Chapter 1: Thunderbolts (3/4)
"Thanks again for helping me out."
The boy with light brown hair and his Satyr friend, decided to pay a visit to two particular individuals that coincidentally were on the same location. Which happened to be the Pegasus stables, where Zachariah would help on it from time to time.
"No problem, someone as lovely as you shouldn't be doing all this by yourself." Zachariah told her. One of the main reasons to why he would help there from time to time, was because he had a crush on the one in charge of the stables. Silena Beauregard , a daughter of Aphrodite. I know I have absolutely no chance with her, but I can't help but adore being at her presence. The plain looking boy thought. Which is so pathetic in so many different ways.
"She said that she hates your backpack." Zachariah heard Grover speak to him.
"Oh yeah, why?" Zachariah asked, wondering what exactly is wrong with his army backpack.
"She said that it makes you look like a hobo." Grover told him.
"I actually agree with her," Silena spoke afterwards. "You should really get yourself a new backpack, that one is really used up."
Zachariah's backpack was indeed pretty used up, but he would never get rid of it. Too much sentimental value. "Any other complains?" He asked as he walked to the individual that complained about this backpack. The individual in question, was a Pegasus. A beautiful female white Pegasus that had black wings. "Feel free to speak up, Fantasy." Her name Fantasy and she was Zachariah's pet.
Zach found her during one of his monster hunting escapades. During a particularly memorable one where he fought against a Chimera. Fantasy, according to Grover's translation, was attacked by it. After Zach was done with the Chimera, he took Fantasy back to the camp with him. Which was the other main reason to why he started to help on the stables.
Fantasy made a sound and Zach waited for Grover to translate. "She said that you should really clean your teeth before Thalia discovers that you been smoking again."
"My teeth was always yellowish."Which is why he always smiled with his lips close. "Besides, who cares about my teeth?"
"A white smile always beat a yellow smile." Silena told him while smiling, showing her perfect white teeth.
"Not when you have a face as forgettable as mine." Zachariah replied.
"Not true, you have prettiest eyes in the camp." Silena told him with a lot of sincerity in her voice.
That caused Zachariah to smile.
"But I'm telling Thalia about you smoking." She informed, which obviously scared Zachariah.
"What?! Why?!" Zachariah asked why the girl he has a secret crush on would condemn him like that.
"Because smoking is bad for you, and only Thalia can intimidate you into quitting." Unfortunately for Zach, that made complete sense.
Suddenly, Fantasy made another noise. "She said that, you better prepare to have your eyebrows fried again." Grover translated.
"Eu não sei porque que mulheres me odeiam tanto." Zach complained in Portuguese. "Será que é porque eu sou mais feio do que eu pensava?"
Grover, Silena and Fantasy just looked at him as he complained out loud in another language.
"AAAAHHH!" For Zachariah's misery. Silena actually went through with her promise of telling Thalia.
"I told you to not smoke anymore cigarettes!" Thalia yelled at the fallen Zachariah.
After helping on the stables, Zachariah decided to spend some quality time sitting on the entrance of Hermes's Cabin while playing a bit of Harmonica. That was until a raging Thalia came out of nowhere and shocked him over his smoking habits. And Zach had to admit, he was hoping that Silena would have mercy on him, but it turns out that he wasn't so lucky.
While still on the ground, Zach didn't even bothered to stand up. He just kept on playing the song that he was playing.As he played, he heard steps coming his way.
"What was it this time?" He heard Annabeth ask.
"Silena told me that he has been smoking." Thalia informed her on a completely different tone.
"Again? I thought we agreed that you would stop." She told him in a nearly identical controlling time as Thalia.
More like the two of you agreed it and threatened me into agreeing too. Zach thought sarcastically as he played the harmonica.
"Wait, since when do you play harmonica?" Annabeth asked.
"I found it on a trashcan last week." Zach explained, he was actually looking for a new skateboard, but the harmonica was good enough.
"What did I tell you about searching trashcan?" Thalia was quick to complain.
"Give me a damn break!" Zach instantly rebuffed. "You know I don't have cash for anything, I had to take this clothes from charity."
"About that..." Suddenly, Zach heard Luke's voice coming from the entrance. But once he turn his head to see him, he noticed something on his hand.
"AH! What happened to my hoodie?!" Luke was holding Zachariah's black hoodie, which was completely ripped apart. He quickly stood up to grab the pieces.
"Clarisse, wasn't really happy once she woke up." Luke explained.
"Oh goddammit!" Zach yelled in deep frustration before collapsing into the ground dramatically.
"Don't be so dramatic, it's only a hoodie." Annabeth told him as she approached and leaned on the wall next to the door that Luke was standing in front of it.
"It was my hoodie." Zach whinned. Zachariah was always a bit possessive about his things, probably a result of not having much to begin with.
Annabeth just sighed, before sitting down on the floor next to Zach. "Let's make a deal, I'll get you a new jacket."
Zach instantly cheer up. "Really?"
"If you promise you'll not smoke anything anymore." She added a term to.
Ah! I knew there was going to be a catch. He thought in annoyance.
"You been smoking again?" Luke asked him while folding his arms. "Come on, Zach."
"You seriously surprised about that?" Thalia asked Luke in annoyance as she approached them.
"No..." Luke replied.
Zachariah, not really in the mood to argue, crawled towards Annabeth and placed his head on her lap. No more smoking and new jacket or keep smoking and no jacket, what a difficult dilemma. He thought as he was planning on keeping his promise. After a short silence, Zachariah gave her his answer. "Alright, I promise."
Annabeth smiled at him. "Good." She didn't even seemed surprised, which led Zachariah to think that she knew that he would comply to her terms. "And if you break your promise, I'm gonna destroy your revolver." She added a threat to make sure.
Zach was instantly frighted by her threat, because the revolver was his second most prized possession, only behind his Scythe.
"When did you start smoking anyway?" Luke asked.
"Since I was five or... six, I used to steal it from Captain Gotts." He answered Luke question, but then he noticed that they made really confused faces.
"Ummm... Zach?" Annabeth looked at him. "Who's Captain Gotts." She asked him.
"The guy I used to live with before I met you guys." Zachariah answered casually.
Unfortunately that caused the three of them to look even more confused. "Wait?! You told us that you didn't had any family." Luke was quick ask.
"I don't, we weren't really related." Zach explained. "Apparently, he found me when I was around two years old and took me in. I grew up inside of a boat that he owned sailing from place to place."
"But, why didn't you ever said anything about that?" Annabeth asked in confusion.
"I don't like talking about him." Zach spoke bluntly. "He was a drunk, always complaining about everything and feeling sorry for himself, and the only times that he wasn't complaining about something was when he was passed out from drinking too much."
"Is that why you left him?" Thalia was the one to ask that, probably finding the story too familiar.
"I didn't left him, he died." Zach told them.
A small silence ensured, until Annabeth broke it. "How?"
"Liver disease from alcohol consumption, the only problem is that he died while we were in sea." Zachariah told the story while having his eyes closed. "I didn't know how to operate a boat, so I was stuck in it for a week. There was some food and clean water in it, so I was okay for a time. But then there was a storm that rocked the boat quite a bit, and... now that I look back to it, there was probably a sea monster attacking the boat or something, because the storm wasn't strong enough to turn a boat upside down like that." Oh man, If I had my Scythe, I could have killed the monster and kept the boat for myself. He thought in deep annoyance, because with the Captain dead, Zach was the owner. "Then, I was probably washed up to that beach where the two of you found me." He was obviously referring to Luke and Thalia.
Zach was expecting them to say something. But to his surprise, he was met with a small silence. So he decided to open his eyes and noticed that the three of them were staring at him, with a look that Zach detested. The look of pity. "Stop looking at me like that, the three of you are the last people I wanna receive that type of look from." He instantly stated.
"Yeah, but..." Annabeth was trying to find the right words.
"But nothing, let's just change the subject." Zachariah interjected. "Is it true that you're father visited the camp?" That question was for Luke, who seemed bothered by that question.
"Yes," He replied not really making eye contact with anyone.
"Did something happened?" Thalia asked while touching his shoulder.
"The usual." Luke folded his arms and leaned on the wall right besides Zach and Annabeth.
What means by usual, is basically the God's usual less than stellar treatment of their half-blood offspring.
"But... Did he want something from you?" Annabeth asked him.
Luke just stared at the two for a minute before answering. "He said that... There is a quest that he needs me to do and he will return in a few days to tell me what it is."
That surprised the three, as none of them actually went on a quest. An official one to be more precise because Zachariah's escapades could be considered quests. But the vast majority doesn't, because that would mean that Zach has the highest number of quests in camp. And that would anger a few people that have been in camp for longer but never received a quest.
"You don't seem very happy about it." Thalia pointed out.
"It's just... I'm pretty sure there's going to be catch or it won't be as good as it sounds." Luke explained.
"If don't want it, tell him that I'll take it." Zachariah was quick to input.
"Like hell you will!" All three yelled at him in perfect synchronisation.
Zachariah folded his arms in response. "You guys suck." He whined. Then he remembered something that he actually really wanted to know. "So, can you ask him why those Furies and Hellhounds wanted to kill Thalia?" He never really understood why, and he kind of forgot about it after they settle down on the camp.
A small pause ensued with Luke looking at Thalia. Zach looked up at Annabeth who was a little confused as well.
Thalia looked at the two before taking a deep breath. "I already know why." She informed them.
"Really?" Annabeth instantly asked her.
Thalia just nodded in response.
"Then... Why?" Zach asked as he really wanted to know.
Thalia paused a bit, trying to find the right words. She took a deep breath before speaking. "A long time ago, there was a prophecy regarding Zeus, Poseidon and Hades." She sat on the floor before continuing. "I don't know the exact words but, in a summary, the prophecy said that... A child of Zeus, a child of Poseidon and a child of Hades would help a very powerful being in either destroying or conquering the whole world, including the Olympus."
Obviously, both Zachariah and Annabeth were surprised by that. Especially the whole conquering or destroying. "But... Why they wanted to kill you?" Annabeth asked as that part was still unexplained.
"After this prophecy was heard, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades swore an oath to no longer sire any more demigod children but... there was a problem." Thalia paused for a second. "Hades already had children before they made this deal and... I don't really know what happened, but my father did something to them that really angered Hades."
"And your father, later, broke the oath himself and fathered you and your brother." Annabeth spoke up in response.
"And Hades being justifiable pissed off on Zeus's hypocrisy, decided to attack you in retaliation." Zachariah added.
Thalia nodded.
Zachariah was very surprised by what he just heard, mainly about that prophecy. But now that he thought about, he started to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Luke asked.
"Come on, can you imagine Thalia helping someone do something like that." He replied while laughing.
Luke paused for a bit, before laughing a bit himself. "Yeah, you're right."
"She would shock this "powerful being", just like she does to you." Annabeth spoke while laughing too.
Thalia just stared at the three as they laughed at the idea of her helping someone conquer or destroy the whole world. Before she started to laugh alongside them, probably realizing how silly that idea was.
"But seriously though, although hurting you because of something that your father did is totally a jerk move, I can understand why Hades would do such a thing." After saying that though, an idea came into Zach's head. Is it possible that I could be Hades's son, I mean it would make sense. He seriously considered the idea. I mean, it would explain why the Hellhounds didn't attack me.
"If you're actually thinking about the possibility of you being Hades's son, you can forget about." Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by Annabeth speaking to him. "If that was the case, you would have already manifested some sort of ability that Hades posses, like... Necromancy for an example."
Damn! She's right. He thought in annoyance. And having this type of power would be awesome. Zach looked disappointed.
Annabeth then caressed his head in order to console him.
Zachariah, while enjoying Annabeth's touch, decided to continue to play his Harmonica. But as he played a song on it, someone had a question.
"Wait, are you playing Guns N' Roses?" Thalia asked. She was right though, as Zachariah was playing Used To Love Her. He ignored the question and kept on playing. "I used to love her, but I had to kill her." Thalia then started to sing along with his music. "I used to love her, mmmmm, yeah. But I had to kill her."
"I had to put her, six feet under." Zach stopped playing and sang a bit.
"And I can still hear her complain." Both sang together.
Luke and Annabeth just stood there watching and listening the two singing that song while smiling and laughing.
"I knew I'd miss her. So I had to keep her. She's buried right in my backyard." Zach and Thalia kept on singing together enjoying each others company alongside Annabeth and Luke.
Thanks everyone for following and favoriting this story. If anyone have any questions , please feel free to message me about it.Questions and Answers:
Nice to see him get on so well with Clarrise wonder if the two will actually become friends one day
Also if nothing else got to admire Zs determination to be claimed and hey side benefit he's becoming stronger and stronger all the time
Oh and glad he just went and got his stuff back from Annabeth
More frienemies than anything.
In terms of raw strength, he's superior to everyone in camp.
Annabeth is a little overbearing.
Oh even if none of the Gods can actually claim Z because he's not the kid of any of them can his actions and the fact he seems to be the most active Demigod have earned him the favour of a few gods even if like I said they can't claim him namely Goddesses haha you know Aphrodite, Demeter, Hestia and even Hera etcNot just Goddesses of course but Gods like Poseidon and Hades
Maybe, he will kind of have a sort of friendship with some of the gods. Hades will kind of dislike him for a very particular reason and Poseidon will kind of like him since him and Percy will be best friends.
Is Nico and Bianca in this story? If yes, can you keep Bianca alive?
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"Zach!" He heard someone calling him but he decided to ignore it. "Zach, wake up!"
Unfortunately, whoever was calling him, started to shake him. Which forced Zachariah to wake up. Opening his eyes he saw a familiar face.
"Jason?" It was Jason Grace, someone that Zach wasn't exactly happy for seeing him again. "The hell are you doing here?"
"No time to explain, you need to-" He was telling him something until he stopped.
"Who is he?" He asked Zach while pointing at the ones besides him.
Zach looked to his as noticed that Nico was still sleeping, hugging Zachariah tightly. "Oh, this is Nico di Angelo, the son of Hades." Zach introduced him while caressing Nico's messy hair.
"Umm... Why..." Jason was trying to find the right word.
"Don't ask." Zachariah was quick to inform him.
"Will you guys be quiet." Suddenly, a third person appeared from under the covers besides Nico. It was Bianca, who was also sleeping on that bed.
"And that's his sister, Bianca di Angelo, daughter of Hades." Zach introduced her as well.
"Hi," Jason waved at her. "I don't wanna know, just come with me."
"I ain't going nowhere with you, actually get hell out my sight before pound you down." Zach quick threatened him as he was still mad at him over what happened.
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