A Final Stand ~ A Fan-made Percy Jackson Book

𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝔀𝓸 - 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓮𝓽𝓻𝓪𝔂𝓪𝓵 𝓞𝓯 𝓕𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂

"Good morning"  The man with the black cloak spoke, his face held no emotion, despite the faces on his cloak.

I felt the words coming out of my mouth without my willingness to say them.

"Good morning dearest father."

I didn't mind it of course, my mind going blank when it came to my time before the palace. The woman smiled and stood up, she walked over to me, in such elegance, such style, before embracing me in a hug. I found myself smiling before sitting down upon the free throne. I sat there as I watched my father hosting trials, trails that were too complex or too obscure to be done by the regular panel. My mother, who I later found out who's name was Persephone generally calmed my father down when his temper because too much.

Many years later

I awoke to the skeleton maids scuttling around my room, with various tasks: preparing my outfit, pouring my tea, tidying my room and many other things that were too tedious for royalty to take care of I suppose. It was soon to be my 9th birthday, I got up and changing into my gown before travelling downstairs, but I stopped at a certain point, hearing an unfamiliar voice speaking to some very familiar ones.

"Hades, Zues has requested you return Athena's daughter at once! You have no idea of the power you are restraining here! You don't know what that girl is destined for! Zues is enraged as it is! Athena broke an ancient rule. Don't break make him break one himself. Might I say this; he is not going to hesitate. Apollo has informed him via the Spirit of Delphi, that girl is to be returned at once."

"I never took a child from Athena, I never took any children of the gods, besides my wife of course. But we have already made a settled agreement on that many millennia ago. You are free to go Hermes."

"You know you took her!"

"Hermes, I so kindly ask you to take your leave before I make you."

"BUT HADE-"

I heard the guards dragging out the figure with the winged sandals. I was about to go and talk to my father but then another unfamiliar person stepped in.

"HADES!"

A beautiful woman stepped into the Great hall, it made my head pound and my vision fuzzy. She looked too familiar.

"Athena, oh wise one."

"Don't."

"Don't what? I don't have anything"

"Yes. You have my daughter. You don't know what that girl is capable of Hades."

"Be gone. You have no permission to enter my domain, you are lucky I have spared you dearest niece."

I heard muffled shouts and then nothing. I couldn't even think straight, what had I just witnessed? Was I the girl...? No. I couldn't be, I am the Princess of the Underworld, I am Pheobe. I am an unstoppable force. But why did I feel so alone?

 I rushed down the staircase. But my father was nowhere to be seen. I began to cry out of confusion, out of hatred, out of loneliness. I couldn't hold it in. But as the first teardrop leaked from my eye. I felt a tug in my gut. Suddenly more tears fell, but I touched my cheek. It was dry, I then began to think to myself.

Why don't I go and find father, there's nothing else to do here, I don't need to be crying around.Suddenly my tears began to group up into a bubble of water and it began to create a water cloud, I took my chance and stood on it hoping to make it disappear, why on earth was it even here? I stepped upon the cloud and it didn't fade away into nothingness, it was solid, I was able to stand upon it without it disappearing. It began to move up the stairs without touching them, it was floating.