Chapter 4: What Just Happened
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians, that honour goes with Rick Riordan. Neither do I own any of the characters mentioned later.
Character Recap:
Paul Poseidon
Heather Hera
Henry Hephaestus
Ariella Artemis
Andy Apollo
Sally Jackson's Apartment: Percy's POV
The entire door just flew off its hinges in a cloud of smoke. The frame was on fire and everything the door crashed into was smashed to pieces, it was horrifying to see. But what really made me scared was what came out of the doorway. I had heard about this thing in myths and researched it in history class, it was a thing of legends and for a second I thought I was hallucinating. That was before Paul had stood up and jumped at the minotaur before anyone else reacted, the sound it made when Paul had launched into it was so loud and terrifying that no amount of imagination could have created that. There was a real life minotaur in my living room fighting a man I just met. It was the minotaur's strength and horns against Paul's speed and trident. Wait why does he have a trident…where di that come from. This all happened in a span of 10 seconds and now all the other guests were rushing to Paul's side, looking like they were going to help him. That was until other monsters had entered the apartment behind the first intruder. I recognized a few empousa but all the others were unknown to me yet just as terrifying as the minotaur. All Percy could do was stand by his mom and watch the duel that had first started. The minotaur was obviously strong; every punch it threw or head butt attempted went through a wall or door or whatever was in its way. Paul on the other hand seemed to know how to fight, he dodged every attack and punched the minotaur at every opportunity and the way the beast was moving it felt them when they landed. After a minute of sparring each other Paul had jumped backwards swinging his trident at the same time pinning one arm against the wall and with a twist it came off. This was followed by a quick jab into the neck and the minotaur was turned into a pile of ash. As I looked around the living room was trashed and everyone who was here in the morning seemed okay yet there was about a dozen piles of ashes littered everywhere. Paul immediately came and called everyone over.
"I don't know how we were found so fast but we have to move, now. Does anyone have a secure location?"
"We can go to Delos, it is an island near Greece that is sacred to only my sister and I, we will be able to hide and defend there." Said Andy, although I don't know how an island is sacred to these people.
"If they found us here then surely they will be able to find us at an island that is sacred to you, that will be one of first places they look." reasoned Heather. I'm not sure what everyone was talking about but she did sound correct there.
"No one knows about the island but us a few of our most sacred followers. They would never give its location. It is safe." Arielle said. I knew Andy and Arielle were siblings!
Paul had made a decision, "Okay, you two take us to Delos, but please remember that we have these two with us" as he motioned to mom and I.
And with that I felt my gut being wrenched from my stomach. It wasn't a painful feeling, just a weird one. After half a second though, we were on an island in the middle of the sea it seemed. There was a large amphitheater where we were, the seats were carved from stone and there seemed to be a cave at the bottom. All around a flower was in bloom, I think I remember them from class. In Greek mythology they said that these flowers were called Hyacinth, created by Apollo in memory of his deceased love. It covered the island in shades of purple and blue everywhere. All of a sudden though it hit me, we had just teleported or something to island of the coast of Greece…from Manhattan. And this is when I begin to freak out. How did that happen, that should be a several hour flight at the fastest yet it took us less than two seconds.
I looked around and seemed that I was the only one in the group having a panic attack. Did anyone realize we got here in a second with no vehicle, we just appeared here? Wait…Paul told Arielle and Andy to 'take' us here. Did they do this, no, that's physically impossible. But the minotaur…and the other monsters…Paul and his trident…what's going on? I saw mom walk over my way but something on her face had surprised me. Actually, it was the lack of surprise that had scared me the most, she seemed completely at peace with whatever just happened to us as if it happened everyday. She did look worried though but I'm pretty sure that was concerning me.
"Percy, are you okay?"
I slowly backed away from her and asked "Mom, what's happening right now? There was a minotaur and empousa, I know Paul had killed the monster but he had a trident and no one is able to move that fast. What is going on here?"
"Don't freak out okay, just hear me out. Paul isn't a random visitor of friend from a few years ago, Percy, he's Poseidon, one of the gods of -"at that point I passed out. There was too much information and disbelief in my head. This wasn't possible, it shouldn't be possible. Yet it just happened.
I apologize for the shorter chapter, I had to close of this thought and it didn't fit in the previous chapter. I am not planning on this being a common occurrence as I know I don't like reading shorter chapters personally. The next one will be longer. I'm trying to keep this fanfic different from the others so Percy won't be centered in all chapters, I'll focus on him more if that is what you want but he will be a side character for the following chapters. Input any ideas please and thank you for reading.
-Alternativewriter
