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Part 2 of Reading Percy Jackson
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Reading Percy Jackson: Book 2 - The Sea of Monsters

Summary:

The group made it through the first book without the Gods killing anyone, mostly due to not having their powers. How will they react to all that happens in Percy's second summer at Camp Half-Blood?

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(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1: My Best Friend Shops for a Wedding Dress

Chapter Text

The next morning everyone woke up and made their way into the dining hall. Hermes and his children were the first ones to arrive, giggling to themselves. Athena and Annabeth game in next, both sporting grey hair. 

 

“Hermes!” Athena yelled.

 

“Yes, Athena?” The God asked innocently.

 

“What did you do?” 

 

“Nothing.” He answered honestly. Travis had been in charge of that particular duo. 

 

“Well then what did your spawn do?”

 

“Hey.” The Stolls protested.

 

“Reverse it.” Annabeth demanded.

 

“We can’t. It lasts for twelve hours.” Chris grinned. Just then Ares and Clarisse walked in with blood red hair.

 

“HERMES!” Ares shouted.

 

“Wasn’t me.” He smirked. Chris grinned. He had drawn the short straw as nobody really wanted to get caught dying the War God’s hair. Or Clarisse’s for that matter. Slowly, the rest of the group arrived. Percy, Thalia and Poseidon had green hair that matched the two sea people’s eyes while Zeus and Hera had blue hair. Nico and Hades were now white haired and both of them looked incredibly unhappy about this fact. Those who had slept in the guest rooms, including Chiron were all sporting rainbow coloured hair while Frank seemed quite upset with but the others found it rather amusing. Dionysus and Dakota were now purple haired while Aphrodite and her kids had hot pink hair. Piper was very upset, she headed straight towards the Hermes kids who all dived behind their father.

 

“Reverse this!” She screamed.

 

“We can’t. It won’t wear off for twelve hours.” Travis explained.

 

“I’m going to kill you!”

 

“Calm down, Pipes.” Jason moved forwards to take her hand. She looked at him, anger fading into surprise when she saw his rainbow coloured hair. Then Apollo and Will arrived, sporting silver hair. Chris had figured that gold hair really wouldn’t do much to the two blondes. Demeter had escaped the prank, as had Artemis and Hestia. Hephaestus and his kids had red hair but a brighter shade than Ares and Clarisse. Leo seemed quite pleased with his hair. Beckendorf was less impressed but after seeing the various other colours in the room he felt better. Once everyone had finished eating they moved to the throne room. They sat in the same seating arrangements as the day before, although Thalia moved back to sit with Percy rather than Annabeth. The Stolls sat on either side of their father while Chris sat at his feet. 

 

“Who will read?” Chiron asked.

 

“I haven’t read yet.” Frank spoke up. Chiron smiled and handed him the book with the number two on the spine.

 

“My best friend shops for a wedding dress.”

 

“What? This is definitely starting as strangely as the last one.” Leo commented. Grover let out a quiet groan as he figured out what this was about. Percy shot him a smirk.

 

“Is Grover getting married?” Reyna asked in bemusement.

 

“No.” The Satyr yelled in embarrassment.

 

My nightmare started like this.

 

“Oh great. Percy’s nightmares are never good.” Poseidon groaned.

 

I was standing...for his life.

 

“Running for your life and you stop to shop for a wedding dress?” Thalia asked in amusement.

 

“Don’t you?” Grover asked sarcastically.

 

Yeah, I said...Grover is a satyr. 

 

“We know?” Nico frowned.

 

“Maybe the book recaps in case you didn’t read the first one?” Leo suggested.

 

“Why would you not read the first one?” Athena asked in horror.

 

“Especially given that these books were sent back for us to read. We would obviously read them all.” Annabeth frowned. Everyone just shrugged.

 

From the waist...I don’t recommend), 

 

Grover glared at Percy while everyone else sniggered.

 

you’d never...since last July, 

 

“You didn’t check in for almost a year?” Jason asked.

 

“I didn’t have much chance.” Grover said.

 

when he set...something.

 

“Descriptive.” Percy snorted at his own thoughts.

 

A bone-rattling...wedding dresses.

 

“I’m not sure a shop with no other exits is a good hiding place.” Beckendorf frowned.

 

“Yeah. I found that out.” Grover sighed.

 

The monster’s shadow...rotten meat 

 

Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Clarisse all grimaced. They could all recall that smell very well.

 

and that weird...shadow passed on.

 

“I’d say good but it wouldn’t be a nightmare if it was that easy.” Nico frowned.

 

“It’ll be coming back.” Beckendorf agreed.

 

Silence except...bellowed: “MIIIIINE!”

 

“That’s pretty creepy.” Percy noted.

 

“Try actually living it.” Clarisse muttered. Everyone who didn’t know what happened gave her strange looks.

 

I sat bolt...humanlike shape. 

 

Percy glanced over at Annabeth who had gone a little red. 

 

But then there...anyone out there.

 

Percy smirked over at Nico.

 

“Unless you shadow travel.”

 

“You sneaked into Percy’s room through his window?” Hades raised an eyebrow at his son. Nico blushed.

 

“I needed to speak with him and I didn’t want to be seen.” Nico tried to explain.

 

“How did that work out for ya?” Percy asked with a chuckle.

 

“That was your fault.” Nico reminded him. Apollo and Will both watched the exchange with very similar frowns.

 

“Come on, dear,”...made it.’”

 

“Almost being the operative word.” Percy muttered to himself.

 

“Coming,”...for so long….

 

“Why would you need it now?” Poseidon asked. 

 

“I was still unsure about the shadow at the window.” Percy said.

 

Besides, my mom...her china cabinet.

 

Everybody laughed again.

 

“Why were you swinging a javelin inside anyway?” Chiron raised an eyebrow.

 

“Practise?” Percy offered.

 

“Swords are one things but javelins aren’t quite another.” Chiron told him.

 

I put Anaklusmos...Grover meant?

 

“Well, I’m guessing that he wanted to warn you something is coming. Whatever was chasing him.” Reyna said.

 

“Maybe.” Gwen frowned.

 

I made a three-fingered...exploding homework. 

 

“Exploding homework?” Poseidon smirked at his son.

 

“Yep.” Percy nodded. “Although that may not have been supernatural.”

 

“What did you do?” Leo asked eagerly.

 

“Science project gone wrong.” Percy admitted.

 

Tomorrow, I’d...mess that up.

 

“Well you just jinxed it.” Thalia sighed.

 

As usual...miracles like that.

 

“I love how your mom thinks blue food is as much of a miracle as you going a whole year without being expelled.” Annabeth laughed.

 

“She really should know better than to celebrate even a day before the year is over.” Grover added.

 

I ate at the...all right?”

 

“Yeah, Percy not eating is a big indicator something isn’t right.” Thalia nodded.

 

“Yeah … fine.”...bothering me. 

 

“Not eating and saying he’s fine. You don’t need to be a mind reader to know something is up.” Apollo scoffed lightly.

 

“It is fairly obvious.” Annabeth agreed.

 

She dried her...from camp… .” 

 

“Yeah. Maybe.” Percy muttered. He recalled not being told about a couple of things going wrong at camp.

 

Her shoulders...for camp tonight.”

 

“Why would Percy not go to camp?” Reyna frowned.

 

“Because there was stuff going on.” Chiron sighed.

 

“Well then surely you would want Percy there?” Jason said.

 

She twisted her...have to postpone.”

 

“But Camp is the only...one of the only safe places.” Poseidon said, correcting himself with a glance at the Romans.

 

“Postpone? Mom...so suddenly.”

 

“So camp is in so much danger that Chiron thinks Percy shouldn’t go and yet his mom won’t explain.” Thalia raised an eyebrow.

 

“He has school.” Annabeth pointed out.

 

“Yes, I’m sure he’ll be completely focused on school.” Will scoffed.

 

My mind was...will be waiting.”

 

Percy smiled slightly while Annabeth cringed, recalling her initial reaction to meeting Tyson.

 

“But—”...underground alone.

 

“Tyson? Afraid of the underground?” Rachel raised an eyebrow.

 

“Yeah. He was afraid of a lot of things to begin with.” Percy said with another fond smile.

 

I gathered up...as I can.”

 

“That’s still not very comforting.” Connor muttered.

 

“Yeah, well, Camp wasn’t in a good state that year, was it?” Travis muttered to his brother.

 

Reluctantly, I told...afternoon talk.

 

“That sounds about right.” Poseidon sighed.

 

In fact...long time.

 

“It wasn’t that long.” Percy frowned. “Just a regular summer.”

 

As I stepped...to no one.

 

Everyone frowned and then turned to Annabeth.

 

“What?” She asked.

 

“You’re the only one who knows Percy that can turn invisible.” Nico pointed out.

 

Then it rippled and vanished.

 

“Chapter’s over.” Frank announced. “That was really short.” 

 

“Lucky you.” Clarisse muttered.

 

“I’ll read next.” Jason offered. Frank handed over the book.