Chapter 13
I ponder for a couple of minutes if I should tell him or not. It wasn't like the true could be about that time could keep a secret for much longer anyway. I also didn't need to tell him everything.
"It is a memory, and before you start wondering, no one block it from you. You did that yourself." I started.
"Then why am I remembering it now?" Percy asked.
"I'm guessing it was the similarity with what happen years ago." I replied.
"That was before I found out I was a demigod wasn't it?" He asked. "I can't believe we knew each other and I couldn't remember."
"It was before, but not too long before." I replied. "And that is your own fault." I added laughing.
"Wait, did my mom also know you?" He questioned.
"Why do you ask?" I asked.
"When I was on the phone with Annabeth the other day to see if she could help me and Nico to find who your Godly parent is, I mention your name she looked surprised." He explained.
"Yes, she knows me." I replied laughing. "I will tell you what happen then. It was seven years ago, it was the first time that I request to come down from Olympus." I started.
*Flashback*
"Why do you want to go now, I don't see any reason to why let you go." Zeus replied to the request.
"I just want to help him a little, the monsters are getting closer. Plus, it will be good for me to fight against some of them as part of my training." I fight back.
The Gods looked silence to one another, before Zeus looked back to me once again.
"You aren't giving up are you." Zeus said, and I nodded. "Fine, you can go, but if anything happens while you are there, you will stay here until I see the time fit for you to leave again." He added.
"That's fine by me." I agreed.
It wasn't long after that I was finally where I wanted to be for once. I had decided to keep my distance from the oblivion demigod that I wanted to help. However, by plan had fail big time when I had followed him and his mother to the grocery shopping. At first everything was alright, but then he got separated from his mother. I followed him from a distance, until I saw someone else approaching him. For him it just looked like a normal person coming to talk with him, but not for me. The mist barely had effect on me since I had been living around all the mystic since I was a newborn, and that was no normal person, it was just a mean Harpy trying her luck.
"Come on walk away." I mumbled.
However, the little boy was listening to whatever the person in front of was saying. I had no choice but get closer, the closer I got I could see that the little boy was now trying to get away, but the person in front of him had grabbed his shoulder. I didn't want to cause a big scene inside of the grocery store, so I needed to scare the Harpy out of there with no fight. When I was close enough I place my hand on top of the Harpy's hand, which made her look at me.
"Look's like the boy wants to go, how about you let him alone." I said without breaking eye contact.
"It's a mistake, I know the boy you see." The Harpy said, maybe thinking I couldn't see through the mist.
"Oh, really?" I said. "Do you know this person?" I asked the little boy.
"No, never saw this lady before." The boy replied.
"Looks like you are the one mistaken." I told the Harpy taking her hand out of the boy's shoulder. "You should go and find your mother." I told him.
I saw him run down the aisle and then I looked back at the Harpy.
"If you don't want any more trouble you should leave right now." I said.
"I will get you Halfblood." She said walking away.
I walked around the grocery shopping to see if the little boy had found his mother, but I was the one that got found.
"It was her mom." I heard behind me.
I look back to see the little boy pointing at me to his mother.
"She was the one that stop the weird lady that was bothering me." He added.
"Well did you say thank you?" His mother asked him.
"No, I didn't have the time." He replied.
"Then you should now, let's go the two of us." The mother said.
They walked closer to me, the look on his mother face changed a little after looking better at me.
"Miss, thank you from before." The little boy said.
"You are welcome, you should be careful next time." I told him.
"Percy, how about you go and get some of your favorite candy while I talk with her?" His mother told him.
"Can I take a lot this time?" Little Percy asked.
"Not too much ok?" His mother said.
The little boy nodded and ran to the candy area.
"You are like him, aren't you?" She asked me. "A Halfblood."
"That obvious?" I questioned.
"I had my doubts, but you aren't just a simple Haflblood are you?" She asked.
"Why you said that?" I asked confused.
"The symbols glowing on your arms." She pointed out.
"You can see them?" I asked surprised.
"Aren't they visible to the other like you?" Was her reply.
"They told me only someone that could see clearly through the mist or know of them would be able to see them." I explained.
"Oh, I see." She said. "Why did you help Percy back there?"
Before I replied to the question I took out my necklace, showing the weapon, my father had given me in its miniature shape. When she saw it her eyes open wide in surprise.
"I see. Are you here to take him to the camp?" She asked.
"That is not my job, and not why I'm here." I started. "I don't even go to the camp myself." I added.
"Mom, look all the blue candy they had." Percy said showing of his bag of candy. "Miss do you like candy?"
"Oh, right what is your name?" His mother asked.
"Ula, and I love candy." I said.
"Would you like to get dinner with us, as a thank you for helping Percy." His mother suggested.
"Ah, I shouldn't." I started.
"Do you have a place to stay?" She asked.
"Not really, I just arrived to the area." I replied.
"You can stay with us for a couple of days. And I insist." She said giving me no option.
I shouldn't get so close, for several reasons. And one of them was attracting the monsters in the area even more. However, a second later I was being pulled by little Percy. What could go wrong? If any monster showed up I could just fight it. Not long after I was sitting at the table with both Percy and his mother.
"When my husband arrives, we will tell him you are a cousin visiting. He will still not like it but just don't pay to much attention." She told me.
I nodded my head in agreement, her husband arrived long after we had finish dinner, and I was playing with Percy, he was a very active kid and as always doing something. When he finally fell asleep and his stepfather had pass out from all the drinks he had, his mother came closer to me.
"Why are you here Ula?" She asked.
"Just to protect him, he will be soon found out and he will go to the camp. But he already calls to much attention. I'm here to keep the monsters away as much as possible." I started. "That's why I didn't plan to be so close to him."
"You said earlier that you don't go to the camp. Why?" She asked.
"As you noticed, I'm a little different. So, I have been living at Olympus and been train by them." I explained. "It's complicated." I added before she could say anything else.
"Well you should rest then. I'm sorry that you have to stay in the couch." She apologized.
"That's not a problem.
My stay end up being shorter than I thought, but while I was there I had been woken up a couple of times by little Percy saying something about monsters outside of his window. He also had started to watch while I was training after he caught be one time. But then it happen. One day, while the two of us were walking down the street a Cyclops found us and attack. Against my will I had to bring out my weapon reviling my identity to Percy, even though he would not know nothing about it yet. Defeating the Cyclops wasn't the worst, what happen next was the problem. I lost control of my powers to such a big scale that I could feel all my bones breaking. All around me was shaking.
"Percy, you need to run from here, and do not look back." I told the little boy with some difficulty talking.
"How about you Ula?" He asked.
"I will be fine, just get out of here and fast." I told him again.
I saw him run away while I hugged myself in pain, after making sure he was out of range I look up to the sky and with tears going down my face, not only from the pain I asked to be stopped. It was then that I got stroke by lighting several times until I passed out."
*End of Flashback*
"After that it took months for me to completely recover from my broken bones." I said.
"How come I don't remember any of that?" Percy questioned.
"I told you not to look back, but since you remember me being hit by the lighting I guess that seeing that made you block your own memories." I suggested.
"I guess so. You think I will remember?" He asked.
"Maybe, who knows. You already started to remember something, so maybe the rest will come too." I said. "And I should go get some more rest, things are about to change here, and I will need all my energy." I said getting up.
"See you later then." Percy said.
I walked away, I had been able to tell him the story without giving away who my father was. However, if he recalled that last fight he would know right the way the answer. I had just walked away from the lake when Apollo showed up by my side.
"I recall the events a little different. You aren't going to tell him the all true of that day are you?" He asked.
"He doesn't need to know if doesn't remember. And you better not tell him either Apollo." I told him and walked away.
