Chapter 1: Prologue
A/N: This is my first fan fic so please, I may need some guide from you guys. I wont make this intro very long (for now) so I give you "The Son of Nyx".
-4 years old Percy pov-
I watched in horror as Gabe, my "stepfather" stalked Sally, my mommy with a knife in hand.
Every night, my mommy would always kiss me goodnight and sleep with me. That was our daily routine until Gabe showed up. Now, every night, he and his punk friends boss my mommy around like she's some kind of slave and Gabe always yelled, "GO SLEEP ON YOUR OWN, me and my friends are not done having fun, and so is your mommy", every time I pleaded and I get always beaten up for fun. He and his friends always wore this sly smile that made me want to run away with my mommy. This became my new daily routine very quickly. But I always wondered what they were doing because most of the times I hear them make this weird noises.
Now for the first time, I was ordered... well not ordered, more like forced because I'm already too sleepy, me to stay up late with them. This time though, it was just me, my mommy and Gabe, also I'll never call this guy "my stepfather". Gabe slowly walked closer to Sally.
I didn't even know why my mommy married this pig. She said my 'real' father can't stay with us because it might endanger us. But marrying this guy already endangered us. Mommy always said, "it's for your own safety". I tried understanding what that meant up till now, I have no such luck.
"Today's your lucky day chump", Gabe said who was clearly enjoying this, "you get to see your mommy beg for my -
"Stop this Gabe, leave Percy out of this", Mommy begged.
"SHUT UP BITCH!", he slapped her on the cheek and she the floor hard. "WHO SAID YOU CAN TALK ! HUH?!", he grabbed her from her hair and pulled her up.
"AAAAHHHH", She shrieked in pain and I felt the helplessness. I knew I needed to save to her but I don't know what to do. "Let hew go, you big meanie", I said. I clearly don't know what I was doing but it was better than doing nothing.
"Awwwww, how cute, a little pleb who's defending his mommy", he mocked. "Shut up if you don't want to get flailed", he pointed the knife at me and back at my mommy. "Slaves like you need to be punished". He slashed the knife across her face and kicked her on the stomach making her hit the wall behind her. Red blood poured down from her cheek which made want to run beside her and cry. That was all I can think before my inside voices screamed, 'tackle him. Take his knife from him and stab him until he begs for mercy". They all continued screaming and did the stupidest thing in my life, tackle him.
I charged at him and we both fell to our glass table making him groan in response. I continued my assault with a flurry of punches to his stomach thinking it would hurt him. "YOU SON OF A BITCH!", he screamed and slashed downward with the knife which got my right eye.
"AAAAHHHH", I cried out in pain. He then threw me making fly and crashing to a wall. "AAAAHHHH", I cried out even louder. I looked at my right hand which was covering my right eye and saw it covered in blood. I want to cry. I want to think that this was all a nightmare but I knew it wasn't because the pain was all to real. I can just run away and never look back but I can't just leave my mommy alone with this psychopath.
"What'cha gonna do now little chump? you gonna cry to your mommy? huh? oh wait... she's over there bleeding like the SON OF A BITCH SHE IS," he then laughed maniacally.
"Stop this Gabe". I looked at my mommy who was standing up groggily and still bleeding very badly. "Leave Percy alone".
"This is the punishment you get. Say goodbye to your little Pissy". He then threw the knife aimed me.
Time seemed to slow down as I watched helplessly as the knife slowly plummeted towards me. I saw my life flashed before his eyes. So this is how it ends. Living a life I never really enjoyed. Never see my real father even once. Goodbye cruel world. I wont miss you. I waited for the knife to come but then I saw my mommy in front me. I watched in sheer terror as my mommy's body suddenly went limp and drop to the ground. She looked at me one last time and mouthed her final words, "I love you". She then let out her final breath.
"MOOOOMMMYY!", I screamed on the top of my lungs as I saw the only person who cared for me past away in front of me. I suddenly feel a tug in my gut and all the pipes around the house exploded.
"MOMMY, PLEASE, DON'T LEAVE ME!", Then sheer terror became rage. Percy's eyes shifted towards Gabe angrily. " YOU! YOU KILLED MY MOMMY!". Gabe just chuckled, "so what, that bitch deserved it. What'cha gonna do now huh? kill me? I bet you a dollar you can't even touch me.
This only made me angrier, "AAAAAHHHH!". Gabe brought out his gun and pointed it at e. "You think a little screaming will scar -". I conjured up a cocoon of water, trapping him inside. I made it a bit smaller so he can talk. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!", he started flailing in attempt to escape the water prison but to no avail. I let out all of my anger at him by crashing him with the water pressure.
"Please, aaarrgghh... I'm sorry, I didn't meant to kill her, aarrrgghh.. mercy please", he pleaded.
"Mewcy? what is mewcy? if you taught me what the wowd mewcy meant maybe I'll give you some", I half-asked. Then my inside voices came back, 'kill him like what he did to your poor mommy. Take revenge for what he did. KILL HIM', they all screamed in my head but I knew killing him wont solve anything.
"Ple- aarrgghh - se"
I quelled up my anger and released him. I just can't kill, I knew it wasn't worth it. I looked away and walked to where my mommy is who is still lying on the ground. I cried and said to her, "I'm sowwy mommy, I couldn't save you. If it wasn't for me you wouldn't be in this mess right now. If it wasn't for me you'll be still alive right now having with your friends". I looked back at Gabe only to see him standing behind me with anger in his face. I was gonna yell at him to go away but I was met by his fist making me black out.
-Line Break-
I was awaken by the honks of the horns of the cars, I tried covering my head with a pillow but I felt that I was upside down. I tried to stretch my feet but found that I couldn't. I opened my eyes to only see nothing but darkness and to get a splitting headache. I began thrash around wildly and found that I was inside something. I started thrashing again until something from the outside hit me on my stomach. "Stop it, if someone founds out that someone is inside this sack, your dead to me", I know that voice, it was Gabe's. Even if I don't start thrashing, I knew I was probably a goner if we reach our destination, so I took my chances. I suddenly started thinking dark things that they were gonna do to me. Then realization hit me, I forgot that I was afraid of the dark. This doesn't usually happen but sometimes before I go to sleep, Gabe tells me scary stories that made me frighten to sleep alone. Without thinking I started hyperventilating when I started thinking of ghosts that are gonna eat me.
Then it happened, I heard a voice speak to me, " don't worry child", I screamed like a little girl and got gutted again.
"SHUT UP", I heard him yell outside with a bit of frustration. "Don't worry, I'm here to help", I heard it again. I tried moving around to find out where the source of the voice is. "I'm inside your head silly", the voice giggled and realized it was a girl. "You're going to be alright. Stay where you are, I'm gonna come and get you", she giggled again at her own joke.
Minutes later I heard a voice come from the outside. "Get out of the way or I'll - aaarrggh", Gabe screamed. I was floating for few seconds until I touched down to solid ground. I grunted from the pain and I didn't try to move until the pain subsided. I flailed around and got out of the sack only to be met by a mangled Gabe lying on the floor with his guts in his broken hand. Terror filled me, someone disfigured the person that ruined my life. I should've felt happy but I felt nothing. The person who killed him must be still around, I ran to the opposite direction hoping to forget the most gruesome thing I ever saw. I continued running but I hit someone and landed on my butt. I looked up and saw a woman with a bloody knife in her hand. I was gonna scream but she covered my mouth with her free hand. I was gonna try to run again but I felt something crawl up my leg making me immobile. I looked down and saw two shadow hands coiled up on my legs, bit allowing me to move.
She removed her hand from my mouth. I said as I trembled in fear, "I'm sow-wr-wy", I was trying to pronounce it correctly but I just couldn't pronounce 'r' correctly. "Please don't huwt me", I pleaded.
"It's okay little one", she said with a soothing voice and made the knife disappear with a dark flash. "I'm not gonna hurt you". I then remembered the voice in my head. "awe you the one who was inside my head". She nodded and looked at me with awe. I looked at her again and noticed she was wearing all black. Black dress, black earrings, black lipstick, basically everything was black except for her skin which was a bit pale making me think that she was some kind of vampire out to suck to my blood buy I thought otherwise.
"I'm sorry you had to see him... like this", she pointed her hand to Gabe. "That bastard deserved it", she continued. She then looked at my right eye and touched it which made me grunt in pain. "Who did this?", she asked angrily. I pointed at Gabe and she looked at him with disgust. "He got what he deserved", she spat out bitterly. "Does it still work?", she continued. I opened it saw nothing but blurriness and shook my head and closed it again. She touched my eye again then I felt some tingling. She removed her hand and said, "open it". I opened it again and I stood there shock, I can see much clearly than before. "It comes with an accessory", she said and looked at me with awe. "And it made you a bit cuter". I felt a blush creeping on my cheek and she laughed. "Here", she summoned a mirror, again with a dark flash, "see for yourself". She handed me the mirror and made me more shock. I looked at myself in the mirror and saw I have two different irises. My left eye was sea green while my right eye is red.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you...", I continued some more while I hugged her. I pulled away and started remembering what happened to my mommy and started to cry again. I have no family left. She came closer and comforted me. " I'm sorry you've been through all of this at such a young age. I've been watching you from the day you were born. I'm sorry I didn't do anything when your mommy died, the laws forbid me to intervene. You must've been afraid when you experienced all of this. I nodded at her sympathy for me and asked, "Who awe you?".
She smiled at him, "my name is Nyx, Primordial goddess of the night, but some people just call me Night".
"Pwimowdial? goddess?"
She chuckled at my attempt to say the word. "You'll know when the time is right", she said and I looked at her quizzically. "Since you asked me question I want to as you a question too", she stood up. "Will you become my adopted son".
I was surprised, I wanted a new family, I wanted to start all over, I wanted another person to take care of me. But before I can answer, she glowed of dark blinding light and disappeared.
"Hold on to your thoughts for now, I'm sure we'll meet again someday and I promise you, I wont abandon you like what your godly parent did, and also when your in a pickle, I'll help you but you wont notice that I was even there", She said inside my head.
For the first time in months, I was happy again. I'm gonna have another parent who was going to take of me again. I was still sad from my mommy's death but I knew she's in a safe place. But for now I'm on my own.
"Ok then, lets do this".
A/N: Chapter 1 complete. I think this is a good place to stop for now. I'll include the some parts in the original book. My goal is one story a week. So, what do you guys think. Are there things I need to improve on. I'll want to hear your opinions. Also, I can't tell if the story is long or too short and my English might be sucky because I'm Asian and I'm still in school. Anyways, don't forget to leave a review.