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The School- Percy

The next morning I woke up and my face throbbed. I struggled to remember what happened the other day. The last thing I could recollect was stomping on Ari's foot, which was fun, but after that nothing. Maybe the eraser had punched me out before they took me to the cage. Max was sitting in the corner talking to Fang; I could tell by the way they looked at each other that there was something there, some chemistry that just seemed to work with them. Aphrodite has been hard at work with these two, I could just tell, though I didn't know what she had in mind.

"Morning, everybody." Nudge said cheerfully as she stretched the best she could in her cage. I watched as Gazzy, Iggy, and Angel followed suit yawning. "Good morning Percy, how's your face?"

"Feels like its throbbing." I told her. "Can anybody tell me why?"

"Well after we finished our training, you sort of passed out." Max told me.

The thought of training made me groan. I just realized that my back ached, and my new wings felt like they were falling off. We had spent the whole day in the air and if we even stopped for a moment to rest they would zap us with electric barbs, just enough to get us to move. So, we pretty much never rested and were always flying, they seemed to focus more on me than the others because I was learning.

"That explains a lot." I responded. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Max looking at me strange. "What?"

She blushed furiously. "Nothing, I was checking for…Uh…bruises."

There was more too her stare, but I chose to let it go, now wasn't the time to start any arguments. Max, Fang, and Iggy all gave me some more pointers on how to improve my flying while the younger kids tried to tidy themselves the best they could. At that moment I realized how desperately I needed a hot shower and an actual bed to sleep in. If they can handle it so can you, a voice told me as if disgusted by my weakness. The only way I could help myself and them was to come up with a plan. Man, I wish Annabeth was here, she'd know what to do.

"Do you think they are going to come get us?" I questioned hesitantly. They three eldest of the group shrugged. Sighing I looked down, I really didn't want to deal with those guys, they treat us like animals and if I weren't so largely outnumbered I'd probably be fighting to get out of here.

"I don't know, I'm surprised that they didn't take us before we even woke up." Iggy shrugged. I closed my eyes tightly and thought yet again of an escape plan. Maybe if I could stay up high enough I could cut the bars, with Riptide, in enough places that all of us could fly through and escape. Riptide should be strong enough to cut the bars. No that is stupid I thought to myself. I couldn't get away with something like that.

'No it's not!' Angel said in my head.

'What do you mean?' I asked.

'Just talk about it with Max.' when she finished I slowly turned to look at Max. She and Fang looked like they were done talking to each other. She noticed me staring and walked to my side of the cage. First she grabbed my chin and inspected my face for any bruises, once she was satisfied that my face wasn't permanently damaged she spoke. "Angel told me you have a plan."

I nodded. "It may need some work."

"Lay it on me." She whispered. Max leaned in closer so we could keep it between me and her and possibly the flock.

"Someone will distract the scientist while I cut the bars on the top of the cage and then we fly out." I told her expecting her to point out the flaws in my plan. She just sat there for a moment in silence as she ran through my plan in her mind.

"We'll have to have the fastest of the flock doing the distracting, which would be me and Fang. Angel could use her powers to mess with the minds of some. Gazzy could gas some. Nudge and Iggy will be up with you. Percy you're a genius." Max leaped slightly and wrapped me in a hug. I liked the fact that she improved on my idea instead of changing it all together, she's sort of like Annabeth at times too. "I'll tell Angel to inform others of what their part is, you should rest up."

When she scooted away I sat alone thinking about home. I missed everyone so much, the idea of being free soon made every part of me want to jump up and tell the scientist to take us in already. Although, I guess it's good that Max can spread the word before we go through with our plan. The throbbing in my back was gone and my wings were rested enough that I could fly for a while. I saw everyone looking at me and they all nodded, the plan was ready. 'Freedom, here we come.'

After a few hours of resting the scientist came in and dragged us to the large cage room. That would be their fatal mistake. I forced myself to not smile; they couldn't know we had planed something. Once we entered the room I checked my pocket for riptide and took out my large wings. It was an odd, but now familiar sensation. I nodded to Max, Fang, Angel, and Gazzy before I took the air with Iggy and Nudge. Looking down at the others they were prepared to launch when the gateway was open. The two who followed me up blocked me from the sight of the scientist.

Riptide slashed through the metal easily. I made sure that the opening was going to be large; I glided in a wide circle. Part of me wanted to see how the others were doing; Nudge assured me that everything was going fine. I only had one more bar to cut I pulled my arm back and swung.

SWISH

The a large circle of the bars fell to the ground. No sooner did the remaining members of the flock fly up and we all swiftly escaped the house of horror. The sun felt amazing on my back and I could almost stay up in the sky forever. I silently prayed to Zeus that to let me survive my flights in the air. He seemed to be on my side because there was not a cloud in the sky or any sign of lightning coming to the ground. I thanked him repeatedly before focusing on my flying.

"I told you it was a good idea!" Angel shouted. I smiled at her and shrugged the best I could against the wind. Looking down I saw many eyes looking up at us, particularly me. I knew without a doubt that they were monsters. "Don't worry about them I've got it."

Angel used her powers of telopathicicy and the monsters began to turn and walk the other way. I sent her a look of gratitude and we continued farther seaward towards California. I wondered where we were going to go. How are we going to even do anything with no money and no safe place? It is kind of hard to stay free if you have nowhere to go.

Whoooot

I turned slightly to see a gray owl flocking next to me. Her eyes were large and stormy gray; there was so much intelligence behind them. Part of me knew that it was Athena following me. The owl nodded and flew in front of me. I silently said 'thank you' and we continued our flight. She wasn't helping me for my benefit in particular, but the fact she had gone out of her way to lead us to safety was big. The others were getting tired, I could tell, but we were starting to near the city. Athena must have known that we couldn't be seen because she flew up into cloud cover.

"Where are we going?" I asked her. She turned and blinked at me slowly before she turned back. "Okay, I'll know when we get there."

After hours of flying I was sure that I was going to fall out of the sky with exhaustion. Eventually the owl began her decent and we landed on an empty public road. The flock fell into line with me. Slowly, I realized that I knew this street, actually I know the house that we are looking at, it belongs to Annabeth's dad and step-mom. Athena flew over onto my shoulder and tugged on my hair with her beak.

"I am giving you a chance here Percy Jackson, the seven of you can rest here without fear of attack for three days just long enough for you guys to get rested and cleaned up as you plan for your next step." She told me as she prepared to fly off. Athena dropped back pack into my hands that she had made appear out of thin air before she left.

"We're going to be safe here for three days, but no longer because I don't want to put my girlfriend's family in danger." I told the flock and we headed to the door. I was glad that they trusted me enough to follow me up to the house. After we hid our wings I knocked on the door and a few minutes Mrs. Chase answered. The aroma of chocolate chip cookies made my mouth water; I was on a cookie low. "Hello Mrs. Chase."

"Percy." She greeted as she gave me a large hug. I silently prayed that she didn't feel my wings. "How have you been?"

"I've been better Mrs. Chase." I told her. Part of me wanted to ask about the cookies.

"You've gotten taller sense the last time I saw you, and even more handsome." She mused. I smiled and blushed as I watched her gaze rise from me to the group of kids behind me. "Who are they?"

I spent a few minutes introducing everyone to each other before I got down to business explaining to her that we needed help and we could promise it would be no longer than three days.

"Of coarse we'll help you Percy, after all you are practically family, please come in." We all followed her into the house. The smell of cookies and cleanness swarmed our noses. Annabeth's brothers immediately noticed my presence and they wasted no time attacking me.

"Percy!" They shouted as they tackled me. I laughed at their energy as I messed up both of their hair dues. "Why haven't you come here lately? You know Annabeth was sad when you were gone?"

I smiled sadly at the thought of what Annabeth went through when I was taken by Hera. "I've had to go help some…friends."

"Hey, Percy, I'm glad to see that you're alright." Mr. Chase told me as he walked down the steps. I was starting to wonder if Annabeth had even told them that I was found. He continued his decent until I thought he was going to give me a hand shake, but instead it was a big bear hug. I was caught off guard at first. He pulled me out and looked at me critically which almost reminded me of Annabeth. "How are you, son?"

"Tired," I told him. "Would you mind if we stayed for a few nights and then we'll be off?"

He nodded and acted insulted that I had to ask for permission. Apparently Athena had told him that she'd be bringing us here to get us help. She had even taken the liberty to drop off cloths for each of us. I would be sending her, Zeus, and my dad offerings. We began to send people to take their showers. I decided to be last so that I didn't take up all the time because I probably will fall asleep in the shower.

The girls were going to use Annabeth's bathroom shower while the guys use the one in the hallway. I sat on the couch and debated on what we were going to do next. Camp Jupiter would be the safest from monsters, but what if the scientists follow us? We can't be out in the open with a half-blood like me because I would draw too much attention. I really felt like smashing my head against a wall or something. If Annabeth was here she'd already know what to do and have a plan to get us back home.

When it was my turn to take a shower I was glad to finally be clean. I spent over twenty minutes just sitting under the faucet. The water rejuvenated and cleaned all the pain from my body. After about an hour and a half of washing my hair and standing under the faucet I got out. Luckily for me I don't even need a towel because I just used my powers to instantly dry myself. When I finally managed to get into some blue pajamas that Athena had gotten me I passed out onto the couch.

I know it may seem kind of rushed, but as I've said before most if not all of the chapters will remain how I had originally written them, with a few tweaks for story and grammar purposes.