Chapter 4- The First Battle part 1
Once I got outside, Grover came walking up and asked, "What did Mr. Brunner want?"
"Nothing much," I replied, "Just wanting me to learn how to apply my studies to real life."
Grover looked unconvinced, but apparently not too interested in what we talked about, so instead of pressing the matter said, "Let's go eat, hunh?"
As we was walking over to our seat, I happened to glance skyward, and found myself staring at the ominous-looking storm clouds gathering overhead. The weather around New York had been weird ever since the winter solstice, like maybe my Dad and Zeus were arguing, but every time I ask Dad about it he would abruptly change the subject, leaving me to wonder what had happened that was so bad.
"Percy?" Grover called uncertainty. I looked downward and tried to play off my abrupt pause with a grin and saying, "Sorry, spaced out for a second. Let's go grab some lunch."
The entire time we were eating, I kept looking for a sign from Lord Thanatos that it was okay to unveil my true identity. I was concentrating so hard on looking for a sign, I barely tasted my P,B, & J and milk, and Grover had to call my name three times before he managed to get my attention. When I finally answered him I was expecting some odd question about what was on my mind or something, instead he asked, "Can I have your apple?"
Barely containing my laughter, I handed my apple over. Next thing I knew, I had a half-eaten peanut butter and ketchup sandwich was sitting in my lap. I looked up to see Nancy Bobofit looking down at me with a grin on her Cheetos-spray-painted face. As I looked into her eyes I saw a brief flash of purple reflected in them and heard a voice in my head, prepare yourself, Percy.
The Sign, I thought, and commenced with plan Start A Fight! It was plan Lord Thanatos had thought up to capture the Furies attention and get a chance to instigate a fight with it. Sadly it involved grabbing the nearest person with the nearest body of water and pull them into it and let the Mist and my smart-mouth do the rest.
I reached out to the water in the fountain behind Nancy and used it to grab her and pull her in. The moment she landed in the pool, the whispers started:
"Did you see?"
"The water-"
"It grabbed her-"
"Percy pushed me!" Nancy screamed calling Mrs. Dodds over to inspect the scene.
"Perseus Jackson!" Mrs. Dodds screeched wheeling on me, once she had helped Nancy out of the fountain, like she actually cared what happened to the poor mortal. I contemplating just activating my gauntlet and both of my scythes in her neck, but I decided instead to prompt her into taking the fight somewhere else.
"I know, I know. A month erasing the answers out of the Math textbook, right?"
It was a little bit like watching a Volcano explode. One minute everything's all nice and calm... and then, (BAM!), instantaneous explosion. It would've been kind of funny if it hadn't been such a serious situation.
"Follow me, Mr. Jackson. Now!" She commanded. It was then Grover spoke up with an amount of courage that surprised me, because it was plain to see how badly Grover feared the Imponis.
"It was me. I pushed her." He tried.
"Nice try, Mr. Underwood. Now come with me, Mr. Jackson." Mrs. Dodds commanded
I looked over at Grover and said, "Thanks for trying, man. It'll be okay. Don't worry."
Then I flashed him one of my rare true smiles. I was really grateful, that despite his fear, he still tried to stop Mrs. Dodds from being alone in the same room as me. It was rare that any creature, be they god, monster, hero, or satyr; have that level of bravery within themselves.
Grover just glanced uneasily at Chiron/ Brunner before nodding in my direction.
I turned my attention to the problem at hand, to find Mrs. Dodds already at the top of the steps. If she is that fast... I gulped, but quickly steeled myself. Nothing to it but to do it.
Once we were deep inside the museum, Mrs. Dodds turned and spoke, "Did you really think that you would get away with it, child? Did you think we wouldn't catch you?"
"What do you mean?" I asked suspiciously.
"Do not play dumb, demigod!" The fury screeched, "Return what you have stolen and perhaps we will let you go free."
"What are you talking about, demon?" I asked. "Never-mind. Whatever mid-life crisis, you are going through matters not to me. My mission is to kill you're ass."
With that, I activated my watch and widened my stance and held my hands out as purple ethereal energy surrounded my body, as my mask, scythes, and gauntlet flared into existence.
The sudden existence of my weapons threw the Fury off, until she screeched, "I am not intimidated by you demigod! I am the Fury, Alecto! I will slay punish you severely for your crimes!"
Wasting no time, I ran at full speed crossing the distance between myself and Alecto in seconds, before jumping completely over her head and swinging my twin scythes, Malach and Hamavet , towards the back of her head in an attempt to end this as quickly as possible.
Unsurprisingly, Alecto merely ducked and rolled out of the way; a flaming whip appearing in her hands. Meanwhile, off to my left, Chiron/ Mr. Brunner rolled into the museum glancing around at the the two combatants.
"By the gods," He murmured, "What is going on?"
(A/N) : And Chapter Four! Now time to move on to adding a new chapter to The Former God Of War! Kinda been skiving off of adding a new chapter in favor of adding more to this story. Anyway, hope you like it, please review!