Chapter 6
I DO NOT own anything from the Percy Jackson series, only my own original characters, Pelagia Taylor, and Steve Gufford.
Here's chapter 6! IT IS RATED M. it's my longest chapter yet! Over 3,000 words! enjoy!
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Driving past Palm Beach high, Pelagia couldn't help but notice how the school loomed over her, assuring her a day's worth of miseries and boredom. Reminiscing back to the smashed up pink bug, she cringed as she thought about getting jumped by Sara and Aleesha for what she did.
"Well, those skanky bitches did get what they had coming to them…" she muttered to herself, smirking as she imagined their reaction to their precious car, screeching and raving to their boyfriends over the injustice of the world. Soon arriving to the drive of the school, an idea popped in Pelagia's head.
"To hell with this, I'm going to the mall! I deserve a day off! I'm already super late for school anyways, so why not!" Pelagia smiled to herself as she passed the entrance to the school and instead turned left onto Stingray avenue. Finally, she made a right on South Rosemary Avenue. Driving down the one way street, Pelagia marveled at all the wonderful shops of the mall named City Place, and pulled into a parking structure.
Feeling a giddiness come over her, she had to suppress the urge to skip down to the walkway of the outdoor mall lest she stick out like a sore thumb among the rich snobs who normally shopped there.
"Stay cool Pelagia, don't need any extra attention today, especially since you're supposed to be in school right now…" she whispered to herself. Turning the corner, she found her familiar stores lined up together on either side of the walkway. Immediately, her jade eyes cued in on Banana Republic, and she made a B-line for the store. Approaching the doors just as they were being unlocked for the day, a woman in her 20s blocked Pelagia's path with a smile that was so perfect that Pelagia was sure her teeth were capped.
"Hello my dear, how are you today?" the woman gushed. Pelagia nodded in affirmation of her good mood, producing a tight lipped smile.
"Can I help you find something today? Oh you must see our new fall line! We just stocked up our shelves this morning. We have a pair of vintage looking jeans and a chemise that would look absolutely DARLING on you!" the woman wrapped her long fingers around Pelagia's wrists, tugging her towards the outfits. Pelagia grimaced at the woman's bold move, and stepped back, trying to pull her arms away from the irritating lady.
"Please! Come with me!" the woman smiled again. Suddenly, between her perfect incisors, Pelagia noticed a forked tongue peek out. Then as quickly as it appeared, it was gone. Peering in slightly closer in confusion, Pelagia noticed that the woman's baby blue eyes had darkened into a pumpkin orange, and the pupil had thinned out into an elongated shape, similar to a serpant's eye. Pelagia's eyes widened in horror at what she witnessed.
Run away, Pelagia. Get out of there! Pelagia heard a male voice whisper frantically to her in her brain.
Screeching at the changes in the woman, Pelagia immediately ripped her arms out of the woman's clawed grasp, then turned tail and ran as fast as her legs could carry her .
"Wait! Child of the sea! Wait! Come with me!" the snarled gasp came from behind her as Pelagia sprinted away. Running behind a wall of the parking structure, Pelagia pressed her back up against its cement side, panting and straining to catch her breath. Her eyes darting around her, she struggled to make sense of what was happening to her.
"I must be going crazy….something's wrong with me…Oh my God what if I'm becoming schizo or something? O.K just breath. Breath and stay calm. You came here to shop, dammit and that's what you're going to do. You're not going to let the stress of living with Steve make you hallucinate anymore. You're going to enjoy yourself today, since you'll probably pay for skipping school later on." Looking more determined than she felt, Pelagia peeked around the corner of the wall, and saw no mutant, giant lizards like she was expecting. Forcing her legs to start walking, she made sure to avoid Banana Republic at all costs and head on to The Gap instead.
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Later that day as the sun was setting, Pelagia walked back to Betsy with several bags in each hand and a grin on her face, the day's earlier horrors completely forgotten.
"SO glad I took the day off today! Now I have some new clothes to wear, most of my old ones don't fit anymore or have so many holes in them that the school would send me home for wearing "inappropriate attire" as they like to call it. Ppfft, they should send home Aleesha and Sara. Most of the things they wear always flashes parts of their bodies that makes me want to puke."
Stuffing the bags into Betsy's back seat, Pelagia was careful not to crush or wrinkle her new clothes. Getting into the driver's seat, Pelagia pulled out of the parking structure and headed to the only place that could make the day perfect, the place that had always tugged at her heart when she had been away for too long; the ocean.
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Pulling up to the beach with Betsy, Pelagia got out of the car and bounded down to the beach, running into the ocean. Oddly enough, It was like the ocean welcomed her back as it lapped at her ankles and tickled her toes. She giggled at the ocean's greeting, feeling like she had some kind of connection with it, as she always had for as long as she could remember. Falling on her back in the sand, she looked up at the stars that were just now starting to appear in the sky, identifying the star constellations that her mother had taught her.
"There's the big dipper, and Orion's belt. Now where is Polaris?" she felt her eyes begin to droop from fatigue while she continued to search for Polaris.
"Ah there it is…" she softly murmured to herself as her eyes recognized the star's bright light. Feeling her eyes close, she swore that she heard a strange melody on the breeze that now blew through her hair. Then all fell into darkness as she gave into the comfort of sleep.
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Her eyes fluttering open, Pelagia's vision began to clear up when she heard a shout from across the beach
"You!" Pelagia looked in the direction of where the accusing voice came from, and saw to her worse nightmare Steve waddling down the beach towards her. Pelagia's eyes widened with fear.
How…How could he be here? How did he know that I would be here? GOD I was so stupid to fall asleep! Hot, searing panic began to grip her heart as she stumbled to her feet. She tried to make her body work to her advantage by sprinting away from the angry hippo-like male that was stomping her way, but Pelagia found her slender legs stricken with rigor mortis. Shame became another emotion that filled her as she knew that her body had betrayed her, and had given into the fear that she so deeply felt at that moment. Steve closed in on Pelagia, viciously grabbing her upper arm and whipping her closer to him. He leaned in and breathed in her perfume; Pelagia shuddered in disgust and tried to pull away, but Steve painfully tightened his grip on her.
"I knew I'd find you here when you didn't show up at the house to make me dinner! You're always at this fucking beach, staring out at that water! Well now you ain't goin' anywhere, little girl…yer mine…" Steve slurred with a glazed and hungry look in his eyes. Pelagia felt her anger boil over at this statement, causing her to spit in Steve's face, bearing her teeth at him.
"I'll never be yours you fat son of a bitch!" she screamed in his face, feeling her molten anger spill out from within. Wiping the saliva away from between his eyes, Steve tightened his grip on her arm once more and flung her roughly down into the sand. Falling on top of her, Pelagia screamed out as the full force of his weight crushed her small frame.
Steve sneered down at the girl. "I'm gonna show you just how you're mine, and will ALWAYS be mine."
And with those last words, Steve forced his dry, cracked lips onto Pelagia's mouth in the form of a nauseating kiss. Pelagia bit down as hard as she could onto his bottom lip, desperate to escape. Steve pulled away immediately, screaming in pain as blood gushed from his lower lip. Pelagia then swung the heel of her hand into Steve's nose as hard as she could, crushing one side of his pig like snout. Instantly, Steve squealed at the explosion of pain, pushing away from Pelagia while he cradled his face in his hands as more blood spewed from what seemed to be every orifice on his face. Gazing down at her hand in confusion as to how she had exhibited so much power in that one blow, Pelagia snapped back to reality, and took her chance to escape. Crawling away, she didn't get far until Steve had tackled her once more, and had her pinned in the sand. Pelagia shrieked in frustration at his attack and tried to aim a quick kick to his groin, but found that she could not raise her leg to deliver the blow when he was directly on top of her.
"I love lil' 'ellcats like you…." Steve muttered nasally into her neck as she tried to fight him off once more, smearing the blood coming from his nose all over her porcelain skin. Pelagia grimaced in disgust at Steve's now severely injured face and the feeling of warm blood sliding down her neck and chest.
"It makes the prize in the end much more worthwhile." Pelagia then felt something hot and hard poking her thigh through Steve's pant leg. Her eyes widened with fear as she knew exactly what his intention was, and knew that if she didn't fight back with everything she had, that something horrible would happen. Screaming with rage, she struggled to attack back. But the pain from her clawing and biting didn't seem to impact Steve in the least. In the midst of fighting, Steve had gotten a firm hold on her shirt, and at the right moment when Pelagia struggled to catch her breath, ripped the tanktop cleanly from her body. Screeching at how exposed she was, Pelagia desperately tried to cover herself with her arms. Steve moved in closer with a grin on his face, knowing that he had won. However, Pelagia noticed that at that precise moment, a large hand appeared on Steve's shoulder. Steve frowned, and as he peered over his shoulder, he found himself being effortlessly flung about 15 feet across the powder sugar like sand. Gaping, Pelagia looked up as she continued to cover herself, trying to get a better view of her rescuer. When he turned back to her, the moon light finally caught his features. Gasping in shock, she saw it was the man that had met her the night before.
"P-Poseidon?" She squeaked. Poseidon turned around, smiling sadly down at the girl until he heard an enraged shout come from across the beach. Turning back, he saw the pitiful mortal snorting and coughing up sand while struggling to get back up, looking very much like a turtle stuck on its back.
" 'ey you sonavabitch! Come over 'ere and fight me like a man!" Steve shrieked oddly, his nose making him sound like he had the world's worst case of the flu. Poseidon's face took on a frighteningly angry look as he produced a weapon of some kind, but Pelagia couldn't put her finger on what it was.
Whatever it is, it looks completely ancient she thought.
Raising up the weapon to the sky, it began to take on a dangerous sea green glow, as well as the seas grew stormy and dark. The glow then traveled down to Poseidon himself, and Poseidon began to talk in a dangerously low voice that seemed to boom across the beach for miles to come.
"How dare you attack her, you disgusting little insect! Do you know what you could have done!" For the first time that night, Steve's eyes widened in fear at the glowing phenomenon he was witnessing.
"As sufficient punishment, I'm going to give you a personal lesson in what happens when you piss off a God. Most receive a warning, however, I think death will be more appropriate for you." Poseidon's eyes glowed a fatal green as he stared down his enemy. Steve looked horrified.
"You can't kill me! You ain't the law around here!" Poseidon leaned his head back and laughed what must have been the creepiest laugh Pelagia had ever heard at Steve's retort.
"You obviously haven't studied Greek mythology, have you? Enjoy eternity in Tartarus. Say hello to my father for me." and with those ending words, a large blast of green light shot out from Poseidon's weapon and into Steve. Steve burst into ash, which blew almost immediately into the wind. Steve Gufford's mortal remains were no more, and Pelagia wasn't ashamed to admit that she was relieved. Lowering his pitch fork like weapon to the ground, the seas and sky instantly calmed, and Poseidon turned once more to look at his daughter. Taking in his daughter's state of dress and terrified form, he began to unbutton his Hawaiian shirt.
At least then she won't feel so exposed, Poseidon thought as his fingers popped each button out from their holes.
With tears streaming down her face at the thought of what this being was going to do to her if he could blow someone away into ash, Pelagia felt herself begin to hyperventilate, and to her dismay, she felt her resolve crumble.
"Please! Don't! Please don't! No!" she gasped out multiple times, in between the hysterical torrents of tears falling down her face and loud sobs erupting from her chest. Poseidon stopped unbuttoning his parakeet and pineapple embroidered Hawaiian shirt, looking up at her with confusion in his eyes. However, his confusion faded as understanding dawned upon him as to what Pelagia thought he was going to do. A pained look crossed his features, but Pelagia couldn't understand why.
Why would a rapist feel regret for what he is about to do? Her coherent judgment muttered to her, somewhere beneath the panicked, primal shrieks of terror that rattled around in her incoherent thoughts. Poseidon's hands dropped to his sides, and he started slowly walking towards her.
NO,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,please,no,no,no,please! Pelagia felt her panicky thoughts chant in her head once more. Poseidon halted his strides once he was in arms length of her. He opened his mouth to say something, but immediately closed it as he obtained a better look at her torso. Pelagia felt her breathing rate increase once again as she felt Poseidon's gaze rake across her body. She tried to silently talk herself down.
What is he looking at? What is he going to do to me!
Poseidon cringed as he took notice of Pelagia's wounds. Some had faded into a bluish green color, while others were fresh, and looked black and swollen. Poseidon felt his anger begin to manifest as he realized that his child had suffered a near life time of abuse and cruelty.
There are also several bite marks on her neck from where the disgusting mortal had gotten carried away in his attempt to rut with my daughter like some wild animal. And now…she thought that I would actually take advantage of her. The sea king shuddered at the thought.
She does not know who you are; that you are her sire. He reminded himself. He slowly knelt down in front of Pelagia so as to not look so intimidating, and he saw her muscles (or what little muscle she had) tense up; ready to give her what little strength she had left to flee if necessary. Closer now, he noticed how her rib cage painfully stuck out, and silently mourned to himself that he could not get to her sooner, that he did not save her from her fate before things had become so bad.
When was the last time she had a decent meal? Or did that fat slob take her share of food as well? He slowly raised his hand up to her face and laid it on her jaw line; his thumb caressing the soft skin in a reassuring manner. He could feel her pulse racing beneath his hand, and he frowned when she squinted her eyes closed as she seemed to be waiting for her fate to befall her.
"Never fear me, my dear…" Poseidon softly said in a low voice.
"I may be a God, but I would never hurt a hair on the top of your head" Pelagia's eyes opened, revealing red rimmed, cautious orbs of green. Poseidon's sprits lifted ever so slightly as he saw the girl begin to relax.
"I was only unbuttoning my shirt so you could use it to cover yourself. I never had any intentions of…."Poseidon trailed off, as he couldn't even bring himself to say the word. Pelagia's tears started to dry up as her initial panic faded. Poseidon than proceeded to unbutton his shirt again. Slipping it off of his shoulders, he laid it across her chest which was still covered by her arms, then turned away respectfully to let her dress. After a few minutes he heard her clear her throat. Turning back, he couldn't help but smile at how the shirt dwarfed his daughter's 5'6" frame, and yet at the same time seemed to fit her perfectly.
Perhaps it is because she is a part of me, and thus has inherited my love affair for Hawaiian shirts. Poseidon pondered to himself.
Kneeling down once more, he gently took Pelagia into his arms, desperate to connect with her enough in order to explain to her what she is, and how things really were. Feeling the girl stiffen in his arms, he shushed her and gently rocked her, murmuring comforting words to her in Greek. Whether she understood what he said or not, he knew that the meaning behind the words had at least gotten through to her, since she immediately relaxed into his arms, resting her head on his bare shoulder, and only quietly crying at the events that had taken place.
And whatever other horrors that could have happened to my child…Poseidon thought to himself. Then like a gentle breeze, Poseidon thought he heard his little girl whisper something to him. Pulling back ever so slightly in order to look her in the eyes, he asked for an affirmation.
"Did you say something, my dear?" Pelagia gazed back up at Poseidon cautiously, almost afraid to ask her question. Poseidon nudged her encouragingly while tightening his grip on his daughter in a reassuring manner.
"Go ahead, what did you want to ask me now?" he smiled gently. Pelagia opened her mouth to speak again, and Poseidon had to hold his breath in order to hear her correctly.
"Wait, did you say, you're a…God?" Pelagia sighed questioningly, and tilted her head in confusion, waiting for an answer.
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Hey guys! So I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I had to make the rating M because of the rape attempt and slight gore, but Poseidon came to the rescue, and now in the next chapter Poseidon will take Pelagia away from FL and to camp Half-Blood :D! and yayyy Steve's gone! (or is he? Bum bum BUMMMM!) Let me know what you all think!
