(Disclaimer, All of The characters are Rick Riordans except Theia and Alia.)
It was kinda exciting when Gaea rose, but like a really fearful exciting. Everyone started sinking into the ground except Theia and I. I had no clue why. I tried to go and attack Gaea but something stopped me. I saw something in the sky. It looked like a meteor, but I could feel water systems on it. Maybe it was the seven. Maybe they had survived. Maybe they were back. But I had to stop myself from losing focus and had to fight back. But, yet again I was stopped by a giant eagle flying at me. From I I could see two little figures, one screaming what sounded like 'Let's get em'!' and the other screaming like a little girl. Then two more figures came down flying. Or rather floating. I knew one thing. They had survived. It was Jason and Piper. Then a horse, H-O-R-S-E, came jumping down from the thing in the air. Again HORSE. But that was not all. The thing exploded and out came a dragon. A metal dragon. That only meant one thing.
Festus.
Leo.
They had survived! And that means that Percy and Annabeth were in the claws of the eagle. That means my brother is back.
Alia here (adding in an author's note): Just know that I processed this in about thirty seconds or less. That was a lot to take in.
I look over at Theia and smile. They had survived.
I was overjoyed. I had to stop myself from running over to where Annabeth and Percy had landed. Theia might've even stopped me. It was so nice to hear Percy's voice after Reyna when-she-said-what-she-said in Latin. We turned to fight with the Romans and attacked Gaea and the romans reinforcements. The fight with Gaea didn't last. Leo flew on over with Festus and picked up the goddess of Earth. Like right off the ground. Jason and Piper flew up with them. It took all my will power to go back to the fights. I just wanted to get a big ol' wave and ride on up there myself. But I couldn't. I had to keep fighting the monsters.
At this point in the fight, I had three dog-humans on me (not like literally, they were attacking me. I'm pretty sure I would die if all three of them were on me). I just kept fighting and fighting, it was actually fun. Not saying I like killing things, but they were monsters and they needed to be killed.
The fighting was good until the Ongoer went off. All the sudden, there was this loud noise and then a scream until it hit Gaea. The explosion was huge. It rippled the lake. Piper and Jason were knocked out of the sky, but caught by giant Roman Eagles. I waited for Leo and Festus to come down too, but they didn't. I instantly knew that they didn't make it. I ran over to Theia and cried. But that had to stop because Annabeth found me.
"Alia!"
"Oh my gods. Annabeth! Oh Annabeth." I said still fighting of tears and running to meet her.
"Alia, it's so good to see your face." And then she broke down crying and me right with her.
…
After the war we at a big celebration. I was sad and uncomfortable, I knew Leo had died and I didn't want to be around people. Theia got me to sway to a few songs, but I wanted to go to my cabin and cry away what had happened. But I couldn't, so I went to the ocean. Well, I jumped in the canoe lake and swam to the ocean. I knew Theia wouldn't go to the ocean, so I just sat there. Eventually I felt someone coming up on me, so I got my sword ready. As I turned around I realized it was Percy. I dropped my sword and swam over to him. There we hugged and stayed that way for a while.
I had apparently fallen asleep and stayed under water all night. When I woke up I was still in Percy's lap. He was looking out to the ocean and combing his fingers through my hair. I looked out into the ocean to and saw a swarm of fish and other aquatic animals around us. They seperated and out walked a woman.
I knew who she was and so did Percy. I stood up and ran to her. She embraced me as Percy stared in awe. I had no seen her sense the bridge.
"It- It's been-" I was at loss of words. I didn't realize how much I had missed her. She was like a mother to me.
Meanwhile, Percy was still staring at me and the woman. He finally found his words and said
"You two know each other?"
"Yes Percy, dear. I was with her when she was homeless." The woman said.
"Oh."
"Yes. You two know each other as well?" I ask butting into the conversation.
"Well, yeah. She is our father's wife. Amphitrite."
"Yes. I am also something else," Amphitrite turned to me. "Alia, I am also your mother.
…
I didn't realize I was running until I was in the woods. Later, Percy would tell me that I had just glowed and disappeared into salt. I found a tree and climbed. I sat there through the conch horn, through the sing along, and through the harpies searching. There was to many things going on. I had lost my dad (wasn't a big loss), I lost my mom and sister, I discovered that my real dad was god of the freaking oceans, I lost Leo, twice, I lost Percy and just got him back, and now I have a new mother. I'm surprised that my brain didn't explode.
I must've fallen asleep, again, because when I opened my eyes, the sun was peeking over the sky. I heard my name being called. By many people, but I mostly heard Percy, Annabeth and Theia's voices. Two things ran through my mind. Stay and hide or go and meet them. I decided to climb higher in my tree. It might have been a risk climbing so high, because the sky was Zeus' realm but from what went down last night well I don't think that mattered to me.
Oh gods. What mattered to me.
Could- Could I be a… Minor Goddess?
Thinking about that made me almost fall out of my tree. I was getting choked up. I could hardly breathe. I think I might've screamed. I saw someone come up to me and grab me. Then I fainted.
"Alia!" Spoke a voice. I snapped awake. I took in my surroundings. I was in a room in the Big House. My mouth tasted, for some reason, like smoke. I was drenched in cold sweat and tears were still running down my face. I looked over at who had shouted my name. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was Leo Valdez. I tried to speak. All that came out was a little "Wha-" and I fainted. Again.
All the sudden, all of my worst memories flooded back to me.
…
In my dream, I was 5. My sister had turned 1 and knew how to walk. She was wobbling all over the place. My mother and father were in the kitchen arguing about something, well my father was yelling at my mother. I was in the kitchen too, but my mother ushered me out when my father started yelling. I caught little snippets of their argument from my room where my sister and I were.
"Ben, please stop yelling. You've scared the girls."
"You mean your girls. My only girl is Summer. Alia isn't mine."
"Ben!"
Then I heard what sounded like a hand on skin. I was happy my dream changed.
But not for long. I was at the day of my mother and Summer's death. This time I didn't go to the bridge, I stayed at the spot that they were. I saw what had killed them. It's very hard to explain but I'll try my best.
These solid grey wisps came out of the ground and grabbed my sister. My mother screamed as another wisp stabbed Summer through the heart. I screamed in my dream and tried to run to them but I couldn't. I screamed louder when another wisp struck my mother through her heart. I saw her fall to the ground and take her locket off. I fell to the ground and started sobbing. No matter how much I missed them, I never wanted to know how they were murdered. I knew now.
I looked up just in time to see a void open up and consume my mother and Summer. Then my dream changed.
I was now making my way to Camp Half-Blood with Percy. Hera had appeared behind us and blah-blah-blah you already read it. But something that I didn't catch last time is how Percy was abducted. Hera put the light to his head and his eyes went glassy. He slumped over and Hera turned to me and spoke in the same voice I had heard in my other dream.
"Have I broke you yet young one? All this time, it was me! Have you figured out who me is, Alia?"
I woke up to a blinding light.
"AH. Will, could you not? I think you blinded me."
Someone screamed my name and I was crushed.
The first person I saw was Theia because she was the one crushing me, then Annabeth, who butted Theia out of the way, then everyone else. Will, Percy and Leo were in the back of the room, waiting.
"Ah, hey guys, Ow! I still have ribs that you can break," I yelled at Annabeth, who was still hugging me. She hugged me harder at that. "Okay I guess I deserved that."
I looked around the room again and beckoned Leo to come over to me.
"You."
He walked over, shyly, and stood in front of me. I sat up and crossed my legs.
Then, I punched him in the stomach.
"That's for dying and not telling me what you were going to do." Then I punched him again in the arm. "That's for scaring me and making me faint."
"Okay okay. I deserved that. I'm sorry, but I'm back!" He said breaking into a grin. Will turned to me.
"If you want to hurt someone, I suggest not doing it in front of your doctor."
"I gotta do what I gotta do," I said with a shrug. "Hey, how long have I been out?"
A look went around the room. Finally, Theia stepped up. "Alia, um, you've been out for three days."
"Three days?!" I practically screamed.
"Hey, uh, guys?" Percy asked speaking up. "Can Alia and I have a moment? Please?"
An 'uh-huh' went around the room and they all left. Percy looked over at me and grinned weakly. "Alia, you died."
