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Chapter 2 – Perci's P.O.V
"You bastard," I spat kicking my giant blonde, shiny new uncle in the shin.
"You must return and meet the All-father," he replied, there was a dark skinned man with golden eyes and a big, big sword looked at me in amusement.
"And if I do this I can leave?" I groused, I turned sixteen soon. I didn't have time to go talk to lost family members that were just as temperamental as my dad's side. Not with the prophecy looming over me, and the complete certainty I had that I wasn't going to walk away at the final battle.
"Thor," three men and a woman shouted coming over to greet my uncle. The asked about how he was, if there was any news on my mother and who I was.
"Friends, this is my niece Percy," he introduced, "Percy, these are my friends the warrior's three and Lady Sif."
"I know who they are," I replied, "Mom told me."
"She is Loki's daughter," Sif replied suspiciously, "Can we be certain she will not betray us."
"Honey I would screw you over in a New York minute if it meant getting out of here," I told her matter of factly, "Most people that have been kidnapped tend to do that to the people holding them hostage."
"Niece, even if I did let you return to my brother I would have been made to bring you here anyhow," Uncle Thor said seriously.
"Made?" I replied my voice dripping with disbelief, "Nobody makes us do anything." They joined us to escort me to meet my grandparents, adopted grandparents that weren't really adoptive. Nix mentioned something about a magic adopting ritual. Now where was the Ever-Knowing, Premonitionally-abled Soothsayer Without Equal, Proto-Valkyrie when you need her?
"You must show the All-father respected," my uncle cautioned, "He may be displeased with your very existence." Like that's a first, I thought to myself amusedly.
"Trust me, no matter how bad he could possibly be worse than my other grandfather," I replied matter of factly, "And I refuse to go in there and be anything less than myself. You kidnapped me, you deal with it."
The throne room was beautiful, it would have sent any jewel obsessed Valkyrie into a free fight for all. I was barely paying attention to what my uncle was saying. He basically explained that I was the daughter of Loki and how I fell into his 'possession'. Bastard.
"Come forward, granddaughter," the man on the throne said. He was intimidating looking, I guess but I was used to power displays as such. A bandage covered one of his eyes and he looked at me gravely. I stepped forward.
"Will you not bow before the All-father," somebody demanded.
"Nope," I said popping the p, "The idea of bowing to family is ridiculous and against my principles."
"I am the king of Asgard and a god," he stated in a gravel like voice.
"Not my king, not my god," I said resolutely, "I don't even want to be here, I was kidnapped."
"You are the daughter of Loki," he started. I widened my eyes in mock surprise letting out an overdramatic gasp.
"Oh, really," I said scathingly, "I never knew." He threw me a glare.
"And as such you must not be allowed to be used by your mother," he declared. Anger bubbled up inside me. How dare he talk about my mom like that?
"No because the way I heard it, the only one with a propensity for screwing over their children is you," I replied coolly. Lightning cackled explosively outside and he drew himself up in the traditional angry god pose.
"Yeah, yeah," I said in a bored tone, "Blah, blah, blah. You know if you intend to keep me trapped in the place that is technologically behind Earth by about five hundred or so years, the ocean better be in bloody walking distance."
With that I walked out the doors I came in, leaving a stunned assembly behind me and set out in search for the sea. I wandered through the town and used my senses to finally find it. Peeling off my shoes I dipped my feet into the sea and sighed in contentment.
Breath, I told myself. Just breath. Slowly I took stock of my situation. I was stuck, off realm with my sixteenth birthday only six months away. I wasn't going to live past Kronos's final assault. I could feel it in the pit of my stomach. I was going to die.
He was attacking more everyday and I had to be there to help camp. They were my family too. I wasn't sure how they'd react to mom having an affair with a god for another Parthenon so I couldn't say anything. I would just have to find a way out of here. I may not have been very interested in harnessing whatever magic I had before, but now I had little choice in the matter.
They say that almost all miracles are founded in desperation. I resolved two things before my grandmother found me. I'd give my new family members a chance and I wouldn't change myself for them. No matter what happens here.
"I think that you have earned the respect of your grandfather permanently," she said softly, standing just out of reach of the tide, "Not that he'll ever tell you that."
"What did you want?" I asked finally.
"I lost my son, will you deny me the chance to know my granddaughter too?" she asked in return. I looked at her, she wasn't anything like I expected when I heard of the Valkyries speak of her.
"I'm complicated and I don't think that I'll ever be what you want," I said walking over to her, "You just have to deal with the fact that I'll never change for anyone other than myself."
"That's fine," she reassured, wrapping an arm around my waist and leading me back up to the castle. She took me to a beautiful room, with a large bed and a balcony. The room was filled with books and fur blankets. In the corner there was a screen and an arch shaped doorway in another wall with no door, where a pool was embedded into the marble floor. It was full of steaming hot water.
"Relax, have a bath and get changed," grandmother encouraged, "You may spend the rest of the day here uninterrupted if you wish, to come to terms with your new situation. I will find you some new clothes."
"That wont be necessary," I said enlarging my bag, that I took on ever quest and was filled with everything I could possibly need, "I have everything I need right here."
"Never the less, I shall return with a dress," she replied, I undressed and sank into my bath. Wait… it was seawater? That's just perfect I sighed sinking underwater.
There. Worth the time it took you to read it? I hope so, now how is she going to manage to sneak out to fight the Titan war? And how is she going to be treated.
