A/N Hey, I am back. I loved all your views and even found one of my faults in the last chapter. The weaver comment. Why everyone was laughing when they found Penelope means weaver and why Andrew was blushing?
I didn't realize you may not know the fact but Athena is also the goddess of weaving. And like the sons of Poseidon and water, the Kids of Athena are also pretty good with weaving. So can Andrew/Annabeth, whichever version you choose. It was seen in the Mark of Athena. By the way, I should have written a spoiler alert before all this, but well no problem, I guess.
Back to the topic, so now I think you will get why they laughed. Kind of a match made on a weaving machine. Bad joke? Hopefully, they will not make you unfavourite this story. I promise I won't make more, Not that I have many, But still...
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CHAPTER 6: Vapourizing teacher part 2.
Andrew's pov
I started to read
As soon as Mrs. Dodds was sure poor Nathan was okay, promising to get some candies and Chocolate from the museum gift shop, etc., etc., Mrs. Dodds turned on me.
I glared at the book when she talked about that idiot Nathan came. " Wimp! " Lord Ares grunted.
There was a triumphant fire in her eyes, as if I'd done something she'd been waiting for all semester. "Now, honey—"
"That honey thing is creepy. " Lord Hermes shifted. " Does she still do it? " Grover asked Nico quietly. " Yeah, She does it. And it is still creepy. I could never get used to it. " Nico muttered back so that no one could listen. I laughed silently.
"I know," I grumbled. "A month erasing workbooks."
"NOOOO... " Stolls shouted. " That is rule seven of the book ' how to become an excellent thief ' written by Lord Hermes," Travis exclaimed. " You should never guess your punishment. " Conner said shaking his head wisely.
Lord Hermes looked proud until Lady Artemis busted his bubble" I am impressed. Hermes wrote a book. He knows how to write? Not possible, in my opinion." Lord Hermes glared at her.
That wasn't the right thing to say.
" That is our Percy. " Travis faked a tear," Anyone will think of her as a daughter of Hermes hasn't Lord Poseidon claimed her. " Lord Poseidon threw a ferocious glare at Lord Hermes at which he gulped while Sally sighed. Poor Sally. I wished I could tell her that Percy being adopted by the Hermes cabin will be the least of her worries. Then I look at baby Percy and my mind started thinking about my Percy. Is she all right? What if she... I couldn't finish the thought because it was too painful to even think about my life without her. It was like she was my soul, without which I could never survive much less live a day.
Piper nudged me bringing me out of my thought to see everyone was looking at me to continue.
"Come with me," Mrs. Dodds said.
"Wait!" Grover yelped. "It was me. I pushed her."
" You are very brave, Grover. "Lord Pan nodded his head in approval. Reyna, Hazel and Frank looked at Grover as if he has grown another head. Jason muttered something to them and they relented.
I stared at him, stunned. I couldn't believe he was trying to cover for me. Mrs. Dodds scared Grover to death.
Pan, Thalia and I glared at the book.
She glared at him so hard his whiskery chin trembled.
"Awesome. Can you do it for us?" Conner exclaimed. Grover glared at the brothers and they shut up.
"I don't think so, Mr. Underwood," she said.
"But—"
"You—will—stay—here."
Grover looked at me desperately.
"It's okay, Grov," I told him. "Thanks for trying."
"Honey," Mrs. Dodds barked at me. "Now."
Nathan Bobofit smirked.
I wanted to punch that boy.
I gave him my deluxe I'll-kill-you-later stare.
We all shivered. " You should know she gets her stares from both parents. Sally and Lord Poseidon both are scary when they want to be. "I stated. Now it was Gods' and the older demigods' turn to shiver. They knew the wrath of the sea was not something anyone wanted on his head. Lord Poseidon looked smug at my announcement while Sally rolled her eyes.
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.
" Holy Zeus! She is her first monster! " Thalia exclaimed. "Duh! " Nico retorted.
"Wait, how did you know, unless... " " Unless her first monster was uuufff. " " a secret 'until' you read further." Nico completed Jason's sentence as he covered Jason's mouth with his hands. Jason glared at Nico.
How'd she get there so fast?
" Because she is a monster! " Sally exclaimed, worried for her daughter.
I have moments like that a lot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I 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.
" The counsellor says that because they are either monsters or ignorant mortals," I repeated, remembering what I told Percy the first time we met.
I wasn't so sure.
"Then don't go after her. " Lord Triton said with genuine worry in his voice.
I went after Mrs. Dodds.
Several people groaned.
Halfway up the steps, I glanced back 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.
" Umm What is a novel? " Athena asked confused. "And before you answer I have a few more questions First what is a museum gift shop, candies, semester, a workbook, and how can you erase them, counsellor and ADHD ?"
"Man, and I thought the goddess of Knowledge would know everything," Travis muttered next to me. " She will know everything of this century not about something that will be formed several thousands of years later. You loon. " I chided him.
My mother glared at him and then turned towards the ball. " To answer your first question, the novel is a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism." It showed a few famous novels like Harry potter, Sherlock Holmes etc. " The ones you are reading is also a novel. The answers to your second question are in the sequence you asked for. "
It changed and showed Met's gift shop with several candies, t-shirts, toys and other advertising items.
The word Candies came up and it showed some packets of Candies along with an ad for gummy bears with a mother saying so sweet a kid wishes for more. Many of us were drooling at the pictures. " I want Candies too. " Lord Hermes and Lord Apollo shouted.
" I am sorry Lord Apollo and Lord Hermes. I can only show you things, not present them to you." The aforementioned groaned.
"Third Semester. It is a half-year term in an educational institution, typically lasting for fifteen to eighteen weeks. " The ball stated, then showed a school with students entering for a new semester.
"Workbooks in the American education system are textbooks issued to students. Workbooks are usually filled with practice problems, where the answers can be written directly in the book. " It showed a book filled with questions and answers. " I believe now you will understand Lady Athena what she meant by erasing the notebook. "
"Counselor is a person trained to give guidance on personal or psychological problems." " Why would my daughter need a Counselor? " " The answer to your question is in my next answer. ADHD is a chronic condition marked by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and sometimes impulsivity." " Wait for a second, Why Percy has ADHD? " " It is given in the book, sir," I told Lord Poseidon when the ball was unable to answer the question.
" Last question. Why was Chiron not paying attention to my daughter? "Poseidon turned to Chiron for the answer. He shifted in his seat. " I believe I must have had a genuine reason for that which only my future person could know. " Lord Poseidon accepted the answer and waved at me to read.
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 Candies for Nathan at the gift shop.
" I doubt that! " Nico gulped and shifted in his seat.
But apparently, that wasn't the plan.
I followed her deeper into the museum. When I finally caught up to her, we were back in the Greek and Roman section.
" Oh, the irony. " Jason muttered.
Except for us, the gallery was empty.
" Wow, she is good at being bad. No witnesses. " Piper looked impressed. " Oh, you don't even have a clue. " Nico frowned. Now even Persephone looked worriedly at Nico.
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.
" For Dad's sake, Just see the signs. She is a monster. How more oblivious this girl can get ?" Thalia exclaimed. " Ask me that question ?" Thalia snorted. Every one other than us demigods looked confused but let it slide. That was when a thought occurred to me. What will happen when Posiedon will find out about Percy and I 's relationship? I gulped.
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...
Many of us groaned. "Seriously! This is the 'first daughter of Poseidon. The strongest girl, alive. Blah blah blah... I doubt she has a brain in her head. "Hercules laughed only to get a glare from several of us.
"You've been giving us problems, honey," she said.
I did the safe thing.
The Sea family released their breath.
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
" Did I hear correctly? She is polite! And that to a monster? " Will blinked surprised. " Yeah, she loves to do things differently. " I laughed.
She tugged on the cuffs of her leather jacket. "Did you really think you would get away with it?"
" Get away with what? " Lord Hades asked confused.
The look in her eyes was beyond mad. It was evil.
" Of course... " " Thalia, she didn't know about the Greek world. Cut her some slack. " I groaned.
She's a teacher, I thought nervously. It's not like she's going to hurt me.
Nico winced while Sally looked worried.
I said, "I'll—I'll try harder, ma'am."
Thunder shook the building.
" Seems like Farther agrees. " Hermes joked trying to diffuse the tension. Not that it worked.
"We are not fools, Penelope 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.
" Neither do we, Percy, neither do we." Sally sighed.
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.
" Awesome! I wish her to be my daughter. " Hermes cried.
Or maybe they'd realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.
" Tom Sawyer is a novel. " I told my mother, " which I made her read even after all the objections. " I smiled remembering all the time I cuddled and kissed her when we read it. I stopped dreaming when Lord Poseidon and Lady Amphitrite narrowed their eyes at me.
"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. 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.
" Holy Father! It is Alecto! " Hazel's eyes widened. Lord Poseidon looked murderous and angry at the same time while Lord Hades shifted in his seat uncomfortably. Lord Poseidon turned towards his elder brother and looked him dead in the eye. He asked silently, which felt more like the silence before the storm " Why did you send one of your minions after my first demigod daughter even before she knew about this world ?" " Lord Poseidon," I jumped in to save both Nico's and Lord Hades's hides," I think It was not Lord. Hades's fault. " " Yeah, He was actually misled. " Grover finished. Now it was Lord Hades's turn to glare. " You think I am fool enough to be misled." His eyes twitched at that while Grover cowered in fear. " You will find about it in the book. " I stated calmly.
Then things got even stranger.
" How can they go even stranger? " Perseus asked confused.
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 simple green hair clip in his hand. It was strange for a male professor to have such a girly clip. Ugh bloody ADHD.
We sighed in relief. That clip was a lifesaver for Percy. She will be safe. Looking at our relaxed position everyone looked even more confused than ever.
"What ho, Percy!" he shouted, and tossed the clip through the air.
" What ho! I Seriously? " Andromeda looked amusedly at Chiron who blushed.
Mrs. Dodds lunged at me.
Tension grew back again but I was not much worried. Knowing her, she could defeat the Fury with closed eyes.
With a yelp, I dodged and felt talons slash the air next to my ear. I snatched the clip out of the air, but when it hit my hand, it wasn't a clip anymore. It was a sword—Mr. Brunner's bronze sword, which he always used on tournament day.
"Anaklusmos- Riptide. " Grover said with fondness in his voice. " That sword has saved her hide a lot more times than we can count. " " Wait, that idiot has Anaklusmos? Does she even know how to hold it? "Hercules looked mad that his sword was given to a girl. We snorted angrily while Amphitrite gave him an evil eye effectively shutting his mouth.
Mrs. Dodds spun toward me with a murderous look in her eyes.
My knees were jelly. My hands were shaking so bad I almost dropped the sword.
Everyone shifted forward in their seats to know what will happen next.
She snarled, "Die, honey!"
" Does she really need to do that honey thing? " Apollo asked. No one replied.
And she flew straight at me.
Absolute terror ran through my body. I did the only thing that came naturally: I swung the sword.
" Naturally. How can you swing a sword naturally? Man, she must be an excellent sword fighter. "Theseus looked astonished." "That she is. but even I didn't know her extent till now." Jason looked equally amazed. Clarisse, Thalia, Nico, Will, Reyna, Hazel, Frank, Grover and I laughed silently at everyone else's expressions.
Most of them looked surprised at her strength. Lord Poseidon and family along with Sally, Artemis and Zoe had proud smiles on their faces which tugged deep into my heart and I looked away. The best reaction was of Hercules. He had steam coming out of his ears. I smirked at him. He in turn glared at me and turned away.
The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed clean through her body as if she were made of water. Hisss!
" YO HO... GO PERCY "The Sons of Hermes cheered.
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.
" Yep, they must be. Alecto becomes even more cranky after dispelling them. " Nico shivered.
I was alone.
There was a hairclip in my hand.
" How is that possible? " " Mist, about which you will learn in the book. "
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 something.
" Magic mushrooms. That sounds like an amazing idea for our next prank. " Travis thought while Conner and Chris nodded.
Had I imagined the whole thing?
" Nope! " Grover replied popping the 'p'
I went back outside.
It had started to rain.
" Seems like someone is angry. " Hera said looking at her husband.
Grover was sitting by the fountain, a museum map tented over his head. Nathan Bobofit was still standing there, soaked from his swim in the fountain, grumbling to his ugly friends. When he saw me, he said, "I hope Mrs. Kerr taught you a lesson."
"Excuse me, Who? " Lord Triton asked
I said, "Who?"
He blushed.
"Our teacher. Duh!"
I blinked. We had no teacher named Mrs. Kerr. I asked Nathan what he was talking about.
He just rolled his eyes and turned away.
I asked Grover where Mrs. Dodds was.
We groaned "Grover, should I repeat it. You are a very bad liar. "
He said, "Who?"
But he paused first, and he wouldn't look at me, so I thought he was messing with me.
" See. " Lord Hermes shook his head and told his sons. "At the end of the day, I want you to take an hour out and teach Grover to lie. Understood? " His sons nodded.
"Not funny, Grov," I told him. "This is serious."
Thunder boomed overhead.
" Seems like dad agrees with her again."
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, You found someone's lost hair accessory and decided to give it to me good, my dear. Very good. "
I handed Mr. Brunner the Clip. 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 all right?"
" Now, Chiron knows how to lie. " Hermes exclaimed. "And Chapter one ends. Who will read the next chapter? "
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And the chapter ends. From now onward, I will try to complete one Percy jackson chapter in one chapter of mine. Also if I forgot to explain something tell me in the reviews. Please. It is late at night. And I don't wish to re-read the entire chapter. Also, as much as bookworm I am, even I don't have enough strength to read it as I am half-asleep currently. So good night sweet dreams. Don't let the bed bugs bite...
