Life sucks (No Mist)

Annabeth, like all the other demigods, went back to high school. The gods, after the mist had disappeared due to Hecate falling ill, had revealed themselves to the mortals. But the demigods had to try to keep themselves hidden amongst the mortals for as long as possible, both to protect the mortals from monsters and to give themselves a bit of a normal life.

Everyone was starting to learn all about Greek mythology and everything that had happened in years past. Everything that had happened after the Greek and Roman empires had fallen.

They had a teacher that was to teach them all about the demigod heroes of this decade. The gods had made sure that the mortals would not know the names of the demigods, except for the fallen ones.

''The Big Three had made a vow after World War Two, to have no more children. But recently two of them had children anyway. Zeus had a daughter with black hair and electric eyes, and his Roman counterpart had a son with the same woman, only he got his mother's hair, blonde. Poseidon had a son too. He has jet black hair and eyes the colour of the sea. Hades did not break that promise, but he does have two demigod children that are alive. He had a son and a daughter with a woman in the 1930's, before the pact, and they were in a place that stops time. Both have an Italian appearance, black hair and dark brown almost black eyes. After less than a year the girl, Bianca, died, and the boy became an outcast. That son rescued a daughter of Pluto, Hades' Roman counterpart, who had died in the early 1940's. She has curly brown hair and golden eyes, and the colour of her skin like her hair she got from her mother, an African-American woman.'' the teacher started.

''What are the names of the other children of the Big Three?'' some stupid jock, Damien, asked. ''Shouldn't we know their names?''

''The gods do not permit us to distribute the names of the living heroes. They want them to have a normal life, without being swarmed by us mortals.'' the teacher answered. ''The dead heroes we will get to know the names of, to honour them.''

The jock grumbled.

''Now, the first battle in the Second Titan War, the Greek demigods called the battle of the Labyrinth, for it was fought on the outskirts of one of its entrances, in the Greek demigod camp. The side of the Gods, the defending side, won over the Titan side. Yet there were a lot of casualties. One of the most important casualties was Lee Fletcher, son of Apollo, and Castor, son of Dionysus.''

''A son of Apollo. What makes him so important?'' Sarah, a cheerleader, asked.

''And why can't we know the last name of that loser son of Dionysus that died?'' jock numero 2 asked.

Annabeth kept quiet. He was a friend to her. They were her family.

''Lee defended his home and laid down his life for his family and friends. He wanted to keep his home safe. Castor had a full blood brother, who survived, and he would like a normal life.'' the teacher said in finality. ''Now can I continue? Also one of the only two sons of Dionysus, who had but only one brother, died too. He was protecting his brother and his friends. Castor died during the battle. His father, Dionysus, was devastated by the loss of one of his only two living demigod sons.''

Everyone was quiet again.

''A little while before the war really began, and two people went on a mission. The son of Poseidon of the prophecy and a son of Hephaestus, Charles Beckendorf, known by his friends by his last name, and his girlfriend called him Charlie. The two went to blow up the boat of the enemy. They could not set the timers, and then Beckendorf set the bombs off himself, dying in the process.'' Then the teacher spoke about that the son of Poseidon had been with his father for a while. Then he talked about the war itself.

''Selina Beauregard, daughter of Aphrodite, tried to defeat a monster that only a child of Ares could possibly defeat. She died in the process, the acid burned off her once beautiful face. Her best friend, a daughter of Ares, killed the Drakon in revenge, and she received the blessing of Ares for her actions.''

''A daughter of Ares killed a monster that is nearly impossible to kill?'' some sexist jock asked. ''Shouldn't it be guys killing monsters and girls staying at home looking after the wounded or something?''

''Even in ancient Greek life woman were also warriors. Not only Ares is a god of war, also Athena, and for the Romans Bellona too. Athena has a lot of children, smart, strategic and real warriors.'' the teacher said, very irritated by the boy. ''Sometimes female warriors were seen as superior to male warriors, like with the Amazons. And all the demigods were trained and most of them are very good at handling weapons. They are very lethal, some with swords, some with knifes or daggers, others at archery or yet another fighting technique. Then there are those that can do actual magic, or use some power that they've gotten from their immortal parent.''

The sexist jock snorted, and didn't really believe that, but he kept quiet now.

''Now let's continue this chapter.'' the teacher said. ''Another demigod that did a lot for the demigods, died saving his siblings from a collapsing bridge, that the enemy had tried and succeeded to destroy, was Michael Yew, another son of Apollo. The Apollo siblings have lost two head counsellors and brothers, their older brothers who looked after them all, in less than a year.''

The teacher then talked some more about what happened in the war.

''In an effort to stop him Ethan Nakamura, a son of Nemesis, got thrown off of Olympus by Kronos, and he hit the ground so hard he died upon impact. Then Luke Castellan, a son of Hermes, helped defeat Kronos at the cost of his life while the daughter of Athena, the son of Poseidon and the lieutenant of Artemis who also is the daughter of Zeus, were there too. The son of Poseidon had fulfilled the prophecy, though differently than expected, for everyone thought he was to die on his 16th birthday. Later that day he and the daughter of Athena started dating.''

Then the bell rang.

The next lesson they were taught about the Giant war.

Annabeth, though she was the silent bookworm, didn't care about popularity, she didn't care about beauty and gossip. Though she was really beautiful, and she was quite popular amongst the boys that wanted to date her, but she refused every time.

The one guy that would just not give up on trying to get Annabeth to go out with him, asking her at least once a day. Andrew, but everyone just called him Andy. She always said no to him, for he was just a stupid brainless player jock that only wants to hook up with pretty girls. He unfortunately was good looking, so he got a lot of girls to actually hook up with him. He had blackish hair and turquoise-blue eyes.

''Hey Annie.'' Andy said.

''Do. Not. Call. Me. Annie. It's Annabeth to you.'' Annabeth said, seriously angry.

''So Annabeth, wanna go out with me?''

''No.''

''What?'' Andy screeched. ''But I am a demigod.''

''No you are not.'' Annabeth said simply.

''Yes I am. I am the son of Poseidon. Don't you know anything? The teachers have been telling everyone all about all of my adventures.'' Andy lied.

''No you aren't.''

''I have been to the depths of the world. I have defeated many monsters. So why would you not date me, babe?''

''Because I have actually been paying attention.'' Annabeth said smugly. ''The son of Poseidon has a girlfriend, for whom he went through the deepest pits off hell.''

''And I dumped her for you, babe, you are much better than her. She was a pretty girl, she was smart. But she was nowhere in your league, you are the most beautiful girl on the planet and the smartest person in the universe.'' he bragged.

''Well, I am not the prettiest girl in the world. You should meet my best friend Piper. But when you meet her you should know that she is dating someone already.'' Annabeth shot back. ''And you are not very loyal, now are you? Haven't you slept with and cheated on almost every girl you were ever with? And the son of Poseidon's fatal flaw is loyalty, if you haven't been listening to our teachers.''

Now she had unmasked him. He could not be the son of Poseidon from the Seven. But she had gotten so mad, so incredibly mad that that stupid moral boy, that she exploded. She was starting to get at it, she was so mad that she was telling them all about her life.

But that idiot mortal just wouldn't give up.

''You are just making that up.'' Andy bluffed. ''If you haven't been listening, I look exactly like what they described! Eyes the colours like the sea, check. Sea blue eyes. Duh. Black hair, check. So don't tell me I am not the son of Poseidon.''

''Well, I am the daughter of Athena from the prophecy of Seven. Yet I don't remember you being there, much less being my boyfriend.'' Annabeth shouted, incredibly enraged. ''My actual boyfriend, though, he was there. And he is the only living demigod son of Poseidon.''

''Liar!'' Andy yells.

''My name, is Annabeth Chase, and I am a daughter of the Greek goddess Athena, goddess of wisdom, strategy, warfare and crafts.'' Annabeth spat at him. ''When I was 7 I left home to go live on the run with some other demigods, the daughter of Zeus and a son of Hermes, until we reached the demigod camp. But just before we reached it, I defeated a cyclops. I was 7 and I stabbed it and freed my friends. Could you do that when you were 7? Before reaching camp my best friend, she was 12, stood in her final stand against a horde of monsters. She sacrificed her life, but her father Zeus took pity on her and transformed her spirit into the pine tree that protected all demigods. I have been on 10 quests. I went on my first quest when I was 12, and I helped retrieve Zeus' master bolt and Hades' helm of darkness. I helped defeat Medusa, I defeated the furies and many more monsters on that quest to the Underworld.''

People gasped.

''Yeah, I've been, a couple of times.'' Annabeth snapped. ''When I was 13 I helped retrieve the golden fleece and we sailed the sea of monsters, where I tricked Circe and destroyed her island, then I survived the sirens and came out wiser, and I also tricked the Cyclops Polybotes and blinded him once again. A couple of months later I got kidnapped by a former friend alongside the goddess Artemis. I held up the sky, as in the actual sky, which is Atlas's job. We then defeated Atlas. When I was 14 I lead my first quest. We went into the labyrinth to find Daedalus. One of the first ones we met in there, was Queen Bitch-face, sorry, Queen Hera.''

They gasped again. Calling Hera a bitch. No one could do that.

''We faced many enemies, most of whom we defeated. We freed Briarus, the only surviving hundred-handed-one. We were at the forges of Hephaestus and helped him out, in the process my best friend blew up Mount St. Helens and was thought to be dead. He walked into camp again when we were holding his funeral. We went back into the maze, and I met the god Pan at his passing. We met the Titan Lord of Time, Kronos, whom we escaped. Then there was a major battle, in which I lost many friends and siblings. And before Daedalus, my half-brother by the way, passed, he gave me all his projects. I faced the Mermekes, giant attack happy ants that spit acid. A year later, we had to fight in the Titan War, while all of you mortals were asleep and we were saving your sorry behinds. I got stabbed and almost died, but in the end we won the war. Then my at the time best friend refused immortality to make sure something like that wouldn't happen again and minor gods and goddesses as well as all demigods get respect. My best friend… who became my boyfriend. My sassy, loyal, idiotic, son of Poseidon boyfriend.''

Talking about Percy always calmed her down. He was her light and shining stars, he could calm her down even when he wasn't with her at that exact moment. She took a deep breath and continued.

''I thought that I wouldn't have to fight any more monsters or go on more quests, but then Hera abducted my boyfriend for 8 months. Finally me and 3 others from the prophecy went on the Argo 2 to get him and 2 others. We were the Seven of the prophecy after all. We went to the ancient lands, where we had to complete many mini quests. Then I had to go on a solo quest there, in Rome to be precise, to find the Athena Parthenos, which children of Athena have been trying to find for thousands of years, but always failed to find. On my way I broke my ankle but I continued on. I found it and beat Arachne, goddess of spiders, the archenemy of Athena and her children.'' she said proudly.

''But when the statue was on the ship, Arachne pulled one last trick and me and my boyfriend fell for 9 days into literal hell. We had to drink fire to stay alive. We had to beat monsters and primordial gods. Nyx, Chaos, Achlys. And then we got reunited with Damasen and Bob, formerly Iapus. We beat Tartarus and some giants. Bob and Damasen helped us escape at the cost of their immortal lives. Then we had to go beat Gaea and prevent a war between the Greek and Roman demigods. Which sucked. In the end, though, we did it. But it caused a friend to die. Until he came back from the dead. And now the Oracle of Phoebus Apollo, the Oracle of Delphi, the only full mortal allowed into the demigod camps, who happens to be a friend that hit Kronos in the eye with a freaking hair brush, can't prophesise because Apollo has been turned mortal.''

The mortals were shocked and so silent you could hear a pin drop.

''And those are just the important battles. I've been on side quests during quests, I've been on a quest for Hermes, whom I've met multiple times by the way, with my boyfriend, the one true son of Poseidon. I've seen it all, I've faced it all. I have done so much more than any of you, than any of you can even imagine, and you pretend to be one of us, to have faced what we have. You cry over a broken bone or a broken nail. I didn't have time to cry when I had a broken foot in fucking Tartarus, I had to move on!'' she whispered, dead serious.

Everyone could hear her, everyone was afraid of what she might do.

Then she got really, really angry.

''So the life of a demigod sucks. Royally. Don't pretend to be one to become more popular, because you have no idea how crappy it is. Most of the time we can't live with our mortal family because we would endanger them. Our godly parent can't take care of us either due to ancient laws. And to stay alive we have to fight and kill monsters that die but come back to live at some point or another. It. Sucks.''

And with that she walked out of the school.

AN: Still have writer's block. This one shot I've written exactly 8 months ago today (February 25th), so it's old. I don't know when my writer's block will be over, and I sincerely hope that it's soon because I also have sort of a block with my drawing and painting, so I have like an artistic block at the moment. When making new pages for my bullet journal, it's simple due to my lack of inspiration.

I have more one shots lined up, so I'll post them. Hopefully that'll get me out of this drag…

Happy hunting! (or like, reading is more like it, but that's not really the expression…)

Satan