Chapter 2 (Claimed)

This is an adopted story, in my own sense of style. Please no haters!

I DO NOT OWN PERCY JACKSON SERIES

Lilly's POV

I was running through the streets of Manhattan, I had been running like that for a while now trying not to get caught by the creature behind me. It was big and frightening just like the one I had run away from a year and a half ago, I had managed to escape from the monster but found myself in an even more horrifying situation.

I didn't even know why this thing would want me, ever since the incident I had started to dye my blonde hair black and went for clothes with a darker demeanor. I stayed away from people, especially men.

I turned the upcoming corner, hoping for escape but only finding a fence right in my way of escape. As I turned my head to look at the evil thing that was chasing me it swung an arm at me, slamming my body into the wall. I felt the blood trickle from my mouth, tasting the bittersweet copper flavor on my tongue.

I didn't know what to do; I felt my body go limp, hardly able to move. At that moment I saw a flash of gold light slide in front of my face, followed by a flash of silver.

"Ha! Perfect aim; hit that manticore right between the eyes!" I heard a voice, it was a boy's voice, memories of that horrible night flooding back in, I tensed up and looked to see who it was.

"You only distracted it dear brother, I'm the one who killed it." Said another voice it was a girl's voice, maybe twelve or thirteen. As I opened my eyes the boy was coming over, he was tall blonde and handsome to any other girl, but to me he only struck fear into my heart.

"Hey, you took at pretty big fall." He said as he came closer. My guess at the time was that he was going to try to carry me out, and help me, but I wouldn't even notice, all I knew was that a guy was coming over to me, and he was going to touch me.

"Stay away, from me." I said my voice trembling with fear. All of the memories came back full force, the man, and the way he dragged me to a secluded place where no one would find him with me, or hear my screams for help as he touched me.

"Stay away from me! Don't touch me!" I screamed his eyes looked confused, of course they would be though; he knew nothing of my pain.

"Well if you don't want my help, Artemis she's all yours, maiden girls are your department anyway." He said pulling out an I-pod as the girl looked at me with sympathetic eyes, as if she knew what was going on.

"Apollo, this girl is not in my "Department" as you say it is I am not her patron any longer." She said looking at him. By this time I figured they were siblings.

"What do you mean?" He said looking confused, and then his eyes widened looking from me to Artemis. "Are you serious, she doesn't even look seventeen, wow kids grow up fast these days don't they." He said while he looked at me in what seemed like disappointment. I didn't know what he was talking about, and then I noticed the names, Apollo? Artemis? Where had I heard those names before?

"Brother, she didn't loose it that way; it was taken from her forcefully. She had no consent in the matter." Artemis said with a straight face as the color drained from Apollo's.

Wait Apollo and Artemis, the twin archers in Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of prophecy's and music, and Artemis the Goddess of the hunt, and all maidens. At that moment I knew they had to be it, killing the monster, with arrows no less. They had to be the gods, and worst of all, they knew exactly why I had been afraid of Apollo now, they knew why Artemis was no longer my patron.

Because a year and a half ago I was raped by someone, causing a fear in men, and a fear of getting to close to people, because they may find out my secret.

I broke out in tears, I never wanted anyone to know, hell my own father didn't know, and I didn't have a mother around to care any bit about me. But as my tears hit the ground a bight soft light surrounded me. It was the shape of a heart, and it felt loving and warm, it made me feel safe.

"You have got to be kidding me!" yelled Apollo as if something amazing had happened.

"What is it?" I asked, hoping he wouldn't hurt me.

"You've been claimed my dear, you are half-blood, a daughter of Aphrodite. Hmm, no wonder she sent us to help you, I thought it was another one of her stupid love tragedies." Said Artemis, apparently she didn't like my, wait, MOTHER!

"What do you mean I'm a daughter of Aphrodite?" I asked. I'd never known my mother, dad had said she died after I was born; he said I looked so much like her.

"She means the Greek Goddess Aphrodite is you mom, got that?" said Apollo, saying it as if I were stupid. "And this is confirmed by the fact that she just claimed you. That heart around you right now is how she claims her children. You're one of them." Apollo said. I took this all in a little too quickly though, because next thing I knew, I was out cold.