walked out into the hallway, and followed Ms. Ramirez. She turned down the hall, went down the elevator, and speed walked towards the office, and down to the empty cafeteria. I was wondering why she had brought us here, but I guessed I would find out soon enough.

We followed her to the very back wall of the cafeteria, and she turned to face us. We are so gonna die, I thought.

"Do you kitties know why you're here?" she purred.

"No. You wouldn't tell us." I said. Suddenly, she began to change form right before our eyes. In seconds, her hair burst into flames which danced along her head continuously and didn't stop. The skin on her legs began peeling off simultaneously. One seemed to be made of bronze, while the other was a donkey leg. We screamed.

"Die, sweeties!" She lunged. Alexis, Audrey and I did the first thing that came to our minds: We ran. As we made it through the doorway, she hissed and chased us.

We passed many rooms full of teachers and students, who didn't seem to notice Ms. Ramirez, or whatever she is, but they noticed us running in the hallway and yelled at us.

We ignored them.

We began passing other classrooms. I looked at each door to figure out how fast we were going and where we were exactly going. Music Room, Auditorium, Yearbook Committee Room…

At one point, we got to the elevator, which is right next to the art room. I didn't pay too much attention to it, but I got a quick glance of Nicole by herself in the art room. There was a floating image in front of her, and that image looked mysteriously like my parents...

Had Nicole known our parents? She's never been to our house anymore. You know what? I just had a hallucination of my teacher turning into a weird twisted version of a vampire, so I think having hallucinations about Nicole talking to floating images of our parents wasn't something to worry about at the moment.

We ran into the elevator and wished we could speed up the rate of how fast the elevator goes. We ran down the hallway where I found everyone sitting in class as if they thought we were still with Ms. Ramirez, talking with her for whatever they thought we might have gotten in trouble for.

It wasn't long before Ms. Ramirez showed up again.

"You cannot escape me! I am an empousa, servant of Hecate!

Where would we be safe? I thought. I whispered in my sister's ears. They followed me as I ran down to the principal's office. The principal wasn't here today because of some kind of rare disease he got over Spring Break.

As if on cue, the elevator came and out sprang my parents. I didn't know how or why they were here, but they were. My dad, carrying a sword (I have no clue where he got it from), sliced at the thing my teacher morphed into.

Ms. Ramirez was a wheel of cheese in a wood chipper. She turned into yellow dust, leaving nothing behind except a horrible chill sent down and up my spine like someone tapping on a xylophone. I had the sense that those two, charcoal like eyes were still watching me, as if the dust would reform any moment and show me the face of my evil teacher.

"Kids," my mother said "We're taking you home early. Come with us." I didn't wait for anyone to protest. My sisters and parent's ran over to the elevator, but I didn't want to wait. I ran right over to the stairs, and jolted down in record time. I sped out of the school's revolving doors, ran to the car, and sat in the very back of my father's maserati. No shortly after did my parent's show up with Audrey and Alexis. I hadn't even thought about putting on my seat-belt, because I wasn't really sure what was more dangerous. Getting into a car accident or remaining in that school with that thing that used to be my teacher.

Sorry if that was short for you, the next chapter will be longer, I promise. Does anyone know who Nicole's parents are (this should be obvious)? And do you think that the friends Anthony, Alexis and Audrey made at school were the children of the Will/Katie, Pollux/Hayley, Chris/Clarisse or Thalia/Nico? Tell me! A/N: Reviews make my day. Will you make my day?