Hey guys! I'm glad I got this chapter up so quickly! Luckily, my school work has been light lately (don't expect that for long tho.. Darned AP classes!) Thanks to everyone who read the last chapter. Today, a little plot starts developing... DUN DUN DUNNN! Let's see how this goes! Without further delay, I give you Chapter 2.

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson. He belongs to Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, as well as the Heroes of Olympus series. Long story short: He's a beast!

Chapter 2

It took a few jiggles, but the door to Percy's dorm room finally opened.

The first impression this room made was not a good one for Percy. It looked like a hurricane had just passed through. There were clothes strewn all over the place, the kitchen was covered with empty food containers, and there were many questionable smells wafting about the rooms.

This can't be my room, Percy thought, my roommates are complete slobs.

"Uh, hello?" Percy let out into the dorm room.

All he heard back was silence. Well, I guess I'll set my stuff-

"Hey!"

Percy nearly jumped out of his shoes. He whirled around.

The kid standing before him was smiling jubilantly. "I'm Leo. You must be our new roommate!"

Leo was a little shorter than Percy, and had dark tan skin and very curly brown hair. His brown eyes shined bright like his smile.

"Uh, yeah. I'm Percy." Percy said, still a little shocked.

"You mean Patrick Jamestown?" He laughed. Percy raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, lighten up man. I'm in your mythology class!" Leo patted Percy on the shoulder as he walked into the dorm room.

"You should be glad we tidied up around here. It used to be sort of messy." Leo said.

Used to be messy? Then what is this?

"I'm just messing with you!" He laughed again. Percy could already tell this kid was the jokester type. "Our roommates will be around shortly, probably."

Just then two other boys walked in.

"Well if it isn't New Guy!" One of them said. Percy instantly recognized it was Grover. He walked over and gave Percy a fist bump.

"Would you look at that?" Leo exclaimed, "The whole gang is here! Percy, I can see you already know Grover, and this is Jason." He gestured to the tall, strong blonde boy next to him.

Jason eyed Percy, like he was sizing him up or something. After a few seconds he held out his hand.

"Nice to meet you." He said quickly. His tone wasn't exactly cold, but it wasn't exactly friendly either. Percy shook his hand.

With that, Percy picked up his backpack and head to his room, which happened to be Grover's room as well. The other boys plopped down on the living room couch and turned the TV on. Thankfully, his mom had dropped off his luggage here earlier and he saw it piled up next to his bed. He was, after all, going to be here a while.

His room was nice. Percy was relieved Grover kept the room at least a little bit neater than the rest of the dorm. He began putting his clothes away and making his bed.

"Oh come on!" Percy heard Leo yell from the other room. "You gotta make that pass! We're losing downs, people!"

Percy chuckled. They must be watching football.

"C'mon, defense. C'mon… INTERCEPTION!" Grover yelled happily. Percy heard a ruckus in the other room and concluded that Grover must be doing some kind of happy dance.

"NOOO!" Leo yelled.

Percy finished up unpacking and walked into the other room. "Who's playing?" he asked.

"State vs. Tech." Leo mumbled defeated with his face in his hands.

"Oh, State better be winning!" Percy said looking at the screen. Sure enough, they were up a touchdown.

"You know it!" Jason said with a smile. "Leo is literally the only kid at this school that roots for Tech. They lose this game every year to state, and he roots for them anyways." Jason shook his head at Leo in sympathy.

"They have one of the best engineering programs in the country and are the best at everything else too!" He said defiantly.

"Did we mention it's his dream school? Like he'll ever get in with his grades." Grover snickered.

Leo threw a pillow at Grover, who responded by throwing a foam football back… but it ended up hitting Jason instead. Let's just say this started a big pillow fight for the rest of the first half.

Percy may have just met them today, but he could already tell they were going to be his closest friends here at his new school. And he was okay with that, because anyone who can wield a pillow like that will be good to have on your side!

~oOo~

The restaurant was loud as Percy and his three new friends sat down at the table.

They decided to take him to The Pavilion as a sort of "welcome to your new school" celebration. And due to the big game that night, this place was crowded. Almost everybody was crowded at the bar to get a better look at the TV screens.

"I totally recommend the double bacon cheese burger deluxe," Leo told Percy while opening a menu, "It's by far the best thing this place can offer."

"No way, man. You gotta try the enchiladas. Pure heaven!" Grover's mouth was obviously watering at just mentioning it.

A few minutes of debating later, and they gave their waitress their orders.

"Looks like they're heading into the final quarter," Jason said looking at the TV screen.

State was up: 35-7. Needless to say, Leo had stopped paying attention to the game.

"Hey, guys," Percy began. There had been a question that was bugging him.

"What's up?" Grover asked, straining to take his eyes off of a steaming plate of enchiladas that just passed by.

"What's up with the name of our dorm? I mean 'Half-Blood Hall', what does that even mean?"

Percy waited for a response, but none came. The other guys looked at him with shocked expressions.

"Well? What is it?" Percy implored.

The guys quickly exchanged panicked glances. Percy searched their faces, wondering what exactly was going on. After a few seconds, they seemed to come to some kind of silent agreement.

Grover opened his mouth to speak. "A-… Food!"

Just then the waitress arrived with their dinner. The guys seemed to have a wave of relief wash over them, as they began devouring their meals probably to avoid talking to Percy.

Something strange is going on here, Percy thought, and I'll have to get to the bottom of this myself.

The rest of the night was really awkward. Percy and the guys finished up their meals and decided to head back to the room and call it a night. They all had classes bright and early in the morning.

What could this mean? Percy pondered as he sat in his bed. The room was completely dark, except for a few rays of moonlight that streamed through the window.

The way the guys freaked out and avoided my question means whatever this is… it's big. He furrowed his brow in concentration and frustration.

Half-blood… What is that? I feel like I know that word, he thought. After a few minutes, he gave in.

That's it. I need to go to a higher power for assistance… the Internet.

Percy silently slipped out of his covers, snatched up his laptop and headed for the living room.

He opened the screen, and a blue light lit up the room. Here we go.

He opened up a search browser, typed in 'Half-blood', and clicked on the first link.

His eyes scanned the page quickly. Well, as quickly as one can read with ADHD. It was all about Greek mythology. Apparently a "half-blood" is someone who is half god and half human. It seemed like a pretty strange name for a dormitory at a boarding school. More like something you would hear from some fiction novel.

Percy let out a light laugh.

No way this dormitory has anything to do with half-bloods, Percy thought to himself.

I mean, Greek mythology doesn't even exist…..

Right?

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