The next day, I was at home getting ready for school. I knew that everyone would swarm me the second I stepped out of my house so I put on a disguise. I climbed down the fire escape outside my bedroom window and left for school. I pulled the hood up on my sweatshirt and put on sunglasses. I hoped no one would recognize me. I expected school to be better than usual because all my friends were going to Goode with me: Annabeth, Grover, Thalia and the hunters, Nico, the Stolls, and many more from camp. I thought about how it would be impossible to not be recognized the second we walked onto school grounds.
As I was walking up to the school, I heard a voice whisper my name into my ear. I looked around, but no one was there. Annabeth appears next to me with a hood up and sunglasses too. She's holding a Yankees cap in her hand. As we walk into school we meet up with our friends along the way. Everyone had hoods up and sunglasses on.
"Wow," I said, "we really should have a class at camp on disguises."
We all laughed at that.
The bell rang and we all went to homeroom. It turns out I was in the same homeroom as Annabeth, Nico, Grover, and Thalia. We went through homeroom without anyone noticing us because the teacher forgot to call roll. The second I looked at my schedule, I knew I was going to get noticed first block; I had P.E.
All right, so my cover lasted longer than I thought, but that might be because I changed into my gym uniform in a stall. I walked into the gym with my hood still up and glasses on. I noticed that Annabeth was in my class and she'd had the same idea. The coach came out and noticed Annabeth and I with our sweatshirts and glasses. He walked over and told us to take off them off, but before Annabeth and I could even blink, something slammed into the wall on the other side making a hole open to the street.
A thirty foot tall Cyclops lumbered through the hole and stared straight at me. The other students started running around screaming. All of the doors swung shut and locked.
Whoa Déjà vu. Except a Cyclops instead of a Laistrygonian Giant.
I glanced at Annabeth and we nodded. I grabbed a pen out of my pocket as she pulled out her Yankees hat, and one of the kids screamed, "hey dude, run! Don't just stand there! It's a Cyclops!" I guess the mist wasn't fixed just yet.
I uncapped Riptide and it turned into a sword, at the same moment, Annabeth disappeared as she put her hat on. "What the heck?" The same kid shrieked.
When I leaped at the giant, my hood and glasses fell off. "Percy Jackson?" that same kid cried out, causing everyone to stop and stare. Man, that kid is annoying!
I stabbed at the monster but he leaped out of the way before I could even scratch him. I yelled and water shot out of the pipes in the walls, blasting the Cyclops and forcing him to sit down. Annabeth materialized next to him and stabbed him with her knife before he could stand back up.
We looked around and saw that everyone was staring at us. They were all soaking wet along with Annabeth and standing in an inch of water. I quickly stopped the flow of water from coming out of the pipes. That's when I looked at Annabeth and ran.
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