Percy Jackson - Reborn

Chapter 5 - Taking Out the Trash

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or HoO, Rick Riordan does. (Uncle Rick)

Chapter 5

Taking Out the Trash

I grit my teeth as another piece of a sandwich hit Grover in the back of the head. Nancy Boba-Fet, something like that, was continuously throwing pieces of her sandwich at my best friend, Grover. Grover was the average guy except he had a major thing for enchiladas and walked funny because of something with his hip. Finally, out of nowhere, my hand shot out and grabbed another piece of sandwich right out of mid-air as it flew at Grover's head. I blinked. Grover looked at me, a bit surprised as I quickly chucked the piece over the seat and I heard my target scream as I smirked. Grover quickly glanced up at Mr. Brunner and Mrs. Dodds, the teachers leading this trip. Mr. Brunner was awesome, Mrs. Dodds made the Umbradge person from that one book series, Parry Hotter or something look nice. Mrs. Dodds was about as evil as a teacher could get. You get caught whispering to your friend in class and you get a months worth of detention. Yeah, what a teacher. Mr. Brunner, on the other hand was awesome, as previously stated. In his class he showed us cool Greek and Roman artifacts, and occasionally would pull out a sword and yell "Unguard!" and things like that. He was cool, about as cool as a teacher could possibly get.

Thankfully, so I didn't lose my mind Nancy stopped throwing pieces of sandwich into the back of Grover's hair. Grover had been constantly telling me to chill out because I was already on probation, and one more incident and I would find myself being kicked out of school. Yancy Academy was basically a school of lunatics. Everybody here was screwed up and had several things wrong with them. Well, few kids had real issues, like I did with ADHD and Dyslexia. Most of them were as previously stated: lunatics that sucked at being human. Mrs. Dodds fit into that category very well. The bus came to a stop as we reached our destination. It was some museum about Greek and Roman things because Mr. Brunner had good influence. I yawned as I got up and we got off the bus, walking over to the museum. We got our tickets or whatever and went inside. We looked at all the different things until we came to this memorial for some dead girl. That's when Brunner called on me. "Percy, could you please tell me what this picture represents?" I looked up at the picture, and it was quite obvious. "Kronos eating his kids." I said as I looked over to Brunner.

Nodding, he asked "And why did Kronos do this?" I answered instantly, to the surprise of my classmates and Grover: "Well, if I'm correct there was a prophecy that his kids would overthrow him. So, to prevent that, he ate his godly children, all except for Zeus because his mother, Rhea, fed Kronos a rock instead because she was sick of her husband eating her children. Zeus then trained on some island and went and fed Kronos something that made him throw up his brothers and sisters, then they started the great war or whatever you would like to call it and they won and yeah, the world changed and the Olympian council was formed from the ashes of the war." Grover looked at me, shocked as Brunner and Dodds both looked at me strangely. Grover whispered to me something about how I knew that and I gave some lazy response as Brunner went back to talking. After finishing the memorial, I frowned because the memorial seemed kind of familiar. We walked outside to take our lunch break. I winced. The sky didn't look nice at all. Winds had started and I estimated we had about ten minutes before a storm started. Grover and I sat down on the side of a fountain in the area our class was eating in. All I brought was an apple, and Grover didn't have anything. "Can I have it?" He asked after a minute of me just holding it, and I nodded and handed it over. I just listened to the sound of the fountain for a few minutes until Nancy Boba-Fet walked up with a tray of garbage. She threw it right down on Grover's lap and laughed. "Oh, my! Whoops!" Anger roared in my ears, and I felt a tug in my gut and the next thing I knew, Nancy was on the ground and the old hag was by us. After comforting Nancy, Dodds looked right at me.

"Come with me, honey." She snarled, and sighing I stood up. "Wait, no, Mrs. Dodds, he didn't push her! I did!" Grover jumped up frantically saying, but I knew him lying would do us no good. "Now." Dodds snarled and I gave Grover a 'you tried' look. I turned back to Dodds and suddenly she was way up at the stairs into the museum. I frowned. How did she get there that fast? I walked over to her and started climbing the stairs. Looking back, Grover seemed to be trying to get Mr. Brunner's attention. I sighed as I looked back as I reached the top of the stairs, and frowned when Dodds was already in the museum. I kept following her for a while, becoming more and more certain she was somehow teleporting. Finally we got back to the exhibit from earlier, and Dodds turned to me and snarled "We've been having troubles with you, honey." I just raised an eyebrow. "What's your fat ass gonna do, give me a month's worth of erasing textbooks?" I asked, which I guess that was the wrong answer because she snarled against and suddenly started turning into this thing, like a weird looking creature. She looked like one of those Furies from my text books in Brunners class. "You went from hideous to super hideous." I commented and she snarled even more. Hot damn. "Give me it! Give me it now!" She snarled at me and I just looked at her like 'What?' It was at this point Brunner wheeled in holding a ballpoint pen. "Gung Ho, Percy!" He yelled his signature line he always shouted in class as he tossed the pen towards me. However, as it flew in the air towards me, I jumped towards it and grabbed it. Once I was on the ground, I was holding a sword.

Behind me, I heard Dodds snarl and I wheeled around, slashing the sword up as I went low. I let my body act on instinct and I did just what felt right. Dodds quickly got out of the way of my swing as I jumped at her and slashed down and she dodged again. She came at me full speed, but I was faster. I jumped up as I slashed my sword down and I sliced right through her, and she screeched as she disintegrated into dust. I landed on my feet in an epic pose before I stood. There had to be security cameras around here, right? Crap. I quickly bolted towards the direction of where my class was supposed to be. I bolted out the towards and down the stairs towards Mr. Brunner. I realized I wasn't holding a sword anymore, but a ballpoint pen. I frowned. "Ah, yes, Mr. Jackson, my pen. I would ask you to return my utensils sooner." He said and I just gave him a look as I handed it over and walked back over to Grover. Nancy caught me on my way over to him. "I hope Ms. Leonardo gave you detention for the rest of the year." She laughed at me and I frowned. "Leonardo? Sounds like Leonard Da Vinci." I said and she rolled her eyes. "Don't play stupid, Jackson." I just flipped her off when Brunner was watching his magazine and I sat down next to Grover. "Who's this new Leonardo person? She sounds like a Ninja Turtle." I said and Grover said "What do you mean? Ms. Leonardo is our math teacher." He frowned, but I could tell by his tone of voice and his eyes he was lying. "You're a terrible liar." I said and he held up his hands in surrender. "I'm honest!" I rolled my eyes because the was my new trend and I relaxed back until we went back through the museum to explore the parts we hadn't gotten to earlier.

Eventually we got back on the bus and went to Yancy Academy. The rest of the year was smooth sailing. Of course I wasn't invited back to Yancy. At one point some kid made me mad and I decked him, sending him flying back like ten feet. It surprised me, but trust me, the Principal was not happy. It was whatever, I didn't care. As nice as Yancy Academy was it was a school for lunatics. All I knew was that I was going to miss Mr. Brunner and Grover. I had failed all my exams except for Brunner's of course, and I assumed my mom would have to try and cope with getting me into another school. I was on the bus that was taking me back to the city. Grover sat next to me, looking nervous. All of a sudden there was a loud bang and the bus driver yelled. He pulled over and told us all to get off. Dandy. Grover and I were standing, waiting for the bus driver to get the bus working again when I looked over to some weird stand and saw three old ladies. They were knitting yawn, and one held up some string. Taking scissors, she snipped the piece of yarn and I could hear the snip from all the way over here. I blinked. Grover started freaking out. Suddenly the bus engine roared and the bus driver shouted in victory. "Get back on!" He yelled at us and Grover and I got back on. Grover was still losing it, and he was trembling. When our stop arrived, he ran off to the bathroom and I quickly grabbed a taxi.

I felt bad for Grover but I felt like I needed some time from him. He was acting really weird and I figured he needed to sort some things out. I got back to my mom's apartment, and growled. The place reeked of alcohol, as always, except even worse somehow. As I walked in, Gabe, the smelly garbage bag turned to me. "Ah, it's the little brat. Your money." He demanded and I rolled my eyes and tossed the leftover money at him, and he chucked a beer bottle at me which I quickly dodged and ran into my room. It was full of garbage and reeked of alcohol and Gabe. I tried to set my bag in the least filthy area, and after a minute of sitting on my terrible bed, my mom walked in the room. She smiled at me as she held my report card, and I gulped. It sucked. She sighed as she sat on the bed and put an arm around me and I leaned into her. We had a heart to heart moment, and eventually she told me we were going to our cabin. My eyes widened. "What?!" I yelled happily, and she nodded. "We're going to be leaving now, sweetie. I've packed your stuff already and it's in the car." Nodding happily, we walked out to Gabe. "I didn't agree to this!" Gabe yelled so I grabbed an empty beer bottle and got behind him and broke it on the back of his head. He crumpled to the ground and his buddies looked at me in shock. I glared at them and my mom and I walked out after she grabbed her purse. We got in Gabe's car, and drove off. I looked out the window and watched as we went through the city to get to our cabin. New York was beautiful. I loved the city, I had grown up here and it was home. I smiled as I talked to my mom on the drive. Summer would be starting off alright this year. Things were actually looking up for once.

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AN: Hope you like where I am going with this story. It's going to be interesting once I get into the main conflict. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and see you in the next one!