The Next Generation

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Dominique's POV

"Just jump off the building everything will be fine." Anthony said a smile passing over his face.

"I'm not jumping off the building! Are you crazy?" I asked peering over the edge of the five-story building.

"I'm not crazy. Besides, everyone in the family has done it, it's honestly not that hard to do." He protested. "Come on, sis just do it." He said.

"Fine, but if I die I hope mom and dad beat the crap out of you." I say.

I squeeze my eyes shut and take a step towards the end of the building.

"Vic! Come over here watch her jump." Anthony called at my fourteen year old sister Victoria who was constantly Iris-messaging people.

One. Two. Three. I jump and plunge down the side of building but soon am cushioned by a pair of white glistening wings that have sprouted out of my back. "What the tartarus?" I turn around and I fall plummeting again and land in a nearby trashcan with a loud thud.

I pull myself up and out and collapse on the floor of the neighboring concrete. The wings have disappeared and my blonde hair is full of grime and dirt. The white blouse I was wearing now looks as of it were brown and my blue jeans are cut on both knees.

"That's not how it was supposed to go." Victoria lands neatly on the ground, her cloud fading.

"Yeah you were supposed to be caught with a cloud not wings." Anthony adds in.

"Like I didn't know that." I say pushing myself up on my elbows.

Victoria extends her manicured hand and I take it letting her pull me up.

Victoria's POV

"You did what?" Mom asked.

"Ant took D to jump off a building." I say blowing a bubble in my pink gum.

"It didn't work and she sprouted wings." Anthony says explaining himself.

"You can't just take your sister to jump off a building. Of all the things your father and I did we never went jumping off buildings for fun." Mom exclaims putting her head in her hands, her wedding ring glinting off the light from the lamp.

"We only admitted to it because I want to know why wings were on me than disappeared." Dominique protested a wave of charmspeak erupted from her voice.

"Wait maybe you need to be able to want them; a need for flying. Picture a pair of them and then say the word." I intercede.

"Okay." She replies. She squeezes her eyes shut and then as quick as a flash of light wings jut out from her causing picture frames to flip and nearly hitting Anthony, who luckily had the quick enough reflexes to duck.

Mom picks up the phone and dials a number. "Hey Jason we need to take D to camp." She says.

Arianna's POV

Have you ever been somewhere with a complete jerk harassing you and you feel the dire need to punch them in the face. Well unfortunately the urge was very strong, at least for me it was.

"Aww what's wrong Ari Jack? Did I offend you?" Matt laughed.

I sat on my fist and clenched my jaw. If I got expelled from another school I would really be in for it. Mom already freaked out after I destroyed half the plumbing in my other school.

"You look really agitated, are you gonna cry?" Matt cackled and the rest of his goons gave him fist-bumps.

"Will you shut up you freaking bastard?" I ask wheeling around.

"No Jackson unfortunately I can not." He sighed.

"Well why don't you?" A voice came from the back.

I looked past Matt and saw Max Valdez standing up with a metal object in his hands.

I sighed and put one hand to my head. Even if whatever Max has works or doesn't; either way I'm screwed.

"What do you want Valdez?" Matt asked.
"Nothing but your kind of a jerk so…" Max trailed off. He raised the metal object and aimed at Matt.

"Max no!" I shouted. But it was to late, Max pushed a button and a red object flew out of a hole and hit Matt right in the head.

Max's POV

"Yeah! Score one for Max score zero for Matt!" I put the firearm down.

"Max." Arianna groaned. "Now were both gonna get in trouble. Great going smart one! Thank gods Doms not here." She said sinking back into her seat.

"Valdez! Jackson!" Ms. Elliot shouted.

The entire bus fell silent; conversations stopped papers spiraled down and all eyes zeroed in on Arianna and me.

"Crap." She whispered.

"Jackson!"

"Yes Ms. Elliot." Arianna beamed at her.

"Expelled! You and Valdez!" She said wheeling on me.

"Call your parents! They're picking both of you scoundrels up!" She declared turning her plump body away and wobbling to the front of the bus.

Arianna pulled two drachmas out of her drawstring and pulled me into her seat. She ran her hand along the glass and a swirl of water formed.

"I forgot you could do that." I said.

Her eyes rolled and she tossed a drachma in muttering something underneath her breath.

A shimmering image formed on the screen a man with black hair and green-blue eyes, Percy Jackson.

"Hi, dad!" She exclaimed.

"Arianna what have you done now?" He asked tiredly.

"Me and Max kind of shot someone with a dart." She said calmly.

"What?" He asked. "Were you expelled?" He crossed his arms.

"Of course I was what planet do you live on?" she threw her hands up.

"Meet us at the Natural History Museum love you bye!" she waved her hand through the image and it disappeared. "You need to call your dad too right?" She asked keeping the water up.

"Yeah."

She tossed the coin in and the image shimmered and was replaced by… my mom.

"Hi Mrs. Valdez, me and Max got in big trouble and we got expelled." She explained.

"WHAT? Max what the tarturus?" She screamed.

"Yeah sorry mom, pick us up at the natural history museum. Bye!" He shouted and the water shimmered and disappeared.