Chapter 26: Blessings , Or So I Thought
Hades transported me, Nico, and himself back to my front lawn. Instead of knocking like before, I just went straight on in. My mom never locked the door. I wanted to get that done, and get out of the house as quickly as possible. I walked into the kitchen, and found Robert, my mother and my little sister Ashley sitting around the dinner table, eating a plate of goat meat, and Kvas, or Russian rye bread drink.
"Jason?" Robert asked me when he saw me.
"Robert," I said, and nodded. "Can I talk to my mother for a minute?"
"You're not my son anymore," my mother said under her breath.
"Sure," Robert replied. "C'mon Ash."
Both Robert and Ashley stood up and left. I smiled at Ashley and she gave me a happy wave as she passed me. "Hi Jason!" She said with as much enthusiasm as Mr. Poplar.
"What do you want?" My mother asked, to no one in particular. "Hades, Jason, other..." She stated, gesturing to Nico.
"Other has a name. It's Nico." I said, a little irritated. "Nico Di Angelo."
"You didn't answer my question."
"We need your blessing. So he can, fight." Nico said, struggling for a better word than fight.
"I give you my blessing." My mother replied without second thought. "It is not my business what you do anymore."
"That was all we needed Barbara," my father stated, almost sadly.
"Be gone." She said, and turned to us, but I noticed something different. She had grey eyes. My mother didn't have grey eyes.
I ran over to her, and stared her in the face. She looked scared, broken. "No," I said, realizing what was wrong. "Athena!" I yelled.
"Clever child." She said. I was expecting her to revert back to her regular form, but she didn't.
"Revert!" I yelled. I was mad at Athena for this. I could feel Pyrinas stir inside of me, fuelled by my anger.
"She can't child." Hades said, with a mixture of anger and remorse. "Leave her body, Athena!"
"As you wish, Lord Hades." She replied, and she began to glow. I turned away, and felt the flash of light against my skin. It burned, but it only lasted a few seconds.
There was my mother, lying on the table, bleeding from the nose. I focussed on her, but I couldn't feel anything. You see, when you are a son of Hades, you can sense a person's life-force. It is like a sort of glow about them when you focus. Also, when someone around you dies, you feel a low frequency noise in your ears. I felt the noise and when I focussed, I couldn't sense her life force. Athena killed my mother.
READ ON! This is sad, I know. But still. It gets better! R&R plz..