This is new to me forgive me if it's bad. My spelling may not be the best, but I'm trying hard to get it as close to perfect as possible. You may have read my other story that I deleted, but it sucked. I'm hoping this one will be better.

I own nothing. It's all Rick Riordan's.

Begin...

WHERE LIFE IS

Hi, I'm Samantha Merchant. I go by Sam. I'm currently, I live at Camp Half-blood. I came here after Hades gave me some news, but we'll get to that later.

Let's start from the beginning...

I lived in a small apartment with my mom and twin sister Isabella, Izzy is what I call her.

My mom home schooled us. She wanted to teach us at her own pace; let's just say we were learning at a pretty fast rate.

Our mom didn't keep many secrets from us, but there was one big one she kept. It was about our father.

Before she died in a car crash, she told us that he was a Greek god. That's all we know. We were only nine at the time. We ended up living on our own, because there was no way we were going to go to the services.

We watched too many movies to do that. Besides, who would want us. One dressed like a barbie and the other dressed like a gothic girl.

It's kind of unoriginal, don't you think? One loves black, the other pink. I'm the black lover, by the way. Izzy loves pink and white. I don't think white counts though.

Anyway, we lived on the streets for awhile. It wasn't so bad. We eventualy ran into some older demigods.

Their names were Percy and Annabeth Jackson. They were a middle aged couple. We were fighting a monster (don't think I remember what it was-sorry, not a good memory) when they came and helped us, not that we weren't doing fine on our own.

They explained Camp Half-blood to us. After staying with them long enough to learn what we needed, we set out for camp.

Along the way, we ran into another older demigod. His name was Nico di Angelo. Izzy had been hit by some monster's spear that came out of nowhere, and Nico came and saved us.

Apparently, Percy and Annabeth told him that we were coming in his direction, and that we were weaponless. Nico gave my sister some Nectar, and bandaged her right up.

After that was done, the unthinkable happened...

You see, I always where sunglasses. If I take them off, people see their worst fear when I'm mad. All it takes is one little trigar and suddenly, boom! My eyes turn creepy.

Both Izzy and I have weird eyes. Hers just aren't as scary. Her eyes are black. Not really brown, but black. When she's mad, her whole eyeball turns black, and people freeze in their spots. Not permanatly, just for a bit, like they're in shock.

My eyes are worse. People sometimes die if their fear is bad enough.(you really don't want to know how I know that...) My eyes are red. Blood red. And when the whole eye glows, it looks like my eye's bleeding, that's what Izzy said, anyway.

So, both of us where sunglasses all the time. And, when Nico was bandaging her, he saw Izzy's eyes. Her glasses had fallen off. I was holding them in my hand, about to give them to her, when Nico noticed.

His eyes got wide, and he told us to come with him. He took us to Hades. It's weird, but he explained that Hades was his dad. We got in, no problem, and when Hades saw us walk into that throne room...

That, is how we discovered who our dad was. He, was Hades. Hades also decided to bless us with some gifts after we were born. Hint: our eyes.

Other than that, we were like all the other children of Hades (he was the only one that didn't have very many kids after the pack was broken after the second titan war.)

We were some of his only kids. He had about three others, but only two were at camp. The third wasn't even in school yet.

That, was when we were also given our weapons. Hades even had them made already. He said that he wanted to give them to us when we turned ten, but now was good.

The weapon was in the shape of a bracelet. One was pink (Izzy's) one was black (mine). They had multiple weapons on them.

Each charm represented something. There were twelve charms in all.

They were sword(mine) that if you said 'double' in greek, it splits into two swords. Bow with quiver (Izzy's), extra arrows, long hunting knife (also Izzy's), hand knife, nectar, ambrosia, spear, tent, mortal money, drachmas, and a first aid kit.

Both of them had this stuff. When we take a charm off, it turns in the bigger version of the charm. When you touch the bracelet to the object and say 'return' in greek, it turns back into a charm. Simple really.

We stayed in the underworld for about a week. Nico trained us as best he could. He had trouble with Izzy because she couldn't seem to use a sword, but with the help of undead warriors, she learned archery fairly quick. And she also learned how to use the long knife.

Nico also helped us learn how to use our child of Hades powers. We mastered shadow traveling in no time, raising the dead was another story.

Izzy was great at it, and she picked up how to tell if someone's dead really well Me? I can only fight with a sword and shadows. Yes, shadows.

I can make them do as I please. I get tired if I do it too long, but it's a neat trick. Izzy can only make the shadows move. But Nico can't even do that, so go her.

So, pretty much my whole power is in my eyes. I just can't control it. If I could... it'd be kinda creepy.

Nico eventually left, leaving us alone with our dad and step-mom Persephone. She wasn't the best toward us, but she and Izzy had some interests in common. Not really, actuallly. Izzy's just a big kiss up, but you got to love her.

And, one day when we were walking by the river styx, something bad happened.

I don't know what it was, but something hit me in the head, that may not sound so bad, but it was bad when I fell into the river.

I'm sure you know that the styx can turn you invincible, with one weakness. But, it can also kill you.

I got lucky. I'm a pretty fast thinker, so when the inbearable pain hit me, I knew where I was.

I quickly thought up a spot. I chose the right side of my neck. It was perfect for me. Since I used two swords, I could protect it well. Thinking this up, didn't stop the pain.

It was terrible. I hadn't ever been through anything like it. I had once shattered my left arm, and it was very painful. But in that river, I wished I could've just shattered my arm again. It would have been way better.

I could feel the life being drained out of my body. I wished it would go faster, it really was that bad.

I saw my short life flash before my eyes. I hadn't even gotten the chance to turn nine yet. My birthday was only next month. Then, my sister popped infront of my face.

I saw her smile at me. She said, "You can't leave me on the shore by myself, can you? I saw you fall in."

She was standing on the shore of the styx, her hands on her hips. I did need to get up there, she may have been hit by the same thing as me.

Suddenly, I resurfaced. I crawled onto the shore, looking around for Izzy, but she wasn't there.

When I looked down at myself, my skin was red and raw. I didn't feel any different. I stood up. My legs were shakey.

That was the last time I saw my sister. When I went back to Hades, he looked devestated. That gave it away. I was sent to camp shotly after that day.

Hades told me he didn't want to claim me. Chiron apparently had a prophecy about a daughter of Hades. Izzy and I were his only daughters.

So, I had to keep myself in line. The happy girl I was left me. It was replaced by an emotionless eight year old girl.

So, I went to camp living in the unclaimed cabin up 'til now. I'm fifteen right now.

I have my five friends that help me, even if they don't know anything about my life before I came to camp.

My friends were Nicole (Niki) a daughter of Hermes. Kile a son of Apollo. Jesse (Jess) daughter of Hecate. Jacob (Jac) son of Athena. And James son of zues.

All of them became friends with me because they stayed in the unclaimed cabin for at least a day. Everyone gets claimed fairly quickly. I still haven't been claimed, or so they think...

There was also one rule I had to follow, I couldn't pick up any weapons. If I did, I would get in huge trouble. So I listened to my dad.

Now let's start my story...

I really hope you like it. I looked up all the words I don't know how to spell, but there will probably be some mistakes. I mean, no ones perfect. Review, but try to go easy. If you like it, say what you like. If you don't, help me out, just do it nicely. Last time I got a bad review, I was shaking, badly. I really don't cry though. So I'm done rambleing... REVIEW PLEASE! ;]