I own nothing, except my own characters. (Occidunt is Latin for kill.)
The thirteen teenagers walked to Greek class; actually, Percy, Travis, and Connor raced ahead. Everyone arrived. There were maybe five other people in the class. The class began talking when the teacher walked in She was a short woman, about five feet, with blond hair, and beady black eyes. She had glasses and a gold necklace. She adjusted her glasses. "Good afternoon, class. My name is Mrs. Occidunt. I shall now call role. Victoria Amerigo?"
"Here."
Nicolas di Angelo."
"I go by Nico."
"Annabeth Chase."
"Here."
Mrs. Occidunt said, "You have a lovely name, but may I call you Annie."
Nico stood up, "I go by Nico."
Annabeth said, "Please don't call me Annie."
The teacher ignored them and called role. She said, "Katharine Gardner."
Katie raised her hand, "I go by Katie."
The teacher ignored her and called role. Finally, she said, "Perseus Jackson."
Percy had fallen asleep. Morgan nudged him. He gasped and reached for his pocket. Annabeth noticed that Morgan reached behind her ear. The two siblings looked at each other.
"Wendora Pan." The boys laughed.
"It's Wendy, please."
"Here."
"Marcus Mark."
"Here." A blond boy said. He smiled at Wendy, and she ducked her head. Annabeth noticed he looked like that girl that insulted her and Wendy earlier in English.
"Piper Mc-."
"Here."
The teacher, clearly annoyed by Piper interrupting, kept reading the names off. "Malcolm Shrew."
"Here."
"William Solace and Morgaine Sorcellerie."
"Uh, I go by Will." He said.
"I go by Morgan or le Fay."
The teacher looked at her like she was insane. "You named yourself after one of the nastiest witches in the magic cultures?"
Morgan shrugged, "Ti t'nseod rettam ot em." Malcolm thought for moment then wrote 'It doesn't matter to me' on a piece of paper. He showed it to Morgan, and she nodded.
The teacher ignored her comment. "Travis and Connor Stoll and Leo Valdez. Which is which?"
"I'm Travis," Connor said.
"I'm Connor," Travis said.
"I'm Leo." Leo said
Mrs. Occidunt said, "Now, I'd like to tell you that in this class, I will refer to you by your last name. Now, in this class we shall lean many things. We will learn how to speak simple Greek. Also, we will learn about the culture and religion. I want you all to write all you know about Greece in ten minutes. Begin."
They all started working. Malcolm decided to start a conversation with Morgan. "How do you like Occidunt?"
She muttered, "S'okay."
"So, do you like Greek mythology?"
"Yeah, I guess. It comes easy for me."
"Same here. Uh, you're named after Morgaine le Fay, right?"
Morgan flinched at her real name, but said, "Yeah."
"You like magic?"
"Yeah."
"Can you do magic?"
"Yeah."
"Are you any good?"
She looked at him and smiled. "Define good."
A few minutes later, Mrs. Occidunt said, "Malcolm do you mind if a borrow Morgaine for a second."
The two teenagers had been having a debate about Oedipus Rex and Antigone. Morgan got up and followed the teacher into the hallway. Travis sing-songed, "Somebody's in trouble. Somebody's in trouble." Then, Katie hit him.
Morgan leaned up against the wall as the teacher shut the door. They stared at each other for a few minutes. Morgan rolled her eyes. "Is this the part where I ask what I did wrong? That's funny, because, you're the one who still needs to apologize, Mother."
"My beautiful little Fay, I've missed you. I'm so sorry, my Canary de la Mer."
Meanwhile…
There was a faint growling noise. All the demigods grabbed their weapons. They walked over to the windows. There were six hellhounds outside, waiting for the demigods. The ten demigods were about to climb out since the room was on the first floor. Wendy grabbed Katie's arm, "Are you insane? Those things will tear you guys apart." Victoria and Marcus stood behind her.
Malcolm was confused, "You can see them like that?"
Marcus laughed, "No, they look like poodles. Of course, we see them."
One of the random people in back said, "But they are poodles."
Percy snickered, "I'm starting to see a pattern."
Marcus and Victoria were confused, but Wendy was deep in thought. "Those guys on the subway… Marcus, I told you they had swords."
Marcus rolled his eyes, "I still find it ironic you saw those guys with the "freaky tattoos" when I was telling you about the City of Bones."
"Freaky tattoos?" Annabeth asked.
"She had had too much sugar and-"
"No, I didn't." Wendy thought for a second. "Maybe I did, but I saw them. They had barcodes or…" She looked at Percy's arm. She walked over and rolled his sleeve all the way up. "Like that." Wendy quickly grabbed the nearest person's arm and rolled up the sleeve. She sighed in relief when Malcolm didn't have one.
Marcus stared at the trident on Percy's arm. "What… What are you?"
The hellhounds howled. The half-bloods ran outside. The Stoll took one. Katie and Will took the second one. Leo and Piper got the third one. Nico and Malcolm took four. Percy and Annabeth fought the last two. Victoria was horrified they were fighting these poor creatures. Wendy and Marcus were enjoying watching them fight the demon dogs.
Morgan and Occidunt came back in. Morgan walked over and put her head on Wendy's shoulder. "I see the hellhounds showed up."
"You know what those things are?"
She nodded and started crying.
The other came back inside. Percy noticed her sister crying. He ran to her, "Are you okay? Did Occidunt hurt you?"
Their teacher laughed from behind her desk. "You have no faith in me, savior of Olympus?" Everyone was confused. How did she know? "Well, what are you waiting for? A theme song? Get them to camp."
They ran to the door. Annabeth, the last one out, turned around when she closed the door. The last thing she saw was the teacher snapping her fingers and starting a lesson. The teenagers ran to the parking lot. Percy, Annabeth, Morgan, Will, and Nico got in Percy's car. The Stolls, Katie, Wendy, and Marcus got in Travis/Connor's car. Everyone else got in Piper/Leo's car.
Percy's car was in the lead. Percy and Annabeth kept glancing at Morgan. She pressed her head against the window. Will put her arm her, not in a flirting way Percy hoped. Will leaned over and whispered in her ear. "You can trust us, you know that."
Morgan turned toward him. "I hope," She said just loud enough to hear.
In with the Stoll, the conversion was not going well.
"Wait, you mean all those myths are real?"
"Well, yeah," Katie said from the passenger seat. Connor was mad she got to ride up front with Travis.
"This is a lot to take in. I'm a demigod? Me? Wendy Pan, a demigod?"
Marcus glanced at the three half-bloods, "Demigods," he mused. "Sure, why not?"
And the plot thickens, as they say. I'm telling you in advance that Morgan knows all about demigods and that stuff. The conversation between her and her mother is going to be in flashbacks in the next few chapters. It is an important part of the story.
And for you smart people try and figure out the parentage of my characters. I tried to give you guys the most obvious clues.
-Kassie
