Percy sunk down in his chair. Just as he got a break from the school year by going to camp, he had to sit down in a classroom again. Yet, this time for Chiron's lessons in Greek, Latin, ancient history and Mythology. To Percy, that didn't matter. Classrooms and lessons were boring, no matter who was teaching.
Chiron walked into the room, and people stopped talking. Percy looked at the white bored (Board. Sorry) and started playing with his hair, which was a habit he had developed from sitting a class a lot. These days, he mostly pulled his coloured streaks, though. Chiron had walked to the front of the room, and was writing something on the bored (Sorry, there I go again). Percy followed the swirly handwriting, and eventually saw what was written: THE GREEK THEATRE.
A girl in the back of the class raised her hand. 'Yes, Louisa?' Chiron asked. 'Isn't it spelled with E-R instead of R-E?' The girl of about nine asked. 'It can be written both ways. Does anybody else have questions before I start the lecture?' Chiron answered. Nobody said anything. Chiron shrugged, but then the hand of the Lou Ellen, head of the Hecate cabin, went into the air. 'Yes, Lou?' Chiron asked again. 'What if suddenly a Rainbow coloured pony will fly into the room. Will we get excused from the lesson?' Chiron gave her a weird look, full of suspicion, but he nodded. Lou lowered her hand, Seemingly content with the answer.
At first, Percy was wondering what Lou could be planning, but after four minutes of sound coming from Chiron's mouth about the chorus and tragedies and famous playwrights and how theatre was something very religious to the ancient Greeks, Percy forgot all about that. Now he was just thinking about how boring this is, that teddy bear plush he wanted to give Annabeth was a surprise, how boring this is, the food he was going to eat at dinner, and just how freaking boring this is.
Chiron wrote the names of a few famous playwrights on the white bored (Oops. I swear on the Styx I won't make the mistake again). Percy slowly picked up his pencil and wrote them down in a nice, blue notebook. Chiron asked his class to write down as many plays of the playwrights he had listed as they knew. Percy wrote down The Iliad and The odyssey behind Homer, Medea behind Euripides, and he didn't get any further. His brain had wondered of again. The teddy bear was so cute, he knew for sure Annabeth would be happy with it...
Then, Lou raised her hand again. Chiron let out a light sigh before asking her what the matter was. 'Chiron, I think there will be a rainbow pony in this classroom in about ten or fifteen minutes.' She looked very mischievous while she said it. Chiron looked tired when he answered: 'Lou, has the Aphrodite cabin dressed up a pegasus as a My Little Pony again?' Lou's eyes went big. 'Chiron, they would never, er... Again! You know that!' Chiron sighed, harder this time. 'Al right. But let's go further with this lesson, so that we can get as much knowledge inside your heads before the sparkle pony arrives, okay?' 'It's a rainbow pony,' Lou softly muttered after that.
'Which plays did you all write down?' Chiron asked. A few hands were raised. 'Al right, Holly?' Chiron pointed at a girl on the side of the classroom. The daughter of Nike started rattling of a bunch of plays, and Percy started losing interest again. He didn't notice Chiron asking Holly's twin sister Laurel what she had written down, and he certainly didn't hear Chiron calling out his own name.
'Percy? Hello, Percy?' Chiron sighed again, even louder this time. 'Perseus Jackson?' Percy shot up, completely forgetting what he had been thinking about. 'What?' 'Can you name some more plays? Some that the twins haven't already told us?' Percy mumbeld the titles of the ones he got. Chiron smiled. 'Well, we already had those two. But we also have Hippolytus, which is about a son of Theseus who doesn't want to marry, and The Bacchae, about Dionysus trying to get revenge on a king...' Percy didn't hear anymore than those two, no matter how hard he tried.
Without anybody but Lou noticing, twelve minutes passed. Lou pulled a string next to her desk, triggering a light to go on in the Iris-cabin. One minute later, all four children of Iris bursts into the classroom. Chiron stopped in the middle of talking about Hecuba, and gave them a weird look. Butch spread his arms. 'The magical flying rainbow pony has arrived!' He called out. The iris kids magically created a rainbow in the middle of the classroom, and swiftly Lou used the powers of the mist to make it look like a flying rainbow pony. A few of the smaller kids squealed, the twins of Nike roared with laughter. Percy jumped on his desk; things were getting interesting!
Chiron tried to calm the class down while the Rainbow illusion was flying through the classroom. Lou turned to him. 'Chiron, considering what you said at the beginning of the lesson, I think we can go now.' Before Chiron could say anything, everyone sprinted out of the room. Percy was the first person to reach the door, and ran away to get the teddy bear for Annabeth, who was just done with archery.
Chiron stayed behind in an empty classroom. He sighed the deepest sigh he had sighed that day, but smiled right after. Gods, I love this job, he thought as he leaned against the white bored (shoot. Gotta run before I am caught by the spirit of the rive...).