Mortals Meet Percabeth

Jenny Weslum

A/N Another chapter! This one is a no mist chapter. So, I guess I should give a little backstory so that makes sense. Here we go! It is true that the evil Gaea has been defeated by the brave and valiant seven of the prophecy. But alas, with her final wish, Gaea invoked magic older than even her, and ripped apart the thin veil between the mortals and supernatural beings. Hecate lives still, but the mist has dissipated. The gods have revealed themselves, and are now going from city to city, visiting schools, city halls, and other places where mortals congregate, in order to answer any questions that may be raised. Meanwhile, Percy Jackson is suffering the terrible ordeal that is known as Mortal High School...

I was freaking out as I got ready for another mundane day at Clarion Ladies academy. A couple nights ago a screen had appeared floating in mid air in front of me as I read on my bed in the dormitories. Apparently this had happened to everyone, because as the people on the screen informed us, it was an "announcement of the utmost importance." Ha! Understatement of the millennia! Apparently, the Greek Gods were real, as were monsters and demigods, who had saved the world multiple times, and now that primordial evil women Gaea had taken away the mist, they had decided to reveal themselves before everybody in the world had to go to an insane asylum! Oh, and let's not forget that the Roman persona of the Greek Gods is real too! Like I said, I'm freaking out. The Gods had said that they would be going around to schools and such to answer any questions. I didn't have any questions myself, but I wanted to meet some of the demigods they were talking about. The gods had told us some of the demigods accomplishments, and I honestly felt sorry for them. Their lives sound terrible! Lucky for me, and for anybody else who wanted to meet the demigods, the gods had said that as they went around to schools, they would start with the schools that the famous demigods were at. I wondered if there were any demigods at my school. I couldn't know for sure, because the gods hadn't given us the names of the heroes.

-----Ava will take you to fifth period, but she is still rebelling because she doesn't get to choose where to take you, so I once again apologize if you end up in the wrong spot.-----

The music was roaring in Myrtal's ears as she fought her way through the tightly packed crowd- Ava! I'm sorry people. Ava, please just take them to the right place. Please? I'll give you a pay raise?

-----Okay, Ava agreed to work properly for a pay raise, so here we go to fifth period - for real this time.-----

I slumped in my chair, staring intently at the clock. I was counting down the minutes until the next class, where I would count down the minutes until home time. Just then, the P.A. system came on. "All students and staff please report to the gymnasium for an important assembly. I repeat, all students and staff to the gym," The voice of the principal of San Fransisco High School flooded into the room. What the heck is this about? usually only the teachers go to assembly, not all of the staff. Wait a minute. What if the gods- but it couldn't be. They won't have picked up all of the heroes that they told us about yet. They said that they would visit five to seven schools per day, maybe more depending on time changes, staying at each for about an hour. They said it would take two days to pick up all the heroes. This is the second day since the whole "Hey, everybody, we just wanted you to know that gods, demigods, and monsters are real, and you could be attacked any second if you are an unclaimed demigod. Have a nice day!" thing. It was so kind of them to spring that on us and then let us go back to our regularly scheduled activities with them hardly elaborating on what the heck they meant. I'm getting off topic. But the gods really shouldn't be here yet. Unless one of those heroes they mentioned is at our school............. I mean, it's plausible. They didn't tell us what the names of the heroes are. They just said that the heroes had saved the world, some of them multiple times. I guess that that could be the case.

We filed into the gym and sat down in the chairs that had been hastily placed so that we would have somewhere to sit. I found a seat next to Rachel Dare, one of my good friends from this torture called boarding school. She felt the same way about Clarion's, so we bonded over our hatred of this particular school. When everybody was seated, there was a flash of light and thirteen adults (A/N The Olympians plus Hestia and Hades) as well as nine teenagers. The adults introduced themselves as gods, and then the teenagers stepped forward. The whole time, the main thought running through my head was: who is the person they have come to pick up in our school? In their announcement two days previously, the gods had said that their were ten people they would be picking up, and not necessarily all from school. They did say that they would only be picking up demigods, not other mythical - or, I should say, completely real creatures. Anyways, the ten they would be picking up were: The seven of the mysterious Second Great Prophecy, that was clearly meant to be capitalized by the way they spoke about it, and yet they told us virtually nothing about it, two of the people who took some sort of statue that apparently stopped a war to a camp, and the modern day Oracle of Delphi.