𝕱𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖑𝖞 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊 - a Leo Valdez slowburn

Chapter thirteen

Chapter thirteen.

[Leah almost gets kidnapped]

"Not everyone is inspirational,

but you should remember that not everyone tries to be.

Sometime you should just live your life,

instead of trying to influence others."

Leah knew that when Porphyrion had risen she wouldn't be able to beat him. No one could, unless they were way too overpowered for their own good (and could control their powers, which Leah couldn't). So she used the action he had taught her years ago, the action that showed she gave up. Because she had. And when she had uttered those words, all hesitation was gone in her mind. Because she was his creation, and that meant that she knew exactly how to escape from his clutches unharmed.

Porphyrion had heard her, and he laughed loudly. He, at the moment, had been boasting towards Jason. Both Jason and Porphyrion looked at her, although one looked much more worried than the other. "Little Leah," he taunted. "I haven't seen you in quite a long time, I believe." He looked at her stance: she was up to something, he was sure of it.

"Maybe I have trained you to be the best version of yourself, but you cannot trick me! I know you, inside and out. You cannot hide anything from your mentor, little Leah," he said, his voice bouncing off the walls of the ruined mansion. He then directed his attention to Jason and continued his previous boasting. "Little Leah has been quite the pupil, she has always had potential. But that doesn't matter! Back in olden times, I stole Zeus's queen, to start the war," he said, his head slightly tilted.

Leah blocked out all voices that weren't in her head. There were, at the moment, two voices she could listen to: herself and her torturer. He claimed he knew everything about her, but she hadn't been fully evolved when he took her. In the Second Titan War, she unlocked a new ability, an ability that she had only used when she was truly desperate. Like a Pokémon, basically.

This ability was quite the wild card, but it wasn't like she had another choice. And she wanted to escape from Porphyrion unharmed, so she would have to do this.

She was a daughter of Demeter. No, she was the daughter of Demeter. And with being a daughter of Demeter, she had this weird control over rocks: geokinesis. She had only developed it in the Second Titan War, hence why Porphyrion didn't know about it. She had back then accidentally sucked three attacking dracaena into the ground and maybe, just maybe, she'd sucked some mortals in too.

It wasn't exactly a pleasant experience.

Leah tried to keep her mind blank, because Porphyrion could tap in at any moment. Intruding thoughts of strategy were annoying to beat a giant when said giant could literally read your mind and enter your head, so she tried to keep her thoughts as neutral as possible. Leah felt like she was being pulled towards Porphyrion, like a magnet or a puppeteer pulling her strings, but she held her ground.

She slowly opened her eyes again, and once they fully open, she spoke. "I knew you would come back, sir!" she said, trying to keep her voice as calm as possible. "It's not like that's what you imprinted in my mind for three months." She laughed: a weak, painful laugh. She rubbed her eyes with the palms of her hands until she started to see stars.