Percy Accidentally Vaporizes his Pre-Algebra Teacher
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Our narrator introduces himself: "My name is Percy Jackson". Percy is twelve years old and "until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York".
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Field trips don't usually work out for Percy, because he always gets into trouble. Before this particular field trip to New York City, however, Percy promised himself he would be good. He even keeps cool when, on the school bus, Nancy Bobofit pelts pieces of PB&J at his best friend Grover's head
Percy tells us that Mr. Brunner is cool, but that he pushes him really hard in class. He expects Percy to know everything about Greek history and culture. Percy tells us that he has dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, "and I had never made above a C- in my life"
Mrs. Dodds, the scary math teacher who hates Percy's guts, leads him into the museum, as though she were leading him to bigtime punishment. Then, Mrs. Dodds's eyes glow red, she grows wings and talons, and she transforms into some kind of…beast, "with bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me to ribbons".
Mr. Brunner appears. Just as Mrs. Dodds lunges for Percy, Mr. Brunners throws Percy a ballpoint pen which transforms into a sword. Percy slices Mrs. Dodds right before she kills him, and she vaporizes like "a sand castle in a power fan".
When Percy returns to the front of the museum where the rest of the class is, nobody knows who Mrs. Dodds is. And there's a new teacher around who Percy has never even heard of: Mrs. Kerr. Even Grover and Mr. Brunner don't seem to know who Mrs. Dobbs is.
