Chapter 5: I manage to piss off a thunderstorm
Heath and Annabeth made their way to the last of the day, Greek Mythology/History. It was located naturally at the amphitheater.
Nearly half the camp was there, waiting for Chiron, at the center, to begin.
Heath sat down next to Annabeth, and it felt as if he was sitting on a cushion. His blonde hair reached down to his shoulder at a length both boys and girls sometimes wore it.
THUMP. THUMP. Chiron rapped his hoof on the amphitheater floor, silencing everything else.
"Today class, we will be learning about the seer Tiresias."
Chiron began pacing around the stage, and everyone paid rapt attention.
"The thing Tiresias is most remembered for is his curse by the gods to spend seven years as a woman. Why, you might ask."
'One day Tiresias was traveling and came across two serpents in passionate embrace. He struck the female serpent. This was his mistake, for the serpents turned out to be Zeus and Hera. Hera cursed Tiresias, transforming him into a woman. Can anybody tell us another example of gender transformation being used as a divne punishment?"
Hands shot up around the amphitheater.
"Yes, Micheal," Chiron said to a son of Hermes.
"Aphrodite transformed some Scythian looters of one of her temples into women." Michael answered.
"Yes," Chiron said, "Anybody else."
One of the Aphrodite campers raised her hand.
"Yes Rebecca?"
"Artemis once changed a boy named Siporites when caught her bathing."
Chiron nodded. "She was lucky not to wind up like Actaeon."
'After Tiresias was transformed, she became a woman of repute, even giving birth to children. After seven years had passed, she walked the mountain trail where she had transformed."
'Once more, there were a pair of snakes. This time, Tiresias struck the male serpent. Tiresias was transformed back into a man. The snakes became Zeus and Hera, and Tiresias was posed a question. 'Who gets more pleasure?'"
'He replied, 'The woman has thirty times as much pleasure as a man.' In anger, Hera blinded him. Zeus could not undo his wife's curse, but gave Tiresias a life as long as seven men, and the gift of prophecy. It was Tiresias who warned Oedipus against searching for his parents, and when Odysseus visited the Underworld, Tiresias recognized him."
And that was the end of class. When Heath got up, he felt weird, walking with a sway to his hips.
The pieces were falling into place. The long hair, his flabby chest, the only clothes that fit were a girl's. Even his feelings toward boys was suspect. He was turning into a girl.
He ran to catch up to Annabeth.
"Annabeth," he said.
Annabeth turned, and did a double take. "What's up Heath?"
"I'm turning into a girl, aren't I."
Annabeth stopped, and nodded. "It was on your camper sheet. Artemis explained things to Chiron when you arrived. She told us to help you adjust to being a girl as much as possible."
"I guess you should call me Heather then." Heather said with a slight chuckle, trying to make light the situation.
The skies turned dark.
A smell of ozone filled the air. Annabeth stared a her. "Heather, where did you get that shirt?"
He looked down at his black daft punk t-shirt.
"I borrowed it from a dresser in my cabin. Nothing else would fit."
"Move." Annabeth said. "Now."
Heather quickly dodged left.
In the spot where she had been standing was charred grass, and a blinding flash of lightning.
"You! Boy! What do you think you're doing wearing my shirt!"
Down the hill from the Big House, almost hovering a few inches off the ground, and sparking with electricity, was the girl from his dream, Thalia.
A/N: Oh No, Thalia's here!
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