My name is Ren Ravenwood and I turned ten a few days ago. I live in an orphanage, I just read that Ren means lotus in Japanese. I'm told my father looked Japanese when he dropped me off. The caretaker has just given me a letter that she says my father told her to give me when I turned 10.
Ren,
I am sorry I had to leave you. My father disowned me for having you out of wedlock but I didn't care because I loved you. My father was enraged that I wouldn't abandon you and hired people to have me assassinated so I traveled to America where I met your mother the year before. My mother is the goddess Hecate. She is the goddess of the Mist, magic, crossroads, ghosts, and necromancy. My father does not remember her because he wanted to have me killed because I was born out of wedlock as well. My mother then manipulated the Mist to have everyone believe I was my stepmother's daughter. I was a weak demigod and didn't inherit many of her powers. The one thing I got good at was divine power sensing. Your's is the strongest I have ever felt. I believe you have inherited more from your grandmother than I. Your mother was a also a goddess. I can not tell you her name but I can do everything but that. From what I have found out she is the goddess of agriculture, harvest, fertility, sacred law, and the seasons. Practice your powers. You need to go to Camp Half-Blood soon to protect yourself, the address is on the back. Monsters track you based on the scent your godly aura gives off.
Love,
Your Father
PS: We are also close legacies of Persephone goddess of the Underworld, springtime, flowers, and vegetation.
Well I'm glad I'm alone to pass out. The world goes black.
As I wake up I start to think about what he says and the weird things I've seen and I believe him. I decide to research this. I head to the small orphanage library and find a book on Greek Mythology. I find out my mother's name is Demeter!
I decide to go outside and learn about my powers. I walk up to the grass area barefoot and when the grass touches me I feel my energy increase. I sit down and meditate while focusing on that. I see a huge pool of swirling energy. It has green, black, and purple energy swirls in it.
I open my eyes and the grass seems greener somehow. I focus on it and it raises slightly. A boy walks out out of the orphanage and I panic. A woman appears from the tree and snaps her finger in front of the boy and says, "You will forget you saw this and go back inside." He looked dazed and did exactly as she said. I look at her in awe. She has dark brown hair and green skin. She is beautiful. She walks in front of me and says, "Daughter of Demeter?"
"Son!" I snapped indignantly. I'm very sensitive about my feminine looks.
"Sorry," she said not sounding sorry at all.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Fyllo, I am a tree nymph."
"Can you teach me to do what you just did?"
"Yes and probably about your plant powers."
"In return for what?"
"Smart one, good."
"That didn't answer my question."
"Company and the hope that you can use your powers to move me from this place."
"Why would you want that?"
"All my friends have burned." She gained a sad look. I winced.
"Sorry…"
"Not your fault."
"When do we begin?"
"We can begin your tor-training now if you would like." She gained an evil look.