Cassandra Jackson: The Lightning Thief

My Pre Algebra Teacher

My name is Cassandra, just Cassandra. I was abandoned when I was born and I left my adopted family before I came to camp, so I never took a last name. And, let me just say this. Being a half-blood, is well, let me set the scene. You will never be safe, never be normal, possibly never know your godly parent, and probably not live pass the age of 18. Yeah yippy skippy. Great. You get it now? 

I am currently touring the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art with my 'class' at Yancy Academy. Now, I am not only a troubled kid, but a very smart one as well, apparently. I am in a 6th grade class, even though I am exposed to only be in 2nd grade. Yes I am 7 years old. But Chiron, yes the centaur, is pretending to be our teacher. The only friends I have is Grover Underwood, who I have known since I was 4 (I'll explain later), and Percy Jackson, who is a demigod as well.(But doesn't know) I actually met Percy because he stood up to bullies that were picking on my age. They call me 'teacher's pet' which, is probably true, since I have known him basically my whole life, and I am the only one who is fluent in both Latin and Greek. But after that, Percy became my friend, and I also "became" friends with Grover.

But as I was saying, we were on a field trip with "Mr. Brunner"(Chiron) and Mrs. Dodds, whom actually looks like she could ride a Harley Davidson into your locker. Which, is scary, also, Percy said that she didn't seem human, and Grover looked at him and said "You're absolutely right."

Which, is kinda scary if I do say so myself. But the whole trip was going great, until Nancy Bobofit started making awful statements on EVERY. SINGLE. LITTLE. THING. As you can see, It got annoying. I saw Percy trying so hard not to snap. So I grabbed his hand to try and calm him down. But when Nancy made another comment on probably Zeus, Hades, or Poseidon (those are the most graphic) he snapped.

He yelled "WILL YOU SHUT UP!" I mentally faced palmed. That good sir, is MY JOB TO DO THE RANDOM YELLING!

Everyone but Grover and I laughed. (And of course Percy) Mr.Brunner stopped and looked directly at Percy and asked,

"Mr. Jackson. Did you have a comment?" I hate it when he does that. Percy, whos face could compete with a tomato, replied

"No, sir." I feel bad for Percy. We had an episode with Nancy Bobofit before the trip, and as you can guess, it did not go well. And now he is getting in trouble for trying to get someone to listen.

But, Mr. Brunner asked him "Perhaps you'll tell us what this picture represents?" Percy looked at the carving and you could see relief flood his features "That's Kronos eating his kids, right?"

"Yes," Mr. Brunner said, obviously not satisfied. "And he did this because ..."

"Well..." Percy hesitated "Kronos was the king god, and-" I almost laughed. Chiron, son of a God?

Mr. Brunner interrupted "God?" he asked.

"Titan," he corrected himself. "And ... he didn't trust his kids, who were the gods. So, um, Kronos ate them, right? But his wife hid baby Zeus, and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead. And later, when Zeus grew up, he tricked his dad, Kronos, into barfing up his brothers and sisters-"

"Eeew!" said one of the girls behind us.

"-and so there was this big fight between the gods and the Titans," he continued, "and the gods won."

Eh, he did good. Annabeth would probably have given him a hour long lecture about how bad it was, but in my opinion, he did good.

Then, behind me, Nancy Bobofit mumbled to a friend, "Like we're going to use this in real life. Like it's going to say on our job applications, 'Please explain why Kronos ate his kids.'" I mean, she had a point, for a mortal. Not a half-blood.