The Child Of the Moon: The Battle of the Labyrinth
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Chapter 8: Light within the darkness
Honestly, I wasn't keeping track of time I might've ran for minutes, or hours genuinely I had no clue. I just knew that I had to keep moving, to get away from the reality that I was losing my mother just after getting her back. I didn't care how pointless and nonsensical it was I just needed to get away from the two of them. My instincts screamed for me to go back run to my mother's arms like a five-year-old and try to prevent the impossible, but I knew it was hopeless. It was flight or fight, and flight decided to kick in.
"Gods Damnit!" I roared into the air finally coming to a stop.
Around me the very grass and flowers started wilt. The trees seemed to gloss over with frost, waving back and forth as if being pushed by the wind. The air seemed to shift as if rifts of space seemed to distort, blue lines that I forced to hide under my skin revealed throughout my body. Anger, true anger was coursing through me. I was angry at the queen, my adoptive mother, and most prominently at myself. I was angry that even with the powers I possessed I could do nothing to keep my mother from merging back with the queen of dragons. Then suddenly, the grass and plants around me stopped wilting, the space around me stopped rippling, the ice covering the trees thawed and melted and all of a sudden, a thick deep fog surrounded me. Not even allowing me to see my surroundings, or my very own two feet. Out of the fog a dragon appeared.
The dragon seemed to have a sort of mist around it. Its eyes a light grey color, its eyes reflecting a high level of intelligence. The mist made the dragon almost completely invisible save for its eyes. Its eyes then shifted, and I could hear it shuffling till it stood right in front of me. The dragon looked at me and then suddenly some of the mist stared to actually form into its body. Its wings were made of the very mist that surrounded us. It was covered in gray scales, with no horns on the head. It had two frills one on each side of its head acting as what I could assume ears. Its body had mist coming off in droves its body looked almost intangible. Its neck was long but bent looking at me curiously.
I looked away from its eyes, and bitterly grunted. "Leave me be." I muttered and was about to walk away. However, the dragon seemed to have other ideas because whether it understood me or not my hood was caught in its teeth and it started to gently lift me and started to take me somewhere.
"What the hell!" I said struggling to get out of its grasp. "Let me go you oversized gecko."
But I was ignored, I tried using what abilities I could, but they wouldn't do what I wanted as if going against my very will. And Just when I was about to stab the damn dragon I was dropped harshly on my butt near a lake. The lake seemed to stretch for miles with no end in sight, the lake was surrounded by large pine trees, with new mist rolling in giving the new location a more mysterious and ominous feel. It was odd how the beautiful location turned into something that made my skin crawl, but with my state of rage I didn't give it too much thought.
When I turned to shout at the dragon that had dragged me all the way to the lake for no reason, I realized it was gone disappeared as if out of thin air.
"The hell." I muttered. And then I turned back to the lake, I stared for a second wondering what the crazy scaly bastard wanted, but after a minute of waiting and nothing happening, I turned away set on leaving the area, till a voice reached out to me.
"Turning your back on me again huh! Like always!" A voice laced with spite said, and oddly enough sounding strangely familiar.
I then turned around and the sight before me shocked me to my very core. There standing in front of me was like a mirror image. It was myself only standing on the water as if It were solid.
The differences between the two of us though were our eyes, and hair. My doppelganger had instead of my silver blue eyes, had glowing purple and black eyes. His hair was black instead of my brown color. It was odd, as if he was a long-lost brother, I had no clue about.
"A brother! That' s a laugh." The other me barked with laughter. Then suddenly he was next to me in an instant with his fist buried in my gut, knocking the air out of my lungs, blue lines covering his form, his eyes wild, and before I could react, he kicked me harshly away from the lake.
I sat up coughing my lungs out and was suddenly lifted by my throat by the doppelganger.
"I am you! The real you! The one you decided to so harshly bury beneath all of your so-called perfect personality. Its disgusting."
I grasped my doppelganger's hand tightly, trying to loosen the grip, and as if my powers came out from out of nowhere, one of my orbs shot out my pocket in an attempt to slice off his hand, but before it could he seemed to teleport a small distance away, all the while looking at me smugly.
I coughed trying to regain my breath. When I finally was able to stand back up I swiped some blood off my chin.
"I don't know what the hell your talking about you nut job!" I snapped.
"Hahahaha." The nut job roared with laughter.
"What!" I roared back angry for his blatant laughter.
His smug, and humorous face turned dead serious.
"I knew you were stupid, but this dumb. Tch, our father would be disappointed." The doppelganger said venomously and dripping with mock disappointment, all the while placing his hand to his head shaking it back and forth, with his eyes closed.
I roared in anger and grasped my orb turning it into a spear and lunged forward. And he instantly opened his eyes and pulled out his own orb changing it into his own spear and blocked my incoming blow and all the while kept his smug smile as he kept meeting me blow for blow, he copied my every single move. Then the too of us pulled away from each other. The two of us too evenly matched.
"Angry?" The doppelganger asked sarcastically.
"You have no idea. You couldn't imagine the day I've been having." I glared at him.
"I think I do actually remember I am you, moron. And that's good."
"What?" I said in shock.
"That anger is good. The pain, the anger. Its because of them, the two in that castle, the ones who betray us at camp. Its because of Luke, because of Ginarth! They all cause us pain, misery. We should destroy them, if we become one, we crush them. We use that very pain and anger to crush anyone who dares to defy us. We save mother by killing the queen." The doppelganger said coolly, his own reptilian eyes gaining a dangerous glint to them.
"Your insane." I said shocked.
"By that same insistence we are insane. I am you." The doppleganger said insanely.
"But I would never kill anyone. Ginarth, Ginarth is a different case. But the queen, the ones at camp….no I refuse. They are family. And while what is about to happen to my mother is terrible its something that," I took in a deep breath. "it just can't be undone. No matter how painful it is."
The other me scowled, and raced at me. Reacting just in time I met his blow.
"You fool. Don't you see." The other me said as he struck again only for me to block, the fighting continuing as we had a battle of wills. "We could be something greater than Ginarth. We could rule it all."
"What about our friends huh!" I shouted back in anger.
"What friends? Hell, what family? Are you talking about the ones who stared and whispered behind our backs? The ones who thought us as monsters. The ones at camp are fakes. They pretend to think of us as comrades, friends, family whatever you want to call them, but really, they hate us. They hate what they don't understand, and they will forever. Why should we defend them? They hurt us just as this queen is doing by taking away our mother."
I was stunned by what the evil me said. That shock gave him the opening he needed and he sent a harsh kick at my ribs, sending me skidding back and a jagged ice shard raced at me about to rip me in half, luckily I was to get a grip on my emotions and was able to use one of my other orbs and created a shield, the ice spear only inches from my face. I then lowered the barrier and the ice fell to the ground melting and my orb going back to my pocket.
"I understand, perhaps in some sense you are right, maybe some of them do hate us. But we can't just let anger and sadness fuel us. We would be no better than Ginarth, or any other psycho out there. We take it with a smile and change their mind." I said with conviction.
"Why? Why should we have to huh?" The other me asked angry tears flowing in his eyes now. "Our own mother Artemis hates us. Are you saying after just a few gifts and some kind words it excuses her or anyone else?"
"How else is she to make up for anything, she can't change the past. She genuinely is saddened by what she has done. You can see it too. We have amazing people in our lives, we have Annabeth, Grover, Percy, Asura, grandma Athena, Ember, mom, and even though dad isn't here he sure as hell cared for us. We have people who want the best for us, we have people who love and care for us, yes horrible things have happened, yes its terrible and it makes me sad, and mad, but we, I can't just let that rule our thoughts. We have other emotions besides just hate and anger." I said seriously.
"And what about me huh!" the other me roared. "What am I just some tool, to be used when to drive you to do something. I am your personification of your anger, your sadness, and your hate. What am I supposed to do? Be suppressed again, to be nothing. Cause its not happening again I swear to the gods!" the other me roared as he charged to punch me, but before he could make contact, I blocked the punch, holding it before it could reach me. His eyes widened in shock, and then he snarled and then made to swing at me with his other fist, but I grasped it with my other hand.
I then brought both arms of my doppelganger down to his sides and then I quickly let go of his fists and grabbed him in a hug with him struggling, however I ignored the struggling and continued with the hug.
"No, my anger, pain, hate, and sadness doesn't need to be suppressed. It doesn't need to be buried. I need to accept and move on. I need to forgive myself, for not being capable of doing everything in the world. I need to accept my own limits. And I need to vent when I need to, and I must accept not everyone will be okay with the abilities I show, but in time those who hate me or don't acknowledge me will eventually either become a friend or an after thought, I know you can't change everyone, but I'll be damned If I don't try. And I guess that all starts with changing myself first. After all I wouldn't be Blake, if I just sat and moped all the time." I said, and the tears that had started dripping from my doppelgangers face eventually stopped, his hair lightened to a brown color, and his eyes changed to and started to haze over till it became a lighter color of my own eyes.
And suddenly my other self turned in to golden energy orbs and started to flow around me till it absorbed into my skin. I closed my eyes and felt a weight that I hadn't known was there suddenly lift off my shoulders. I could feel it, I was no longer full of hate about the situation, I had come to the realization somethings were just out of my control, and I had to accept the reality of the situation before me. No matter how saddening or painful it might be I had to face it head on and embrace what remaining time I had left with my mom.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a beautiful glistening lake. The trees a vibrant green, giving off a strong smell of pine, and I smiled at the lake. It was no longer night. It was daytime.
'What happened.' I thought to myself I had no clue whether it was an illusion or something else it was creepy to say the least.
I turned away from the lake only to come in contact with the same dragon that had brought me all the way to the lake. I could see in its eyes were not staring or looking at me but at the amazing lake.
"You brought me here on purpose?" I said looking at the dragon suspiciously.
The dragon seemed to smile, and directed its attention to me, and at my question and nodded its large head. Its body sill blowing wisps of mist off its hide. It lowered its body to the ground and pointed its snout to its back. I nodded my head in understanding and got on its back.
It lifted its large misty wings and after a couple of flaps we were soaring in the air, and in the direction of the castle. I was nervous, genuinely I was nervous. I was still a little sad that my mother would be gone but with what I had just experienced I had come to accept what would inevitably happen.
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