I walk back to my dorm room, expecting to find Grover, but I didn't see him. I looked around and left my stuff in the corner to unpack later. The room hadn't changed at all from both my previous timeline/life and last year. Even the plant on the window, A Bonsai Tree I think Grover called it, dubbed Bonnie hadn't changed a twig. No, that I knew about the Other side of things, I wondered if that had a Dryad stuck inside. My eyes widened at what that implied, then I decided I didn't want to know about Grover's love life. I went out into the pale blue worn hallway to find him.

Where could-there he was, being bullied by some kids. I nodded my head in understanding, yeah that was normal.

I walked up to them. I'm sure you guys are expecting something heroic and amazing. If I was mentally twelve and didn't have those memories from the future, you would be right.

But I wasn't.

I grabbed the two heads of the bullies and dragged them to the nearest bathroom and did to them what Clarisse wanted to do to me years ago in the 'Initiation' as she put it. I waited a few minutes. I had to time this right. It was like cooking. Overheat and the dough will have cracked, don't cook enough and it's all soft and gooey.

I figured enough time had passed and brought their heads out from the toilet.

"From now on, you're my minions," they nodded not wanting to have their heads dunked back in.

I initially stopped for a second and wondered if I should go save Grover like I usually would and in the process antagonize every school bully within a block radius since I wasn't really feeling particularly enthusiastic in fighting everyday I thought up a relatively simple plan to stop it. I used my ability to see into their past and almost felt pity for them, their home lives were just as bad as mine, except it was worse.

For a second I hesitated and wondered if this was the right thing to do but then I thought, it didn't matter, I would simply pull a Chiron, but at the same time not. Teach them how to be good and respect through pain, after that it was up to them. Besides they weren't my real enemies. I kind of felt bad for them but knew coddling wouldn't change them, but a General in command would.

For the next few weeks I had them study relentlessly and exercise until they dropped. As well as integrate into the school gossip, anything I wanted to know they would have to know or be prepared to run twenty laps around the school, if they didn't. I would be after them like Cerebos was to chew toys.

At some point resentment become respect and they started to call me boss. They had seen me in a weird light and it half made me uncomfortable but also happy they had decided to change. I had helped them and started to turn their lives around, people didn't see them that way and a lot of people just gave up on them. When I appeared out of nowhere and forced them to get better, they were grateful even if the methods were kind of harsh, I briefly wondered what my friends would've thought from the other timeline. I started to gather more and more underlings. To the point where no one wanted to challenge me, because they were already under my command or at another school.

I didn't expect this, and somehow everyone become a family to each other. I noticed how protective they were of each other, but I didn't want them to outcast the other students or teachers so I took the initiative and called ourselves the Academy Students. Similar to nationalism and a group mentality I wanted them to remember what they were first and foremost and help everybody.

After that it was relatively peaceful,my grades weren't all that much of a worry and I generally lounged in the background reading. Things got better for the school, though not totally as there were still interschool gang wars. Those were quickly put down.

Chiron always had a strange expression on his face as he couldn't believe what had happened and I had to correct him several times on Greek Myths, the surprise and irony wasn't lost on me. There was even one time when I blatantly teased him and said, "Don't worry Mr. Brunner it's not like there is an actual drunk Satyr called Chiron that teaches kids how to fight with horribly dangerous weapons. That would be silly."

It took all my willpower not to laugh when his face looked like he was trying to break out in dance as it twitched like crazy.

It was a testament to perhaps how different everything was but I it hadn't really hit me until the incident with Grover a few weeks later.

Grover had become infamous, and people started to call him Lieutenant. I later learnt it wasn't because he was my best friend, he had earned that respect after a fight in the cafeteria involving trees, enchiladas, and tin-cans.

Somehow someone had insulted all three in one sentence.

The fight had gone down as something legendary. Some people said I was the boss only because I was good at commanding and teaching, and Grover didn't care as long as it didn't involve the above mentioned. They almost respected him more than me, but then they remembered their trauma and shivered.

I mused over what had happened for the past month while searching for something to read. I had been standing there shifting through the books finding something good to read, when I noticed Daedalus' symbol for the Labyrinth in the Library out the corner of my eye. I remember him mentioning how the Labyrinth was attuned to him, so it made sense, it had attached to the Library but I hadn't expected it here. It was hidden under the banner and looked like it hadn't been opened since the school's founding.

Mist truly was a powerful thing.