Hope you like this new chapter, I put a lot into it. And sorry it took me so long to update, I've been pretty busy lately, so you can blame the stresses of life for that. Anyways, comment and tell me what you think, I need comments so I know if I'm doing good or not.

PLEASE READ: So I'll be connecting this book to my Son of Neptune. They won't converge into one book, but will remain to stay separate. I'll try my hardest to update soon, and I hope you like the outcome:)

Chapter 2

I awoke in the darkest of the night, my dream flooding my thoughts as my eyes sleepily opened. I could hear the sound of waves crashing harshly on the sand. It almost made me pale as I listened to them crash and pummel, bringing back memories of the dream I had just had. I was grateful that I had never entered the salty waters, but a dream as realistic as that made me shutter.

The wind howled making trees groan under the pressure. The rain was more than just fingers gently tapping on my window sill. It pounded the glass as if it were a person begging to come in from the worst of the storm. Under my covers, the warmth was all around me, hugging me, pleading with me to go back to sleep. But as I rose to look out the window, the cold clung to my arms and any other part of my body that was left exposed. It was almost a biting cold and I wondered why the heater wasn't on. My mom always had it running when it was as bitterly cold as this outside. Was she hear? Had she made it home safely?

I started to make my way over to the door, my heart picking up speed when all of sudden there was impatient knocking on it and someone trying to turn the knob to get in.

"Mom? Is that you?" I asked.

"Of course it's me! Now please, open up!" My mom's voice resounded from the other side. She sounded worried or panicked, maybe both. So unlocking the door, she came into the room in a rush. Closing and locking the door behind her, she faced me. Lightning lit up her face in the darkly shadowed room, revealing trails of dried up tears on her cheeks, makeup smudging underneath her eyes, and… blood staining her cheek. At this I immediately felt anger wash over me.

"Did Aaron do this to you?" I let out in an outrage. At the sound of my voice, I heard the waves break violently like I had some power over them. The ocean didn't sound to far from the house, so the tide must have come up far.

"No…" said my mom her voice quivering. I saw tears well up to her eyes when I asked the question. Lighting lit up her face again, illuminating the whole room.

"Then how did you hurt yourself?" I felt sorry for her, but impatience was taking over me.

"I didn't do it… it was…" she stopped herself. I waited as patiently as I could and with a harsh breath taken in, she replied, "it was your father."

When I heard that, my whole body went still. I let it sink into my thoughts, waiting for emotions to take over. But nothing came except numbness.

"Mom…" I began to say, choosing my words slowly, "are you sure it was… my dad? Is Aaron making you to tell me this." The idea that my dad would show up in the middle of the night with no warning made me half suspicious. She shook her head vigorously, letting in a harsh breath from holding back a sob. Lighting flashed in the room.

"I knew," she breathed in to calm herself, "I knew I should have taken you there when he had told me to."

"Taken me where?" I let out in confusion.

"He told me that your destiny depended upon it."

"What are you talking about?" I almost yelled at her.

"He was so mad… that I hadn't followed his instructions." By this time I was grabbing her arms and shaking her, swallowing back my guilt from doing so.

"Mom! Explain!"

"Your time is limited, you only have so much time before… your destiny passes you by. You have to leave!" I had already stopped shaking her when she started to speak, but now I stood dumbfounded from what she had just said.

"You… want me to… leave?" Lightning lit up the room.

"No of course not. I… well," she paused, "your father came to me last month and told me that it was time for you to awaken from your current state of dormancy. It was time for you to discover who you really were. He told me I was suppose to take you to a place called Camp West in the bay area of northern California." What was she talking about? The first thing that came to my mind when I heard the word "camp" was some kids sitting around the camp fire roasting marshmallows. "I agreed to do so, but… I didn't want you to leave yet, I couldn't say goodbye to you so soon. And so… he came tonight. He was outraged at me that I hadn't obeyed his instructions. He told me that if I feared for my life and yours I would do what he told me to."

"This still doesn't explain anything mom," my voice sounding harsh, "I've never met the man in my life, so how would he know anything about my destiny? And what does me going to a camp have to do with anything. Please try to make sense." She looked me straight in the eyes. Lighting flashed.

"Do you ever feel a strange connection to the ocean." She asked blatantly. I stepped back at the word ocean.

"A connection? Yeah. But it's like a rope attached to you, that you're trying to cut off all the time. Something that I just don't want to be apart of in my life. It makes me feel… not normal" She nodded, seeming to understand.

"The connection has to do with your parentage. Your father… he isn't human." She let the sink in before continuing. "You may not believe me at this moment, but you will soon. Let me try to explain it this way; do you remember that essay you had to do in English on the titans and gods. All that Greek mythology you had to learn in your second semester?" I nodded slowly. "Your father… he's the sea titan, Oceanus." Of course! That made perfect sense!

"Really? Are you sure Aaron didn't knock you in the head a little to hard." I felt bad for saying that, but I couldn't help but be cynical.

"Seaenna! This is not a time for behaving like that. It really doesn't' matter if you believe me or not. All that matters right now is that your father has created a storm that if we don't leave this very instance, it will capsize us and there won't be any destiny for either of us. We'll just go straight to Hades." My whole life I had never really believed in anything, maybe just that there was some deity out there watching the world go by. But now it was slapping me straight in the face, mythology and all. The dream seemed to coincide with what she had told me. The camp being in the bay area, and me walking out of the waters onto a beach near San Francisco. But now my mom grabbed my arm and forced me into the hallway. Before she could drag me outside, I pulled back.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"Just trust me." Lighting flashed, showing concern on her face. "We have to leave." And with a sudden force that I never knew she was capable of, she grabbed me and shoved me outside. She followed behind me as I stumbled out into the beating rain. I looked back at her and her face said repentance for what she had just done, and what she was going to do. "I'm sorry, but you need to do what I tell you."

"And what's that?" I let out bitterly. And with a face like stone she replied,

"You'll see." I didn't like her tone, it actually scared me. And then, forcing me into the car (was I really going to fight my mom?) she started to drive, turning the windshield wipers on at full blast. I had decided at that moment that sooner or later she was going to stop, think it through, and turn back. But I knew in the back of my mind that that wasn't going to happen. Everything she had told me… I almost believed. It only made sense to believe, yet there was a part of me that was holding back not willing to let into the reality.

Finally she parked, and why she was, I had no idea. We were on a residential street, not to far form my house. Then opening her door, she said, "Get out and follow me."

"Can I at least have an umbrella?" She didn't say anything, but came over and opened up my door and pulled me out. I wondered if we were going to go inside one of these houses, but instead she took me down an alley that went between two houses and out onto the beach again. Alright, so this wasn't making any sense. Then looking to my right, I saw the bridge that went over the wide water passage that entered the ocean. Why did I not have a good feeling about this?

She made me follow her onto it and trudge our way through the harsh cold wind and rain pelting down on us. Finally we stood directly in the middle of it. She wheeled around to look me directly in the face. Lighting streaked across the sky like a hand trying to grasp at us. "There's something else you should know before you leave." I nodded although I wasn't sure what she meant when she said leave. It's not like the wind was going to pick me up and fly me up to northern California. She spoke with her voice raised against the howling wind, "When you go to this camp, remember one thing; you are not like them in any way. You are different and maybe more powerful than some of them. You will not be accepted once they find out who your parent is. But remember one thing. It is very important that you do; this camp is apart of your destiny. There are some there that are tied into this destiny and no matter what happens, remember to bring honor to your father's name." A sudden revulsion took over me. Bring honor to my father's name? A father that hit my mom. A father that's never made an effort to see me? A father that sends a storm that could kill both of us? Bring honor to him? But before I could mouth my protest, she took my arms.

"I'm sorry I have to do it this way, but since you're late on arriving, it's essential that you get there as soon as possible." And with a final goodbye and hug, and without me being able to struggle against it because I wasn't expecting her to do this, she pushed me over the bridge.

I was in mid air for a little over a second but it felt like ten seconds. I had enough time to scream until my lungs weren't filled with air any more. Then… my body broke into the bitterly cold tossing waves that seemed to grab at me and pull me down. I could barely see through the dark salty waters, but as the lighting struck again, it lit up her face for the last time and that was the last glimpse I had of her for a very long time.

Suddenly, through my panic, I could feel tugging at my arms and legs, like a current. But then, whether it was my imagination or not, I saw glowing red eyes form from the depths of the dark waters and their bodies taking form into womanly figures from gray silt. They reminded me of naiads, but something so much more sinister and evil. They smiled at me, as if they were old friends of mine, but at the same time it said, "To bad you're not human, we've been looking for some dinner." Then just as I had in my dream, I realized I was able to breath under the water. I had gone under five minutes ago and for some reason my lungs weren't gasping for air.

With a sudden realizations, I looked around myself and saw hundreds of the demon naiads all around me, some with ghoulishly red glowing eyes and some with silvery eyes that seemed to stair into my inner soul. And without warning they all gathered around me, many of them grabbing onto parts of my body, even my hair. And then… we were leaving the southern parts of the Pacific ocean.

Make sure to read my Son of Neptune as both this book and SON will be converging together. And yes, I know it's kind of late to be still writing a Son of Neptune, but I have a pretty good plot, so I'll keep on going with it.
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