The Rise of the Earth by Jeanette and Myrna (good books to read for teens txt) 📖

'Hades, I swear if you ever send furies after my children again, I will through you in the depths of Tartarus!'
'You are guilty yourself Zeus, having three children with the same mortal woman!'
Up on Olympus, on the winter solstice, Zeus and Hades were having one of their usual arguments and the other Olympians were looking bored. Hephaestus was building a miniature clockwork bird, Hermes was on his phone, Athena was feeding an owl and Apollo was listening to music on his iPod.
'Uncle, father please,' Athena said. 'We just want some time to relax.' Then thunder boomed and in a flurry of golden light four figures appeared and they seemed to be having an argument.
'Nico, if you ever stalk/shadow travel me again, I will personally see to it that you won't get across the Styx for free!' One of the girls yelled. She had a silver tiara on top of her black spiky hair and dark eyeliner around her electric blue eyes.
'It was an accident!' One of the boys yelled. He had messy brown hair and dark brown eyes. The others just rolled their eyes. The girl had blonde hair and startling grey eyes. The boy had jet black hair and sea green eyes.
'Guys,' the blonde said looking around. 'We’re not in Camp Half-Blood anymore.
The gods, who had their weapons out figured the children were Demigods and lowered their weapons.
'Who are you?' Zeus asked.
'We're-' The blonde started but another golden light filled the room and when it died three more figures appeared.
'I can't believe you were late again!' The first girl yelled. She had black shoulder length hair and dark green eyes. 'Seriously, you could get something like, oh, I don't know, an ALARM CLOCK!'
'Give me a break!' The guy said. He had long black shaggy hair that hung in his electric blue eyes and a thick white scar that went across his cheek, all the way to the bottom of his jawbone. 'I don't have Thalia to wake me up anymore and Percy doesn't do any better.'
'Guys, shut it!' The other girl yelled. She looked almost exactly like the first girl except she had blonde hair and she was a few inches taller. She looked around. 'This-this isn't the movies.'
The others looked round. 'Aww man,' The guy moaned. 'We're missing the new Harry Potter movie.' He looked at the three people in front of him until he stopped at the Goth. 'Thalia?' The guy asked. The trio turned round. The guy with green eyed smiled, as did the guy with brown eyes, the blonde rolled her eyes and the Goth smiled hugely.
'Ryan?' The Goth said in disbelief. They ran into a hug, they were either siblings or dating but the gods decided the latter. The guy who was called Ryan went around and did a handshake with the other guys and then went to the blonde.
The blonde shook her head. 'I still haven't forgotten when you put fake spiders in my room.'
'Aww, come on Annabeth, that was months ago.'
Annabeth managed to ignore Ryan for about 30 seconds until she couldn't take it anymore.
She opened her arms. 'Come here.' They hugged.
'WHO ARE YOU?' Zeus bellowed, which made the Demigods jump.
'Wow, Olympus is so much different.' Ryan muttered.
'That's because Annabeth designed the new one, Bolt Head.' Thalia reminded him.
Annabeth came forward. ‘I’m Annabeth,’ she said. ‘This is Percy, Thalia, Nico, Ryan, Caliga and Lux.’ She gestured to each of the kid, ‘We’re from the year 2011.’
Then from out of nowhere, a book came and hit Ryan in the face.
‘OW!’ He yelled. He then looked at the title. ‘What the Hades?’ He murmured.
‘Why must everyone use my name?’ Hades asked.
Ryan read the title out loud. ‘Heroes of Olympus: Rise of the Earth.’ Thunder boomed and a girl appeared; she looked about 16 with red hair and green eyes, she looked around the room and her eyes stopped at Ryan.
‘Ryan?’ She asked.
Ryan’s eyes were full of horror. ‘J - Jess?’ He stuttered.
Thalia looked like she was trying hard not to laugh, the gods, except for Aphrodite, looked very confused and the others, minus Caliga, were just smiling madly. Caliga crossed her arms across her chest, looking at Ryan for an exclamation while Ryan averted his eyes from Caliga to Jess nervously.
Annabeth took the book from Ryan. ‘Well seeing as you, Jess and Caliga have some catching up to do, I’ll start reading.’
She opened the cover of the book and inside was a note, Annabeth read it out. ‘Dear demigods, gods, hosts and mortals, if you are reading this then you have been sent back in time to read with the gods to make the future less horrible, we also put it in the point of view of our two favourite heroes, have fun reading, the Muses. PS: Once you have finished this book you will read the next one.’
‘Well that makes sense,’ Thalia said. ‘That quest was horrible.’ The people who were there nodded their heads in agreement.
‘And there’s another book,’ Ryan said, remembering the letter. ‘The next one in the series.’
His eyes widened as he realised what their next adventure was, Caliga noticed Ryan’s expression and realised as well and she turned beet red.
‘Well, we should read.’ Annabeth said, opening the book and hoping Caliga won’t kill Ryan in the process.
‘Wait,’ Zeus said. ‘Before we read, who are you godly parents?’
Ryan and Thalia stood. ‘Our Dad is Zeus,’ Ryan said, ‘I’m also the saviour of Greece.’
‘And I’m the lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis.’ Thalia said.
Caliga and Lux stood. ‘Technically, we’re not demigods,’ Lux said. ‘In our time the gods only claimed people.’
‘So who claimed you?’ Zeus asked.
‘Jupiter and Venus,’ Lux said. The gods noticed that they used the Roman names for the gods instead of the Greek ones.
‘Gaia,’ Caliga grumbled. The gods stared at her but decided not to ask questions because they were sure it would be mentioned in the book.
Nico stood. ‘Hades,’ He grumbled.
Annabeth stood. ‘Athena,’ she said. ‘I’m also the designer of Olympus.’
Percy stood. ‘Poseidon,’ He said. ‘And the saviour of Olympus.’
Jess stood. ‘Jess, clear sighted mortal.’ She mumbled.
‘Summon all the Olympians!’ Zeus yelled.
‘Uhh, Father?’ Apollo said.
‘What is it Apollo?’ He asked.
All the Olympians are here.’
Then a girl came in, she looked almost exactly like Jess except she was older.
‘Hey guys, what are you reading?’ She asked.
‘Ryan’s myth,’ Annabeth answered.
She nodded, sat down and motioned for Annabeth to read.
Annabeth opened to the first page. ‘Okay, the first chapter is called, ‘I receive a rude awakening’.’
‘Chapter 1: I receive a rude awakening’ Annabeth read and then she raised an eyebrow. ‘Is this when –‘She asked and Ryan nodded.
Life was fair, my Dad abandoned me when I five,
‘I did not!’ Zeus yelled.
My brother disappeared when he was 2,

‘You have a brother?’ All the Olympians, minus Zeus and Hera asked.
Ryan and Thalia nodded sadly but then a huge grin formed on their faces and the gods looked at them funny.

My sister ran away when she was 10 and my mom died a while later.

Everyone was now looking at Ryan, who was now glaring at his shoes, thunder rumbled outside and Thalia and Zeus looked up. Knowing what will happen if her brother didn’t calm down, Thalia whispered something only Ryan could hear, the thunder died and Ryan looked up.
‘Read,’ He grumbled.

I was a normal kid.

Thalia smirked and Ryan glared at her.

I played basketball, played video games; the usual but the true is, I’m not normal;

‘See, even you agree with me!’ Thalia said and everyone else gave her a weird look.

I’m a Half-Blood, half human, half Greek god. Now, I know what you’re thinking; aren’t the Greek gods a myth?

All the gods were now glaring at the book.

You could say that, but the gods are still alive and they come down to earth and have kids. I have two cousins; Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon

Percy smiled.

And Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades.

Nico pumped his fist in the air. ‘Oh yeah! I’m in the book!’
‘Nico,’ Thalia said. ‘You’re not in the book, you were only mentioned.’
‘Then why am I here?’ He asked.

I also have a brother and sister, Thalia and Jason Grace. My name is Ryan Grace, I’m 17 years old and my dad is Zeus: God of the Sky, King of Gods, all of the above.

‘Was that supposed to be a complement or an insult?’ Zeus asked.
Ryan shrugged, he honestly didn’t know.

My life was miserable, I lived in a foster home with Nate and Patty Nelson and their older son, James, they were slobs, messy and their apartment always smelled of stale beer and rabbit and pigeon stew.

Almost everyone crinkled their nose.
‘That is...DISUSTING!’ Annabeth yelled as she ran to the nearest bush to throw up.
‘Please not on my flowers!’ Demeter squeaked.
‘Eww... too late... sorry.’ Annabeth grumbled.
‘Well... that just made my day! Thank you Annabeth!’ Ryan happily cheered, Annabeth glared at him and everyone just burst out laughing.

I wanted to leave, I got kicked out of five schools in the past five years but the only good thing about it was I was going to the same school as Percy
Percy smiled at this.
But I haven’t seen him in three months.
Percy bowed his head.

The school bell rang for the end of school, and I had the slightest urge to go back to camp Half-Blood, a training ground for half-bloods, I turned back to Goode High School and then I ran. It wasn’t too long a journey because I have ADHD and then I saw Half-Blood Hill, memories flushing through my mind. I walked towards the entrance; I saw a purple-scaled dragon snoring in Thalia’s pine tree. Yeah, my sister died when she was twelve, or at least I think she’s dead.

‘You didn’t tell him?!’ Thalia shrieked.

Percy shrugged. ‘I only got time to tell him my first quest; he only knew you got turned into a tree.’

I figured I’d go around the dragon just to be safe, everything was going to plan when SNAP! I stepped on a twig and the dragon woke. He lashed at me, I yelled in pain then I felt a surge of pain from below my chest, I felt drowsy, I blacked out and I heard hooves coming towards me.

There was a long silence until Thalia said, ‘Do you still have the scar?’ Ryan nodded, rolled up his t-shirt to reveal four bite marks just below his chest. Most of the Olympians winced but some of them were too shocked to say anything.
‘Oh my God!’ Aphrodite shrieked which made everyone jumped out of their seats. ‘Those are some nice abs.’ the gods just rolled their eyes but Ryan looked at her funny, rolled down his t-shirt and motioned for Annabeth to read on.

When I woke up a satyr was standing next to my bed, the room looked like it was in the Big House, the ceiling fan turned slowly as flies buzzed around the dimly lit lights. The satyr had short, brown, curly hair with a goatee hanging from his chin, and I recognized him immediately.

‘You let that Satyr search again, after what happened?’ Zeus bellowed.
Dionysus looked up from his wine magazine. ‘Don’t look at