Mortals and Mist

Yet another chapter, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I am not Rick Riordan, so I obviously don't own Percy Jackson!

Chapter 3 - Exposed

Percy P.O.V

School sucks. That's one thing I'm positive about. It's not like any of this 'knowledge' I learn here helped me survive Tartarus. The thought of that hell made me shiver. Since coming back from that place, me and Annabeth have been trying to forget it. But who could forget hell once you've been there? I went back to school after the giant war because the New Rome Collage won't let me apply without some sort of high standard education because I failed all the application tests.

My demon math teacher, Miss Line, snapped me out of my thoughts, "Perseus, I will ask you once more, what is the square root of 245?" Like most things she asked me, I couldn't answer. "I don't know Miss." Miss Line smirked at me, her black eyes sparkled with amusement "Of course you don't." It's not like I did anything to her, I guess she just likes picking on me, or maybe she heard me call her a demon in class. "Don't listen to her" my friend Felix whispered, "there is no square root to 245 anyway."

I guess I should introduce you to my friend Felix King. Felix is the nicest teen mortal that I met that goes to Goode Highschool with me. We are in the same class for everything so at the start of the year we quickly became friends. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He is taller than me and is extremely smart just like Annabeth.

Felix also has a passion for swimming and Greek Mythology. He once helped me distract an Empousa whilst I tried to kill it, if it wasn't for him, I would be dead. I thought the mist covered everything up, but after I had killed it, he started freaking out, so I did the first thing that came to my mind. I snapped my fingers and the mist took over him. Felix is a clear-sighted mortal. Even though he is one of my closest friends here at Goode, he has no idea I'm a demigod.

All of a sudden, a scream from down the hall pulled me away from my thoughts. The high-pitched scream rippled through the walls of the school. Miss Line's smirk quickly turned serious and before I could stop her, she walked out the door toward the sound. A few minutes later, another scream could be heard, this scream was without a doubt the scream of my math teacher. A loud growl rippled throughout the school, I immediately knew it was monsters.

I jumped out of my seat and reached for my ballpoint pen, riptide, in my pocket, but Felix pulled me back down, "Dude, where are you going?" he looked scared, yet curious. I knew he would find out about me one day. But today was not that day, not yet. "You'll know soon." was my answer, "Don't leave till I come back." Felix starred at me blankly. I rushed out the door and stepped into the corridor.

The first thing that I realized was that the school was totally trashed by whatever came through here. The next thing I noticed was that Nina, the most popular, spoiled brat that was ever born, was collapsed on the floor like she had decided to take a nap, right then and there in the middle of the school. She was pretty messed up, for a mortal anyway. Her skin was covered in scratches and on her left arm had, was it, hoof print markings? Next to her lay my psychopathic math teacher, Miss Line, who looked just as busted up as Nina and also had a hoof print marking on her swollen forehead.

"Perseus Jackson," a voice behind me said, "what a surprise." I turned around sharply and saw two monsters I did not want to see, Kelli and Tammi, the Emposuai. I uncapped riptide and let it get bigger and bigger in my hand. "Why won't you just stay in Tartarus." I complained. Then Tammi leapt, everything went in slow-motion from there. What I dumb thing to do, I heard Kelli screaming for her to come back, just as Tammi was about to jump onto me, I swung riptide right through her. Yellow dust exploded at the place where I killed Tammi.

Kelli growled at me, her donkey leg was twitching with anger. Just before she was about to pounce, a silver arrow flew past my ear and went straight into Kelli's heart. She looked at someone behind me in hatred, and then like Tammi, burst into yellow dust. I turned around to see my two cousins, Thalia and Jason Grace. "Hey kelp head," Thalia smirked, "I didn't think you went to school. How long till you get expelled... again?" "Ha ha," I told her, "very funny." We all hugged each other, I hadn't seen them since I came to Goode.

"What are you guys doing here?" I asked them, "Well," Jason said, "We were hanging out and decided to come to the great New York City everyone talks so much about. Then we realised you are at school, so we came to surprise you, but we ran into a few Empousa." I smiled at them, "Thanks by the way, for killing Kelli," "The demon has a name!" cried Thalia jokingly. I rolled my eyes at her.

Then, I sensed someone behind me, Thalia knocked her arrow to her bow prepared to fire, I turned around and there stood Felix. "Woah, Thalia, don't shoot, he's my friend." She glared at me and said, "How can you be so sure?" I rolled my eyes again and walked towards Felix. Felix looked around him, wide eyed with fear. "Hey Felix," I said, "you ok?" He just looked at me like I was crazy and said, "why is the school trashed?" I laughed, he didn't say, "why are you holding a sword," he asked why the school was messed up. Jason stepped forward, "Is he clear-sighted?" I nodded in reply.

"Come on," Thalia interjected, "we got to get to camp, something bad happened apparently." Fear took over me, was Annabeth hurt? Was anyone hurt or dead? Thalia must of seem the anxious expression on my face because she said, "everyone is fine." "But the mist," I said, "why isn't it working?" Thalia shrugged and started heading towards the exit, "Come on slow pokes!" she called, we all ran after her.


Argus picked us up from the school just after the police showed up, he had to hide his face and hands since the mist was acting up. Felix was silent for a long time in the van, so I used my time wisely and started to explain how the Greek Gods exist, who I am and where we were going. He didn't freak out like I excepted him to, but he didn't say anything at all while I was speaking which was even more nerve racking. When we got to the bottom of Half-Blood Hill what I saw was chaotic. Demigods were battling off monsters and mortals were running around calling 911 and screaming their heads off.


After all the monsters were killed and we convinced the mortals to go to their homes, all the cabin councillors were called to a council meeting in the big house. I still hadn't seen Annabeth. Felix was at the infirmary because whilst in the middle of the battle, a hellhound jumped on him and, with its claws, made deep cuts all across his chest. Luckily, I saw what was happening and killed it before the hellhound killed him.

I entered the big house and saw her. I saw my girlfriend, Annabeth Chase. We locked eyes and ran to each other, it was like seeing each other in New Rome again. "Hey seaweed brain," Annabeth murmured. "Hey wise girl," Then, we kissed and when we broke apart, I couldn't wipe the grin I had plastered on my face, neither could Annabeth. With our hands entwined, we sat down at the table and waited for Chiron to speak to us.

"Demigods!" welcomed Chiron, "We have a problem that has recently occurred and needs to be fixed." Everyone groaned. "The mist," Chiron continued, "has fallen, it is no longer active." Every demigod gasped, nothing like this had ever happened before. Then Clarisse spoke up, "Will there be a quest then?" Chiron nodded grimly. Suddenly, Rachel Dare stumbled into the room. Her red hair was frizzy and tangled and her face was slightly green. "A prophecy," was all she said before she collapsed and green smoke poured from her mouth. She said,

The temple of Hecate is where the curse lay

The mist is not forever gone away

Three will travel to make things right

Find the goddess of magic and night

Elysium one shall go

For bravery against the foe

The green smoke stopped pouring out of Rachel and all the demigods glanced at each other. Another prophecy.


I hope you liked this chapter! Sorry if I suck at writing couple scenes :/ Please review.

- The DemigodishWitch