Percy Jackson: High School Life Chapter 2

This is in Artemis' Point of View.

The sun peeks through my window, shining towards my face. I stretched my arms wide and yawned. The clock caught my gaze as it shows 5:00 AM. Rise and shine Artemis, it's time to train. I thought to myself.

I got up my bed and walked towards my wardrobe. I chose my favorite training outfit then quickly changed into it. As I ran downstairs, the beautiful melody of my brother's lyre and the sweet aroma of his pancakes filled the room. "Mm... That smells delicious." I complimented.

"Of course, sis, my music makes the food better." my brother stated. Apollo is the name of my twin brother, he always wakes up before me and he always makes my breakfast. He is also really great in poetry (NOT!) and playing his lyre.

After a few minutes of eating, I rushed towards the basement. I took my bow and quiver filled with arrows and started shooting targets.

Thump!

One.

Thump!

Two.

Thump!

Three.

Three bulls eyes in a row. After an hour of training my brother came and brought me a glass of water. "Here, you look thirsty." My brother said. "Thanks." I thanked him. "No problem." He replied.

After finishing my glass of water, I immediately ran towards the bathroom. I took a warm shower since I was dripping wet, covered in sweat.

After I took a shower, I changed into my silver skirt and silver jacket and my favorite boots.

"Artemis! Hurry up!" my brother yelled. "I'm coming!" I shouted back. I swiftly ran down the stairs to the garage, locking the door while I was on it. I quickly jumped on the shotgun seat.

"How about some music, sis?" Apollo asked me. "Sure." I replied. He turned on the radio then scrolled down until he found some classical music.

I stared at the screen. "Seriously Apollo?" I asked. "You know I love annoying you." he replied with a grin.

"Ugh."

Even though we shared the same blood, sometimes I just want to shoot an arrow through his head.

The car ride was pretty long since we live pretty far from school.

As soon as we entered the school, Apollo shouted from the top of his lungs, "Daddy's back baby!"

I just ignored my brother and walked towards my new locker. As I reached my locker, I saw my best friend Clarisse running towards me screaming, "Artemis!"

"Clarisse!" I yelled back.

We both hugged and talked about our summer. "I didn't really do much but train." I replied. "Well I-" Clarisse was interrupted by the bell. "I'll see you around, Artemis!" she said, waving back at me before walking away.

I took in as much air as I could as I grabbed the doorknob. I've been running around for quite some time now, and I've just found the room right now. Once I opened the door, I strolled in.

When I saw who our 'teacher' was I scowled. Dionysus was our adviser?!

"—is introduce to you our new student. Let us all welcome Artemis, and yada, yada."

I just came in at the right moment then. Hooray, I guess?

I slowly walked to the center to start my introduction. "…Hello." I started hesitantly. "My name is Artemis. I'm fifteen years old. I… I have a brother here—"

I saw someone shoot up from his chair. "I'm her brother and I—"

I glared at Apollo. He was here before me?! I made up an excuse for glaring at him in front of my 'classmates'. "Quiet, Apollo. Don't humiliate me." I hissed at him.

He just responded with, "Aw, come on sis, you know you love me."

"In a brotherly way," I snapped, "Now shut up."

"Make me." said Apollo with a cheeky smile.

"Oh I will. You want an arrow up your a—?!"

"Language, sis!"

After that exclamation, Apollo sat back down, leaving me to finish my introduction. I didn't really say much though; I just repeated what I said earlier, except stressing on the word 'brother' while glaring at the said person.

I then proceeded to walk towards a vacant seat in the front. While I was doing so, I saw someone smirking from the corner of my eye. I turned my head slightly to see a buy with raven-colored hair in a chicken hairstyle. He was wearing a tattered gray shirt with a white wolf head printed on the front, dark blue jeans with holes on the knee areas, black socks, black sneakers and a black jacket.

I glared at him, silently telling him to stop staring at me before sitting down and looking at Dionysus. He seemed to grin when I did so.

"Now class, I will be leaving now. Those who will be going to another class, you may leave now. Those who will have a class here, you may stay." he told us before putting his hand behind his back. There was a dim flash before he looked at me. "Oh and Artemis, here is your schedule."

He gave me a piece of paper containing the subjects I was going to be in or in shorter words, my schedule.

7:00 – 7:30 Homeroom

7:30 – 8:30 Science

8:30 – 9:30 Elective English

9:30 – 10:00 Recess

10:00 – 11:00 Humanities

11:00 – 12:00 English

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:20 Mathematics

2:20 – 3:20 Computer

3:20 – 4:30 History

4:30 Dismissal

Once I read it, I glanced at the clock. 7:30. I looked at Dionysus who was still standing there. "Um… S-Sir Dionysus, where is the Science room?" I asked him, mentally cursing myself for even agreeing to the plan.

Dionysus's grin widened. "Apollo will show you. He's heading there right now."

That was all he needed to say before the said person was next to me. "Let's go, sis!" he said as he dragged me across the hall, other student glancing at us. They were probably thinking about how weird my brother is… or something like that.

"…And, we're here!"

"Finally." I grumbled as he let go of my arm. I rubbed my arm afterwards. "So, this is the Science room?" I asked Apollo.

He nodded with a grin before ushering me inside. I looked around once I entered the room. There were a couple of gray tables for activities in front of a blackboard. There were two chairs each for every table and my best bet was that there would be partners in the subject.

I spotted a very familiar person light brown-colored hair sitting on one of the chairs in the room, making me grin widely. "Clarisse!" I called out to her in an average tone, making sure she could hear me and at the same time, not sounding like I was shouting.

Said person turned around and grinned back. "Artemis! What a pleasant surprise!" she exclaimed, walking towards me. "You're having Science as your first subject too?"

"Of course she is." My annoying brother intervened. "And you know, Science is my first subject too." he told Clarisse while grinning brightly at her. It was quite obvious that he was flirting with her. Ugh.

"Sorry," Clarisse glared at him. "I'm not interested."

"But—"

"I'm not interested. Now, go before I kick you in the place where the sun doesn't shine."

I saw Apollo wince at the thought of being kicked there before he scurried away. "A-hole." I heard Clarisse mutter under a breath. I rolled my eyes, agreeing with her. "Tell me about it."

We then sat on the nearest pair of chairs before chatting away. It didn't take long before the teacher strolled in. She seemed to be standing at about 5'7. She was wearing a dark blue button-up blouse with a collar that seemed to be connected with her skirt that was the same color as her top. She was also wearing black flats. She had black hair that flowed smoothly until her lower back. She had piercing brown eyes that would rival a furious cat's and the fact that she wore glasses did not help.

The woman walked up to the front of the room before placing her things on the teacher's desk.

"I am Ms. Judy Dellfire. You may call me Ms. Judy. Welcome to Science class students." she said, nodding slightly. "Since today is our very first meeting, we will me merely having our orientation. I will be announcing the lab partners for this school year, meaning you and your partner will be stuck together until the end of the second semester." she paused, letting the information sink in.

I glanced at Clarisse to see her staring at the teacher as if saying, 'Are you serious?'

The teacher, Ms. Judy then yanked out a list from her leather bag before looking at the class. I gulped nervously. She then started reading the list.

"I will now me announcing the lab partners. Clarisse La Rue, you will be with Evan Turk,"

Clarisse looked horrified beyond belief. "What's wrong?" I whispered to her. "Evan's green minded. He can make every word in the universe an innuendo. Hell, he can even make people's names into one!" she whispered back.

I was disgusted, no, beyond that. How can someone make people's names into innuendos?

"Apollo Vélos, you will be with Aphrodite de Beauté,"

I could see Apollo with an ear-splitting grin on his face from the corner of my eye. Clarrise shook her head slowly. "Your brother's not going to last long with her."

"Hermes Angeliofóros, you will be with Amelia Taylor,"

Wait, Hermes was here? I looked around the room to see Hermes sitting next to Apollo. Oh. I should've known. But who was this 'Amelia' person? And why did Hermes have to pick that name of all names?

"Athena Sofós, you will be with Ares Pólemo,"

My eyebrows shot up. Athena was with Ares? This wasn't going to be good and— Wait, why are they picking names that would easily give them away? Athena should know this of all people, yet she picks 'Wise'.

"Demeter Siti̱ró̱n, you will be with Antonio Hayn,"

Demeter was here as well? I was starting to think that all of… them, where here. Our very presence in one room could be the doom of all.

"Hera Gámos, you will be with Hephaestus Siderás,"

Oh no. Now that's a dangerous one. I'm not sure if they will be able to even plan a project when the time comes. But, if they put their hatred towards each other aside, they will be able to easily build the best project in the class, no doubt about that.

"Hestia Estia, you will be with Harris Gunter."

My eyes widened momentarily. Hestia was here too? I can't help but feel like Hestia and Harris are going to be great partners and I meant that to be scientifically.

"I have a feeling this is going to be an exciting school year." said Clarisse wistfully. I nodded in agreement with her. Then, she looked confused. "Artemis," I looked at her questioningly. "Didn't you notice? You weren't mentioned."

She was right. I never noticed that until now. Why wasn't I mentioned? I felt somewhat offended that the teacher forgot about me. I didn't dare speak up against her, as I didn't want to cause trouble and I didn't want my brother teasing me repeatedly about me getting in trouble in the first day of the school year.

"You should tell Ms. Judy." Clarisse suggested warily. Even she looked like she didn't want to speak up against the teacher. My usually strong and brave best friend looked as if she was going to fall down a cliff with spikes below her right now, and I couldn't blame her.

I was so focused on Clarisse I didn't hear Ms. Judy calling my name until Clarisse told me to listen to our Science teacher. Then, I heard something that left me staring at Ms. Judy for a couple of seconds.

"Artemis Vélos, your partner will be Percy Jackson." I heard her say. Oh Hades…