User blog:Daughter-of-Poseidon19/The Twins of Old: Chapter One

~*The Twins of Old*~

~*Chapter 1*~

~*I Get Furious*~

The first time I encountered the out of the ordinary was at age 6, a couple of days before I ran away. Percy, mom and I were at lunch at our favorite deli. Percy had gotten a ruben, which I always thought looked funny. I made a face. "That's nasty." I mumbled. Percy smirked and rolled his eyes. "It's okay sweetie." my mom pulled a daisy from the vase in the center of the table. "When's daddy coming?" I sniffed the flower. "Very soon sweetheart." My mother and Percy exchanged looks. I hadn't understood what these random looks meant then, but now they make a lot of sense. The bells on the entrance door of the deli rang. Annabeth, Percy's fiance', walked over to our table. She twirled one of the curls in my hair and kissed Percy and my mom on the cheek. "How are you brother and dad?" My mom asked. "Henry and my dad are good. My dad just started coaching his little league actually. Henry misses you Ray." Annabeth smiled at me and pinched my cheek. "When is he going to visit?" I had a new sense of happiness. Henry was my best friend. He lived in Jersey with his mom and dad and only came to visit once or twice a month. He and I grew up together. We even shared the same birthday! "Very soon. He want's you to come to his birthday party next week." I looked at my mom. "Maybe sweetie. We'll see." I sighed. "Okay." My mom handed me a quarter. "Why don't you go play the video game Ray." My mom did that every once in a while. Hand me a quarter and send me off to play a game while she talked to Percy and Annabeth. It was annoying, but it did have an upside. I was number 5 on the high score list for Pac-Man. I hopped up onto the stool in-front of the ancient arcade game and deposited my quarter. I lost a life, getting distracted while trying to listen to the grown-ups conversation. "Darnit!" I whispered to myself. My mom didn't like it when I 'cursed'. I went to press the 'continue' button, when I was further distracted. In the dark screens reflection, stood a terrible monster. She has yellow glowing eyes, horrible sharpened teeth, a leathery complexion and terrible bat wings. "Hellooo Honey... hold still." She snarled sweetly? The scary part was, that I knew exactly what she was, but I had thought all the stories Percy and Annabeth had told me about the Furies were just stories, myths, like they said. I couldn't breathe, but I pulled a small amount of oxygen from the air and screamed. "KINDLY ONE!" The monster scratched my arm as she flew into the air, and got ready to attack.

Percy jumped ,as did Annabeth. Percy tapped his watch and pulled put a pen. His watch transformed into a shield and his pen elongated into a glowing bronze sword. Annabeth tugged on her silver necklace and pulled out a bronze dagger. Her necklace transformed into a full breast plate. I wasn't sure who to be more afraid of. The Fury screamed again. "We meet again honey." She screeched. Percy yelled and launched himself at the monster, who dodged him and went for me again. She picked me up by my wrist and began to fly. I started screaming at the top of lungs. My entire body started to feel hot. I glanced at my arm. I yelled louder and began to cry, it was glowing red with fire, but I wasn't burning. The Fury cried out and dropped my onto the Pac-Man game. Percy lunged at the Fury again and this time the glowing sword stuck deep into her belly and she evaporated into gold mist. I felt weak. My arm was bleeding and my head hurt. My eyelids got heavy and I soon I couldn't keep them open anymore. I closed my eyes, but didn't fall asleep. "Ray... she's gone sweetie." Annabeth took me into her arms and handed me to my mother. No one was yelling or screaming, they all sounded pretty calm. I couldn't fathom how they could be so serene after that. "I guess 3 demi's in one room, wasn't the greatest idea. Especially me and Rhea." Percy analyzed. Annabeth rolled her eyes and sighed. "Percy, you said Kindly Ones were a myth." I grumbled with my eyes still closed. "Should we bring her to camp?" Percy asked. "Percy, sometimes.... you just, UH! Seaweed brain.... she's like a flower in a field of daisy's. She's blending. Leave her where she is." Annabeth's voice changed the way it always did when she got frustrated. It got more mature and serious.... if that was even possible for her. My heavy eyelids started actually making me tired and I fell asleep in my moms arms.

When I woke up, I was in my bed at home. I had assumed that I dreamed the entire event. I go out of my bed and went to go and get food, but I stood at my door listening to my parents conversation instead. "Paul, she's been asleep for 3 days. We should tell him." My mother worried. "3 days?" I whispered to myself. "Sally, she's a demigod. Passing out for days at a time when you use your powers, is pretty common. She's fine. We don't need to bother her dad. I'm sure he's busy with the war. Poseidon will come here if he sense real danger." My "dad" said. "I don't know... She's so little Paul." my mom said. "What if they come back? Will we be able to protect her with Percy and Annabeth back at camp?" "We're going to have to try Sal. We knew she would attract loads of danger when we took her in, but we have to keep her safe like her mother wouldn't. No matter what." I stepped back from my door. My "mother and father" kept talking about the situation. I thought about all of Percy's stories of the adventures of the great demigod son of Poseidon. I immediately knew that his "myths" we actually his autobiographical stories. Paul had just called me a demigod, and said that my dad was Poseidon. Sally hadn't disagreed with Pauls comment about my "mother" not protecting me and she too had said my father was the sea god. I took a huge breath and suddenly my room began to glow. Above my head I saw a glowing blue trident, a gorgeous silver owl and a ferocious looking boar. The animals were chasing each other in a circle around the trident. Around the entire icon was a double ringed circle. One of the circle was crackling with lightning and the other was bubbling water. I knew this was a sign. I thought about Paul saying that I was basically a danger magnet and I decided right then and there that I would not put my family, or what ever they were in danger. I loved them too much. I went into my closet and got a backpack. I filled it with the all the contents of my piggy bank, which at that age consisted of 7 dollars and 14 cents; my favorite sleeping bag and a flash light. I walked over to my window and opened it and walked out onto the apartment fire escape. I climbed down the ladder and took one last look at my home. I was determined to keep my "family" safe, and I knew this was the only way I could at the moment. I ran down the street and took a hard left and keep running. I didn't look back as I go onto the D train and keep going. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Daughter-of-Poseidon19 02:22, April 19, 2010 (UTC)