Greek God High: Chapter 14

Meanwhile at Thebes High School... The PA blared over the speakers, "There appears to be a fire in the alchemy lab. Please quietly walk to your class's designated fire exit in a quick and orderly fashion..." while the pandemonium reigned in the school, with kids screaming everywhere. "My iPhone 5! SIRI! Where are you!?" "I, Osiris, solemnly leave my XBOX 360, my PS3, and my Surface to my brother Set..." Everything was in chaos, and the smartest kid, Thoth, went with the most logical step, which was to- "Mister Narrator? Hello?" Thoth? What do you want? Don't you know? Breaking the fourth wall is only legal in certain TV Shows. "Oh yeah, Congress revoked that law on the basis that it was too stupid. Can I ask a favor?" What could you possibly want? "Can you put in a part where I gallantly charge through the fire to save a hot girl and have her be my girlfriend-" What?! No! I'm not the kind of person who just randomly adds in a part just because I got a character telling me to do so! "Aww..." Now shoo. Umm... so anyways, after hearing the screams of a girl past a wall of fire, Thoth (ever the smart one...) "I heard that!" *sigh* Jumped through it and falling onto... an unconscious Nefertiti. Who is, as you probably don't know, a very pretty ninth grader that's TOTALLY OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE! GET A GRIP AND GET HER OUT OF HERE YOU MORON THE SCHOOL IS BURNING! "Okay, okay, okay! Jeez..." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">And Thoth ran as fast as he can out of the building, carrying the unconscious Nefertiti. Meanwhile, on the outside, everyone saw the Alexandria Wing explode. Burning books, desktop CPU shrapnel, and intact Nokia phones were flung into the air, and all of the nerds shed at least one tear. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Principal Ra and Vice Principal Apophis were the last to shuffle out of the building. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Wanna weasel cookie." Ra mumbled. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"All right, you bumbling half-wit, walk! I want my pay raise!" Apophis yelled, as he shoved the old Ra out of the school building. Ra turned around to see the charred and ruined school, and a lucid expression unlike his usual self grew on his face. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Apophis? Get me my podium!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Apophis indifferently pressed a button that summoned a podium in front of Ra. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Students! Robotic teachers! We gather here today to bask in another tragedy..." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"As though we didn't have any this year..." Sekhmet growled. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"... so school will have to be-" and Ra was interrupted with many excited yells of "Canceled!?" which he responded with a resounding no and with the other part of his boring lecture. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"No! Education shall continue as long as I am principal! But we will have to switch facilities I order for this to be possible. So we will transfer to another school for sometime. I know Apophis's sister-" there was a lot of groaning following this, "-runs her own school as principal. And thus, we shall move into her school for two weeks, while we rebuild and renovate our own school building. You are all dismissed." More muttered protests followed. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Here we go again..." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Why can't people just BE smarter?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Two weeks!? I can't keep waking up at 6 AM for two weeks!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Well," Hathor said to Nut, "I hope they make boys better there." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"They make them perfectly okay here too," whispered Nut, and she stole a glance at Geb, who was talking with two other people. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Aaugh! Here we go again!" Osiris cried. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Oh shut up you big baby," Seth replied with a knock on Osiris's shoulder, "We all knew this was gonna happen SOMETIME." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Well," Geb replied to Seth, "You still have to admit it's a pain in the (donkey) to keep switching to their school. Do you have any idea what that girl Aphrodite does to people who cross her? Or that weird kid Iapetus? Do you KNOW how many piercings that guy has!?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yeah they're a weird bunch, that's for sure, but some of them are decent people. We do know some of them from Terra Elementary. Along with that one other kid, Sid." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Sid? You mean that kid that would meditate all the time under the giant oak tree we planted there?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yeah. *sigh* I wonder where he went?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"He transferred to China or India I think." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">The next day at Hellenes High... <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Poseidon was talking to Zeus just as they arrived in the school building. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"You remember what Hephaestus told us once?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"What?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"He said that when he plays sports his reflexes are slow-" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Oh yeah! And when he plays Fruit Ninja they're super fast? Yeah I remember. I tried it myself." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"So?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"He was right. My record for Arcade's nine hundred and ninety six. How about yours Mr. Narrator?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">How did you-?! I only have nine hundred and eighty six! Oh wait, you had berry blasts on didn't you? <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yeah so?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Oh, I don't use those. I play legit. (Oh yeah mention in the talk if you beat my record! It's harder than it seems!) <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">As they walked into the main hall, Oracle ran up to them. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Guys guys guys!" she yelled. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Rachel?" Poseidon said. "What are you doing here? The last time I remember you've left your closet was in grade school!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"I was looking on the school security cameras and I saw-" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Then another teenager interrupted them. "Me, I suppose." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">The African-American newcomer, with hair so short he was almost bald, long muscled arms, legs, and torso, wearing a graphic T-Shirt and jeans, had already made three girls swoon. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Zeus's face lit up upon seeing him. "Horus! Jeyello keyousin!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Horus smiled. "Jeyello keyousin to you too. You still remember that ridiculous accent we used in grade school?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Like I'll ever forget, mon fréré." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Rachel interjected, "Wait, you know this guy?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Now Poseidon answered, with a tinge of bitterness, "Horus was one of Zeus's trio of friends in seventh grade, along with me. So Horus, what are you doing here? I thought you were attending Thebes High?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"I was. Then the alchemy lab exploded with half of the school. One ha-di too much and not enough hi-nehms. So now we're stuck here." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"We? You mean-?!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yup." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Everyone-!?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Uh-huh." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Then that means... oh god..." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yep. It's gonna be a weeirrd two weeks." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Rachel's mouth dropped. "Two weeks!?" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Zeus's face lit up on this. "Two weeks!? Oh dude you gotta go on the grand tour!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Sure, why not. Food, Supreme, Basketball, and Tennis Courts first," Horus replied with a smile. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Oh those are down this hall-oh hey Mnesomyne!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Mnesomyne, a pretty, blond haired girl with her hair in a ponytail smiled and waved back at Zeus. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Mnesomyne?" Horus asked. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Girlfriend. And in junior year too." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Nice! So we were..." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Oh yeah the basketball court is this way..." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">As Zeus and Horus trailed away, Poseidon was left alone with Rachel. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Well, see you Don. Tartarus bought some new anti-spyware for the school computers that'll shut my system down if I don't break it within a week." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">And with a flip of her fiery red hair, she was on her way. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Poseidon was left alone, until he saw another newcomer go through the doors, a girl this time. And this time, it was one that he knew. A girl with jet black hair, slightly tanned skin, and a slight, graceful frame walked into the building. Nephthys, his elementary school crush, and Poseidon felt his heart beating faster. He was considering running up to her and was already two feet closer when he saw her usher another teenager. His face was pale, his hair was jet black, he wore Armani suits, pants, and loafers, and was a bit taller than Nephthys herself. Poseidon didn't pay attention to him until the two of them shared a kiss, which made him stop in his tracks. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">The duo walked in, and Nepthys saw Poseidon, with an awkward expression growing on her face. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Oh... uh... hi Poseidon!" She said awkwardly, but the boy talked in a formal and jovial manner. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Hello, er, Poseidon!" He greeted in a mix of Irish and French accents. "I am Seth Fowl. Nice to meet you." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">He shook hands with Poseidon. Poseidon took on a sort of strained expression. "I see you know my girlfriend already!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Poseidon's eyes flashed in anger at this. Girlfriend?! <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yeah, that's right," he said fiercely as he hid his balled fists. "I know her," Or at least I thought I did, he thought and he looked at Nephthys contemptuously. <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yeah," Nephthys responded sheepishly. "We've met." Seth, ignoring their tone of voice and strained and awkward expressions, broke the tense silence. "Well then! I guess we have to head to our dorms now. See you then Poseidon!" He wrapped his elbow around Nephthys's and steered themselves away, leaving Poseidon alone, now looking stricken.