Curse of the Triblood

Chapter 3

Percy POV

I had just got home after ditching Grover in the subway. The sword had turned back into a pen while the spear had turned into a coin. I placed both into my pocket wondering how they got so small and changed shape. The coin was golden, and one side had a skull on it while the other had an image of the sky. I got to the mansion and took a deep sigh in relief.

The mansion has been around for a while. Something about Edward Jackson, some guy from my family that came from England, he built this mansion and we have lived here since. It looked nice, really nice. It was made of beige bricks and had four floors. The front yard was two city blocks long and consisted of a giant garden, with lush green. The driveway was just a road that led to the front of the house and once it reached the house the road curved back into itself so that you left the same way you came in.

There was a fountain the size of an Olympic swimming pool in front of the house that would always shoot water into the air just like that one fountain in Las Vegas. There were gardeners around the property and I always thought they looked a little... off. Sometimes I would see them and their eyes green. Not like the normal green, no, the whites of their eyes were green. Their skin color would be off and sometimes I would see them grow things that were not there a few minutes prior. I reached the gate and rang the buzzer to get in.

"Who is it?" a security guard asked from the speaker.

"It's Percy," I said, tired.

"Oh, Mr. Jackson! Please, come in," he told me. The gates opened and I walked to the house. Before that, I was tackled to the ground by a grey blur. It began to lick my face and inspect my body.

"Vasilias, down boy! I missed you too! I was only gone for a day," I told him. It was a long and confusing and scary day but still only a single day. Vasilias then noticed my scars and began to growl. My younger siblings knocked me back down once I was almost up.

"Percy!" Sammy screamed. "Alex is bothering me," she told me. "He says red is a girl color but it's not, it's a boy color. Tell him, tell him!"

"Red is a girl color. It always has been and always will be!" Alex said proudly as if figuring out the secret to life.

"I like red," I told them. Both looked shocked at this idea. "Yup, and I'm not a girl. At least I don't think I am the last time I checked. How about we say red is a boy and girl color?" The two looked at each other suspiciously.

"Deal!" they said in unison. I was going to say something else when Alyssa came out.

"So, how was the trip? Did you meet any nice girls? When's the wedding?" Alyssa teased trying to get on my nerves and succeeding. She saw my scars and looked concerned. I was going to say something when she dragged me into the house and told the other two rug-rats to come quickly. We went inside, she told Alex to get mom and told Sammy to get Brian. She told them once they did that to stay in their rooms. We all met in dad's office, Vasilias came with me as if waiting for something wrong to happen.

"What is it you want Alyssa? I have a meeting with my manager in like twenty minutes," Brain said.

" I think we should go on a vacation!" she said. "We haven't had on in a while."

"Honey, we went to Aruba last month," dad reasoned.

"Yeah but I think it would be good for Percy to choose where. He never gets a say," she said. Everyone looked at her and noticed her emphasizing me with a big white smile. They looked at me and looked at my scars. I was not sure if I should say anything about it. I mean who would believe I had a freaking superhero healing factor. Mom's eyes narrowed and to see how bad the scars were.