"As much as I despise the boy, he makes you happy, and seeing you smile is most important to me."
I launch myself at him, pulling him into a hug. "Thank you."
"Come, let's bring your boyfriend home."
"Dad!" I scream as he chuckles.
3rd POV
The two walk back through the portal as Verian floats beside them.
The portal opens up into the infirmary, and Universe places Verians body on a bed to rest.
"He may not wake for a time, but you will see him again." Universe stated "Here he lies. Here he will return. I promise."
"How long will it take?" Skylar asked.
"I don't know, time is hard to tell." Universe explained. "But he is strong, he will find his way back to us . . . to you.
"How do you know?"
"Because I know his feelings for you, have faith child."
Years later
Verian POV
My head hurts. I feel like someone cut me up, taped me back together, then threw me in a freezer and left me there. I wake up to find myself in
the infirmary, again. This is a normal thing, always happening after a mission. A mission. What happened after I took the spear? I pull up my shirt
to find a jagged scar in the position of where the spear went through me. My shirt falls back down as I think about what happened.
I remember Skylar there, the explosion, the battle, and the assassin. But I should be dead. I guess I'll just ask her later. I start walking towards
the door to leave, and then I mentally smack myself. Teleporting is easier and less painful. I find myself in the Throne Room only to find no one
there. Strange, there are always people here. I start teleporting everywhere trying to find someone. The starship platform, all ships accounted for.
The mess hall, empty. The training grounds, deserted. My parents dwelling, recently abandoned. So, I teleport myself outside Skylar's room, and
knock on the door. The door swings open, and I find that she has not been here lately. Weird, she always keeps her place as neat as possible. I
walk across the hall to my place and step through the door to find the place neat and tidy.
I start getting irritated; I don't appreciate people going through my stuff. But that feeling wears of quick. I walk to my bedroom to find it
occupied. There on my bed lies the motionless form of Skylar. Now I know why her place is a mess she probably has not been in there since the
incident. Speaking of it how long has it been, at least a week or two, my muscles are that stiff.
I walk over to the bed and sit next to Skylar, she is out cold. I walk back down stairs to the living room, sit on the couch, and pick up the
remote to turn on a movie. The movie is interesting; you know the typical guy movie. Stuff blows up, blood goes everywhere, but I can't seem to
focus on the movie. I keep asking myself the same question. How long have I been out?
I get up from the couch and walk to the refrigerator to get something to drink when I'm broken out of my train of thought when some
unknown force tackles me from behind.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" Screams Skylar.
"Um, Sky, It's me."
"Tell me the truth or I will stab my knife through your skull!"
Sweet talks not going to work, so my battle reflexes kick in as I push the knife away and kick her off of me.
"Calm down Sky."
"DON'T call me that, only my boyfriend can call me that and he has been asleep for five years."
"I've been asleep for five years?" I mumble.
"Who are YOU? And how did you get in here?" She demands.
"Sky, it's me. Verian." I say slowly knowing how fast she is with a knife.
"Prove it."
As I think of something to prove who I am, a thought comes to me. The last thing I told her after the spear went through my chest.
"I told you that I would always be with you." As I say this, I lift up my shirt to show my newest scar. "To never lose hope."
Her eyes widen in realization and she starts to slowly walk to me.
"Is that really you? You're really here?" She whispers.
I smile in a cocky way that she can only understand, "I'm as real as it gets."
She smiles and runs into my arms and hugs me for what feels like an eternity, as she pulls back to say something, I silence her with a kiss.
She freezes for a second before kissing me back.
After a few minutes we pull apart, and I rest my forehead against hers. I stay there looking her in the eye before she pulls back and smacks me.
"I thought you were dead." She says near tears.
I pull her back into a hug knowing that I deserved the slap, but I go on to say, "You can't get rid of me that easy."
With that we both start laughing and I pull her back into my embrace.
"Damn, I thought she would kill you."
We break apart to find both of our parents looking at us with amused faces.
"Dad. Mom."
"Son" They respond, before Chaos continues. "Five years is too long."
"Ya, 'bout that. How am I alive?" I ask.
Chaos turns to look at Skylar who then in turn looks at her father.
"I gave you an Exiler of Life." Universe says.
"oh" I respond intelligently.
Chaos chuckles before turning to Skylar "Dear, your mission awaits."
"Mission?" I ask.
"Don't worry it's just a reconnaissance mission," Cosmos states before mother completes the thought, "It should only take a week."
"Fine, but I'm taking a vacation."
"Yes and your taking your entire fleet with you." Skylar states sternly. "I just got you back, I'm not losing you already."
And so, that is how I ended up on earth.
I walk down the streets of New York, thinking of what would happen if these people knew of the outside world. If only they were not so arrogant.
We could share so much with them. As I walk, I notice a young man running from a horde of hellhounds and Cyclops. One of them seems to be on
his side trying to protect him but it isn't enough. I can't let him die, so I jump into the fray.
Slash, stab, duck, stab, roll, jump; my body seems to be on over drive. As the enemy numbers dwindle down I can see the boys' strength doing so
as well. I see the last Cyclops standing over him ready to finish him off. I expand my claws on my left hand embed them into the monster. As it
falls, it turns to yellow dust like the rest of the monsters. As I approach the boy, I retract my claws, pull back my hood and take off my mask.
"What's your name kid?"
"Who are you?" he replies.
"A friend, your name."
"Percy Jackson"
"Aren't you the great hero of Olympus?" I asked
"I was," he said sadly, "But my family doesn't care for me anymore."
"What happened? The last time I heard you had just beaten Gaea and her giants."
"Why do you care? You will never know what it is like to be all alone." Percy says
"Yes . . . I do." I say,"More than you know."
"What happened to you?!"
"Come with me, I will tell you everything, I can give you a new reason to live," I then said something that I knew he couldn't resist, "You can even
see your friends that have died from before."
"I will come, but I do have a request." He says nervously.
I give a 'go on' gesture.
"Can you bring Zoe Nightshade back from the stars?" He asked
I give him a sly smile, "Already, done bro. Some of your old friends were recruited right after they died."
"That is good then"
"You can also bring with you whomever you desire, but you will have to wait for a while."
"Ok."
"Come on then. I'll take you to my ship."
I soon find out the kid is more annoying that I originally thought, though with all the questions asked I knew we would become friends. As we travel
I answer his questions until the one I had been waiting for arrives.
"Where are we going?" Percy asks.
Without looking up, I reply "Home."
"Oh"
Neither of us said anything else for a while. Not until the Citadel came into view.
"Wow, this place is huge. How has no one ever found this place?"
I reply "It is shielded from the eyes of the unworthy, no one finds it unless the Council says so."
"Oh."
"This will be your new home, enjoy the time you get here, the happiness never lasts."
I take the boy into the Citadel, and bring him into the custody of our army. He joined as I did, an assassin, with his own army. It had all of his old
friends and those who did not forget about him. He changed his name to Alistair, that way if he ever returned to earth no one would ever know it is him. He even got to remember what love felt like years later, when his heart was healed by Zoe. They got together finally after years of everyone pointing fingers. We became close friends and had many missions together. But like I told him before, happiness never lasts.
A/N Sorry for taking so long. Lots of projects are coming in lately
