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Escape the Hades

Thalia woke up early the next morning to her surprise. Thalia missed her home at Ogygia. Olygia had her pet wolf, Blaze, her husky, Bolt, and her Pegasus, Sky. It also had the girl she treated as a sister, Calypso. Her mother was proud of her for being mature about this assignment. But, she was also eager to go to Camp Half-Blood. She had only been there once before.

She dressed quickly, and grabbed her backpack. It had a floral design.

She thought about her birthday, she knew she had been born July 1st, but the birthday she used was her Rebirth date, December 22nd. That was the date the fates used, as her mother told her.

She wondered about her twin, Jason. Where was he?

She only had Finals left and she would be back at Ogygia.

Her Electric Blue eyes shined brightly, the flames of the hearth were being held back, giving her eyes a soft orange-yellow glow.

Her dark brown hair had natural auburn streaks like Artemis, but had Honey Blonde Streaks as well like Athena and Aphrodite. She had pulled it back into a ponytail, with a curl hanging out. She had left her bangs alone.

She tucked Katoptris into her pocket, and slid her IPhone, which was her bow and arrows, Pyros and Flammas, into her jacket pocket.

She ran down to Mr. Brunner's room, sliding in her desk next to Percy. Percy shot her a friendly smile and she replied back with a smile.

He wore a black t-shirt with a black hoodie on top of it. His gray and blue backpack was on his back.

"Hey Thals." He whispered.

"Hey."

"Alright kids, let's go get on the bus." Mr. Brunner said.

Grover walked up next to Percy and Thalia slid into a seat and Percy sat down next to her and Grover sat on the outside.

Thalia pulled out her phone, slipping in her ear buds and putting the music on shuffle.

Her favorite song, iNsaNiTY, came on and she tuned them out.

She saw out of the corner of her eyes, Nancy, throwing her sandwich at Grover.

Percy, fed up, stood up, "That's it. I'm going to..."

"You're going to do nothing. Percy, you're already on probation." Thalia said.

'It's okay. I like peanut butter." Grover said.

Thalia rolled her eyes at the Satyr.

Thalia pulled Percy back down into the seat.

He certainly had the temper of Poseidon, Thalia thought.

Thalia had been taught in her powers over Fire by her mother, her father's power that she inherited was taught by Rhea, Thalia's grandmother. She had other powers she had inherited from Amphitrite, giving her slight control of the water and seas. Her powers of Venus were her beauty, a form of Charmspeak, and she could slightly detect and control love. She had Athena's wisdom, strategy and battle skill, and was gifted in Crafts. From her mother, Hestia, she had Pyrokinesis and the ability to view and see the Past, Present, and Future. The Phoenix Amulet had chose her as the next wearer when she had gone to her grandmother's house and it attached itself to her neck ever since.

She had a sword, lightning, but she had left it on Ogygia.

Her father, Zeus's bolt had gone missing. He assigned her to watch the son of Poseidon, who he suspected was the Lightning Thief. Thalia highly denied this; Percy didn't even know he was a demi-god, more or less still the most powerful weapon in the world.

She excelled with all her weapons and was quite smart despite the fact she had ADHD and Dyslexia.

Ugh, she thought, she hated the Idea of the fact that she was the destiny child, but now she shared the title with Percy. There would be not one, but two heroes of the Prophesy.

Soon, the bus stopped and Percy waited for her on the sidewalk. The two heroes with the Satyr in tow, walked into the building.

Percy and Thalia found the art work to be simply incredible. They paid attention the best that they could, with their ADHD.

Nancy on the other hand, thought everything to be funny and snickered and laughed at every piece of artwork.

Thalia was going to tell her to shut the hell up and grow the fuck up, but Percy beat her to the punch.

"Will you please shut up?" Percy said.

Oh no. She was thinking like Kelp-for-Brains. That was bad.

"Mr. Jackson. Did you have something to say?" Mr. Brunner asked.

"No sir." Percy said.

Thalia shot him a glance and patted him on the shoulder. He took the sympathetic touch and sent her a look that said, 'Thanks'.

They walked over to a statue of Kronos eating the gods.

"Mr. Jackson. Could you please tell me what this is?"

"That's Kronos eating his kids' right?"

"Yes, and?"

"He did this because he was the king god, I mean Titan and he thought his kids were going to overpower him so he ate them. Then, his wife gave him a rock, and hide Zeus away. Then, when Zeus was older, he and Rhea gave him a drink that made him throw up the Gods. Then, they had a huge war and the Gods won." Percy said.

"Like, we're going to apply this to real life. Like it's going to say on our job applications, 'Please explain why Kronos eat his kids?'."Nancy said.

"Mr. Jackson, could you explain why we would use this in real life?" Mr. Brunner said.

"I don't know sir." Percy said.

"Well, half credit. Ms. Dodds, will you lead the class outside. Mr. Jackson may I have a word." Mr. Brunner said.

Thalia wanted to stay, but Ms. Dodds pressed a sharp nail against her back. "Let's go honey." She said in a grumpy, old voice.

She walked outside reluctantly, Ms. Dodds watching her the whole time. She handed Grover her apple and Percy plopped himself down next to her.

Thalia made a claw over her heart and pushed it away toward Ms. Dodds.

"What he say?" Grover said.

"That I need to learn why this would apply to our everyday lives. He's always so hard on me." Percy said.

Thalia wanted to say, 'He only wants the best from you, Percy.', but instead she said, "It will be alright, Perce. It will get better eventually." She said resting her hand on his shoulder.

Percy pulled her into a hug, but it was interrupted by Nancy.

She dropped her tray into their laps, chips and her sandwich, dropping into their laps and on their clothes.

"Oops. I didn't mean to interrupt this adorable moment between two Dyslexiaics." She said. Her and her stupid friends laughed.

"Dyslexia. Dumb ass. These shoes cost more than you'll ever make in your life, kleptomaniac." Thalia said.

The next thing you know the water from the fountain behind the reached up and grabbed Nancy.

There were murmurs of 'did you see that?' and 'it's like the water reached up and grabbed her.', going around.

"Ms. Dodds, Percy pushed me!" Nancy hollered.

Ms. Dodds walked over to the three teens and pulled Nancy out of the fountain.

She looked at Percy and said, "Let's go honey."She had a smile on her face, as if she had been waiting all year for Percy to do something like that.

"Mr. Brunner, I have to go use the restroom, thanks!" Thalia said, running past him. She pulled out Pyros and strapped her quiver on her back.

She unsheathed Katoptris and ran where Percy was.

"A kindly one." She whispered to herself.

"Thalia what are you doing with that bow and arrows? And a dagger?"

She pushed him out of the way as the fury dived down towards them. She shot three arrows, hitting the fury.

"Ahh, the daughter of Zeus and Hestia, coming to the rescue of your father's rival's son. How sweet."

"Percy catch!" Mr. Brunner yelled. He threw the pen towards Percy.

Analusmos. Riptide. Thalia saw the pen and the fury dived again. Thalia pressed against Percy, pushing him against the wall.

"Uncap it!" She yelled.

"This is a pen!" He yelled.

"Just uncap the fucking pen!" She yelled.

He uncapped it and the two move off the wall and he swings at the Fury, and she explodes into gold dust.

"What was that?" Percy asked.

"A kindly one." She said. "Επιστροφή (Return)" She said to the arrows.

She puts away the bow and arrow and she sheaths Katoptris and slips Katoptris in her pocket.

The two walk outside.

"Ahh, Mr. Jackson that is my pen. Thank you for returning it. Next time bring your own writing utensil."

"I hope Ms. Kerr whipped your butt." Nancy said.

"Who?" Percy said.

He looked at Thalia confused. Thalia just shrugged her shoulder.

Percy sighed. This was gonna be a long week.