Melody's POV

I was surprised enough when I noticed Percy listening to me sing, but that was NOTHING compared to the amount of shock I was in now. Percy's giving me this look that tells me he knows nothing about the severity of what I just said. I could keep him in the dark, it might save him some sanity and pain, but this was something I felt he should know about himself. "Percy, a demigod is supposed to be a half god half human right?"

"Ya, so whats the big deal. My mom read me the Greek myths as a kid and apparently this godly stuff is the norm. How is being half god bad?"

"Well, your mom was a dragon, right?"

"Yes, so?"

"Dragons aren't humans. So if your half god and half dragon..."

His eyes widened in realization, "Then I'm not human." He staggered in shock. He looked like his entire understanding of the world had just been ripped out from under him, which in a way, it had. I decided to at least TRY to comfort him.

"Well I'M not human either and were both fine with that, right?"

"Well, yes but, you've ALWAYS known you weren't human. I'm not even one definite species! Has this ever even happened before?!" I hesitated before answering. I couldn't lie, not about something like this.

"No, at least, not in recorded history. It MAY have happened before dragons swore off all contact with the gods after Zeus but, like I said, its never been recorded." I told him.

"So I really am on my own." He whispered, almost inaudibly in despair.

"No your not!" I told him roughly, he wouldn't have to do this alone, not if I had any say in it, "I will be here. You can trust me. We don't have to tell anyone else but I PROMISE you I will always be here. I know how you feel after all." I said fiercely until the end where I had a bit of nostalgia.

At this point he looked torn between surprise, gratitude and utter confusion. I think confusion was winning coming out on top.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"Well I WAS the only one of my kind of species for a while, at least until my brothers were born, but even then I am still unique. You see, when different colonies of dragons have children together, they create a new type of dragon and the first one is ALWAYS the most powerful and will live longest to become an elder and any offspring from that dragon(ess) will be the same as the first just weaker unless they married one of their kin which would be weird. So I am technically a new species because multiple colony marriage is frowned upon because they don't want a bunch of new species of dragons to be born all the time. Powers and abilities vary from family to family. Me, I got my singing voice. The gods have more or less forgotten we exist so I'm not really threatened by them but I was picked on in cub school for being so unique and then having a "lame" power. There isn't any magic in my speaking voice unless I'm casting a charm, but with enough practice anyone could do that. I've been banned from schools permanently because of the 2nd grade talent show. So I've been home-schooled ever since. My little brothers haven't manifested ANY talent, magical or otherwise, in singing. Ralen and Esmond have my minor ability to control mist and clouds exceptionally well, so it seems like I'm the only one with any singing abilities. I know, its a little silly but its who I am and at this point I don't care what anyone else thinks." I finished my explanation. I hadn't told anyone that. But I figured I could trust him, after all I knew his secret too. He looked at me curiously.

"How did you get kicked out of school, permanently? What was so bad?"

"Well," This was the short version, "I was singing Burn by the human singer Ellie Goulding and some kids started laughing at me during the part where it goes "We can light it up up up so they can't put it out out out," and I sorta set flame to the entire gym and I couldn't stop singing, not that I really wanted to, it felt amazing to finally express myself, but I didn't want to hurt anybody so I tried to stop but found I couldn't and I finished the song. The flames were all around me, in fact I was burning but I wasn't affected in the least. My clothes weren't even singed and the smoke felt like normal air. They decided I was now TOO powerful to be allowed near others so I can't go back and more or less have no friends. Unless you count." Percy had managed to contain his laughter until the end and was now crying.

"That is AWESOME! I pulled something like that in second grade too! I didn't know how then, but it makes sense now, but I summoned an entire storm into my classroom when we were learning about the water cycle and how storm clouds formed. I was just imagining how it came together and then BAM! Storm clouds, rain, hail, snow sleet, thunder, lightning and all were in the classroom. No one could prove what happened but half the school had gotten destroyed from the clouds and lightning so Everyone had to go to new schools. It was crazy!" He thought for a moment, "And I do want to be your friend, Melody."

I started to smile but ended up yawning instead. Percy yawned too.

"Its about time we get to bed, I'll see you at breakfast." I said motioning to the door. He nodded and followed me out I stopped at my door which was a few down from the guest bedroom. "Night!" I called as he continued down the hall to his.

"Night!" He said back and disappeared into the room.

As I climbed into bed I realized that I had missed having someone to talk too. It felt good to have a friend.

I woke up and rubbed my eyes groggily. I turned over and looked at my alarm clock (not that I ever actually USE the alarm to get up in the mornings, just at night for me to practice singing without anyone noticing. Hmmm... I'm gonna half to change that maybe.) and it was 9:00. This was the first sign that something was wrong. Mom usually woke me up at 8 so that I could do 30 mins of teachings in the morning for homeschooling. After all that was my only option because well, the school thing. I went over to the next room to find the boys missing.

THAT was not unusual, they normally were up by 7 and got ready as quick as they could so they could get to school by the time I woke up, but then I heard a thump from upstairs and a yell that was clearly NOT a little girl scream from Ralen which meant that Esmond was up there too. Something was up. I then went and checked on Percy, I guess it was just my big sister instinct but I found he was still sound asleep in the bed. I don't blame him, we WERE up for about an hour or at least HE was. I had been up for another hour before him, but I was used to getting only 6 hours of sleep a night from singing. He had a rough night.

I'm gonna haft to tell him the WHOLE truth soon but last night got off topic and I wasn't about to spoil the mood with the other part of him being half god half dragon. I'll half to tell him soon though. Maybe a little after breakfast. I closed the door to his room and continued to the kitchen where I found Mom who looked like she had drunken too much coffee. "Mom? Is everything alright? Why are the boys home and I was allowed to sleep in? Is something wrong?" She jumped when I started speaking but smiled in a way that looked almost mischievous.

"Oh, nothings wrong dear. I'm glad your awake. Could you please fetch your brothers and bring them to my office? Thanks sweetie." She asked, ruffling my hair. I noticed the bags under her eyes and concluded she hadn't got much sleep. I eyed her suspiciously but did as she asked. Mom had an office because she worked at home as an author. She had already published two books. I got the boys who pestered me with questions I couldn't answer, so I just ignored them and eventually they shut up. We reached mom's office and she looked downright giddy and had some papers in her hands. "Ok Mom, I brought the boys. Whats up?" I asked curiously.

Mom smiled deviously and I got nervous.

"How would you guys like another sibling!?" She practically squealed.

"WHAT!" Ralen, Esmond and I exclaimed.

"What do you mean ANOTHER SIBLING! These two are pains enough! How could you Mom!" I said, only mostly joking. Esmond stuck his tongue out at me and Ralen hit me lightly. I elbowed him back.

"No no not like that, I mean adoption. He's about your age Melody, black hair and green eyes little taller than you too. I believe you've met." She smiled smugly. I was in disbelief.

"You mean PERCY?! I mean, not that I don't like him but we all just met literally yesterday. How do know for certain we want him here PERMANENTLY."

"Well, he seems very sweet and he doesn't have a home of his own so I have the papers all ready to go through, I only wanted to make sure you guys were ok with it. We don't have to if you guys don't want to." She said looking a little crestfallen.

"OF COURSE WE WANT A NEW BROTHER! MELODY'S NO FUN ANYMORE! YEEESSSSSS!" The boys exclaimed loudly. I elbowed them both before replying.

"Of course I won't turn Percy back out onto the streets. I was only looking out for my family Mom. I'd love for Percy to be a part of our family." I replied, MUCH more civilly than my brothers.

"Well then! All thats left is to ask Percy!"

"Ask me what?"

I whipped around to find Percy standing in the door way looking sheepish.

"I heard yelling and decided to come check it out. I didn't mean to intrude or eavesdrop." He said, "What did you want to ask me?"

"Well Percy," My Mom started, "we wanted to know if you would like to be a part of our family." She chirped happily. Percy looked stunned, then he teared up and hugged Mom, surprising her, "I would LOVE to have a family." He chocked out through tears of joy. I decided to welcome our new brother into the family with a group and and pulled my brothers into it as well.

"Welcome to the family bro." I told him.

Percy POV

I was shocked when Intonay asked me if I wanted to join their family. I didn't know what to say so I just hugged her until I could find words. It feels like it has been forever since I had a family. Then I felt Melody, Ralen, and Esmond turn it into a group hug and I felt so happy. Then I remembered that I should probably tell them about me being half god and I pulled out of the hug. "Before you guys actually do this um... I think there's something you should know about me." Melody looked at me with wide eyes, but I felt this was something they should know before they took me into their family but, I also didn't want to get Melody in trouble. "Last night, though a dream I found out who my parents were."

"Oh, no offense but if your parents are erm... absent why would that matter to us." Intonay inquired.

"Well, my mom's a wind dragon and my dad is..." Melody looked panicked as if she wanted to tell me something important, but I had to tell them, they deserved to know. "a god." I finished. Intonay, Ralen and Esmond looked shocked and Melody looked like she was about to explode.

"Percy," Intonay began slowly, "Do you know what being part god means in the dragon community?"

"No," I said, just as slowly. Intonay wet her lips, then answered.

"Being associated with gods is a penalty punishable by death because of what Zeus did. If anyone ever even suspected you were part god then you would most likely be killed on the spot without so much as being asked if it were true," She finished sadly.

All the joy I had been feeling only moments ago vanished. I was certain they wouldn't want to adopt me now, so I turned to leave, "but I believe that you are a good person and would never intentionally bring harm to our family. Admitting that just proves it." Then she embraced me in another hug and I was so shocked and surprised that I didn't do anything for a few seconds. She didn't care and went on. "All we need to do is turn in the mortal paperwork and then take you to the dragon court to get you fully entered into our family, on ONE condition." 'Anything' I thought "You have to promise on your dragon spark that you will never tell another dragon except us and my husband when he gets back. OK?"

"Yes, anything." I said. "Whats a dragon spark?"

Surprisingly it was little 4 year old Esmond who answered right away, "Its the light inside your heart that makes you special and gives you your powers. I learned that in school yesterday."

Intonay smiled down at him before answering "Esmond's right and if you ever break a promise on your dragon spark then you will lose all things that make you a dragon." I decided that I should take at least one precaution with this oath.

"I swear on my dragon spark that I will never tell another dragon outside of this family that I am half god unless under the most dire of circumstances." Better safe than sorry. Intonay looked satisfied with my oath so I felt I did well. "Now I want the rest of you to swear the same oath. So Melody, Ralen Intonay and Esmond swore on their dragon sparks the same oath I did more or less although Esmond needed a little help.

"Now we just go turn this paper work into the humans and then we go to the dragon court." Intonay said and she left the office leaving the rest of us to scurry after her. She brought us to a 2 car garage and we got into a van although I had to be informed on the use of seat-belts and we made a 10 min stop at the human adoption center where Intonay just turned in some papers and answered a few questions. Then we were off to the dragon court, whatever that was.

It took FOREVER to get to the dragon court. Intonay had already called in advance while on the ride there so apparently every thing was already set up for my "initiation" into their family. I was also going to meet Melody's dad. We went through a TON of security and I still couldn't see the freaking building this dragon court was supposed to be in. Then we pulled into a parking lot with no building. What?! Wait, this is the magical house of dragons, of course they wouldn't just put their headquarters in plain sight. "Melody, where IS the dragon court if its not here?"

"It is here, you just have to look harder." She replied. I got it though. It WAS here, it was just hidden by the Mist. So tried to imagine clouds of Mist parting to reveal... something, I imagined it as a typical business tower thing in my imagination but when I opened my I was met by the most grand building I had ever seen. It had multiple tiers and towers and looked to be a good couple of acres large in both length, and width. It had so many windows I couldn't count them even if I tried and right in front was a MASSIVE fountain/pool. We walked up the stairs on either side of the pool/fountain and then up the next staircase to the front of the building which glowed like the front of a casino at night, even though it was high noon. Must be magic. That is now my new explanation for everything: Magic *with jazz hands*

Anyways, we walked through the threshold and into the lobby. It looked exactly as it sounds, a lobby except with the decor from outside. Gilded in gold and silver with everything varying shades of white, gray, and all the colors of the rainbow without looking childish.

Melody had to grab me on the arm to keep me from getting separated from the rest in the crowd. We walked up to a long desk and Intonay talked to what looked like a receptionist. I couldn't hear what they said though over the noise of everyone else in the building. Intonay then gestured for us to follow her and the receptionist who's ID card on her chest said her name was Molly. We followed her through a long confusing amount of halls and rooms, all brimming with people.

Finally we started to go into a part of the building that looked older and less flash than the rest of it. There we met a bunch of security guys who checked some schedules or something on some clip boards and then Molly's ID and some papers Intonay handed them. I guess we were ok because they opened up the heavy, ornate dark oak doors behind them that they were guarding. They opened up into a vast chamber with what looked like a bird bath in the middle. Except that the bird bath was radiating energy and the very room seemed sacred and magical. We were then approached by a man in a red suit and escorted to the center of the room.

"Ok guys, we are going to officially adopt Percy into our family as a dragon. Now, I will hand over the procedure to Mr. Selest, the Alpha of the Light colony and head of this organization, so be polite children," Intonay told us. Mr. Selest turned to me and pulled out a knife. "I'm going to need some of your blood."

AN: Thats it for this chapter! Thank you for your support on chapter three and I hope that this one is up to par. Have a nice day and don't forget to do your homework (as lame as it is, it is still a grade). Bye! ~ FictionGirl11