Healing Juliet Rose
AN: This chapter might get a little depressing and a little gruesome , but it is vital that I put this in for further chapters to make sense.
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Chapter 2 Open Scars
Artemis's p.o.v
When she passed out, the kids in the classroom started screaming. I groaned. I wasn't used to this. All these kids. I mean I've looked after a few, that joined the hunters, but those were steady responsible girls. These were wild, unsteady BOYS AND girls. I calmed them down by yelling "free time" out very loudly. With that all the kids ran off, to grab toys. Except for those three girls. The girls that were obviously Melodise's friends. I walked up to Melodise. For a second I was shocked. This was the first time I'd been close to her, face to well face (well it was kinda (kinda, the first time I had seen her twice before, but not really as her.). She had long wavy brown hair and bright blue eyes. She had Aphrodite's slender body and caramel colouring that always made her looked tanned. One of the girls's turned to me, she had green eyes and a petite face. I found myself looking towards her ears (which were very visible as the girl's hair was in a pony-tail) expecting to find them pointed. Instead I found them very round, and well human looking. She said "excuse me miss, but do you want me to call roll? It's something that has to be done each day, and well you're going to be busy here". I had no idea of what 'calling roll' meant so I just nodded and watched the girl run off to the front of the classroom. Then I turned my attention to the other two girls "well dears, your friend is right, I AM going to be busy here so you can go play games or help with calling roll or something". They nodded and ran off. I turned my face to face Melodise. I whispered an old saying, that used to ran in the family:
"Hush child, now that you are born
Let the saviours heal your burns
Wait for the cry of the crow
Then fill your yearning vows
To learn the land, to learn the world
To learn, each boy and girl
Find the message in your palace
To be your own lucky star"
Juliet's p.o.v
I remembered the night I was tortured. The night I had acid poured on my skin, the night I saw HER.
I had just gotten back to sleep after that beautiful lady had gone, when I smelt smoke. I woke up to find smoke drifting off the orphanage, the night sky ablaze with orange. I ran out of the orphanage, the four mean girls already gone. I walked backwards feeling my back collide, with a metal van. They pulled me in. I was scared, there were three big men, one driving, one in his phone and one holding me still. They tied my hands to a hook, which was situated in the roof. I swung helplessly from side to side. One of the men reached out to touch me, he had no hair, and a mono-tone face with cruel eye… I mean NO eyes..
I had never thought of that before. I had always seen him with cruel eyes, not no eyes before.
The man continued to reach out to touch my face. I panicked and swung my legs wildly, trying to hit something. The man doubled over in pain, hiss voice about an octave higher. He soon straightened his back and said "who are you? We came here tonight looking for monsters, not a human, which you obviously are. The Lord sent me and my friend out in search of some 'big threat', which obviously can't be you". I noticed with a start I could see through his head.
See through his head? That's it, I was going mad.
The guy on his phone smiled at me and hung up. He had a cruel face, with long black hair, and a very skinny body. "You can see me can't you? But you're not a Demi-god, no you're something stronger but not a monster. Yet. Guard … let's test her out, shall we, test how much she can handle." With that, the other guy (the one not driving) tipped a small bottle of liquid on my skin. The burning pain was too much. I wanted to die. The cruel guy was on his phone once more. The guard, picked up a knife and cut into my skin a little bit, causing the liquid to burn more. I wanted to die. I needed to die. Then a silvery light filled the van. I was burning up, dying, I was finally dying. My screams went up a level. A woman turned to me and said "now, little one don't scream. We shall go". The phone guy stood up "Artemis, who is she? Tell me now". The woman turned to him and smiled "she's your worst nightmare".
I opened my eyes. I saw a woman standing over me. Artemis? Why was she here? Why does she have the name of a goddess? All of a sudden I realised I was screaming. I could feel the acid in my skin. It burned again. Then I realised, it wasn't burning. It was my scar reopening up –again. Bleeding. Then I realised, another one was bleeding, the one from, the one when I died.
Apollo's p.o.v
I stood in front of Aphrodite, as she told me the prophecy. That almost caused me to faint. But no I kept my cool, cause I'm Apollo and I'm so cool. I was trying to listen, but it was almost like, my conscious was being dragged away.
I stood in a hospital room. There were heaps of people there. I turned in time to see a woman walk straight thru me. The thing was, I knew exactly where I was. It was the place, I avoided to go. On that day.
They were walking along the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw my girl, from ages away. She was standing there, with that scar. The scar. The scar…
I was sitting next to her. She was crying, and I could see why. On her big forehead there was this big line of blood, pouring out of her. Out of one of her scars. We were sitting in this white room. She didn't look at me, in fact it looked like she couldn't look at me. Then she faded.
Artemis's p.o.v
Then she faded.
Juliet's p.o.v
Then I faded.
I knew what was happening. I was remembering. Remembering everything. Since I was born. All of a sudden I felt all my scars open up. It was weird remembering everything. I recognised the beautiful woman, from all those years ago, and that guy that walks down the street each night and I remembered my teacher. Then it was shut off from me, like it was there, than gone. Except I was nothing. I had faded. But then I felt myself coming back. And then I saw a different substitute teacher standing over me.
Artemis's p.o.v
I left when I saw that she fully faded. I knew what was happening, she was remembering. That couldn't happen. Not yet. Maybe not ever. So I conjured the mist, then I left to find my hunters.
Apollo's p.o.v
I was back. Standing in front of Aphrodite who looked like she had seen a ghost. "WHAT DID YOU EFFING DO YOU SCARED THE HADES OUT OF ME". I rolled my eyes and said "Aphro, don't you think I WAS A LITTLE SCARED TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. She nodded and said "good point". That's when my smiley face scar winked.
Another cliffy! What do you guys think? REVIEW PLEASE. Sorry it was a little bit gruesome. It was vital. Sorry my chapter's aren't very long. Ah well.