Here Comes The Demigods (NL;SC Book 2)

Chapter Three

It was odd to think about how my experienced have changed from the first time around. I was more exposed to the magical world when we found out Hecate did allow demigods in and we just counted as Elementalists. I was a water elementalist and Thalia was air and lightning. Nico and Bianca counted as wizards because of their mother. Klaus was already a wizard because of Aunt Dahlia. Diego was accepted for his control of metals, Viktor for sound waves, Allison and Silena and Piper for hypnotizing—stuff like that. I was exposed to extra abilities people could have like the Hargreeves siblings that were adopted in. I use to watch their trainings—that actually helped them—out of curiosity and my fellow demigods would join in. It took a while to get use to Klaus talking to ghosts but according to Diego and Ben, this was better than he previously did because he could tell the difference a bit easier. I was exposed to the supernatural with the Mikaelsons, Damon, and Katherine when they visited. I could just hear the squealing of Will Solace when Hope Mikaelson sped him through the house.

Anyway, back to the pretending I didn't know Mrs. Dodds existed. I kept up the charade and Grover kept looking at me worriedly. I had been a little irritated that Grover didn't reveal himself or Mrs. Dodds to me. It's not like Chiron is his boss, Mr. D is. Grover still couldn't fool me.

I can't say I slept better over the situation as Dad's temper was still getting to me with the storms outside. Maybe storms sometimes get worse because the storm hits where one of Dad's children are and it irritates them and makes it worse? I had accidentally busted my window with wind in a moment of anger when originally I blamed it on the storm aka Dad. That big tornado in Hudson Valley still appeared but seemed to have avoided any homes. Of ocurse that raised some suspicion but they didn't look into it since they were happy everyone was okay. Zeus did cool it on the plane crashes though, so that was good.

My grades still slipped partly because of my mood and partly because I didn't understand what was being taught. My mom already told she wouldn't blame me for the slipping grades during this time after she was made aware my emotions were affected by storms. I was just told to keep track of what we learned and the other adults would work on teaching me.

Although my mom did get a call when I still snapped at the English teacher but it something far worse than calling him an "old sot" all I will say was it was enough for Klaus to literally die of laughter causing me to have to hang up the Iris Message before Nico killed me with his glare.

Of course, that incident got me expelled. I may or may not have made a fountain explode on Nancy Bobofit the next day after that news. I couldn't help myself and they couldn't trace it to me.

I couldn't wait to go home at that moment. We were living life a bit easier than before especially with the lack of Gabe Ugliano. The Hargreeves' stuck around but most were off somewhere else in their own homes but always stopped by to visit. A of of the times the people that stayed were those who took in a demigod.

The Latin exam came closer and it was still the only test I remotely understood. I wasn't as frustrated but I think Chiron should've maybe thought smarter and taught me Greek instead of Latin since I'm Greek and not Roman.

I got up and paced back and forth wanting to get the day over with. Then I was startled by an Iris Message. It was Ethan Nakamura-Black. Surprisingly we had gotten close this time around and I guess he was told i was leaving Yancy soon and checked in. We talked for an hour before the message ended. "Thank you Lady Iris," I whispered before falling asleep. I hadn't bothered to go listen to Grover and Chiron whispering to each other. Why would I go?

The next morning I woke up to Grover shuffling on his bed. I wondered how he dealt with his fake feet if he's rooming with a demigod? I never saw the fake feet or his hooves so I would really to know if he actually slept with them on. "Hey Perce, are you going to be ready for this test?" Grover asked, wiping the sleep from his eyes.

I didn't answer verbally but gave a nod. 'Dad could you calm down for once?!' I mentally thought. The ground shook a little alarming Grover. I looked at the ground, 'Guess not.'

After sitting through THREE HOURS of the Latin test I left quickly because Chiron isn't the best for pep talks so I gave a wave and pretended I didn't hear.

On the last day of the term, I shoved my clothes into my suitcase eager to get home.

The other guys were joking around, talking about their vacation plans. I couldn't exactly be like "Oh, I'm going to run away from a Minatour and race across the country because my uncle is gonna kidnap my mom." That would possibly put me in a psych ward, who knows? So, I didn't answer because I didn't also want to say that I was going back to a mansion.

The only hard part was I knew Grover was going to be trying to get on the same Greyhound bus I was going to get on. We were waiting outside the building when Grover nervously looked around, "Looking for the Furies?" I asked, using the more exact name.

Grover jumped up and looked at me, "I've known for a while," I admitted.

"Then-?"

"I know where to go, I just need to you to go find me in Montauk," I told him honestly.

"Why?" Grover asked.

"I would like one more night with my mother," I told him. Grover nodded and we startled hearing a motorcycle.

"Peeeeeerrrrrcccccyyyyyyy!" Sirius Black called out dramatically.

"Who is that?" Grover asked, a bit tense. He was likely sensing Sirius' Ghost Rider side.

"Family friend," I said and walked off. Sirius handed me a helmet and I put it on and motioned to my suitcase and then randomly James Potter comes by and grabbed it without barely stopping and threw it on the back of his bike so the suitcase would drive itself behind his bike. I held my hands up in disbelief while Sirius let out his bark like laugh. I got on the back behind Sirius and we drove off.

Sirius knew where I needed to go and we drove down the abandoned road and made a slight stop to see the Fates. My eyes widened. The yarn they cut was gray not blue. "Luke and Hermes will be relieved," Sirius mumbled and we both gave a nod in respect to the fates as we were still on the bike. They nodded back knowing we were happy to have that answer and that Luke's fate had changed.

As we pulled up to the manor, mom was already outside with a small bag as she would have to ditch it. We gave each other a slight small smile before getting into a second hand car (we didn't want a good new car to get destroyed) and drove off to Montauk with a wave to Thalia, Nico, Bianca, Ethan, and Leo watching through the window.