Out with the truth…
Percy's Pov
I don't know why but this place seems to hold hidden power. Greenbrier, the name sends chills down my back. It's as if this place holds the answers to the void within me. I'm drawn to this place, the power imbedded within the soil, the air; the night itself seems to be infused with this power. This place holds its secrets closely, but the night remembers everything.
"Hello." The spirit that seems to be bound to this place, or somewhere nearby. I can hear the Darkness trying to get my attention, to tell me what it knows.
"Hi, miss…"
"Geneanve Duchannues. You're a Reader, are you not?" She asked.
"Define to me what kind of Reader you think I am?"
"A Reader of the night, you seem to have a very strong bond with it."
"Then you are correct, Miss. Duchannues."
"A friend asked me to tell you that a lot of your question can be answered by reading the night."
"That you for your and your friends help."
"How far back can you go Reader?" As far back as the night remembers, but I can't tell her that.
"As far back as the night will let me see."
"Good luck Reader." The spirit replied be vanishing from sight.
"Night, pull back the pages of time, open my eyes, and let me see what you've seen." I requested as I pulled back layers of the night. "Turn the pages of time back, show me what you've see, show me the secrets of this place, Show me what has been long hidden to the living, Show me the secrets of the dead."
Images started to flash before my eyes as the time began to turn back.
A girl laying down, snuggling with a boy.
The same girl crying into the boys shoulders.
The girl sobbing over a still man.
The girl fumbling with a book alongside a woman, next to a boy.
The girl staring at the boy.
Two women fumbling a book, trying to save a man.
The scenes finally stop on a beautiful clear day, no clouds in the sky, a beautiful plantation house.
"Hello Percy." A male voice called out from behind me.
"Who are you? How can you see me?" I asked, startled. No one should be able to see me.
"I am Josph Jackson, but you know me as Josph West."
"Josph, how…how can you be here, this is like over a haruand years ago?"
"How can the Greek gods still be around? It's because of a curse, a curse that has been placed upon this family. It's called the curse of Darkness. It prolongs the life of the bearer for an unknown amount of time. It also causes use to become a Dark Caster or Catalyst by our eighteenth moon or our eighteenth birthday. You must be careful; the rest of our family has lost sight of the reason why this family bears this curse.
"We bear this curse to keep the balance of power; we do not stick to one side. If the battle needs light to come out on top, then we fight for the light. If the Dark needs to win the fight, then we fight for the Dark. But at the end of the day, we are nether Light or Dark. We our both, yet we our nether at the same time."
"So, how has our family lost sight?"
"They want the Dark to rule, to overpower the light. Your friends are close, keep them close to you. I'll be there soon but you'll need to stall the others. Oh, and tell you friends about you heritage, they'll need to know if they are to survive and encounter with the others."
"How do I know you'll tell me the truth?"
"You don't."
With that being said, I was sucked back out of the vision and into the present.
"Percy, it's about time you opened your eyes." Lena's voice called out.
"Sorry, I was reading the past." I replied.
"You were doing what." Ethan asked.
"I'll explain that later, but for now it's time to tell you about my past. I am a Tri-god."
"What's a Tri-god?" Lena asked, I could hear the disbelief in her voice.
"You don't believe me, but that's what I expiated. Now as I was saying, I'm a Tri-god, meaning I'm Three quarters god one quarters mortal or human."
"Umm… Do you feel well Percy?" Ethan asked, thinking that I was insane.
"You tell me." I replied, I vanished into the shadows, scaring the carp out of Ethan and Lena. I started to laugh as I appeared next to them. "You guys should see your face."
"Jezz Percy, what was that?" Ethan asked as he tried to calm down.
"That was Shadow traveling. Very useful if you need to get out of somewhere quickly."
"How did you do that?" Lena asked.
"I really don't know, it just comes naturally to me."
"So…Who's you godly parent?" Ethan was the one who asked that question.
"Parents." I corrected. "My birth was very unusual. I am a child of three people, Sally Jackson, she was a human, she's the reason I'm not a god or immortal. Then there's Nyx, she the Primordial of the Night and the Stars, and Erebus, he's the Primordial of Darkness and the Mist.
"The Mist is a veil that keeps the mortals from seeing our world, the mortals see what they what to see, not what's truly there. There are a few mortals who are clear sighted, meaning they can see though the Mist. Now, there are others, more children of the gods, some never know of their true heritage, others, they die before they can get the training they need to survive in the real world.
"Then there are the ones who get the training they need, most of those go to one of two camps, camp half-blood or camp Jupiter. Camp half-blood is a camp for the Greek aspect of the Greek gods while camp Jupiter is a camp for the Roman aspect of the Greek gods.
"The Romans are harsher than their fellow Greeks, you must be strong and show no weakness or you will die. The Greeks on the other hand, we train all Demigods that cross our borders and we go looking for them and try to bring them back safely as possible."
"What Powers do you have?" Ethan asked.
"Well, I can increase or decrease the light given off by and star in the sky. I can control the Shadows and can listen to them give away whatever secrets they have. I can use the night to look into the past, I have greater control over the Mist, and I have prefect vision at night, other than that I'm not to sure."
"Sweet! That is so co-"
"Shhhh." I hissed as I focused on the darkness that had been trying to get me to listen for the past 13 minutes.
"What's wrong?" Lena asked but I wasn't listening to them anymore, instead I was listening to the shadows.
'People are coming.'
'A lot of people are coming.'
'Your friends have some secrets.'
'Yes, they have secrets.'
'Master, two people are coming from the left tree line while five are coming from the right.'
"We have company." I stated as I 180ed to the right tree line. At the same time I used the shadows to summon my armor and weapons. I smiled as the weight of kite shield appeared on my back; I flicked my hood over my head, hiding my face from view.
"That's so cool." Ethan whispered from behind me.
"Just stay behind me." I called over my shoulder.
"Percy! Percy! Oh, where are you?" A female voice called out.
"Hey Linda, there's a lot of energy coming from over there." Male replied to the female. I let my power fail; making the stars a bit brighter and the night a bit darker.
"Dear me, that a lot of dark energy, I think he's this way." The female called out, as there broke the tree line.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"My name's Linda Night, this is man is my husband Ben Jackson and our son Tero Jackson. The beautiful young lady's here are Elizabeth and Sophia Jackson. We are here to help you both get to know you knew powers and help you during the turning." The woman or now known as Linda answered.
"He's nearly a spitting image of his mother, right down to the nose." The male, or Ben, stated. My eyes flashed.
"Leave the boy alone Linda, he doesn't need to help him. You'll just trick him into help you cause." Josph stated as he walked out of the tree line from the left of me.
"No! You may have saved and kept his mother away from us, but we will have the boy!" Linda yelled as she grabbed me. My battle instincts took over, I twisted myself, forcing her to let go of me, before I flipped her over my shoulder. Before she hit the ground I had done a 180 and slammed my palm into her chest, sending her into the ground faster and harder than it would have before.
Before I could realize what was happening I had already had Riptide and Avenger out and running at the others. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the boy that had accompanied Josph running at the rest of the Jackson. He Had a badass Scythe in his hands. The boy, I think his name was Tero, had two swords out, both look to be made up of fire.
'Clang' Tero's swords meet mine; I could feel the heat coming off the swords. It had me sweating like the first time I stepped into the forge at camp half-blood. Within a few moments I couldn't take the heat anymore, so I pushed my swords forward as hard as I could. The sunenden change of weight though him off balance, I let go of my swords and took a step back. I bought up my leg and Spartan kicked him in the chest.
"Tero, Ben, let's get out of here." Linda yelled as she ran off in to the woods. Tero and Ben soon followed, leaving Elizabeth and Sophia behind.
The boy that came with Josph had a gun pointed at each of their heads. "Move an inch and I'll blow your head off." The boy threated.
"Jonathan, stand down." Josph ordered. "Good job Elizabeth, Sophia; you've made this old man proud."
"Josph? What are you doing?" The boy, who I assume is Jonathan hissed.
"These are the young women who have been telling us what the others have been doing. Ahh, Alex, now that you're here we can began to inform Percy about everything that just went down tonight. But first we need to get inside, the suns coming up." Josph replied.
"Too late, the sun's up now." The new comer replied.
"I think I can be of some kind of help." I replied before I pushed the night back, trying to conquer the day. "I'd hurry up with whatever you need to do because I can't hold the day off for much longer."
"Alright, Jonathan, Alex, Elizabeth, Sophia, and Lena, you guys go to Ravenwood manor, we'll catch up later." Josph ordered. "You can stop now Percy, their back at Ravenwood."
"Thank the gods." I muttered before I moved my hand down, only to notice the blood swirling around it. "Gah!" I cried out in shock, the blood fell to the ground. "What in Zeus's underpants just happened?"
"You're a Blood Catalyst Percy; I guess I need to explain the Casters way of life to you. Well to start off, a Caster…"
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Linda's Pov
"Anna, how come you didn't tell me your grandson is a Blood Catalyst!" I yelled at Anna Jackson.
"Because I didn't know he would be, plus Blood Catalyst are supposed to be a myth. But I did know he would be a Catalyst."
"I hope you know what you're doing Anna, because this may cost you your life." Tero said as he walked towards us.
"Is that a threat Tero?" Anna asked.
"I don't make threats, I make primrose." Tero replied before turning on his heel and started to walk away. "Just make this quick okay, I really don't want to summon the Light Nexus." Tero called over his shoulder.
"I really don't like your son."
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Ethan's Pov
The boy, I think his name is Jonathan, is starting to creep me out. I mean, the vibe he's giving of is starting making me sick. I just hope Jonathan is friendly.
AN: So we get to meet the some of the Jackson family, Josph Jackson, and Jonathan Sonnier. Next chapter: …and into to the past, part 1 (Jonathan). Here's a sneak peak of the next chapter. Enjoy.
Jonathan's Pov
"So I'm a monster now and a freak among the monsters at that?" I ask Josph.
"If you want to think of it like that, than yes you are." Josph replied. "Or you could think of you you're self as the next gen."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well you're a male but you're also a Succubus, the female counter part of the Incubus. You are an Alpha Succubus, a Male Incubus who has been bitten by more than one Succubus during the translation. You were bitten by three, correct?"
"Yeah I was, why?"
"That's means your three times stronger than a normal Succubus, what you could be able to do is still unknown. You have a very important role if the wheel of fate gave you this power and I can teach you all you'll need to know about you knew stats if you can do me a favor in the future."
"What's the favor?"
"I need you to protect Percy Jackson."