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Honnestly I hate field trip and honnestly Midtown field trip sucked, the only reason I'm on this one was that Mr Brunner was leading it and he was the only teacher I ever liked combined with the fact that mom had high hope for this school year and I couldn't disapoint her, not after last year
So here I was in the backseat of a school bus trying to sleep while a bunch of rich kids threw a ruckus or played stupid game, it isn't that I don't like rich people but they are rarely nice people, the bus was filled with good example of that fact, Nancy Bobofit was a kleptomaniac girl whose parent were rich enough to buy of her grades by funding the school, Flash Thompson was the plain example of a dumb jock, captain of the basketball team and a bully
I could continue with that list for long but I felt a shift near my seat wich was certainly not due to a person seated next to me since there was no one, I oppened my eyes and saw a blond haired girl looking at me with an expression I couldn't really read but I didn't cared enough to try
"We're arrived and whilst we didn't get to choose our partner you're still mine" said the girl in a no nonsense tone, oh yeah I forgot about that
I got to my feet and grabbed my bag before asking her what time it was, 10h 34, so 7h and 26 second before I was home, I sighed knowing it would be a long day and followed blondie out if the bus
Yeah I know what you're about to say, beside being rude in my head there's nothing really contradicting the rude assessment the teacher have of me but, I don't wanted to be here and those kids were rude first, so me being rude in my head didn't hurt them
Beside Flash, but let me tell you that the bastard had it coming as he tried to bully me on my first day until I smashed his head in my locker door, yes a 1.60m kid had the necessary strength to smash a kid a head taller than he was into his locker, but I always had been strong and working on construction site to help mom with the bill helped built some muscle
Not that she'll ever know of it
I visibly had zoned out during the museum visit because I was jolt out of my thought by Mr Brunner voice calling my name "Mr Jackson, can you tell me what this represent" it was am ancient Greece stele that I miraculously recognised
"It's Kronos eating his kids" I answered and the look in his eyes told me that was the good answer but not exactly what he wanted "and why did he ate them" he probed
"Because he was dumb" I stated plainly because that's what it was but he shot me a disapproving look "His father cursed him because Kronos killed him and in trying to prevent it he decided that eating his newborn childs would be a good idea, I would have kept it to my pants but that would be my plan" at that the group laughed but it wasn't as much of a joke to me "and because he sucked at parenting, Zeus escaped and freed the other after they fought the Gods won the end"
Brunner looked at me dead in the eyes "And to quote miss Bobofit how is this usefull in real life" and there was a snicker and ushed discussion laughing at Nancy's back
I thought about what could that story be about "Don't be a jerk to your kids because it will bite you in the ass later" I finished wanting to end this as quickly as I could
"Not exactly but roughly corect, 3/4 credits for that" stated Brunner before clapping his hand "And on that note let's eat"
We were on the lunch break when my day turned, I had finished my grilled cheese sandwich and was eating the blue muffin mom had make me smiling a bit at the fact she still made them when something caught my eyes, it was near the Greek part of the museum and it disapear fast but I was sure that I saw a person, normally I wouldn't care but every part of me was yelling at me that something was in fact wrong
I threw a quick look around and saw that no one looked my way, so I did what any 11 years old kid would do, I grabbed my backpack and followed the sketchy man I thought I saw, yes pretty dumb
I entered a new part of the museum it was mainly empty and was quite large, I saw many panel describing stuff older than I could imagine but what caught my eyes was a painting of a red haired girl leading other against a giant, Diana or the Roman version of Artemis, I felt something inside me stirr but I didn't knew why but I saw the strange guy again and followed after him
After a minute or two I entered an empty room, but the person had disapeared, that's when I panicked, I looked around trying to see where he was but beside North myth related thing I saw nothing, I never had the chance to see him because he found me first and caught me by the throat before throwing me against the glass so hard that my breath left me
"You who are you" even dazed and in panic I noticed the voice had started normal before turning rapsy to a point that no human throat could produce a noise like that, I lifted my head to see I was right, no human could produce a sound like that because it wasn't human
At all, it was the mix between a bat and an elderly woman, wrinkled skin, grey hair, red glowing eyes and wings, okay now I was terrified
"You, you smell like no other half blood, what are you" it said insisting on each word end as it stalk toward me like a predator about to kill a rabbit, in this case I was the rabbit
"Where is it, the thing you stole" it whispered arshly as if not wanting to be overheard
Honnestly what happen next is still now one of my strangest moment
I wasn't about to be eaten by bat-granny so I did the first thing coming to my mind, I grabbed my backpack and launched it at the thing head as the same time I bolted away, I didn't turned to look at what was happening but judging by the tumbling sound my bag had connected, I ran away
I was near the exit of the room, it was good if there was more people they would help me
I felt a sharp pain going from my back to my elbow as if it was ripped open, my knee gave away under the pain and I fell down and laid on the ground, how had it moved so fast, that thing had crossed 20 meter and slashed my back with it's claw in less than second
It was now moving slowly savouring it's victory, licking my blood from it's blades like nail "You're surprising, most people cower in fear at my look but you held your ground, walked past your fear" it inspected it's claws and seemed satisfied with theirs cleanness, it's head whipped at me at a speed and angle not possible for a living thing
"Now speak, where it is or die" it said in an omnibus tone, but then something gleamed in the creature eyes "or die and tell the one you stole once there" and it swipped it's at my face, I was dead
Or I should be, time seemed to slow down and my back barely hurted me anymore, my survival instinct overcame me, I rolled on the left dodging the claw wich gratted the marble floor before jumping to my feet or at least faking because at the moment my feet touched the ground I ducked at the lowest possible dodging another slash of claws and sticking out my left leg to trip the creature wich fell on its ass while I rose up but I also saw Chiron in the hallway yelling "catch" as he throwed me a pen that I snatched mid air before taking two step back
The world came back to it's normal speed but in my hand it wasn't a pen that I held it was a sword a beautifull leap shaped bronze sword but sudenly I was hit by a wave of felling betrayal, sadness, longing it made me stagger as it hurt me, not physically at least untill the bat thing backhanded me
I was sent flying away and collided into another presentation panel that start speaking about the piece of art behind the glass, something about a goddess named Skadi but I paid it no mind as the demon grandmother jumped right at me
Well she was starting to piss me off, if she wanted me dead I'll pay back the courtesy, I focussed at the monster jumping me and it seemed as if I always lived with a blindfold and that someone took it out, everything was at the same time different and the same, colourfull, noisier
But I had other priorities so I dodged the claw that swiped at my midsection by dodging under it but I had my back turned to the monster, I heard a rustling sound and bent my body to the left before spinning on my left heel to dodge the attack going for the back of my head and to face the monster once more, I finished the move by swinging the sword in a wide arc, slicing the beast in two from her shoulder to her rib like she was butter
I was expecting blood and gore but she exploded in a smoke of golden dust at my face screaming that Hades would get my soul
Mr Brunner coughed behind me and asked me something but I couldn't understand what the man was saying because the entire world spun around me and then everything was black
When I woke up I was in the school infirmary, my mom was seating next to me looking worriedly at me while having a ushed chat with Mr Brunner
"Need to be told what he is" I heard Mr Brunner say but I didn't understood what I was hearing
"No, he don't" said mom with a ferocity I never heard in her voice
"Ms Jackson, you need to understand his smell is different from the other, his other parents never had children before he will attract them like moth to a flame" said Brunner kindly
"And what after, he stay with you, fight for you and I lose my son forever" this time I wasn't sure it was my mother speaking, mom was the kindest being on earth, she never rose her voice to anyone, so the fact that it was now dripping with venom was mind blowing
"You know, you were told, that's how" said Brunner as if the piece clicked together
"Not exactly, I'm clear sighted, I knew the moment we met, she told me the rest" said Sally her tone a bit wistful
"He's waking up, we'll talk later" said Brunner and after a bit of rustle I knew he was gone
I felt mom hand in my hair so I opened my eyes or I at least tried but it seemed that my eyelid were made of leads and my eyes burned as if something was engraved into them but my mother sensed my struggle and placed a hand on my shoulder pushing me back on the bed gently "Calm down honney, rest a bit and we'll get you home" and on that I closed my eyes again drifting to sleep