The Meaning of Jerk

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  After a week of getting framed and being pelted with strawberries, Percy went to Annabeth to help him figure out who was framing him. (Oh, poor Percy. He's in for a surprise.)

  He heard weird sounds coming from her cabin and carefully peeked in through a window. What he saw broke his heart into a (insert biggest number you can think of here)pieces.

   HIS GIRLFRIEND WHO WAS ENGAGED TO HIM, WAS MAKING OUT WITH ARTHUR!!!

  (I will give you a moment to process this and think of ways to torture and punish Arthur.)













  (Done? Good! On with the story!)

  Percy barged in the cabin. "ANNIE WHAT THE HADES ARE YOU DOING?! WE'RE ENGAGED! I SPENT 2 MONTHS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE A RING FOR YOU, THEN I SPENT ANOTHER 2 MONTHS GOING ON A QUEST FOR YOUR MOTHER TO GET HER APPROVAL TO MARRY YOU, THEN I ALMOST WENT BLIND LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE TO GET MARRIED ON THE INTERNET (Leo's monster proof electronics), AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME?! BY KISSING MY BROTHER?! I WENT THROUGH TARTARUS FOR YOU!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! WHY?? WAS I NOT GOOD ENOUGH?! ANNABETH TELL ME!!" ( Yes I know this makes no sense but I thought this might be how Percy would act. Like kinda crazy.)

  "Percy I can explain-" But it was too late. Percy had already stormed out, surprisingly without cursing both of them or doing something bad and painful to Arthur.

  He should not have done that.

  At once people were yelling at him every five seconds.

  "Percy how could you just stand and watch Arthur fight a drakon?! You're lucky he survived! Why didn't you help?! I can't believe the Hero of Olympus could be so mean!"

  "Percy!!! How dare you throw my makeup bag into the canoe lake! You better go back in there and get it or you're going to end up looking like Pennywise!" 

  "PRISSY!!!! Where's my spear?"

  The usual. Except now Percy had a hunch-no, knew-who did these horrible deeds and spread these rumours. I mean, how was he supposed to be chucking stuff into the canoe lake when he spent all his free time eating blue food?

  Percy ran straight to his friends' cabins for guidance, except almost all his homies believed Arthur's lies. Well, almost. There was one who still believed him. No, not Jason. Or Leo. Nico di Angelo. Yeah, the anti-social emo kid who's only hobbies were being creepy and eating McDonalds. Not exactly your ideal friend. But he had gotten Percy out of a lot of tight spots. And I mean a lot. There was the time he had saved Percy when he stupidly went into Kronos' secret lair, the time he got Percy out of Hades' palace-then again he was the reason Percy was there in the first place, so that didn't count, the time he saved like the entire CHB and Olympus by telling Percy to bathe in the River Styx, the time... Well, you get the idea. Nico was pretty much a behind-the-scenes person, doing a lot of work, but never taking any credit. This made Percy want to cry. Not that he didn't already want to cry. The guy did so much for the camp, yet nobody cared about him or welcomed him. The gods didn't even reward Nico after the second Titan war. Ungrateful gods.

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  Percy and Nico decided to leave camp and live at Sally's house. Nico tried to comfort him. "Just forget that backstabbing girl and her attention-seeking boyfriend. They don't deserve to be within 10 metres of you. In fact, they're so jerky, they're probably in the dictionary under the word jerk."

  But the moment they stepped out of camp, they got teleported to Olympus.

  Oh boy. How did Arthur manage to spread rumours to Olympus?

  "PERSUEUS JACKSON!!!" Zeus thundered. "HOW DARE YOU JUST STAND BY AND LET YOUR BRETHREN FIGHT MONSTERS! AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE A HERO OF OLYMPUS? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A HERO AND GET STUFF US GODS ARE TOO LAZY TO GET!"

*crickets*

...

  Poseidon looked at me with disappointment and anger. "I thought you were better than that, Percy. I hereby disown you." (What does hereby mean?)

  Nico, who had somehow gotten teleported to Olympus too, tried to stop him. "But, Lord Poseidon, Percy wasn't-" 

  Hades, who was on Olympus too, interrupted him. "Silence son, or I will disown you too."

  Nico shut up, but Percy could see in his eyes that he still desperately wanted to help Percy. Percy couldn't blame him. Nico had worked so hard to earn his father's love (or what was closest to love) and trust, and he didn't want to lose it so quickly.

  Zeus raised his master bolt.

  "Wait, what are you doing?" Percy asked.

  "Well, you're too powerful, so you might overthrow the gods, and obviously you've been doing all those bad things at camp, so there's really no point in letting you live, right?" Zeus stated, like he wasn't about to annihilate a demigod who had saved his butt twice. 

  "Yes!" Athena agreed. "He cheated on my Annabeth, which proves that Poseidon's spawn are all heartless and don't deserve to live!" To Percy, (and me) that made as much sense as if she had tasted a blue cookie, deemed it bad-tasting, and assumed that all the blue cookies in the world tasted horrible.

  "WHAT?! NO, I DIDN'T!!! IT WAS ANNABETH!!! SHE CHEATED ON ME WITH-"

  Zeus aimed the lightning bolt at Percy while he was ranting and threw it. Percy just turned around in time to catch a glimpse of a flash and something black before everyone gasped. When Percy's brain had processed what had just happened, he was gasped too.

  Nico had jumped in front of the bolt to save him and died. Percy screamed and almost broke down right then and there. Scratch that. He really did break down. Everyone was still gawking at the dead body when Percy recovered enough to run to the entrance and jump off Mount Olympus. 

Well, that's it. Haha, cliffhanger! Want to know what happens next? You'll have to wait to find out! Actually, you probably already know. Sorry, but I'm nor doing any more writing today. I just wrote the entire thing in one sitting. Word count: 1007. 1067 counting this author's note. 

So long,

(Insert whatever you would like to call me here) 







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