Blind Archer Blind Love chapter 4
[First off last time skip I promise it's how the story goes please don't get on to me for it. Ok you can get on to me but I can't control it. The chapters come to me like rabid plot bunnies that I have to write down. All I have actually planed are the major events, Other than that making it up as I go!]
(One year later, Andrea)
It was hard to believe it had really been that long, a full year, since I woke up with his letters on my pillow. In that time my hair had gone from shoulder length to half way down my back. Instead of long I wore it up and out of my face. I had even given up the sunglasses but still carried my cane. I could often feel people staring at my back or face, even hear there voice catch or heart skip a beat when they realized I was blind but could see. Every voice every sound painting a clearer image than my eyes ever could and it all happened when I woke up I couldn't read like a normal person but every thing I heard seemed to be etched in my brain including the sound of three pairs of feet that had been following me for the past three blocks since I passed the empire state building on the way to central park from work since he left I had learned that a weekly archery tournament took place and I had made a habit of entering but instead of taking my normal route I side stepped in to a deserted ally about three blocks from the museum of natural history on ether of the towering office buildings that created the ally were fire escapes that emptied in to it while another building created a dead end. Once I reached it I turned on my heals and faced my stalkers taking them off guard. "Who are you what do you want?"
"Who we are is no concern to the dead!" the middle one shrieked in a hag like voice.
"Well I'm not dead yet am I?" a small smirk spread across my face "and you shouldn't make threats that you can't carry out." their heart rates speed up their going to make a move I spin my Cain while getting on one knee. A burgundy long bow with a bronze string appears in my hands.
"Ha, how do you expect to defend yourself with out arrows?" the one to my right taunts in the same crackling voice. As they lung my smirk turns in to a full out smile as I hear movement on the fire escapes. I focus on the moisture in the air around me and I feel it solidify between my right pointer and index fingers as soon as I feel its weight I release it sending it flying straight in to the middle one's chest with a thud and hiss as it evaporates. The other two let out a hiss of anguish and call "Eleko!" but stay on path as the thud of a dagger to the left and the clang of a Broad sword to the right make contact with flesh they disappear like the other with a final cry "impossible your merely humans you can't have…" there words fade away like the dust their bodies have become.
"You can't stay out of trouble. Can you sis?" my brother teases no doubt a smile is etched across his face while his sword is swung across his left shoulder
I shrugged "It's not like I go looking for it. It just always seems to find me."
"She does have a point J. First there was that lion thing, then the hydra, the Minotaur, that boar, the flying sow Am I missing some thing?" Naida asks as she picks up her earring daggers placing them back in her ears.
"Medusa and the hell hounds. Oh, and the hydra" I suggested "and Jace was the instigator on those. There is no way I'm taking the blame on them." with that I toss my bow back into its cane form catching it in mid-air before continuing "and Naida you were the sow and Minotaur. As far as I can tell we're trouble magnates for creatures that are suppose; key word here, to be the stuff of myths I think those were the kindly ones. Something is going on here they aren't they suppose to listen to Hades? Why did they attack us?" it was meant to be a rhetorical question.
"Why is a huge rock floating over the empire state building with a city on top and we never noticed it until the past year?"
"Don't ask me Jace it's not like I can see it" I rolled my eyes at him
"Sorry Andy I didn't mean it like that."
My brother meant well but he needed to learn to be more considerate "Yea, yea. Anyway it seems like the behemoths from Greek and Roman myths and legends are coming to life and have decided that we'd make a fine snack. you to better get to the house before something else happens today"
"Sounds good; I don't know about you and Jace, Andrea, but I'd say two monster attacks in a single week, one with three of them, is a little much."
"Couldn't have said it better my self Naida, Andy you coming?" as he turned from me to my sister and back again
"I'll follow you in a bit I want to do something first" I had been going there before the attack and I wasn't about to let it change my mind. It had been eleven years and I still hadn't been there and I felt that it wasn't right to avoid it any longer.
"But you're the one that suggested that we go home."
"I know but this is something I need to do something first"
"But you just said" he stammered.
I let out an exasperated sigh "I Know what I said Jace. I said you two, not me. I have to do something and please don't argue."
He was shifting from foot to foot the gravel crunching under his feet before he let out a held breath and his shoulders slumped "Fine just promise me you'll be careful"
"You got your self a deal thanks" I gave him a reassuring smile hopping that they would understand my reasoning behind it. He just shook his head and turned heal leaving the ally
I expected Naida to do the same but in stead she ran up to me nearly crushing me in a hug and whispered in my ear "We're worried about you Andy please don't do any thing seriously stupid we'd be lost without you." with that she pulled back and ran out of the ally flowing Jace's movements.
I stayed in that ally for a while listening to the city revolve around me. I waited until the city's sound reached its peak signaling the arrival of night. The time when the city came to life. It was only then I left the ally and entered central park. If I didn't have the path burned in to my brain I had no doubt that I would be lost in the labyrinth of trails and pathways that wound their way through the park to a little known location at the east side of the park near the water. Where a salt water spring flowed from a marble fountain or at least that's what my brother and sister said. I felt so out of place just standing there it was my fault that the accident occurred my fault they were hurt that much I knew it was the only thing I knew about that day. I had no idea what to say but I opened my mouth and the words that sprung forth sounded right. "Mom dad I'm back sorry it took so long."
Suddenly a voice appeared behind me and I whorled around at its words "Yes, it has been a while, hasn't it child?" the voice was masculine and menacing and the aura it gave off signaled power unlike anything I'd felt before I was torn two ways one said fight and stand your ground the other hide at the same time it was terrifying the figure it came from and I don't use the word figure lightly for that was all he was no, distinguishing features. As far as I could tell he had no face just form and even that appeared to shift in the slightest breeze "ah, I see you don't remember me. Just as well it wasn't like I could get near you when Apollo was hanging around." Wait wasn't he a myth? Uhh! Well that's really bright Andrea you've fought with the Minotaur and furies but question the existence of the sun god. Why did that name send shivers up my spine, the good kind? "Never the less that problem's been dealt with."
My heart froze and my blood boiled even when the others threatened my siblings did I react this strongly "What did you do to him?" I screeched
A low deadly chuckle "Oh it's not just him all the Olympians and those who sided with them have been captured, with out the demigods to stand up for them and believe, their power dwindled. Leaving only one major power in the area, you. The most stubborn mortal I've ever met. You are truly the child of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase to have fended me off for this long. Now come along."
"Make me!" I hissed through gritted teeth
"That can be arranged." I felt some one coming up behind me but was to slow to make a move and with one swift movement I was on the ground with the figure whispering in my ear "Sleep well you'll need it" a harsh laugh began to rise as i slipped in to unconsciousness.
[There is an explanation for the lack of detail in this chapter. although Andrea can tell where things are she can not tell you the color time of day all she gets is a basic out line of what it looks like based off the sounds bouncing off of or coming from something if her hand is on a wall she can tell what's of the other side but only if sounds are loud enough]
What do you think? If you even paid the slightest attention to the series you could have figured out who her parents are I just wanted to make it official. Any ideas contact me anyone and I repeated any one can review and I appreciate it greatly also check out my crossover One Spark to Start a Fire and story Freedom Isn't Free