Frank's P.O.V.
While Percy and Annabeth dived into the ocean to speak with Poseidon, we focused on making sure Ariel and her mother followed us back to the Empire State.
"Melody, you have to come with us. Ariel as well" Jason started, but she eyed us like we were tricking her.
"Why should I?" she questioned us, raising an eyebrow.
"Mommy!" Ariel dragged the vowels, while talking to her mom "Uncle Pewcy says we need to!" 'Uncle Percy'?! OK, I guess no one was ready to hear that.
"No! You wanna go, you go!" Melody spatted at her child. Ariel looked scared and hid behind Piper's legs.
"Melody, you have to come with us, too" Hazel tried to reason with her, but she was in denial or something "Your life might be in danger"
"In danger?" she repeated "I'm not in danger! He told me I'd be safe raising that- that thing!" she finished, pointing at a scared Ariel from behind Piper's legs.
"He told you? He who?" Reyna frowned.
"The guy who made me the deal" Everyone frowned and turned to each other "The one who said he'd pay me for having that kid!"
"Mommy?" Ariel was walking towards her, carefully. I stopped her right before "But-!"
"I'm not your mother! I never wanted you!" I picked up the broken child and let her cry on me.
"I might be tough, but even I know you don't say that to a kid" Clarisse scowled, turning her hands into fists.
"Whatever, just give me my money"
"Money? What money?" Leo wondered and that's when Hell broke loose. Melody gutted Piper on the stomach and punched Hazel on her leg, before knocking me down and take Ariel off my grasp, placing a knife under her chin. Nobody made a movement.
"No money, no child!" she yelled at us, holding tight of Ariel's arm, who was whimpering in pain.
"Piper, Hazel, Lou" I named them. I didn't need to tell them what to do as well that I didn't want to know what would Percy do to us if something happen to his niece.
"Melody, hand over Ariel. NOW" Piper charmspoke her, looking fierce. We thought we were lucky when we saw Melody push Ariel a little to us. Ariel had her arms straight to us, but she was taken back by a driven-into-mad-state Melody.
"Mommy! You huwt me!" Ariel complained, a few tears running down her face. Piper was staring at Melody, surprised that she escaped her charmspeak. Hazel, next to me, was starting to move her hand around, to control the mist. Lou, next to Connor, was doing the same.
"What are you doing?!" Melody shouted at us, looking around. Whatever the girls were showing her, it was scaring her "Leave me alone!"
"Then, hand us Ariel!" Piper tried again.
"That was not the deal" Melody growled. The way she said those words, the way she moved her head, was like she was being possessed or control. It was very robotic style.
"Which was the deal?" I interrogated her, taking a step closer.
"Frank, what are you doing?" Leo called me, but I ignored him.
"Tell me your deal, and maybe I can make a better offer" I proposed, still focused on Melody. She seemed having a debate with herself, but she gave in.
"A guy came to me, one night, he looked like those two" she gestured the Stolls with her head "He told me that I had to seduce a guy and make him sleep with me. That if I got pregnant he'd pay me to keep the child"
"But you don't want the child" I said, glancing at the terrified Ariel.
"Of course I don't want the child, she's a burden!" Ariel whimpered again a little. It pained me to see her like that.
"Let me ask you something, how do you know the guy that told you to do that wasn't one of these two?" I pointed over the Stolls, who seemed to understood my idea.
"Yeah, how do you know it wasn't me?" Travis started.
"Or me?" Connor butted in "You said it-"
"-yourself, it was-"
"-dark, it was-"
"-at night-"
"Shut up!" Melody cut the brothers, but it didn't matter. Thalia, who has been quiet the whole thing, knocked her by hitting the back of her head. Will checked for her to be alive, while Ariel ran to hide between us. Katie was the closest, so she picked her up and soothed her, while Ariel cried in her shoulder.
"Let's go back to the Empire State" Nico stated "This girl just had enough traumatic experience for one day"
Hello, people! Welcome to 2015! So excited to start a new year!
I needed a reason for Ariel to leave her mother, and in a Chaos fiction that was around (I don't remember which one and I couldn't find it again, sorry), I read that a mortal fooled a god to have a kid, so I thought, why not? Didn't Beryl Grace did something like that with Jupiter and Jason? Just saying.
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