Ate's Revenge: Sequel to Demigod.

~By JanayOkay14

Chapter Three:Where Percy Starts to Regret

"She cursed me!" Percy swore under his breath. Grover shrugged, his mouth was full of tin foil.

Justin shoved a slice of pizza into his mouth. "You sent her a message that basically said she was a loser. What did you expect, a cookie? Dang, this pizza is good."

"I was trying to get closure."

Justin looked up. "Closure? With my evil-witch-goddess-of-bad-stuff mother? Seriously? Dude, you need to fire your shrink. I'll find you a good one."

"I saw it on Doctor Phil."

"Oh. Yeah, don't watch that show," Justin pulled a pile of business cards out of the back pocket of his sagging purple jeans. "I was serious about that shrink, dude. I know people." He plopped the pile in front of Percy and went back to eating.

Percy sized up the pile with his eyes. "Justin?"

"Yeah?"

"Why do you have like a hundred business cards for child physiologists in your back pocket?"

"My mom. My mortal one, I mean. She got worried when I told her some ghosts with big boobs tried to beat me up."

"That," Percy said "is understandable."

At that moment Annabeth and a few of her sisters walked by, glaring with their stormy eyes. It was like the north wind blew in their wake. The boys shivered.

"Dude," Justin said, still watching the girls. "What did you say? I haven't seen a girl that pissed since the time I accidently told a fan it was nice to see some of my guy fans for a change. Turns out she was my fan because she plays hockey too. Yeah, not anymore."

"Ouch."

"Tell me about it. I had those bruises for weeks."

"You know," Grover spoke up for the first time in the conversation. Percy noticed that Grover always got quieter when Justin was around. He figured it was part holy-crap-I'm-eating-lunch-with-a-god, part, holy-crap-I'm-eating-lunch-with-a-celebrity, and mostly holy-crap-I'm-eating-lunch-with-a-guy-who-wears-purple-pants. "I'm kind of curious about this curse. As far as I know, Ate herself is kind of regarded as a curse. She doesn't really have any blessings to give as far as I can think of, so a curse from her would probably be unbelievably bad."

"Gee, thanks, Grove. I feel better about it now." Percy rolled his eyes.

"What do you mean no blessings?" Justin said, not entirely sure why he was defending his mother. "When you guys found me I had that thing that made the people go crazy for me. Wasn't that a blessing?"

"Not for all the fans that got trampled it wasn't." Grover muttered.

"Hey, G, come on." Percy said.

But Justin was already standing up, eyes far away and sad. "No, he's right. It's fine." He looked at them with an unreadable expression. He said, "I'll see you later, Percy." Then he walked away.

Halfway across the lawn, he lifted his face to the sky and was gone in a dazzling flash of sunlight.

Grover breathed a sigh of relief. "Man, I hate that guy. He wears weird clothes and he flirts with all the nymphs."

"You wish you were him."

"So what? I still hate him."

Percy remembered something and decided to show Grover before he forgot again. "Hey, man, look. I figured out how to do the water yo-yo."

Grover raised his eyebrows. They'd had a debate earlier about whether or not Percy could form water shapes that behaved like real material: string, rope, etc. Grover hadn't thought it was possible, but Percy had, and now he was about to prove he was right.

He grinned, summoning the water from his canteen over his head. He shaped it into a yo-yo, looping a thin strand of water around his finger. Then he concentrated and tried to get the water to move more naturally, as if it was really a string holding a plastic disc at the end.

He was intent on his task, and Grover said nothing, but he watched as Percy got the hang of his water yo-yo. It was so realistic Grover wasn't sure it wasn't just a blue yo-yo, and it looked so cool he didn't even care that he was wrong.

Then something strange happened.

Percy started to let the water evaporate, but his arm jerked back up as if of his own will, and he did a looping trick with the yo-yo. He was so excited about it, Grover wasn't sure he noticed that a moment ago he had been about to put the toy away.

He watched with increasing concern as his friend's tricks got more and more complicated, filled with loops and twirls and jumps, and Percy's eyes gained a feverish edge. His forehead broke out in sweat, and Grover was sure it wasn't just the effort of doing the tricks. The tricks were practically doing themselves.

"Percy?"

"I can't stop," he said between gritted teeth, fear invading his eyes. It may have seemed funny to the other campers that Percy was freaking out because he couldn't control his yo-yo, but this was something bigger than that. He couldn't control his powers. Or rather, his powers were controlling him.

And he got the feeling he knew why.

"Grover," he said desperately. "grab it yo-yo when it swings to you." He flung the watery disc as far as it would go, and Grover snatched it out of the air, flinging it away and soaking a trio of Aphrodite cabin girls in the process.

Percy stared at his trembling hands, watching in horror as read glitter danced over his palms. He was bone tired from keep up his powers for so long without a stop, but he stood up and ran anyway.

Grover yelled after him, but he kept going, as fast as he could.

It didn't matter.

No matter how far or fast he went, even when he jumped into the water and swam to the bottom, he could still hear Ate's laugh ringing in his ears.

A/N: Just so you know, Grover is not to be perceived as me personifying a Bieber hater that's in reality just jealous. I was thinking more of the fact that Book Grover is super shy and pitiful and when he meets confident, attractive, guys that are cooler than him, he would naturally be either in awe of (Percy) or in disdain of (Justin) them. Plus, it's so obvious that Justin would flirt with all the nymphs. I had to put it in somewhere. And Grover's girlfriend is a Juniper bush/tree, so why wouldn't he be jealous?

I know this isn't the best but I hope people like reading it anyway. Much love, and thank you for reviews!

Love,

J

PS: the Ghosts With Big Boobs comment is a reference to Demigod, which I hope you've read too :D

PPS: I'm so bad at this. I need to start writing this story again because I had big plans for it. I think I might write it all out and then bam, bam, BAM post it all at once. So…don't expect an update for awhile.

But when I do make one and you get "7 new chapters to Ates Revenge" in your inbox…please read, okay? :D