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Chapter 2 – Bonds aren't forged that easily

POV: Percy

"Wait so I don't understand, you're a son of Selene? As in the Titan Selene?" Evelyn questioned me. We'd already started walking again and Evelyn was shooting all sorts of questions at me and I was starting to get a headache from it.

I sighed, "Yes, I am a son of Selene." I confirmed. Evelyn looked at me more warily.

"So you're not a demi-god? You're a demi-titan!" Evelyn jumped away from me and took out her baseball bat. I put my arms in front of me trying to calm her down.

"No, wait! Calm down okay? I am not a demi-titan." I said and she calmed down at this, "Both my parents where Titans, so I am actually a 'fully' Titan." She immediately took out here baseball bat and ran in my direction as she tried to swing at me.

"You traitor! I thought I could trust you!" She screamed as I duck underneath her baseball bat, nearly getting a concussion.

"Evelyn calm down! You don't understand!"

"No, I perfectly understand. Your plan was to gain my trust and when I wasn't paying attention you would stab me in the back!" She said as she swung again at me. She started to have tears in her eyes from the betrayal.

"Evel-" I tried again but I was cut off. "No! You don't deserve to say my name!" I jumped to the side and rolled away narrowly avoiding more of her swings. I was starting to get mad and my eyes glowed silver. I put my hands in front of me and catched one of her blows. Gripping the baseball bat and pulling it towards me as she let go of the baseball bat, avoiding falling to the ground.

"Stop Evelyn!" My voice boomed through the area, making every animal dead silent and birds flew away from their nests. She was stunned for a second and I took advantage of this. "Listen! I don't want to hurt you. I am a peaceful Titan. If I wanted to hurt you, I could've done that a while ago!"

She looked shocked and stunned and we stood in the same position for a while, both breathing heavily, and I tried again, "I get it, you've been betrayed before," This I saw in her eyes. I should ask her later about it, I thought, "and you're scared that it happened again, but I didn't and won't betray you okay? We're friends now, so act like it." I said more sternly.

She was still surprised but gained a thoughtful look on her face, before she calmed down and looked embarrassed. "I-I'm sorry." She muttered but I didn't hear what she said.

"What was that?" I asked.

"I'm sorry! I acted too rashly and I shouldn't have, but I thought you would betray me and..." She rambled. I smiled at her, "Apology accepted. I get it. You are a demi-god and have fought a lot of bad Titans. But I am a peaceful Titan and most importantly, I am your friend."

She also smiled a bit, "Really?" She asked hopefully.

I nodded, "Yes, that's what friends are for." She smiled. We started walking again in a comfortable silence before Evelyn spoke up,

"We should change your name, Perseus makes me think about Titan's and I don't like Titans, no offence. So hmmm, what about Perseu-.., Persoe-.., Persie-.., Percy!" She clicked her fingers when she found the right name and I raised my eyebrow at her and looked mock hurt, "What's wrong with my name?"

"Hey! I need a nickname for you if you keep calling me Spiky!"

"Okay, Percy it is." I said and she beamed at me which caused me to chuckle and we started walking further.

After a couple of minutes, she gained a look of confusion on her face, "Wait I saw you bleeding red? How come you are an immortal then?"

"Good question. Honestly, I have no idea. Something about dying, reforming and being split in two. According to Sophos my immortality faded away when we were split into two." She raised an eyebrow,

"Sophos? Split in two? Are you sure you're still sane?"

'probably not', Sophos mentally said.

I chuckled, "Yes Sophos. He and I together are my old me and we got split into us two. It's all really weird, I also don't know." I looked at the still really dark sky with now a full moon shining brightly. "Maybe we should rest here for the night huh? I'll take first watch." I offered and she nodded.

We spent the next couple of minutes finding some suited twigs and making a campfire and sat down next to it enjoying the warmth. I looked into the flames when Evelyn spoke up,

"Percy?" Evelyn asked softly.

"Yes?"

"When we fought.." She looked a little embarrassed.

"Yea?" I encouraged her.

"Well, you said that I've been betrayed before. How did you know?" She said quietly. She snuggled a little closer to the fire, enjoying the warmth of it.

"Hmm, I guess I just saw it in your eyes. Why?"

"Nothing. Just wondering." She paused before she looked like she was considering something and started talking again,

"When I was very young, I had a half-brother. Apparently, my mom had a thing with this other dude and they got a kid, but then he walked away, and a couple of years later my mom had a thing with my dad and I was born." She looked kind of annoyed at his.

"My brother's name was Rafael and he was sixteen when I was seven. So, I told you already that my mom was killed when I was seven." She looked over at me and I nodded.

"That night a dracaena and a cyclops attacked our house. I was just seven years old and I was scared to death. I don't really know what happened at the beginning, it's all kind of foggy.

Then, the dracaena saw me and my brother and the dracaena was about to lung for me, I put my arms in front of me and looked away, awaiting the pain. But none came. When I looked back, I saw that my mother had jumped in front of me and had gotten attacked. She screamed for us to run. I looked at my brother and screamed, "We have to help her!" He looked at me as if I had just grown a second head and said, "No way! She's already dead anyway! I rather take her advice and run." Or something along those lines and then he ran away. That was the last time I saw him.

I couldn't believe my eyes at the time. I mean sure my brother had never been really nice to us, but he left his mother for her own fate and left his seven-year-old sister alone with two monsters to save his own skin.

The rest is also foggy, I only remember that I was the only one left in the house with two dead monsters and a dead mother." She had tears in her eyes and I engulfed her in a brotherly hug.

"I won't leave you like your brother." I said she was silent for a bit before she whispered, "I don't like hugs", through her sobbing, although she didn't pull away.

"I know." I said soothingly and we stayed in that position for a couple of minutes before her breathing turned more regularly and she fell asleep. I laid her down on the floor and stayed awake all night watching over her and making sure no monsters got to us.

-Time skip-

POV: 3rd Person

It was five days later when a monster attack happened.

They were still searching for the Hunters of Artemis and on their way, they've asked monsters really nicely if they'd perhaps knew the whereabouts of the Hunters of Artemis and the monsters were, of course, very kind and helpful. So in now and a couple of days, they should hopefully be able to find the hunters.

Percy was sitting on a branch of a high tree where he could overlook the area. He had his bow in his hand and he was shooting multiple arrows at the monsters who came to close to Evelyn.

They'd come across a big group of monsters on their way. The group consisted out of all sorts of monster, hellhounds, cyclops, empousa, dracaena you name it. It wasn't normal for a group of monsters to walk around without a leader. Especially for a giant group as this. So something was terribly wrong.

Evelyn was in the middle of the battle, surrounded by all the monsters, swinging her baseball bat at the monsters who came to close for her liking. She swung at a dracaena, hitting its knee and she quickly turned around parrying a blow from a cyclops and kicking him in his manhood, before she turned towards her left again and ducking underneath a sword. She looked to her right just in time to see a monster getting impaled by an arrow to the eye.

Percy was really good with a bow as he had trained a lot with it with his mother when he was young. On the way, he had found a nice twig deciding to make a bow out of it as he still didn't have a weapon. Now he could also help in a battle. The only problem was that he also made the arrows himself, meaning that these were just regular, normal arrows and not made of some godly metal. Which meant, no killing monsters. Only distracting them and buying enough time for Evelyn to finish them.

Evelyn hit the monster on his head and she rolled to the side as a hellhound leaped over her. She stood up and saw an arrow flying past her shoulder and heard a whine coming from the dog. She turned around again only to be met with a club of a cyclops to the face. She staggered backwards, the world spinning around her, before a spear impaled her ankle. She fell down on the ground unconscious.

Percy looked at the scene with wide eyes, before turning angry. His eyes flashed a dangerously silver. He quickly notched an arrow and focused his power on it, he couldn't miss. He wouldn't miss. He wouldn't let anyone else die, not again. As he let the arrow fly, he knew he had hit. But the weird thing was he saw the arrow turn silver and when it hit the monster, the monster exploded into golden dust. He quickly shot two other arrows, which also turned silver, at the monsters and jumped down the tree.

The monsters looked up from the fallen girl and saw a man running towards them.

Percy baseball slide the first monster, hitting its legs and making him fall to the ground. Percy wasted no time and quickly stood up and he stood protectively over Evelyn. He then punched the next monster in the face before turning around and notching a silver arrow and firing it into another monster. He then elbowed a monster in the face, who tried to sneak up on him, breaking its nose with a satisfying crack and turned to face said monster and kneed it in the stomach before he notched another silver arrow and send it flying into a monsters eye. A spear was thrown at him and Percy catched it mid-air and impaled a hellhound who jumped towards him, he withdrew his spear, leaving the hellhound falling dead to the ground, and threw it at the empousa who had firstly thrown it.

Percy was surrounded by golden dust as the last monsters ran away from the crazy silver eyed man. Percy's eyes slowly dimmed down to his normal eye color as he calmed down and stood there breathing heavily. He wasted no time to get to Evelyn's side and checking her wounds. He saw that she had been hit hard against the head and she would for sure get a black eye. Percy also looked at the spear impaled in her ankle. That would be a big problem. They had no ambrosia or nectar or even band-aid. He was also too tired to try if his healing powers worked. Which mean: He needed to improvise.

"Fuck it" He muttered and he took off his tattered shirt, exposing his bare chest to the cold outside air. He then grabbed the spear with both his hands and slowly pulled it out of her ankle, making sure not to damage the wound even more. As expected the wound started to bleed heavily and he put a hand on her ankle putting all his energy, which was none, into trying to heal the wound a bit, making the bleeding lessen and he felt his vision slowly blacken but he quickly grabbed his shirt and wrapped Evelyn's ankle with it making sure it was properly secured.

He then took one last glance at Evelyn before blacking out next to her.

And that's a wrap! Thank you all for reading this chapter. I hope the waiting was worth it and I hope to see you next chapter. Goodbye my lovely readers.

-Cashew