*my name is neither Darren shan nor rick Riordan I don't own demonata or PJO*
Up on Olympus Zeus was ranting about the poor boy and sounded rather upset that he seemed stronger than most other demigods. When Artemis appeared with him he immediately began his 'this boy is dangerous' propaganda. And noticed with a large amount of personal satisfaction that all but Artemis, Apollo, Ares and Athena agreed with him. He was about to call up a vote when Athena offered up a different idea "Father why don't we make him think he's a demigod we could trick the fates into believing he's the son of one of your brothers and change his memories to suit this, with Thalia, a tree we could use him to complete the prophecy." Zeus thought over this idea and agreed looking at his wife he told her "Hera change the boys memories so that he is a son of Poseidon then put him in a deep sleep until the prophecy begins, when it does plant memories on some demigods so they think they know Thalia and plant memories of them in the tree my daughter must play a part In the prophecy, actually give similar memories of every demigod who know of us, thethalia ones not the boys". Hera nodded and before Perseus could do anything Hera shot a beam of light at him, the last thing he saw was Artemis with an apologetic look on her face.
2000 years later
A trip to a museum eat
Roman stuff.
I know-it sounds like torture.
But Mr. Brunner, our Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so I had hopes.
Mr. Brunner was this middle-aged guy in a motorized wheelchair. He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee. You wouldn't think he'd be cool, but he told stories and jokes and let us play games in class. He also had this awesome collection of Roman armor and weapons, so he was the only teacher whose class didn't put me to sleep.
I hoped the trip would be okay. At least, I hoped that for once I wouldn't get in trouble. Boy, was I wrong. the Lightning Thief
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Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his curly brown hair, and she knew I couldn't do anything back to her because I was already on probation. The headmaster had threatened me with death by in-school suspension if anything bad, embarrassing, or even mildly entertaining happened on this trip.
"I'm going to kill her, " I mumbled.
Grover tried to calm me down. "It's okay. I like peanut butter. "
He dodged another piece of Nancy's lunch.
"That's it. " I started to get up, but Grover pulled me back to my seat.
"You're already on probation, " he reminded me. "You know who'll get blamed if anything happens. "
Looking back on it, I wish I'd decked Nancy Bobofit right then and there. In-school suspension would've been nothing compared to the mess I was about to get myself into.
Mr. Brunner led the museum tour. He rode up front in his wheelchair, guiding us through the big echoey galleries, past marble statues and glass cases full of really old black-and-orange pottery.
It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.
He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone col-umn with a big sphinx on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age. He told us about the carvings on the sides. I was trying to listen to what he had to say, because it was kind of inter-esting, but everybody around me was talking, and every time I told them to shut up, the other teacher chaperone, Mrs. Dodds, would give me the evil eye.
Mrs. Dodds was this little math teacher from Georgia who always wore a black leather jacket, even though she was fifty years old. She looked mean enough to ride a Harley right into your locker. She had come to Yancy halfway through the year, when our last math teacher had a nervous breakdown.
From her first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy Bobofit and figured I was devil spawnhe would point her crooked finger at me and say, "Now, honey, " real sweet, and I knew I was going to get after-school detention for a month.
One time, after she'd made me erase answers out of old math workbooks until midnight, I told Grover I didn't think Mrs. Dodds was human. He looked at me, real seri-ous, and said, "You're absolutely right. "
Mr. Brunner kept talking about Greek funeral art.
Finally, Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and I turned around and said, "Will you shut up?"
It came out louder than I meant it to. The whole group laughed. Mr. Brunner stopped his story.
"Mr. Jackson, " he said, "did you have a comment?"
My face was totally red. I said, "No, sir. "
Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele. "Perhaps you'll tell us what this picture represents?"
I looked at the carving, and felt a flush of relief, because I actually recognized it. "That's Kronos eating his kids, right
"Yes, " Mr. Brunner said, obviously not satisfied. "And he did this because ... "
"Well... " I racked my brain to remember. "Kronos was the king god, and-"
"God?" Mr. Brunner asked.
"Titan, " I corrected myself. "And ... He didn't trust his kids, who were the gods. So, um, Kronos ate them, right? But his wife hid baby Zeus, and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead. And later, when Zeus grew up, hetricked his dad, Kronos, into barfing up his brothers and sisters-"
"Eeew!" said one of the girls behind me.
"-and so there was this big fight between the gods and the Titans, " I continued, "and the gods won. "
Behind me, Nancy Bobofit mumbled to a friend, "Like we're going to use this in real life. Like it's going to say on our job applications, 'Please explain why Kronos ate his kids. '"
"And why, Mr. Jackson, " Brunner said, "to paraphrase Miss Bobofit's excellent question, does this matter in real life?"
"Busted, " Grover muttered.
"Shut up, " Nancy hissed, her face even brighter red than her hair.
At least Nancy got packed, too. Mr. Brunner was the only one who ever caught her saying anything wrong. He had radar ears.
I thought about his question, and shrugged. "I don't know, sir. "
"I see. " Mr. Brunner looked disappointed. "Well, half credit, Mr. Jackson. Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who, of course, being immortal gods, had been living and growing up completely undigested in the Titan's stomach. The gods defeated their father, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld. On that happy note, it's time for lunch. Mrs. Dodds, would you lead us back outside?"
The class drifted off, the girls holding their stomachs, the guys pushing each other around and acting like doo-fuses.
Grover and I were about to follow when Mr. Brunner said, "Mr. Jackson. "
I knew that was coming.
