Did Someone Leave A Piper Statue Here?

I froze. My whole body went numb. My sword dropped to the ground, clanging on the new marble floor. Annabeth was crying in the background and I heard Percy comforting her. Suddenly, there was an evil cackle and I barely registered Medusa running past me. She flew away, like the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz.

A teenager with sun kissed hair and the young boy with dark black hair and pale skin stood over me. I looked up at the two and stood up.

"What happened?" the blonde kid said, his words harsh and judgemental.

I stood up and faced them. I towered over both of them, with my godzilla like stature. My hair fell in front of my eye, but I didn't push it away. Percy walked over, leaving Annabeth alone by Piper.

"I choked," I said, my word choice sounding weak to even me.

The pale kid said nothing but, his black eyes narrowed. The shadows around him seemed to move angrily.

I started to walk towards Piper, but Percy stood in my way.

"Really what happened?" he said. His voice was softer than the others, and I felt comforted.

"Medusa," I started slowly, choosing my words carefully. "Medusa is my mother. And the story about her and Athena is wrong."

"How so?" Annabeth walk over joining the conversation. "I heard Medusa say, 'born too soon.' What did she mean?"
"Ummm..." I thought quickly, doing the math in my head. "I was born a couple milleniums ago?"

Annabeth's mouth dropped slightly, but she collected herself quickly. The boys seemed to relax a little too. A little.

I continued to walk towards Piper and no one stood in my way. Instinct took over and I touched her ivory arm with a butterfly kiss. The memories weren't mine, but they fluttered across my eyelids. I saw her on the roof with the blonde kid, Jason. I saw her stab a giantess and fight alongside her mom, Aphrodite. I saw her father and her surfing happily. I saw happiness in her, and I felt that same happiness spread to me. My vision cleared and Piper fell onto the ground and the marble on the ground melted away into a puddle of flowers and tall grass.

Jason ran towards her and picked her up, cradling her with love. Annabeth rushed over too, followed by Percy soon after. They started walking towards the infirmary, but I turned the other way. The dark haired kid followed me.

"Hi," he said, trying to make small talk.

I kept walking. I didn't know where I was going, but I would find somewhere. We walked in silence until I arrived at the beach. The smell of the salt water and the soothing sound of the waves crashing on the shore was enough to make me sit down and just think. I thought I had lost the kid somewhere along the way, but sure enough, he sat down next to me.

We sat in silence, listening to the lapping sound of the water and feeling the breeze on our skin.

Finally, he broke the silence.

"I was born in the 1950's," he said in his dark and deep voice. "My father, Hades, had me put in this Hotel, where it feels like time never passes. I stayed there with my sister for a very long time."

I said nothing, just absorbing the noises and beauty around me. The cool sand was sinking beneath my hands but I didn't move them.

"I have always wanted to fly," I said. "I know Annabeth said for children of Poseidon and Hades they," I stopped. "WE can't, but I've always wanted too. I wanted to sprout wings and fly away. From my fears and problems and bullies. And I want to fly away now, I want to leave this awful place, and I want to leave everything behind."

Nico sat quietly next to me and I sat and watched the sunset. The only sounds were his breathing and the gentle sound of the waves, like a lullabye.

I heard a rustle in the trees and bushes around us and Percy walked out. His eyes caught in the setting sun and his round face looked angelic. For the first time, I took a close look at his features and compared them to mine. His dark brown hair was nearly black and looked unkempt and messy. My hair was only black because of the cheap dye I bought at the drugstore. He had beautiful green eyes, the color of the ocean in a tropical country, shining green, but blue peeking out from underneath. My eyes were green, but more like emeralds than the ocean. While Percy's skin was more Mediterranean and smooth, mine was pale like marble.

"We have to go back now," Percy said, batting a bush away from his face. "The harpies come out at night, and um, you don't want to be here when they are angry."

"Ok," I said. I stood up and felt a rush of blood run to my head. I then proceeded to fall onto Nico, who clearly didn't know how to react, so just pushed me off of him.

Percy stood over me and offered his hand. I took it graciously and he smiled. Nico stood up, following us shortly behind. We walked back to the cabins together, not as vague acquaintances, but as more than that. As friends. As companions.

We made it back to the cabin and Nico waved goodbye as he walked into a cabin, made for vampire. Percy and I walked into Poseidon's cabin.

"Listen," Percy said, breaking the comfortable silence. We were lying in the bunkbeds across from each other.

"I'm glad to have a sister, no matter who your mom is. We all have parts of our family we wish we didn't. But it's all about picking and choosing. Balance."

"You, sir," I said, my body drifting off to sleep. "Are smarter than you seem."

He laughed heartily, a full heavy sound. "Goodnight Alex."

"Goodnight Percy."

A/N~ Hey guys!

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DO NOT WORRY! Nico and Alex are not going to start dating. Just a friendship.

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~the11thdoctorandhistardis