Author's Note: Hello for the forty-ninth time. For the forty-ninth time! Only one more chapter and we will make it to fifty chapters. We are moving fast, over fifty thousand words as well. I hope all of you like the long chapters. Also, I am planning on closing my poll somewhat soon. If you want to vote, vote now. I'm going to thank everyone who reviewed, favorited or followed here as well. You all had the choice to support me farther, other than passive reading. You took it. For that, I thank you. Thank you very much. This might not be my most popular story, but it is my oldest and my longest. Also, thanks to the six people who read the whole story from start to finish this month. Now, onto the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: I do not own the sandbox I'm playing in. That right belongs to the one and only Rick Riordan. I'm still working on creating my own sandbox, but I'm a teenager.
Grover's Point of view
The four of us left to go to science as the bell rang. I don't like that bell, it is too loud for my very sensitive ears. At least we got rid of that female dog a little while back. Percy is good at what he does, he might be able to survive Clarisse and not have the Hermes cabin steal any of his stuff. But I wouldn't know until we get there.
Ouch! Someone hit me on the head. "Get out of dreamland, Grover," Percy exclaimed. "Also, Koati wanted me to warn you that we have another low level villain incoming. The name of the next villain we have to face is Aivota."
Great. One of the bullies, who most likely has a lot of dirt on Koati. With Koati being in a bad place at the moment, that is definitely not a good thing. Then again, the activity could be over and we could now be working in partners or something else. Maybe since we were gone so long, they had to assign her to a different group. But I had no clue. None of us did. For all we know, the unit on seahorses could even be over. It would be a mystery. We should have asked Pupa.
Koati and Casus both made some rapid-fire hand movements. Percy nodded, as if he understood. "Both of them are wondering what is going to happen in science. You got any theories? I don't, but you are a different mind then I."
"No," I responded sadly. "I've been thinkin' 'bout it, but I just keep blanking."
Percy's hand shifted into flurries of movements. Both Casus and Koati responded to his movements with angry movements. He must have done something bad in their eyes. "Κανείς από εμάς δεν ξέρουμε. Αλλά ας πάμε πιο γρήγορα. (None of us know. But let's move faster.)"
"I agree," Percy responded. He ran a circle around us, taking everyone's head. "Are all of you ready?" He looked like he was about to take off.
"Wait, what?" I shouted. "No, don't-" I attempted to tell him not to run. But wind whooshed past me and he took off. No! I didn't want to deal with his running today.
"Βλάκας! (Idiot)" Casus scolded. "Μην τρέχετε, Βλάκας (Don't run, idiot)"
"Whakaae ahau. Haurangi! (I agree. Crazy!)" Koati added.
"From what it sounds like, both of them are calling you an idiot and yelling at you for running," I continued their trains of thoughts in English. "I happen to agree. Let's just hope there is no swears and people who can translate them here right now." Percy looked down, either embarrassed or sad. I can't read his emotions. Which make no sense. I have never not been able to read someone yet.
"Fine. I just wanted us to be in time, preferably early, in hopes that it would not be as embarrassing. But whatever. Let's go in." Ouch. I wasn't thinking of what was going through his mind, just that he pulled us all of our feet.
I apologize, while Casus and Koati both made weird hand movements. Percy made more hand movements back at Casus and Koati and accepted my apologize. Casus just moved ahead, not caring for these formalities. He pulled the door open and strolled inside. The rest of us quickly followed him.
The room was almost empty. In fact, only Ms. Doctrina, the four of us, and two other kids were in the class. Both of them were two random kids, not that big into the things in Yancy as far as I could tell. Maybe geeks. Both of them were fawning over a computer together in the back of the classroom, not likely to bother us. Actually, when they saw us they scooted even farther into the corner of the room. We should be fine.
Koati walked straight up to Ms. Doctrina and made some hand movements. "Koati asks what is happening in class," Percy translated. He glanced back at Casus and I. "I think all three of us are wondering that. I see that desks are now in groups of four." At that I took a real glance around the room, actually taking it in.
"You are correct," Ms. Doctrina praised, smile on her face. "We are now studying plant and animals cells, along with how to use a microscope. Well you four were gone, we just played some games on the topic so you wouldn't miss much." That was very nice of her. She easily could have just moved ahead.
"Thank you for waiting," I thanked. "Are we sitting in a group or spread out?"
She pointed at the clump of desks right in front of hers. "These are yours. I decided to have you four make a group. All of you can understand each other, correct? I did not understand why Percy had to translate for Koat back there."
The four of us exchanged glances. Koati and Casus both could not explain. Percy wanted me to explain. The rest of us wanted him to. He sighed. "Well, all five of us in our group can only speak in our native languages right now. Mine, Pupa, and Grover's native languages are English. So we have no problem. But Casus's native language is Greek and Pupa's is Maori. What we discovered was if they didn't speak, they could use any nonverbal language. Since both of them and I understand sign language, we have been using that while I translate for them." He did a good job explaining for on the spot. I don't think I would have been able to do that.
"Thank you for that explanation, Percy. Now if you four could take a seat, we will wait for the rest of class to file in." The four of us walked over to the group of desks and plopped down on the seats. Percy sat closest to Ms. Doctrina and the board. I was next to Percy. Casus was across from me. Koati was next to him, also near the board. Seating order was so Percy could see both Koati and Casus incase they wanted to talk.
Soon the rest of the class came in and plopped down in their seats. For some reason, Aivota was staring weirdly at Koati. Ms. Doctrina clapped her hands in order to gain the classes attention. A couple kids rolled their eyes at it. Some of the other students even muttered, "We are not in preschool anymore." It was extremely disrespectful to a teacher, one who was actually a good teacher.
"Now, today we will have our first full lesson on…" The class began and I began to zone out. This was what, my sixth time hearing this lecture? It does not get better or more entertaining. In fact, by now I probably could recite parts f the lecture word for word. But that didn't matter. I just needed to make it look like I was paying attention. To tell you the truth, t is actually pretty hard. Teachers can easily catch you. Just don't let them catch you off guard with a question. If she questions you about that, say Casus or Koati fed you the answer.
