I just woke up and decided to write this. Hahaha. AND AND I READ another story in fanfic, Alpha and the Chaos Army. It's PJO fanfic too. It was awesome XD
DISCLAIMER: I AM RICK RIORDAN. PLEASE INSERT 'NOT' BETWEEN AM AND RICK. THEREFORE I CONCLUDE, I DO NOT OWN PJO OR HOO.
Chapter VI
Percy's POV
Dorm
One day left
Everyone was speechless. I told them why I broke up with Annabeth. Travis shook his head and Connor patted him in comfort. Nico was just dazed and Clovis…well I don't know. He seemed to be sleeping with his eyes open
"Dude"—Travis
"You're hopeless! Seriously?!" Connor said
"You already have an awesome girl and you break up with her to go back in square one" Travis exclaimed. Nico just shook his head.
"Well, whatever, let's find some place to eat and go around the school!" Connor suggested. "But I'm not gonna wake Clovis up," Nico said. And I remembered something. I stood up from bed and headed for Clovis's direction.
"Hey, Percy…" Travis said warning me.
"Chill" and as I approached Clovis, I kinda got drowsy, but then I was holding it so I didn't fall asleep. By the gods, if Clovis wasn't sleeping all the time, he'd be the most powerful half-blood across the world. Maybe even Heracles couldn't beat him, I mean seriously, how can you fight when you're asleep? Suddenly, I'm a little bit thankful that there aren't a lot of children of Hypnos
Now what was I supposed to do? I remember my conversation with Hypnos. I bit my thumb until blood spurted out. I placed my thumbed on the centre of Clovis's head a bit more than drowsy. And I recited the mumbo Lord Hypnos told me that I thought I forgot. And before I finished saying the mumbo, I put the necklace that had the symbol of Hypnos. A series of black ancient Greek mumbo appeared on Clovis's head then disappeared, and Clovis woke up.
"Thanks, Percy. It took you long enough," Clovis said ruffling his blond hair. He must've heard my dream with his father or something. The gods know what Clovis knows from dreams.
"It's a gift, from his father," I explained. They nodded. After the Giants, our parents gave us each a gift. I dunno what Nico's or the Stoll brothers' gifts were, but most of the campers hid their gifts.
My gift was hidden in plain sight. Actually, I was wearing it. At first I had to struggle with the gift, it was annoying. But the wrist gauntlet kind of wore on me.
"LET'S EAT!" the Stoll brothers announced.
The moment we got out of the room, we found ourselves lost. We didn't know anything about this place. The first floor of the building, well did I tell you that the buildings were like hotels? There was someone at a counter that I would guess would be our dorm manager. He was kind of in his late thirties I guess, but had black hair and brown eyes.
"Uhm, excuse me, sir" I said to the dorm manager. "We're kind of the transfer students," and I was cut short for a girl opened the wide door of the lobby and said
"Mr Chadwick! Have you seen any transfer students around here!"
Okaaay. She was loud, but everything about her seemed graceful. She had long blonde wavy hair and sapphire blue eyes. She was as tall as me, and I've got to admit she was beautiful. But I can't help compare her to Annabeth. The first thing I notice from every girl I saw is that she's not Annabeth.
The boys on the other hand, gaped at her, not obviously though. Even Clovis was suddenly wide awake. Huh. I cleared my throat.
"I've never seen any of you before, so I'm taking you're the transfers?" she said. Travis and Connor and Clovis said yeses, and Nico was still looking at her. Ah, he was analysing her. I put a hand on his shoulder and he relaxes a bit.
"Hello," she smiled. "My name's Aria," she said. "I was told to take you around school." Travis and Connor hurriedly raced to be the first to introduce themselves but Clovis won.
She started to introduce us to Mr Chadwick who was our dorm manager. And then she lead us out of the dorm. "Oh, and don't unpack your things just yet. Those are temporary rooms, since all of you are still…undetermined." Her words caught are attention. Undetermined? Could she know…? Travis and Connor looked at each other. Clovis was just either too sleepy to notice (though his gift should take some of the sleepiness away) or was just captured too much by Aria. Nico looked at me and I shrug. Travis and Connor saw my gesture and followed suit.
"What do you mean undetermined?" I asked carefully. She told us that we'll know tomorrow. She was a year older than us. She showed us the whole dormitory. Left side was for the boys and right side was for the girls.
There were small buildings with at least two floors, similar to the ones we just came from. At the end of the road there was a gate.
"Those are for the schools, you could say, elites" Aria explained.
"Some of them got there by their talents, their smarts, sometimes their parents, and sometimes, by tests, which all of you," she said. "Will be doing tomorrow, along with the other transferees and the freshmen. That's why you're undetermined. We don't even know your schedule yet" she smiled kindly.
We all nodded. The tour continued and the first stop Aria showed us is the Dining house in the dorm area. It was huge. The food was okay. She explained to us the only times this was open. After getting our lunch, we set out for school.
It was a bit of a walk but we didn't mind. The school was huge too. We went to the main building. The loby of the school was okay. It was actually where the classrooms are. And a small building (just one floor, Aria said) was on either of the sides of the main building. She said that it was the Faculty's Building. They just called it the faculty.
Then there was one building dedicated to sports and stuff. It was almost as huge as the main building. First floor was swimming pools. Yes. There were three of them. AND THEY WERE OPEN TO THE CLUB AT ALL TIMES. I am soooo joining the swimming club. Apparently, they had all kinds of club. Basketball (there was a court beside the building and inside!), archery (I bet Kayla would love this), soccer, kendo, swordplay, fencing, and other stuff like that.
When I asked her why there were so many clubs. She shrugged. Apparently the founder of this school was Japanese hence the other clubs such as Kendo, Aikido, Judo, etc. etc.
The founder was named "Roun Kai" and Travis snorted. "His first names was Roun?" Aria shook her head. "He's Japanese. They say the last name first" Oh. So his first name his Kai. Sr. Kai. Kai Roun. Kai Roun. Familiar.
Kai Roun. Chiron!
Gods. As if having the same realization the boys nudged me and we smiled. This couldn't be a coincidence.
There was another building, but it was smaller. It only had two floors. It was for arts and stuff. Didn't really listen.
We noticed a building further away from the rest. Apparently it was some haunted house. There was a legend or something. But there was something about it that was weird. I was about to tore my gaze from it but for a moment, the Haunted house changed shape. Twice. At first it looked like a dilapidated Big House. And then, for less than a second it looked like…it looked like the House of H—I shook my head and looked again. It looked like the haunted house. Nah, it couldn't be.
I sense Nico getting the same feeling. But when I looked they were already so much ahead. I jogged to them forgetting the Haunted House.
