These drabbles were written for: Percy Jackson Fanfiction Challenges - kitty132383: The 100 Prompts/100 Drabbles Challenge
T1nyDanc3r: Well, demigods don't have easy life and they tend to get in trouble. Thanks :)
Disclaimer: I don't own the Percy Jackson and the Olympians or the Heroes of Olympus series, all rights go to Rick Riordan.
12. Ink
Words: 425
Thalia Grace wasn't one to be easily fooled.
She wasn't a coward.
However, sometimes even she was scared.
"Are you sure that we should stay here?" Thalia turned to the blonde boy, who seemed hesitant for a moment.
"It seems like a good and covered place to sleep," Luke shrugged.
"We should look around," the daughter of Zeus suggested and the other demigod nodded softly. The place where they were staying was abandoned, filthy and scary; the type of place a good parent would never let their children in.
"Have you found anything interesting yet?" Luke asked the daughter of Zeus who stopped for a moment and visibly paled. Her eyes were big and frightened, her hands were shaking. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't.
"Thalia! Where are you?" Luke was shouting as his companion didn't answer him. He crossed the dark room and spotted the younger girl in the corner right next to an old desk. For a moment Luke thought that she ended up as one of Medusa's statue, she was so still, it made the son of Hermes frightened and nervous.
"Thalia! Thalia? Are you okay?" he asked frantically as he approached the girl who meant everything for him. When he reached her he didn't need to ask what made her stop and why was she so pale. From the desk dark red liquid was dripping. Everywhere there were broken glass pieces. For a moment Luke wanted to scream too, but then he understood the situation.
"We need to leave this shelter, Thals," he said to the daughter of Zeus, who nodded weakly. She was a demigod, a strong one. She has faced monsters before, she has been badly injured before, but still... the place was dripping from fresh blood.
The blonde boy grabbed the younger girl and pulled her out of the shelter.
"Calm down, Thals. That wasn't blood," he said softly and he pulled a straw of hair out of her face.
"But... but. Haven't you seen? That was blood Luke!" she said frantically and he had a light smile on his face as he pulled away from the shelter in hope of getting far from it.
"It was dark red ink. The bigger problem is that we weren't the one who broke the glass inkwell. Someone has just been there, before us. I don't want to meet him or her," Luke said and took Thalia's hand reassuringly who nodded weakly.
"We really should leave this place," the daughter of Zeus said.
Thalia Grace was sometimes frightened.
Everyone was.