Hi guys! Here's a the first chapter for my Colton spin off story! It's a follow up for Accepted, but you don't have to read that one to understand this one. Enjoy!

One (Colton):

I black out, no doubt from all the power I used in the past few minutes. I mean, what was I thinking? Shadow traveling is one thing, but creating a light source so strong that can disintegrate someone by just looking at it? It's something only gods can do when they show their true form. And apparently, I can kill people whenever I want to.

Just when I feel like I'm about to awake, a vision goes through my head.

Darkness surrounds me, but I can see through it. It's one of the perks of being a son of Nyx. I'm in some sort of cave, with my back against some girl I've never seen before.

She raises her bow and arrow and whispers to me, "if we're going to die, we're going down fighting. Agreed?"

"Agreed," I confirm, and I can't even stop myself from doing anything. I can't even control my actions.

"Aurora?" A male voice calls. From the sound of his voice, he seems about thirty, maybe forty.

"Dad?" the girl behind me asks as she breaks away from our formation.

A giant human thing appears from the shadows. I look at him from the bottom up. His feet are gross and huge. I make it up a little further and see he's thankfully wearing clothing. Then, I make it up to his face. He has yellow teeth, with some of them missing, a huge nose, and one giant eye which takes up most of his face. One eye. Gods, this thing is scary.

"Where is it?" he demands. Where is what? What is he talking about?

"We don't have it!" Aurora shouts.

He points a spear at both of our hearts and then grins. "If you don't have it, you'll have to face the consequences. Any last words?"

I sit up, smacking my forehead into some sort of solid object. I open my eyes and see a crowd of people surrounding my infirmary bed. Right in front of me, is some sort of large machine that is connected into me somehow. I guess it's the thing I smacked into.

I rub my forehead to try and relieve the pain and realize I'm coated in sweat. Ew. Memories float back into my mind. I abused my powers and had to face the consequences because I wanted to impress a girl while playing a game of truth or dare. Why am I stupid enough to do something like that? Maybe it's because the girl is completely out of my league, and those are the kind of girls I usually go for. And to add to all of my problems, I'll never even get a girlfriend because of what happened between my parents. My life is so complicated.

"Colton, are you okay?" Ember asks, feeling my forehead. Speak of the devil.

"No," I shake my head. "I need to talk to Chiron."

"You can't right now," a boy with dark reddish colored hair tells me, and I instantly recognize him as Copper, an idiotic son of Apollo. "You have to stay in bed for at least a few more hours. You're not capable of getting up on your feet."

"But Copper," I plead. "This is an emergency! Like, probably a life or death situation!"

"Please Copper," Ember begs.

"Sorry," he sighs. "You have to stay here. But, I might be able to get Chiron to come here."

"As long as everyone here leaves," I say. "This is important, and I don't think he'll want everyone to know."

"Can I hear it?" Copper asks.

"No!" I shake my head. "You're like, a bigger gossip spreader than the whole entire Aphrodite cabin combined. Telling you is like, a breaking news update on television. In a matter of minutes, the whole world would know."

"Well then," he replies, clearly offended as he walks off to go get Chiron.

"As for the rest of you," I talk to group of people surrounding my bed. "All of you have to go except for Ember and Nico."

Reluctantly, they leave, and only my best friend, and this random girl I just met remain. "Colton, what's so important?" Nico questions me as he kneels down by my bed. "You're making it seem like someone is dying."

"Someone will be dying," I gulp. "And that person is me."

"What are you talking about?" Ember asks. "Give more description. It's hard to understand what you're saying if we don't even know what's going on."

"I don't even know what's going on," I inform them. "And I'll tell you the little that I know as soon as Chiron gets here. I don't want to say it twice."

"Come on, Colton." Nico says. "It can't be that bad."

"It can be, and it will," I say glumly. "I mean, I'm going to end up dying."

"If you die," Nico tells me. "I'll bring you back to life, alright? I'm a son of Hades! I'm in the Underworld almost every day."

"No wonder why the Pegasus always say that you smell like dead people!" Ember exclaims.

"You speak Pegasus?" I raise an eyebrow at her.

"No," she shakes her head. "I'm a daughter of Hephaestus, not Poseidon."

"Obviously I knew that," I reply. "You tried to kill me with fire before because I called you threatening."

"I did?" she cocks her head at me.

"Yeah," I nod. "Because you weren't invited to play truth or dare at the Hermes cabin like I was."

"Oh," she says quietly. "And Colton, I know we just met and we're not exactly friends, but I didn't mean to drain you like that. You should have told me it was too much! We could've gotten Nico to help instead. You didn't have to do everything."

"It's my fatal flaw," I sigh. "I'm always trying to do everything on my own, even when other people are just as qualified, or even more qualified."

"It's alright," Nico comforts me. "Every great hero has a fatal flaw. Some more prominent then others, but they're always there."

"I guess," I mumble just as Chiron and Copper enter the infirmary.

"Copper said you had something happened. Are you alright?" Chiron asks.

"For now," I tell him. "But I don't know what will happen to me in the future."