A/N: Hello everyone sorry for taking such a long time to upload the second chapter.
Been busy studying for finals which I hope go as well as I have planned. Without further ado
here is the second chapter.
Even though this story has no particular relation to Percy Jackson itself apart from the core setting, I still have to declare that I do not own PJO or any of the characters associated with it, however I do own the Plot to this story and the characters shown within it.
Chapter 2
Who are you?
Feeling the water splash at my face I began to come around, opening my eyes slowly I felt the light burn my eyes. Quickly shutting them close brought some relief, after a while I felt something prod my face.
Over the sound of water splashing I could hear fierce whispers, then as if I was made out of feathers I felt my self being lifted up in the air. Opening my eyes slightly I saw a girl in a baby blue bikini, striking green eyes and wavy chocolate brown hair.
After this darkness enveloped me, I could hear voices, screams and the screeching of metal against metal. For what seemed like days this kept repeating itself in my head and at the end of it there was always a white light. Suddenly it all stopped, as if an unknown force had taken pity on me and decided to end this torment.
My eyes snapped open, I could still hear the ocean waves crashing against the rocks but I could not feel the warm sand against my skin. Instead I felt a small cool hand pressing itself against my cheek, as I looked at her she jumped behind a slightly older girl with sleek black hair and piercing brown eyes. She was wearing blue jeans with small tears running up the left leg, a tank top which looked to have seen better days.
I saw her lips move and knew she was trying to say something but I couldn't hear her; instead there was this fizzing sound that just wouldn't stop. Even at such a low frequency it made me unable to hear anything. It wasn't until the green eyed girl walked in that the fizzing stopped.
"Are you okay?" She asked rather concerned. "We found you on the beach, so we brought you to our home."
"Can you tell us how you got here?"
"I…"
It felt quite hard to make a sentence; it was as if I was trying to speak for the first time.
"I can't…remem….remember."
They looked at each other as if it was a joke, the black haired girl jumped in with another questions before I could figure out the answer to the first.
"Who are you?" "What's your name?"
"My name is…."
They all craned their necks so that they could hear what I said but after a while they saw that their efforts were futile as they would not receive an answer. Frustrated they all began conversing in whispers, I sat there stunned at the fact anyone was able to speak so quickly.
Slowly the whispers died out and they stood there staring at me, even the little girl was staring at me whilst clutching the worn tank top.
"So what…should we call him" said the little girl "if he is going to live here then he will need a name."
"Wait who said he was going to live here?"
"Yes, Becky has a point and besides he has nowhere else to go."
"But-"
"No buts, it's my final decision."
"Hey um…thanks" I said smiling sheepishly
"We have to stick together" she said smiling back "so far you are the only one we have seen on this whole island, who knows if there is anyone else around."
"So you have been around the whole island?"
"No…not the whole island, there are parts where we can't go. There are these creatures there and we don't want to cross their path" She said shuddering a little.
A small cough interrupted me before I could ask more questions, the cough came from Becky.
"Sis you are being rude, you still have not told him our names" she said looking a little proud that she was the only one who had caught on to that.
"Oh I am so sorry, it completely skipped my mind. My name is Kayla Johnson, this is my little sister Rebecca but I call her Becky."
As I looked over at Rebecca she waved at me as if she had seen me for the first time.
"This here is my friend Ciara" she said pulling the black haired girl close to her.
A faint smile played on Ciara's lips as Kayla pulled her close but the instance she saw me looking at her it disappeared.
"Well now you know who we are" she said smiling at me.
I got up and walked over to the window to have a look outside, the afternoon sun was beating down on the sand yet a cool breeze kept blowing in from the sea. Standing at the balcony the island looked like paradise, lush green forests to my left and the open sea to my right. In the distance I could faintly make out a hill which would provide the best vantage point to have a look around the island.
As I turned around the girls began looking in different directions, it was like they had all been looking at me while I had my back turned to them.
"I will be back in a while, I need to go and check something."
Nancy asked a little concerned "Where are you going?" "It will be evening soon and after dark this island is not a good place to be walking around." "A lot of creatures come out at night."
I looked at her and smiled, whatever concerns she had just seemed to melt away from her face.
"I will take care of myself don't worry and I will be back by sunset."
Leaving them there I left the house and decided to go toward the hill in the distance, I knew I may not make it back in time but I need to go there, something about that place sends a tingling feeling down my spine.
Looking back at the stretch beach and the house I ran into the forest, just walking in there seemed to air temperature. It definitely got hotter by a couple of degrees, it was going to be a really long journey to the hill, plants and foliage was so thick that I could barely walk through them.
With nothing to cut through them with I had to do everything by hand, the animals in the treetops were watching me with some interest often calling out to each other. Even after what seemed like hours I was nowhere near the hill and from the look of it I would not be getting there any time soon.
I was about to jump over a fallen tree when I heard the sound of a tree falling, the earth itself shook a little and then everything went quiet. As I jumped over the tree trunk a twig snapped behind me, I was a little slow in turning around as before I could see what was behind me I felt something connect with my shoulder and pain shot through it like fire.
Rolling away quickly behind a tree I looked out at my attacker, from what I knew there was no one else on this island except for the four of us. So was this the so called creatures that Kayla was talking about.
There before me stood but a shadow of a proud centaur, its fur and hooves caked in mud, pieces of meat dangling from its open jaw. A large wound in its side gave off the smell of rotting flesh, its eyes blood shot and madly searching for me.
As if I was the next thing on the menu, carefully taking a step back I looked around to see if there was anything I could use to defend myself. I saw a somewhat sturdy branch not too far from me, the only problem being that if I went to get it I would be in plain view. Open to attack.
As it turned away from me I took a chance and leapt for the branch, as if it heard my thoughts, it turned around as I was in mid jump. Seeing it raise its club which looked more like a meat tenderiser, I knew that this was going to hurt.
I could almost feel the club cutting through the air toward me; I braced myself for what seemed like an eternity but the impact never came. Instead a shrill sound rang in the air; both my arms felt quite heavy, slowly opening one eye my jaw nearly hit the floor.
The bracelets that were on my hand from before were now replaced with terrifying gauntlets; just the sight of them seemed to have stopped the Centaur in its tracks. The pair of lion heads at the end of the gauntlets seemed to be frozen in mid roar which added to their menacing nature.
A set of rotating spiked collars seemed to make up the mane; the gauntlets went up to my elbow, even though this was the first time seeing them I felt quite comfortable with their weight.
More to the point I knew how to use them, he jumped back as I went to punch him. Even before he landed he saw that he had made a mistake, the lion head had become detached from the gauntlet and I flung it at him like a cannonball.
It was a direct hit to the ribs, from the pained expression I expected a couple of ribs to be broken. Rather than landing softly it skidded away to a nearby tree, painfully it got up with eyes full of rage.
Having dealt quite a blow I relaxed a little, the animals in the tree tops grew silent, the only thing that could be heard was the jingle of the chain attached to the lion head. Quickly retracting the chain I charged head on knowing that it did not have much fight left, before I got within hitting range I felt something cut through my t shirt.
From the look in its eye I didn't think it was just going to roll over and die, slowing down to a walk I observed him. At that moment something flashed before my eyes, I found myself standing in front of yet another centaur.
The only difference was that this one seemed a lot kinder, wielding to short blades he kept taunting me to attack only to parry them away. A punch to the face brought me back to reality, rolling away just as it decided to smash its club where my head had been.
Quickly punching both its front legs I moved away, looking at the sky I knew this had to end quickly otherwise I would be stuck in the jungle for the night. Running in again I punched its face a few times and jumped into the air using its back.
As the chains extended a look of fear passed its face, it knew what was coming. A fairly loud echo rang in the air as the centaur was smashed to the ground, there was no sign of movement and I did not have any energy left to go check.
The gauntlets returned to normal and I ran back through the forest to the house, the door opened with one knock. Kayla stood there looking at me like I was the naughty child at the nursery, she eyed the injuries I had and pulled me in by the arm.
Sitting me down on the sofa she went to get the first aid kit.
"Where were you it's so late, we told you to come back before sunset"
She came back in the room with a small metallic box, opening it up she took out a bottle of clear liquid and some cotton wool.
Taking off what was left of my t shirt I let her apply the medicine, small shocks were sent up my arm as the cotton wool touched the cuts.
With a slightly pained look I said "What is that?"
Smiling at my reaction she said "it's called Iodine, it's meant to disinfect the wound."
Throughout the time she was dabbing my cuts with Iodine a small smile never went from her lips, this was the first time I had actually taken my time to look at her. Her chocolate curls fell onto her face as she turned to get more cotton wool, her sea green eyes showed quite a bit of concern as she turned to face me.
As she dabbed the piece of cotton against my cheek, seeing the tears welling up in my eyes she jumped back a little.
"I'm sorry, you should have said something if it was hurting that badly"
Hissing a little I said "I didn't want to disturb you"
Flicking my forehead she said "Don't be stupid"
Putting the cotton aside she leaned in, as the sensation of cold air on my cheek spread the pain receded. I lost track of everything as I looked into her eyes, it felt like I was in a safe place.
Even when she stopped blowing air on my cheek I was still lost somewhere, it was only when I felt her hand touch my face that I came back to reality.
"Hey what happened? Are you okay?"
"Sorry I thought I just remembered something" I lied.
Her face seemed to fall for a second, a split second later a small smile appeared on her face. Trying to change the subject I asked her about the cave at the top of the hill, at first she was a little confused but then took her to the balcony and pointed it out in the distance.
Leaning on the railing she squinted in the direction I was pointing at, after a while she gave up.
Looking a little concerned she said "I can't see anything right now, maybe we can all go there in the morning. For now let's just go to sleep."
"Yeah…I forgot to ask this before, where did Ciara and Rebecca go?"
Smiling a little she said "They have already gone to sleep; even though we are stranded here we can let Becky develop bad habits"
I went and made myself comfortable on the sofa, as I lay there looking up at the ceiling a pillow hit me in the face. I caught it before it hit the floor and look up at Kayla carrying a duvet.
Throwing it at me she smiled "Here take this; it can get a little cold here at night."
As she left she took the first aid box with her and turned off the light she whispered "Who are you?"
A very cool breeze was blowing in through the open door, while we all slept something was awake in the forest, it had found the body of the centaur.
A/N: Well that is the end of the second chapter, I hope you enjoyed reading it.
The next chapter will be up soon, feel free to leave some comments about the chapter.
But please no flames be nice :)