so, my first percy jackson fanfic, lets hope its not terrible. this is not the longest chapter, but as the story progresses it will get longer.
This is beyond crazy, even for me.
So, I wake up this morning and everything is as it usually is. Well as usual as you can get if you live in an orphanage. I didn't notice anything unusual until I stepped into the shower, then I noticed it. The ring. I had to admit, it was beautiful. But where the hell did it come from? I slid it off my finger and froze, that was not what I expected to happen. It turned into a sword; yeah I know what you're thinking. I'm clearly delusional, I'm actually being serious, and the ring that mysteriously showed up on my finger this morning just turned into a sword when I took it off. I held it firmly with my hand, it looked sharp. It was about two and a half feet long, the blade seemed to wink with promised danger, the hilt was embedded with shells and various jewels, on the blade I could make out the word `chari`. Don't ask how, but in my mind I could tell it meant grace.
I stood there for approximately 5 minuets before I felt the urge to tap my middle finger against the tip of the blade, right before my eyes it transformed back into the ring. It was delicate, fitting perfectly on my slim finger. It looked to be made out of platinum, with a blue stone set into the top, small but elegant. I felt like this would be an important thing in my life to come, my gut and my head were telling me I should keep it. I felt it would save my life, on more occasions than one.
That was the first of many strange things that day; I was on my way to school when I noticed a man. He was wearing khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, he seemed to show up every few minuets, and I felt a sense of power off of him. Like he could kill me without the thought even flickering through his brain, but I felt a safe kind of lull around him. Like he was there to protect me against other things.
When I was in my lessons in school I kept feeling the urge to look out of the door or the window, and every time I gave into that urge I saw a shadow, something too fast to be made out clearly. It felt dangerous, but I couldn't do anything in a lesson. So I suffered through 3 of my lessons, my eyes flickering to the door continuously.
An hour after maths I had geography, and the door was right near me, my gaze caught on the shadow in the doorway. At closer inspection it looked more like a dog, an unnaturally large dog. When it noticed it had my attention it growled, when I say growled I mean growled, it shook the classroom. But no one else seemed to notice. Strange. I stared at it, and after a while it must have gotten bored because it turned around and slinked off it the other direction.
I momentarily panicked, what if it was going to hurt someone, I couldn't let that happen, after all I had a magical ring that turned into a sword, I couldn't let innocent people get hurt.
Without asking for permission I sprung up from my seat and ran out the door, following my instincts to the beast. I soon found it, it was in a corridor, as soon as I turned the corner it looked up at me. My fighting instincts kicked in, I slid off my ring, managing not to impale myself on the blade, and crouched. The beast started to leisurely slink towards me. I braced myself, about a meter away it crouched. Oh shit! The next thing I know I am on my back, the beast over me. Without thinking about it I slash my sword upwards, slashing its side. It gurgled a growl before it disintegrated. It suddenly turned into a fine powder that sprinkled everywhere.
I was so freaked out that I knew I wouldn't be able to sit through the rest of the day at school. So I left, I ran out into the streets of New York, running past tourists, businessmen and the occasional old person. I tried not to run into anybody but it was inevitable. The person who was unlucky enough to be in my way was a guy, and gosh was he hot.
Tall, blond and tanned. He grabbed my shoulders as if to steady me. Then he looked more closely at me, his blue eyes lighting up with intrigue.
"Err, I'm sorry" I tried to yank away from his grip, but he was not letting go. He seemed to be steering us towards an alley, a dark, dirty alley. Oh hell no, I am not going into an alley with a stranger. Regardless of that he guided me in there anyway.
"Ah, hello, now what do we have here?" he seemed to be talking to himself, and to be perfectly honest it was annoying me.
"Excuse me, who do you think you are? Dragging me around like that? I have had an awful day and you decide to do that, you could be a murderer for all I know. And today of all days I don't feel quite up to dying" sarcasm dripping from my voice.
He seemed to find the whole situation highly amusing, "my dear, I am Apollo. I am only `dragging you around` for your own safety. You have one of the most powerful auras I have seen in centuries and within minuets there will be monsters flocking to take a swipe at you." He stated it like it was common knowledge. Hell, he claimed to be Apollo; he thinks he is living in a fairy tale.
"Ha, thanks for you're uh help; I will just be on my way now. Yeah, bye" I gave a half wave as I turned, intent on leaving. He reached out and grabbed my hand, his hand was unnaturally warm.
"I know you don't believe me, but I am Apollo, god of music, healing, medicine and so forth. If you wish to be safe, you must come with me. I have a feeling that you will be very important one day. If you let me take you to safety all will be explained."
I didn't give any consent, but obviously he took my disbelieving sigh to be confirmation, and with that a blinding flash of light accompanied by searing heat enveloped my body.
The next thing I know I am groaning, lying on what seems to be grass. I sit up, head rush, there are 4 people around me. Apollo, two boys and a girl. They all watched me with anxious expressions, probably waiting for my reaction.
The girl looked clever, she had grey eyes full of wisdom, long blonde hair and any girls dream tan, one of the boys had sea blue eyes, messy black hair and a tan to match. Making him look like he spent all his time at the beach with his friends. The final guy was standing there looking impatient, he was tall, about 16 and absaloutly beautiful. His pale skin was a sharp contrast to his inky black hair that fell in layers across his forehead; his eyes were like chips of obsidian, glinting in the sunlight. And his mouth seemed to be suddenly smirking, at me. Uh oh, he must of realised I was staring.
"How are you feeling?" the girl asked. Well, I actually felt a bit worse for wear but I wasn't telling them that.
"Fine, can I get up now?" I questioned impatiently.
"Yeah, that should be fine. I'm Annabeth, this is Percy Jackson and that is Nico di Angelo." She gesture to each one of them in turn, the blue eyed one was Percy, and the gorgeous one was Nico.
I stood up and waited patiently while they seemed to have a silent discussion. I looked over to Apollo; he looked like he was about ready to leave.
He interrupted their silent conversation with, "bye dudes, I will see you later, cover your eyes." He seemed pretty serious about that part, so I obliged.
After he had left in a blinding flash of light, I'm not even going to react to these things anymore, the three teenagers turned to me.
"Come on, we will take you to Chiron, and he can explain." They started walking. I followed, noticing my surroundings; in the distance I saw a giant lake, loads of different cabins, lava spewing wall and various other things. In the direction we were walking there was a house, a big house, it was a 3 story farm house, painted blue. On the deck were two men, which was all I could see.
As we reached the steps of the porch I noticed the men, one was red face, curly haired and badly dressed and the other one was… uh, half horse. Okay don't freak out.
"This I Mr.D and Chiron, and this is uh…" Annabeth was talking; I mutely heard her asking for my name.
"Uh, Evangeline, but call me eve" I stumbled over the word. In a state of shock.
"Hello, eve. Its nice to meet you, has anyone explained to you yet what this camp is for?"
I shook my head, in too much shock and confusion to actually speak.
"Well, this camp is for half bloods, demi gods. Do you know what that means?" at my nod he carried on "we are here to protect you from monsters while you train. There are no monsters aloud in the boundaries apart from the ones that we allow in. as you can see I am a centaur. Don't worry, you will soon settle in."
"Err, okay" was my, oh so brilliant reply.
"Do you know who your godly parent is?" he asked, like that was a normal question.
I just shook my head. Annabeth took it upon herself to explain.
Everyone has a godly parent, there is a cabin for each god that is where you will stay, for example I am a daughter of Athena, Percy is the son of Poseidon and Nico is the son of Hades."
"Awesome!" my overly sarcastic reply didn't seem to impress everyone.
Suddenly there was a flash, and everyone's eyes were drawn to above my head, I look up. And there is a blue trident symbol there.
"Welcome, Evangeline, daughter of Poseidon." Chiron exclaimed.
"Nico to meet you sis." Percy said.
My brain went into sensory overload; the last thing I saw was Percy's grinning face. Then I passed out. For the first time in my life, I think this counted as a fainting moment.
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