I hope you are enjoying my one-shots, I love making small stories like these and greek stories fascinate me, making them Percy Jackson related makes it way more fun and enjoyable, I hope you enjoy this long chapter in celebration for a review and a few favs and follows!
She was known as one of the smartest demigods around, unfortunately in the regular school system, specifically college, that meant she was a nerd, but nonetheless she dealt with what happened, which was bullying. Lots of it.
Annabeth Chase, known as the architect of Olympus and one of the saviors of this age, was going to her English literature class, and she hated it. Not the teacher, who was amazing and always seemed to give her answers "unintentionally" if it seemed like she was struggling with her dyslexia, which she appreciated, but the students, the big, strut-loving popular clique of girls that always seemed like they needed to add an unnecessary comment whenever they saw Annabeth, as if she was competition for their conquest of the male population of New York.
Regardless here she was, in class, struggling to decipher eleven letter words that seemed to float together into 40 letter words, and she cursed in greek.
"Ise énas malákas kai misós!" She growled, unfortunately much louder than she meant in the silent classroom. "Annabeth, watch your mouth." Her head shot up as her teacher, Mr. Jeremiah, told her off without even glancing up. She had never thought about him as different before, his slightly buttoned down checkered "Lumberjack" outfit as many of the girls called it, the white shirt underneath, blue jeans, and black tennis shoes, he was the very example of unprofessional, though that didn't stop him from telling his college class of for swearing, something that annoyed most of the male group in his class.
The rest of the class snickered thinking she said something in Italian or French and she was unlucky enough for the teacher to know the words, but she was speaking in ancient Greek, A dialect really only known by very few historians, and all demigods of Greek descent.
The rest of the class went back to work, light chat sprouting up here and there about how she got caught, but she didn't care, she was still staring at her teacher, who glanced up with a sly smile, and winked.
She went back to her work quickly, making a mental note to ask her teacher how he knew that dialect, and frustratingly deciphered the rest of her work.
It was almost pitch black after she had finally finished her class, a fact she disliked as that meant Mr. Jeremiah was probably gone for the night. She hefted her books with difficulty, and walked to her car, thankfully supplied by the camp with modifications to be an anti-monster signal. This made her less cautious, so when the growl sounded behind her, she froze.
She turned, her free hand drifting to where her knife usually was, cursing as she saw the almost serpentine figure slithering toward her, its hulking back end making a shlick noise as its end flicked back and forth, disrupting the leaves and foliage around it.
She immediately thought, "It's a Hydra!" but that didn't make any sense after the silhouette moved more, and only two bright yellow eyes opened, glaring with hatred at her. As it came into the light she became petrified, she had never seen it before, not once, but knew exactly what it was and she was surprised that it had come this far inland.
"The Cetus." She murmured, the beast grinning strangely with its name said aloud, and its mouth dripped horrid smelling saliva that was a foggy yellow, falling onto the grass and painting it into a bad representation of what a banana smashed into grass would look like.
Its blueish purple hide showed wide scars, a large one in its back in the shape of a spearhead, and its spine was layered with crimson fins sharp and hard as diamonds, while its yellow underbelly undulated as it groaned with hunger. It bared its teeth in a nasty grin as it advanced on Annabeth, and she trembled lightly before turning and sprinting to her car, where the knife was stashed under her seat.
She struggled to unlock the door as she let her books fall and turned trying to see the beast, but it had disappeared. She panicked more and attempted to unlock the door faster, but was suddenly knocked onto the hard pavement, the heat from the day burning her skin as she skidded across it, getting stones lodged in her skin.
Her head whipped around as she hissed in pain, hearing a hacking noise, possibly the Cetus' version of a laugh, as it did its strange shuffle, much quicker than she first thought, and went straight for her, its forked tongue sliding back and forth over its yellow stained teeth at the thought of a fresh meal.
The creature that her boyfriend's namesake had killed for Andromeda didn't of course, expect her to kick it in the eye with the end of her steel-toe boots, making it squeal in agony. From her bad fashion choice of her combat boots and school uniform or pain, she didn't know.
She rolled to the side and sprinted for her car, finally unlocking the door and quickly grabbing the blade, turning to face the Cetus as it thrashed angrily, turning to her with a his of rage, one of its yellow eye slightly puffy as it winked and blinked the eye sporadically.
She brandished the knife defensively as it charged her, its speed astounding for only having two legs. She jumped to the left as it collided with her open door, and cursed, the camp was still paying for that car. The door was torn completely off as it sunk its teeth into the top of the door, the glass breaking in its jaw, its mouth dripping reddish purple blood as the glass sank into its gums. It twisted and let go of the door with a violent crunching noise, the door tearing off completely as it tossed it sideways at her, it spinning like a several hundred pound saw blade.
She ducked, barely dodging it, and ran forward, jumping up as the Cetus snapped its jaw forward with blinding speed as she got close. She landed on its head and stabbed down, accidentally hitting one of the crimson fins, glancing off it and only giving it a flesh wound, she tried to stab again, but it roared in anger and its tail whipped around, catching her in the chest and throwing her into her car, she could feel several ribs crack and a few break as the car made a small dent where she hit.
She groaned in pain and hissed as she tried to move, her eyes watering from the sharp burning in her chest. She saw the Cetus slowly turn toward her, its head dripping a stream of its strange purple-red blood, and it bared its bloodied teeth at her and moved forward far slower than before, possibly knowing she couldn't move and it would finally have its meal.
She tried to move again but only managed to fall to the side, crawling in agony, around her car. That hacking noise filled the night again and she cursed the beast with every curse she knew, trying to get to the other side of the pavement where.. What? He might get help? She didn't know, she was sure she had a concussion, maybe worse, and wasn't thinking straight.
She grunted in pain as she got halfway, stopping abruptly with a cry of pain as the Cetus' talons sunk into her thigh, holding her down as its large mouth opened and descended over her head. She started to cry as she felt the hot breath on her neck, knowing she would never get to see Percy again.
She waited, and waited, the saliva dripping down, then when she finally thought its jaws would snap around her head, it squealed and its jaws left the vicinity of her head, she tried to turn her head, but through her blurry and tear streaked eyes, the blobs of color faded together like a badly made finger-painting, the Cetus was streaking around at blinding speed, but seemed to be in extreme pain, another blob dipping and dodging around it, swinging a copper-colored stick or blade or something. She couldn't think straight, she groaned again and the Cetus turned toward her, or she think it did.
The big blue blob charged her with a rage-filled roar, and she was sure she was dead.
"Oh no you DON'T!" a voice called out, she thought it seemed familiar, but with her concussion-addled mind, she couldn't be sure or pinpoint it. She saw the other throw its copper stick and it impaled next to one of its fins, sinking a foot at least, causing the blob to stop suddenly and shudder.
The blob seemed to slowly sink into a golden pool, leaving three or four red fins, glinting and shining in the small lamp lights spread around. The last thing she saw was a strange red and black checkered pattern, then all was black.
"Thank you old friend, it was a miracle you were there."
"My pleasure, I assure you, I enjoy her presence as a student and I would never leave a demigod to the likes of that beast."
She could hear the voices in the back of her head, Chiron, and someone else.
"Indeed, The Cetus. I have not heard of or seen that monster in almost a millennia. Perhaps with Gaia's rising it rose but avoided the battles. Who knows." Chiron's voice was worried but relieved, and she felt his gaze slide over her. "I am curious as to why it was so far inland, the Cetus was a sea beast and rarely ventured onto land beside for a quick meal if the old legends are to be believed."
"I think it was starving, and smelled me and Annabeth, probably went for her because she's the daughter of an Olympian, I'm glad i heard the door get ripped off, or she would be a goner, hard luck for her to hit the fin, hard as diamonds those, she would have killed it had she aimed just an inch to the left." The other voice mumbled worriedly, and she felt Chiron sigh in relief.
"Percy will probably be worried, but thankful. You will be lucky to have an ally of the son of the sea god." Chiron mused and the other voice chuckled.
"This is definitely true enough, Poseidon always favored my mother, more so than her own father and brother, who act as if she does not exist lest they need her. I still need to thank this Perseus for bringing the minor gods into the limelight." he stated, and she could almost feel the person cocking a grin at the words.
"Quite, my dear Nanek." Her eyes shot open at Chiron's chuckle and sat up suddenly to the surprise of her teacher Chiron, and her.. Teacher. Mr. Nanek.
They both surged forward as she swayed with nausea, and helped her lay back down, her eyes staying locked on her English teacher, who looked worriedly at the bandages around her abdomen.
"Your ribs are still healing, seems like older cracks and breaks re-broke. Ambrosia and Nectar can only do so much. Maybe we should-" his ramble was cut off as he caught Annabeth staring and he chuckled.
"I suppose, this is a bit to take in, As you can probably tell by now-"
"You, my English teacher, are a demigod?!" she yelled out disbelieving and he smiled nodding, "Yes ma'am, Nanek Jeremiah, Son of Eris goddess of Discord!" he chuckled and she stared at him disbelieving, her mind putting things together like a puzzle she finally found the piece too.
"That was why you knew the Greek dialect I used.." she mumbled and then glared at him. "You have been favoring me this entire time by giving me answers!" she yelled in anger and he chuckled.
"I almost forgot, children of Athena hate being given help." he laughed and she cracked a smile.
Before she could say anything else he held up his hand, gesturing for her to lay back down. "You need rest, I'll swing by the camp with your things and I will have the college pay off your vehicle repairs, i doubt they have insurance for rogue monster attacks, but I will figure something out." he mumbled out, switching to almost a whisper as he contemplated that, then started walking out.
"Oh, and before I forget, I expect you back in class as soon as your better, I'm sure you have questions, make it Monday ten o'clock on the dot as usual!" he yelled out as he turned, calling it over his shoulder.
He didn't see her smile and shake her head with a chuckle, though he did hear it.
The translation to the greek insult is: You are one and a half of an A**HOLE!
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