chapter 3: The day after

When i woke up my muscles felt like i had been working out for 2 days straight and just caught a break and all my sheets were thrown on the floor. I got up out of bed and walked into the bathroom. When i looked into the mirror, i don't know what shocked me more. The fact that the bite and scratch marks were completely healed or that my body looked like it belonged to superman. My stomach looks like it could run into a moving train and it wold't hurt, i flexed my biceps and my they formed a rock of muscle. I was taken back, how could i get a professional athletes body overnight? Finally i looked down at my legs, i widened my eyes in surprise. My legs looked like a professional track and field runners, made for sprinting and jumping over large objects. even my back looks chiseled from muscle, i looked closer at my face and noticed that my jaw looked more defined. I also had stubble on my jaw.

"Percy! your going to be late for school!" yelled my mom, snapping me out of my thoughts.

I quickly took a shower and got dressed. "Your going to be late! Paul had to leave early so you have to walk, with the construction going on your probably going to miss half of first period!" she said putting 3 eggs with bacon in front of me. I quickly ate them and kissed her goodbye. What i didn't tell her was that i had a test first period, if i missed even 1 minute of it, i get a zero. I haven't been doing the best in school but i actually studied for this test and i know the material so i really don't want to be late.

Soon i came to the same crossroad as last night, i looked to my right and saw a small entrance to the woods. I found my self running through the same woulds were i got bitten last night except this time, it was different. I was running off the path but i knew exactly were to go, my legs weren't hurting or aching from carrying the weight of my backpack. My eyes caught every little detail off the woods, i could see the squirrels climbing up the trees in the distance, the birds flying, and even the chipmunks hiding in the plants, nothing went unnoticed. I jumped off a ledge about 11 feet high without even realizing it. I should have broken my ankle when i landed, but instead i landed, rolled on the ground, got up, and kept running.

When i got to school i thought i was at least half an hour late, but when i walked through the doors, everyone was packing their bags or laughing with their friends.

"Hey Percy!" said Stiles walking up to me. "Whats wrong?" he asked noticing my confused look.

"Is-is it lunch?" i said looking around.

"Nooooo, its the begging of the day" he said looking worriedly at me. I looked at my watch and when i saw the time, i was defiantly confused. School starts at 8:45 and i left home at 8:25, i should have gotten to school at 9:00, but here i am at 8:35. 'I only took me 10 minutes? it should have taken me at least a half hour, maybe more on a bad day' i thought.

Just then i noticed stiles looking at me strangely "What?" i asked curiously.

"Nothing, its just, you look different" he said eyeing me.

"Well ya, i have the curse, remember?" i said.

"No, this is different. Hey were did you say you went after school yesterday?"

"I didn't" i said walking off.

The last time he looked at me like that, he ended up finding out i was a demigod. I found myself walking into history class and sitting next to someone, i was too confused about this whole thing to figure out who it was.

"Percy, you alright?" the person i asked.

I turned my head and saw who i sat next to, Ashley Blake. Were pretty close i guess, we have done a couple of projects together in some classes. At first we hated each other, like i mean HATE, she was the popular girl and i was just some guy. Anyways after awhile we got to know each other and eventually became friends. She's about 5ft 4, but she wears high heals making her about 5'8 or 5'7. She has long dark brown hair and light blue eyes.

"Yea, i'm fine" i lied. The truth was that i felt terrible. My head ached and my muscles were starting to clench again. Before i could dwell on it too much, the bell rang witch caused me to for some reason clamp my hands over my ears from the noise, 'did they increase the volume of the bell!?' i thought. I didn't have time to think about it though because our histpry teacher came in.

"Alright class, settle down!" she said. she's vary young, about 25. She has brown eyes and dirty blond hair.

"Alright so i have picked the story we will be reading this year" she said as everybody groaned "Oh stop your moaning, the book is called 'Tale of the Lycaon' (A/N made that up) i remember reading it myself, its a classic"

"Wait a minute, isn't Lycaon the name from which we get the word Lycanthropy from?" asked a kid in the back.

"Yes, a werewolf story" she said, some students actually looked excited to read it.

"Wait, i'm confused, so 5 to the power of 10 is 100, 000?" i heard someone ask. I quickly looked up at the students in confusion 'who would ask a question like that in english class?' i thought

"Yea, and 4 is 10, 00" i heard another voice answer. Now i was whipping my head around trying to find out who talked. I looked out the window and saw two people sitting on a bench and talking, The girls was holding a calculator and the boy was writing something down.

"I finally get it, Thanks!" said a girls voice, she hugged him.

"No need to hug me!" said the gut laughing. "No way" i said under my breath.

"What was that ?" asked . I hadn't even noticed her walk up to me.

"Oh, nothing" i said

"Well, why don't you tell me the reason Lycaon is a werewolf" she asked crossing her arms. 'I know this, i'm i demigod! how could i not' i thought.

"Uh well, in the ancient Greek myth Lycaon tested Zeus by serving him a dish of his slaughtered and dismembered son in order to see whether Zeus was truly omniscient. In return for these gruesome deeds, as punishment, he turned Lycaon into a wolf-man and killed all of his fifty sons with lightning bolts." I said. looked surprised, but quickly covered it up.

"Eyes up front" she told me.

After class Stiles caught up with me. "Hey, you alright. You literally looked like you were in another world during english" he said.

"Yea, i just uh, i'm not feeling well" i lied again.

"Oh, well, you know you could tell me anything, like if it's a you know, Demigod problem..."

"Im fine, lets get going before were late for gym" i said walking off.

"Alright class since we have double gym today, i will be filling out your fitness report!" Yelled coach Gibbs. So these fitness reports go a little something like this. We have a pretty big gym, lets start there. the coach sets up six lines on one side of the gym, when the coach blows his whistle the first person of each line has to start the fitness test. The test is hard, like REALLY hard, even for demigod standards. The first obstacle you face is a rope that goes all the way to the top of the gym ceiling, witch is a long way up. Once you reach the top and climb back down the next station has a pull-up bar, we have to do 35 pull-up then 30 jumping jacks. Station number 3 has a 25 pound medicine ball, we have to first to do 20 push ups, then using the medicine ball we do 20 squats and then another 15 push ups. Station 4 is all about sit-ups. We have to do 20 regular sit-ups, 20 side ab sit-up, 20 bicycle style, and 20 jack knife. Lastly you have to run around the gym 4 times. Know you know why it sucks, the only good thing about it is that people always bet on who will do the best.

Its not like anyone has ever actually completed the test, that's impossible. People either do half of the number of times your suppose to do the exercise, or skip the station completely. Doing this affects your overall fitness score.

"OK! lets get Legend, Thomas, Brown, Smith, Garcia, and Jackson to start" yelled coach.

"Ouf, tough blow man, good luck" said stiles patting me on the back. Sighing i got up and lined up. When the whistle blew i was immediately climbing up the rope with ease. I got to the top and noticed that Ricky was only half way up. Smirking i zipped down the rope and ran over to the chin-up bar. I jumped up, grabbed it, and started doing chin-ups, surprisingly, it felt easy. I was going at a fast pace like a bodybuilder would. Around my fifteenth chin-up i was Ricky and two other guys start doing them. Once i finished i quickly did my jumping jacks and continued. I finished my 20 push up, around my tenth i got bored and only used one hand, it shocked me and the rest of the class, even Ricky. After the squats and second push-ups, i continued onto the sit-up station. I laid down and started doing all the different types of sit-ups, when i was finishing the bicycle, Ricky and another guy were just starting the side sit-ups. As soon as i was done i ran around the gym in ridiculous speed, and stopped in front of the coach.

Everyone was starting at me in shock. "Oh wow, well uh, you did everything Jackson, Ricky had to skip the squats and the second set of push-up just to attempt to keep up with you. I-wow, ho-, how did you do that?" he asked looking at me amazed.

"I dunno, i just, did it" i said.

"Yea well, you passed with flying colors congrats, you should join the lacrosse team" he said

"I am on the Lacrosse team" i said.

"Oh, well i'll consider playing you then. Alright next six, Lee, Walke- "

"Dude! that was awesome, how did you do that!" said stiles in the changing room.

"What?" i asked confused.

"Look, i don't know if you know exactly what you looked like when you were going through the cycles, but you looked like freakin superman" he said waving his hands around.

'Maybe Stiles can help me figure out what's going on' i thought.

"Listen Stiles, i have to tell you something. Last night when i was walking home, i decided to walk through the ravine path. As i was walking i heard a branch snap, i turned my head and saw a- a- a human, definitely human, standing on two feet and everything. But he had red eyes, and fangs and these nails, no not nails, talons huge talons. He started chasing me, faster and more agile that a deer. He scratched at my ankles, and normally because i have the curse, nothing should have happened. but something did happen, i started to bleed. I fell down a hill and it bit me-"

"Wait, it bit you? So thats why your shoulders wrapped" Stiles interrupted.

"Yea, so anyways i whacked it in the head and ran home" i finished.

"Let me see the bite" he said. I looked around to see if anyone was in the change room. Once i made sure we were alone, i unwrapped my bandages shoulder.

"Uh percy, theres nothing there" He said.

"What!?" i yelled looking in the mirror. he was right, where the once huge, bloody bite was, there was nothing, it had already healed. I unwrapped my ankles and looked down, they to had healed.

"I-i, don't get it, it was right here" i said confused.

"Wait, your sure it was human, with huge wolf-like canines, talons and everything." he asked.

"Yea, positive" i answered. "Why" i added.

"Nothing, i think i know whats going on, its insane, but i think i have an idea" he said quickly packing his bag.

"What do you thinks going on?" i asked him.

"I need to do some research before i get anything on your mind" he said leaving.

"Wait, stiles, what do you mean!" i yelled after him, sadly he was already gone.