The woman sat calmly on the rocky cliff surrounding the lake and Tributary River, her long, mahogany plait running down her back as purple eyes gazed into the river's blue depths.
As she stood, she removed to white summer dress she wore over her two piece green swimmers before running to the edge and executing a perfect double front flip into the water so far below.
As Aqua swam in the cool water, chasing fish and playing with the odd creature, she looked longingly towards the river. She swam toward it, but as always as she reached where the lake became river, she felt a horrible shock and was thrown backwards with such force that she slammed into the cliff face.
She closed her eyes in the pain that lingered from the unyielding shock, any tears that may have come losing themselves in the caressing water.
Aqua opened her eyes as a callused hand found its way under her chin and tilted it upwards. She found her sad eyes looking into deep blue eyes, their colour like the depths of the sea.
'You know you cannot go beyond here,' he murmured to her, pity and sadness in his voice.
Aqua moved her head to the side, looking away from him.
'I know, but that does not remove my want,' she whispered calmly.
He reached around her and pulled her into a soft hug, 'I wish I could have down more for you, after what you did for us.'
Aqua smiled ruefully, 'At least you managed to convince him to allow me this lake. I fear I would have wasted without it.'
He nodded softly, gazing into the water around them.
'It feels wrong,' he chuckled.
'Of course it feels wrong for you,' she replied with a smile, 'You do not have as much control in the inland waters. Your domain is the vast oceans, after all.'
Poseidon gave her a small half smile as his face turned serious.
'Olympus is restless. We are fighting amongst ourselves and Zeus has become as much of tyrant as father ever was.'
Aqua didn't show any emotion as he glanced sideways at her, 'You knew already?' he asked with only a small amount of surprise.
'I saw many things before I even left my parent's prison to come to this more extravagant confinement,' she replied bitterly, 'Phoebe left me with some gift.'
Poseidon nodded in acceptance, before turning to her. 'I have a son.'
Aqua raised an eyebrow, 'Percy is it not?'
Poseidon grinned happily, 'Perceus Jackson, he is a beautiful child.'
'You must be proud,' she spoke softly.
'Indeed, but I broke the pact of the Big Three,' he whispered in pain, 'He will always be in danger from Hades and Zeus.'
A silence drifted between the two as they drifted through the water that was their element.
'I'm glad you broke the pact,' Aqua spoke finally, Poseidon looking at her in shock, 'Its about time that vision began to come to pass.'
Poseidon shook his head, chuckling. 'I won't be able to help him,' he spoke looking at her once again.
Aqua nodded her acceptance of what he asked her to do, 'I'll do my best to help him while he remains inland. But you must realise, while in my imprisonment, my powers are significantly weakened the further away the water tends to be.'
Poseidon nodded calmly in his understanding, 'I will be convincing Sally to move closer to this area. I want Percy as protected as possible.'
Aquas interjected quickly, 'And please remember, the closer your son remains to me, the more my own scent will mask his own. My godly blood is pure after all; it will overwhelm the monsters' senses.'
Poseidon smiled at her, 'I am so grateful that I have your ear and hand. I don't really know what I would do without it.'
Aqua smiled mischievously, 'Well, you would have twice the water to control, would lose an impartial advisor, not too ment-'
Poseidon placed a calloused hand over her pink lips, 'I quite realise how disadvantaged I would become without your input.'
Aqua's eyes darkened, 'The ability to remember, to see the present, the future...the ability to advise, to have wisdom...I would give it all up to change my past.'
'But you did nothing,' Poseidon reminded her.
The goddess smiled gently, 'But I may as well have, I did not try to stop my parents when I should have.'
'You cannot blame the children for the sins of the father,' Poseidon murmured, looking over the waters.
Aqua's eyes swept over the land amount of inland known as her prison, 'Maybe if I'd acted faster I wouldn't be here...' she whispered quietly.
The blue eyed god said nothing, knowing nothing could be said.
'But I will protect your son, Poseidon,' she promised as she turned to the God of the Seas once again, 'it is the least I could do after all you've done for me.'
Poseidon smiled gently at her, 'It is the least I could do for all your help, Aquacuitas.'
Aqua smiled gently, Poseidon had, of course, allowed her to keep her control of the inland waters, fought for her prison to contain some of her element.
In return she would do anything she could to help him.
'When he grows, I won't be able to associate with him as much as he needs to be protected. If...if I send him to you, for guidance on a quest or task of some form...will you help to the best of your ability?'
'I will.'
Poseidon turned towards the river, preparing to current travel to the ocean once more. 'I will come back again when I can. But your father...he is beginning to create some restlessness in the deep oceans again.'
Aqua drew a sharp breath, 'I understand.'
Poseidon nodded at the woman before disappearing into droplets of water.
Aquacuitas closed her eyes, sitting on the bank and drawing slender legs beneath her chin, once again in her seclusion...
Waiting for when she was needed.
FIN
Yea, because I'm starting to bog down, I figure I just finish 'Part 1' there. Part two is mostly going to go from when Percy first meets her until after the battle with the titans. If I get around to it anyway ^^;
Thanks for all your reading/reviews/alerts and of course, all the wonderful people that pointed out what I had done wrong with mythology Any weird points that clash with traditional mythology I bought with my creative license, just because it was the only way I could get the story to work.
Hope to see you next part,
Archer Out