Piece of My Heart
"What?" I breathed. It couldn't be true. She was all I had. She was it. I couldn't… I couldn't have lost her.
"I'm sorry, Nico. She's gone. I tried my hardest to get help, but… I was too late." Percy Jackson stood in front of me, weeping softly. How dare he. "I tried to get her to stay with the group, to not do anything rash-"
"You promised." I say calmly, trying to keep my expression neutral. I looked directly at his shocked, tear-stained face. "You promised me that you would keep her safe." My voice got shakier and softer with every word I spoke. His expression went from stricken shock to a guilty acceptance in seconds. His tears came down faster.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I never meant to…" Percy trailed off, and began to sob. I scoffed at him.
"You liar!" I yelled, tears finally streaming down my face in what seemed like angry waves. "If you were really sorry, you never would have let it happen in the first place! My sister would still be here if it weren't for you!" I pushed away from Percy and began to run towards the woods. I heard him calling after me, but I didn't look back, leaving the 15 year-old Water Alchemist behind.
I ran. I ran far, far away from the legion of Alchemists, as if they were the plague, as if they were hunting me. Who knows, maybe they were. I didn't care. All I knew was that I was alone. Alone in spirit, alone in body, and without an older sister to guide me.
I sat on a stump and sobbed. I sobbed for my loneliness, I sobbed for my sister, Bianca, who died for a legion of soldiers she had barely known for a week. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair. She was all I had. And now she was gone. I had no one. I was completely and utterly alone.
Little did I know that my loneliness would be my downfall.