Life doesn't aways go the way you want it to. People come and go, they live and they die. Unfortunately, Adria learned that the hard way. As she was in a hospital by her mother's side.
"Adria, my baby," the blonde haired, grey eyed woman cooed. "My little Rose, I'm sorry. I should have told you."
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Adria furrowed her dark brows.
"You're eighteen now and you've survived this long." Her mom coughed. "But I fear that I won't be able to survive this." Adria twisted the opal and gold ring on her finger.
"Please, Mom. Please don't say that." Tears started pouring. "There are more treatments. You can beat this!"
"We found out too late." Her mom gave a week laugh, as if she found the situation ironic. "We're running out of time. I'm running out of time."
Adria shook her head, almost begging "No, no no no. Don't say it. Mom please. Don't."
"I'm dying, Adria Keirra Rose. I'm living on borrowed time." The grey eyed woman breathed, "You have to realize that. I'm sorry. You have to believe what I'm about to tell you."
Adria nodded, still crying. "The gods are real. Specifically, the greek and roman gods."
"You are the daughter of a god and the legacy of Athena." Adria found herself believing every word that came out of her mother's mouth.
"I believe you, " the golden eyed girl proclaimed.
The mother smiled painfully. "That's the one thing I ask for. Adria, I love you so much, which is why I can't tell you who your father is."
Adria gave her mom a confused look, "Why?"
"It's for your safety. If you find out then he will too," her mom explained. "I loved your father and I like to think he loved me too, but he isn't a good man."
"Why? Is he dangerous?"
"Very, he wasn't a nice man. He was the bad guy in every situation possible but I was young and idiotic. I thought I could change him but he ended up changing me. I still loved him until I found out that you were growing inside me. And I still love him."
"He wouldn't have been a good father. So I left and hid."
"Mom, please tell me, who is he?"
"The god of.." Her mother's eyes rolled to the back of her head.
"Nurse! Nurse!" Adria screamed as her mother started flat lining. Nurses and doctors filled the room.
"You can't be in here, Miss." A nurse gently pushed her out. Adria just paced by the room, sobbing.
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"I'm sorry, she didn't make it."
"No, please no. Please no. Just please." The dark haired teen begged, she couldn't lose her mom. Not now. "Tell me it's a joke. Please tell me your lying."
The doctor shook his head, his blue eyes shining with pity or sympathy. "I'm sorry but she's gone." He ran his hand through his blond hair.
"Thank you, Dr. Phoebus. For everything you tried." Adria appreciated it, she tried to calm herself down. Breathe, breathe. Her voice caught in her throat, "Even if it didn't work. Thanks for your efforts." She tried to hold back her tears.
Adria just grabbed her moms and her stuff, and left. She couldn't see her moms body. If she did, she'd break down and she doesn't know if she'll be able to put herself back together.
She arrived at her moms- her apartment. The place was decent but her neighbors were usually terrible. But there was one neighbor that was amazing. Sally Jackson and her son, Percy, the woman was just amazing, she was everything she wanted in an aunt and her son was like a little brother to her.Her husband however was a sorry excuse for a man or Smelly Gabe as Percy and her liked to call him.
She knocked on the door. She heard a man scream at Percy to get it and soon enough, the scrawny black haired boy opened it. Percy immediately noticed her appearance, "What happened?"
"She didn't. She didn't make it," Adria softly cried and collapsed to the ground. The twelve year old boy shut the door and joined her on the ground, hugging her.
They stayed there until Sally came back. Her blue eyes widened in understanding, "You want to join us at Montauk?" Sally knew what she was going through. As her Uncle had died of cancer when Sally was around the same age.
Adria loved it when her and her mom joined the Jackson's at Montauk. It made her feel a bit better, knowing that she would always be accepted at the Jackson Household. The golden eyed teen nodded and croaked, "I'll go pack." She picked herself off the ground and went to her apartment which was across from the Jackson's.
The first thing that hit her was her mother's perfume. The citrus smell just hurt her even more. She'll never again be able to love the smell. She missed her. The hole in her heart would never be filled again.
She finished packing her bag when a knock echoed throughout the place. "Mo-" She was about to call but froze. "She's gone, Adria and she's never coming back." She told herself, holding in her tears.
"Come in!" she yelled as she grabbed her bags.
"Mom wanted to know if you needed help taking your bags down?" Percy offered. She went to protest but Percy just bolted past her and grabbed her bags.
"Now come on!" Percy rushed her. Adria locked the door and shook her head at the boy she came to see as a sibling run down the hall.
"Not one scratch on this car, brain boy!" She overheard Smelly Gabe bark at Percy. She hated that man with a burning passion. Not only did he treat the Jackson's terribly but she had a feeling he beat Percy. Percy has come over to their apartment with bruises and a few broken bones, which she took him to the hospital for. Percy made her swear not to tell his mom. Reluctantly, she swore not to. But she could tell that Sally would be grateful if she ever found out.
Soon enough, the three of them were on their way.
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Adria loved Montauk. The salty sea air, the cabin and the memories. Her mother and her started joining Sally and Percy, when the two first moved in. Her mom had helped Sally with Percy (as she was a struggling single mom with a kid that had dyslexia and ADHD) , and Adria had adored Percy when she first saw him.
Percy had known Adria since he was a baby. The two had adopted each other as siblings.
Adria let herself get lost in her memories. Her bag left by the bed. She sat by the shore. After a while it became dark and the three started a fire.
They roasted hot dogs and Marshmellows. And then Percy asked the question that he always did, what was his father like. Adria never asked her mother that question, she had her mom and that was enough for her. But now, she only had the Jackson Family.
But they were enough for her. She would always miss her mother but some part of her was glad her mother wasn't suffering anymore. Cancer was painful and terrible.
She listened to Sally talk about Percy's father and part of her wished that her mother had talked about her father that way but if what her mom said was true. Then her father didn't deserve her mother. "Keirra?" Percy asked as he put a hand on her shoulder.
"Hmm?" She hummed, looking into the boys gorgeous sea green eyes.
He hugged her, "It'll be okay. Cause you're a hero and you'll beat this sadness. And you'll win. I love you, sis."
"Thank you lil brother, and I love you too." Adria squeezed him back.
Percy nodded and Adria stared at the stars. The three went into the cabin.
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Adria woke with a start. She knew Percy was having a nightmare. She heard Sally talk, "Hurricane." Usually, there never is a hurricane this early in the summer. She heard banging on the door. Some kid was there.
"Searching all night," he gasped. "What were you thinking?"
Adria felt confused. What was going on? Sally looked at Percy in terror. "Percy, what happened at school? What didn't you tell me?"
Percy usually came to Adria about all the wierd stuff that happened because the same stuff happened to her. But he didn't this time? Adria started grabbing everything. She had a feeling they would be leaving very soon.
She heard the boy curse in another language and understood what it meant perfectly. She thought it might have been ancient greek. If what her mother said was true, then Percy might be a demigod. She herself was a demigod. She grabbed the bags and threw them in the backseat of the Camaro. She heard Sally rush the boys to the car. After seeing Sally so, scared, honestly terrified Adria.
Percy's friend, who she learned was named Grover took one look at her and groaned something like another one? She had noticed he was a boy at all but part goat or sheep or something.
Sally stepped on the gas and they were off in the night. Time had flown and she overheard the conversation going on in the backseat between Grover and Percy. The storm raged on, the clouds thundered and lightning striked.
A weird noise caught her attention. She tried to figure it out. Grover bleated, "Not to mention that Adria is also the same thing you are."
"I already know!" She heard herself yell.
Percy went to ask her but Sally beat him to it, "You two, there's too much to explain and not enough time. We have to get you two to safety." Time, something her mom ran out of. Something they were running out of. Adria zoned out.
She heard bits and pieces of the conversation. Something about a summer camp and them being safe there. Then Percy seeing the Fates and something about death. Sally was begging. "Another mile. Please. Please. Please."
Adria found herself wishing for more time. But lightning striked the car and felt like it exploded. She heard herself calling Percy's and Sally's name. They had swerved into a ditch. Adria shook it off. She grabbed the bags and bolted out of there. Seeing Percy, Sally and Grover stumble out of the car. She faintly heard them call her name. "I'm fine! Come on! We have to go!" She shouted over the storm. She could feel it in her bones, they were being chased.
Percy and Sally were dragging Grover, as the crash seemed to have knocked him unconscious. She saw a silhouette of a man with horns. Sally whispered, "When he sees us, he'll charge. Wait until the last second, then jump out of the way-directly sideways. He can't change directions very well once he's charging. Do you understand?"
Adria ran past the three and threw the bags at the giant pine tree. She went back to help carry Grover. She could barely hear Sally telling them to split up. The smell of rotten meat made her want to puke. Adria found herelf, twisting her ring clockwise and it turned into a scythe.
The bullman charged Percy. She stabbed him as Percy jumped away. She was hit back. She faintly heard Sally telling Percy to run. She witnessed Sally disappear into a shower of golden dust. The same gold as her eyes. "No!" she and Percy screamed in union. She already lost her mother and now Sally who was her aunt in everything but blood, she couldn't lose Percy. She tried to get up and limped over to Grover. Percy started distracting the monster.
The bull thing charged Percy and she found herself screaming. She reached out and time slowed down. Percy leaped straight up, kicking the creature's head, using it as a springboard, turning in mid air, and landed on his neck.
She dragged Grover past the tree line. How Percy did that she didn't know. Something told her to watch. Percy had been flung off the beast and hit his head. She ran as fast as she could but her leg had snapped. She collapsed to the ground and tried dragging herself. Percy held a horn and swayed to the side as if he couldn't see.
The next thing she knew, the beast started disintegrating like a sand castle being blown away. The storm lessened, and Adria found Percy holding their bags. He helped her up and the two had hopped to the house where she had left Grover.
"He's the one. He must be." A girl with blond hair said.
She barely heard the bearded man's reply before Percy fell to the ground and she passed out.
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I cried as I wrote the beginning. New Story! Yayy. Hope you love it! It's going to follow the timeline, and a few changes here and there to fit in Adria's storyline. I threw in hints to as who her father is. Criticism is only good when its constructed criticism!
bye my maniacs,
*blows kisses*
Eve