Disclaimer: I wish I did own Percy Jackson, but I still do not.
Sorry this took so long, college.
And for those of you who commented on the fact that Percy's birthday is in summer while they are currently in December, TIMETRAVEL. They were all sent to the same point in time regardless of where they were. I'm well aware of when Percy's birthday is, I did not make the biggest and dumbest mistake in the history of timeline mistakes. Do not accuse me of such.
Chapter four, My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting
Triton read. Everyone turned to look at Sally at the same time, almost like it was planned.
Those who knew looked at both Percy and Sally in sympathy, not pity... they knew what Percy would do to them if he thought they pitied him, and those who didn't know were looking at her in confusion, especially Poseidon.
He didn't remember her saying anything about bullfighting nor could he think of any reason for her to have ever learned how to bullfight.
(We tore through... kept her foot on the gas.)
Ares grinned, but before he could say anything, Hephaestus spoke up. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Best way to drive, blah, blah blah. And I'm the one left to clean up the mess that used to be called a bike." He finished bitterly.
He may be a mechanic, and he may love his job and machines, but fixing the same thing over and over again, and for no other reason than the fact that his brother was just being an idiot was just annoying.
Hera, Aphrodite, and even Apollo nodded in agreement. Hera because she's his mother, even if she isn't the most motherly, Aphrodite because this is her boyfriend and husband involved, and Apollo because, well, Apollo.
Everyone on the council and most of the future Greeks agreed that Ares was an idiot.
(Every time there... if I'd gone insane,)
"Percy, you've always been insane." Nico said seriously. Thalia, Luke, and Annabeth nodded in agreement. The rest of the futures just watched.
None of them came to Percy's defense when he protested and looked to them for help. "You guys are no help, see if I ever do you anymore favors," he grumbled.
All the past people watching were unsure of how serious they were actually being right now, and whether or not they should laugh or back away from Percy. Percy just watched. He knew perfectly well that the two of them fit into the 'insane' category.
Not even Sally, Paul, or Poseidon came to his defense. The Lost Hero trio were really starting to wonder, and Jason was starting to feel that all Greeks were insane just for following a guy they called insane. Of course, he already thought they were insane just from watching them fight and live with no discipline whatsoever, but now...
(or if he was wearing some kind of shag-carpet pants.)
Aphrodite shuddered, even Piper looked a little sick at the thought, Leo and Jason were both starting to wonder if her mother had finally corrupted her when they saw her face.
(But, no, the smell... of a wet barnyard animal.)
The Grovers turned to glare at Percy. They were not barnyard animals! They were only half goat!
Percy decided that staying out of the woods for a while would be ideal for his health once he got back to camp.
(All I could think... know each other?")
"Not like that!" Percy yelled when he looked over at the Stolls. He knew by the looks on their faces what they were about to say. Once everyone else figured out what was going on, the Stolls were getting looks, groans, and everybody looked a little green.
They hid once they caught Poseidon and Sally's eye.
(Grover's eyes... no cars behind us.)
Percy shrugged, "Actually, there was something worse back there." Those who didn't know the full story, (basically everybody except Annabeth, Grover, and Sally) started to get nervous for what was coming.
("Not exactly," he... was watching you.")
"STALKER!" Nico yelled again. Grover turned to glare at him while slowly taking his panpipes out and raising them to his lips.
Next thing any of them knew, Nico was twisted up in a tree, yelling, "Ok, ok! I'm sorry, your not a stalker! Let me down you crazy goat!"
He should have left off the 'crazy goat' bit.
Next thing he knew, he was laying at Hades feet with twigs in his hair, Grover having turned him into a lovely oak tree. Because, hey, he did it before. Hades had of course stepped in to reverse it. Hades may not be the best of parents, but he still preferred his children to be children and not trees thank you very much.
("Watching me?" "Keeping... "I am your friend.")
Percy smiled softly, but he didn't say anything. Nothing really needed to be said, and for the first time since meeting him, some of Percy's emotions were clear to Grover.
("Um... what are you, exactly?")
Katie muttered "Wow, rude much?"
Either Percy didn't hear her or he was just getting really good at ignoring them when he wanted to.
("That doesn't matter... friend is a donkey-")
All the Greek demigods burst out laughing, some of the futures choking out reminders of when so-and-so back at camp called a satyr a 'donkey'. Even Chiron and Dionysus looked amused, it was after all very funny to see a camper running for their life from an angry peace loving half-goat.
Needless to say, both Grover's were indignant, and the Romans were very confused.
The Fauns could care less if they were called donkeys... at least they never said anything about it... then again if the Fauns did do anything about it they would be kicked out of New Rome and would have to take their begging somewhere else...
Triton decided to wait for the Greeks to calm down a little before continuing, and hoped he didn't regret that decision if the topic came up again.
(Grover let out... of an irritated bleat.)
"I don't know," Annabeth started teasingly, "he does do that a lot... maybe he's just a scaredy-goat."
While the other Greeks laughed, Grover sputtered out what might have been excuses or insults back, who knows. Grover just watched, he knew he wasn't the best protector.
("Goat!" he cried. "What?"... it didn't matter.")
Katie nodded, "You kind of did Grover. Sorry."
"Hey! Whose side are you on?!" Grover bleated angrily.
("Blaa-ha-ha!... for such an insult!")
"Yes, yes they would." Both Clarisses said appreciatively. Clarisse continued, "Hey Stolls, remember that one time..."
Before she could continue, Connor had his hand covering her mouth, while Travis yelled something about what happens at camp staying at camp. The other future Greeks were too far gone at the reminder to care.
Nico and Thalia were the only Futures not too busy laughing, they weren't there. They had heard enough rumors to have an idea of what happened though.
"Sooooo," Thalia asked with a smirk, "Would this happen to be the time the two of you were chased into the..." The rest was reduced to mumbles as Travis slapped his hand over her mouth, demanding to know how she knew about it. Nico just smirked, stating that you could hear all kinds of rumors if you knew where to look. Most of the futures paled at that, they all had something that happened in camp that they really didn't want the rest of the world to know. Even Piper, Leo, and Jason.
The Romans all raised an eyebrow, turns out the Greeks got into some pretty interesting stuff at that camp of theirs. Perfect blackmail material if they could just figure out what it was.
Triton decided to keep reading before Travis Stoll got fried crispy by an angry daughter of Zeus, and Connor Stoll got impaled by an angry daughter of Ares.
("Whoa. Wait. Satyrs... Mrs. Dodds a myth?")
Both Percy and Nico muttered that they wished she was. Hades twitched and narrowed his eyes at the two but decided not to comment on it for now.
("So you admit there was a Mrs. Dodds!")
Hazel raised an eyebrow, "You were stuck on that?"
"Well, yeah, I mean... I did just spend the last few months thinking I was crazy for thinking she ever existed, so... you know... when somebody finally admitted that she did... I just..." The last part trailed off into mumbles that nobody could understand. A few people turned to glare at Chiron, still not happy that he hadn't just explained after the museum. It was kind of obvious that at that point, hiding his scent behind ignorance wasn't going to work, they already found him.
("Of course." "Then... you'd attract,")
Jason decided to point out the obvious, "Unless the monsters already knew where he was, which they obviously did, in which case the less he knew, the faster he would be dead."
Both Grovers and Chiron opened their mouths to say something, but then just as quickly shut them again. They hadn't thought of that...
Nico, Thalia, and Luke chuckled about something the three of them had just thought of. "Besides, have you met this guy? He attracts trouble left and right." Luke said.
Percy grinned, "And duels to the death, right Luke?" The futures just raised their eyebrows at the two of them, they knew about the one... just how many times had the two of them actually fought?
Luke chuckled nervously while glancing at Annabeth, "Yeah, those too."
The past people were also giving the two of them weird looks. Just what happened in the future?
(Grover said, like that should have been perfectly obvious.)
Percy muttered something about people who won't give straight answers and smarty-pants friends.
("We put Mist... was a hallucination.")
Percy growled and muttered something else under his breath. Those who hadn't ever really seen Percy ticked about something (the past kids, gods, and Romans) jumped and stared at him worried.
(But it was no good..., what do you mean?")
"Again with not getting a straight answer!" Percy burst out. Even he was starting to get annoyed by that and it hadn't happened to him yet.
(The weird bellowing... was still on our trail.)
Some people shifted uncomfortably, they really didn't think they wanted to know what was following them. Those who had heard the rumors started to get excited, they could see for themselves how much of those rumors were true!
("Percy," my mom... Who's after me?")
"Do you want that list alphabetically or chronologically?" Annabeth asked. Before Percy could say anything, Thalia got up and brandished a medium sized notebook (that looked well used) triumphantly, before reading the title out loud.
THE ENEMIES OF PERCY JACKSON
(That We Know Of)
Percy just sat there and stared, trying to find his voice. "How on earth did you keep track over the years?" He finally demanded. Nico just smirked. "We have our ways, cousin. We have our ways."
If anybody looked, they would have noticed that Hazel and Frank were a little pale, as were Percy's parents. They knew his life was... rough... but for all his enemies to be listed in a notebook of that size and for said notebook to look so worn... Hazel and Frank started thinking about their quest and what they were going to do if any of Percy's old enemies showed up, one's that he probably wouldn't remember if they went back not remembering that this ever happened. From what they had seen so far from the war games, they didn't think they'd be able to fight any of Percy Jackson's enemies, they would probably just get in his way.
Even with everything going through his head, it still didn't escape Hades attention that Nico had just referred to Percy as 'cousin'. Triton finally got snapped himself out of daze he fallen into after seeing a notebook full of his brothers enemies and decided to just keep reading, he suddenly wanted this chapter over with.
While he did that, Percy quietly retrieved the book from Thalia without anybody noticing, (not even Hermes and his children) and started adding to it, all the monsters he fought on his way from the Wolf House to Camp Jupiter.
("Oh, nobody much,... blood-thirstiest minions.")
Percy shrugged, "I have worse enemies than Uncle. He's not my favorite uncle for nothing you know. Besides, all that was one huge misunderstanding."
Annabeth frowned before asking Thalia if it was sad that they considered events that led to one of the biggest wars in history to be a simple misunderstanding. Thalia just shrugged while everyone not from the future and not Greek stared at the three of them. Especially when the other future Greeks and Sally started nodding in agreement.
Hades even forgot about the 'blood-thirstiest minions' comment. Zeus even forgot about the 'favorite uncle' comment.
("Grover!" "Sorry,... something this weird.)
Percy groaned. "I take that comment back. I've dreamed up some weird stuff since then."
Grover snickered until Percy pinned him with a glare and stated that Grover was the reason for most of those weird dreams. Grover was about to protest this until Percy said, "Wedding dress" and raised his eyebrows. Clarisse and Annabeth snickered, they were the only ones to have seen Grover in a wedding dress after all. Grover sputtered out some sort of excuse before turning to Triton pleadingly.
Everyone else just stared trying to figure out what Grover had to do with wedding dresses and Percy's dreams.
(My mom made a... white picket fences.)
Unsurprisingly, all the Greek demigods went nuts at the mention of their camp's signs.
("Where are we going... want me to go.")
Poseidon and Sally both sighed, that had been their biggest argument ever, unless you counted the one a few days before she married Gabe to hide Percy... although those arguments were intertwined, to an extent.
("Please, dear,"... You're in danger.")
"Aren't I always?" Percy grumbled. Hardly anyone heard him though, he was too quiet. Mrs. O'Leary whined softly and nudged him.
("Because some old ladies cut yarn.")
"When you put it like that, it does seem kinda... harmless." Piper said.
Gwen stated softly that sometimes the most harmless seeming things seemed the most deadly.
("Those weren't old... when someone's about to die.")
"Oh, here we go." Sally grumbled, remembering the argument that was about to happen. Grover and Percy just smiled innocently at her, both stating that she knew she loved them. What most of the others found creepy was the fact that they said it in unison.
("Whoa. You said...' Not you, you.")
Most people's jaws dropped. None of them, except Percy and Grover, had been able to follow that, what really floored them, though, was the fact that Percy and Grover had started to silently mimic what Triton was reading, complete with hand motions.
Finally, Athena said what was on everybodies mind. "What on earth...?" Percy just grinned before motioning Triton to keep reading.
("Boys!" my mom said... us in the storm.)
Percy, Grover, and Sally's faces all darkened at mention of that figure. Grover was thinking about how close the Minotaur was by the time he had finally found Percy, if only he had found Percy sooner... He stopped that line of thought before Percy caught on to it, Percy didn't like him blaming himself for that whole mess. Percy was thinking that if only he had actually waited for Grover at the bus station instead of ditching him, and Sally just really hated that bull for being there in the first place.
Everybody else decided not to ask what was wrong. They figured they probably didn't want to know if it could make someone like Sally look like that. Percy was starting to get a bad feeling about that thing following them.
("What was that?"... wanting us to arrive.)
All the Greeks suddenly smirked. They knew what that was about, and they were proud of their camp, besides, they all had been there and done that.
(Outside, nothing but... She'd meant to kill me.)
A couple of face-palms, a small earthquake and death glares later, and everybody decided not to comment.
Then I thought about... our car exploded.)
A lot of people went still, Poseidon tensed up, wanting to know what happened to his son. Even Amphitrite looked tense at the thought of something happening to her step-son, although she was being nicer to him.
(I remember feeling... the same time.)
"How would you even know what each of those feel like?" Poseidon asked suspiciously. Sure, he had the results of the "physical" but...
All the demigods who had any idea of Percy's full adventures suddenly became very interested in the floor. Those who had been there for any of the events that would make him know those sensations were looking like deer caught in the headlights. They didn't want to be the ones to tell Percy's father, arguably the most powerful god on the council, what had happened to his son, or that they were there and hadn't been able to prevent it. They all made the conscious effort not to look or glare in Luke's direction.
"Umm, well, you know... life of a demigod?" Percy squeaked, sinking down lower in an effort to hide himself.
Poseidon stared suspiciously before slowly waving Triton on, noticing the demigods sag in relief that he didn't push it and thinking to himself that his son clearly had a harder life than most demigods.
(I peeled my... and said, "Ow.")
"Seriously dude, you just described what it felt like and all you have to say is 'ow'?" Jason asked confused. Percy just shrugged. "High pain tolerance." He didn't say any more, although a few of them turned to glare at the corner Gabe was sitting in, half-forgotten by the crowd.
("Percy!" my mom... rain was pouring in.)
"Ah, that would explain why you weren't in more pain." Somebody mused out loud. Nobody was sure who said it, the person who said it wasn't even aware they said anything out loud, although they were pretty sure it was an Athena person.
(Lightning.)
"He had his reasons!" Percy shouted as Poseidon made to lunge at his brother, who as soon as it was said had jumped to hide behind Hera's throne. His shout stopped Poseidon in his tracks, and he remembered Percy's earlier comment on Zeus and Hades had their reasons for going after him and to not be too mad. He grumbled the whole time it took him to slowly sit back down, glaring at Zeus the whole time.
Nobody noticed the Hephaestus bunch glaring at Zeus over the ruining of a perfectly good Camaro over what was, according to Percy anyway, a huge misunderstanding.
(That was the only... I don't want you to die!)
Some girls cooed over how sweet it was, everyone else snickered at the looks on the Percy's and the Grover's faces. They all knew that Percy meant every word of that, but that didn't mean he wanted it spoken out loud like that.
(Then he groaned "Food," and I knew there was hope.)
The Grover's should really have Apollo take a look at them, being that shade of red could not be good for their health.
("Percy," my mother... look like he had horns.)
"Hamburger!" Percy yelled again. Maybe there was some merit to Nico's statement about his sanity after all... whatever. His yell did its job and broke the rising tension in the room.
Although Poseidon and a few of the others were thinking about who this could be based off the description.
(I swallowed hard... sizzling and smoking.)
"Yeah, don't go that way." Leo said very seriously. Percy just looked at him like, 'no, ya think?'
("Climb out the... see that big tree?")
"Me!" Thalia crowed. Those who didn't know that story were, well... confused.
("What?" Another flash... crest of the nearest hill.)
"I'm sorry, but you could not catch me dead in the White House Perce. Not even as the Christmas Tree." Some weren't sure whether or not she was being serious, others chose not to take her seriously, and others caught on to another meaning behind her words. A veiled threat of what would happen if she did ever find herself in the White House.
For reasons that some of them couldn't figure out, the Stolls took out their prank book and crossed something off the list.
("That's the property... looked at the ocean.)
Annabeth got up to go and hug Sally, Percy would have joined her, but... you know. Mrs. O'Leary.
Some of the other Greeks were a little confused, they knew Sally couldn't cross the property line, whatever was following them should leave her alone once Percy was gone, but knowing Percy... all of the futures knew the rumors of when he first got to camp, they all knew he had the Minotaur horn hanging in his cabin, but... some of them couldn't remember hearing anything about his mother being there or if she was alright or not. Of course, there was the newspaper article some of the Hermes kids told them about after a 'supply run'.
("No!" I shouted... looked like horns...)
Some of them finally realized what the thing was. "The Minotaur." Annabeth breathed. Some of the futures looked excited again. Now to see how much of the rumors were true.
Poseidon looked tense and pale, Percy and Triton were wondering if they would have to wrap him up again.
("He doesn't want... the property line.")
"You guys should change that for clear-sighted mortals." Percy said suddenly, staring at Chiron as he said it, while glancing at Luke. He at no doubt that if May Castellen had been allowed to stay and live at camp after that whole Oracle business, maybe then Luke wouldn't have felt like he needed to do what he did, of course, Percy wasn't stupid. He knew that if it hadn't been Luke it would've been somebody else, that whole mess couldn't have been avoided completely after all.
Chiron looked thoughtful as he mentally reviewed the wards around camp and decided that the idea held merit.
Luke looked at Percy, he figured when Percy glanced at him that he was probably thinking about his own mom, May.
("But..." "We don't have... Come on, Mom.")
Annabeth muttered about stubborn idiots who couldn't do as they were told just once. Percy just grinned at her.
("I told you-"... hadn't come to my aid.)
Before Ares could comment on him being weak, Percy 'politely' reminded him that this was before camp and training, now he could easily carry at least 3 satyrs up the hill no problem. None of the future Greeks looked surprised by this of course, with their 'special training', they could all do it. The only reason they couldn't carry more was because they didn't have enough hands.
The past people on the other hand, were staring open mouthed, and those that were thinking Percy was bragging stopped when they realized that he was just stating a fact, and the others were nodding in agreement.
(Together, we draped... Fruit of the Looms-)
Those who started to shake at the description started laughing at the fact that the Minotaur was only in his underwear. Of course, that was still kind of disgusting, but at the same time it was just so unexpected...
(which would've looked... an electric sharpener.)
"You have the weirdest analogies." Annabeth grumbled. Percy just chuckled and they had a silent conversation about how much she loved his analogies. He would have whispered it and kissed her on the cheek, but... Mrs. O'Leary still had him and his younger self held hostage.
(I recognized the... But he couldn't be real.)
"Λοιπόν, ξέρετε καλύτερα τώρα, έτσι δεν είναι; Μετά από όλα, έχετε τον αγωνιστεί μόνο δύο φορές." Annabeth grumbled. (Well, you know better now, right? After all, you've only fought him twice.)
Those who didn't understand her were confused, while those who did just answered back in Greek, they talked for about 5 minutes, with the gods in the room just watching on wondering what they were going on about now. Finally, Percy ended the conversation by saying in English that they were being rude to the Romans and that they should keep reading. Mostly though, he just didn't want to continue this conversation.
(I blinked the rain... want to kill you.")
Athena just had her eyebrows raised, this mortal really was smart.
("But he's the Min-"... "Names have power.")
At that, all the futures turned to glare at Percy, mostly Annabeth. How many times had each of them told him the same thing, and yet he still just threw those names around like nothing. Percy just shrugged.
(The pine tree was still way too far- a hundred yards uphill at least.)
Poseidon started to look more and more tense. Percy and Triton were about to help him out, but Amphitrite threw them a look that let them know that she would handle it.
(I glanced behind me..."Food?" Grover moaned.)
The tension was gone again, to the Percy's relief. They had been trying to figure out how to ease it without getting any of the demigods with special abilities or weapons on hand using them. Both Grover's were just embarrassed.
("Shhh," I told him... The gas tank exploded.)
While the Hephaestus bunch moaned over the cars destruction, others celebrated the fact that it was Gabe's car. They felt like it was some small bit of justice for how he treated Percy. Either none of them heard or none of them cared about the noises coming from the corner where Gabe still went relatively forgotten.
(Not a scratch, I remembered Gabe saying.
Oops.)
That just sent the demigods off again, shaking his head, Leo went and asked his father if they couldn't build Percy a new car. It was more the fact that such a fine piece of machinery had been destroyed like that then anything else, but...
("Percy," my mom said... keeping you near me.")
"Not a word." Percy warned, staring at Dionysus, before turning and having another three way silent 'Jackson conversation'.
("Keeping me near you?...He'd smelled us.)
Everybody sat holding their breath, not wanting to interrupt.
(The pine tree was... like rotten meat.)
"Between him and those stupid horses..." Percy trailed off muttering about never getting that smell out of his nose. Which of course left everyone wondering what horses had to do with rotten meat smell, well, everybody except those who had been there.
(He lowered his head... Grover down in the grass.)
While Percy and Sally just sat there, resigned to the fact that they would have to hear about this all over again, the rest of the room sat there and stared at Sally like they couldn't believe or figure out how she was sitting here alive. Finally she got tired of them looking at her like that and snapped that if they would just read the book they would know sooner. Ignoring the shocked looks she got from that one, she leaned into Paul when he put his arm around her shoulders.
(We'd reached the... and pummeling the air.)
At this point, everybody who knew better was forcing themselves to look away so that none of the Jackson's would see the pity in their eyes. They all knew what would happen to them if Percy saw it. None of them saw Mrs. O'Leary nudge him, or Percy put his arms around his older self, trying not to cry, reminding himself that she was right there. None of them noticed Amphitrite holding Poseidon in place so he would let Paul do his job as Sally's husband.
("Mom!" She caught... was simply... gone.)
Nobody dared to speak, all of them were shooting little glances at Sally, trying to figure out how she was still here, none of the futures remembered Percy ever saying anything about this, all they had to go on was a newspaper article some of the Hermes kids said they had read about Percy and his missing mother, but since it had been the Hermes kids, nobody had taken it seriously. Now, they were wishing they had at least listened to the details.
Poseidon muttered under his breath that flash of light indicated a god took her, glaring suspiciously at Hades and Zeus as he did.
("No!" Anger replaced... Mrs. Dodds grew talons.)
The futures slowly started to smirk, they knew what was coming. Percy was mad. When Percy was mad... stuff tended to go down.
(The bull-man bore... couldn't allow that.)
By this point, all the futures smirks were starting to freak people out. Especially since they didn't know Percy that well, so they didn't know what the futures were waiting to hear.
(I stripped off my... stupid! Ground beef!")
"Oh, so THAT'S where the nickname came from..." Thalia mumbled in sudden understanding. She'd heard Percy call him hamburger or something related before, she just didn't know there was a history to it before now.
("Raaaarrrrr!" The monster... idea- a stupid idea,)
"Man, your ideas are always better when they're on the spot like this." Thalia said appreciatively. Percy just shrugged while the rest of the futures nodded in agreement.
(but better than no... at the last moment.)
A few of the futures raised their eyebrows in his direction, he just waved his hand dismissively, like saying, 'yeah, yeah. I know.'
Those not from the future just watched, wondering how on earth they could communicate silently so well. Not even the Romans, who prided themselves on teamwork, were this good. And Greeks were known among the Romans for kind of being a bunch of lone wolf types.
Ares was feeling like his theories were right on this groups close ties with each other.
(But it didn't happen like that.)
"It never does." All the future Greeks said at once. While they turned to stare at each other, the Romans and past Greeks were all looking at them and thinking, 'Creepy...'
(The bull-man charged... and landing on his neck.)
Everyone, even Ares was impressed. All the futures knew Percy would find some way to defeat it, but everyone also knew that despite his victory with Alecto, Percy still had zero training. Also, at least with Alecto he had a sword, here he had nothing, AND he was a twelve year old who just watched his mother vanish. Percy just sat there, thinking about this quest and what happened after.
(How did I do that?... knocked my teeth out.)
"Hey!" Thalia yelled, holding her side, "That hurt you know!" All the futures went still, all thinking about the times over the years she had been a tree when they had knocked into her or when a monster they were fighting slammed into her... or even when Luke poisoned her. Percy looked scratched the back of his neck apologized.
"You can remember stuff from being a tree Thals?" Luke asked softly, thinking about how dead he was if she actually felt it when he poisoned her tree. "Yes, and yes I felt every minute of it." She snapped back. While he went pale, those who knew what they were talking about started planning Luke's second funeral while those who had no clue just decided that these futures were weird and that they should just ignore their strange comments. Ignoring the fact that these futures were actually them...
(The bull-man staggered ... only one gear: forward.)
"Thankfully." Percy muttered. The others decided to just ignore him, thinking that he deserved at least this one little detail to go right in his life for once.
(Meanwhile, Grover... my own tongue off.)
"Yeah, please don't do that." Annabeth requested lightly. Afterall, it would be hard for him to be his usual sarcastic self if he couldn't talk, and that was one of the things she loved about him.
Percy just said that he could make no promises.
("Food!" Grover moaned... with all my might.)
"HA! I get that your insanely lucky and powerful kid, but not even you..." Ares was cut off when Triton kept reading over him, having read a little ahead.
(The monster tensed, gave a surprised grunt, them- snap!)
Unsurprisingly, Ares stopped talking and just gaped at Percy. The futures were nodding as they now understood how Percy got the horn off the Minotaur when monsters disintegrate too fast to get something like that before there gone.
(The bull-man screamed... under his furry rib cage.)
Now it the rest of the rooms turn to gape at Percy, with no training, this guy killed a Minotaur at age twelve, using it's own horn like a knife. Percy being the modest guy he is, ducked down so that they couldn't see him. This didn't work entirely though, since even his younger self was gaping at him like an idiot.
"Keep looking like that, that will be you fighting it in four years." He hissed under his breath, turning Percy's face white.
(The bull-man roared... The monster was gone.)
Everybody released a breath they didn't know they had been holding. The younger kids were thinking how much they wished they had seen that, while the future kids were thinking that the rumors were pretty accurate, for once. Percy really killed the Minotaur with its own horn.
(The rain had stopped... going to let him go.)
Some of the girls were about to comment on how sweet that was, but one look from Percy and they all shut their mouths pretty quick.
(The last thing I... one. He must be.")
A few of the futures looked at Annabeth, and it was Nico who said that yes, yes he was 'the one.'
Annabeth sputtered while everyone else laughed. "That's not... I mean... At the time... Oh, would you guys just shut up already!" She finally snapped, throwing a pillow at Thalia, Nico, and Percy each. Percy caught his pillow while Nico and Thalia got it to the face, they went down still laughing. At this point the other futures were just laughing at the sight of one of their leaders so flustered and scrambling to think of something to say.
Hades was still trying to wrap his head around the fact that the Greeks treated his son like he was family.
("Silence, Annabeth," the man said. "He's still conscious. Bring him inside.")
"That's the end of the chapter. Who wants it?" Triton said, holding the book up. Sally raised her hand and he tossed it over.
"How about two more chapters, then dinner, then another chapter before bed and/or whatever talks or competitions are planned for tonight?" Hestia suggested brightly. She was enjoying seeing her family get along so well for once, even if it was mostly just everyone watching the demigods interact with each other.
After everyone agreed, Sally found the right page and read, "Chapter five, I Play Pinochle with a Horse"