Chapter 1: Prologue

A/N: This is my first fanfic so please, I may need some guidance from you guys. I won't make this intro very long (for now) so I will give you "The Son of Nyx".

-4 years old Percy pov-

I watched in horror as Gabe, my "stepfather", stalked Sally, my mommy, with a knife in hand.

Every night, my mommy would always kiss me goodnight and sleep with me. That was our daily routine until Gabe showed up. Now, every night, he and his punk friends boss my mommy around like she's some kind of slave and Gabe always yelled, "GO SLEEP ON YOUR OWN, I and my friends are not done having fun, and so is your mommy." And every time I plead and I always get beaten up for fun.

He and his friends always wore this sly smile that made me want to run away with my mommy. This became my new daily routine very quickly. But I always wondered what they were doing because most of the time I hear them make these weird noises.

Now for the first time, I was ordered, well not ordered, more like forced because I'm already too sleepy, to stay up late with them. This time though, it was just me, my mommy, and Gabe who was now standing in front of her

I didn't even know why my mommy married this pig. She said my 'real' father can't stay with us because it might endanger us. But marrying this guy already endangered us. Mommy always said, "it's for your own safety". I tried understanding what that meant up till now, I have no clue.

"Today's your lucky day chump", Gabe said who was clearly enjoying this, "you get to see your mommy beg for my -

"Stop this Gabe, leave Percy out of this," Mommy begged.

"SHUT UP BITCH!" He slapped her on the cheek and hit her hard. "WHO SAID YOU CAN TALK! HUH?!", he grabbed her from her hair and pulled her up.

"AAAAHHHH", She shrieked in pain and I felt helpless. I knew I needed to save her but I didn't know what to do.

"Let hew(her) go. Stay away fwom(from) mommy." Even though I never had a voice ever since I came here, I yelled like I depended on it and made sure to be heard. I don't know what I was getting myself into but I need to protect my mommy.

"Awwwww, how cute, a little pleb who's defending his mommy," he mocked. "Shut up if you don't want to get flailed", he pointed the knife at me threateningly and back at her. "Who provided you food on the table three times a day to eat. Me. I did. Ungrateful ones like you must be punished."

He smacked her on the side of the head with the blunt side of the blade and kicked her on the stomach, sending her against the wall. Red blood poured down to her cheek which made her want to run beside her and cry. That was all I could think before my inside voices screamed 'tackle him'. Take his knife from him and stab him until he begs for mercy". They all continued screaming and did the stupidest thing in my life, tackle him.

I charged at him and we both fell on our glass table making him groan in response. I continued my assault with a flurry of punches to his stomach thinking it would hurt him. I did my best to stop him from standing up again.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!", he screamed and slashed downward with the knife which got in my right eye.

"AAAAHHHH", I cried out in pain. He then threw me flying and crashing to a wall. I cried out even louder. I looked at my shaking right hand which was covering my right eye and saw it covered in blood. I wanted to cry. I wanted to think that this was all a nightmare but I knew it wasn't because the pain was all too real. The situation was too real. The pressure of death coming for me was all too real. I can just run away and never look back but I can't just leave my mommy alone with this psychopath. Even if I wanted to, the pain was too unbearable.

"What'cha gonna do now little chump? are you gonna cry to your mommy? huh? oh wait... she's over there bleeding like the BITCH SHE IS," he then laughed maniacally.

"Stop this Gabe". I looked at my mommy who was standing up groggily and still bleeding. "Leave Percy alone."

"This is the punishment you get. Say goodbye to your little Pissy". He then threw the knife aimed at me.

Time seemed to slow down as I watched helplessly as the knife slowly plummeted towards me. I couldn't even see it properly. I could see two extra duplicates beside the real knife. As if someone wanted my death to be more painful.

I saw my life flash before his eyes. It was comforting and welcoming for some reason. It was inviting me to let go and leave everything behind.

So this is how it ends. Living a life that was full of sadness and misery. Never see my real father even once. At least I got to experience happiness once with my mommy. Goodbye cruel world. I won't miss you.

I waited for the knife to come but then I saw my mommy in front of me. I watched in sheer terror as my mommy's body suddenly went limp and dropped to the ground. She looked at me one last time and mouthed her final words, "I love you." She then let out her final breath.

"MOOOOMMMYY!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I saw the only person who cared for me pass away in front of me. It was more painful than everything I just felt combined. I couldn't control my tears anymore.

"MOMMY, PLEASE, DON'T LEAVE ME!" I shook her and screamed her name but she remained non=responding and bleeding.

I suddenly felt a tug in my gut and all the pipes around the house exploded. Everything turned red.

"YOU! YOU KILLED MY MOMMY!"

Gabe just chuckled, "So what, that bitch deserved it. Now shush your mouth if you don't want to be next

This only made me angrier, "AAAAAHHHH!" I could feel the water respond to my call.

Gabe brought out his gun and pointed it at me. "You think a little screaming will scare you. Now be a good boy- "

I conjured up a cocoon of water, trapping him inside. I made it a bit smaller so he can talk. What the hell is this!?", he started flailing in an attempt to escape the water prison but to no avail. I let out all of my anger at him by crushing him with the water pressure.

"Please... I'm sorry. Mercy. Mercy please," I watched as he helplessly struggled against the powerful pressure of the water.

"Mewcy(mercy)? What is mewcy? if you taught me what the wowd(word) mewcy meant maybe I'll give you some." Then my inside voices came back screaming, 'kill him like what he did to your poor mommy. Take revenge for what he did. KILL HIM.'

"Please. Stop. I'm sorry. Mercy," he pleaded once more.

Lapses of my mommy came rushing to my head. Before my eyes, she was happy and didn't have to worry about anything. I stopped with her most perfect and genuine smile which I haven't seen in a very long time and I know she wouldn't want me to follow the voices.

I silenced the thoughts and voices and quelled up my anger. It wasn't worth it.

The gut feeling left and so did his watery prison. I instantly crumpled to the floor, every inch of my inch leaving me. It took all of my willpower to claw my way to my mommy and even kneel beside her.

I cried and said to her, "I'm sowwy(sorry) mommy, I couldn't save you. If it wasn't for me you wouldn't be in this mess right now. If it wasn't for me you'd be still alive right now having fun with your friends."

I turned to the sound of a gun only to see Gabe standing behind me with anger on his face. I tried to yell for help but before I could,

I was met by his gun to the face and everything blacked out.

-Line Break-

I was awakened by the honks of the horns of the cars. I tried searching for a pillow to cover my head with but the first thing I felt was the feeling of being upside down. I tried to stretch my legs but something stopped me from doing so. I tried to thrash around wildly but It was like I was trapped inside of something.

Something from outside suddenly hit me on the stomach. "Stop it. If someone founds out about you, you're dead to me." It was Gabe's. Even if I don't start thrashing, I was most likely a goner if we reached our destination. So I took my chances. Then I realized something, I was surrounded by darkness and I was afraid of the dark.

I suddenly started having dark thoughts and the things they were gonna do to me. This doesn't usually happen but sometimes before I go to sleep, Gabe tells me scary stories that make me frightened to sleep alone. Without thinking I started hyperventilating when I started thinking of ghosts that are gonna come and eat me.

Then it happened, a voice spoke to me, " don't worry child," I screamed like a little girl and got gutted again.

"SHUT UP," I heard him yell outside with a bit of frustration.

"Don't worry, I'm here to help," I heard again. I tried moving around to find out where the source of the voice was. "I'm inside your head silly," the voice giggled and realized it was a girl. "You're going to be alright. Stay where you are, I'm gonna come and get you," she giggled again at her own joke.

Minutes later I heard a voice come from the outside. "Get out of the way or I'll - aaargh", Gabe screamed.

I was floating for a few seconds until I touched down to the solid ground. I grunted from the pain and I didn't try to move until the pain subsided.

I flailed around and got out of the sack only to be met by a mangled Gabe lying on the floor with his guts in his broken hand. Terror filled me. Someone disfigured the person that ruined my life. I should've felt happy but I felt nothing. The person who killed him must be still around, so I ran in the opposite direction hoping to forget the most gruesome thing I ever saw.

As I was running, I wasn't paying attention ahead of me and I bumped into someone and landed on my butt. I looked up and saw a woman with a bloody knife in her hand. I was gonna scream but she covered my mouth with her free hand. I was gonna try to run again but I felt something crawl up my leg making me immobile. I looked down and saw two shadowy hands latched onto my legs.

She removed her hand from my mouth. I said as I trembled in fear, "I'm sow-wr-wy," I was trying to pronounce it correctly but I just couldn't pronounce 'r' properly. "Please don't huwt(hurt) me," I pleaded.

"It's okay little one", she said with a soothing voice. She dropped the bloodied knife and disappeared when it fell into a shadow as if it went through the ground. "I'm not gonna hurt you."

I then remembered the voice in my head earlier. "Are you the one who was inside my head?"

She nodded and looked at me with awe. I looked at her again and noticed she was wearing all black. Black dress, black earrings, black lipstick, basically everything was black except for her skin which was a bit pale making me think that she was some kind of vampire out to suck to my blood.

"I'm sorry you had to see him... like this", she pointed to Gabe. "That bastard deserved it," she continued.

She then crouched to my height and slowly touched my right which made me grunt in pain. She looked at Gabe with disgust one last time. "He got what he deserved", she spat out bitterly.

"Can you still see it?" she continued.

I opened it and saw nothing but blurriness so I shook my head to her. "Close your eyes." She touched my eye again then I felt some tingling. I couldn't see what she was doing but I felt something moving near my face that wasn't her hands.

"Open it this time."

I opened it again and I jumped back in shock. I can see much clearer than before. "It comes with a little something." She said and looked at me with awe. "And it made you a bit cuter."

I felt a blush creeping on my cheek and she laughed. She then reached for something on the ground. But her hand suddenly passed through a shadow. She pulled up a small mirror out of it. I felt like I was just watching a real magic trick.

"Here, see for yourself". She handed it to me. I looked at myself in the mirror and saw I have two different irises. My left eye was my normal sea green one while my right eye was blood red. I had no words to say to her after except...

"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." I continued some more while I hugged her. It was the only thing I could do.

I pulled away and started remembering what happened to my mommy and started to cry again. I have no family left. She came closer and comforted me. " I'm sorry you've been through all of this at such a young age. I've been watching you from the day you were born. I'm sorry I didn't do anything when your mommy died. The laws forbid me to intervene. You must've been afraid when you experienced all of this."

I nodded at her sympathy for me and wiped my tears away. "Who awe(are) you?".

She smiled at me, "My name is Nyx, Primordial goddess of the night, but some people just call me Night".

"Pwimowdial(Primordial)? goddess?"

She chuckled at my attempt to say the word. "You'll know when the time is right," she said and I looked at her quizzically. "Since you asked me a question I want to ask you a question too", she stood up.

"Will you become my adopted son?"

I was surprised, I wanted a new family, I wanted to start all over, I wanted another person to take care of me. But before I could answer, she suddenly disappeared when I blinked.

"Hold on to your thoughts, for now, I'm sure we'll meet again someday and I promise you, I won't abandon you like what your godly parent did, and also when you're in a pickle. I'll help you but you won't notice that I was even there." She said inside my head.

For the first time in months, I was happy again. I'm gonna have another parent who is going to take care of me again. I was still sad from my mommy's death but I knew she's in a safe place. But for now, I'm on my own.

I don't know what I can do all on my own but I won't let that stop me from fighting. I'll live through this cruel world and live.

A/N: Chapter 1 complete. I think this is a good place to stop for now. I'll include some parts in the original book. My goal is one story a week. So, what do you guys think? Are there things I need to improve on? I'll want to hear your opinions. Also, I can't tell if the story is long or too short and my English might be sucky because I'm Asian and I'm still in school. Anyways, don't forget to leave a review.