Melody POV
I never realized how annoying a major Mist fix could be. Everything that I had learned about socializing and surviving in math class was suddenly tossed out the window. Sabrina also cannot figure out why I act so off during the class. I'm used to not being able to get away with ANYTHING in that class. I'm really not surprised Mrs. Dodds was a monster. She was pure EVIL. Grover isn't very good at pretending to be affected by the Mist. He hesitates every time Percy mentioned her. Can't fool us. Its really frustrating though that we haven't been able to get anything more out of him then that he wasn't affected by the Mist's spell.
Something is clearly going on with the gods, specifically Zeus. There was what mortals were calling "a freak weather streak" that was incredibly violent. One night a thunderstorm completely blew out Percy and Grover's windows in their dorm room. Personally, I thought it was hilarious that they both got completely drenched and cold, or at least Grover because of Percy's immunity to getting wet and draconic resistance to heat and cold. I wasn't a completely terrible person however, I did help them pick up the room in the morning. Sheesh, gimme some credit people. In any case, A few days after that, the biggest tornado ever spotted in Hudson Vally touched down only fifty miles from Yancy Academy. On elf the current events we studied in social studies was the unusual number of small planes that had gone down in sudden squalls in the Atlantic that year.
Large amounts of the Mist is never good for dragons, it screws with our senses and this generally makes us pretty irritable when we can't properly find our bearings. The school year just got worse and worse for both Percy and I. It was definitely worse for Percy though, as he had dyslexia AND ADHD coupled with Nancy's irrational need to torture him for some reason. It wasn't so bad for me as I had Sabrina and she was not someone to be messed with when upset. Nancy had destroyed all of Sabrina's homework that was due the next day in retaliation for walking into a trap that was meant for me when she went to try and bully me in my room. I would not have been surprised to find out that Sabrina was also a dragon in that moment that she found out that Nancy had destroyed her homework. It was like having mom in the room when the boys accidentally broke something, namely as scary as the thought of loosing my wings.
Speaking of mom, I missed home. I mean, its great with Sabrina and my other friends and all but I really miss being able to stretch my wings whenever I wanted. I also missed cooking breakfast every morning. School food just isn't the same. Too much fake cheese. I could tell Percy was having the same problem through our emotional link. We really didn't talk to each other much anymore between Nancy being a pain, classes and the need to sleep. The amount of homework was utterly ridiculous, screw studying on top of that.
Percy already snapped, poor guy. It was in English when the teacher asked Percy for the nth time why he was too lazy (tired, not that he would care) to study for the spelling tests, Percy went as far as to call him an "old sot". (I've made a mental note to use that one if I ever get the chance.) In any case. Percy is not welcome back at Yancy and frankly I'm grateful, I am NOT dealing with Nancy again unless its at a knife point with the blade facing her. Arg, I do actually want to study for finals though, better at least try.
Percy POV
It was the evening before finals and I was so frustrated that I could feel Melody blocking me on her end so she didn't get frustrated as well. I felt kinda bad so I decided to try and receive some of the frustration by throwing my copy of Cambridge Guide to Greek Mythology across the room. I felt a little better, and then felt grateful that Melody was not here or else I would likely be getting a lecture about how precious books were and how I shouldn't mistreat them and what not. I honestly don't care. The words had started floating off the page again and taunting me with my inability to understand them. Why couldn't they be ancient Greek like the ones in our library at home, even Latin is better than this! Arg… There was no way that I was going to be able to memorize the different versions of history than what I had been taught, Latin verbs were pretty easy though. It was likely the one thing I'd get remotely close to acing on the test.
I took a deep breath and retrieved the book from across the room. I'd normally ask Melody for help but I don't want to disturb her studying, I guess my only option is to ask Mr. Brunner the least I could do was apologize for the giant D I was bound to score tomorrow. I walked downstairs to the faculty offices. Most of them were dark and empty, but Mr. Brunner's door was ajar, light from his window stretching across the hallway floor. I was about to knock when I heard a voice that definitely wasn't Mr. Brunner's. "Worried abut Percy sir." Grover. Why was he worried? Its not like he had seen the last few monster attacks.
Now, usually I'm not much of an eavesdropper, thats more Melody's style, but I dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult. I inched closer.
"…alone this summer," grover was saying. "I mean, a Kindly One in the school! Now that we know for sure, and they know too—" "We would only make matters worse by rushing him," Mr. Brunner said. " We need the boy to mature more." "But he may not have time. The summer solstice deadline—" Woah, woah, woah. Hold on.
A deadline on the solstice can only mean bad things. I wonder whats wrong, does it have something to do with what the Fury was accusing me of stealing? I had tuned out for a bit so I tuned back into their conversation.
"…Now lets just worry about keeping Percy alive until next fall—" THEM keep me alive? I can do that very well myself thanks. I snorted quietly but their conversation stopped and I ran to the nearest open door and hid. I did NOT need them finding out I had eavesdropped just yet. I'll confront them later when I'm not stressed and tired from studying.
I heard a sound like hooves coming down the hall and it all made sense. Grover must be a satyr, sent by the gods to watch me. Mr. Brunner was probably another demigod or mythical creature for him to be in on the mission. Somewhere in the hallway Mr. Brunner spoke, not too far from my hiding spot."Hmm nothing. My nerves haven't been right since the winter solstice."
"Mine either." Replied Grover.
Mr. Brunner sighed, "Go back to the dorm. You've got a long day of exams tomorrow." Grover groaned, "Don't remind me." (AN: Replace dorm with room and you have my conversation with my parents every time I have a test :P Anyone else?) The lights went out in Mr. Brunner's office and I waited a few minutes before heading back to the dorm with Grover. On the way I considered calling him out on what I'd heard but decided I wanted to talk to Melody before I did anything. I tried to connect but she wasn't responding so I guess she had gone to bed. When I got to my dorm Grover was lying on his bed studying his Latin exam notes like he'd been there all night.
"Hey," he said, bleary eyed. "You going to be ready for this test?"
I didn't answer. I was lost in thought and frankly pretty tired. All I could think about was A. The fact that I hadn't noticed I was LIVING with another mythical being and B that I was in some kind of trouble with the gods and I had no idea why.
The next afternoon, as I was leaving the easiest exam of my life, Mr. Brunner called me back inside. I honestly couldn't wait until he graded my final, I'd "magically" gone from the worst student in the classes to acing the test. I was really hoping that was what this was about, not that he might've figured out that I had been eavesdropping. It was neither.
"Percy," he said. "Don't be discouraged about leaving Yancy. It's…it's for the best."
His tone was kind, but it was still kind've embarrassing as the other kids who were finishing could hear every word. Nancy smirked at me and made sarcastic little kissing motions with her lips. I decided that since I was leaving this year anyway I could probably get away with scaring her a bit. I began to plot and tuned Mr. Brunner out and when I came back to he was looking at me expectantly my eyes watered from staring out to space for a bit and replied, "Right." Thinking this was a good answer. I was itching to get out of here and team up with Melody to plan Nancy some end of the year surprises.
Clearly, my answer was NOT the right one because Mr. Brunner said, "No,no. Oh confound it all. What I'm trying to say… you're not normal, Percy. That's nothing to be —" The moment he said not normal I knew EXACTLY what that meant. He new I had mythical blood.
I had to get of here, fast. So I used my watery eyes to my advantage and cut him off with, "Thanks, thanks a lot, sir, for reminding me." pretending that I took it the wrong way and ran out of the room sending a picture of her room and a feeling of urgency to convey I needed to talk to her. She had finished her final about 10 mins ago. She gave an affirmative feeling. A minute later we were both in her room sitting on her bed.
Melody began with, "So, what was so urgent? Did you fail? If you did mom is going to,"
I cut her off."Mr. Brunner knows about us." She stared at me for a second while digesting what I had just told her.
"Are you sure?" She asked. "What did he say, or do?"
"He said I wasn't normal but I don't think he meant it in the 'special' way." I told her. "This school is full of not normal kids so obviously he wouldn't mean it like that, I also know that he knows about the mythical world and so does Grover." I told her about what I learned from eaves dropping last night.
"I KNEW Grover wasn't totally human, from the moment I met him!"
"Ya ya, you called it but what are we going to do?" I asked, keen to cut her off before she could gloat further about her intuition. She fell silent and thought for a bit then said,
"I don't think he actually knows about both of us and not what you think he knows."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I mean, if he knew we were dragons than he would've confronted me when I took his final, but he didn't. He only confronted you. Also, if he's conferring with Grover and if Grover is a sayter. What do sayters do in modern days?"
"They tend to nature, travel around looking for Pan and bring…demigods…to safety, Ohhhhhhhh." I figured it out.
"Yup. They've figured out that your a demigod. Thats not that bad. Tonight I'll call mom and dad and tell them but until then lets just play it cool till the end of the school year."
We said goodnight and I went back to my room. Grover wasn't back from his math final yet so I changed into PJ's and crashed on the bed.
AN: Hello again! Not dead don't plan to be anytime soon. My only excuse is school was a pain. I've had so many essays for English due that I've just been avoiding doing any writing at all. The amount of stuff my english teacher has demanded from us these last couple of months is ridiculous and I've had a lot to do at home so it just sapped my will to write anything further than completing the stupid assignment. Thats not even the end of it either. I was testing for THREE STRAIGHT MONTHS. We wen't from CAT testing to EOCs to Finals and I finished my last Final on Tuesday. Bbuuuttttt… now that summer is here I'll have PLENTY of otherwise boring hours to pass writing this! So be prepared. I've had a lot of time to think about the future of this fanfic and chapters will be longer cuz now I can write them on my phone! Don't forget to review down below it means a lot to me :) Have an amazing day! ~FictionGirl11