The Untold Truth

Chapter 8-Story Time

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Nico's POV-
After Percy asked if anyone knew about Greek and Roman myths, only a few people raised there hands. Sally and Paige rose there hands along with two other teachers and Minerva. Most of the Ravenclaw table raised their hands and a girl in Gryffindor. Other than that everyone looked confused. I looked at Paige and Sally, "You two obviously know what they are." I turned back to the students. "The Greeks and Romans have a set of gods that they believed in, well all those gods are real. So are the myths. That is including demigods. We-"
"Wait so does that mean that Hercules is real?" asked the girl in Gryffindor.
"Don't even mention that jerks name in my presence. He should never have been turned into a god." Percy answered.
"You've meet him?" that girl asked.
"Sort of, I didn't ever talk to him but I heard how he treated my friends." Percy answered.
"Wow," the girl said.
"As I was saying, we are demigods." I said pointing at Percy, Draco and I. "I'm am the son of Hades." I told them. I watched as almost every single one of their faces turned to disbelief.
"We are twin sons of Poseidon," Percy said. "That is just the beginning of our story. Should I tell you guys the long or short version?" he asked. Nearly everyone in the room called for the short version. "Okay then you guys might want to get comfortable." he waved his wand turning all the seats into armchairs and he made the tables disappear. He moved the teachers to sit in front of us also. "My story starts back when I was twelve. I went to a school called Yancy Academy. Also, important fact. I was Percy Jackson in those days. I went on a field trip with my class. Two teachers came, Mr. Brunner and Miss Dodds. It was a museum with a bunch of Greek things and such. For lunch we sat outside. My best friend, Grover, and I sat far away from everyone else. We didn't want to be labeled as one of 'those' kids. We were sitting on the edge of a water fountain when Nancy, the ugliest girl in our school, came over and dumbed her lunch on Grover's lap. Next thing I know Nancy's in the fountain complaining about how I pushed her. Miss Dodds came over and took me inside, where she turned into a kindly one and tried to kill me. I defeated her with the pen Mr. Brunner threw at me when he rolled in with Grover. After I killed her, she burst into golden dust, then I went outside and the entire school made me feel like I was going crazy saying there was never any Miss Dodds. That went on for the rest of the year. I ended up getting expelled. All that good stuff. When I was going to get on the bus to leave forever Grover caught up to me saying he was on the same bus. The bus broke down. We saw some old ladies cut string and look at me. Which should mean I should die but me being me lived on. Grover started acting really weird so the first chance I got I ditched him. Yeah I know I'm a great friend. I got home and things happened. My mom and I went to the beach. I didn't mention anything about what happened during the school year. That night I had weird dreams before waking up to a knock on the front door. My mom went to the door and she opened it and there was Grover, but he looked panicked and also he was half goat. Yeah surprise. He got mad at Sally for being me to the beach after everything that happened this year. She had no idea what happened cause I didn't tell her. Oops? She hopped in the car and started driving us somewhere. We got attacked by a bull man. Half bull half man. He took my mom in a shower of golden dust. I killed the bull man and dragged Grover over to this big house where I passed out but not before seeing a girl and a guy with eyes all over his body. I was nursed to health over the next few days. I woke up and met the camp director and found out Mr. Brunner was actually Chiron. Trainer of heroes and all the good stuff. The blonde girl showed me around camp and this big mean girl came over and tried to dunk my head in the toilet, it did not turn out well for her or her sisters. They spent the a while trying to figure our who my dad was. When capture the flag came along I was on the blondes team. She set me on border patrol. The ugly girl from earlier found me along with most of her cabin and they kept beating me up. They left me partly in the water. What none of us knew was that water heals me. It also makes me stronger. I beat up everyone there and they all lay beaten on the ground. My team came with their flag. We won the game. There was a growl behind me and I was attacked my a hellhound. It was quickly killed but I got injured again. Annabeth, the blonde, told Chiron to watch then she pushed me into the river. Everyone gasped before bowing down. I looked up and saw the sign of Poseidon fading away. I had been claimed." he paused.
"Can water really heal you?" someone asked.
"Yes, would you like me to prove it?" he asked. There were a bunch of yeses. He looked at the teachers for permission. They nodded. "Draco get some water," he said. He pulled out his pen and uncapped it. He then proceeded to cut his wrist. We watched as blood started to drip from him. He raised it to show everyone. Draco handed him a glass of water. We each put our wands on the ground to prove we weren't doing magic. Percy then proceeded to raise the water above his head and touch it with his finger, wrist out so everyone could see it. We watched as the water traveled to the wound and the skin started to knit together. Once everyone was satisfied, Percy continued to tell his story. When he got to the part where I came in he stopped. "Nico, tell your story then we'll keep going."
I went and stood in front. "Draco is that boy you were talking about here?"
"Yeah."
"Call him up here, I want to meet him."
"Blaise, get up here." a boy about the same age as Draco walked up to us.
"Hello, Blaise, remember that story you'd tell people about, the one about your family member that disappeared at age ten with his older sister and his mom was blown up in a hotel?"
"Yes," he boy said hesitantly.
"Well I find it flattering that you founded me interesting enough to talk about."
"What."
"That family member, that is me."
"But that was over seventy years ago, you barely look sixteen."
"It's a story that I will tell everyone." I told him. I turned to everyone else. "My story starts in the 1930s. I was born January 28, just so you guys know. My sister and I were with our mother and dad who we didn't see often at a hotel. They were discussing important things when the hotel blew up. My sister and I managed to survive but our mother didn't make it. Our dad took us to this hotel place were we were there for about seventy years but to us it seemed like two weeks. After all those years a lawyer came and got us out. We were taken to a military school where Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Grover found us. Annabeth fell of a cliff while trying to kill this monster thing. We meet Artemis and her hunters. My sister joined them and became immortal and could only die in battle. She was sent on a quest with two other hunters and Grover. There was supposed to be another hunter but she was pranked and could not come. Percy snuck away following them. Before he left he promised he'd keep my sister save, but when he came back there were two less hunters and he brought Annabeth, both of them now sporting match strands of gray hair. He pulled me aside and told me that she gave her life for everyone else's and that she wanted him to give me this figurine," I said holding up the Hades figurine. "I took it from his hands and told him I hated him which is not true. Some skeletons showed up and Percy told me to run that they were after him not me, but I couldn't leave him. I feel to my knees and screamed the ground swallowed the skeletons. Frightened I ran into the woods. That was just the beginning of my time as a demigod." I told the crowd. They all looked at me shocked.
"So your like...86?" some person asked.
"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Everyone in the room shock their head no. "Good." then Percy and I kept telling our story, up till now. Let's say though that I left out what happened when I met Cupid. When we were done with our story everyone just kind of sat there frozen. Percy had tears running down his face from all loses.
"I think that's good for tonight," Draco said. We nodded and wiped our eyes.
Sally got up and ran to us," You never told me that it was that bad, Percy."
"I didn't want to worry you."
"Percy," she mumbled. She turned to me. "You've been through so much." She pulled me in for a hug and for once I hugged back.