Demigod Teacher
The lock to the aquarium closed with a little bit of force and I sighed in relief looking around the bustling city of New York. The City that never sleeps apart from the time that it actually did under the titan Army's power.
Walking along the sidewalk I made my way into the staff car park where my blue pickup truck was parked. I had stayed late to make sure all of the animals in the Aquarium were fed and were feeling okay. Thankfully they were all okay and none of them were arguing with each other this time which was a miracle.
Pulling out my keys I was about to open my car when I heard yelling from one of the alleyways next to the carpark. Putting my keys back I made my way over to the yelling to find a family of 4 cornered against a wall with the large thugs trapping them all with knives. I really shouldn't get involved in this, it wasn't my problem. But the kid inside of me who had put up with Gabe for years urged to be kicked out and I knew I needed to intervene.
Getting closer I heard one of the THugs say "Give us all your money and nobody will getty hurt" Smirking I said "The only person who will get hurt here is the three of you if you don't get out of here" The Thugs faced me and said "Get out of here kid, this doesn't involve you. And don't make threats against people larger than you".
Good they weren't taking me seriously. Running forwards I kicked off the ground and jumped towards the wall before bouncing off it and knocked one of the Thugs who was closest to me down to the ground with a knee to his stomach and an elbow to his right shoulder. The reflection of the sun bounced off my silver streak of hair created from holding up the sky and walking through the Pit.
The Two other Guys looked at me surprised at the fact that their friend had just been knocked cold in one hit by somebody they had just shrugged off as being a nuisance. One of them finally got out of the trance and started to breathe heavily and called out "You Bastard!" He charged at me with his knife.
Moving my body to the left as he slashed at me I placed my foot out and grabbed his leading hand and tripped him into the wall to my left breaking his nose and as he tried to get up I kicked him in the back knocking him out.
The final one seemed really enraged and picked up his first fallen ally's knife and threw it at me. The Short blade shot past me as I barely moved my head to the right, my black hair swaying as I did so. Pushing forwards I grabbed his leading arm and twisted it making the grown man scream in pain.
His knife fell from his hand and I moved in and applied force against his right shoulder and made a satisfying crack as I dislocated it making the Man fall to the ground with a thud and the sound of his nose hitting the solid ground and cracking brought a grin to my face.
Facing the family I took in their features and noticed that two of them were very large, one older probably in his late 40's and another about 10 years younger than me. Other than a slight difference in their hair colour and size they may have well been the same person.
Next to the older man was a woman maybe 5 years younger than him with pale blond hair and pale skin that would put teenage Nico to shame. However the one that caught my attention was a Teenager maybe 14 with messy black hair and half moon spectacles. Behind his glasses were emerald green eyes. He may as well have been a younger and thinner version of me when I was his age which was very strange.
Asking them I said "Are you 4 okay? They didn't hurt any of you did they" All of them shook their heads quite clearly and the LArge Man said "No we aren't, sir would you be able to tell us the directions to the Aquarium, we asked these men but they just led us into this bloody vile" Wow that was some kind of British accent, was not expecting that.
SHaking my surprise off my head I said "Erm it's just around the corner from the end of the alley that I came from however we just closed up for the day. If you are going there for the tour we open at 8 tomorrow morning".
The 'young me' coughed and muttered under his breath "I told you so" which made the bigger man's fists clench, looking at me he said "Thank you very young Man" Before dragging the two kids out of the alleyway by the colors of their sleeves. Thank god I wasn't at work tomorrow I definitely couldn't deal with a family like that.
Making my way back to my car I started the two hour drive to Montauk beach where my house on the cliff was. The drive was quiet and I hummed away to myself as Piper appeared on the radio and sang her song which was oddly inspired by me. Her voice cutting through everything as Leo rocked away on the guitar. I'm glad the two of them were able to move forward with their lives after the death of Jason.
Just as I started to pull up at the driveway to the house Piper hummed "rewrite our stolen history" Turning off the radio I exited the car and locked it and walked towards the wooden door unlocking to be greeted by the smell of curry which Wise Girl had no doubt made.
Calling out through the house I said "Wise Girl, you home?" From the living quarters I heard "Through here Seaweed Brain." Taking my shoes off I made my way through to her to see her curled up on the couch working on her laptop. The design of some kind of temple on the screen as she looked between a G-Mail (God-Mail) and the design program on her laptop.
PLacing my work Bag at the end of the couch I hopped over and landed next to her and asked "How was your day Annabeth?" She gave me a small smile from next to me as she turned around showing her matching grey streak through her golden hair which was now cut short from our teenage days now only going to her shoulders.
She sighed and said "Busy, I got a message from Apollo and Mr D demanding brand new shrines at Camp Jupiter as well as Camp Half-blood. And I'm still working on the design for Camp Olympus and Olympia." Kissing her cheek I told her "WHen you do finish Camp Olympus and Olympia it will look fantastic and will be the best place to live if you are a demigod either greek or Roman."
She kissed me back, closing her laptop and said "Thanks Perce. It's just stressful working on the gods projects and continuing our own projects." SMiling I said "It will be worth it in the end. Now did you cook that Curray?" She burst out laughing and said "As if! I ordered it, it only arrived 10 minutes ago so it should still be hot" Kissing her on her soft lips I said "Thanks babe".
Throwing myself off the couch I made my way to the kitchen and emptied my portion into a bowl before walking over to the Olympian flame that we had in the house and the emptied a small portion of my meal into it saying "Posiedon, Hades, Hestia accept my offering" the smell of food wafted through the house and I made my way back to Annabeth to see her now sitting with a book in her hands reading.
SItting down I sat next to her in beautiful silence as I ate and she read. The rest of the night we chatted about what we were going to do the next day and whether or not we should try to get in contact with Nico and Will for a night out.
The two of us were just tucked into bed with my arms wrapped around her scarred stomach when there was a flash in the room. A Godly flash. Goraning I said "What do you want!" A Woman's voice Spoke out "Perseus Jackson. I require your help desperately. Please I'm begging you to listen to my plea".
Next to me Annabeth started to shift as a single thought ran through both our heads.THis was different. Gods Never begged. They demanded and sometimes asked politely but never begged. They considered it beneath them to do something like that. Sitting up I turned on my light and I saw the Goddess of Magic Hecate standing there with her pupil former Pretor and my cousin Hazel and one of my other cousins Nico on either side of her.
Nico grimaced and said "I'm sorry Cuz. I wouldn't have come unless it was absolutely necessary for me to do so. THe world needs help and you're the only one who can fix things" RUnning my hands through my head I said "Alright let's do this in the living room, let us get dressed first."
5 minutes later we were all in the living room with myself and Annabeth wearing matching T-shirts and Shorts covering our bodies. Lady Hecate looked at me and said "Look I know the two of you said you were done from the world of question for good which is why I'm begging you to listen to us." Leaning forwards I said "Well a god had never begged before so I'm curious to find out what could make a god actually do it".
Annabeth nodded while Lady Hecate sighed and said "Back in the days of Ancient Rome as Trivia I started this group of magical beings. Regular mortals with a weaker version of my children's powers but with the bonus that it would be passed on to every generation or at least keep it in them. Over the centuries this group of Magicals grew, joined with the house of life at one point and everything else under the sun and continued to expand. Over the course of history like most people with power men and women grew insane and we had these dark wizards and witches who grew to believe themselves to be superior."
Of course they did. She carried on "However about 20 years ago the worst dark Wizard of basically all time was engaged in a war with the Good wizards in Britain before being beaten by a powerful Love magic almost 14 years ago." Nodding I said "So what does this have to do with us?"
Nico sighed and said "This WIzard should have come down to the underworld to be punished for his crimes however he never appeared and recently myself and Hazel felt his soul reawaken in the mortal world."
Sighing I said "THis still doesn't answer why you need us" Annabeth nodded sipping some hot chocolate she had gotten for herself and Hazel groaned her curly hair being shaken around "Well the british wizarding world is not prepared to face this dark Wizard again and the government is refusing to believe that he's alive and are about to send a useless teacher in to teach the students the future fighters of the up and coming war."
Hecate said "LOok I'm asking for you to teach at a magical school for one year to make sure the students are prepared for war seeing how you are the greatest heroes in History having saved the world twice while just in your teens."
The two of us looked between ourselves and Annabeth said "So you need the two of us to teach for one year?" Hazel and Nico nodded while Hecate said "Almost. I need Percy to teach while Annabeth I need you to research for half the year into how this Dark Wizard Riddle managed to survive. SO what do you say?"
Harry's P.O.V - 1 Month Later (The 1st September)
The doors to the great hall opened with a loud bang as Professor Dumbledore said "Can you please welcome our brand new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher from the States. Perseus Jackson!" A Young man about 25 walked into the hall with purpose in his walk. His sea-green eyes studying everything in the hall like an expert strategist, like a war general. LIke Mad Eye but less insane.
The Aura he gave off made the entire hall go silenced as he told everyone that he was not someone to be trifled with. Following the Toad's speech I had been falling asleep but this guy had woken me up.
He wasn't even wearing robes instead just wearing a simple Orange T-Shirt with some strange writing on it. A PAir of Jeans with a slight rip on it and a Hoodie that covered his arms but I doubt anybody would challenge him about his clothing other than maybe the Toad.
He ha dblack swept hair that looks oddly familiar with a grey streak going through his hair suggesting that he was hiding horrors that only he knew within him. Ron Whispered "Blimey Mate, he looks exactly like an older, buffed up you."
Turning around once he reached the top of the podium he said "Thank You professor Dumbledore. Good evening students I am Perseus Jackson, you will call me either Professor Perseus or Professor Jackson. I hope I see you all at the end of the year. Why? Because I'm going to put you all through hell to make sure you are the best students you can possibly be. It's nice to meet you and I hope you enjoy your meal."
Sitting down at the table with a carefree smile the entire hall was silent as we were literally told that this would be a tough year by him and we had no reason not to believe him with the aura he gave off. Only one day in and something was clear already. This was going to be an interesting year.
A/N I hope you enjoyed this chapter. This will be randomly updated whenever I feel like it so don't expect regular updates. WHen I started writing this it was Percy's birthday so Happy Birthday Perseus Jackson! Anyway till next time. Bye