A gift of the gods || Percy Jackson x My OC

6/Percy becomes impertinent

It was nice to always be able to blame someone. Those someone's are Greek gods and goddesses. For example if you are walking away from a bus that had been attacked by monsters and then blew up while raining. You think you have bad luck, as a demigod it just meant you were beefing a god.

That's what happened to Theadora, Annabeth, Percy and Grover. They were currently walking through the woods of New Jersey riverbank. Grover was shivering and braying, his goat eyes filled with terror. "All three kindly ones" he muttered still in shock

The explosion rung in their ears but Theadora and Annabeth still dragged them along.

"The further away the better" Theadora reminded them.

"All our money is back there and food, and clothes" Percy said reminding her

Theadora turned to face him"Maybe if you had left the bus—"

"What did you want me to do? Let you die?" He snapped her

"I don't need you to protect me Jackson! I would've been fine. The worst that would happen is that they'd drag us to Hades palace which would get the job done quicker" She turned around and continued walking

Grover was still shook up and kept muttering words about tin cans. The mud squelched and smelt of dirty laundry. Theadora overheard a conversation with Annabeth and Percy

"You coming back for us was brave." She admitted

"Atleast one person feels that way" He scoffed

"Theadora is difficult, as much as she'd like to admit she is a soft person with a hard shell. She doesn't want anyone getting hurt because of her"
Annabeth admitted

"Hey we're a team, Right?"

"Ya know this is one of my chances to see the world, the real world. So if you died, it would've sucked"

As they walked the sky dampened and light
Became no longer visible and all Percy could see was a tiny glint of Annabeth's blonde hair.

"You haven't left camp half blood since you were seven!" He asked

"Yeah, and all you do at camp is constantly train and train waiting for the moment you have to fight."

"Well I think you can really fight with that dagger"

As their conversation ended Theadora spotted lights in the middle of nowhere. She assumed it was a gas station. They walked towards the light and noticed it was some sort of warehouse looking place. The neon sign said: ATNYU MES GDERAN GOMEN MEPROIUM

"What in the hades does that say" Theadora tilted her head slightly trying to read it better

Percy along with Annabeth shrugged. Annabeth was so smart, they forgot she was dyslexic.

"Aunty ems garden gnome emporium" Grover translated

Flanking the entrance as advertised there were two garden gnomes, smiling like they were ready to get their picture taken. They were both plump with ugly triangle shaped beards.

"Ugh" Grover shuddered "this place gives me the creeps."

"Every place gives you the creeps" theadora reminded him "plus it might like a snack bar"

"Snack bar" Percy and Annabeth agreed

"Are you all crazy? this place is weird."
They all ignored him

The front garden was filled with cement statues of animals, humans and even one that looked like an older version of Grover playing reed pipes.
"Aghhhh" he jumped "that looks like uncle Ferdinand"