To All my readers, I am so sorry about how long it has been since I last updated but schools finished now, so I have the time to write. And I received A suggestion from Changing names to continue the persons POV afterworlds so they can see more of how they are feeling, So I'm changing it a little and going with her idea.
Sorry for any Typos or errors
7 - Reyna
Reyna tumbled down into the darkness of the Labyrinth, while her whole entire body screamed in sheer agony from being thrown against the rocky ledges as if she were a rag doll. This cycle continued over and over again until Reyna had forgotten how long she had been falling for or how many times she had slammed into the jagged stone edges that made up the Labyrinth. Just as her body had gone numb from all the knocks to her body she hit hard, solid ground. It hurt like Tartarus. Her Lungs were on fire, her internal organs felt like they had been crushed in a vice and worst of all Reyna was having uncontrollable coughing fits that resulted in the instant coughing up of blood.
Reyna reached up and grabbed the angel wing hair clip out of her hair and instantly it returned to its full size. Before Reyna could use it, Nike's warning echoed through her mind "this is a gift to you. Only use it when you have no other options left as it can only be used once and once only, understood?". Reyna willed for the scepter to turn back into the hairclip she was wearing and she put it back in her hair and tried to look at her surroundings. Everything around her glowed awfully red, the air was toxically sulpherous and the ground was sharp - no, not sharp but GLASS. To be more precise it was little shards of glass that serrated Reyna's skin at every angle possible.
Reyna scuffled around as soon as she realized she was sitting on a sea full of broken glass and wailed in pain as the glass made contact with her delicate skin. Reyna had to get out of the strange place, as it obviously wasn't made for demi-gods. Reyna scanned the area and nearly did a dance when she saw she was sitting on the bank of a river. Reyna's throat was dryer than the Sahara Desert and she was in desperate need of water so she cupped her hands and made the mistake plunging them into the water. The second her hands made contact with the water, Reyna wanted to just sink into the river and just let herself drown, let the river carry away her body. Who would miss her anyway? Reyna thought before jumping into the river. Reyna was struggling, she was drowning but that was what she wanted right? To drown in her own misery, that was it wasn't it?
What they say about seeing a white light before you die is true, because Reyna saw one as her life flashed before her eyes. Reyna was only eight when her father had died at sea. Bellona, of course had never been there for her, so Hylla had to raise her. They had struggled most of their life and had almost become homeless more than once while moving around from foster home to foster home because no one wanted them simply because bad things always seemed to happen around them. Then it came a time where no one wanted them and social services decided to put them out on the streets. That's when the real problems began happening. In the world of demi-gods it's either fight or die, so They learned to fight. Obviously they had an edge being the daughters of Bellona, the roman war goddess.
The next scene Reyna saw was when they were working for the sorceress Cerce. Reyna had only been a hand maiden that waited on all of Cerce's clients. That was still better than living on the streets of London during the cold winter. They had a home and that was all that mattered to Reyna and Hylla. Cerce had treated them as if they were her own daughters and was the only motherly figure that Reyna had ever known. It was all good until Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase had arrived.
Annabeth had been given a chance to live on the island and Cerce had offered to teach her the art of magic, which she bluntly turned down. That offended Reyna big time. All Cerce had done was offer Annabeth her warm hospitality which she coldly turned down (which no one had ever done before) and released possibly the world's worst Pirates who destroyed there home and held Reyna and Hylla captive for another few years of their miserable lives.
Reyna and Hylla had however been able to escape and finally parted ways. Hylla went on and became queen of the Amazons and Reyna found refuge at Camp Jupiter where she later climbed the ladder of leadership and became praetor alongside her crush Jason Grace. Reyna was only thirteen when she became Praetor and instantly fell in love with Jason.
Then when they were both fifteen years old, Jason asked out Reyna, that was the night of her life and had their first kiss on the fields of Mars after Reyna had single handedly taken the banner from Jason during the war games. "You know your such a tease?" Jason teasingly said to Reyna before gazing into her eyes and pulling her into a long embrace that led to their first kiss. "We will be in so much trouble if anyone finds out" Reyna said while stroking his cheek. "I think everyone already knows" Jason replied sheepishly. "What OH MY GODS" Reyna yelled in absolute shock the entire legion had seen them kissing. Just after they had finished kissing, the camps augur Octavian stepped in between them the two of them and spread his arms out wide so neither of their lips could be anywhere close together and said "Shows over everyone!" before leaving in a huff and pushing a young girl to the ground in his haste to get away.
Then later on that night Jason had gone missing and had left the camp in Reyna's hands. Reyna had tried to sneak into the fifth cohort to see him only to find his bed empty. Reyna had alerted everyone in camp and they searched the camp for hours before finally coming to the conclusion he was missing. Everyone was in absolute shock that their Praetor had abandoned them. Nobody knew what to think. Some thought he had run away, some thought he had been dragged away into the night by a monster when he had patrol (it wasn't the first time it had happened) and the rest came to the conclusion he was dead but Reyna just couldn't believe that, that could have happened to the all mighty Jason Grace. Reyna was in hysterics, well everyone was, except Octavian. When Reyna had consulted him to try and find his where abouts, he flat out refused and spat on Reyna's face in disgust. Reyna cried for the rest of the night in absolute shame she couldn't have done more and the longer she waited for Jason to return, the more likely it seemed that he was dead.
Then While Reyna was looking after the camp, the all famous Percy Jackson decides to show up with no memory. Reyna had hated him. He had ruined her life, and she deemed him responsible for them being held captive by the infamous pirate Black beard. Reyna had prayed to the gods that he would lie to her whilst she was questioning him so her metallic dogs; Argentum and Aurum would rip him to shreds so she wouldn't have to do it herself. Unfortunately, the more she heard of his story the more she began to like him. And finally when Reyna learnt that Percy had developed amnesia and had no memories of what he had done to her, Reyna decided she could no longer hold him responsible any longer. He had suffered too much, that was good enough for Reyna. Little did Reyna know at that time she would also fall for him as well.
That time came, it was after Percy had helped save Camp Jupiter from an attack launched by the giant Polybotes who had destroyed most of the camp and killed a few campers. From then on, Percy was portrayed in a different light. He was portrayed as a hero and the members of the senate had decided, who better to rise to praetor then Percy Jackson?, not that it would last long. He had a big quest to save to world which hurt Reyna. Even though she knew it was selfish wanting to keep Percy for herself instead of letting him go for the sake of the greater good, she just couldn't do it. He had mended her heart from when Jason had broken it.
Jason had shown his face back at camp with Greeks. Out of all people why the Greeks? and to freshly open the wound, he had a girlfriend. A GREEKGIRLFRIEND! Reyna couldn't handle it anymore. She was meant to be strong and brave as a daughter of Bellona but seeing Jason in the arms of another girl broke Reyna's heart in two. And finally Jason delivered the death blow when he asked to show his girlfriend around New Rome. How could he? It became her city after Jason had abandoned it. Reyna was the one who put all the effort in to make the place thrive while he was off getting a new girlfriend. As furious she was with him though and as much as she wanted to slap him, as praetor it went against all rules to do that and would probably result in her praeorship being stripped from her. She had poured too much work into it to have it taken from her and be given to Octavian. Oh how he would love to have taken it from Reyna.
Suddenly the flash backs stopped. Reyna was back in the present reality. She was drowning, but was no longer in despair because of the familiar voice in her head. "Reyna, don't give up now. You've come too far to give it all away" before being pulled out of the river. Reyna never got a glimpse of her savior as the second she was pulled out Everything went black as Reyna fainted.
Sorry about how boring it was, but I wanted to give you guys a back story of Reyna.
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