THRONE ROOM
When everyone is done with breakfast and everything else they do like their make up or shooting their morning arrows they all came down to the throne room. '
I'll read first" said Hera
As they were seated Thalia keeps on looking at Athena and Poseidon.
The gods were just seated quietly looking around.
"Might as well keep my eye on them" she thought.
"I accidently vaporize my pre-algebra teacher" said Hera
Hermes and Apollo snickered until artemis hit the back of their heads.
"Look I didn't want to be a half blood , if your reading this because you think you might be on my advice is close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. "
The half bloods agree , some wishing they did had a normal life.
" Being a half blood is dangerous. Its scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. If you're a normal kid reading this because you think it's fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened. But if you recognize yourself in these pages-"
" You can skip that part Hera" said Percy
Hera looked at him and turned back to the book.
"My name is Percy Jackson , I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago , I was a boarding student ay Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid?"
'Maybe" said Thalia
" Yeah . You could say that. I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth grade class took a field trip to Manhattan "
"Twenty eight mental case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus , heading to Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient greek and roman stuff . I know it sounds like torture. Most Yancy field trips were. But Mr. Brunner , our latin teacher , was leading this this trip, so I had hopes"
"Not all chirons trips aren't fun" whispered Annabeth as she leaned down to percy ear.
"Mr. Brunner was this middle aged guy in a motorized wheel chair. He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee. You wouldn't think he be cool, but he told stories and jokes and let us play games in class. He also had this awesome collection of roman armor and weapons, so he was the only teacher who class that put me to sleep"
"It sounds like a mortal Chiron" said Nico
The demi gods looked at him.
"What?" said Nico
"I hoped this trip would be ok . At least, I hoped that I wouldn't get in trouble for once. Boy , was I wrong."
" You always get in trouble man" said Grover
" Yeah I know" said percy
" See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth grade school, when we went to the Saragota battlefield I had this accident with a revolutionary war cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. And before that, at my fourth grade school, we took behind the scenes tour of the Marine World shark pool, I sort of hit the wrong lever on the catwalk and our class took an unplanned swim. And the time before that ….. well you get the idea"
"Dude no offense or anything but-" said Apollo
He was interrupted by Poseidon who gave him a stern face.
"This trip , I determined to be good. All the way into the city, I put up with Nancy Bobofits, the freckly, red headed kleptomaniac girl, hitting my best friend grover in the back of the head with a peanut butter and ketchup sandwich."
"Ew! That's gross do you know how many calories are in their?" said Aphrodite , she looked liked she was about to barf until her husband calmed her down.
" Grover was an easy target. He was scrawny. He cried when he got frustrated . he must've been held backs several grades , he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin"
"That is true" said Thalia
" HEY!" yelled Grover
As the two were arguing Nico kept a close watch on them somehow.
"On top of all that, he was crippled. He had a not excusing him from P.E. for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria. Ur knew I couldn't do anything back to her because I was already on probation. The headmaster had threatened me with death by in school suspension if anything bad , embarrassing, or even midily entertaining happened on this trip.
"I'm going to kill her" I mumbled.
Grover tried to calm me down. "It's okay. I like peanut butter "
He dodged another piece of Nancys lunch.
"That's it" I started to get up , but Grovr pulled me back to my seat."
"So Grover what was it really like with peanut butter in your hair?" asked Tyson
"Horrible" said Grover as he rubbed his head.
Everyone laughed.
"You're already on probation" He reminded me "You know who'll get blamed if anything happens.
Looking back on it, I wish I'd decked Nancy Bobofits right then and there. In school suspension would've been nothing compared to the mess I was about to get myself into.
Mr. Brunner led the museum tour. He rode up front in his wheel chair, guiding us though the big echoey galleries, past the marbel statues and glass cases full of really old black and orange pottery.
It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand years."
"Me either" said almost everyone in the room.
He gathered up around thirteen foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx on the top, and telling us how it grave marker, a stele for a girl about our age. He told about the carvings on the sides. I was trying to listen to what he had to say, because it was kind of interesting, but everybody around me was talking, and everytime I told them to shut up, the other teacher Mrs. Dodds would give me the evil eye.
Mrs. Dodds was this little math teacher from Georgia, who always wore a black leather jacket, even though she was fifty years old.
She looked mean though to ride a Harley right into your locker. She came to Yancy halfway through the year when our last teacher had a nervous breakdown
From the first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy and figured I was a devil spawn. She would point her crooked finger at me and say "Now honey" real sweet, and I knew I was going after school detention for a month. One time, after she made me erase answers out of old work books until midnight. I told Grover I didn't think Mrs. Dodds was human. He looked right at me, real serious and said "You' re absolutely right"
"She wasn't really human at all" said Grover
"Don't ruin it" said Percy
Mr. Brunner kept talking about greek funeral art.
Finally, Nancy snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and I turned aroung and said " Will you shut up?". It came out louder than I meant to.
The while group laughed. Mr. Brunner stopped his story.
'Mr. Jackson" he said "did you have a comment?"
My face was totally red. I said 'No sir"
"You look funny when you nervous" said Thalia
The others agreed.
Percy slumped down his seat a little.
"Perhaps you would like you'll tell us what this picture represents" said Mr. Brunner as he pointed to one of the pictures on the stele.
I looked at the carving and felt a flush of relief, because I actually recognized it. "That's Kronos eating his kids right?"
"Yes" Mr. Brunner said, obviously not satisfied."And he did this because…."
"Well…" I racked my brain to remember. "Kronos was the king gos and-"
"God?" asked.
"Titan" I corrected myself "And … he didn't trust his kids , who were the gods . So um Kronos ate them right? But his wife hid baby Zeus, and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead. And later, when Zeus grew up he tricked his dad into barfing his brothers and sister-"
"Eeew!" one of the girls said behind me.
"-and so there was this big fight between the gods and titans" I continued" and the gods won"
Athena never thought he was smart until now.
Aphrodite ran out of the room to the bathroom and well throw up.
Poseidon was proud his son actually knew and grinned at Athena .
Some snicker from the room.
Behind me, Nancy bobofits mumbled to a friend "Like we're going to use this in real life. Like it's going to be on our job applications "Please explain why Kronos ate his kids"
"I hate her" said Percy
Grover put his hand on his shppulder and said " Me too"
" Can we skip this chapter please?" Nico begged and begged.
"Well earlier when I was combing my hair I read a few of the chapters in the book and basically the first chapter is about how a teacher who turned out to be a fury attacked him and was saved my Chiron or Mr. Brunner and figured they should take him to camp you happy now?" said Apollo
"Thanks for the summary Apollo" Hera said as she closed the book" And since we now know what happens why don't we all take a hour break shall we?"
Everyone went out the room as usual and went off into pairs.
While the break, Thalia and Grover went off to spy on Athena and Poseidon, bringing all their gear with them.
Sorry I skipped a few parts im having a really bad headache and some back pain and the storm turned off the lights . So hope you like this chapter and I'll see you soon bye!:)