The Legend of Basketball
Percy Jones is a 14 year old boy who lives in Valencia, California. He is 2 meters tall, brown hair with blue eyes and he lives with his mother. Since his mother is always at work, Percy depends on his best friend, Sam Romy. Sam is a fit, but rather short boy for his age. He is 1.50 meters tall and is captain of the soccer team. They met when they were 6 in elementary school. Percy and Sam both do well at school, but while Sam has no problem with sports, Percy sucks at them. He always liked basketball and he finally got on the team last year.
When this school year started, Percy and Sam immediately tried out for sports. In Sam´s case, he got his place from last year on the soccer team; but in Percy´s case, something happened to him during the summer, and he wasn’t able to regain his spot as defender on the team. Alex, Percy´s arch enemy, won the captain title for the team. Alex has bullied Percy for as long as middle school. Alex is also bullied, but not at school. His parents died when he was 3 years old and he was at a foster home until he was 9. When he was finally adopted, he got foster parents who used him as their maid. He had to clean the house, he had to take out the trash, he made everyone´s bed, and he got them what they wanted at any time. Everyone at school had sympathy because of his parent´s death and the torture that he had now, and Alex takes it out on the weaker kids. Alex bothers Percy by speaking as if not having his dad was awesome. Alex thinks Percy has a father, as everybody else does but the truth was Percy´s father was also dead. He passed away when Percy was 3 years old as well. Percy doesn’t have much to hold on about his father and he really doesn’t remember him, all he has is a “Zeus” Lego figure that his father gave to him when he was 2. Percy treasures this and always has it with him. He feels it protects him, and the truth is it does.
When Percy lost his family, his dad died and he lost his mom to her job; the Greek gods assigned him a guardian. The cache of the deal though, was that Zeus was the guardian. He was the only of the three mayor gods that had never served as a guardian and his two brothers decided that this was the perfect case. Zeus arranged that Percy´s father had gotten the toy for Percy, and especially that it was his action figure. He added a special touch to it so Percy would feel it was part of him, he added his father.
For Sam, the New Year was just going back to school, but for Percy, It was a whole new beginning. He tried to train as much as he could during the summer and tried to smooth out things with Alex. He didn’t really pay any attention to Percy until school. The first day was a living hell for Percy. Alex kept of pushing him to the ground every time they encountered and he kept on telling Percy that he was definitely getting the Captain title. Percy was getting worried that his life hobby being ruined by Alex but then other worries got into place.
Percy´s mother came home that night with bad news for Percy. The factory where she worked was getting shut down. She was now going to get a full time job! Percy wasn’t in the mood to be sad. He was just worried about basketball; after all, he never really see his mom anyway.
When Percy got to school the next day, Alex was waiting at his homeroom. He gave him the game schedule for the trimester, his uniform and a court map. He had an evil grin on his face that scared Percy. He was kind of worried when Alex left; he knew the smile wasn’t a good thing. He didn’t bother to look at his things until his first period. When de did, he noticed he wasn’t set for any of the 9 games except 1!
Percy was furious. He knew he wasn’t playing well but Alex was being a pure bully. The team got to the game very tensely and started losing. Alex was furious and the coach didn’t focus on the game, but of consoling Alex. Percy asked for a chance in the game and it was approved. He got in and started out badly. They took the ball from him 3 times. He was worried and started crying.
Zeus helped Percy with godly powers to get back up on the team and help the match. He ended up scoring 6 points for the team and did very well. It turned out that what Percy needed the most was someone who really paid attention to his troubles and notice that it wasn’t his fault. Zeus had carried that part out. He helped Percy with self esteem and helped him train and gain a positive attitude. Based on his performance, much better than Alex´s, the coach put him as team captain. Zeus also got Percy´s mother a better job that was only half time and paid a little more than the other one did. She ended up having lots of time for Percy and they lived happily ever after.
