Percy Jackson: Trials

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The students piled in, questioning who I was and some girls even saying I looked young for a teacher. Even Leo joined.

"Hello everyone. My name is Perseus, but call me Mr. Jackson. I'm young for a teacher but I'm not actually qualified to be a teacher. I'm eighteen, turning nineteen in 3 months. I attended here when I was twelve, expelled that year too. Ah, life sucked for me back then. Anyways, introduce yourself and one fact about yourself." I said.

After the last student finished, I started.

"So, what did you guys do last class?" I asked rubbing my neck.

"Tests." A girl named Isabelle said. I nodded.

"Not marking those. I'm dyslexic, and ADHD." I said. "Who else has both?" I asked. Two kids raised their hands, Leo and a boy named Alex. "Ok, that's nice to know." I said and nodded.

"Well, what did your test go over?" I asked.

"Gods." Isabelle responded again.

"Well, now time for monsters. Who's heard of the Nemean Lion?" I said, no one raised their hands and I grinned.

"It's skin is impossible to cut through, making it almost impossible to kill. A hero, Hercules killed it with his bare hands! Tore its jaw, killing it. If you have an indestructible weapon, you can skin it and get its cloak. I have an example, not a real Nemean Lion, but a lion non the less. I said, getting my cloak out from my bag. I heard people gasp.

"Wait, what happed to your hand?" Some kid asked and Leo grinned, being the only one in the class that knows.

"It was bitten off by a lion. Feeding lions at a zoo isn't fun, it's what happens when you miss 8 months of high school being kidnap by your crazy aunt." I laughed and I got strange looks but everyone ignored it for the most part. I heard a knock on the door and opened it. I barely recognized the girl I once knew, who was now a women. Seeing your twelve year old tormenter is weird.

"Nancy?" I asked and she nodded. I waved her in.

"Never though I would see you in front of the class." She laughed. I gave her a hug. We're adults now, no reason for silly insults.

"I'm not actually a teacher. I'm just helping until the normal teacher returns. I was just telling them the tale of Hercules killing the Nemean Lion in the labour's." I said.

"And his hand." A random student called out. She gave me a questioning glance and I showed her. She gasped and then chuckled a little bit.

"Leave it to this guy to lose his hand. Is it bad that when we were kids I actually hoped something like this would happen?" She said nervously.

"Class, this is Nancy, or Miss Bobofit. We went to this school together when we were your age. She was my bully, and my friends bully." I laughed and she blushed.

"In my defence, you were a really hatable person." She shrugged.

"My bullies from the rest of my schools will agree with you. Now, since I'm teaching a class, you may sit down and watch if you please." I said and she sat down.

"You finish passing around the skin yet?" I asked, and some kid handed it back. I put it on, just for the fun of it. I put it away when the class was laughing.

"The lion killed many, for non could kill it, until Hercules, who was put into the 12 labour's for Hera to leave him alone. Hercules was a son of Zeus and a mortal women. Hera was jealous and tried to kill him constantly. The Nemean Lion was one of the trials. Now that I gave you an idea, I want you each to chose one monster out of these," I said writing names of monsters on the board.

"And write two pages about the monster, and the hero who defeated it, and the hero's parentage. It's due tomorrow so get started. Get a computer and get to it. Miss Bobofit, I want you to do one to, but you can choose out of all the monsters, and I want yours at the end of the class." I smirked and she grinned at me.

"To let you know, I'm not a stupid freckled kid anymore." She smirked at me.

"Not as freckled, we'll see if your stupid or not." I grinned at her. I sat and looked through the files of teaching and what has been done this year. I think I figured out what I want to after these trials.

About half an hour later, Nancy got up and showed me here 6 pages of 3 different monsters. I was really impressed.

"What have you been doing all these years?" I asked reading through the pages, surprisingly not having any problems.

"Well, after you left, I studied really hard and started high school early, I then finished high school early, since then Ive been studying and trying to decide what college I want to go to. I still don't know what I want to do with my life." She explained. By the looks of it, she's been out of school for two years.

"And since then I did nothing but get horrible grades and near death experiences that got me in trouble with authorizes." I laughed and she laughed along.

"I know your a demigod. I'm a clear sighted mortal. Don't worry, I never told anyone. Now, what really happened to that hand of yours?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. So I told her the truth. From getting betrayed and accused of being a traitor, to now.

"Well, since you told me that, I guess I can tell you something I never told you." She said. Her face was red and she looked down. This was a side of Nancy I've never seen. "Back when I first met you, I instantly had this huge crush on you. I bullied you and Grover so you would notice me, but I guess that was stupid cause all I did was make you hate me.

"So once you left, I studied so much and got better, and I promised myself if I ever saw you again, I would tell you how much smarter I've gotten cause I know I messed up and knew you would hate me so much." She said, breathing heavily from the about of breaks she took. "I wanted to tell you how sorry I was for being such a stupid girl back then." She said again.

"Hey, I don't hold very many grudges. We were kids Nancy. I can't say I ever felt the same way, but before you started acting stupid I thought you alright. Hate is a strong word, strongly dislike would be the word for back then. And I've always known you would change." I said, standing up in front on her. She blushed and looked down. I couldn't help but smile, I don't know how I feel for her, love, trust? I don't think I'll ever know, but one things for sure, I forgive her.