Me* pokes Leo on the head* Do it
Everyone else: NO !! DONT!! Me: Dont listen to them! Do it!
Leo: Ya about that...listen I had this appointment in Bunker 9 about this thing I had to do...
Me: Oh, I'll take care of your appointment, you wait.
Leo*pushes a Nico forward* Take this emo boy as a sacrifice, please let me go!
Me: Ok, Nico, you have to do it now.
Nico: Meh.
Me: Fine. Dont do it. But dont blame me later if something happens to Will Solace.
Nico: No wait, I'll do it!!! *Dramatic deep breathe and a big sigh* Rick Riordan owns us, this idiot doesnt.
Me: Thank you! See, it wasnt that difficult!
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Vaporizing Pre-Algebra Teachers
"Chapter one: I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher"
For a moment, there was silence. Then, the entire room burst into laughter.
"Oh, man!" Leo choked out. "I lovethis guy, already!"
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
"Who does?" Nico asked bitterly. Several demigods nodded in agreement.
If you're reading ... lead a normal life.
"Percy? Giving goodadvice? The horror!" Travis clutched onto his brother for emphasis, and chuckles and eye rolls rose up around the group.
Being a half-blood is dangerous.
"Check," Conner muttered.
It's scary.
"Check," Travis echoed."
Most of the time, ... nasty ways.
"Double check," the brothers called mournfully.
If you're a normal kid...none of this ever happened.
Poseidon blanched, worried about what happened to his son.
The other gods frowned. Sure, they knew being a demigod was bad and dangerous. But it wasn't thatbad, was it? Why would a demigod be envying a normal mortal.
But if you recognize ... come for you.
Don't say I ... Percy Jackson.
"I thought your name was Peter Johnson" Grover muttered.
I'm twelve years ... troubled kid?
"YES," yelled everyone who knew Percy well before he disappeared, and the others wondered how one boy could cause so many problems.
Yeah. ... say that.
"He even agrees with us!" Thalia laughed, and Poseidon became paler.
I could start ... Roman stuff.
"Sounds like fun," Athena and Annabeth commented.
I know-it ... torture.
Annabeth rolled her eyes. It was typical of Percy. She huffed at the laughter from the demigods who found the couple's opposite thoughts entertaining.
Most Yancy field trips ... put me to sleep.
"Sounds like Chiron," Apollo mused. Grover grinned.
I hoped the trip ... get in trouble.
Several demigods snorted.
"Trouble follows Percy around like a curse!" Thalia scoffed. "I can't believe he's still alive!"
"Oh, wait!" She turned to stare pointedly at Annabeth. " NowI can!"
Annabeth flushed, and the others laughed.
Boy, was I wrong.
"Oh, gee," Nico said sarcastically. " You think?"
See, bad things ... got expelled anyway.
The group burst out laughing, and Hermes turned to Annabeth. " Pleasetell me I like this kid!"
Annabeth thought for a moment. "You two are on good terms."
Hermes nodded, satisfied, and motioned for Hazel to continue.
And before that, ... an unplanned swim.
Travis turned to his brother, "Why didn't wethink of that?" Conner shrugged.
And the time ... get the idea.
"No! Tell us more!" Apollo said.
This trip, ... peanut butter-and-ketchup sandwich.
Aphrodite wrinkled her nose at the sandwich, and Hazel and Frank turned to Grover, confused. "Percy's friends with a fawn?"
"Satyr!" Grover brayed.
Jason answered for the thoroughly confused satyr. "Fawns hold higher esteem to the Greeks." Frank nodded, and Hazel returned to the book.
Grover was ... he was crippled.
"Thanks, Perce," Grover muttered.
He had a note ... enchilada day in the cafeteria.
Thalia laughed. "Way to blow your cover, Goat Boy!"
Grover flushed. "Don't call me Goat Boy!"
Anyway, Nancy Bobofit ... on this trip.
"Mildly entertaining?" Thalia tilted her head to the side.
"I'm going to kill her," I mumbled.
"Do it! Do it!" Ares called.
Grover tried ... peanut butter. "
"Well, yeah," Leo squinted at the satyr in confusion. "Me, too. But to eat! Not to wear!" Grover's face turned beet red.
He dodged ... to my seat.
"Grover!" Several demigods glared at the Lord of the Wild, who blushed and muttered an apology.
"You're already ... myself into.
Poseidon paled, and Annabeth nodded reassuringly at him. He relaxed slightly, staring at her quizzically. Why would a daughter of Athena try to reassureme ?He thought.
Mr. Brunner led ... three thousand years.
"Longer," called a few gods.
He gathered us ... detention for a month.
Why is Alecto there?Hades wondered silently as he recognized her disguise.
One time, ... absolutely right."
"Monster?" Athena asked.
"Yup," Grover had turned a sickly shade of green, spreading confusion throughout the room.
Mr. Brunner kept ... I meant it to.
"Oops," Nico cackled. Several laughed.
The whole group ... eating his kids, right?"
The eldest gods shivered. "It had to be that one, didn't it..." Poseidon muttered.
"Yes," Mr. Brunner ... king god, and-"
"GOD?" Thunder rolled in the distance as the gods glared at the book.
Annabeth held out her hands in a calming gesture. "He didn't know that you existed back then... he couldn'thave known how important it was to get the answer right. He knows now!" The gods settled back down, but they still looked testy. Annabeth bit her lip.
"God?" Mr. Brunner ... and sisters-"
"Eeew!" said one of the girls behind me.
"-and so ... the gods won."
"A battle that lasts thousands of years, and he sums it up in, 'there was this big fight and the gods won'?" Athena stared at the book, incredulous.
Some snickers from the group.
"Why are they snickering? He got it right." Hephaestus sighed. "I'll never understand mortals..."
"Hey!" Rachel glared at him indignantly. The god smiled sheepishly.
Behind me, ... ate his kids.'"
"I could give you plenty reasons why it's important," Annabeth muttered through gritted teeth, staring daggers at the book.
"And why, ... Grover muttered.
The demigods snickered.
"Shut up," ... lead us back outside?"
"He needs to learn how to change subjects," Hermes commented.
The class drifted ... acting like doofuses.
"Boys..." Artemis and Thalia muttered.
Grover and I ... seen everything.
"He's quite observant," Athena nodded approvingly, and the older Greeks stared.
"She doesn't know his parentage, remember?" Annabeth hissed so only the demigods could hear her. "She has no reason to hate him yet." They turned back to Hazel and the book.
"You must learn ... pushed me so hard.
Annabeth sighed. "He has to, Seaweed Brain."
Hazel, Frank, Jason, Piper, Leo, and the gods blinked in confusion. "Seaweed Brain is Annabeth's nickname for him," Thalia explained.
Aphrodite studied Annabeth, wondering how much influence her power had over this girl's and Percy's lives. Athena frowned. Seaweed Brain...?
I mean, sure, ... C- in my life.
"Well, that's the life story of most demigods. Never getting good grades, having dyslexia, and even ADHD if you are lucky enough." Katie muttered.
No-he didn't ... them correctly.
"The names and facts are easy," Annabeth muttered. "It's the 'spelling correctly' part that I hate."
Travis gasped mockingly. " Annabeth Chasehates something to do with school? It's the Apocalypse!" He hugged his brother and fake sobbed, crying, "We're all gonna die!"
Annabeth scowled at him. "Apocalypse is a religious end of the world superstition. I'm pretty sure you're not Christian, Travis."
Travis blinked, then sat up. "Touché. But 'It's the end of the world' doesn't really have the same ring to it..."
"Try 'Armageddon.'"
I mumbled ... girl's funeral.
"He probably was," called Athena.
He told me ... hurricane blowing in.
Zeus and Poseidon blinked at each other. "We're fighting?" Zeus asked.
"What else is new, Dad." Thalia muttered.
Nobody else ... from a lady's purse,
All eyes turned to Hermes, who held up his hands in a gesture of innocence.
"Not every thief is mine," he called.
and, of course, ... couldn't make it elsewhere.
Conner turned to Grover. "Did it work?"
"No..."
"Detention?" Grover asked...I'm not a genius. "
Thalia chuckled. "You can say thatagain..."
Grover didn't say ... your apple?"
Laughter spread throughout the room, and Grover's ears turned pink. "Sorry, Perce," he muttered.
I didn't have ...him take it.
"Oh my gods! Can you believe Percynot having an appetite?" Nico chuckled. Hazel remembered her time with Percy. No, it was not easy to believe that Percy didn't have an appetite.
I watched the stream ... she'd give me.
"Mama's Boy," Ares muttered.
Surprisingly, it was Clarisse who disagreed. "I've met Mrs. Jackson. As much as I hate to say it... I don't blame Percy for thinking that way."
Most of the other demigods nodded.
Mr. Brunner ... paperback novel.
"He eays cereal." Demeter noted. Hades shook his head.
A red umbrella ... motorized cafe table.
Leo's eyes lit up. "Hey, Dad! Can you help me make one of those when we're done here?"
Hephaestus' scowl lessened an inch, and his eyes twinkled. "Sure!"
I was about ... in Grover's lap.
Most of the members in the room gritted their teeth.
"Oops." She ... liquid Cheetos.
Jason blinked. "He has an... interesting way of describing things."
"True," Rachel agreed. "But it's still fairly accurate... I can actually picture a girl with liquid Cheetos freckles." Jason shrugged.
I tried to ... in my ears.
"A wave?" Athena eyed Poseidon suspiciously, who looked away innocently.
I don't remember ...it grabbed her-"
"POSEIDON!" Zeus yelled. Thunder rumbled across the sky.
"Dad!" Thalia glared at her father, gesturing between herself and Jason. "One oath broken versus two! You don't have a right to attack Poseidon!"
Zeus huffed, but didn't argue.
I didn't know ... erasing workbooks."
Hermes and the Stolls winced. " Neverguess your punishment..." Travis muttered.
That wasn't ... to say.
"No shit, Sherlock." Thalia muttered.
Apollo raised an eyebrow at the huntress. "Does everyonecurse in the future?"
Nico shrugged. "Pretty much."
"Come with me," ... I pushed her. "
"Nice try, but I don't think that will work." Annabeth said with a sigh.
I stared at ... Grover to death.
"Well, goat boy's grown a spine." Clarisse said.
She glared at ... Bobofit smirked.
"I'd loveto wipe that smirkoff the bitch's face..." Thalia snarled. She muttered a few more curses, then settled down.
I gave her ...later stare.
Hades smirked. "I'll bet it isn't worse than mine."
Nico shuddered. "Dad, I can say from personal experience on both sides, you'd definitelylose that bet..."
Hades' mouth dropped open, and Thalia glanced over at Nico. "He's used it on you, too?"
Nico nodded. "Once when he got trapped in a jail in the Underworld because of me."
"Percy's been to the Underworld ?" Poseidon asked turning paler.
"Long story. I also got that glare when I asked him about his girlfriend once."
There were several snickers as Annabeth flushed and stared daggers at Nico.
Aphrodite's eyes lit up. "He has a girlfriend?"
Will nodded. "I saw him give the stare to a new son of Aphrodite during a swordsmanship class when the guy smirked at Percy's girlfriend's body."
Thalia smirked. "What'd he do? I feel bad for the poor guy already."
"He knocked the guy on his butt and said in a voice that scared everyone within earshot, 'Eyes on me, Ander. If you let distractions get the better of you in a realfight, you'll be dead before you can say, "Ouch."' The guy looked absolutely terrified." Laughter resonated throughout the room.
Poseidon smirked at his son's ferocity. "Is there anyone he hasn'tused this stare on?"
All demigod eyes turned to Annabeth. She held her hands up in a gesture of innocence. "He used it on me during our first quest. I got the stare earlier than allof you..."
Their eyes turned back to the book, and Athena glanced suspiciously at Annabeth. Why would they think that she wasn't given an evil stare?She thought. Itcan't be that...
Then I turned ... there so fast?
"She's a monster. Of course she moved so fast." Chris murmured.
I have moments ...brain misinterpreting things.
"I don't think so, Seaweed Brain," Annabeth muttered. Now Athena was reallysuspicious. Why would her daughter have a nickname for the sea spawn, if none of the others seemed to?
I wasn't so sure.
"Smart boy," Hestia nodded.
I went after ... in his novel.
"If he dies, I'm going to killChiron," Poseidon muttered.
I looked back ... the gift shop.
"I dont think so," Travis called.
But apparently that wasn't the plan.
"Ofcourse not." Connor said.
I followed her ...gallery was empty.
"Perfect," Poseidon moaned. "No witnesses."
Mrs. Dodds stood ... to pulverize it...
"Which monster is she?" Frank asked. "Not one of the usual monsters you can find in schools." Grover shivered.
"You've been ..."Yes, ma'am."
"Wow," Thalia commented. "Percy doing the safething?" She shrugged. "I guess there's a first for everything."
Poseidon blanched.
She tugged on ... going to hurt me.
"Don't hold your breath," Conner growled.
I said, ... out of my dorm room.
"Cool!" Leo and the Stolls cheered.
Or maybe they'd ... read the book.
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "It's a good book, Seaweed Brain."
"Yeah," Travis countered. "If you're trying to fall asleep." Laughter echoed around the hearth, and Annabeth scowled. She longed to see Percy. She was going to see him in a few minutes, and now she was stuck here in some other universe because of some experiment of the Fates. It was now becoming difficult to keep all her anger and pain and bitterness and worry bottled inside her.
"Well?" she ... slice me to ribbons.
"HADES!" Poseidon gripped his trident and stood up to strangle the lord of the Underworld. "You sent a furyafter my son?"
"He's fine, My Lord!" Annabeth called. "Please, calm down so we can see what happens!" She was worried, and she hoped it didn't show on her face.
It did. Poseidon blinked in surprise at her. "You're a daughter of Athena. It's in your blood to hate me. Why do you seem to care so much about Percy's well-being?"
Athena glared at the sea god. "For once, we agree. Why do you care so much?"
Annabeth felt her face get hot. "He's not justhis father, mother. There's some Sally Jackson in that thick head of his. Probably more, since she raised him. He's my... best friend." She didn't want to admit her real relationship with Percy just yet. She was too afraid of what would happen.
Poseidon pursed his lips at her. Percy had always been fairly observant when it came to small things, and Poseidon seemed to be the same way. She closed her eyes and prayed to the Earthshaker, Fine. He's my boyfriend. In the future, you seem fine with it, but my momhates Percy.Please don't say anything.
Poseidon's eyes widened for a moment, then he smiled and winked, and his voice washed over her like a soft wave. I do not hate Athena's children. Unlike her, I understand that she and her children are not alike. If Percy likes you enough to date you, that's good enough for me.
Annabeth let out a breath of air that she hadn't realized that she had been holding, and Poseidon chuckled. Athena eyed the two of them, but Annabeth waved for Hazel to continue before the wisdom goddess could say anything.
Then things got ... through the air.
"A pen?" Leo asked. "What's a pen going to do?" "Probably a magic item." Jason leaned forward with curiosity. His sword turned into a coin. Probably Percy's sword turned into a pen?
Mrs. Dodds ... on tournament day.
"RIPTIDE!" Travis and Conner cheered. Leo's mouth dropped open.
Mrs. Dodds ... dropped the sword.
"Wimp," Ares immediately was doused with saltwater.
She snarled, "... at me.
Everyone leaned in, enchanted by the story.
Absolute terror ... the sword.
"Yes," Rachel said sarcastically. "Because it's completely natural for a twelve-year old kid to swing a sword."
"For most demigods, it is," Annabeth smiled at Poseidon. "It's in his blood to be a natural swordsman." Poseidon winked at her, and she chuckled.
The metal blade ... Hisss!
Cheering rose up around the hearth.
Mrs. Dodds ... watching me.
The group shivered.
"Creepy," Rachel commented.
"Oh, you are the one to say!" Katie spoke. Rachel was the creepiest thing in the Camp. Because she was the Oracle. Rachel grinned sheepishly.
I was alone. ... magic mushrooms or something.
"Right," Frank muttered. "Magic mushrooms." Travis took out a small notebook of pranks and jotted something down quietly. Then he quickly hid the book under his butt.
Had I imagined the whole thing?
"Nope," Nico popped the 'p' as he spoke.
I went back ... whipped your butt."
Poseidon raised an eyebrow. "Who?"
I said, "Who?"
The group laughed. "Like father, like son," Apollo called.
"Our teacher. ... was messing with me.
Hermes turned to his sons, who were writing in a notebook. "Grover needs lying lessons."
"Way ahead of you, Dad," Travis turned to the blushing satyr. "Hermes cabin Friday at four. Don't be late."
Hermes wiped a fake tear, "I'm so proud."
"Not funny, ...Who?"
Hermes nodded approvingly, "Now hecan lie."
"The other chaperone. ... feeling all right?"
Connor grinned. "That's the way to do it. Make them think they're going crazy."
Hazel held up the book, "Who's reading next?"
"I will," called a voice that was familiar, and at the same time a complete stranger to Annabeth. "Depending on who you all are..."
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Question of the chapter: What magic item do you prefer as a demigod?