The Beginning
My name is Pearl Jackson. I have bright, emerald green eyes, and light wavy blonde hair. I'm around 5'3 or 5'4. I have a twin brother. His name is Parker. He's got the same hair, and eyes as me, but he's 6'3. We have an older sister, her name is Selena. She has dark black hair, and light grey eyes that have a green tint near the center. She's only a few inches shorter than Parker, standing about 5'9, but he still loves to rub it in. Our parents are Annabeth, and Percy Jackson. Like my father, I can control water. Parker has our mother's extreme smarts, and architectural abilities. Selena is somewhere in between. She can control water, and she's extremely smart. I'm a demigod, the only problem is, I have no idea. Let me start from the beginning.
Pearl's Point of View
"PJ! PJ! Wake up!" I opened my eyes, and my twin brother was jumping on top of me, while shouting my name. "It's our eighth birthday!" He shouts excitedly. I quickly jump out of my bed and throw on my Camp Half Blood sweatshirt. Our birthday is on December eighth. Even with the lack of snow, it's still extremely cold. We run out of the room to go wake up our thirteen year old sister.
"Selena! Wake up!" Parker shouts.
"Is everything alright?!" She says worried.
"Of course, you didn't forget it was our birthday, did you?" I said innocently. She smiled and patted a spot next to her on her bed. I climbed up.
"I would never forget your birthday." Selena said, sweetly giving me a quick hug. Dad sneaked in with a bucket of water and used his powers to drench us.
"DADDY!" Parker and I shouted gleefully at the same time. Selena and I were completely dry, whereas Parker, was not.
"Are you guys ready to come open your presents?" He asked, while slumping his shoulders and placing his fists on his hips. "Jason and Piper got here late last night, so the boys are-" We were out the door before he finished his sentence.
"Jared! Jaden!" We shouted while running down the hall. The twin boys saw us, and ran over to greet us.
"Alright, kids, don't go to crazy. We don't need you waking Julia up." Piper said from inside the kitchen.
"Who's Julia?" Parker asked.
"She's our new little sister!" Jared said.
"Do you want to come see her?" Jaden said. Parker and I nodded our heads enthusiastically. We all ran into the living room. There we saw a small little baby lying on a blanket in the middle of the floor. She started to cry, so I walked over and started to sing the song that Mom would sing to me when I was sad.
Annabeth's Point of View
"Is that little PJ?" Piper said, she was in the kitchen, with me, preparing the twins birthday breakfast.
"Yeah, Percy thinks that PJ's got almost all of the Poseidon powers, while Parker's got Athena's." I said. It made sense. Parker couldn't even stay completely dry. Whenever Percy surprise drenched them, he always ended up damp, not completely dry.
"Do you think that being a granddaughter of Poseidon is what makes her voice sound like a siren's?" Piper said. I had been thinking about this. Both Percy and myself had average singing voices, while Pearl sounded like an angel.
"I've been contemplating it." I replied.
"You know how you were saying that you feel like your powers were split between them?" Piper said, "Well, I think the same thing happened with Jared and Jaden. Jared's been able to fly, and control the weather since he was at least five. Whereas Jaden loves going clothes shopping with me, and sometimes Jared does whatever he says. I've had to ban asking each other for help with chores, so that Jaden won't accidentally charmspeak his brother into doing everything for him."
"That's so strange." I said.
"I also think he has the ability to change appearances. You know how Jared has this really dark, blonde hair, and how Jaden's is now dark brown? His hair was the exact same color as Jared's a week ago at least. Sometimes he walks out, dressed for school, in an outfit I didn't know he owned." Piper said.
"The other day, I went outside to fetch Pearl from the pond, and she was making the water move, not as a wave, but fly in the air as a bubble. Do you think that this is a coincidence?" I said, "I wonder if this is happening to any of the other seven. Isn't it strange that we all have twins around the exact same age, and in the exact same grades?"
"I wonder. I'll text Hazel and Frank, and you text Leo and Calypso?" Piper said.
"Fine, but you have to text Thalia and Luke as well." I said. We both quickly texted and got our answers.
"I can't believe this is happening to all of us." Piper said.
"It's all too strange to be a coincidence." I said. We heard a scream, and thought it was just the kids playing around.
"MOM! PIPER! HURRY!" Parker shouted. Piper and I shared a worried look, and quickly ran into the other room.
"What is it Parker?! What's wrong?!" I said, extremely worried. I looked at his face, tears were running down his cheeks.
"It's PJ. She's gone. We were playing hide-and-seek, and then, as soon as she started counting, she screamed, and disappeared." Parker sobbed.
"I'll go get the guys." Piper said. She was the best friend I could have ever hoped for. She knew that nothing she could say would help, but she did know that Percy would be able to calm me down.
A minute later, Percy burst into the room, and ran over to his sobbing wife, and children. She was gone. Their Pearl was gone.
"We'll find her, wise girl, I promise." he whispered into my hair. I looked over at Piper, comforting Jared and Jaden. Their family had just taken a nice blow to the head. This wasn't just going to affect her husband and kids, it was going to affect all of the seven.
Luke Castellan's Point of View
I'd just got the text from Annabeth and Percy. Pearl was gone. It was all my fault. Thalia kept telling me that it wasn't, but I knew it was. I was given a second chance to come and be with the love of my life, and I blew it. "I'm so sorry." I sobbed quietly to myself. I remembered the day I made the deal. The deal that took Pearl away. All of the seven were so excited when they got married, but then they waited years, years to have children. I figured that it was because of a curse, or something. I reached out to the goddess of family for help.
"You want me to bless each of the seven with their dream families?" Hera said.
"Yes, please. I don't know where else to go. They are all so depressed." I said.
"You realize this means that you will have to pay a price, right." Hera said.
"Yes, anything. Name your price." I said.
"I will give the seven the children that they dream of, but, when the time comes, I will choose one child to raise in my image. This child will come to me on their eighth birthday. I will be monitoring them. Be forth warned that your own children would be at risk as well." She said.
"I agree to your terms. You will choose one child, and, on their eighth birthday, you will retrieve them." I said.
I hadn't realized that all of the other children's eighth birthday's had passed, leaving only Parker and Pearl's left. I should have known she would pick Pearl. She had always liked Percy more than the rest of them. "How did I not see this coming?" I asked myself, "Why did I have to agree to her terms." I promised myself, there and then, that I would do everything in my power to find Pearl and return her to her family.