A/N-
Hey guys, ELM here. I feel like procrastinating doing my homework, so, lucky you, a new chapter already. Thanks everyone for all the wonderful reviews. I really glad you guys like the story.
I don't own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I never had, and I most likely never will. Here's the new chapter, I hope you enjoy!
I fell to the group and looked up to see the Kronos's general looking down at me. As I was fading into blackness, I hear the dracaenae hiss, "He smellsss like a half-blood."
Chapter 4-
When I woke up, my head was on fire. It was like I had been hit with a baseball bat. Well, I thought sarcastically, baseball bat, metal sword; same difference. I lifted my hands to rub my throbbing forehead, only to find that they were handcuffed.
It was only then, that I started to look at my surroundings. I was in a small square room. Three sides were made of cement bricks that had been painted a bright white. The other side was made of celestial bronze bars. The only lighting was a single florescent light bulb that was swing back and forth a good fifteen feet above my head. I was lying in a small lumpy cot in one corner. The only other thing in the room was a steel toilet in one corner. I was in a cell.
I stood up and walked over to the bars. I looked both directions, and saw a long hallway linned with barred off rooms. I gulped.
"Hey you, newbie," I was brought out of my thoughts at the sound of the voice. In the cell across from mine, was a girl around my age with fiery red hair and bright green eyes. "Your finally up I see. What's your name?"
"P- Percy Jackson," I stuttered. "W-who are you, exactly?"
"I'm Rachel, Rachel Elizabeth Dare," she replied.
"How long have I been here?"
"They drop you yesterday afternoon."
"Are you a demigod, Rachel? Cause I pretty sure I am. That must be why they took me."
"No, I not. I'm just a clear sighted mortal."
"Why would it matter if your clear sighted, the mist went away years ago?"
"Kronos got rid of most of it, but even wouldn't have been able to get rid of all of it. The mist is more powerful than," she paused, before saying sarcastically, "Our king."
"But, why would you be locked up in here?"
"Our lord," she said sarcastically, "Doesn't want people to know that he failed, so instead he locked the clear sighted people up."
"But my mother was clear sighted."
She smirked before saying, "Once again we see Kronos's failure. There was no way he could have collected everyone."
"Oh." After that, we both fell silent.
After what felt like hours, two guards came walking down the aisle handing out food. When they reached my cell, one of them wrote something down before sliding my tray under the door. The meal consisted of a small bowl of broth, a stale roll, and a water bottle.
I looked at the food for a few seconds, before my stomach began to rumble with impatience. I grabbed the bowl of soup and dipped the bread in it. It wasn't till later, that I'd realize that the food had tasted a little strange.
Once I had finished the food, I glanced over at the water bottle. A small voice in the back of my head told me to save it in case I got thirsty later. I told that voice to shut up. I then picked up the water bottle, and opened it up.
I gulped down the water, and my entire boy seemed to become refreshed. All of my senses seemed to be on hyper-mode.
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A while later, the two guards came back. This time however, they went straight to my cell. The open the door, and began to drag me away. After passing rows and rows of cells, we reached a steel door with two guards standing by it. The guards opened the door and let us through.
I was soon led into a dark room. The guards chained my ankles and wrist to a chair before leaving again. After about five more minutes, a bright light flashed on, temporarily blinding me.
"Name?" asked a masculine voice from the other side of the light.
"P- Percy Jackson," I said, while blinking to do the light.
"Full name?" The voice asked, sounding annoyed.
"Perseus Jackson."
"Now, Mr. Jackson, let talk about your father. What do you know about him?"
I hesitated. They wanted to know my godly parent, but why should I help them? My mother had always said that he was lost at sea, I guess that would fit Hayden's Poseidon theory, but I can't tell them that.
"He's dead," I said. "He was killed in a car crash before I was born."
"What else do you know about him?"
He was kind and gentle and I look almost exactly like him. He met my mom one summer when they were on the beach, and the only thing I remember about him is a warm smile. Oh and he didn't really die in a car crash, he's actually the immoral god of the sea, I thought sarcastically. "My mom met him at the mall and they were together for a few months before he was killed."
"Do you know what he looked like?" the guard asked.
"No, no I don't."
"Now we're going to do some testing," he said. "Can you feel this?"
Suddenly, the chair I was in had a stream of electricity flowing through it. I was fried. "Y- yes," I stuttered.
"What type of stone is this?" the guard asked. He then handed me a stone about the size of my hand. The light went off before I had time to look at it.
"Ummm…" He took the tone back.
"Now, your mother, is she died?"
I paused. Was she? There was no way to know for sure. Last time I saw her she was bleeding, but the she could have been healed by the army. "I… I don't know."
"Ok now we have one last test," said the guard. I gulped. If the first test was to see if I was a son of Zeus, then the second and third most have been to see if I was related to the death god. The other brother, the other member of the big three was Poseidon. Please don't let anything happen. Let everything go as the guard expects it to, I thought.
A bucket of water dumped on me. For a second, I could feel that I wasn't wet, the water was repelled from me, but then it shot back towards me. It all happened so fast that the guard wouldn't have been able to tell that I hadn't originally gotten wet. It was as though someone had heard my silent plea.
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After my interrogation, I was brought outside to a large fenced off area. Apparently, it was time for the prisoners one hour of recreation. Outside of the fence was a lake, a beach, more buildings, and a hill with a large pine tree standing at the top. The weirdest thing was, just a few feet outside of the fence were large burns in the shape of an omega (Ω). It looked as though someone had simply burned a bunch of buildings down.
"Hey, what's your name?" asked a feminine voice from behind me. There stood a girl with choppy brown hair and kaleidoscope eyes. She wasn't wearing any make up, but it was obvious that she didn't need any. Beside her was a guy that looked like a Latino elf.
"Uh…Percy Jackson," I replied.
"Cool, I'm Piper this is Leo. Neither of us knew we were demigods till the soldiers turned up at our school and dragged us away. We still don't know who are godly parents are. How about you?" the girl asked.
"I didn't know either," I said. "I have a pretty good guess as to who my parent is, but…" I trailed of at the bored looks they were giving me.
I spent the rest of the time I got outside with Piper and Leo.
It seemed like most of the other kids did know who their parent was, or at least, they had a good guess. I one corner of the area, was a group of kids that looked like they had just walked out of a magazine. They were talking about nails or something. There was another group of really buff and scary looking kids. One had a bunch of smart looking blonde kids with grey eyes.
After about an hour, we were herded back into our cells, it turns out, Piper wasn't that far away from me, and Leo was next to her. I laid back down on my cot and started to prepare myself for the most boring week of my life.
A/N-
That's chapter 4! Did you guys like it? I'm sorry about the Hades test being so lame, I had no idea what to do for it. What do you think will happen to Percy? Did you like that I included Rachel? How about Piper and Leo? Did everything make since?
I can probably get the next chapter out in about a week, that good for everyone?
~ELM