Chapter 9
Just once, can I go somewhere without fearing for my life? I mean seriously, I know I'm a demigod but COME ON! This is ridiculous! Just once I want to do something without my life being put on the line! Your probably wondering why I'm freaking out right now right? Well see I may have not mentioned a small detail, err two actually.
One, I am petrified of heights, I hate plane's because of that, second, THE FUCKING PLANE IS GOING DOWN! NO! It's NOT turbulence, the plane got struck on the wing by lightning and the lightning ripped the wing off the plane and now were crashing. OH WONDERFUL! It does NOT help that the mortals screams are causing me to barely be able to hear myself think.
Amidst the sound of screaming I'm using my demigod strength to pee my pants, so brave am I right? Unfortunately its not water were crashing down into, its concrete, fortunately were crashing down onto the airport runway for New York, long island sound maybe I dont care, I'm to busy trying not to shit myself. OH FUCK WERE ABOUT TO CRA-
CRASH! The plane hits the pavement with an ear piercing crash, and a metal on concrete sound makes goosebumps appear on my skin and my ears pop. The plane spins and thrashes around before coming to an abrubt stop, leaving nothing but silence except my ringing ears.
I open my eyes again and survey the situation, no one harmed or injured by some miracle, though its starting to smell like pee and excrement, expected really. Once the initial shock is over the previously scared mortals start yelling how they are suing Whickblade for making a faulty plane and how they are gonna hear from their lawyers and whatnot.
I think I forgot to mention, Arnold Whickblade's family owns an entire airline making some of the best planes possible, Arnold ran away from home when he was ten, and his parents have supposedly forgotten about him.
I couldnt care less honestly, just happy I was alive and kicking, with significantly wetter pants yes, but alive. Which meant I could see Thalia again. That single handedly made my day brighter, the thought of seeing her again, until I remembered her status. A hunter of Artemis, group of girls who swore off men for eternity.
And I was in painful love with this girl if it wasnt clear enough, painful because she would never be mine, considering she has taken her oath she is never allowed to be in love. Ugh. Why did my first love have to be literally unatainable?
Suddenly, the planes doors were ripped off their hinges, I heard sirens and people in blue suits running into the plane checking people, asking if they were okay, one doctor came over to me and did the same, then left after I confirmed I was okay, I unstrapped myself and stepped out of the plane and saw police cars, ambulances, massive crouds of people and reporters. It was also raining incredibly hard, almost hurricane hard. Some officers came towards me and checked to see if I was okay, after nodding yes several. Freaking. Times they let me go.
Only to get stopped by several reporters asking me what happened, aswell as a description request on the accident. My responses went like this:
"Plane crash obviously, lightning struck it."
"Look at the fucking plane for a description."
"No I will not give a statement unless required."
"I dont have a lawyer, No."
"I'm friends with a Whickblade son, no I will not tell you who."
"Leave me the hell alone." Stuff like that, it went on forever it felt like, eventually the left me alone but not without a headache to remember them by. Fuck reporters.
I was asked by the police to give a statement, at this point I was getting very irritated, I told them the plane crash was not the plane company's fault, that lightning struck the plane during the current storm. They asked me where I was going and I told them long island sound, the rest was a bit blurry, I remember getting into the back of a police car and I remember the drive being very quiet.
What did strike me was how the women police officer knew exactly where I was going or trying to, she clearly wasnt mortal, but she didnt seem bad. I remember the entire conversation we had though. Since I called her out on not being mortal.
"Does it matter what I am young man? I mean you no harm." She said.
"It matters because you know exactly where I am going despite me only saying Long island sound. Are you a demigod? A monster? A goddess?" I questioned.
"I am a goddess, you will show me respect, I will not tell you who I am, just know your camp is in trouble." She said and I tensed up.
"What trouble."
"It will be attacked. By the forces that tried to kill you, Percy and Annabeth chase, the same forces also being led by Luke castellan and Alice Yamnell."
I grinned evily. "Will those two be there?"
She looked at me, no concern from the road and smirked. "Yes. Yes they will."
I got a good look at the goddess. She had short curly black hair, and if I focused enough her attire changed. She donned a red jacket, black jeans, black boots, and a black necklace with an N on it. She also had an aura of hatred around her which made it difficult to believe she didnt mean any harm.
"Stop staring and focus, we are here." She said and stopped, without hesitation I got up to leave but she grabbed my hand and I stopped cold, my heart quickened and I could tell I got paler.
"I usually make someone sacrifice something important in exchange for future imformation, but your mother has plans for you, important plans that you are a major part of. Dont fail her." She said.
When she said that I figured out who she was. My eyes widened and she suddenly flashed out in a black smoke.
"Nemesis..." I whispered in awe, why did she help me? What plans? How did she know of my existence? Most importantly, why didnt she tell me who my mother was? THAT would have been ravishing to know.
I shook off my shock and took off into the woods, eager to see my friends again. After about thirty minutes I started smelling smoke and started panicking, did Luke and Alice attack already? I started sprinting through the woods jumping over fallen trees and logs.
I burst through the woods back into camp and saw all the demigods crowded around a pure white coffin, I recognized it as a burial shroud, a type of coffin that gets burned when a camper dies on a quest or returns safely. Somehow the other demigods hadnt seen me yet, I had never seen a burial shroud before so I was curious and hid while watching it.
I realized that the burial shroud was for me, they assumed I was dead, I wanted to reveal myself but something held me back, I dont know why but I just didnt show myself. Percy was beside my shroud, he looked like crap, like he hadnt slept in days and his eyes were slightly red, perhaps from crying.
"Damien, when I first met him I knew he was special, I knew he could become a great friend, and a great ally, it's a shame he was taken away from us so early, and without ever finding out who his mother was, may he live a happy life in elysium." Percy's voice broke on the last bit and Annabeth hugged him while tears fell softly down his face.
I still kept holding back for some reason, I tried to go forward, but something was holding me back. The funeral process went on, some demigods getting up and saying the traditional farewell things people do at a funeral.
Then Thalia fucking grace stepped up, my breath froze in my throat and my heart started beating quickly, my knuckles tensed up and my head got dizzy. Jesus christ man was this going to happen every time I saw this girl?
Her eyes were definitely red rimmed from crying, she looked so broken and tired it made me feel sick to my stomach to see her like that. I wanted to hug her and see that smile of hers, but I had to hear what she had to say.
"Damien was interesting the first time I saw him, he clearly had no idea what he was doing but showed extreme bravery when he put his life on the line to save Annabeth and Percy, he was very selfless and put others before himself, and that selflessness got him killed. We lost a great friend a week ago, and despite his hatred of the female gender an even better man." She said. despite her crying her voice held power, she still looked strong and graceful despite the tears coming from her electric eyes.
I moved out of my hiding spot and stepped forward, suddenly I could move again and I took full advantage, once I was close enough I spoke in a clear and strong voice.
"That was a very pretty speech Thalia, good to see you had sooo much faith in my survival." I said sarcastically and every single demigod whipped around to face me, suddenly I was the center of attention and felt very awkward.
Then I got struck by lightning. I flew back and landed on the grass with a hard thud, I barely had time to groan in pain before someone was on their knees over me. Thalia, who had pure disbelief in her eyes.
"Ouch. The fireworks are less than neccesary you know." I said while sitting up, her response was her punching me in the stomach.
"OUCH. OKAY. I'm sorry Thalia, jesus tough love much?" I grinned at her. She still didnt say anything, just stared a hole straight into my soul making me fidget.
She then hugged me, a slow gentle hug that I returned, I noticed she was shaking and rubbed her back in attempt to comfort her and she seemed to melt into me. Pressing herself against me, as if trying to make sure I wouldnt dissappear again. Not that I had any intention to.
"I'm sorry Thals, I'll tell you the story later, it's good to be home." I whispered.
She mumbled something. "What was that?" I asked quietly and she put her lips to my ear, her breathing onto my neck sent shivers down my spine.
"I wont let you leave me again, never again. dumbass." She said and I laughed despite everything.
"Im not dumb, Percy? Now Percy's dumb, I'm rather smart." I said loud enough for Percy to hear.
"Hey! I'm not the one that went missing, there for, I'm the smarter one." He retorted.
"Uh huh, what about that time when your pants fell down while sparring with me?"
He got redfaced as the other demigods started howling with laughter. "ONE TIME! THAT WAS ONE TIME!" He yelled in embarressment.
"Ladies, I know you guys cant stop loving each other but we have to do something." Thalia interrupted.
"Whats up pinecone face?" Percy said.
"A party, you know, with drinks and food and stupid games that make us question our sanity, Damien is alive! Duh!" She said as if this was obvious.
Percy grinned, and started yelling orders to the other demigods. Then Thalia spoke to me in a whisper.
"I need to talk to you, in private during the celebration." Thalia said with a very serious look in her eye.
"Sure, where should we meet?" I asked. Zeus' fist is what she responded with.
Line Break Three hours later
"Hey, Thalia? Yoohooo. I'm here." I said into the darkness, I was beside Zeus' fist and aside from the music off in the camp grounds it was quiet, not even a cricket.
Looking at the area now its very beautiful to look at, Zeus' fist overlooks the ocean, and the moons light seems to sparkle off the water lighting up the night.
I heard shuffling behind me and whipped around with my sword drawn, Thalia came out of the bushes snickering.
"Is that how you greet all your friends?" She asked playfully.
"Only the ones that throw lightning bolts" I retorted and she laughed again, it was a melodic sound, a bit surprising coming from a girl like Thalia, then again, Thalia was a surprise all on her own.
Gods, did I really think something cheesy like that? Get a hold of yourself! She cant love you!
I sheathed my sword. "What did you want to talk about?" I asked, the smile left her eyes and she stared into the ground.
"Us. This... situation we've found ourselves in, ya know, with Alice, and... Luke." She said, still not meeting my eyes.
"Yeah, I dont know what to say, who is this Luke guy?" I asked.
"Do you know the story of the second Titan war? Where Percy had a prophecy to fullfill on his sixteenth birthday?" She asked.
I nodded and recalled the news station that day, I was in a cell with a Tv and whatnot, ya know special privileges and what not. The entire planet was freaking out because New York city stopped moving, nobody, not even cars were moving and nobody could figure out why. It was like the entire city died and got resurrected.
"Well, Luke was part of the second Titan war, but he wasnt a good guy, he had betrayed all demigods and Olympus and joined Kronos because the gods werent taking responsibility for any of their children, they werent claiming them and they treated them like tools." She explained in a dead tone.
"That must have been rough, the person you love betraying everybody, I couldnt imagine it." I said and she glared at me.
"I wasnt in love with him, he was like a brother to me, and to Annabeth for that matter. He protected us when it mattered!" She snapped then took a deep breath to calm herself.
"He wasnt just some regular grunt, Kronos' body was destroyed and trapped in Tartarus so he needed a host, Luke became the host of Kronos, and during that time he killed alot of friends me, Percy and Annabeth had made."
"During the final battle me, Percy and Annabeth were up at Olympus because Kronos had broken through, I didnt see the fight but I was told what happened. Percy didnt actually kill Luke, at the last possible second Luke realized what he was doing due to Annabeth reminding him of something, and he regained control of his mind long enough to kill himself. Saving everyone in the process. He died in Annabeths arms." She finished, choking on her sobs that she was failing to repress.
I didnt know what to do, I had never had to comfort anybody before, I did the only logical thing I could think of. I hugged her. When I hugged her she stiffened for a second, then wrapped her arms around me and just broke down.
It took about ten minutes for her to finally compose herself. When she did however instead of pulling away she layed her head on my shoulder, for awhile we just sat there no doing anything, all quiet except for the distant sounds of demigods having fun, just staring out at the ocean.
I was very content with Thalia leaning on me, but I snapped back to reality, the hunters would kill me if they caught us, I had to stop, so I stupidly went to ruin everything.
I pulled away and Thalia gave me a confused look, I hid my eye so she wouldnt see the pain in them.
"You shouldnt do that, being that close can get us both in trouble with the hunters. They would get the wrong idea and try to kill us for breaking your oath, hell, they might try just because I'm a ma-"
I was interrupted by Thalia pressing her lips to mine, I lost my train of thought, electricity went down my spine and the only thing I could think about was how much I enjoyed what was happening.
She pulled away far too quickly and looked me in the eyes, there was a look in her eyes that I'd never seen before, it was a look of utter adoration and love.
And that look was directed straight at me.
"I dont care about that, while you were gone, I started thinking about what I wanted in life and I figured that out finally, I want to survive for a long time in life and I want to survie a long time in life with you with me, I have feelings for you that go beyond just friendship clearly, and I honestly dont care if you return these feelings or not, that just makes me more determined to-"
She was interrupted by my lips pressing against hers. She smiled against my lips and wrapped her arms around my neck, all i could think about was her, I stopped caring about the hunters, I stopped caring about the dangers, the only thing I wanted to focus on was her.
She pulled away again, I was really starting to hate that. She had a playful smirk on her face.
"I wasnt expecting that, but im not complaining at all, I mean I wasnt expecting a rejection anyway, I mean look at this." She said while gesturing to herself.
I snorted. "You know what? Maybe this aint gonna work out after all." I threatened playfully.
She punched me in the arm. "You better be joking she said." While leaning in for another kiss. I didnt get the chance to tell her I was.
A flash of silver struck about ten feet away from us, Thalia looked over and paled at who she saw, I looked over and my blood ran colder than Antarctica's waters. I was pretty sure I was so white I was near translucency.
"So this is what I find, my lieutenant hunter, consorting with some boy, and not even a less terrible one, she just had to choose the abusive piece of garbage didnt she?" Artemis asked venomously.
"M-Milady! This- This is-" Thalia started but Artemis swung her hand and Thalia shot back about twenty feet into a tree, she screamed in pain and my blood starting boiling in anger.
"Silence, Thalia, you know what happens now." Artemis said.
"NO! NO! Please, No! Not that Milady please!" Thalia begged, that just made me angrier, Thalia grace doesnt beg anybody.
"What happens now?" I said glaring, Artemis looked at me like I was a worthless toy she saw, fitting since she was in her twelve year old form.
"One of two things boy, you either become a Jackal and be the hunts slave for the rest of eternity, or you fight me to the death. I suggest you hurry and choose, I just love turning worthless males into Jackals." She said sadistically.
Well, shit, I either die or die, some choice. What the hell do I do now?
LINE BREAK, Alabama's chambers county jail.
Richard hated Damien, after all he'd done for the boy he responds by killing his children, it doesnt help that his father John personally took lead investigator on the case where he shot Damien, prosecuted him and was sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder.
Richard still wanted to kill Damien, he had tried to treat the boy like family since his step-mother and father treated him like shit and he thought it was wrong, but now he wishes he never had.
Richard was sitting in the prisons courtyard by himself, the rest of the inmates were in the main lounge watching the Patriots vs Falcons superbowl away from the heavy rains.
He wasnt completely alone, there were gaurds watching him, most believed he was innocent though because they knew Damien's track record, granted before now not even Richard believed he was capable of killing.
He was wrong.
Richard was in the middle of doing reps at a table in the courtyard when lightning cracked across the sky, then it turned earily dark, supernaturally so considering it was supposed to only be 6:21 P.M.
Richards years of officer training made him go tense, and he slowly got up and started looking around, he was both surprised and scared at what he saw.
Maurice, John's wife, Damien's step-mother was in the courtyard with him, looking every bit like the whore she usually dressed up as, unreasonable amounts of skin being shown, the slight look of unquenchable lust on her face, that kind of thing.
What unerved him was how she even got in the jails courtyard in the first place, hell how did the guards not see her? It didnt make any sense.
"Richard, nice to see you, I was looking for you. I have a... Offer for you" She started out.
Richard despite everything was a man of christian beliefs, he made to refuse the "offer" before she held up her hand stopping him.
"Not that kind of offer, though you are... delicious, another time perhaps. See, I'm offering you power, what kind of power? Well, the power to kill my worthless son." She said. Richard felt a streak of savage pleasure flow through him at the thought of killing the white/black haired teenager.
"How can you give me the power to do that?" He asked. Maurice grinned and he didnt see her pearly white teeth, what he saw shocked him.
Razor sharp teeth, all her teeth were razor sharp, she went from an attractive whore to a monster, and Richard really wished he had his cross right now.
"Simple, drink my blood, I cut myself and you drink my blood, and it will give you enough power to kill the brat." She said and Richard went pale.
"WHAT!? That is disgusting! I dont even know how that would work! Let alone why that is appealing in any way." He yelled out.
"Drink my blood and you will understand. You will gain information of a world you never knew of, you will gain monumental strength from it, and the power to kill the person you hate most. What more could you ask for?" She reasoned.
Richards head felt fuzzy, he felt a powerful urge to do exactly what this women asked for, before he could realize what he was doing he said okay, Maurice had cut her left wrist, blood slowly started dripping out of it. She held the wrist up to Richards mouth.
"Drink." She ordered. And Richard drank, though not so against his will anymore.
Line break, Somewhere in Alabama
"Daddy, daddy! Look on the news! A something blew up the entire courtyard of Chambers county jail, there's a massive crater down there." A little girl of about seven said to her dad who was in the kitchen cooking dinner.
"What? Woah, what the hell happened down there?" The father of the child said in awe. The father grabbed the remote and turned up the tv to hear what the people live at the scene had to say.
"We have no idea what happened here, all we know is the ground seemingly exploded leaving a crater, there is no trace of what caused this anomoly to happen, extremists are already saying aliens are finally attacking, we will let you know more when we find out." The women reporter said.
"Well, thats helpful, c'mon honey, its time to eat." The father said and walked back to the kitchen.
"YAY! Food!" The child squealed happily and followed her father into the kitchen.
A/N: I make no excuses, I'm simply lazy, no reviews means I dont have the motivation to continue bc I dont know whether you enjoyed what I wrote. on another note, this story has over 2,000 views. I never thought I would get to five hundred let alone 2,000 so thank you guys.
