Me : So sorry for the long delay, i had been busy for the last months. And I'm not lazy, I'm just tired. Because you know, I already graduated from my college and I have a job, a new job and I had a big responsibility, because I'm the head of the Warehouse (is that the right term? So basically I had to monitoring the stuff inside the warehouse). Yes, job with a payment! I'm basically an adult now (Reiner : NO! You are not!) and my parent decided not to give me allowance again, because I can make my own money, so yeah you can get the gist of it. And yeah, the lazy me can actually have a job! So, I will try to update as fast as i can. Because, I had to divide my time between work, rest and write. So, thank you for you patience! And I'll let you read this in peace, and as usual sorry for the bad grammar and misspelling, since English is not my mother language.

I don't own PJO and HOO


Chapter 9

I dropped my bag into my bed on my own room, back at my apartment. After one week Luke gave me these injuries, Will and Chiron took a great care of me until I healed. I walked into the windows near my table and opened it, and let the evening cool breeze entered my room.

"Are you alright Reiner?" my mom asked me in gentle and worried tone.

"I'm fine" I said and turned to face her "it's okay mom, you don't have to worry about me"

She walked towards me and ran her hand towards my hair "Maybe you should stay in the camp, it's safer there than here"

I almost scoffed, almost "Mom, I can take care of myself. I can protect myself from Luke"

"He almost kill you last time!" she yelled at me.

Well, no. he won't kill me, yet. Luke needed me alive for Kronos, but my mom didn't know that fact. I just didn't make her freak out when she found out that the King of Titan wanted me as his vessel. I just huffed and crossed my arms, I avoided my mom face and decided to look at the orange sky.

"Also, there's Percy" I said slowly "He will help me too"

My mom only sighed in defeated before ruffled my black hair "I guess, I can't convince you huh?"

"Mom!" I pouted "Stop, ruffling my hair!"

She giggled "Your hair got longer last time I saw you"

I rolled my eyes "What? Do you expect it will go shorter?"

She smacked me in the head "Don't try to be sarcastic on me, son"

"Don't smack your injured son too, woman!" I said.

My mom eye twitched "What did you just call me?"

My eyes widened when I realized what just slipped from my big damn mouth "Uh, I mean. Mom! Yeah, mom!"

"No dessert for you tonight young man" my mom said and sent me her devilish smirk.

"But, I love your chocolate cookies" I whined.

My mom only shook her head "You act like your father sometimes"

I pouted when I realized my mom just put my intelligence level same like Apollo, I mean I'm way more smarter and mature than him, right, right?! Anyway, I thinking about Percy stepdad, Gabe. If I remember correctly, Percy mom turned him into some kind of a statue right? Well, I wanted to go to Percy and spoke to him about the Luke incident. I mean some of the event was kinda blur to me, especially when I can make shadow bent into my will.

"Hey, mom" I said and fidgeting "Can I visit Percy tomorrow?"

My mom tilted her head a bit "Why?"

"I just want to ask him about….school. Yeah, our school" I quickly lied to her, more likely half lied because yeah, I wanted to discuss about our next school.

Speaking of new school, I forgot the name of the school but…I think I remember the bully name. Matt Sloan, right? And this year I decided to enter the basketball team, since I was Apollo kid and shooting is my specialty, so yeah. I wanted to be in the popular group, not the unwanted one. Maybe I can convince Percy to join the swim team, since his father is Poseidon.

My mom didn't look so convince but she let it go "Okay, then. I'll drop you there at 8 a.m, and picked you up at 5 p.m"

I only nodded at her "Thank you mom"


Sally smiled at me while putting a plate full of blue cookies in front of me, while Percy kept munching on one. His mouth is full of cookies as he tried to shove one inside his mouth, cookies crumb decorated his cheek and white T-shirt.

"Percy, stop being a pig" I said half whine "You disgusting!"

Percy snatched a cookie on my hand "Shuf uph! (Shut up!)"

I grimaced when some of the crumbs came from Percy mouth and landed on my arm and clothes. I dusted my T-shirt and glared at Percy, who still busy swallowed all the cookies inside his mouth.

"Do you want some milk Reiner?" Sally asked and patted me in the head.

"Oh, yeah. The chocolate one please" I said and grinned.

Sally sent me a quick smile while she disappeared again to the kitchen, my grin faltered when I turned my head into Percy. He still busy to swallow his food and wanted to shove more blue cookies, I quickly snatched the blue thing from his hand and shoved it into my mouth.

"Hewh! Twat ish mouine! (Hey! That is mine!)" Percy yelled at me.

My eyes twitched "Stop yelling when your mouth is full, Seaweed Brain"

Percy managed to swallow and he glared at me "Shut up, Rei-chan!"

I heard a soft laugh and turned my head only to find Sally giggled at us as she put my glass down.

"So, I'm going to left for work" she said and checked her wristwatch "I guess I can left you two and trust you not to destroy the place?"

"I cannot prom-OW!" I yelled when Percy stepped his feet into my toe.

"Okay mom!" Percy said cheerfully.

"FUC-OUCH!" this time Percy put all his weight on my toes.

Sally only blinked and she just shrugged "Okay then, bye bye"

After Sally disappeared and far away from hearing distance, Percy removed his feet on me. I quickly smacked his head hard, hard enough to make a lump appeared on his head.

"Hey the fuck that for?!" Percy yelled at me while rubbed his head.

"Oh, I just want to remove the seaweed from your brain" I said in sarcastic tone.

"That just plain rude" Percy Pouted at me.

"Am I?" I raised both of my eyebrows.

"Just forget about it" Percy shrugged and took a cookie from the plate.

I took the glass of chocolate milk slowly and examined the milk inside it with interested look. The thought inside my mind started to pop up and begged me to clear all the issue that had been bugging me.

"So, Percy" I started "Do you still remember what happened to me, after you come?"

Percy stopped chewing midway and gave confused looks "Uh, I'm afraid I don't understand"

"I mean the incident, with Luke" I said again much slower this time.

Percy swallowed and let out a rather loud and annoyed sigh "Don't tell me you are going to forgive him too"

I almost chocked on the milk, I quickly swallowed it and put the glass back in the table in front of me "No, wh-how do get that stupid idea? There's no way I can forgive him for what he have done!" I stopped for a moment before taking a deep breath "I mean…maybe I can forgive him" that came out in quiet tone "I mean after all, he wanted to come back to our side later, but Kronos didn't let him" and that part came out as a mumble.

"Anyway, I only remember the part after Luke injured you badly, he held a vial of your blood, and you on the ground bleeding heavily" Percy paused for a moment "And the hound came in, I managed to kill it, and…."Percy glanced at me "I think, I saw you bend the shadow to help me defeat Luke and Luke ran away with a hound"

My hand twitched when Percy mentioned of me controlling the shadow "Are you sure?"

"I hate to say it, but yeah" Percy answered and gave me guilty look "But, that doesn't mean that you are Hades son!" he quickly added "I mean, Apollo also claimed you!"

I shook my head and gave Percy forced smile "Percy, I know there is a possibility that I'm Hades kid, I mean. I cannot control shadow if I didn't have Hades blood in me"

"But, back in the-" Percy tried to protest.

"He could be lying to me the whole time Percy!" I yelled at him and clenched my fist "He could be just pulling my string and use me as his puppet! He could be said all of that, just to make sure the god believe, that I'm not his son! And then when the god least expect it, he will use me to dethrone Zeus!"

"Reiner" Percy called my name and grabbed my shoulder "What happened? Tell me what happened to you? This isn't like you at all"

I blinked and took a deep breath "I'm just-" I sighed and ran my hand through my hair "I don't know. It just too much for me to handle. All of that, and Kronos started to haunt me in my dream"

True story, and the short story is…Kronos showed me in the Camp Half blood, me frozen in time and just watched while Kronos used Luke body to slaughter all of the camper, right in front of me. I had a bad feeling that he will continue, until I submit to him and let him used my body as his vessel.

"Why don't you tell Chiron?" Percy asked.

"He already has a lot of on his plate" I sighed in frustration "I don't want to make him more worried about my condition"

At first I just want to be a back ground character, but as the stories progress, I suddenly became the main attraction, not Percy anymore, but me. And suddenly almost all the bad guys and the god knew that I can see the future, which is not true, and all my plan for laying low and kept that a secret had gone flying through the window. And that of course the writer fault, she couldn't keep her promise (A/N : Hey! Stop breaking the fourth wall!). Percy looked worried and he just threw his hand up in frustration.

"Okay then" Percy said and patted my shoulder "I won't force you into it, but you have to tell Chiron on the next upcoming summer camp." He said and jabbed my cheek with his finger.

"Alright, alright!" I hissed and slapped his finger away from my cheek "Geez, stop poking me!"

Percy grinned again before finishing his cookies, I sighed again and finished my chocolate milk quickly. I slammed the glass on the table and startling Percy a little bit, I stood up and stretched my arm upwards and smiled when I heard a satisfying 'pop' came from my joint.

"So, how about school?" I asked Percy.

Percy raised both of his eyebrows "What?"

I turned and rubbed my nape "School. New Year of school. 7th grade"

Percy blinked before leaned back on the couch "Oh yeah, school" then his expression turned dark "I hate school.

I rolled my eyes at him. Hey, you only attended school once buddy, unlike me. I had to redo all this bullshit again and I'm not happy about it, especially with my dyslexia. Percy crossed his arms as he leaned back to the couch, his face all scrunched up and I can guess, he's thinking really hard, which is not his strong suit.

"Stop thinking so hard" I said and patted his head "You could kill yourself"

Percy pouted and swatted my hand from his head "Shut up! It's all your fault to bring school all of sudden!"

My eyes twitched "Excuse me? My fault! Oi, I only remind you of school. We had to search for one, it's almost fall, and we have to enroll in one. Except you don't want to attend one?" I rolled my eyes "Tch, what a lazy ass"

"7th grade huh" Percy murmured "I don't know, let me ask my mom when she back. You?"

"I will enroll in the same school like you" I said and smirked "Someone has to keep an eye to you, so you don't screw up and get kick out again"

"It's not my fault!" Percy whined "Blame all the monster that kept bugging me!"

"Except the one that you release all the shark" I said and shudder "Lucky, I'm not in the mood for swimming"

Percy snorted at me "I wished back then, I pushed you to the pool"

"Wow, I can't believe you are so evil, Perry" I said in mocked tone

"Are you misspelling my name in purpose?" Percy asked in irritated tone.

"Maybe. I don't care, Johnson" I said and tried to mimic Mr. D

Percy elbowed my side hard and I only snickered at his disgust expression "Please, I only need one Mr. D, I don't need another one" he said while smacked me.


So, it's final, me and Percy are enrolled in the same school and I'm so surprised that Percy mom decided to enrolled us in school for trouble kids. Since Percy and my records are so bad, so bad that I bet my ancestor would cried in their grave. I mean come one, I almost graduated from one of the top University in Germany and one of the best in the Pharmacy, a lot of big company already wanted to hire me as one of their employee. And now….I enrolled in some school for trouble maker? I wanted to cry and punch someone. This is so fucking embarrassing….and the name for the school is, um, let me rack my brain for it (more like tell the author to search for it), ah yes, Meriwether College Prep. Percy mom said it was a progressive school, at first I almost laughed at it, but I groaned when I decided to search it on the internet. I wanted to bail from there, and no way they have decent basketball team there, like one in the anime. Ups, I drifted too far…sorry, ADHD.

Anyway, I hate that damn school so much but, I had to attend. For the sake of Percy and….Tyson. Yeah, our beloved Cyclops friend, let's just hope he didn't disappear from the story. I rubbed my face as I closed my mom laptop, I rested my head on the table and groaned. This is going to be a very long year and a suck one. I lifted my head up and looked at the clock near the window, it's already 7 p.m., no wonder my stomach grumbling like crazy. I quickly stood up and walked slowly to the dining room, my mom already prepared some dinner on the table. She smiled at me as I sat down on the chair, she put a plate of steak, along with mashed potatoes and baked vegetable.

"So, are you excited for the new school?" she asked as she took a seat in front of me.

I just grunted as I pushed the peas on my plate, my mom only smiled as she saw my annoyed expression.

"Well, we can't help it" she said as cut her steak "I mean, your record are pretty bad"

"Percy dragged me into his problem" I said with annoyed tone "I tried my best to stop him, from doing something stupid, but in the end, I somehow always got stuck in the detention with him"

My mom giggled at my poor explanation "Oh, really? So, all those report I heard from the teacher was wrong?"

I was silent at that, well, sometimes I was the one who creating the problem. But, it wasn't exactly my fault, I was trying, key word TRYING, to protect Percy from those monster who disguised themselves as a teacher, classmate, janitor and a bus driver. So, when they (the normal human) saw me, stabbed them with broom stick, put a bucket full of dirty water on the top of the door, or hit them with a mop, worse 'accidentally' hit them with ball, when we play dodge ball, it was for protection. But, then again, you human only see what you want to see, so don't blame me who can see them clearly, and of course Percy didn't realize that, since at that time he didn't know the existence of god, let alone monster.

So, let's just hope now, since Percy already aware of those things, I didn't have to protect him anymore, he had his own weapon for god sake. But, waving around your pen in front of a teacher, well, that's harmless right? Unless, you tried to stab them with it, I know, that's dangerous thing, but please consider that Percy pen could turned into a sword, and yeah, I know the fact that Celestial Bronze couldn't hurt people, but, one thing important; what if they saw the sword? Huh, explain that one to the people. You cannot exactly wield a sword and stabbed random people with it, just because you suspect them as a monster. They will sent you to the asylum, and that's the last place I want to be. I looked down at my bracelets, both of them are swords too, and I had to think to prevent myself from accidentally tapped them. It's not funny if I accidentally tapped them in class, two swords will appeared on my hand, and how am I supposed to explain that to the teacher.

'Oh, I just tried to kill time. Since I'm bored to death'

Well….I didn't know about that. Maybe, I shouldn't try that one, last time I saw a kid trying to be funny like that, he ended up in the detention for 4 days straight. And believe me detention time, was boring, like hell. No hard feelings Hades, you're palace are indeed boring, the only view you can see is the field of punishment and Adosphel field. Where's the fun in watching people got torture and people who wondering aimlessly like that? And if you loved that….well, you are a sick person. And since you already read the previous chapter where I almost got killed, I just want to ask you. Do you enjoy that chapter? Because if yes, you are si-(A/N : stop breaking the fourth wall!). Sorry, ADHD kicking in again, well you know, demigods, and I always stray from the topics.

I looked down and stared at my steak, I almost didn't touch anything and my stomach already growling loudly. I sighed and began to eat my steak slowly, savor the juicy meat and the delicious sauce that my mom made. After I practically wolfed down all my food, I sighed in contempt and staring at the ceilings. So, holiday almost ended and next week, I had to attend Meriwether College Prep. And I had to meet Sloan and his, um, …..what those thing called again? That huge monster that threw fire ball?...wait a sec, let me rack my brain. Laistrygonian? Yeah, that was them. Whew, those name are so weird and hard to remember, and who the heck gave the monster name? Sometimes they are so hard to pronounce, are they drunk when they named them? Anyway, those Pastryslonian, I mean, Laistygronian, I mean, uh…., Laistri, Laistrygonian! Yeah, Laistrygonian, they appeared on the last semester, when it almost summer time. And there some problem at the camp, Luke the one who made everything a mess, Chiron got kicked out from the camp, Tantalus will be there as a camp counselor as Chiron substitute, Luke poison Thalia tree, the only thing that can save it is Golden Fleece, and you know the rest of the story. I almost groaned, almost, but I just pursed my lips and tried to think another problem. Well, the first problem with Zeus master bolt, the story almost changed, the main story line still there, but there's small change here and there, AND somehow I got involved in there when I tried my best not to involve myself.

And this second journey, I didn't know, but I had a very bad feeling that somehow The Fates will let my pretty ass involved in that too. I didn't know how, but they will include me. It's frustrating, that you tried you best to stay low and it didn't work at all. I looked at the clock and it's showed me 8.30 p.m. I better get some sleep now, I need to repair my sleep cycle again, so I got used to wake up early in the morning again.


I huffed in annoyance when me and Percy already inside our homeroom class. I pulled up my dark green hoodie and let it covered half of my face, the class room is…different. And I didn't want to explain that one. I took a glanced on my right and saw Percy ready to hack someone, he looked bored and twitching every now and then. Then the teacher came in, and my jaw dropped, the man in his middle forties, and he had this shoulder length blonde hair, he had two big piercing on his left ear and one big piercing on his right ear. He wore black sleeves T-shirt that had a 'Rock and Rolls rules' in sloppy writing printed on it and he wore leather black jacket, a ripped jeans, tons of silver bracelet, huge necklace, and a black boot. He introduce himself as Mr. Greg, and he is our homeroom teacher.

"Well, now I want to know your name" he said and grinned "Well, let's start from you"

He pointed his finger at a random girl with bleach blond hair, she stood up lazily and introduced herself. I tuned out most of it and focusing on the 'table' in front of me, more like a beat up coffee table, well, at least is not a box, like in some certain anime.

"And you young man in dark green hoodie" Mr. Greg said "And please pulled off your hoodie, so we can take a good look on you"

I only huffed in annoyance as I pulled my hoodie off, revealing my black hair. I stuffed my hand on my jeans pocket and scanned the class, I tried my best to put my apathetic look.

"Reiner Lockheart" I said in monotone voice.

Some of the girls whispered when they saw me, I quickly sat down and rested my elbow on the table, I put my chin on my hand and turned to see Percy introduced himself. The same group of girls also whispered among themselves when they saw Percy. Don't blame us for our good looks, blame our gene that came from our godly parent. Even though we still a kids, some people told us that we can grew up into a pair of handsome man. And please, kept your mind off those side okay, me and Percy we just friends, of course once we took a bath together many times, but that happened when we 3-6 years old! So, please don't suddenly wandered to that side, we are straight, unless, the stupid author decided to change it (A/N : you breaking the fourth wall again! And don't call me stupid!).

Anyway, after the whole introduction things done, the classroom door opened again and a big guy came in, he wore a flannel shirt that had patch here and there, a dirty jeans, and a pair of big shoe. He had tangled brown hair, and one big eye on his forehead, yeah, you heard me, ONE EYE! I blinked at that, and turned to face Percy who looked at the big kid with bored looks. Wait, don't tell me he cannot see those one big lone eye stuck right in the middle of that kid face! Because I can see it clear as a day!

"Sorry, I'm late" he said in timid tone "I got lost on the way here"

Our homeroom teacher blinked slowly, maybe couldn't believe someone so big had tiny voice and still in 7th grade.

"Oh, yeah" he finally snapped out from his trance "Please, introduce yourself"

The kid, fidgeting under our gaze, he clearly looked uncomfortable and wanted to cry in the corner.

"Tyson" he said in timid tone again.

Yep, our beloved Cyclops already made an appearance. I looked at him and tried my best to ignore his lone eye, which is hard. Tyson hurriedly walked into the back and sat right behind me, I took a quick glanced at him and found him looked at me too. That single eye focused on me, I blinked at him and gave him lazy smile, before focusing on our eccentric teacher again.

"What's your name?"

I almost flinched from my seat, when I heard Tyson quite tone from behind. I turned slightly to him, and sent him small smile.

"Reiner" I said in quite tone "Nice to meet you"

"Reiner" he said my name and nodded "You have a nice scent" than Tyson realized what just he said and he quickly apologized "So-sorry!"

I only smiled awkwardly at him before turned to watch Mr. Greg did some weird move in the front of the class. Okay those last comment from him was creepy, like seriously creepy. Imagine someone you just know, and then out of nowhere, they said that you have a nice scent. What will you do huh?! What will a normal human will do?! Well, as demigod first thing we will do is, stabbed those motherfucker. Because the only thing that can catch your scent, and told you it was nice was monster, and they wanted to eat you. Well, now Tyson already said those forbidden words, and from the story he's harmless, so… what should I do? He wouldn't eat me right here and now right? I mean, too many eye witness in here. I shifted uncomfortably on my seat, while Percy sent me his questioning looks. He even mouthing 'what's wrong?' at me. I moved my eyes towards Tyson, and Percy only cocked his head to the side, clearly confused. I moved my head slightly to point out, that my uncomfortableness came from the kid behind me. Percy still didn't understand, and my eyebrow twitched at him.

"Seaweed Brain" I hissed quietly and earned a punch from him on my arm.

"Shut up!" he hissed back at me.


I sighed loudly as I slumped on the cafeteria table, let's just said, I'm already bored to death. Percy sat in front of me and put his lunch in the table. Its lunch time and I didn't have any appetite, let's just say, I wanted to end this day and went home. Percy took out a sandwich, and three blue cookies, also a box of orange juice. I only rolled my eyes at the sight of blue cookies, seriously, what wrong with him and blue things? He's too obsessed with those color, not a bad thing for me, but sometimes I just wondered, how on earth Sally got those cookies and other food turned into blue? Chocking them to death? Wow, I must be sound stupid when I said that.

"You want some?" Percy looked at me, eyeing his blue cookies.

I quickly shook my head while took my lunch that consist of grilled cheese, a pear and a box of apple juice. I quickly ate my pear while scanned the cafeteria, looking for our Cyclops, and I didn't found him anywhere. Well, it's hard to miss him with his big body and one eye. I only shrugged and opened the wrapper on my sandwich, a huge finger tapped my shoulder in the middle of me bitting my sandwich. I turned with the sandwich on my mouth, I only stared at someone hips, I blinked slowly before looked up. Tyson looked at me with sheepish looks, his single eyes darted around before resting on me.

"Can-can I sit with you guys?" he asked in childish like voice "I-I don't think the other kid wants me to sit with them"

I took a quickly glanced at Percy who only stared at Tyson face with weird look, maybe he couldn't see Tyson real face, and he trying to figure out his face. I kicked Percy in the shin hard, because it's rude to stare at someone face for a long time. Percy yelped in pain, almost dropped his blue cookies, his sea green eyes met my dark blue ones, and he quickly nodded at me.

"Yeah, sure" Percy said and smiled.

I quickly scooted aside, and made a lot of space for Tyson to sit. The bench made a weird sound when Tyson sat right next to me, and I prayed to Hephaestus to make the bench stronger and not snapped in a half under Tyson weight. Tyson put his lunch bag and pulled two Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches and a small bottle of mineral water. He began to eat his lunch quietly, while sometimes tried to make a small talk to me and Percy. That's when Matt Sloan decided to butt in, and he started to make fun of Tyson attitude. I only rolled my eyes while crushed my Apple juice box that on my hand and threw it at the nearest Trash can, of course being an Apollo kid, the box entered the trash can perfectly.

"Oi" I said in annoyed tone "Get lost!"

Sloan stopped and he blinked at me "What did you say?"

"Oh, deaf aren't you?" I said in bored tone "I said get lost!"

"Are you looking for a fight smartass?" Sloan hissed.

I only chuckled while stood up, effectively towering him, since I'm taller than him a couple of inches "Oh you want me to rearrange your teeth?" I heard some of the kids who watched began to snicker "Okay, then. Since your front teeth broken halfway, let me broke it completely. And I'll do it for free"

I sent him a closed eye smile while cracking my knuckles, Sloan gulped for a moment before turned around and hurriedly walked back to his group of friends and almost tripped over nothing. When, Sloan disappeared from my line of sight, I slumped back into my chair and rested my chin on my hand.

"Boring" I said and earned a kick from Percy.

"And you called me trouble maker" Percy hissed "You almost picked a fight with a kid on our first day"

"Key word" I said and made a quote sign with my hand "Almost" I grinned "Beside you know why I did it, I hate bullies"

Percy only pursed his lips, he knew it. Since I always defended him whenever he got bullied in school, and scared the bullies away.


Reiner : You have this chapter for almost a month, why posting it now?

Me : I actually forgot that I have this chapter...

Reiner : And tell me, how did you manage to get a job?

Me : Hey! I'm pretty smart you know! I just didn't want to brag about it!

Reiner : Yeah, yeah. You are so smart

Me : *smack Reiner on the head* don't trying to be smart ass on me, idiot! You are younger than me, respect me punk!

Reiner : Yeesh, okay, okay I get it. By the way, instead of growing your muscle, try to grow that certain area, that you lack off (Point at my chest)

Me : *kick him* Why you?! It can't grow anymore you bastard! and don't even try to point that out, idiot!

Reiner : *dodge skillfully* Anyway, the lovely readers. Don't forget to drop a review, or click the follow or/and favorite button okay. That's will make her happy and maybe encourages her to updates faster. Bye! *ran away*