Percy's POV
It's been three years since Alice and I met our dad, kicked out him, and learned of the world of the Greek gods. My mom and dad got married that summer. (I will do a story on this later.) I haven't been on a quest yet, but I'm not sure I want to. I mean yea it'd be cool and all, but I've seen several of my friends leave on quests and never come back. Well I did visit them occasionally in Elysium thanks to Nico, my dads' cousin and son of Hades. We met him the summer after I met my dad. He's married to a woman named Aurora, daughter of Iris. They had a daughter that is a year and a half younger than me. By the way I'm now 15 and so is Alice. Obviously because we're twins.
We we're sitting in our Ancient History class right after lunch. I was just staring at the board because we were learning about Ancient Greece and the gods. Neither me, Alice or Stephanie had to pay attention, we lived in the world of the gods. And speaking of Stephanie after the most obvious hint she could give, which was kissing me at our dance at the end of last year, we had started going out.
So after a while I got bored of just staring at the board and looked outside. There were trees beginning to change colors, some leaves blowing on the ground after they had fallen, birds flying south, chipmunks and squirrels gathering nuts for the winter, the Minotaur and six hell hounds, a bunch of- wait the Minotaur and six hell hounds.
I quickly looked over to Alice and Stephanie when I noticed Katharine Storm, a daughter of Zeus that hasn't been claimed yet, but we know that she is, and Hanna Engle staring out the window right at them.
Hanna Engle is still the same bitch she was when she was thirteen. There was only small differences; her breasts were bigger, she was curvier, has slept with like ¾ of the male population in both the Sophomore and Junior class, and has had three abortions, that she'll never admit to, but everyone knows and will do almost anything for twenty bucks.
Katharine, as I told you, is a daughter of Zeus. She has raven black mid-back length hair (common among children of the big three), shocking lightning blue eyes. She is five foot four, and if I wasn't in love with Stephanie, I would probably ask her out, and the fact that she was also technically my aunt kept me back as well, but mostly my love for Stephanie.
Alice still hadn't noticed so when the teacher turned around to write something on the board I quickly crumpled up a small piece of paper and tossed it at her. And with my crappy luck and aim, it went right down her shirt. Great, thought. She looked around to see who had done that and when I waved, to tell her I did it, she glared daggers at me, just like mom does to dad when he really messes up. With a simple gesture of my hand I pointed out the window and when she looked her eyes went wide. When she looked back at me I flashed her three fingers, signaling for her to follow me in three minutes. As the teacher turned around I raised my hand.
"Yes, Percy?" My teacher, Mr. Deddel, asked.
"Can I go to the bathroom?"
He looked up at the clock then said, "Hurry up."
I quickly ran out of the room and down the hall to the nearest door. I opened it and ran right to the monsters. As I ran I pressed the silver button on my watch and it turned into my shield and then uncapped Wavebreaker.
I was immediately attacked by two hellhounds. The first one was fairly easy I just had to dodge a head on attack with a simple sidestep and stabbed it in the ribs. The second was a bit harder. I surprised me from the side and I barely had enough time to get my shield up. I was knocked back but I only stumbled. I got back in my stance as it jumped to tackle me and I ducked and thrust my sword into its gut. That's two down and four to go.
I had just finished the third and fourth when Alice finally showed up to help. She snuck up behind the fifth hell hound as it was about to attack me and stabbed it. That left the Minotaur. We always had a plan for each monster. The one we had for the Minotaur was to put on our invisibility hats, sneak up, and stab it in the side. And that's just what we did.
On our way back to class we stopped in the bathrooms to clean up, luckily neither of us had tears in our clothes. When I got out I asked Alice what lie she came up with since I was gone for so long.
"Oh I just said we were having a prank war and that I put laxative in your milk at lunch." she said.
"Oh well that's just great."
"Yea well that's what you get for gluing my favorite book to the ceiling." She said as we got close to our classroom; I took the hint.
"Yea, well you didn't have to pour steak juice on me and set Mrs. O'Leary on me." I yelled at her as we entered the classroom.
"Okay, that's enough! Take your seats." Mr. Deddel said. We did as we were told.
For the rest of the day Hanna was trying to ask me about what she saw during History but I just ignored her. Katharine was the one I was worried about. She was most likely the reason, as well as Alice, Stephanie, and me that they were here. And all throughout the rest of the day I had to get up and excuse myself to the bathroom to keep up the pretense of the prank war and me swallowing a laxative.
As the last period of the day ended I followed Katharine, while getting Alice, Stephanie, and unfortunately Hannah, to her locker.
"What do you want? Why are you following me?" She asked looking terrified.
"We're here because of your dad. I bet you've never met him and you live with a parent and step-parent." Alice said. She was always the better one at understanding all this.
"How-?"
"You have ADHD and Dyslexia too, don't you?" Stephanie asked.
"How do you know that?" she asked looking more terrified.
"Well would you like to meet your dad?" I asked.
"He's dead. He was struck by lightning when I was a few months old." She said as she tried to run away but I grabbed her wrist and pulled her back.
"Would you like to meet him?" I asked her again staring into her eyes.
"Yes." She squeaked.
"And you there's something we gotta do before we go any further." I said turning to Hannah.
"What are you talking about?" she said as Stephanie pulled out her Celestial Bronze dagger.
"I just need to touch this to your skin."Stephanie said. She hesitated for a second and then pressed it to her skin. It didn't pass through. Oh great now we gotta take her with us.
"Alright you can come with us."Stephanie said through gritted teeth.
We walked outside to my dads' car.
"Hey dad, we need to go to their houses get them packed and to camp. Ground beef and some pups attacked." I told him as we hopped in.
"Alright, where do you live?" He asked as we piled into the car. Alice got shotgun, Hannah was on the right, Katharine in the middle, and me on the left with Stephanie on my lap, which i was definitely not complaining about. They told my dad where to go and we were off to Katharine's house.
When we got to her house my dad told her mom it was time for Katharine to go to camp, she understood. Katharine took about fifteen minutes to pack and then we went to Hannah's. There was a little more explanation but we finally got on the road to camp.
It was a long and awkward silence. I looked over at Hanna and Katharine every few minutes to see if they were okay. They both had looks of confusion and fear. Things got even worse when Chiron IM'd us.
"Percy!" he shouted. Two things happened because of this. 1) My dad screamed and the car swerved. 2) I got an earful of three girls screaming. I would be deaf in that ear for a while.
"I'm bringing them to camp right now." My dad said to him.
"That's not what I need to tell you. You're being requested by the Olympian council, and you need to, and I quote Lord Zeus, "Get your sea spawn butt here now" so drop what you're doing and just take them with you." And the connection was dropped.
"Wh-what was that!?"Hannah shrieked.
"That was an Iris Message, or IM."Stephanie said.
They, Katharine and Hanna, kept asking questions but we ignored them. We got to the Empire State Building about thirty minutes later. We got out, and with a little coaxing so did Katharine and Hanna, and walked inside.
"Hey Tom, we have an appointment with the Council." My dad said the security man. Interesting fact here Toms' family has been the guard to Olympus since the ancient times.
"Here's the key. Hurry up Zeus isn't happy." He said and we walked over to the elevator. My dad put the key in and the 600th floor button appeared, he pressed it and we were off. The whole way there we had to listen to Another One Bites the Dust by Queen and my dad singing a very off key version. It was embarrassing to say the least. As he was singing Katharine and Hanna began asking questions again.
"Where are we going? Isn't there only like 100 floors?" Katharine asked.
"Do you remember learning about the Greek gods and myths?" I asked. They nodded with a look of confusion painted on their faces.
"Well, to put it simply they never were myths, and they are still alive today as well as all the monsters. Which you saw earlier today."
"That's crazy! You're insane!" Hanna yelled.
"And yet here you are riding an elevator to the 600th floor of the Empire State Building." Alice snapped.
"Ok, so then who are our parents?" Katharine asked.
"Well were not allowed to tell you right now but we can tell you that your dad will be here, Katharine." Stephanie said.
"Why can't you?" she asked.
"As for Hanna, well you're a bit of a surprise. We didn't think there were any other demigods in our school besides us and Katharine." Stephanie said completely ignoring Katharine.
"Ok, so then who are your parents?" Katherine asked.
"Well actually they are our grandparents. Alice and my grandparents are Athena and Poseidon, and Stephanie's are Hermes and Nyx."
When we got to the top, and my dad stopped singing, thank the gods, the elevator doors opened. It was still as amazing as all the other times I had been there; whether it was for a quick visit to Grandma Athena, for dates with Stephanie, or Architectural fieldtrips with my mom, who designed all of Olympus after the war. I honestly didn't care for it and was more like dad. If it involved water I was there, unlike Alice she loved it when mom talked about architecture. I started walking down the walkway that led to the throne room when I noticed that Katharine and Hanna weren't with us. I turned around to see them still in the elevator with their mouths hanging and them just staring.
"Come on, we can look around some other time." I shouted at them. The shook their heads and quickly followed.
As we were walking down the streets many of the minor gods, satyrs, Cyclopes, and other magical creatures were bowing or just staring.
"Why are they bowing to us?"Hanna asked.
"They aren't bowing to us they are bowing to my dad." Alice said to her.
"Why? He's just some old guy." Hanna said flipping her hair behind her ear.
"He is the Hero of Olympus." I said in a much calmer tone than Alice.
"No he's just an old guy with no job." She said. She was really starting to piss me off.
"At 16 my dad became the Commander of the Half-blood Army of the gods, killed The Crooked One, Kronos, and saved all of Western Civilization. And he has a job; he works for my grandpa." I said.
"Wow that's-"Katharine started but was cut off by Hanna.
"Do you really expect me to believe that? If you do you're crazier than I thought." She said while laughing.
"Hello Grandma, how are you today?"Stephanie asked as we passed Lady Nyx.
"Hello Stephanie, I am fine. Thank you for asking, i would like to stay and chat but i have things to do." She said and then disappeared into the darkness.
When we finally got to the big golden doors they opened and I saw some of my friends from camp as well as some of my dad's friends, and something I never thought I would see.
OH MY GODS A CLIFFIE!!!!!GASP!!!! LOL. I'm not sure how this is going to go but I want a god to not be there it would be awesome if you could put forth a vote as to which one isn't there. And it has to be a god on the Olympian Council or Hades. Thanks and remember to REVIEW.