I didn't know what they were talking about. All I knew was that I was in trouble again.
As soon as Mrs. Dodds was sure poor little Nancy was okay, promising to get her a new shirt at the museum gift shop, etc., etc., Mrs. Dodds turned to me. There was a triumphant fire in her eyes, as if I'd done something she been waiting all semester.
Hades: Yea, my fu.. Then he covered his mouth.
Poseidon: What did you say Hades? Glaring at him.
Hades: *sighs* I said Fury.
Poseidon: Why?! He yelled tackling Hades in the process. It took Hephaestus, Zeus, Apollo, and Hermes to take Poseidon off of Hades.
Ares was very disappointed of the short fight, he was betting in his head, who was going to win.
The demigods stayed away from Poseidon except Percy.
But the Heroes and Kronos wasn't that shocked.
"Now, Honey-"
"I know," I grumbled. "A month erasing workbooks."
Hermes: That wasn't the right thing to say.
That wasn't the right thing to say.
Thalia: Oh No! Hermes your infected.
Hermes: What!? Running around in circles crying he got "infected"
Nico: With PDS.
Annabeth: Let me guess… Percy Down syndrome.
Percy: What the heck! What did I do?
Thalia: Nothing. Hermes you can sit back down, you don't really have it.
Hermes: Oh. Then he sat back down.
"Come with me," Mrs. Dodds said.
"Wait!" Grover yelped. "It was me. I pushed her.
Hestia: So Loyal. Everyone jumped, they didn't know she was here.
I stared at him, stunned. I couldn't believe he was trying to cover for me. Mrs. Dodds scared Grover to death.
She glared at him so hard, his whiskery chin trembled.
"I don't think so, Mr. Underwood," she said.
"But-'
"You-will-stay-here."
Grover looked at me desperately.
"It's okay, man," I told him. "Thanks for trying."
"Honey," Mrs. Dodds barked at me. "Now."
Nancy smirked at me.
I gave her my deluxe I'll-kill-you-later stare.
Ares: My stare is WAY better. Ares did his stare and all the Gods and goddesses shivered. Percy did his stare and Kronos even coward in fear. The heroes of old even shivered at Percy's stare. Percy just smirked.
Then I turned to face Mrs. Dodds, but she wasn't there. She was standing at the museum entrance, way at the top of the steps, gesturing impatiently at me to come on. How'd she get so fast? I have my moments like that a lot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing you know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it. The school counselor told me this was part of the ADHD, my brain misinterpreting things.
I wasn't so sure.
I went after Mrs. Dodds.
Halfway up the steps, I glanced at Grover. He was looking pale, cutting his eyes between me and Mr. Brunner, like he wanted Mr. Brunner to notice what was going
on, but Mr. Brunner was absorbed in his novel.
Poseidon: Chiron better get his horse ass up and…
Percy: Chiron knows when the time is right.
I looked back up. Mrs. Dodds had disappeared again.
She was now inside the building, at the end of the entrance hall.
Okay, I thought. She's going to make me buy a new shirt for Nancy at the gift shop.
But apparently that wasn't the plan.
Poseidon: Of course it wasn't.
I followed her deeper into the museum. When I finally caught up to her, we were back in the Greek and Roman section.
Except for us, the gallery was empty.
Mrs. Dodds stood with her arms crossed in front of a big marble frieze of the Greek gods. She was making this weird noise in her throat, like growling.
Growling?
All the Heroes of the past looked at each other.
Even without the noise, I would've been nervous. It's weird being alone with a teacher, especially Mrs. Dodds. Something about the way she looked at the frieze, as if she wanted to pulverize it…
"You've been giving us problems, honey," she said.
I did the safe thing. I said, "Yes, ma'am."
She tugged on the cuffs of her jacket. "Did you really think you would get away with it?" The look in her eyes was beyond mad. It was evil.
She's a teacher, I thought nervously. It's not like she's going to hurt me.
I said, "I'll-I'll try harder, ma'am."
Thunder shook the building.
Perseus: Dad must be thinking something else.
"We are not fools, Percy Jackson," Mrs. Dodds said. "It was only a matter of time before we found you out. Confess, and you will suffer less pain."
I didn't know what she was talking about.
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorm room.
Hermes: Illegal?! I love this kid, Poseidon. Good kid you have here.
Poseidon: If you are thinking of taking my son, on a joyride to steal anything for you, I swear I will kill you, Very slowly in my underwater dungeon, do you hear me clearly?
Hermes: Yes, Sir!
He then kept reading.
Or maybe they'd realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the internet without reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they make me read the book.
Annabeth: You know what, I should make you read the book, but in Greek, so you can understand it better.
Percy groaned.
"Well?' she demanded.
"Ma'am, I don't…"
"Your time is up," she hissed.
Then the weirdest thing happened. Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her Jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn't human.
Nico: No shit Sherlock.
Percy glared at him.
Let just say that Nico need a new pair pants.
She was a shriveled hag with bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me to ribbons. Things got even stranger.
Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute before, wheeled his chair into the doorway of the gallery, holding a pen in his hand.
Theseus: A PEN!? What the Fuck! What the Hell is a motherf**king pen gonna do!
Percy: A lot of things, Theseus. Don't worry im still here.
Theseus was worried about his brother that he just meet an hour ago.
"What ho, Percy!" he shouted, tossed the pen through the air.
Mrs. Dodds lunged at me.
With a yelp, I dodged and talons slash the air next to my ear.
Everyone was worried about Perseus, especially Theseus.
I snatched the ballpoint pen out of the air, but when it hit my hand, it wasn't a pen anymore. It was a sword-Mr. Brunner's bronze sword, which he always used on tournament day.
Theseus was relieved that Percy had a weapon.
Kronos: How is this Perseus' life?
Poseidon: No this is about my son, Percy.
Perseus: My name is your name.
Percy: Yep, my Mom named me after you because, you had a perfect ending.
Perseus: Oh.
Mrs. Dodds spun towards me with a murderous look in her eyes.
My knees were jelly. My hands were shaking so bad I almost dropped the sword.
Ares: Don't drop the sword!
Poseidon: You want my son to not die?
Ares: No, I just want some fucking action, duh!
Poseidon rolled his eyes.
She snarled, "Die, Honey!'
Thalia: Come on stop with the Honey already!
And she flew straight at me.
Absolute terror ran through my body. I did the only thing that came naturally: I swung the sword.
The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed clean through her body…
Everyone cheered of him.
As if she was made out of water.
Annabeth: A Water simile.
Percy: I thought it was a metaphor.
Annabeth: No, A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid like an example of passed clean through her body AS if she was made out of water. You use like or as to compare two things.
Poseidon was sleeping, Apollo passed out, Athena was Happy that her daughter was very smart. And Percy was writing down the definition, but went to sleep.
" I'll read for Poseidon." Artemis said.
Hisss!
Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan. She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air, as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching me.
I was alone.
There was a ballpoint pen in my hand.
Mr. Brunner wasn't there. Nobody was there but me. My hands were still trembling. My lunch must've been contaminated with magic mushrooms or some- thing.
Had I imagined the whole thing?
I went back outside.
It had started to rain.
Grover was sitting by fountain, a museum map tented over his head. Nancy Bobofit was still standing there, soaked from her swim in the in the fountain, grumbling to her ugly friends. When she saw me, she said, "I hope Mrs. Kerr whipped your butt."
"Who?" Theseus and Orion said.
I said, "Who?"
Theseus and Orion smiled.
"Our teacher. Duh!"
I blinked. We had no teacher named Mrs. Kerr. I asked Nancy what she was talking about. She just rolled her eyes and turned away. I asked Grover where Mrs. Dodds was. He said, "Who?" But he paused first, and he wouldn't look at me, so I thought he was messing with me. "Not funny, man," I told him. "This is serious." Thunder boomed overhead.
Hades: Looks like Zeus agrees.
Demeter: Wow, you said something smart.
Hades: Well, I least I don't rant about how Cereal is good for you, like a addict.
Demeter: What did you just…
Zeus boomed, "BE QUIET!"
Artemis continued.
I saw Mr. Brunner sitting under his red umbrella, reading his book, as if he'd never moved. I went over to him. He looked up, a little distracted. "Ah, that would be my pen. Please bring your own writing utensil in the future, Mr. Jackson." I handed Mr. Brunner his pen. I hadn't even realized I was still holding it. "Sir," I said, "where's Mrs. Dodds?' he stared at me blankly. "Who?" "the other chaperone. Mrs. Dodds. The pre-algebra teacher.' he frowned and sat forward, looking mildly concerned. "Percy, there is no Mrs. Dodds on this trip. As far as I know, there has never been a Mrs. Dodds at Yancy Academy. Are you feeling alright?"
Apollo: Finally we are finished, with the first Chapter.
Hermes: I know right, excuse me, I have to go mail some letters.
Artemis: I have to go to my Hunters. Come on Thalia.
Thalia: Okay, see you guys tomorrow.
Demigods except heroes: bye!
Athena: Now, you guys can be flashed back to Camp Half Blood.
And then All the demigods were flashed back. Theseus, Orion, Perseus, Achilles and Kronos stayed at mount Olympus.
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