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Chapter 2: Numb

Aria's PoV

He was gone. My only full blood brother had just disappeared into the night. I felt like breaking down and drowning my sorrow in tears. But just then, I knew I had to get back to camp and try to hide the fact that Percy had disappeared and give him as much of a lead on the searchers that would be sent after him as possible.

"Aria! There you are! We've been looking all over for you and Percy, where is he anyway?"

That annoying voice belonged to the one who had broken my brother's heart. I couldn't help but glare at her and reply bitterly to her question about Percy.

"Really? You were looking for us? Well guess what! If you hadn't been such a cheating bitch, maybe he would still be here!" Annabeth's eyes widened as she realised that she had been caught by me. Ha! Serves her right! Then I continued. "Why would you care about where he was anyway! You cheated on him!" I finally had let out all my built up rage, gathered from how unfair it had been to my brother and I; we had done all the work while someone else got all the credit.

"I'm looking for you two because there's a meeting with the gods for everyone who fought the immortals in the monster army. The gods have ordered it." Annabeth replied calmly.

"Fine, I'm coming, you might as well come as well because you will never find Percy when he doesn't want to be found." With that, I walked towards the big house to tell everyone what had happened to Percy.


"Alright, I think that's everyone… Wait… Where's the Hero of Olympus?"

"He's gone." Those two words were all I needed to tell them what had happened to Percy to these 12 Olympians.

"What do you mean GONE!" Poseidon demanded of me.

"Gone means gone. He left a few hours ago." I stated frankly, seeing the curious glances at me, I instantly continued, "He left Camp Half-Blood because he was betrayed by all of you; Dad, you named Mathew as your favourite son, even though all he did was defeat the most peaceful of the giants and for everyone else, you forgot about him, tried to block him out and completely forgot the fact that the two of us had taken on almost all of the immortal monsters in that army. Oh, and Annabeth, you cheated on him; which was the last straw for him. That is why he left."

Silence greeted my rant about how they had all abandoned him. Finally, almost everyone bowed their head in shame about what they had done to the Hero of Olympus. The only ones who didn't look as though they were sorry for what they had done were Annabeth and Mathew.

"Why do we need him anyway? He's weak! He is so useless that he ran away like a coward and abandoned all his friends and family…" Mathew boasted, but before he could continue I cut in.

"He had no friends left you all abandoned him and he was going to leave to go back home!"

"Umm… Aria? Sally died about two hours ago…" Poseidon stated with slight hurt in his voice.

I felt as though someone had stabbed me in the heart as my father told me that one piece of news. I was on the very edge of breaking into tears in front of everyone and suddenly I felt sheer anger come through the link that I had to Percy. Percy? Can you hear me?

Yeah, came a reply that was full of hurt, and guess what? Paul and mum are both dead. Now I have no-where to go!

Percy, Poseidon is throwing a tantrum about you leaving. He wants you back. That much was true, but the air did seem to have more moisture than normal.

No way, he can go and cry over his 'favourite' son now! Since he is 'SO MUCH BETTER THAN ME'! That reply was so full of sarcasm it nearly hurt. I think he knew how hurt I was by my words

Brother… You know he can track you if you touch a body of water right?

Yeah! That's why I'm just going to run until I die, that is something no-one can stop me from doing! One thought went through my head when he said that. We didn't know exactly what the link might do to me if Percy died, it might kill me, or it might make me feel pain in my mind but there would be no physical sign of a wound or it might not do anything. We didn't know since the link only ever told us whether the other was alive or not, raw emotions and we could talk to each other by thinking.

Percy! I practically shouted at him as much as I could.

Goodbye Aria. I'll see you in the afterlife before I could reply to tell him to stop; the link was shut off by Percy. I felt so hurt I instantly collapsed on the floor. Everyone looked at me, even half of the children of Apollo had come closer to heal me in case I had been hurt. I looked up and told them one thing before they would back off.

"I'm fine. It's just the link with Percy, he blocked me off."

"Alright, back to what I was going to say earlier. We have decided to make all you heroes into immortals as a gift for saving Olympus." None of us replied to that statement. The Olympians took this as a confirmation.

Each of the gods drew their weapons of power out. Then all of a sudden I felt my link suddenly go numb. I knew he wasn't dead otherwise the link would have dissolved. The link was still there, just numb and that feeling was the last I felt before darkness swarmed my vision and I fell to the floor, just as Apollo himself came to his senses to catch me before I smashed into the floor.


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