My Life is Messed Up

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Summary: In a total of ONE day I defeat a giant, find out I'm a demi-god, get a call from the Madrigals, and get sent off to a Greek camp but that's not all; it gets worse when you add love into the equation. Seriously... my life is messed up. Rated T to be safe.

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Chapter Four:

Amy:

My whole world stopped. Because some hairy, disgusting animal was leaping towards my brother, no doubt aiming to kill him. I reacted before I could think, intent on saving one of the most important people in my world.

But I didn't save him. Percy did.

See, I ran (and I have no idea how I ran that fast, maybe something to do with being a demi-god?), and pushed Dan away, whirling around, facing the fact that the monster was probably going to hit me before I could defend myself, but all I saw in front of me was Percy, holding a sword (where did that come from?), and in front of him was just dust. Golden, floating dust, beautiful, in a sort of morbid way.

"P-P-Percy?" I stuttered, "H-how-"

"Eh, it's nothing. You get used to this sort of thing," he grinned at me softly. I smiled in spite of myself, before turning to see Dan. He was on the floor, eyes wide, unable to believe what had just happened.

"Dan?" I asked softly, "You alright?" I held out my hand, and he shakily grabbed it, hauling himself up.

"Well...I was not expecting that," he said, feebly grinning. I smiled, he always picked himself back up.

"Do you believe us now?" Grover asked, appearing beside Percy, "I hate to be a nagger."

Dan rolled his eyes, beginning to scowl, but after my nudge, smiled grudgingly, "Fine you guys were right. Sorry, OK? But what was that thing? And I just realized this now, but you said that most monsters find demi-gods when they're in Grade Seven or so, right? Well I'm in Grade Seven, so I get that, but Amy's in Grade Ten now."

I had to smile at Dan's cleverness, and I turned to look at Percy and Grover. Grover seemed tired and annoyed, but Percy was chuckling.

"Let's head back to the kitchen," he suggested, "We'll talk there. Oh, and don't worry about the dust," he stopped a moment, glancing at it, "It'll disappear in a few minutes."

He grinned again, and walked on, the rest of us trailing behind him. I had to smile softly to myself; yes, I had just met him today, but I was starting to admire this guy. He seemed...different.

Walking into the kitchen, I began to feel worried. Nellie still wasn't here yet, and that was unusual. If she couldn't come home at regular time, she always let us know. I checked my phone, but there were no new messages or missed calls.

I'll call her after Percy explains this, I told myself firmly.

Percy lounged on the seat, and got semi-serious again.

"Alright, so for your first question Dan, that was a monster. What type of monster? That was Agrius, a bear monster." Seeing Dan's confused look he continued, "You'll get to know the types of monsters more closely and accurately as time goes on, either that, or someone else will know! Anyway," he sobered, "I don't understand why Amy hasn't met any monsters before today. That doesn't make sense to me, and we'll ask Chiron when we get to Camp Half-Blood."

Dan nodded, satisfied with the answer, but looked at me significantly. I shrugged, and stared at him.

We'll go with them. After we talk to Nellie though, and see if it's OK.

He frowned, but agreed. Fine.

Percy glanced at me weirdly, and I turned pink, half-shrugging, half-smiling. I really hope that didn't look weird. I have a feeling it did.

However, I turned around, excusing myself quietly, and pulled out my phone. "I'm just calling our guardian," I called out.

I dialed Nellie's number, feeling that familiar sense of anxiety and fear begin to take hold once again. I waited, and waited, but no one picked up. Frowning more severely I tried again, but the same thing happened. No answer.

Getting more worried now, I texted her, but received no reply. My eyes widened, and the fear began to grow. Nellie never went anywhere without her cell-phone, and it was always charged.

Hurrying back to the kitchen I pulled Dan aside. "Nellie's not picking up Dan! What do we do?"

His green eyes closed tightly, frustrated. "Why does life always suck?" He muttered to himself, before shaking his head and focusing, "Um, give me the phone." He took the phone from me, tried the same methods, and receiving no reply, sighed.

"Let's contact Uncle Fiske," I suggested, "Let's see if he knows what's going on."

Dan nodded, and dialed the number quickly, holding the phone to his ear. I waited impatiently, but nothing happened. Uncle Fiske didn't pick up, and Dan clenched the phone worriedly.

"What's going on?" he muttered.

"Everything OK there?"

Dan and I both flinched, spinning around to see both Percy and Grover at the doorway, staring at us. Dan glanced at me, and I spoke without thinking.

"We just hung up with out guardian. She say's it's fine." Dan glanced at me nonchalantly, but I could feel his tension. Why had I said that? I had no idea, pure instinct maybe?

"What'd you tell her?" Grover asked, "I doubt you told her all about the monsters and demi-gods."

I smiled, acting confident, "Ha, no I didn't. I told her that we'd be going to a summer camp."

"Doesn't she want to see you guys off?" Percy's stare was penetrating, and I felt completely obvious. "How did you guys manage this so easy?"

I didn't have an answer for that, but luckily Dan spoke for me. "She's pretty chill," he said, "And we've done this kind of thing before."

Grover raised an eyebrow, "You have?"

Dan's gaze was hard, "Yes, besides our au pair has complete faith in us. She's busy with a job untill 6 pm, and I doubt you guys want to wait that long."

Grover opened his mouth to answer, but Percy laid a hand on his shoulder, and smiled at Dan and I. "Sorry for that interrogation, we're just not used to things working so efficiently. That's great, we can move out now if you want."

"Um...could you give Dan and I a few moments to pack and get ready?" I asked tentatively, already backing away to the staircase.

"Sure." Percy replied, already settling back into the chair. "We'll wait for you down here."

"Great, thanks. C'mon Dan."

Percy:

Amy smiled at me, and jogged up the stairs with Dan following behind. She had a nice smile, I thought absent-mindedly before turning to Grover. He was sitting on the chair opposite from me, frowning.

"I don't like the way those two are acting," he muttered, "They may act like everything's fine, but I could smell fear and uncertainty on them when we were questioning them."

I nodded, great as they may be at acting, Grover and I were good at reading people and could sense that they were hiding something. Normally I didn't like going into people's business, and pushing them to tell me things, but in this case things were looking really fishy.

I sighed, and focused on something else. "You know anything about who their parent's might be, Grover?"

This only deepened Grover's scowl, "I can't tell," he muttered, "And that's weird, but, oh well, Chiron will know what to do, either that or Annabeth. Now, trying to move on to a more fun topic, do you know how we're going to get to Camp Half-Blood?"

"Um...a car?"

"Can you drive yet?"

"You can, right?"

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"Fine, I'll drive."

"Yes! Now where are we going to get this car?"

I groaned, "I don't know. Grand theft auto?"

"I like the way you think Percy." Grover grinned, clapping his hands.

"You realize I was joking, right?"

Grover didn't bother to reply, waltzing out of the room, and I followed after him. Sincerely hoping he wouldn't break something, but to my dismay I heard a crash, and the sound of what seemed like glass shattering on the floor. My heart sank. So much for hoping.

Grover's head peeked out from the door way, "Um...Percy, you think there's any way we could pin this on a monster?"

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A/N: I. am. a. liar. Grr! Anyway Uncle Fiske isn't here alright? He just went away on madrigal business, so he isn't living with Amy and Dan. Also, I haven't read the 39 clues or Percy Jackson in a really long time, so I don't remember much stuff. Haha, sorry I'm sick now, so my writing might not be up to par.

Hope you enjoyed! :)

...Thoughts?