Hi, I'm dark arts wolf and this is my first fanfiction. For a while now I have thought about what possible powers a child of Hypnos could have. Than a couple of ideas hit and we have a story. My updates will most likely be scattered, to say the least, but this story will not be forgotten!
Disclaimer: Nothing you recognize belongs to me, but the OC is mine and the theories about the abilities of children of Hypnos are as well. If I did own anything else, I wouldn't be on fanfiction
Addendum- Wow when I said scattered, i had no idea. sorry to everyone that wanted to read this and all of my updates took so long. Im going to TRY to update, but i am a pretty slow writer, so...ya. I'm also going to edit my previous chapters slightly
The Son Of Hypnos Chapter I
My Life Is Changed
I was sitting in math one day, when everything changed. It was both the best and worst day of my life. My name is Cooper Anderson, and this is how my life was forever changed.
'Math is so boring' I thought to myself as I sat in math at a middle school in a quiet little town in the middle of nowhere, meaning West Texas, trying to pay attention, but unable to concentrate 'Damn ADHD'. I can never pay attention, especially not at the end of the day on a Friday. I start to nod off, but than I hear a loud crash. I jerk up and see the teacher. "Shit" I said without thinking. She had slammed a tectbook on my desk
"Stay after class so I can speak with you" Ms. Bonds said in that annoying voice.
"Fine" I said as I looked down at my feet, knowing that this would get back to my stepdad and I would be punished badly. As I sat back in my chair and she walked back to the front, I saw a bunch of the jocks in the front laughing. My buddy, John, said to me "Don't bother with them, their assholes. I was bout to fall asleep too."
"Ya, but your not the one that does it all the time." I said bitterly "I can barely stay awake as it is, but add in how boring this class is? There's no way I can stay awake" This has always been the thing about me. And it's not that I can't sleep at night, I just always seem to be tired. Which is not a good thing for an ADHD and dyslexic guy, it makes it so that it is almost impossible for me to do well in school. I have also had these weird things that keep happening, that have always caused me to get expelled. I had been expelled every year since 1st grade, and I was in 6th! All this ran through my head as I waited for class to end. As the bell rang and everybody walked out the jocks shoved all my stuff off the desk, 'dammit' I thought as I picked it all up, all to aware that the teacher was waiting for me to get up. "Your detention will be tomorrow from 8 AM to 2 PM." She said, seemingly disgusted to even be talking to me.
"On a Saturday?!" I asked incredulously.
"Yes, now it is 8 to 2" she said as she smirked, seemingly seeing something I didn't "Now get out". She didn't need to tell me twice.
As I left the room, I saw John waiting for me. "What she give ya?" He asked as we walked away, him going faster than me on his crutches.
"Detention tomorrow" I said dejectedly "even at the end of the week, she is still an uptight bitch".
"Did she call home?" He asked, knowing I have home problems "if she didn't, he won't know, you can just tell him you're hanging out with me"
"She did call, but he didn't answer. I should be able to get home first, so I hope I can delete it" I said as we walked out to the buses. "Look out, here comes the nerd patrol." Jordan Flanagan, the quarterback for the football team (who have all had a problem with me since school started) said "We better move before they throw their A's at us".
"Go fuck yourself, Flanagan" I said as I tried to shove past, but his friends blocked my path.
"No, I don't think I will." He said as he and his friends surrounded me "I think, I'm gonna tell you the story about the class failure who tried to go up against one of us. Do you know what happened?"
"You guys got your asses kicked and got made fun of for the rest of the year." I said, trying to get them to back off. "Or at least that's what might happen this time." They looked at me and John, than each other, than laughed at us.
"You guys" Flanagan said through a laugh "beat all four of us up? That's hilarious. Now kicking your ass will be even more fun" they all started to approach menacingly, than Flanagan threw a punch. The rest was a blur...
The next thing I remember, I was sitting in the principles office, explaining why I beat up four members of the football team. All I could say was "They started it, Flanagan threw the first punch! I don't even know why they insist on trying to rile me up."
"I don't care who started it, I care about who refused to end it, which was you." He said angrily "Even after they started running, you still attempted to continue assaulting them. I'm afraid that this incident will cause you to not be accepted next year. Your parents will be getting a call on Monday to explain what happened and to provide some options. You may go; you still need to attend tomorrow's detention." He stood and walked me out of the school, leaving me wondering, what just happened? I started home, and met up with John on the way. "What was that?" He asked me "I have never seen anybody fight like that. It was brutal." That made me wonder, just how bad was it? I asked him the same, but all I got was "Those guys will never mess with us again." Other than that we were pretty silent until we parted ways and I entered my house.
"I'm home" I said as I walked through the door. As the door closed, I heard my stepfather yelling "get in here, boy". 'Obviously, I did not get home first.' I thought as i walked in the living room and found him on the couch, beer bottles surrounding him. He yelled "Why did I get a message from the school today, you idiot!? Do you have more extra lessons? Cause if it is for you falling asleep again, your gonna get it! You need to learn to stay awake, you damn sleepy fool!" Than he got up and stumbled into his bedroom, shouting "Make dinner!" I headed into the kitchen and made up some food, than called him in to eat, taking just a bit for myself. Bob said "you better get all of your work done before tomorrow". I went out and started my chores, finishing just before midnight, than I stumbled up to my room and onto my bed and passed out almost immediately, with the only thing on my mind being, I wish mom hadn't died...
Than ...I'm faced with a lizard- dragon lady stabbing at me with a trident...
...I'm walking up a hill with John and his brother, when something attacks us...
...I'm at a campfire with a branch dipped in a river floating above my head...
...I'm in a hazy training room, fighting with a sword and a razor-edged shield...
...I'm fighting off a horde of monsters alongside a girl with spiky, black hair...
... I'm carrying that girl into a camp, than got stabbed, realizing that it may be the end, when reinforcements arrived...
The next day, I woke up at 6 and started putting together Bob's breakfast. As I was putting it together, I thought about the dreams I have always had. Since I was little, my dreams have always seemed very... Real. I have huge amounts of control over some of them, but others seem to be completely random, showing me doing thing that shouldn't even be possible. But many of them had eventually come true. As I finished, he walked in and sat down. I served his food, than he said "Now, head off to that thing you have to do and have the teacher send home a note saying why you had to be there. And if it is for falling asleep again, you know what is gonna happen..."
I said nothing, just grabbed my stuff and left trying to escape as fast as possible. I reached the school and got into the classroom with minutes to spare, than sit at the front and wait for Ms. Bonds. A few minutes later, she walked in and sat at her desk, than said "Come up here". I walked up and she asked "do you know why you are here?"
"Because I fall asleep in class?" I respond, uncertain of where this is going. Than, her voice got really reptilian as she said "No, because its time to die, Demigod". Than she changes shape. Her form started to develop scales, as her legs seemed to become snakes and I was facing the thing from my dream, the dragon lizard thing of questionable gender. "What the..." I said as I backed up, terrified that my dream was becoming a reality when it lunged with a trident that came out of nowhere. I closed my eyes, waiting to die when I heard something hit the trident. I opened my eyes and saw the...thing...On the ground with John standing over it, standing steadily after using his crutches as weapons. Than I saw why he had crutches. "Dude, you've got donkey feet!" I said, staring at the cloven hooves my best friend has. "That's Offensive!" He yelled, making me wonder...
"How is that offensive?" I yelled back "and what is going on?" He ran over to the door and kicked it open, but not before saying "because I'm not part donkey. I'm part goat." We ran out and saw more of the dragon-lady things.
"Back in the room!" John said as we run back into the classroom. "Through the window!" he yelled as he kicked through the window and jumped the 2 story drop. I just stopped a moment before joining him when the things broke through the door. "OWWW!" I shouted as I landed wrong, spraining my ankle. John gave me his crutches, saying "Come on Coop, we gotta go". We ran out to the parking lot, where John hopped in a Mustang with his brother, who said "Get in; we can't fight that whole army." These guys must be crazy, there can't be an army. Than I turned around and saw almost three hundred of those snake things. Needless to say, I got in the car. We drove off and after we got away and on the highway, they started explaining.
"Names Jack, me and John are seekers for Camp Half-Blood." John's brother said, and I noticed that he is also half barn animal.
"What is going on?" I yelled; the events of the last few minutes catching up with me "and what are you guys? And what Camp are you talking about?"
"Satyrs" John said "we are satyrs and we search for demigods, kids who are half human and half Greek god" once he said that, all I could think was that 'these guys must be insane'
"What do you mean half Greek god?" I asked "That's not possible, my father ran out on my mom and I".
Than John smugly replied "But do you really believe that? that your dad left your mother, after the amount i can bet that she talked about him?". At first, I thought they were crazy. But than I started to think. My dad ran out on us, which eventually led to my mom marrying my asshole stepfather. But, what if dad was a god? Than he must not have found us mortals interesting.
Than John said "I know you're thinking that your father, if he is a god, didn't want you. But the gods actually are forbidden by Zeus to interfere in their children's lives." It all makes sense. The weird dreams I have and all the weird things that happened.
"Well what are those things that attacked me?" I asked, having not taken any classes on Greek mythology, now wishing I had.
"Scythian Dracaena" Jack responds instantly "Monsters from Tartarus that smelled a powerful demigod and were hungry. The main reason we are here is because we have found a huge concentration of monsters in this area. If what I think is right is right, than you are a child of the one of the big three. That's Zeus, Poseidon or Hades, the sons of Kronos. Only one of their children is normally powerful enough to attract that many monsters."
"Than shouldn't I control, like storms or water or the dead? I asked confused "Everything I know about those gods makes me think I should be able to do something. But there isn't really anything that I am good at"
"Well, some demigods don't manifest abilities until a certain age, and some also have completely passive abilities that don't activate unless in combat." John said, trying to explain why i don't seem able to do anything, but he was just picking at straws now. "You also might be a child of Ares, due to the blind rage you were in a different matter, the main reason you were attacked is probably because they believed you were becoming more dangerous."
All this is said as we drive away from the school, than straight out of town. "Where are we going? This is not the way to my house" I say as we get on the highway, headed northeast. "We are going to Camp Half-Blood, the safest place on earth for demigods." Jack says with a smile "the closest thing a demigod has to home."
A few hours later, we pulled off the highway somewhere southeast Arkansas, going out on a dirt road into a forest. "Why are we stopping?" I asked, still unsure as to what was going on "Are we at that camp yet?"
"Not even close?" Jack said "We're stopping for the night, camp is all the way up in New York, we also need to get you a weapon, just in case we get attacked on the way."
Well that's great, I thought to myself as I said "Where are we gonna get a weapon in the middle of the woods?"
John, who had been sleeping since we crossed into Arkansas, said "The trunk, where else" as he got out of the car and Jack popped the trunk. I got out of the car and looked in the trunk. There was just a ladder that i grabbed onto and suddenly found myself at the top of a ladder that went down into a veritable vault of weapons
"Whoa" I said as I looked at all the weapons. There was everything from a Katana to a minigun in here. "how is this in the back of a car?" I asked as I picked up a katana, swinging it around a bit, than dropping it and almost cutting myself apart. Obviously not for me, I thought as I put it back and John said "This is the Vault, it has a connection to all the dedicated seeker cars. We used to just put a bunch of weapons in the cars but all demigods have different taste in weapons, so we did this to provide more options. Just look around and pick something you like."
Now I really looked at the weapons they had available. I instantly ruled out the guns in there, a little too flashy for me, is what I thought. Next, I ruled out all the Asian weapons, as well as the polearms, knowing you needed to start young to be really proficient with those. Than I saw "it", the perfect weapon for me. "It" was a Celtic style, three foot bronze longsword with a brass, leather wrapped grip.. "I want that!" I said as I grabbed the sword, then walked a bit away from the others and started swinging my new mace around. After I was done, I went back to the wall of weapons and grabbed a small shield, an eighteen inch buckler that, for some reason, had a razor sharp edge. They both seemed to question my choices, but eventually left it alone as all three of us got sleeping bags from the car and settled down for the night. Than, as I fell asleep, more dream's hit.
…I was running through a forest with the spiky haired girl and a blonde guy, my sword and shield out and ready, than I turned around and found a horde of shape-changing monsters after me…
…I was laughing with the spiky haired girl and blonde guy as we sat on a train headed west…
…We were fighting a hydra under a huge arch, with thunderclouds all around…
…We were carefully approaching a statue shop in the mountains, weapons ready…
…We were behind a hedge in a beautiful garden, planning for a fight with a dragon…
...I was fighting off a huge, many headed dragon, defending two unconscious people...
…I was finally done killing the beast, than fell down, falling into unconsciousness…
I woke with a jolt, and found us surrounded.