Hey guys, I'm back. So here's the first official chapter of Burning Colors, and it's called Red. Enjoy!

Red

It's strange how one color can be used to mean so many opposite feelings. Love and anger, passion and hate. Strength radiates from this color, one reason why I hate it. It is everything I am not. I am weak. I take in the negativity that is in this color. I used to try to absorb the good in this color too, but not any more. I won't try, no, I can't try. It's like everything has been sucked out of me, the capacity and space there was for joy and love turned into empty space. I guess that's what Tartarus will do to you. What becoming a ghost king will do. What finding out your sister died and the guy you looked up to couldn't save her will do. But I guess that's the price I have to pay for shutting everyone out, and almost turning to the dark side.

I still remember the day I found out that… my sister was dead. Gone. I couldn't believe it.

Percy was supposed to protect her. She was supposed to be safe, still here, teasing me like she used to. I was in shock, but then he just had to bring out that figurine. The reason she died. It was all for me. I couldn't take it. I broke completely. "You promised!" my voice rang out across the pavilion. Sorrow turned into anger, my vision went red. I trembled with rage. Then the warriors came, made of bone. That was what fueled my anger more. I remember thinking that I should have known that I wouldn't be able to trust him. I remember screaming, "Go away!" What happened next altered everything. The ground rumbled. A huge chasm appeared, flames erupting from within, and swallowed up the skeletons, leaving only a huge crack in the floor. I remember running off blindly towards the woods, leaving behind my former hero, the cause of Bianca's death, and the ghost and traces of a happy, innocent, and naive boy.

Red. That day was red, in my memories it is tinted red, in my dreams, it remains red, but now no matter how I yearn for the colors, they're gone. That was the day red started burning away from inside me.

Well, that was hard to write, especially since they give you so little to work with in that scene from The Titan's Curse, but it was pretty fun to write. Hope you liked it! Bye for now!