AN: I changed the ending of the prologue now enjoy.

The Son of Neptune

Chapter 1

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My teacher has nine heads.

My day started out normal, well compared to the rest of the day. It starts when I wake up with someone throwing water on me and me getting soaked, which I found incredibly weird, another thing I found incredibly weird is the fact that I found being wet incredibly weird. Didn't I shower or take a bath or something. Well at the time I thought that would explain why I wasn't used to being wet. It was at that moment I realised I really didn't know if I showered or bathed or whatever. Which got me thinking what did I know? A little voice in the back of my head said not a lot. Another said if I was thinking it must be the end of the world that one sounded like it belonged to girl. Anyway the moment I was rudely awakened my hand jumped to my pocket and grasped a pen, as I leapt up into a defensive crouch.

"Jesus Christ almighty" yelled a shocked voice. I saw a girl about my age (I think seen as I don't know my age) she looked about sixteen and from the looks of it she was a couple of inches shorter than me her eyes were a shade of sapphire and her hair the colour of wheat. Elfish was the way I would have described her and something about her appearance mad me sad. I didn't know her. I also had the strangest urge to say Jesus was not almighty and would everyone stop going on about him because he was just one among millions. Weird I know but hey I had a feeling I was experienced with weird "Well are you gonna stare at me all day or help me up, Perce."

Apparently she knew me. "Er. Yea sure here you go." And as an afterthought I added "Who are you exactly?" Her eyebrows scrunched up a look of confusion on her face I was pretty sure that that look would be mirrored on my face. She looked cute like that with her eyebrows scrunched up and bottom lip puckered. I felt wrong thinking that it was wrong to think that so wrong that I wanted to hit myself. I didn't though because I didn't think it would do much good. But the main reason was I didn't want to look stupid.

"Don't start that again Percy, you fooled us with that two months ago. That was before you got here Angela, but he had everyone believing it. Well everyone except Mr. Keane he never really liked us I don't think that Euan Fields was fooled either. He's always watching us you know its creepy." He finished I stared at him he reminded me of someone I definitely didn't like. He was pudgy with a mop of blond hair, eyes that where purple with burses beneath them to match. That's about when the smell hit me. He smelt of heavy alcohol and I felt sick.

"Are you sure he's kidding Dennis. He looks serious" Angela looked me up and down. That's about when I looked at myself I was covered in sticky red stuff that smelt like the kid, I think Angela had called him Dennis, I was wearing a faded orange t-shirt that might once have had something on it, but now was to washed out to make out what it once said, old faded denim jeans, sneakers and leather necklace with four clay beads.

"Of course I'm sure Angie; you should know you're the prank queen around these parts, you also can get anything anyone wants. For the right price of cause" he said airily while waving around a bottle of that red liquid I was covered in. Wine I thought another thing I thought was Dionysus which made no sense at all.

"I told you not to call me Angie, Dennie and the wine your drinking I stole it from Mr. Keane. He won't be able to trace it back to me and I won't be taking the blame so id shush and not call me that or I'll tell him who drank it" Dennis who was probably my age too visibly paled though his skin still looked botchy.

"You wouldn't he'd kill me" Dennis stated simply managing to keep his composure. Just.

"Ok so I wouldn't but I would prank you endlessly for the next month" she threatened doing that weird thing when people waggle there finger in front of your face when they scold you I mean seriously. Why?

He lost his composure "That's even worse the way you prank" he practically screeched sounding like a strangled cat. Not that I've either strangled a cat and know what it sounds like. At least I don't think I have. It was at this point I turned my attention back to the raging argument and interrupted having no clue what they were going on about.

"Look I really don't remember anything. Who you guys are? Anything! And where the Hades are we?" id worked myself into yelling by the end and they stared at me stunned and I could even detect a little fear in their eyes.

"Percy I'm Angela your best friend and that's Dennis your frienemy" I just stared at her what the Hades is a frienemy and why do I keep saying/thinking/whatever what the Hades? I mean isn't he like Greek God or something? She sighed and tried to explain "a frienemy is someone who is your friend when you need each other for something or have a common goal but at all other times is your enemy who you constantly try to get one up on."

"Oh" was my brilliant answer.

"I'm currently one up" boasted Dennis. I did not like him one bit.

"No you're not Percy's beating you remember he tricked you into diving in the lake and its currently cold because you know its winter" she shrugged.

"You still haven't told me where we are" I muttered as I looked around we were in a clearing surrounded by giant redwoods with a clear blue creek running through surrounded by golden sand the only thing was that the place look trashed empty beer bottles littered the ground and there looked to have been a fire. Scratch that there had been a fire a large circler area of charred grass.

"I forgot about that. Any way where in the grounds of little creak high boarding school for the troubled, California, that is the little creek" on the last word she gestured to the creek on the last word. Looking at the creek calmed me but it didn't erase the sense of for boding the word California had put into me. That word meant one thing to me get away you don't belong here. Ok now I'm going insane.

"I seriously don't remember anything" I said Dennis snorted at that at which both I and Angela gave him death glares.

"Well last night there was a huge party curtsey of Dennis over there" she tried I shook my head

"Awesome party" came Dennis's voice.

"Shut up" Angela yelled "anyway we three got so wasted we passed out out here and the others left us?"

"Sorry nothing" I replied "Maybe if you told me things like my last name and where I come from"

"Maybe. So your last name's...

... You know I don't think you ever told me. Anyway you're from...

... well you're not from Cali."

"You know I don't think I know you or him and I'm not lying" I was worried and freaked out know.

Dennis snorted "yea right, you're a good actor I'll give you that but seriously give it up it was good the first time but now"

"I'm serious" I practically shouted.

When the echo of my voice finally died down enough I heard snapping twigs and voices "But sir there probably back in the dorms why would they be out here" I turned to Angela Euan fields she mouthed.

I went back to listening "well Mr. Fields we will see about that"

"Mr. Keane, sir, wait" I heard Euan practically beg. Then to people came through the trees the younger (I assume Euan) was walking funny almost trotting.

Mr. Keane (I assumed) smiled a smile which made me tense up and get ready to charge or flee. ADHD I thought. Wait I have ADHD. Anyway though he said "demi-gods all alone and the new one smell's delicious. Prepare to die demi-gods I'm hungry and I'm ancient that's what Keane means you know I've never been defeated that's why I'm ancient I'll be here long after I eat you demi-gods I'm a nine headed hydra" know as he had his rant he changed into a huge a huge scaly nine headed lizard. Hydra my mind corrected. Well how does that help? I asked myself it doesn't I thought. Scatter I heard someone yell for all I know could have been me. It was at this point I realized I was still holding the pen. I had the strangest urge to uncap it. I'm sure squirting ink in one of its face or writing on it would just make it mad, but hey. So I uncapped it and there was a three feet long bronze sword. I stared at it for a moment we all did. I then raised my head and saw eighteen hate filled eyes staring at me at which point I did the stupidest thing I could remember doing which admittedly wasn't hard I only remembered the past thirty or so minutes. Anyway I charged the hydra point blank.