°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ ENDGAME} act ii. . .
. . .as deep as the seafloor
CHAPTER ONE °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
— 'after so long'
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･Percy °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
I still couldn't stop thinking about my dream last night. I had seen Grover running into a wedding shop, away from a weird giant monster.
It was finally the last day of school, and I hadn't been expelled during the school year for once.
The first class of my day was English. My whole year had to red Lord of the Flies, all the kids are stranded on an island and go psycho. So for the final exam, the teachers let us outside for an hour with no supervision to see what would happen.
What happened was, wedgie contests, pebble fights and a basketball game with full-tackles. The school bully, Matt Sloan, led most of those activities.
Matt wasn't big and strong but he sure acted like it. He kind of reminded me of a chihuahua. Matt wore expensive yet sloppy clothes, to show off his family's money.
He made the mistake of trying to give my friend, Tyson, a wedgie.
Tyson is the only homeless kid at Meriwether College. Tyson is six-foot-three. He is kind of like a big friendly giant. He cries a lot and is scared about everything.
Meriwether Prep had adopted him as a community service project to 'make the students feel better about themselves'. Most of them can't even stand Tyson.
Anyway, Matt snuck up behind Tyson to try give him a wedgie. Big mistake, Tyson got scared and swatted him. Sloan flew away about fifteen feet into the little kids' tire swing.
"Freak!" Sloan yelled, trying to get out of the ropes. "Go back to your cardboard box!"
Tyson started to sob. He went to sit down in the jungle gym, he ended up bending the bar. He buried his head in his hands.
"Take it back, Sloan!" I shouted.
"Why do you even bother, Jackson? You might have friends if you weren't always sticking up for that freak." Matt sneered at me.
I was ready to fight back but Sloan and his ugly friends were busy laughing. I thought he used to only have two minions but now he had half a dozen, I had never seen most of them before.
"Just you wait till PE, Jackson." Sloan called over in my direction. "You are so dead."
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In social studies, I opened my notebook to see the picture and stared at it, my friend Annabeth had visited Rayn and sent a postcard. I often wondered if I should've visited, I felt bad I hadn't even sent her a letter.
Annabeth was wearing a denim jacket over her camp half-blood t-shirt. Her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
Rayn was wearing a camp half-blood tank top. Her hair was wavy, with a flower crown around her head.
In the background it looked like camp was celebrating something.
I wished I could've been there as well, to celebrate in the place that I was normal.
I was about to close my notebook when Matt Sloan reached over and ripped the photo out of my hands.
"Hey!" I protested.
Sloan scanned the picture over. "No way, Jackson. Who are they? Do you have a—"
"Give it back!" The tips of my ears felt like they were burning.
Sloan passed the photo around his ugly friends. They ripped it up to make spit wads.
They must've been visiting since they all wore a stupid sticker saying Hi! My name is:
They all had weird names like: Marrow Sucker, Skull Eater and Joe Bob. No human being had names like that.
"These guys are moving here next year." Sloan bragged like it was meant to scare me. "I bet they can pay the tuition, unlike your deadbeat friend."
"He's not a deadbeat." It was so tempting to punch Sloan right in the face.
"You're such a loser, good thing I'm putting you out of your misery next period." Sloan laughed with his friends. I was under strict orders from Chiron to never take my anger out on mortals.
The bell rang.
When I left class I saw a girl standing at the end of the hallway calling my name. She looked familiar.
"Rayn?" I started to walk over to her but it looked like she was yanked by the air. When I turned the corner she was pulled into, nobody was there.
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･Rayn °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
I had been sneaking around Percy's school in a black hoodie and cap all day with Annabeth. He was always around someone so we could never find the right time to pull him away.
I finally had enough and stood in the hallway, waiting for him. Then I saw him.
"Percy." He stared at me until he started to approach me. He was shoving people out of the way until I got yanked away.
"Are you crazy?" Annabeth took off her cap as she angrily whispered at me. We both saw Percy stand confused at where I was, so we hid in the janitors closet.
"Uhmm, Rayn?" I heard him whispering at the other side of the door.
"Why don't we just go out to him now?" I asked Annabeth, quietly.
"No, we cant be sure if anyone else is out there with him."
A few seconds after Percy left, Annabeth put on her cap and I got my disguise on. Great, more stalking weird middle school stuff.
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We finally found Percy in a massive room. I asked Annabeth what the room was but she wasn't fully sure what it was either.
Everyone was wearing blue shorts and tie-dyed t-shirts. Some massive boy that looked like he should have a wife and kids pulled Percy inside the changing room.
The teacher was sitting down reading a Sports Illustrated book, whatever that was.
Suddenly, the teacher looked up.
"You," she pointed at me.
"Uhh." Annabeth pushed me out from my hiding spot.
"Where is your name tag? If you're transferring here next year, you need a name tag today." He looked me up and down. "You know what doesn't matter, go get changed quickly."
I stared at him for a moment. Percy would recognise me straight away.
"Don't stand out." I heard Annabeth whisper in my ear. "Get changed, Percy already seen you here. Plus he might not even notice you."
I walked into the girls changing room, getting a few stares. They were all whispering about who I was until one of them stepped out from their group.
"Who are you?" The girl looked like one of the girls at camp.
"I'm..." I tried to remember what the teacher told me. "I'm, transferring here next year. My name is..."
I tried to think of a good fake name.
"My name is, Liz Smith." I cringed at the name after saying it. It was the most common name ever now that I think of it.
The girl who I now know as Faith Campbell, dragged me to her locker to get her spare uniform.
"Okay so basically, you need to look good during PE." Her spare t-shirt was tied at the bottom making it cropped. "You might even be able to impress Matt Sloan."
She smiled up at me.
"Sadly, today our team is full of losers like Tyson and his friend Percy Jackson." She looked up at my hair. "Let me do your hair."
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Faith had pulled my hair back into a ponytail. The girls called it a 'slick back'.
When we walked out, a group of ugly looking boys stared at us. What was weird was only one of them looked interested, the others looked like they wanted to eat us.
Percy hadn't looked over to us, he just talked to the tall boy beside him.
The group I was with stood faraway from them.
"This sucks." The ginger girl said. "Why do we have to be in this team?"
"I don't know." Faith said, looking over at who I knew was Matt Sloan from my stalking. "But I need to get injured, so Matt will help me."
I zoned out at whatever they were saying. I stared at the other visitors that didn't seem like the rest.
One of them glared at me, making me fully aware of the keychain my mother gave me over winter. One tap of the button and it would be a sword.
The coach blew into his whistle, starting the game.
The other team ran for the centre. On our side the girls and some other people didn't do much. One of them even ran out of the gym.
I was going to just stay with the other girls but one of the ugly boys threw a ball so hard it knocked Percy onto the floor.
I ran towards a ball and threw it straight at Matt Sloan's face.
"Yes!" I got a few weird stares, it didn't really matter though. "Ugh, I've been wanting to do that all day!"
Matt Sloan was sprawled out on the floor.
"You're so dead!" He stared at me but his face started to look confused. "Wait, you're Percy's girlfriend..?"
I looked towards who was helping up some kid that was trying to hide behind the wall mat but a ball got smacked into him.
"Seriously!?" I grabbed another ball and threw it at one of his ugly buddies, but they caught it.
They threw the ball straight at my head. It flew by me so fast it wasn't humane.
"Hey!" I yelled at them. "You could kill somebody!"
The visitor called Joe Bob grinned at me, while his biceps bulged under his shirt. He was growing.
"I hope so, Rayn Fairbourne! I hope so!" He called over to me, the other visitors started to grow as well.
He said my name like it was familiar to him, it sent a chill down my spine.
They were monsters.
All around Matt Sloan, the visitors were no longer kids. They were now eight-foot-tall giants, wild eyes, pointy teeth, and hairy arms tattooed with snakes, hula women and Valentine hearts.
Matt Sloan jumped up, "Whoa! You're not from Detroit! Who..."
The girls behind me started screaming so I ran over to them to try get them out of the way.
One of the other kids, Raj Mandali, tried to leave but the doors were magically shut.
"Let them go!" I heard Percy yell.
I started to wonder how blind he was that he didn't see me here yet, wasnt he supposed to be super alert incase monsters came for him? I guess I wouldn't know since he never wrote back or visited me.
The one called Joe Bob growled loudly. "And lose our tasty morsels? No, Son of the Sea God. We Laistrygonians aren't just playing for your death. We want lunch!"
One of them waved their hand and a new set of dodgeballs appeared, these ones were bronze though.
I shoved the girls towards the bleachers.
"Sneak up behind them." I heard Annabeth whisper into my ear.
The keychain in my pocket felt very heavy as I snuck up behind them. They were so focused on Percy they didn't notice the girl behind them holding a sword.
Skull eater picked up a ball and threw it towards where the boy was hiding behind the wall mat.
"Corey!" I heard Percy scream. Percy's friend pulled the boy away before the bronze ball exploded into the wall.
"Run!" Percy yelled at the other teammates. "The other exit!"
The rest of the doors slammed shut. Joe Bob picked up another ball, everyone scattered when it made another crater.
I saw Percy reach into his pocket, but pulled out nothing. He didn't have riptide, I'd have to battle these... things...
Another fireball flew over to Percy but his friend pushed him out of the way. The explosion still sent him sprawled out on the floor.
"Flesh!" They all bellowed. "Hero flesh for lunch!"
I swiped my sword at skull eaters ankle.
"Agh!" He looked behind him but I ran out in front of them. "There she is! The... flowery... one."
"Rayn!?" I looked back at Percy who looked so confused. "I knew I wasn't crazy, I did see you!"
"Percy needs help!" His friend ran over to Percy but two balls slammed into him, somehow he caught them. He threw the balls at their surprised owners. "BAAAADDDDD!!!"
The bronze balls exploded into the giants chests, disintegrating them into dust.
"My brothers!" Joe Bob yelled. "You will pay for this!"
The giant threw bronze balls rapidly, making the other kids run around screaming at they dodged the flying death balls.
"Victory will be ours!" He roared. "We will feast on your bones!"
Another few balls hefted in our direction. I saw Percy run towards the locker room.
All the giants shifted their attention towards Percy.
"Rayn!" I heard Annabeth call. "Come over here!"
I ran towards her voice. She took her cap off and handed it to me.
"What are you doing!?"
"Trust me I have a plan."
"And what is this plan?"
"You use your flower powers to hold them down, then Percy and I will attack them when they're down." She grabbed her dagger and ran towards Percy who had just made the giants blow the locker room door off.
I put the cap on, no matter how much I tried the vines wouldn't break through the concrete under the floor.
"No!" I heard Percy yell, my head snapped over in their direction, making the cap fall off. His friend had been slammed into the wall by the bronze ball.
One of the giants turned to me.
"Ah! You again!" I got ready to swing or dodge a ball but he raised his and smacked me across the court.
It felt like all of my bones broke with the impact of the wall.
"Oww..." I was so winded I didn't even try to get up.
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･Percy °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
I wasn't fully sure what had happened. The start of the day was pretty normal, and now... a bunch of cannibal giants were trying to eat my PE class.
Oh and also, my demigod friend had showed up, I wasn't really sure where Rayn had went but I was focused on Tyson. I actually wasn't really sure she was ever really here, I mean, I could've been going crazy.
The giant tried to go eat Tyson.
"Stop! It's me you want!" I yelled, catching their attention.
Suddenly, the giants body went rigid. His face went from gloating to surprise. Right where his belly button should've been, his t-shirt ripped open and a vine grew through him.
He dropped the ball in his hand. He stared down at the now flowery vine.
"Ow." He muttered before turning into a puff of smoke.
After the smoke cleared I saw Rayn on the floor beside a massive crater in the wall.
I could see her better now. I wasn't going insane.
Her face was grimy and scratched. Her hand had a vine coming from it that was now retreating back to her.
Matt Sloan stared at her as she got up and walked over it him.
"You." She stood right in front of him, then she punched him in the nose. "Lay off my friend."
She started to walk in my direction but when she reached me she kept walking. I turned to see...
"Annabeth?" I looked at the blonde puzzled. "Wait how long have yous.. were you both..."
"Pretty much all morning." Rayn clicked something on her sword that made it disappear. "We tried to find a good time to talk to you, but you were never alone."
"There!" A woman screamed as she burst through the door.
"Meet me outside." Annabeth whispered to Rayn. "And him." She pointed towards Tyson.
Annabeth ran, grabbing her cap on the way.
I looked back at Rayn who had collapsed again the wall.
"Woah! What happened?" I ran over to her.
"I got smashed into a wall, dummy." She panted and held her ribs.
"What do I do?" I held my hands out warily.
"Shut up and help me up." I grabbed her arms and got her up from the floor.
"Percy Jackson?" My principal, Mr. Bonsai said. "What.. how..."
He looked around at the destroyed gym.
Tyson got up from the wall he broke. "Head hurts."
Matt Sloan ran over, his nose was gushing blood. "Percy did it, Mr Bonsai! He set the whole building on fire. Coach Nunley will tell you! He saw it all!"
Coach Nunley had still been reading his magazine, only looking up by the mention of his name. "Eh? Yeah, mhmm."
Everyone stared at me so I grabbed Rayn's arm and ran.
"Come on!" I yelled at Tyson.
On the way out I saw Rayn clutching her chest.
"What's wrong?" I questioned her.
"My ribs..." she looked down where her hand was. " I think I broke a few."
She pushed me away from her.
"Wait, no, let me help—"
"Shut up Percy." She snapped at me.
"What is your deal!?" I yelled back at her.
"My deal is that I wrote to you, every day when you were gone." I stepped back, in shock.
"You, wrote to me..?"
"You never even cared to write back."
THE FIRST CHAPTER IN ACT TWO AHHHHH!!!
IVE MISSED RAYCY SM
ALSO SEASON TWO CONFIRMED!?!?
tysm for reading, hope you enjoyed this chapter<3
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