Pleading Eyes

Friend Or Foe?

Humming.

All Percy could here was a gentle and soothing humming. It was relaxing and caused him to be dazed for just a moment longer before the demigod remembered what had happened, where was he?

Sitting up quickly, Percy groaned and grasped at his head as a pounding headache made its presence known, dots swimming behind his eyelids as Percy waited for his body to catch up to his racing mind, the velvety bed beneath him only making him tense further as he had no idea how and why he was in this quite spotless white room.

"What..?"

As Percy peeked shyly from behind his fingers, he quietly observed his surroundings, taking note of his new clothes along the way, long gone was the dark kimono only to be replaced with silky dark robes like that a god would wear when visiting the camps, rippling darkness of silk stared back at him bluntly amongst all of the blinding white of the room, everything neat and orderly and if Percy was being honest, it hurt his eyes to see all this white and he was almost expecting for something to happen to the bright color all around him but nope.

Nothing.

Sighing, Percy inhaled the flowery sweet scent that was wrapped all around him and forced himself to get up, ignoring the painful ache in his limbs as he shakily twisted his body to the side of the bed, waiting at the edge for a bit as he gathered himself together and then he slipped out of the warm nest of blankets, which were no surprise a fluffy white, grimacing at the cold feel of the floor as his bare feet made contact with the ground.

His dark robes falling from their place all bunched up at his thighs as he stood up, pooling at his feet as it covered him in a shield of darkness. Barefooted Percy had no other choice but to continue, noticing once again that the room looked more like a cell than anything with the lack of warmth and well...everything.

Little tingles raced up his feet as the confused demigod continued towards the tall doors just a few feet in front, hand gripping the cold handle hesitantly before he turned the small little handle and came face-to-face with a surprised tall male, an unfamiliar male.

Leaping back, Percy kept the male in his view as his hand reached into the small pocket of his weird robe that seemed alive with the way it flowed in the air, ripples of pure darkness continuing to trickle along as if unperturbed by its wearers sudden alarm, scarred fingers wrapping around the familiar form of Riptide and glowing sea-green eyes stayed latched onto the mysterious male who seemed to radiate power and a dark disturbing darkness.

"Woah! Calm down kid, I'm not gonna hurt you."

"Who are you? Why am I here? Wait, where am I? What did you do with my clothes? That's kind of creepy and now I feel violated, thanks for that. What are all those dark things all over you? Why is-"

The tall dark stranger immediately held his hands out as if to stop Percy and the demigod stop in his questioning as the male looked at him amusedly, "Calm down kid, I got time. I wouldn't have brought you here if I hadn't, I would be a bad host if I did that. Now, why don't you sit down and we can talk peacefully, hm?"

Despite the menacing tendrils of darkness going in all types of different directions on the guys body freely and untouched, Percy nodded slowly and walked backwards to the bed, keeping the pale man in view till the back of his knees hit the bed and he sat down slowly as if waiting for an attack, causing the unbelievably handsome male to smile in amusement at the demigod's untrusting gaze.

"Hm, where should I start? Well, I guess I could introduce myself for starters, after all, I am the host. Erebus, Primordial of Darkness at your service."

The grinning man bowed childishly in Percy's direction, incredibly dark hair floating and swirling downwards a bit like flames as the man bowed for the son of Poseidon despite being more powerful than him.