Thalia
A 13-year-old Thalia thinks the whole world is stupid. Well, except the fact that her little brother, Jason, is cute.
Why go to the amusement park with shit tons of body guards? Their father even booked the whole place for themselves. Yes, she knew their family is rich, but is it necessary to spend money like this? Also, who are the people joining them? Dad said they were family friends; she doesn't buy that answer.
First, there is a girl in the same age as her, Bianca, she has a brother name Nico and sister name Hazel. Bianca and Nico both have pale white skin, black hair and eyes. Thalia wonder if they are vampire, wait, vampire have red eyes so no. But Hazel had dark skin, a super-difficult-to-tidy curly hair and golden eyes which she thinks it's cool. Is Hazel adopted or something? Bianca looks nice, good enough to let Thalia wants to talk with her, but Nico seems a little too nerd for her.
And there is another boy called Percy which is a year younger than her, not that she cared much. He also has black hair, what's wrong with this little group and black hair? Only Jason is blonde in the six of them. This Percy boy has sea green eyes, and he looks like a troublemaker. Definitely, opposite of Jason.
They all looked like bored to mind, Hazel kept hiding herself behind Bianca while Percy tried to have conversation with Nico but never succeed. Jason hasn't talk much since they were introduced to each other, the only sentence Thalia heard him speak is: "Hello, my name is Jason Grace, Thalia's little brother." It's strange, Jason usually isn't this distant to strangers. This might sound weird, but he always tries his best to interact with the people their father introduced them to, because they are always important.
"Thalas?" Jason tapped her shoulder and she lean in as he whispered to her. He only uses this nickname when he is nervous or when something is wrong. The last time she heard it was him finding their dear mother overdosed on the kitchen floor.
"Hum?"
"There are strange people on the Ferris wheel." Her eyes darted to the location Jason mentioned. There is a man in one of the boxes, but she doesn't sense the problem. Just as she opened her mouth and prepared to asked him, Jason answered her question. "They have guns."
The next second, several red dots formed on Jason's left chest, right above his heart. Thalia quickly caged him under her arms, and pushes both of them to the ground.
"Duck!" She yelled. The guards around them raised their guns while the rest of the children jumped at her sudden roar then follow suit. The sound of gun fires rang in her ear, but the only thought in her mind is to protect Jason, the source of her happiness and the reason of her existence.
If someone wants to hurt him, she will become their literal hell.
"What did I order you guys? Give the place a full check, so how come there was a gunfight happening with all the children present!"
All the kids are now sitting in the hallway of their family hospital. The nurses gave them a full check and tidy their little cut which formed during the gunfight. Her father, Zeus, the CEO of the Olympus company is now yelling at the guards he hired, which they won't be an hour later. Thalia understood just now that the children's father and hers are all business partners; Percy's dad Poseidon owns the Atlantis while Bianca's dad Hades owns the Elysium.
Then, a mid-age man walked in the room where the three men is, the anger radiated out that room that can be noticed six-feet underground suddenly disappeared.
"They are back." Thalia heard the man said to her father. After that was minutes of words exchanging, the conversation went so fast that she only caught a few words like 'the Golden Age' and 'girls'.
"What do you suggest we do?" Wow, this is the first time she saw Zeus ask for suggestions besides her aunt, Athena.
"Prepare for war. And not us, but the kids. Gather them and train. When the moment comes, Argo will and must sail." She can feel Jason tensed under her hands as they are holding hands, they all heard the key word. Kids. Train.
"What just happened?" A foreign voice spoke, Thalia couldn't tell who it was, she looked around then realized it was Hazel.
"Well, you all heard them. We are going to be throw into some training lessons." She stated out the obvious to them. Percy and Nico didn't show anything on their face while Bianca tried to calm Hazel. She doesn't blame the little girl though, this sounds terrible even for her, not to mention for an 8-year-old girl.
Suddenly, the door slides open, showing the previous man who walked in and their fathers.
"Hello, kids." All of them sit still on their spot, blinked at him. "My name is Chiron, you may call me Mr. Chiron or just Chiron, but no nicknames allowed." And why are you telling us this? "You will be training with me for battle skills, starting from next week." Then he started to tell them why they need to do this, for a full ten minutes. And long story short, their fathers have a business enemy group called the Golden Age and they are violent, want to kill Jason so they need to fight back, etc.
"Did my mother know about this?" Percy asked his father the moment Chiron finished his mini speech. Boy, you are just told to train and become a child solider or some shit and the first thing you care is if your mother knows?
"No, she doesn't." Poseidon let out a deep sigh before answering his son.
"Then you better tell her yourself, this is your idea after all." Percy fired back at his father fiercely. If she speaks to her father like that, one month of dishes duty is basic. They sure have maids at home, but Zeus likes to give out housework punishments, let's just say he is still a typical parent.
"Sir, did you know about the fact someone wants to kill Jason before?" Thalia asked Chiron, she think something is off about this man and she refuse to be nice to him.
"In fact I did, Ms. Grace." She can tell he is surprised that she caught this message by the way he speaks. People really need to stop mistaken her as an innocent, or even a stupid little girl.
"Please call me Thalia. I don't like to be addressed by my last name." She gave him a fake smile. "Now, can you tell me why you didn't inform us this little detail?"
"Oh, I did, Thalia. A message was sent to your father's office at eight in this morning."
"Then Father booked the whole place. Makes sense." She nodded at the words coming out from Jason's mouth while other people gasped at him. "But I thought no one knows I'm father's son." Then again, Jason isn't some normal little boy. The Grace Siblings are intelligence, other words, genius. Zeus knew if their parentage is known by the world, there will be unwanted trouble, so he hid the kids away, only the most important of his people knew that he has two children.
"We have a mole." Hades said. His voice was cold and firm, sending chills down everyone's bones.
"Easy. We are going to keep this between us." Nico said. Thalia noticed that he looks like a child version of his father.
"You all better. If Jason's life is on line again, we all know who is going to drop head first." Zeus demanded and shot a glare at Chiron. Ouch, how about your daughter? She loves Jason more than any one on this earth but lacking attention from her parents still hurts. Then Jason tightened the grip on her hands, she gave him a little squeeze in return.
In the end, they are the only ones who will stay for each other.
The next week, they were led to this cabin settled in the middle of nowhere. Thalia and Jason looked around the place, waiting for the others to arrive. Then they spotted a little girl with brown hair and big hazel eyes, kneeing in the garden, taking care of some plants. Thalia let Jason approach her first, thinking she is about his age.
"Do you know the person who lives here?" Her brother asked the girl. The girl rose her head and looked at him, full of alarmed.
"Who are you."
"I'm Jason, and the big sister over there is Thalia, we are a guest to Chiron." He told her calmly, in a smooth voice. Thalia always thinks her brother has some magic, people seem to follow his orders or listen to his words. It's not like blindly does what his said but pulling people's attention.
"Oh, you are the people Chiron told us! My name is Calypso." The girl let her guard down and gave them the brightest smile she had seen in her whole life. What does she mean us?
"I though Chiron is single?" She whispered to her brother as he came back to her side.
"Adopted?" Jason guessed.
"I wonder."
"Ah, I see you two met Cal." Chiron appeared behind them, the two jumped up at his sudden appearance. "The others are in the house waiting. Let's go in, you too, Cal." Calypso stood up and ran back the house after Chiron told her to. They got in and noticed the group is already settle in, either on a chair or on the couch. In the room, there is a girl sitting on one side of the table, maybe not older than twenty, hugging Calypso in her arms. She has the same hazel eyes like the little girl, except her hair is slightly darker.
Are they sisters? Thalia raised an eyebrow at Jason, asking the silent question. A little nod from her brother confirmed her suspicious.
"Let's introduce ourselves, since there are lots of first encounter."
"I'll go first. My name is Percy Jackon, 11 years old. And my favorite color is blue!" The way Percy said the word 'blue' it's like a man saying his lover's name.
"I'm Nico di Angelo, 9 years old." The boy said while looking down the floor.
"My name is Bianca di Angelo, 13 years old. Nico and Hazel are my little siblings." Bianca said with a warming smile.
"My name is Hazel Levesque, 8 years old." Thalia and Jason exchange glances. Everyone wants to ask questions about her last name, but scared off by Bianca's deadly stare.
"Call me Thalia, 13. And don't call me other names, I will break your arm if you try." She decided to break the silence and give out a threat in advance.
"Jason Grace, 10."
"I am Calypso, 9 years old, you can call me Cal, but only my sister gets to call me my moon!" The little girl said excitedly.
"Last one it's me then." The older girl took turns and look into everyone's eyes before she speaks. "I'm Zoë Nightshade, Zoë will be fine. And I will be Chiron's assistant for your future trainings."
