"Well hello, little one, who are you? Why are you out here?" Said a woman, as she picks up the child and slowly rocks him until he stopped crying. As the child stared at her, she noticed the child was a boy, with ash gray hair and eyes that were a soft ashy green with a hint of black. She then noticed a name on the blanket she didn't see before. "Souls." She said. She looked around to see if anyone was in the area, but she found no one.

"Do you have parents little one?" She asked him, not expecting a response. She was understandably shocked when he shook his head as if to say no, but she wasn't sure.

"Well, then you are coming with me then from now on you are Souls Jackson." She said with a smile as she noticed he had fallen asleep in her arms She smiled and walked forward until she found her car. Then she left the area with Souls in her lap.

Years later

Souls was bored and annoyed. Currently he was sitting at Yancy's Academy, stuck in a uniform that was too small for him, for they didn't really have a size that fit him. They were all either too big or too small. Why you ask? Souls Jackson was 7'9 at the age of thirteen, and it doesn't help that he keep outgrew his uniform about once a month. It also doesn't help that he was built like he has been fighting all his life, which made the uniforms even tighter on him. As for his classes, he finds them all too easy. He didn't even have to try on any of the work, he just understood it. This confused the hell out of the teacher, for his adoptive brother Percy was the exact opposite. Percy was one of the worst students ever, and the reason they never stayed at one school for more than one year. Now Souls doesn't hate his brother, it's quite the opposite. He loves his brother, and Percy feels the same. They're brothers in all but blood, but all the moving was annoying. Currently Souls was sitting next to Percy, who was next to his friend Grover, who never seemed to shut up. As much as Souls wanted to tell him to shut up he couldn't, for he was mute. Adding to his annoyances, the new teacher walked in. They were not the typical teacher Souls was used to seeing.

"Hello kiddies, my name is Miss Dodds. I will be your sub for the rest of the year." Souls first noticed the leather jacket and the squinty eyes that were staring right at his brother. She wrote a question on the board, but don't call Percy to the board. She called him up, and he answered the problem in under 3 seconds much to her shock.

"Could you please explain the process?" She asked him and he shook his head. "And why's that? Cat got your tongue?" She asked. He scowled at her so harshly she flinched. He then wrote on the board, "I'm mute," and he sat back down. Things didn't improve, after that Dodds made fun of both him and Percy from that day forward.

A few weeks later, Souls and Percy were on a field trip to a museum of all places. Mr. Burner was the head chaperone, with Dodds as one of the extra chaperones. Souls had grown to hate the woman with a passion. She always made fun of him or Percy and never listened to Percy when he tried to defend himself or Souls. Miss Dodds was one of the few people who dared to pick on Souls Except for a few teachers and students, everyone was afraid of Souls Jackson. Nonetheless, while in the museum a few questions were asked, one of which Percy answered, but not much happened until lunch. Nancy Drew, a redhead that likes to pick on Percy, decided today was a good day to throw an apple at Grover. Grover ducked just in time to dodge it, but it hit Percy instead. Souls was ready to jump up and go at her, but then something happened. The water from the fountain seemed to form a hand, which grabbed Nancy and pulled her into the fountain. Souls was shocked, and so was everyone else, but what he was hearing was not what he saw.

"He just pushed her into the fountain." He heard someone say, but that's not what he saw. He didn't have much time to think before he heard Miss Dodds.

"Percy Jackson, come with me please. We need to talk" Miss. Dodds snapped at Percy in the shrill squeal she called a voice. Percy looked at Souls and sighed, then started following the wench. Solus didn't like this, he could just feel something was wrong, so he shadowed them at a good distance. He was he glad he did, as Dodds had lead Percy to a part of the museum that was under construction. The next thing Souls knew there was mist everywhere. He can't even tell the path he just taken to get there. He felt sleepy, and his vision was starting to get fuzzy. He started to fall asleep. He tried to fight it, but it was an exercise in futility. Then Souls heard voices. The voices sounded familiar, yet also outlandish. He had heard only heard these voices before as he dreamed.

"Souls, you must fight it. Your brother is danger, you must help him." one voice said.

"Look into your soul and you will find your true power," Another deeper and raspy voice said.

"WHO ARE YOU" Souls screamed in his head, but he got no response from the mysterious voices. He looked over with what little strength he had left and saw his brother being attacked by some kind of monster. Souls strained himself, looking deep into his soul for the strength to assist his brother. Then something clicked, and he saw something open in front of his eyes. It looked like a large storage box that was full of scrolls. As he continued looking, a wave of power washed over him as memories and knowledge from a world he didn't live in washed over him. For the first time in his life, he screamed.

"AAAAAAHHH" Souls unleashed a blood curtling scream, so filled with power, sadness, death, and rage one could easily mistake the violent roar for the cry of a large beast. Souls looked back into the box, grabbed the first scroll he saw, and formed a fireball in his hand before throwing it at the monster.

Dodds Prov

I was just about to kill Jackson when out of nowhere I heard a guttural scream of many clashing emotions. I looked over to see where it came from, and saw the other Jackson boy glowing slightly. I knew he was there, but I hit him with enough mist that he couldn't possibly remember Percy much less be glowing. There's no way he could resist such a large amount, right? Faces of people I didn't recognize or haven't seen before appeared, but they all glowed with power, the same power the other Jackson boy was enveloped in. Not long after that, he produced a paper out of nowhere and started reading it. Then I looked at his other hand where a fireball had formed. I was terrified. He threw it at me with lightning speed. I was petrified like a deer in headlights until it hit me.

"AAAAAAAHH! It burns! What kind of fire is this!?" I screamed. It felt like my very soul was aflame. Luckily enough it didn't kill me. Forget Percy, I thought, I need to kill this overgrown thorn in my side first. I then leapt at him as I began my assault.

Souls Pov

Seeing that thing charging at me prompted from simple response from my brain, roll. I simply rolled away from Dobbs's attacks and once more reached into the mysterious box. I pulled out a sword that was in there. I took note that it was coiled and the tip was red with heat as if thrust into a furnace. I rolled out of that creature's path again and thrusted my sword upwards. The metal rod skimmed the back of the monster who hissed in pain. Then I heard someone shouting.

"Percy think fast!" I looked over and saw Mr. Burner, of all people, toss an uncapped pen at Percy. I watched in awe as it turned into a sword with a bronze glow in midair. Dodds noticed this tried to tackle Percy before he caught the sword, but she was too late. Next thing I knew her head came off and the body had turned to golden dust on the ground. Stranger still was that some of the dust floated over to me as if it had a mind of its own. My body seemed to absorb it. I looked at myself and then at Percy in shock.

"What just happened?" I thought to myself.

"Jackson boys, what are you doing here? You should be with the rest of the class on the buses." Mr. Burner then said.

"What are you talking about? Miss. Dodds just turned into this thing and tried to kill me! Souls saved me, but then you throw a pen that turned into a sword at me and then Doods turned to dust! What's going on!?" Percy asked.

"I have no idea what you're talking about, now if you'd please hand me back my pen." Burner said, referring to the pen in Percy's hand.

"What?... But that was a sword just a minute ago... Souls you saw it too right?" Percy asked me. I nodded in agreement. Percy still handed the pen to Mr. Burner however.

"Thank you. Now come along you two with your over active imaginations. By the way, who is Miss. Dodds? The math teacher is Mr. Jeffery." After he said that, Percy just stared at me, and I stared right back in utter confusion. We then got on the bus and sure enough, there was a man sitting at the front of the bus doing a headcount of the students. Percy and I sat down across from each other, bewildered by the events we had just witnessed.