An: So this is a fantasy story that I have had in mind for a couple of months. It has a lot of songs involved in it. All from one of my favourite bands, Evanescence. I suggest that you actually listen to the songs before you read this though. The song that goes with each chapter is the title. So I hope you enjoy and please review.
1. Exodus
… I woke with a start. I had the most vivid dream. I had hoped that it was real, it was so, uplifting. But then again, anything in my world that seems uplifting is more or less of the time, a horrible downer.
My name is Emelina Hulme. Emily for short. My life is a living hell. I hate it. I have actually tried to kill myself because it is so bad; I have thrown myself off a cliff because it was that bad. Didn't work. I got knocked out on a rock and somehow floated back to shore without drowning. There, a group of people found me, and when they realized that I was an orphan who lived on the street with about 20 bucks in her pocket they sent me to this hell hole. Goode high school. I have to say, out of all the horrible places I've been, living in an orphanage and going to Goode have to be the worst of them all. I have only been in this school for like a couple of months and already my class hate me. There is only like 1 person in that school who seem to have some curiosity with me. I don't know his name but he is so annoying. He's like in grade 12 or something, what would he want with me. I mean my life is pretty depressing enough what's his problem. Does he have to always be staring at me like tha… My thoughts were cut short. I was interrupted by guess who? That random senior who seems to like talking to freshman.
"Hey"
"Hey…" I said rather rudely I might add.
"What's your name?"
"Emelina, but Emily for short. What's yours?"
"Percy, well Perseus, but I go by Percy."
"Ok, so don't mind my tone, but Percy, why are you here exactly."
"Well you don't seem to have many friends so…"
"So you thought that you could befriend me and maybe make some part of my life seem interesting and worth it. Well I'm sorry, but my life is never happy so I fear that your quest is a failure."
"Well, I see that you don't feel like having any friends, but the least you could do is enlighten me about why you are so depressed?"
"Do you want the long and painful story or the cut down list?"
"I guess the list should be fine."
"My father abandoned me when I was born, when I was 10 my mother got sick of me and abandoned me by taking us to some hotel and then leaving me there, some social worker got me out but I didn't trust him so I ran away and lived on the streets till I tried to kill myself then I got stuck in an orphanage that sent me here and now I'm telling my life story to you. Need I say more?"
"You're life sounds really tough."
"Really?" I said sarcastically "What was your first idea. My parents abandoning me or the orphanage? Go ahead you can be honest"
"Well. If you ever need to talk to someone then I'll be here."
"Not likely. I won't be in New York tomorrow"
"Why not?"
"Because I'm running away if it is that important. I lived by myself on the street from the age of 10 – 15. I don't need school, I already know what I need to know because of the time I've spent in the library trying to read past my dyslexia so I would be aloud to stay there so I wouldn't freeze to death."
"Wait you have dyslexia?"
"Oh so now you're going to make fun of me for my problems. Trust me it isn't that easy to have both dyslexia and ADHD because trying to concentrate on stuff you can't read with ADHD is really difficult."
"Wait wait wait. You have ADHD to."
"WHAT! Is my life so pathetic that you must laugh at me?"
"No, I have dyslexia and ADHD also."
"Really? Whatever. I'm skipping the last 3 periods today since after this is summer vacation, so if this little 'pep' chat is going to continue then I guess you're skipping too."
"I can't. I've already gotten kicked out of so many schools that if I skip they might decide just to make sure I won't graduate"
"Fine." I said coldly. And I walked off.
Some people at a time like this would be reminiscing on all the good times they have had in this great place. Not me. I hate it here. Everyone is trying to get me help with my depression. It's not my fault that my parents hated me and abandoned me.
I grabbed my black backpack, another pair of clothes, my iPod which I got for my 15th birthday from the orphanage, (They thought that I needed something that was mine and nobody else's) I also grabbed the 20 bucks I had been saving for this exact moment. Spare change that was left around, I just recently went to the bank and exchange it for a bill because it was easier to carry. And finally I grabbed my binder with those hilroy notepads filling the rings and my favourite pen. I've learned that when I am feeling exceptionally depressed that writing a depressing song helps the pain decrease.
It was getting dark as I walked down the street. I decided I might find a place to crash that night. I started to look around and I found it, a 24 hours a day library. It was perfect. Leave it to New York to have a 24/7 library. I quickly entered into my sanctuary. One of the places that I could relax and just read. Or at least try to… I don't know how long I started at the book 'Ancient Greece and its Mythology' but at some point I fell asleep. When I woke I was covered in sweat. I had another one of those dreams. Those dreams that seem real but you know can't be reality. But I felt super depressed about running away. I really didn't want to but I knew I had to. I didn't belong there. I just knew it. That thought suddenly gave me the best idea for a song.
My black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams
20 bucks should get me through the week
Never said a word of discontentment
Fought it a thousand times but now
I'm leaving home
"Well that seems cheery." A voice said.
I jumped at the sound of someone talking to me.
"How did you find me? I didn't tell you where I was going." I whispered
"Yeah, but you said that you liked to spend time in libraries. I figured you would be here." Percy said
"Whatever. Who did you bring to take me back to the orphanage?"
"No one" He said. It surprised me. "But I will call someone unless you answer some basic questions for me, okay?"
"Fine." I said. "What do you want to know about my exciting life?"
"When you said that your mom left you in a hotel, where was that hotel?"
"Las Vegas…" I said in a questioning voice.
"Was it by any chance the Lotus Hotel and Casino?"
"Yeah but how?"
"When were you born?"
"September 13th 1924."
"What year is it?"
"What kind of stupid question is that? It's 1939."
"No. It's not. It's 2010."
"What? That can't be true. It is 1939"
"No. Come with me."
"What! I'm not going anywhere with you."
"Yes you are. I can take you somewhere safe. If someone put you in that casino then they put you there for a reason. Just like Nico."
I'd like to say I had some big revelation that this Percy guy was great and that he was really nice. But to tell you the truth if he hadn't brought me to that camp where everyone seemed nice and completely normal about someone bringing a random kid in, I would have sued for abduction. The place he took me was called Camp Half Blood. Which meant that you were half moral and half Olympian god. I found that completely crazy and nuts, but apparently it could happen. After getting the grand tour and meeting his friends (Annabeth, Thalia and Nico) I just wanted to get some sleep.
"Percy." I said. "Not that meeting all of the people that make your life happy hasn't made me happy" I said sarcastically "But I didn't get a good sleep last night because I was abducted and I really need a place to crash and put my things."
"I'll take you to cabin 11. Hermes. You'll stay there until your Olympian parent claims you."
"Yeah whatever." I said
When we got there I got a part of the floor because all the bunks were taken. I didn't mind. The floor in a warm cabin was better than the ground in the cold street. I still wasn't buying this 'demi-god' stuff or Greek gods and goddess's yet, but if there was a slight chance that it was true I knew better to keep my stuff with me at all times. The night that Percy had come to take me from the library I had read that Hermes was the god of thieves so, if this cabin was full of Hermes's kids I'd better keep my stuff close.
As the days went on Percy told me that everything would get better as soon as I had an Olympian parent claim me, but as the days wore on each chance of getting claimed soon decreased. Two months later Percy was still telling me this, but secretly he wasn't to happy. I was walking to archery class when I heard him talking to who I think is his girlfriend, Annabeth and he said
"I can't believe it. They swore on the River Stix they would claim all their children that made it to camp half blood. It's not like she isn't a half blood, she made it across the border. That means she's not mortal and not a monster. I just don't get how they can do this."
"Percy, they will claim her, don't worry. In the mean time why don't we try to figure out who she is? We'll go get her now and get Nico and Thalia to help us."
I left short after that. I didn't like being the center of attention. I decided to go and find somewhere to play the song I had started a couple of months ago. I needed to let out some of the tension that was building up inside me. I started to think about just walking around in the woods, but I heard they were packed full of monsters so I had to think of somewhere else. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder. Chiron. Hades, I though. He was the archery instructor.
"Need to find somewhere to be alone?" He asked
"Yeah. But I'll go and get my bow."
"There is this wonderful piano that hasn't been used in forever in the Big House if you would like to us it?"
"Really" I said.
I couldn't believe it. I had wanted to have a piano forever. I used to use the one at the library but I hadn't been there in two months. This would be great. I raced over to the Big House and found the Piano Chiron was telling me about. I started to play a few keys. It was tuned perfectly. I was the happiest girl I had been in so long. So I started to finish the song I had started back in the library. When I was done it sounded like this…
My black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams
20 bucks should get me through the week
Never said a word of discontentment
Fought it a thousand times but now
I'm leaving home[CHORUS:]
Here in the shadows
I'm safe
I'm free
I've nowhere else to go but
I cannot stay where I don't belong[Chorus][Chorus]
Two months pass by and it's getting cold
I know I'm not lost
I am just alone
But I won't cry
I won't give up
I can't go back now
Waking up is knowing who you really are
Show me the shadow where true meaning lies
So much more dismay in empty eyes
I was so happy with it that I didn't even notice the audience that I had. Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and Nico.
An: So I think I did a pretty good job, I wrote this a long time ago, I just wanted to see if this was one of those stories I would be able to finish. And it is, I already have an end for it and I also know that there will be 9 chapters. please review.