A/N: Hello everyone! Finished the last chapter and decided to roll right on in to the next one. Understandably, no reviews yet. So Please Please Please review, I would love the input. I do not own PJO, HOO or anything else created by Rick Riordan. So please Enjoy.
(Apollo Viewpoint)
Its very difficult being in multiple places at once, even for a god. During the first couple years of Felix's life, I had to take care of him, drive the chariot across the sky, answer prayers, attend meetings on olympus, and annoy my sister. It's very hard work for and immortal being, or any being I guess. Lying to everyone about Felix was easy, you would be surprised how easy many of the Olympians are to manipulate.
Whenever the question comes up to where Im spending so much time, I just turn it around and make them go after each other. Not very hard to do with a family as fucked up as mine.
Regardless, I did my best to watch over my son. So far, it was a breeze, I would sing to him, and he would just fall asleep, or quiet down at least. Easily soothed by his father's domain. Simple. But what I didn't expect was how quickly his demigod powers would manifest.
Today was the first day they manifested, nothing to big, just insanely good accuracy, like me. I was feeding him his cereal (Aunt Demeter would be proud) when he flung a piece of Lucky Charms across the room. It made a perfect arc and landed directly into the drain in the sink, a good 25 feet away. I stared at my son with a calculating gaze.
"Can you do that again?" I asked him with one of my trademark smiles. He looked at me for a second before turning and doing the exact same shot perfectly. I chuckled to my self as a wide grin spread across his face. He made the shot over and over and over again. I looked at him with pride when I suddenly felt someone behind me.
A small Black haired girl was watching me intently. She had deep brown eyes that almost looked the color of dark chocolate. Felix kept making every shot, not paying attention to the little girl behind him, examining what was happening. Soon a smile crept its way across her face. She walked over to the side of the 3 year old Felix, watching him make each shot over and over again.
"Aunt Marry!" She called out excitedly, the owner of the orphanage walked through the threshold trying to see what was wrong. "What is it Chloe?" she asked looking at the young girl.
"Look at what Felis is doing" She said unable to pronounce the boys full name. I acted quickly, silently jinxing each shot made by Felix. He missed over and over again, a defeated look appearing on his chubby three year old face. This was soon replaced with a large cry of defeat and tears running from his eyes.
Marry just shrugged a little, and looked to me. "Fred, you really shouldn't teach him to play with his food" she said with a small smile on her face. "go check if he has a dirty diaper, would you please." she said as she walked back through the threshold to go attend to the other children.
"Sure Thing Marry." I called after her, knowing full well that he wasn't crying because of what was in his pants. I took him upstairs to the nursery passing by the other children.
The numbers of the children in the orphanage fluctuated, usually stayed between 12 and 14, myself included. Many where new face's however, usually they where either taken in by foster parents, or adopted. Felix and Chloe where a different story. Without my intervention, Im sure that many young couples would have been waiting to accept my son and his friend into their homes. I used the mist to make sure no one would adopt them. I Needed to keep my son safe, and I knew from his future that Chloe would be important to him, she needed to stay around.
They made their way past the faces that would no doubt be replaced within the year. They were having out in their rooms, playing board games or cards. Apollo never bothered to learn their names, they weren't all that important to him. Sure he would joke around with them, try to make them laugh every once in a while, but he mostly stayed around felix.
All this time, Felix was still crying. I sighed put him down in his crib and put up my hands like I was trying to grab something. Suddenly, a golden acoustic guitar shivered out in front of me. I took hold of it and started strumming.
Felix liked all music, but he did have his favorites. I started to play "In Your Atmosphere." by John Mayer, (Look up the song, really good, make sure its the live version) It always pulled at my heartstrings, it was his mothers favorite song for me to play as well.
I let the melody take over, I sang out each note perfectly, the crying died down instantly. All that could be heard in the room was my voice and the strumming of the strings.
I finished the song to see my son soundly sleeping in his crib, I couldn't help but stare. At that moment, he was the only thing that mattered to me. Every other part of me that was working around the world to make sure it kept running, paused for a moment to feel the immense love I felt for him.
I felt heat hit my face, as calm energy rolled off my son. He really was a very powerful demigod.
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(Later that Night)
I was downstairs with Felix again that night, trying to see if he was still just as accurate as before. Sure enough he hit every target every time, complete bullseyes. He was so talented, even if he was only using a spoon to shoot cereal.
"I should get you a bow little man" I said to him, this distracted him mid shoot. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how he did this, or if even I could do this. He missed his target, but it bounced off random things all through the house and hit one of the younger kids in the eye, causing him to yelp in pain. We both looked at each other with wide eyes.
He giggled for a moment and I stifled a laugh.
"Okay maybe not a bow just yet, when your older probably."
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(7 Years Later)
(Felix Point of View)
"Felix, your bother wanted to see you, said he had a gift for you" Marry yelled up at me from the stair, I could only just hear her over my music. That woman had such a loud voice. I unplugged my earphones and turned off my iPod which I promptly stuck in my back pocket. Out of habit, I grabbed my slingshot. Like my iPod, the slingshot had been a gift from my brother Fred. Now, we wern't real brothers, we just spent so much time together that we practically were.
I made my way down the stairs stopping in the living room to pull Chloe away from her book.
"Oh come on Felix, not again." She whined as she put down her novel. Chloe was one of the girls I grew up with, people always teased us by saying we were "Boyfriend and Girlfriend". It made my face get hot and red whenever somebody mentioned it, of course I liked her, what self respecting ten year old boy wouldn't. She was gorgeous, and just happened to be one of my best friends, so go me.
I could never figure out the way she felt about me though, she walked the line between wanting to like me that way, or in a brotherly way, it was way to confusing. I concluded at a very young age that I would never understand girls. I told Fred this once, he laughed at me for a good ten minutes. When he calmed down, after me hitting a couple of times of course, he told me that I would get it eventually. Whatever.
I ran out the back door to the large back yard the orphanage had, I guess I was lucky for an orphan. Great friends, great life, just no parents. I never really complained though, can't miss someone you never knew.
Outside I saw Fred waiting for me, he saw Chloe behind me. He sighed shook his head and gave me a knowing smile. I swear, his smiles were so bright, they reflected the sun. He was blocking something from my view and was hiding something behind my his back.
"Hey bro, what did you need me for?" I asked him trying too look over him, but I couldn't, he was too tall. Fred was only a couple years older than me, but he looked way older. He was 14 but he looked like he was easily 17. At school he had every single person swooning over him, he would flash all the girls smiles and wink. I shit you not, one time a girl literally fainted. Ended up going on a date with her.
"So you know how every Wednesday I go out for a run and don't come back for hours?" He asked me with a sly smile. I looked at him excitedly, I had asked him for years where he was going, but he never told me, always answering with things like. "To the moon," or "I'm going to the sky see you later." But most of the time it was "Ill tell you when you're older." That always made me fume, but it was hard to be mad at my brother.
"Yeah! Are you finally going to tell me where you go?" I said jumping up and down, I could tell Chloe was giving me a strange look but I didn't care. Fred stepped to the side and pulled something out from behind him.
Behind him was a Archery target, and in his hand was a beautiful wooden recurve bow. I jumped up and down even more now. I fucking loved archery, I didn't know anything about it but I knew I loved it. I would watch videos about bow shooting, I'd watch online streaming of bow tournaments. I practically knew everything about bow's, except I had never shot one. Marry would hear me beg and beg to let me get an Archery range set up in the back yard, but she wouldn't hear any of it. She called it dangerous and barbaric.
"How the hell did you convince Marry to let you get me one of those?" I screamed out reaching for the bow, but Fred held it just out of reach.
"Wait, what does this have to do with you leaving every Wednesday." Chloe asked Fred as she stepped closer trying to look at the bow.
"well I was planning to get you one earlier, but Marry said she didn't want you to have one if you didn't know how to shoot one so, I took it upon myself to learn how. Thats where I go every Wednesday, to an archery range, but now, I brought the range to you." He said and slowly lowered the bow to me. I snatched it greedily from his hands, gazed at it for a second, then tackled Fred in a giant hug.
"Watch the bow there bud." He said to me.
"You're, literally the best brother ever." I said to him with a huge smile.
"You know what this moment needs?" He asked me with a wolfish grin on his face.
"Oh God, please don't, please don't ruin this moment." Chloe whined looking up at my brother. I watched him the same way one would watch a car crash.
"Some good old fashioned poetry, I'm thinking Hikou.
"Oh please God no." Chloe said.
"Bro gets Bro a Bow
Bro trashes my poetry
My Bro is douchy." He smiled as the last words came out of his mouth.
"I hate you." I said with my voice laced with fake hatred.
"Don't you have a new bow to try out?" Fred asked me with his trademark smile, disregarding my comment. I quickly forgot about the horrible poetry and grabbed a arrow. I notched it on the string, took aim, and let it fly.
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(4 Years later)
I was walking out of school when I saw a bully messing with a 6th grader right outside the back entrance way. The Bully's name was Chad Seltings, a real piece of work meat head who use to pic on me a couple years back.
"Dude just leave him alone." I yelled at him, he slowly turned to me and scoffed.
"Fuck off kid." He yelled back at me and went back to taking the kids money. I was't having any of that, this sheathed was going to pay. I walked up to him willing to knock him out when he turned on me and hit me square in the dick. It hurt like a bitch. He laughed at me for minutes before getting out.
"I told you to fuck off, you know, Id tell you to run home to mommy but you don't have one, you good for nothing piece of shit." He laughed out, his laughing drove itself into my brain. Something snapped within me and I starred at him with all the rage that I could muster.
He looked at me for a second before stepping back in horror, he tried to cry out for help but something stopped him. His face turn supper red, and he collapsed on the ground. Before I could see what happened next I ran off back home.
I ran through the doorway and up to my room. I slammed the door behind me, stressing over every little thing that had happened to me. My tutors had been extra hard today. I had recently been diagnosed with dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD for short. It was't making my life any easier.
I was so distracted with everything that was going on that I didn't notice that Chloe was in the room with me.
"Felix?" She asked quietly. I nearly jumped out of my skin when she spoke.
"Jesus, Chloe, You trying to give me a heat attack." I asked her clutching my hand to my heart. She merely laughed as she sat down beside me. She gave me a sympathetic look before asking me.
"Whats going on Fele" She asked me using my pet name. I sighed, thinking about school. About all my tutors, and how all the girls wouldn't talk to me and how all the guys would ignore me.
"I don't know just people at school," I paused, "Sometimes I feel like I just don't belong there, like everyone hates me." I finished solemnly. Chloe giggled when I finished what i had to say.
"What?" I asked her with a strange look on my face.
"Oh nothing, just irony." she said looking at me. I raised and eyebrow in response.
"Its just that everyone at the school freaking loves you, like seriously, the guys are intimidated by you and the girls all think your cute." she finished blushing a little. I was stunned at what she said.
"No way any of the girls think that I am cute." I said to her with a laugh.
"I do." she said without thinking, she quickly realized what she had said and turned away from me, her face as red as a rose.
"What was that?" I asked her. I lightly grabbed her by the chin and made her face me. She wouldn't meet my eyes but spoke.
"Nothing, it was nothing." she said shyly.
"Sure didn't sound like nothing" I said finally catching her gaze. She looked at me and started to get closer to me. I leaned in closer to her. It felt like there were millions of little ropes attached to the pores in my face slowly pulling me towards her. Our faces grew close and closer until we were inches away from each other. Suddenly she grabbed the back of my head and pulled me into a deep and passionate kiss. It had the works, tongue, going on for minutes on end, we even laid back down onto my twin bed and we made out for ours on end. We finally broke apart when we both felt the exhaustion of the work we went through.
Before we finally fell asleep in each others arms I kissed her on the forehead, and fell into my sleep.
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(2 years later)
I woke up at the crack of dawn to get ready to go on our daily run through Duluth with my brother. We both walked out the door on a warm spring day and set down the hill. We talked about manny things, somehow our topic got onto the best ancient weapon ever, besides the bow of course.
"Sword it has to be the sword." Fred said to me with hi confident smile.
"No it's the scythe dude." I told him with complete confidence.
"Bu the scythe is so hard to control, and its not as effective as the sword." He told me with confidence still coming off him in waves.
"Your forgetting about the fear factor of the scythe, I mean, are you going to fuck with the guy who comes not tot the battlefield wielding a fucking scythe?" I said to him.
"That may be true but no one used a scythe during that time period." He said finally thinking he won the argument.
"Thats false, Kronos used a scythe and he used a scythe, he was one bad ass other fucker. Fred got a strange look on his face.
"When did you learn so much about Greek mythology." He asked me
"Were learning about it it class. A cripple name Derek Wood and me are the only ones who answer the questions right, its really cool." I said genuinely excited about the topic. Fred tried to play of his next question carefully.
"So, who's your favorite god?" he asked me.
"Apollo of course, he represents everything that I love join the world, and he's the most badass." I told him, I swear I saw pride in his eyes for one second before they replaced my determination.
"Well those miles aren't going to run themselves." he told me, and he sped off in front going full sprint.
Later on we reminisced about all the old places we had gone to when we were younger. I reminded of a story where He Chloe and I were in a store and broke a couple things before we got the hell out of dodge.
When the run was almost done we started playing the target game. This games rules was we had to hit passing signs as we past them with pebbles dead center. Usually I lost to Fred but I didn't mind.
We got to the end of the game, all tied up at triple over time, if both of us made the next shot, we would go into quadruple over time and so on.
I made my first shot and I waited for my brother to line up his next shot. Suddenly something spoke in my mind, a voice told me to do something and I did it.
"Jynx" I said under my breath as Fred attempted his shot. It looked like he was about to make it when his shot went of course. He missed the sign completely. Just then I felt so week, I could barely stand.
"Wha...What?" He exclaimed as he looked at his missed projectile than back to the target.
"Well you win some you loose some Bro." I told him with a smile on my face. He looked at me strangely, then all of a sudden, he got a knowing looking spread across his lips.
"You did that didn't you?" He asked me. How could he have known about what I said, I could barely hear it.
"What do you mean?" I said innocently.
"Never mind" he said with a laugh, but just as he did, a fire truck raced by with lights and sirens blaring. '
"Wheres that going?" I asked out loud. I turned to Fred to see a pale look on his face.
"No..." He said silently and ran off after the truck. I tried to keep up with him, but he seemed to be to fast for me.
I finally caught up with him as we reached our house. We found out where the truck was going to, our home. I scanned the crowed outside, I spotted Chloe. A huge weight lifted off my shoulders. I looked up at the fire to see something strange. Two glaring red orbs were staring at me with a malicious intent. They appeared to be in the flames themselves, but if you looked closely, you could see a black mass connected to them.
"Do you see that?" I said to Fred who apparently was already looking at them. He spoke one singular sentence in response.
"They found you."
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