The Haunting Injustice
Chapter One
Disclaimer: I do not own the PJO or HoO series by Rick Riordan, nor do I own Star Holder Commander's character, Walker. I do own all of the other OCs mentioned.
Kyra's POV
Restless, unnerving, and uncomfortable. That's what described the dreams best. Any time I'd wake up from one, I couldn't remember what had happened, besides the fact that I knew something bad had happened in it. Then I'd fall back and go to sleep again, only to repeat the process, again and again.
A few times when I woke up, it was just the blurry outline of Nico sitting in a chair next to me, and other times it was someone else. Someone who glowed with a faint gold color. But I could never tell who it was.
My mind felt like it was in a constant state of panic and confusion, and pain. My body itself didn't hurt too much, but my mind felt like it was about to explode from mental trauma.
"Ky, Kyra can you hear me?" A voice brought me out of my confusing, nightmarish dreams.
My eyes were sensitive to the soft light around me. I squinted them open, looking up. I felt around me to find I was lying on a bed, the blanket loosely covering my body and a fluffy pillow under my head. I try to sit up, only to be overcome by a wave of nausea and dizziness. I feel a pair of big, calloused yet still soft, hands lightly push me back down by the shoulders. They were Nico's hands.
"Take it easy, you're still weak,"
"Nico?" I ask. My voice horrified me. It sounded like I had gargled sand and broken glass, then swallowed some acid for good measure.
"Yea..yea, it's me, Ky," His figure was still a dark blur, but there was a golden light surrounding him, like an angel almost.
"Are—are we in Elysium?"
He laughs; one of those beautiful, full laughs he would give whenever one of the kids did something funny, or when he was just overly happy about something.
"No, no. Far from it, thank the gods,"
"Then where—?"
Another voice spoke up then. "Don't strain yourself. It will take longer for your soul to fully heal if you do,"
"My soul—what?" I force my eyes open all the way, only to be blinded by the light.
My hands immediately go up to them, shielding them. When I felt that I could handle it, I slowly lowered my hands. It was still a little bright, but not as bad as it had been before. I could more clearly see Nico now. He looked like he had been to hell and back. He looked much skinnier than he usually was, like he had lost a lot of muscle mass. Now he was just lanky.
And the other person in the room, well, I couldn't really believe it. The last time I had seen him was five years ago. I had been visiting mom with the kids while Nico was working a long week in the Underworld. He hadn't even come up to talk to me or my mother, just passed by, but paused for a beat or two and looked at us sitting on the park bench. I was the only one who saw him, because my mom had been a bit preoccupied while playing with Michael and watching James and Adrienne play on the playground.
"Apollo? What are you doing here?"
"Saving you, of course. I mean, I didn't come here to drink coffee and watch di Angelo ah—entertain me,"
I cringe at the thought of what Apollo thought entertainment meant. I shake my head, trying to get the image out of my head. "What? What happened? Where are we even?"
"Do you remember anything after you woke up from passing out in the woods?" he asks.
I nod. "Yea. We made it to the old visitor's building in the park, and you called Percy and then—we left after that and um..you hit something when we were almost to the main road, and you got out and—I..can't remember anything else,"
Nico sighs, and then quickly went over what happened after that. How Cacus had just—hopped out in front of the truck, and then didn't say anything or put up a huge fight when Nico was trying to kill him. He also explained where we were, and how this was the place Percy had told him about. A sort of safe haven for demigods on the road.
"So what are we doing still here? We need to be contacting everyone and getting them here so we can take care of Osiris and get Mike back," I start to get up again, only to be pushed right back down.
"You need to rest, and so do I. That's why we're here, and not on the road again running from monsters,"
"Kyra, he's right. Both of you need at least another day of rest," Apollo says, standing up from his chair and walking over to me.
He walks up right next to Nico. "I know you want to be right back out there, fighting your way back to Michael, but you're not going to do him any good if you're practically a walking corpse when you get to him. Rest."
He reaches out and lightly touches my forehead with his pointer and middle finger. A feeling of relief washed over me. I hadn't realized just how much pain I had been in until it was taken away.
Now that I wasn't fighting against it, I started to feel a little sleepy. My eyes started to droop, and I could see Apollo backing away from Nico and I. "Rest, and tomorrow you will feel better."
I close my eyes and drift away again, this time feeling as light as a feather, as I wasn't being weighed down by ten boulders.
A/N:
And there's the intro! A little shorter than I had wanted it to be, but that's okay. Kinda getting back into the swing of things and writing in Kyra's POV again, so this chapter and chapter two might be a little slow on the pick up, but it'll get better after that.
Oh, I suppose I should go over this since it's a new story. I welcome my old readers, and hope you enjoy the last installment! As for new readers, go back and read my series The Shadows of Revolution. This is the epilogue trilogy, and it won't make any sense if you haven't read the series first. Once you read those, and the first two installments of this trilogy A New Beginning and Grim Findings, then you can come back and read this.
Well, my niece was born on Thursday! She's super tiny, but sooooo adorable! I've only gotten to see pictures and videos of her, because only parents and grandparents are allowed back in the NICU, but that's okay. I'll be able to see her soon enough. And my sister-in-law was released from the hospital yesterday, so she and my brother came home. They went back tonight to see her and she was wide awake! She was opening her eyes and sucking on her pacifier and all. Ahh, she's so cute! And she has the chubbiest little cheeks ever! I can't wait to hold her!
And I really and truly meant to upload this earlier in the day, but my mom and I had a ton of errands to run and then when we came home, she got started on dinner, and I had to run some of it to my brother and SIL's house. So I really haven't had much of a chance until now.
M/A:
"'I got a feeling now my heart is frozen I'm a scary gargoyle on a tower
All the verses and the corrosion
Have been after native in my soul
I prayed on the immovable
Yeah, clinging to the atoms of rocks
Seasons, the adjustments, signs of change
I can't see now she said taxi
Now red light is all I can take
This dawn brings strange loyalties, and skies
That you made with plastic power
Your rhinestone eyes are like factories far away'"
~ Rhinestone Eyes by Gorillaz
XOXO,
Mrs-diAngelo25