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Generally, Percy Jackson didn’t expect to go to Camp Half-Blood until summer. And generally, he preferred that. That meant there weren’t any crazy monsters, titans, giants, or gods trying to kill him just yet.
But if he was being honest, he would have preferred that to be the reason he was returning to Camp in the middle of March. The reason he, along with all the other demigods, were returning to Camp was because some nosoi had gotten loose and unleashed a virus on the entire world.
“Heroes,” Chiron said from the front of the dining pavilion where Percy and the other demigods were gathered. “Now you must take on a great task. Not infecting the rest of the world.”
Chiron explained how something to do with their godly parents made them immune to this new coronavirus that was currently plaguing the mortals. But that same whatever that made them immune also made them about ten times more likely to be able to pass it on to the mortals that weren’t immune. Not to mention the small detail that now classes were being moved to online and demigods using the internet tended to draw unnecessary monster attention. Percy did not want to find out what the mortals might see attacking a demigod on a Zoom call. Worst case, the mortals might assume their classmate decided to take a Zoom class during their Mafia meeting. Which couldn’t end well for anyone.
“In the spirit of being together though, while you are here, you will be resuming your classes alongside the rest of your classmates virtually,” Chiron beamed.
Virtually? Nico di Angelo mouthed to Percy in confusion.
“The Hephaestus cabin will be taking this week to handcraft special laptops for your use,” Chiron continued. “And the Hecate cabin will be updating the borders to filter out our… extreme increase in internet usage. Classes resume next week, so you should all prepare for that!”
Nico raised a hand. “For those of us who come from a completely different century… What does it mean virtually?”
“For those of us who don’t know how to use technology out of our own self preservation,” Connor Stoll said. “How do you use a laptop?”
Chiron quickly looked at the Athena table. “The Athena cabin will be receiving their laptops first and will be conducting a series of lessons for those of you who need it.”
Annabeth Chase looked startled. She, Percy knew, at least knew how to use a flip phone since she owned one, but he was pretty sure Annabeth and the rest of the Athena kids had no other experience with technology since it would send up a pretty strong monster beacon.
“We’re on it, Chiron,” Malcolm Pace agreed.
Percy could have sworn he saw Malcolm start to pass out Internet for Dummies to the rest of the Athena cabin which left him with many questions. One, where did those books come from? Two, how desperate were they if they were willing to read a for Dummies book? And three, how horribly would his go?
He had no idea what he was in for.