AN: I know, I know...but I owe it to my man Engineer4Ever for his AWESOME reading of SHDG one and the soon to be updated SHDG II. So enjoy the day-to-day updating!
Reading The Ever Twisting Wind: The Lightning Thief
Chapter I
The Gods of Olympus had convened for the annual Winter Solstice meeting, with all of the Olympians including the usually forbidden Hades and the former chair-holder Hestia in attendance. As his twin children bickered over some trivial matter, Zeus sighed. He had recently ordered the return of all the Gods to Olympus, even his punished son Dionysus had been called back.
He was starting to regret that decision because of the constant bickering.
A sudden flash of light gained all of the Gods and Goddesses' attentions, and as the light dimmed, they were surprised to see the Seven Heroes, Thalia Grace of the Hunters and Nico di Angelo appear before them.
"What is the meaning of this?" Zeus demanded, looking around the chambers for the reason behind their appearance. "Apollo? Hermes?"
"Don't look at me!" said Apollo. He held his hands up and waved them in an attempt to dissolve any possible suspicion towards him.
"Wasn't me either," said Hermes.
"Allow me to explain," said a hooded figure, stepping out of a portal of light. The Gods regarded the stranger with suspicion and the figure raised his hands in a gesture of peace. "My title is The Seer. I see beyond realms, observing, watching...Kind of like The Watcher, but I get a glance at a larger spectrum."
"Nice reference." Apollo said.
"Thank you."
"And your purpose here?" the King of the Gods asked, his hand firmly gripping the master bolt.
"To give you all a break," said The Seer. He gestured to the dazed and confused demigods. "They've got the fight of a lifetime coming up and you guys have all your togas in a twist about this new prophecy from Rachel Elizabeth Dare. As it is, I'd say you've all earned a nice relaxing story."
Some of the Gods murmured in agreement while the demigods thanked their respective parents for this story. Zeus, however, continued to watch the hooded figure warily.
"And how would we get this 'break'?" he asked.
The Seer chuckled. "With my presence, time ceases to exist. In a way, I've brought you all to my world, rather than invaded your own. Think of it as a short paid vacation."
"What do you plan to do?" Poseidon asked. His brother looked at him and he shrugged. "Might as well go with the flow."
"That's why everyone likes you," said the smirking Seer. "Now, I'm sure most of us here don't need an explanation of magic or a certain Boy-Who-Lived, do we?"
"…You're not going to read Harry Potter to us, are you?" Apollo asked bluntly. His twin rolled her eyes.
"Well...Not exactly," said The Seer. "You see, in my infinite gaze, I have stumbled across many different versions of the same universe, some tweaks large, some small. However, it's the ones I see with Heroes never born in other worlds that are the most impressive. In one such world, we have a heroine who might have become his equivalent if it weren't for one thing: Her father James was a stepfather."
"She's a demigod?" asked Hera with a frown. The Seer chuckled.
"Oh yes...Watch the screen," he said, gesturing to the silvery ripple that appeared behind him. "This will show you images relevant to what you read." He snapped his fingers and a large book appeared, the daughter and Goddess of Wisdom's eyes sparkled at the size of it. "I leave the first reader to you. Enjoy your stay." The Seer bowed his head and vanished in a similar flash of light.
"So now what?" Percy asked. A large sofa appeared at the feet of the Gods, large enough to sit the eight demigods, and snacks appeared around them. A small note with the word 'enjoy' was set on the center cushion.
"We read, obviously," said Dionysus with a snort. "Goodness Johnson, you could at least try to pay attention."
"But who reads first?" Piper asked as she took a seat next to her boyfriend.
"I'll do it," said Frank with a shrug. The book spun in mid air at the volunteer before flying down to his hands, average sized. "…Okay, that was pretty cool."
"Begin reading, Frank Zhang!" Zeus decreed; his eyes narrowing as he tried to calm down from his interaction with The Seer.
Being a Half-Blood isn't easy one could say. I should know, trouble loves me like I was something wrapped in bacon. Where to start? Oh, my name, yes, my name. Hello all, my name is Andromeda Azalea Potter, but you can call me Andi and I am a demigod. That's not all, for you see I am also a witch or a magical person for better wording.
"I dunno, a witch is pretty self explanatory," said Annabeth.
Hm? What do I look like? Oh how rude to forget such a thing. Well, I have short raven black hair, kind of like a pixie cut with a few bangs over my forehead; at least it hides my lightning bolt scar on the left side of my forehead.
"What a bastard," said Aphrodite with a scowl. "Marring a poor girl's forehead. That's right in plain view, you know!"
I use these two yellow lightning bolt hairclips my mom had given me to hold up my hair on the other side most of the time. Now, my eyes you ask? Well, I have been told I have my mother's eyes, which is weird since they were emerald green as mine are electric blue, but you know what they say about people seeing only what they want to see. I'm a bit short, about 5'1 while nearly 13, it sucks. Am I pretty? Well, people say I am, extremely so, but I take it with a grain of salt.
To start it off with the story of my life, my parents were murdered whilst I was at the tender age of one from a psychopath, but I will get into him later as he is the bane of my life. The jerk.
"That's actually pretty mild. I would be calling the bane of my life something else," said Hazel, her brother nodding in agreement.
After my parents were killed, I was sent to my magical hating aunt. You see my mom, Lily Potter nee Evans, wife of James Potter, got it all. The looks, the brains, the parental praise, the magic~ while my Aunt Petunia, got nothing but her horse neck and was bitter at my mother for it. She married a walrus of a man named Vernon Dursley who smelled really bad and had a pig of a son named Dudley, who also smelled bad if not a little worse.
The image that popped up made everyone cringe. Apollo shook his head with distaste. "I mean I know that they were rather 'normal' in the film portrayal but...damn."
"How horrid! Get it off the screen!"
"Would you both knock it off?" Artemis asked, annoyed at the vanity her twin and the Lady of Doves showed.
"They've got a point," said Thalia to her patron Goddess. She looked away after a second glance. "Those are some gnarly pictures."
So from age 1 to 11, I lived in the cupboard under the staircase of my prison. I was forced to wear my obese cousin's hand me downs, making me look like some hobo child in need of a hot meal. I was made to cook, clean, do the choirs, and was basically a child slave to these people or as I like to call them, things I share blood with.
"Now wait just a damn minute!" said Apollo with a frown. He pulled his signed and limited edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone out, pointing at it as he flipped open the first chapter featuring young Harry. "Rowling was making Potter out to be like Oliver Twist, an orphan raised in Victorian London, showing her love for classic fiction; he was not a slave! The hell is wrong with this universe?"
"Well we are seeing it from the child's point of view," said Athena informatively. Apollo huffed and put his book down.
Now, school, ah, this is where it got fun. I always got in trouble in school; weird things always followed me no matter where I went.
"That sounds familiar," said Percy dryly.
I pretty much bounced through every public school in the neighborhood district and the ones around them! I didn't have any real friends, there was this one kid, Clover or something,
"Ha! Clover…Remind me to use that next time I see him," said Thalia with a smirk while Annabeth giggled and Percy snickered.
he was crippled, but I changed schools so fast I only knew him for about 2 months before I was booted. Saw him in my next school though, it was nice to have someone to talk to, Dudley tried to make sure I had no friends. But good old Clover was as stubborn as a goat. One of the reasons I was booted around was because I was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, the thing that is my uncle just says I'm stupid, while I call him a fat whale that needs to be harpooned. Good thing I'm fast enough to run off when he tries to punish me for my mouth.
What? I was just telling the truth.
"I hear ya," said Apollo with a frown. "I say it like it is and I get hit or yelled at. What's up with that?"
"Because no one wants to hear the truth?" Hermes replied humorously.
"…Who asked you?"
I prided myself for being so physically fit even if I'm a bit malnourished from the things I have to live with. An example of that would be the Andi Hunts that my cousin and his 'gang' of idiots did. I always out run then, so they give up most of the time. One time, the very last one, I did get caught by them and they tried to beat me up, I took a rock and nailed one of them in the face with it, giving him a good scar across his face and a shattered nose.
"Nice!" Percy said in approval. He wasn't a fan of bullies.
I smiled at that, showing them I wasn't afraid to hurt them back. I got grounded for 5 months, but it was worth it. At least Dudders stopped his Andi Hunts. He also kind of started to cry every time I picked up a rock. The baby.
"Well with previous experiences of her having a rock, I'm not that surprised," said Thalia with a smirk.
Now, fast forward to my 11th birthday on July 31st. I kept getting these letters via owls.
"So this is where the Potter portion kicks in," said Apollo, readying his copy of the first book for more silent (or verbal) comparisons.
I know! The weird quickly got weirder, though. Eventually the Dursleys couldn't take all the letters and we fled to some tiny island house on a small rock of land. While we crossed the water, the boat was nearly crushed under a large wave. I never did like large bodies of water; they gave me the willies.
"Not mine," said Poseidon with a bit of a jealous frown. Having the female Potter as a kid would've been neat and a great bragging point.
Next thing I knew, a giant of a man named Hagrid barged into the home, giving me one of the letters the Dursleys were running from and so, I read it. I was accepted into a magical school. It turns out that my parents weren't reckless drunks that died in a car crash, they were a witch and a wizard, and I was finally told that a psychopath trying to kill me murdered them, and I somehow killed him.
"I'd say something, but I'd have to deal with complaints about spoilers because someone won't finish the books already!" Apollo gave a dirty look to Artemis.
"It's not my fault that other things keep popping up," said the Goddess of the Hunt with a sniff. She was almost done with the fifth book, after all.
My uncle said that I wasn't allowed to go. I don't know how, but that made me so mad, really mad that I started to spark and somehow unleashed a gale of wind, sending my uncle through the wall of the tiny shack and into the storming ocean.
"I was hoping it was someone else, perhaps a child of Boreas," said Hades with a grumble as his youngest brother swelled with pride. Hera bristled and the Grace siblings exchanged wide grins. They had a witch as their sister.
Awesome.
"Nice aim," said Poseidon with a chuckle.
I smirked, serves him right.
After that, I left with Hagrid on his flying motorcycle; I know, epic right?
"Hm, something to look into," said Leo with a scratch of his chin.
And made it to the magical shopping distract. Turns out my parents were rich and I was actually a millionaire, well, in wizard money anyway. So I decided to splurge a bit on some items. I mean, living dirt cheap for as long as I have and you would also want to spend some cash right? So after getting my schoolbooks and other things, like my pet snow owl named Hedwig,
"An excellent pet," said Athena with a smirk while Annabeth nodded in agreement.
"Bit of a mess if you keep 'em caged for too long though," said Ares with a smirk.
"Knowledge is to be shared, not hoarded," his war sister replied with a frown.
who was a birthday gift from Hagrid, it was time to get my wand from the ever-creepy Mr. Ollivander.
None of the wands worked for me, even one that was holly wood with a Phoenix feather core in it. The old wand maker pulled out a thin white box that held a beautiful wand made of oak. It was 12 inches long, good for charms, and the core held hair from a 'magic goat'.
"Interesting." Zeus rumbled with a small scratch of his beard.
Apparently my father gave the wand to him. Of course I still had to pay for it. But, it was like my father gave me a birthday present, so I was happy.
"Well the first thing I got was my spear," said Thalia with a nostalgic sigh.
So, after all was said and done, I left on the magical train at September and entered the world of magic. On the train, I met my first friends, first was the ginger haired Ronald Weasley, from a 'pureblood' magical family. And the other was Hermione Granger, a girl my age. After the train, Hagrid led us to the docks, where we boarded some boats that sailed themselves towards a large structure in the distance. When we came up on the school, I gaped at the castle. Yes, that's right, a castle! These wizards seemed to be stuck in the dark ages.
"Kid's got a point," said Hephaestus gruffly. "We all adapted to the times…well some more so than others."
"Classics kick ass," said Ares while he picked his ear.
It's really strange; they still use quills and parchment! As well as a magical hat that sorted the other first years like us into one of four houses; I was almost sent into Slytherin, the house known for producing strong yet most likely dark wizards, but thankfully I was placed in Gryffindor, the same house as my mother and father.
"Well she's half right," said Hera with a glower.
Ron's an okay bloke, eats a bit like a pig, a Quidditch enthusiast, it's basically football on magical brooms, or soccer for you yanks. He is also a chess genius, but not really the most polished wand in the shop either. Next is Hermione Granger, a 'muggle born', basically a person with no magic in their family that suddenly had developed it. Hermione has bushy brown hair and likes to march to the tune of authority, but is very kind and caring. She's a bookworm, too, and didn't have many friends in muggle schools. Muggles are the name for people without magic. Stupid, I know, I think mundane sounds better and is less degrading.
"…No, Muggles is way more fun to say," said Leo with a grin. "Muggles, muggles, muggles, muggles."
"Better than 'mortals', too," said Nico with a hum. Leo's grin widened and the demigods shook their heads, already knowing what the son of Hephaestus was thinking.
You see, we weren't really friends until Halloween night, the same night my parents were killed. That night a troll got into the school, a 12-foot tall mountain troll. Hermione was in the bathroom crying since Ron was a twit and said she had no friends and was a stuck up know it all. I punched him for that.
"Well in his defense she was being a bit of a know it all even if she didn't mean to," said Percy. Annabeth shook her head, silently siding with Hermione on this one.
So I dragged him to the bathroom and we found Hermione cornered by the troll. Ron and I tried to fight it off, but it seemed to take a liking to me and tried its best to kill me.
"Well, gee, I can only wonder why?" said Thalia blandly. That was one thing she loved about being a Hunter, constant payback against the creatures that terrorized her and other demigods at young ages.
It picked me up in its meaty hand and hoisted me in front of its face and smelt me, then roared in my face. It needed a breath mint. I stuck my wand up its nose and somehow I let out a strong electric blast, blowing its head to pieces.
"Gross," said Percy with a frown.
"Effective, though," said Jason with an amused chuckle.
"He's got a point there," said Nico.
It was from then on the three of us became a close-knit trio of friends. Corny, I know, but I like saying it like that, it sounds more dramatic.
Next was broom flying class, you could call it gym, but in the air. On a broom, I was a natural; it was like the wind ignored me as I flew like a hawk through the air.
"Cheater!" Apollo proclaimed. He looked at Zeus when there was a distant rumbling. "She is! C'mon, half the challenge to broom flying is fighting the wind. That's like letting Jackson compete in the Olympics for the United States' swim team."
"Apollo shows his brains once more," said Hades with a chuckle. "Rare, though it may be."
"Oh go stuff a jewel in it."
I was so good that I was doing moves even pros have a hard time doing. I even managed to get on my house's team as the seeker, the position that ends the game by catching the Golden Snitch. The Snitch was a little golden golf ball with wings. Also, I was the youngest player in the last century to be a player...I was the talk of the hallways; it was nice to be appreciated for my skill.
"The truth must hurt when she learns of it," said Hades with a smirk. Zeus frowned, as did his two demigod children.
I won my first game, too. I was a bit nervous, but I knew I could do it. Even though I did nearly swallow the Snitch and die all at the same time from someone trying to hex my broom.
"Spoiler alert: It wasn't Snape!" said Apollo, getting Artemis to growl at him for the false alarm.
Next on the adventure was Christmas, my first one that I ever got presents!
"Harsh…but accurate," said Hermes as he flipped through the book he snatched from Apollo.
I got a knitted sweater from Ron's mum with an A on it; she was a sweet woman. Some homemade cookies and other magical knickknacks, but the biggest thing was the Invisibility Cloak.
"Makes me wonder the origin of that item," said Hades, giving his brother a look that Zeus ignored.
Annabeth frowned. "Makes me miss my hat."
It was my father James'. I heard he used it to cause a bit of mischief during his school days with it. While wearing it, I was completely erased from view. It was wicked.
"It is very wicked," said Nico with a smirk to Annabeth's deepened frown.
Following that would the epic climax of that year: the spirit of the man that killed my parents and was after the Philosopher Stone to resurrect his body while possessing my Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I know; it was a lot to take in.
"She says that now," said Percy. Annabeth rolled her eyes.
"Well hopefully she takes it well, better than you do," she said to her boyfriend, who pouted at her.
So me, Ron and Hermione set off to stop him since the headmaster was off doing government stuff and the other teachers didn't believe us. We put a Cerberus to sleep,
"An interesting method, by the way," said Hermes as he read that scene.
fought off a deadly strangling plant, flew on a broom to get a flying key that was in a horde of other flying keys, played the meanest and deadliest game of human chess ever, found a dead troll, and walked through fire with the protection of a potion. And then, there I was, face to face with the man that killed my parents. Well, what was left of him since his face was stuck to the back of the worthless teacher's head that willingly got possessed.
"And cue Janus reference," said Apollo with a smirk at the mention of his Roman aspect's son.
It seemed my mum did something to me before she was killed and the very moment the possessed man touched me, he started to go up in flames. Like my skin was fire to him.
"The best guardian against foulness like that," said Aphrodite with a smirk.
The spirit left the body to save itself and went right through me, and I passed out. I woke up in the nurse's office and the headmaster was sitting right next to me. He does pull a good Merlin lookalike; I'll give the old geezer that.
"Humph," said Athena with a frown. She happened to prefer Merlin to the appearance of Dumbledore.
"Can't top Gandalf, though." Apollo said with a smirk as he and Hermes high fived.
He told me the reason Voldemort, the name of the man that tried to kill me, couldn't touch me was because of my mother's love. Voldemort was a being who did not know love, he could not comprehend it, thus could not touch me from whatever spell my mother did before she died.
"Again, best defense ever," said Aphrodite. Piper nodded in agreement with a small smile on her face.
"Still think a shotgun would be better," said Ares with a snort. He was given a glare that made him cringe.
Yeah, that was Year One. To sum it up in one word, it was weird. Year Two got weirder though.
"And wait for it," said Apollo. He whipped his, again signed and limited edition, copy of Chamber of Secrets out with a smirk on his face. "And so begins again the comparison."
A house elf was stealing my mail so I would think my friends didn't care about me and wouldn't go back to school. Thankfully, Ron and his older twin brothers Fred and George came to my rescue in a flying car,
"I wonder how they got away with that," said Poseidon with a hum.
"Must be because they're British," said Hades with a smirk. "You always did enjoy the English Tea back then."
"I don't recall asking for your opinion," said Zeus, glaring at his brothers.
since the things bared my windows and padlocked my door since the elf messed up an important dinner for the walrus. After a small side adventure at the Weasley household, we left for the Hogwarts Express. Unfortunately, the secret entrance was blocked for Ron and me. In order to get to school, we took Ron's dad's flying car to school…and promptly crashed it into the Whomping Willow Tree, an attacking tree.
"Well that was obviously in the tree's own defense," said Demeter, who had a minor grasp over trees due to the rise in tree farming. Hades rolled his eyes.
We got detention for that one, because apparently we damaged the tree...Oh, and got spotted by muggles.
"At leas she wasn't put out as most wanted," said Percy with a jealous grumble.
However, it turns out a monster was loose in the school, petrifying people. Another day in my life it seems. After out running a nest of giant flesh eating spiders,
Annabeth shivered and sunk into Percy's side.
Ron and I found out through a petrified Hermione that it was a Basilisk (It was really a Drakon, but I didn't know that yet).
"Nice twist," said Apollo with a nod of approval.
So, it turned out the loony trying to get the monster to kill everyone had kidnapped Ron's kid sister Ginny, a sweet girl who happens to have a fan-girl crush on me and tries to be like me. I find it cute.
"Aww, it is cute!" Aphrodite agreed immediately.
Anyway, it turned out that a book with Voldemort's soul as a young boy in it was taking possession of Ginny, talk about a one trick pony, right?
"Not that original," said Hades with a shake of his head. "One has to change things up, or it becomes obvious."
It sent the Basilisk (Drakon) at me and I managed to kill it by stabbing it though the roof of its mouth with the sword and a burst of lightning, blowing up its brain I think.
"She seems to have a knack for gore-filled kills," said Hera dryly.
I pulled the sword from the sorting hat that the headmaster's phoenix had brought me, but I got bit in the arm. Poison is not fun. In fact, it hurts like hell. Luckily the headmaster's phoenix spared me some tears and the poison was flushed from my system. I love that bird.
"So would I," Percy admitted, the other demigods agreeing with him.
"Stupid bird would put my kids out of a job," said Apollo with a frown.
The monster turned into gold dust, which at the time I thought was weird, and a small knife was left behind. It was bone-like with a black leather handle and so I used it to stab the possessed book, making poison drip from the dagger, thus killing the spirit and saving Ginny. The dagger then turned into a black ring and on top of the band was a small disk with a yellow reptile eye.
"Cool." Nico and Thalia said in approval of the design.
I passed out as the phoenix brought Ginny and I out of the Basilisk's (Drakon's) secret chamber. So once again, I saved the day, the school, and got another visit to the hospital wing...fun.
Are things always going to be like this?
"Sister, you have no idea," said Thalia with a chuckle.
I was back at the Dursley house since the school year ended. One night in the beginning of summer, I left the house to take a walk in a pair of denim shorts and a black tank top with a pair of blue hi-tops, so glad I exchanged my some of my vast wizard money with really British pounds, I could finally buy some me clothes I like.
"Nice," said Thalia while Aphrodite frowned. The girl was too cute to be wearing all those ugly dark clothes.
I had my magical deep pocket messenger bag with me that had my invisibility cloak in it as well as a few other things I might need. I had that knife ring on my right middle finger; it was still cool. My wand was strapped to my left thigh in the wand holster I bought my first year and was eating some candy I still had from the train ride from the trolley lady.
"And that's the end of her point of view." Frank said, relieved. He wasn't a fan of POV stories.
So now, here she was in a playground. Alone.
"And cue monster!" Percy said with the director point.
The perfect setting of a monster film, Andi thought with a soft giggle.
"Kid's not wrong," said Apollo.
She sat on the low level swing, swaying back and forth, bored out of her hyperactive mind. She grinned a bit and started to pump her legs so she could get as high as she could. She loved being high in the air, she felt so free, so content.
"She believes she can fly!" Apollo sang softly. "She believes she can touch the sky~!"
"Apollo, shush!" Artemis scolded her twin.
As she felt the rush of the wind against her face, she started to hear hissing. It was loud and slithering followed it.
"The hell?" Andi muttered and stopped swinging and jumped off. She went for her wand, even if there was an age restriction for a kid like her to use magic outside school.
"That's bull," said Ares with a snort. He got odd looks and shrugged. "What? Kids with power that young should be allowed to do whatever with it."
"It coincides with the responsibility to learn when to use it," said Athena with a frown.
"Bor-ring," said Ares as he gave her a thumbs down.
The slithering got louder and she turned to see a woman…that was about 10 feet tall. She had green scaly skin with black hair with some kind of weird armor. She held a shield and spear. Oh, and instead of legs she had twin serpent trunks, it looked like she was skiing.
"Dracanae," said Percy with a frown.
"I really don't like those things," said Annabeth with a frown of her own.
"Found you little Half-Blood." The demonic looking woman hissed at the raven haired girl.
"Um, hi?" the Potter said, not really knowing what to say at this sight, but she was slowly edging away. Who let this thing out of its cage anyway?
"Ha! Nice," said Hermes with a laugh. "Who greets a monster like that?"
The snake woman frowned at her 'friendly' hello. "Are you mocking me godling?" she hissed out.
Godling?
"There goes that protection," said Piper with a sigh. "Nice while it lasted."
"No?" Andi asked with a weak smile, her pace of backing up picking up a bit of speed, but snake lady didn't like that and slithered up to in a few seconds like some cobra.
Fast! Was what the witch thought as she cried out and dodged to the side as the spear tried to stab her, "What the hell freak!?" Andi shouted out, and backpedaled into the park once more. The young girl slipped into the large dome jungle gym, giving her some semi-protection while she thought up a plan of what the hell to do!
"Clever," said Athena. "It should surely buy her some time."
"Get out here half blood! Let me take your head!" she demanded, stabbing her spear in the dome as Andi ducked and side stepped the thrusts. Luckily it had to pull out to adjust where to stab the girl.
The witch's heart was pounding, wondering what the bloody hell was going on. She slipped out the other side of the dome and ran up the slide, and got a nick in her calf from the spear, making the magical wince as she got to the top.
"Okay, screw this and the rules!"
"Now that's more like it!" cheered Ares in approval.
"Whatever it takes to survive," said Thalia with her own smirk.
the enraged girl shouted atop the slide and pulled out her wand. The girl focused on that feeling she got when she fought the troll, when she fought the basilisk (Drakon), but this time words resonated in her mind, like, she should have know it before, "Kεραυνός- (Thunderbolt)!" blue static built up around her and fired like a focused blast from the wand in a beam-like fashion.
"Nice shot," said Jason in approval.
"Lightning, always so fun to use," said Thalia.
"I dunno, you can fly with the wind," said Jason teasingly.
"You're pushing your luck, Jay."
"Gah!" the thing shouted, slamming into jungle gym dome, making it break into pieces, metal rods going everywhere over it, her, whatever.
Well, that wasn't all really, as the kickback from the spell sent the raven-haired girl flying off the top of the slide and to the ground…ow much.
"Yeah, falling...falling sucks," said Leo.
Andi felt around for her wand feverishly and snagged it tightly.
Andi shook her head as she got back up and stood wobbly, "Take that snake bitch!" the girl shouted aloud.
"She should watch her mouth," said Hestia with a small frown.
Of course the hissing, not from the burning of the thing, but her actually hissing alerted the girl to the fact that 'Oh, I messed up'…great.
"Let's hear it for premature celebrations," said Hazel.
The snake thing looked angry, her headgear was gone and her chest armor was blasted to pieces, shrapnel in her scaly chest.
"Ow." Andi muttered audible with a wince.
"They sssaid that hisss daughter died!"
Thalia frowned at the memory of that while her sire's face became unreadable.
lady creepy cried out, but her rage look turned into a gleefully one. Joy, a spear happy snake lady, "But another? I'll put your head on a pike, sky child!" she shouted and slithered to her snake trunks, shield and spear still out.
"Oh fuck all kinds of duck."
"I hope Thalia and Jason have better manners than she does," said Hestia, frowning at the foul language and at her youngest brother. Zeus pointedly ignored his eldest sister's look.
The apparent lightning user bemoaned as a yelp escaped her lips while she ducked but got tagged with a graze on her left shoulder. She dodged some more, her senses seem to be going haywire, like she could see so much more, like when she fought the Basilisk (Drakon), even how the thing was moving and could get out of the way in time.
"And cue ADHD," said Percy with a small smirk.
Andi rolled left, into a pile of metal bars and grabbed one and bashed away one of the spear strikes aimed for her head, making her arm feel numb from the attack as her very small upper body strength really didn't compare to this thing. She holstered her wand and held the metal bar like a staff as a skirted around the attacks, once more figuring what to do.
"Stand still!" it commanded, but Andi didn't listen. She normally doesn't to be honest.
"Rebel, nice," said Leo with a grin. "Hey Jay, if she's still single...?"
"Leo, she's in another dimension, you might just want to wait and see," said Jason with an exasperated sigh.
The witch jumped out of the way of an attack as her messenger bag banged against her legs and she held the bar in one hand again while clinching her right hand and the ring flashed and turned in that dagger again. Andi looked at it and her eyes widened. The poison!
"The girl has some brains," said Poseidon with a smirk.
"Unlike your son, my children are smarter than they appear." Zeus retorted with a snort. Percy deflated while Thalia smirked and Jason smiled slightly.
"Zing," said Hades to his frowning brother.
It should at least do something to this thing.
Andi rolled forward under a sweep of the spear and got right to the things side and stabbed it right in the stomach with the dagger.
"Argh!" she wailed and backhanded Andi with her shield. Hard.
"I can attest that that isn't fun," said Jason with a frown.
"It is for the basher," said Thalia.
The blue-eyed girl flopped along the ground, her head in a daze until she heard the whistling of the spear and rolled on her back to avoid the strike.
She got up as fast as she could and looked to see her hand sparking static again and looked at the pained face of the thing as it pulled out the poisoned dagger and threw it away as she moved after witch. She looked a bit more sluggish and in great pain, which was okay in Andi's book.
"Yes," said Percy. "Injured monsters are good. Very good and always welcomed."
She ran to the swing and jumped up on it as she faced the thing with her metal bar in hand. A wind blew in front of her, making the girl going soaring back, "Hey ugly, come and get it!"
"I take the smart comment back," said Poseidon with a shake of his head. "Taunting never ends well."
"I beg to differ," said Athena to her rival. "If it is part of a plan to blind one in their anger, it could be quite efficient."
Poseidon merely scowled while Zeus smiled lightly at his daughter's loyalty.
Andi shouted as a harsher wind blew behind her, pushing her forward as Andi felt she was flying in the air.
"Hey, that's Jason's shtick!" Leo cried out.
"She can fly if she wants to, Leo," said Jason.
Andi held the bar by the sharp end as it sparked from whatever she was doing and channeled it into her wannabe spear. The lightning user let out a war cry as she held it up high above her head, and shifted her body left in midair as the snake lady tried to stab the witch again. She grazed Andi's right side as the girl's weapon of choice plunged into her throat.
"Gore obsessed, this girl is," said Hera with a shake of her head.
"I like that about her," said Ares with a wild grin.
"You would," said Artemis in disgust.
"RAAH!" Andi shouted in a war cry as static blasted around her and into the woman.
She exploded into gold dust, just like the Basilisk (Drakon).
"Ah!" Andi cried out while falling to the ground, her bag somewhat cushioning her landing as she was covered in the sparkling gold dust. Andi noted that she looked like some underage stripper now, wonderful.
"Oh…that was a nasty image," said Apollo with a cringe. He shuddered. "So wrong...Quick, keep reading!"
Andi winced as her right side and left shoulder were slowly bleeding out. She turned to look for her knife and noticed her vision swimming somewhat. Blood loss? Fading adrenaline? Who knows?
She grabbed her knife and as she tried to walk away, to get back to the hellhole she lived in for some first-aid, but Andi stumbled a bit and landed on the helmet that the thing left behind.
"Ouch." The demigods chorused with a wince.
The witch was scared; she didn't want to die here, like some nobody. She really didn't. Panic filled her thoughts as she blinked back the paining tears of her wounds and the fear for her life.
As she held the helmet as it flashed a bit for some reason and the girl felt as though there was a hook behind her navel and was pulled in through something, like she was floating.
"It's a portkey!" said Apollo with wide eyes. He pulled out a notepad and scribbled it down with a grin. "Oh this is genius!"
Then landed rather harshly on her already sore bum, her knife and the helmet clanged as they landed on the ground next to her. The ground was also muddy, like it had just rained.
"Someone is having a fit," said Hades with a smirk to his two storm related brothers. Both of them just glowered at him.
"Ow." Andi croaked out as she sat her back was against a tree. The air was a bit muggy, like summer air, warmer than in Surrey and the air smelt fresh. Yep, it just rained, she could tell. The lightning user looked up through her swimming vision and saw a pine tree, "Hello?" Andi asked as her blood loss was no doubt making her delirious.
She heard running and clopping?
"She can't be," said Percy with his jaw dropped. "How'd she get so lucky to get teleported there?!"
"Percy, she had to fight a Dracanae," said Annabeth.
"But still!"
Next some voice.
"Chiron, there's another one by Thalia's tree!" a male voice called out, it sounded older, and American, the Brit thought.
"Luke," said Hermes with a sigh.
"You can't know that for sure," said Dionysus with a scoff.
Andi heard a sharp gasp as she stared at the blurry blond hair guy.
"You were saying?" Hermes asked.
Dionysus shrugged and took another sip of his Diet Coke. "So you got a lucky guess, so what?"
She heard a whisper of 'Thalia' as if the guy had seen a ghost since he was paling.
"Well that just sells it," said Percy. He looked at the Grace siblings with a grin. "Congrats, you now have a younger sister."
"She still might be older than Jason," said Thalia with a smirk. Jason frowned at that.
"Two older sisters? I feel for you, dude," said Apollo. Hermes nodded in agreement and gave Apollo a fist bump.
"Who?" Andi asked, as clearly her voice of British awesome knocked him out of staring at her…Andi hoped he wasn't one of those guys into little girls.
Talk about major gross.
"Well, that would explain why he didn't reciprocate your feelings," said Apollo to Annabeth. Artemis smacked her brother upside the head. "Ow! Someone had to say it!"
"No they didn't," said Annabeth with a roll of her eyes.
"Don't worry kid; we'll get you patched up." He said kindly as he recovered from seeing the young girl and gingerly picked the raven-haired child up in some kind of cradle carry.
"She's so adorable!" Aphrodite cooed.
Like a princess . . . She hated being treated like a princess!
"No!" Aphrodite bemoaned. "Not another tomboy!"
"What's wrong with tomboys?" Thalia asked with a frown.
"They ruin so many potential things!"
It ruined her whole tough girl image.
"And she's Thalia's sister? What kind of nonsense is this?!" Percy asked aloud in false outrage.
"A slander to the Grace name!" said Nico jokingly.
"I guess I'll just have to do something about it," said Percy.
"My 'tuff." Andi slurred a bit, her eyes closing from how heavy they felt.
"I'll get them for you personally kiddo. C'mon," he said to Andi and felt him start running and looked to see them heading towards a big blue house.
Andi looked up and saw a pair of icy blue eyes and frowned a little.
"Why do you look so sad?" she mumbled to him as black took over her vision.
"That's a very good question," said Hermes with a bit of hope to his voice. Perhaps this world would turn out differently. A good protégé can do wonders for people disillusioned with the world.
"But one that marks the end of the first chapter," said Apollo. "This means we need a new reader."
"Thank the Gods," said Frank, getting a mocking 'you're welcome' from a few of the Olympians. "You really get entranced into the story."
"I'll read," Hazel offered with a smile to her boyfriend.
AN: And so begins my reading of Engineer4Ever's Percy Jackson crossover! Thanks for reading everybody...even if it was only five of you. I plan to update all fourteen of the chapters of 'book one' day by day. Permitted that my job isn't too hectic.
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