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Percy POV

It was a regular day in camp and then a pile of books landed on my head. Okay does Athena really hate my that much for dating her duaghter that she's making me read lituature books?, I thought. I look at the books and it said: Percy jackson and the Olympains. And the other said: Heros of Olympus. Cool books about me and the others.

Then I ran to the Big House calling, "Hey, Annabeth, Thalia, Nico, Clarisse, Connor, Travis, Katie, Rachel, Tyson, Grover, Chris, Jason, Piper, and Leo! Get over here!"

All of my friends came out.

"What Percy?" Annabeth asked

"Look!" I said handing the books to my girlfriend.

Annabeth looked over the books and said: "We need to go to Olympus."

Everyone cheered. I don't blame them we hadn't seen our parent for a while. After thrity minutes later we were at Olympus.

"Hey, dad!" I said

"Daddy!" Tyson said and he ran up to Poseidon and gave him a big hug.

"Anyway," I coninuted. "Someone landed these books on my head and the first five are about me and the others are about after the second Titan War. So can we read it here?"

Poseidon look at Zeus.

"Fine," Zeus said, "Let's begin."

"Wait!" Poseidon said

Then a gold flash apeared. There in front of us was my mom, my stepdad Paul, and the poker staute of Smelly Gabe.

"What's going on here?" My mom asked

"We're reading a book about Percy, Ms. Jackson, Mr. Blofist." Annabeth explained.

"Why not you join us?" Thalia asked

"That'll be nice." my mom said and she sat down next to Paul.

"But why is there a statue of Gabe here?" Hades asked

"Oh, I thought after book one we might want to destoryed the statue." Hermes explained

"Cool idea." everyone said

"Percy you should read first since there about you." Annabeth said

"Good idea." I said and I open the first book. "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief."

"Chapter 1: I accidentally Vaporize my Pre-Algebra Teacher." I said

If you're reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is:

"Wait! Percy you're giving advice?" Annabeth said. "But you're bad at advices."

"That is true." Athena said. "He has his father's stupidity in him."

"Hey!" Poseidon and I shouted

"Continue please!" Thalia shouted

Close this book right now. Believe what every lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.

"Well that's impossible you know." Athena said

"I know!" I said

Being a half - blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.

"That is true." Annabeth said

Everyone nodded

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.

Everyone nodded. We do envy the mortals

But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel something stirring inside - stop reading this immediately. You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.

"True." Annabeth said

"We know!" all of the demigods shouted

Don't say I didn't warn you.

"You didn't warn us!" Hermes and Apollo said

"Will you two shut up!" Artemis shouted

My name is Percy Jackson.

"No it's Peter Johnson!" Travis said

"No, Perry Jorganson!" Connor said

"No, Pedro Janson!" Leo said

"Shut up!" Piper yelled and she it Leo and the Stoll brothers on the head.

"Dude not cool!" Leo said

I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding school student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.

Am I a troubled kid?

"Yes." Everyone said even my parents said so too.

I glared at them

Yeah you could say that.

"See you even agree!" Apollo

"I know right." Hermes said

Then they gave each other high fives.

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 bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff.

"That's sounds cool!" Annabeth said

"Yes it is." Athena said

"It sounds like torture." Poseidon said

I laugh.

"What?" Poseidon asked

I know -it sounds like torture

Everyone laugh and Poseidon blushed in emabrassement.

"Wow Uncle P you think like Percy!" Apollo said

"Apollo."

"Yeah?"

"Shut up."

Most Yancy field trips were.

But Mr. Brunner, our Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so I had hopes. Mr. Brunner was this middle-aged guy in a motorized wheelchair. He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee.

"I think it's Chiron." Thalia said

You wouldn't think he'd 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 whose class didn't put me to sleep.

"You sleep all in your class excepts Chiron's?" Athena shouted

"I'msosorry, Lady Athena!" I quickly said

Everyone laugh.

I hoped the trip would be okay. At least, I hoped that for once I wouldn't get in trouble.

"Yeah, right." Nico said

"Prissy's always get into trouble," Clarisse said

Boy, was I wrong.

"Yes you were." Artemis said

See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga 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.

"Why did you want to destoryed a school bus?" Zeus asked

"I said I wasn't aiming at it!" I said

"You must've sense a monster." Annabeth said

"Maybe." I said

And before that, at my fourth-grade school, when we took a 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.

Everyone laugh.

"Wow, Percy you're so cool!" Apollo said

"Teach us some tricks!" Hermes said

"Thanks." I said

"Percy." my mom warned

"Okay." I said, but I out a thumbs up that I agree.

This trip, I was determined to be good.

"But it wasn't." Grover said

"I know." I said

All the way into the city, I put up with Nancy Bobofit, the freckly, redheaded kleptomaniac girl, hitting my best friend Grover

"She's flirting with Grover?" Travia said. "Why would anyone flirt with Grover?"

"What's wrong with me?" Grover asked

"Nothing you're just wierd." Connor said'

"Hey!" Grover yelled

"That girl is a jerk." Annabeth said

All the girls nodded in aproveal.

In the back of the head with chuncks of peanut butter- ange - ketchup sandwhich.

"Oh my gods!" Aphrodite shirek

Then a lot of people made disgusted faces.

Grover was an easy target.

"Thanks man." Grover said

"Sorry." I said

He was scrawny.

"No I'm not!" Grover yelled

"Yes you are." I said

He cried when he got frustrated.

"Okay that part you're right." Grover said

"Ha! See!" I said

He must've been held back several grades, because he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin. On top of all that, he was crippled.

He had a note excusing him from PE 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,

"It did hurt." Grover pointed out.

but don't let that fool you.You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.

"Idiot satyr." Mr. D said

"Sorry." Grover said

"You would've blown your cover." Annabeth said

Everyone agreed

Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his curly brown hair

"Seriously!" Everyone yelled

"Yes!" I yelled back

and she knew I couldn't do anything back to her because I was already on probation. The headmaster had threatened me

"He WHAT?" Poseidon screamed

"Chill dad." I said

with death by in-school suspension if anything bad

"Oh." Poseidon said

, embarrassing, or even mildly entertaining happened on this trip.

"I'm going to kill her," I mumbled.

"Do it!" Leo, Travis, Connor, and Clarisse yelled

"Percy already kill this Nancy?" Tyson asked

"No." I said sadly. "I wish I did."

"Oh." Tyson said

Grover tried to calm me down. "It's okay. I like peanut butter."

He dodged another piece of Nancy's lunch.

"That's it." I started to get up, but Grover pulled me back to my seat.

"Yes, beat her up!" Ares shouted

"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 Bobofit right then and there

"You should of." Clarisse said

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 wheelchair, guiding us through the big echoey galleries, past marble statues and glass cases full of really old black-and-orange pottery.

It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.

He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx

Tyson shuddered

"It's alright, Tyson." I said

on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age. He told us 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 every time I told them to shut up, the other teacher chaperone, Mrs. Dodds, would give me the evil eye.

"Alecto." Nico said

"Are you sure?" Hades asked

Percy and Grover nodded.

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 enough to ride a Harley right into your locker. She had come to Yancy halfway through the year, when our last math teacher had a nervous breakdown

"She does sounds familiar." Hades said

"That's becaues it's Alecto!" Nico shouted

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

Mr. Brunner kept talking about Greek funeral art.

Finally, Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and I turned around and said, "Will you shut up?"

It came out louder than I meant it to.

The whole 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."

Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele. "Perhaps you'll tell us what this picture represents?

I looked at the carving, and felt a flush of relief, because I actually recognized it. "That's Kronos eating his kids, right?"

"Okay, how can you be that stupid?" Athena said

"sorry." I said

Yes," Mr. Brunner said, obviously not satisfied. "And he did this because ..."

"Well..." I racked my brain to remember. "Kronos was the king god,

"GOD!" Everyone screamed at me.

"Percy, why?" Annabeth asked

"Sorry!" I shouted

"Don't worry, Chiron will correct him." my mom said

and—"

"God?" Mr. Brunner asked.

"See." my mom said

"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.

"Mother always did like him best." Poseidon said

Hera, Hades, Hestia, and Demeter nodded.

Zeus glared at them.

And later, when Zeus grew up, he tricked his dad, Kronos, into barfing up his brothers and sisters—"

"Eeew!" said one of the girls behind me.

"It was disgusting." Demeter said

"—and so there was this big fight between the gods and the Titans," I continued, "and the gods won."

"Hell yeah we did!" Zeus said

Some snickers from the group.

Behind me, Nancy Bobofit mumbled to a friend, "Like we're going to use this in real life. Like it's going to say on our job applications, 'Please explain why Kronos ate his kids.'"

"If you're a demigod you jerk!" Annabeth shouted

"Or if you work in a musuem." Piper pointed out.

"That too." Annabeth said

"And why, Mr. Jackson," Brunner said, "to paraphrase Miss Bobofit's excellent question, does this matter in real life?"

"BUSTED!" all the guys in the room said

The girls rolled their eyes

I laugh

"Busted," Grover muttered.

"Okay I think we're stayrs now." Leo said

"Leo we're just thinking of what Grover's thinking." Jason said putting his hand in his face.

"Oh, sorry."

"Shut up," Nancy hissed, her face even brighter red than her hair.

"Is she trying to be actractive?" Aphrodite said. "Becaues it's not working."

At least Nancy got packed, too. Mr. Brunner was the only one who ever caught her saying anything wrong. He had radar ears.

"That is true." Annabeth said. "Chiron has good sence of hearing."

Everyone nodded

I thought about his question, and shrugged. "I don't know, sir."

"I see." Mr. Brunner looked disappointed. "Well, half credit, Mr. Jackson. Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who, of course, being immortal gods, had been living and growing up completely undigested in the Titan's stomach. The gods defeated their father, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld. On that happy note, it's time for lunch. Mrs. Dodds, would you lead us back outside?"

The class drifted off, the girls holding their stomachs, the guys pushing each other around and acting like doofuses.

Grover and I were about to follow when Mr. Brunner said, "Mr. Jackson."

I knew that was coming.

I told Grover to keep going. Then I turned toward Mr. Brunner. "Sir?"

Mr. Brunner had this look that wouldn't let you go— intense brown eyes that could've been a thousand years old and had seen everything.

"That's becaues he is a thousand years old." Grover said

"I didn't know then." I said

"You must learn the answer to my question," Mr. Brunner told me.

"About the Titans?"

"About real life. And how your studies apply to it."

"Oh."

"What you learn from me," he said, "is vitally important. I expect you to treat it as such. I will accept only the best from you, Percy Jackson."

I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard.

I mean, sure, it was kind of cool on tournament days, when he dressed up in a suit of Roman armor and shouted: "What ho!'" and challenged us, sword-point against chalk, to run to the board and name every Greek and Roman person who had ever lived, and their mother, and what god they worshipped.

"Cool!" everyone shouted

"I know it was cool." I said

But Mr. Brunner expected me to be as good as everybody else, despite the fact that I have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder and I had never made above a C— in my life.

"Idiot, you should get a B." Athena said

No—he didn't expect me to be as good; he expected me to be better. And I just couldn't learn all those names and facts, much less spell them correctly.

I mumbled something about trying harder, while Mr. Brunner took one long sad look at the stele, like he'd been at this girl's funeral.

"Maybe he'd been in one before." Jason said

He told me to go outside and eat my lunch.

The class gathered on the front steps of the museum, where we could watch the foot traffic along Fifth Avenue.

Overhead, a huge storm was brewing, with clouds blacker than I'd ever seen over the city. I figured maybe it was global warming or something, because the weather all across New York State had been weird since Christmas.

"Really?" Zeus said sarcasically

"Dad." Thalia and Jason said

We'd had massive snow storms, flooding, wildfires from lightning strikes. I wouldn't have been surprised if this was a hurricane blowing in.

"Why have you two been fighting?" Paul asked Zeus and Poseidon

"You'll find out." the brothers said

Nobody else seemed to notice. Some of the guys were pelting pigeons with Lunchables crackers. Nancy Bobofit was trying to pickpocket something from a lady's purse, and, of course, Mrs. Dodds wasn't seeing a thing.

Grover and I sat on the edge of the fountain, away from the others. We thought that maybe if we did that, everybody wouldn't know we were from that school—the school for loser freaks who couldn't make it elsewhere.

"Detention?" Grover asked.

"Nah," I said. "Not from Brunner. I just wish he'd lay off me sometimes. I mean—I'm not a genius."

"Of course you're not." Athena said

"Will you stop insulting my son?" Poseidon asked

"No."

Grover didn't say anything for a while. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?"

"Typical satyr." Mr. D said

"Sorry. I was nervus." Grover said

I didn't have much of an appetite, so I let him take it.

I watched the stream of cabs going down Fifth Avenue, and thought about my mom's apartment, only a little ways uptown from where we sat. I hadn't seen her since Christmas. I wanted so bad to jump in a taxi and head home. She'd hug me and be glad to see me

"Aww." Aphrodite cooed

"Mom." Piper said

, but she'd be disappointed, too. She'd send me right back to Yancy,

"You know I won't if you told me that you got attack." my mom said

"I know." I said

remind me that I had to try harder, even if this was my sixth school in six years and I was probably going to be kicked out again.

"Even though that is true." Annabeth said. "You've been kicked out a lot."

"I know!" I shouted

I wouldn't be able to stand that sad look she'd give me.

"Mama's boy." Ares said

"What's wrong with that?" Hera asked Ares, with her angry eyes at him

"Nothing mommy!" Ares said quickly

Everyone laugh

Mr. Brunner parked his wheelchair at the base of the handicapped ramp. He ate celery while he read a paperback novel. A red umbrella stuck up from the back of his chair, making it look like a motorized cafe table.

I was about to unwrap my sandwich when Nancy Bobofit appeared in front of me with her ugly friends—I guess she'd gotten tired of stealing from the tourists—and dumped her half-eaten lunch in Grover's lap.

"Disgusting." Piper said

"Jerk." Annabeth said

"Hey, Prissy, if you know where she lives let me beat her up." Clarisse said "I'll show her whose tuffer."

"There, there Clarisse." Chris said patting her on the back.

"Oops." She grinned at me with her crooked teeth. Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.

Everyone laugh.

I tried to stay cool. The school counselor had told me a million times, "Count to ten, get control of your temper." But I was so mad my mind went blank. A wave roared in my ears.

"Water powers to the rescue!" Poseidon shouted

I don't remember touching her, but the next thing I knew, Nancy was sitting on her butt in the fountain, screaming, "Percy pushed me!"

Mrs. Dodds materialized next to us.

"Not good." Annabeth said

Some of the kids were whispering: "Did you see—"

"—the water—"

"—like it grabbed her—"

Poseidon smailed proudly "That's my boy."

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 on me. There was a triumphant fire in her eyes, as if I'd done something she'd been waiting for all semester. "Now, honey—"

"I know," I grumbled. "A month erasing workbooks."

"Never guess your punishment at all!" Hermes shouted

"That's right, Percy." Connor said

Travis nodded

That wasn't the right thing to say.

"Come with me," Mrs. Dodds said.

"Wait!" Grover yelped. "It was me. I pushed her."

I stared at him, stunned. I couldn't believe he was trying to cover for me. Mrs. Dodds scared Grover to death.

"She did." Grover whimpered

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 Bobofit smirked.

I gave her my deluxe I'll-kill-you-later stare.

"You know your death glares aren't scary." Rachael said

"I know." I grumbled. "But i'll work on it."

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 there so fast?

"That's becaues she's a Kindly One." Nico said

"Are you sure it is Alecto?" Hades said

"YES!"

"Nico chill." I said

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.

I wasn't so sure.

I went after Mrs. Dodds.

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.

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.

"That'll be torture." Annabeth said

"I know." I said getting annoyed by saying 'I know' a lot

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.

"Yay, Roman!" Jason said

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.

"That's becaues she was." Nico said

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 leather jacket. "Did you really think you would get away with it?"

"Yes action is comin!" Ares shouted

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.

"Of course she was." Nico said

I said, "I'll—I'll try harder, ma'am."

Thunder shook the building.

"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.

"Really?" Annabeth, and Athena said

"How much did you make?" Hermes asked

"A lot." I said

"I gave you candy at home and you go buy illiegal stash of sweets to sell?" my mom said

"Sorry." I said.

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.

"Idiot." Athena said

"It's a very good book." Annabeth said

All the girls agreed while the guys shuddered

"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.

"Oh, it is Alecto." Hades said

"Told you!" Nico said

"Yes, action has arrived!" Ares shouted

Then 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.

"What ho, Percy!" he shouted, and tossed the pen through the air.

"Riptide." everyone said

Mrs. Dodds lunged at me.

With a yelp, I dodged and felt talons slash the air next to my ear. 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.

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.

"Idiot!" Athena shouted. "Never drop you weapon!"

She snarled, "Die, honey!"

Everyone laugh.

"Is she trying to kill a bottle of honey or what?" Leo joked

"She really needs to drop the honey." I said

"She still didn't drop it." Nico said

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 as if she were made of water. Hisss!

"Awsome!" Apollo sang

"Did bad lady go away?" Tyson asked

"Kind of." I said

"Amazing." Paul said

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.

"You let the Mist affect you?" Poseidon said

"Sorry, I was still in shock." I said

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.

Had I imagined the whole thing?

I went back outside.

It had started to rain.

Grover was sitting by the fountain, a museum map tented over his head. Nancy Bobofit was still standing there, soaked from her swim in the fountain, grumbling to her ugly friends. When she saw me, she said, "I hope Mrs. Kerr whipped your butt."

"Who?" Poseidon said

I laugh

"What is it?"

I said, "Who?"

Everyone laugh.

"Wow, Uncle P you really are acting like Percy!" Hermes said

"Shut up!" Poseidon yelled at Hermes

"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?"

"That must be annoying." Jason said

"It was." I said

But he paused first, and he wouldn't look at me, so I thought he was messing with me.

"You satyrs a terrible liars." Mr. D said

"Mark on Grover to give him lying lessons on Friday." Travis said to Connor.

"On it." Connor said writing it down.

"Travis." Katie said

"Yes?"

"Shut up."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Not funny, man," I told him. "This is serious."

Thunder boomed overhead.

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."

"Now Chiron can lie." Hermes, Connor, and Travis said

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 all right?"

"They made me feel like I'm stupid." I said

"That's becaues you are." Athena said

"Hey!" I protested.

"Mother will you stop insulting Percy?" Annabeth said

"No." Athena said

"All right who wants to read chapter two?" I asked

"I will" Hades said.

"Oh my gods, Hades wants to read!" Apollo said

"Shut up!" Hades said

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