Hi, Everyone,
Sorry for the late late update. School finals has kept me busy and I've had the flu for the past 3 days. Anyway, off to the chapter, Enjoy!
-V
Chapter Two
"So, I take this is what you were about to tell us?" Mom says to the brown haired kid.
Said kid nods, furiously.
"Okay, Nora come with me," Mom says, her eyes fierce.
"I'll call our friends at Camp Jupiter," Chiron says, "Markus, help the wounded." He countines, looking at the brown haired boy. Markus nods and runs off, Chiron follows suit .
Like usual, I trip down the steps as I try to keep up to my mother's pace. "Mom, slow down!" I say as we pass people, some run gathering weapons, others tending to their fellow campers. Dodging a Hermes kid Mom heads toward a building covered with metal, so this is the armory I think as we head inside. Immediately the smell of sweat and burning coals invades my senses. A scrawny kid with goggles on his head stokes the forge. "Annabeth, what'cha need?" He turns to mom," Your dagger fixed or maybe-"
Mom cuts him off.
"No, its for her" Mom gestures to me. "Oh, and who might this be?"
"My daughter, Andromeda"
"Nora," mom says to me, "meet Leo Valdez, Son of Hephaestus"
"Nice to me you, Andromeda" Scrawny-er, Leo says shaking my hand. "Its Nora, and likewise"
"So, what kind of weapon-" he starts. Suddenly the armony shakes, windows of the forge begin to starts to rain down
"Hold on to something!"
I due the next best thing, I hide under the table. Then just as it just began, it stops, as if held in Time's grasp. The armory groans, "scratch that, get out. NOW!"
FWOOM!
We all jump, debris flies arounds us. Slowly it seems to take forever to reach the ground. Mom looks over her expression hard to read.
We hit the ground. It hurts.
"It hurts," Leo says.
"No Shrap, Sherlock!"
"Nora, language!"
"Sorry," I mumbled. Then I look up. The once peaceful camp is gone. Fires litter the ground with campers covered in blood, some I nearly vomit at sight of their injuries.
Suddenly a maniacal laugh cuts across the camp. All campers including mine zeroes in on the voice. The man is tall, wearing black armor, his gold eyes stand out to me like a light. Kind of like lighthouse light. Oh! I haven't been to the beach in a while…
Stupid ADHD
Mom lets out a strangled gasp. "N-No, that's not possible, it can't-"
"Mom, who is that?" I inquire.
"I-"
"Mom," I say, harder.
Mom's face is pale, it so different from the one I know. With a startling realization I realize she is scared. Of what?
"Mom,"
"Its Kronos." She says in a whisper as if the mere mention will bekcon him.
It felt as if the air was suffocating me. I look over at the figure standing at the crest of Half-Blood hill.
A scream cuts across the camp, its jarring. A woman is dragged forward, her fiery red hair in a mess, a face covered in blood.
"What will you do without your precious Oracle now?" He snarls.
"Rachel!," Mom runs forward.
"Or," He's says his voice filled with malice," Should I go for Jackson's Daughter instead."
Silence.
He looks at me.
Percy Jackson? As in the Hero of Olympus that saved everyone? He has a kid? I wonder if I know her.
"Oh, your didn't tell them, Athenian spawn?" Somehow I know he's talking to my mother. Tell us what? Everyone's expressions seem to convey.
" -Or your daughter for that matter? Of her legacy, Of her father and who he is?" He laughs.
"Mom, what's going on? What's he talking about?"
Mom doesn't answer, her face is pale, unreadable even to me.
"Nora, go inside," stern.
"Mom-"
"Andromeda," now its forceful.
"Oh so sad," the Titan lord mocks, " you can't even tell her who she really is, that he father-"
"No, I am begging you, don't-"
"Mom-"
"Percy Jackson" His voice full of malice.
Percy Jackson, my….father?
"You bast-" Mom screams, letting out a slew of curses in Greek and English as campers hold her back. Her rage is pungent, I want to cower. Was it really true?
"Till next time, Demigods," He says and with that he turns around, his battalion of monsters following him leaving nothing but destruction in their wake... as Rachel screams, trying to break free even though it does nothing.
"Mom," I start to say as we sit on the steps of the Big House after the damage of the battle is cleaned up. Mom's hair is a mess, her outfit ripped and covered in yellow dust from the monsters she helped slay and her eyes vacant. She looks nothing like the woman of a few hours ago, is this why she never involved me, was she afraid for me to see this part of her life?
"Is it true?" We both know what I'm talking about. She looks at me.
"Yes," She whispers, her voice raw and hollow.
"Why did you keep this from me?'I stand up, angry. " The campers I get, but me, your own daughter?"
"Nora, I wanted to tell you so many times and I did it to protect you-"
"Protect me?" I snarled, "You, think this was your idea of protection!? Lying to me all these years!"
"Nora-"
"No, just, no." I grit my teeth, "If you were really my mother, you would've told me-"
I am your mother," Mom says desperate, I wanted to laugh. "No, You. Are. Not. My. Mother.'I annunciate every word. " For mothers don't keep things from their children!"
She flinches. Good, I thought, she should.
And then I run, I don't care, just away, away from life
"Annie are you alright," I hear Thalia ask my mother.
"No, Thals, no I'm not" She buries her head in her hands. I sworn I could've heard her sobbing.
Meanwhile with Kronos
Rachel was in pain. She knew why he wanted her. No, he wanted the Oracle.
Then it came: the pain, blinding hot and fast. Uncontrolled chaos. This wasn't her body anymore, no, it was the Oracle's. And then Oracle spoke:
Upon the day what's shrouded is revealed
one born with the Sea's blood
shall journey with the Owl's Daughter to find what has been lost
for when old becomes new
the Truth will show the way
But be warned, many challenges face the way,
but should you survive to live another day
the Riptide shall appeal to you
but only when Wisdom falls, the Hero's Daughter shall rise
and only then will she finally defeat the Lord Time
I know horrible prophecy, but I did what I could do in little time! Sorry for the reaaally late update! Also, yes Percy IS still alive.
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-V