The Roman Avenger (Percy Jackson)

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter 13

I sat in my room quietly thinking about the events of the day. This was certainly not how I imagined this day when I gave Reyna the necklace. I thought for sure I was going to tell her how I felt and she going to be happy, and it was just going to be a perfect day. Yeah far from that. After seeing Gabe a round of horrible memories have came about.

The more I thought about the prophesy the more I knew it hadn't come true. Only one line had really happened and that was that the moon was saved by cousins together. Is Artemis going to be captured again? Are the fates truly that cruel or am I not looking at a big enough picture here?

Stress rolled through my mind. I didn't know what to think or to do! There was a light tap at my door, and I prayed to every God that it was Reyna. When I opened it there stood my beautiful dark eyed friend. Her face seemed sad and filled with worry. I immediately opened my door and let her in. She came crawling in quietly and I shut the door behind her. She started to speak, but I couldn't find the strength so I just pulled her in for a tight hug that I very much needed. She asked, "Do you want to talk about this here, or somewhere else?"

I sighed, "Somewhere else, lets get out of here."

She nodded and I took her hand as I lured the shadows to us to drag us to another favorite spot of mine. We were on the ocean side of Oxnard California. I plumped down in the sand and she did the same right next to me. I sat there and not a word was said for a while. We just stared at the forever restless ocean. Hours could've passed and I would've never noticed. I knew tonight was the night I would tell her my past, "It was July 4th 2005 I was 5 at the time. It was a usual day in the house and we were of course celebrating the birth of America. Gabe had a bunch of friends over, and they were all as slimy as he was, so I kept to myself throughout the night. He was drunk not to far into the night and at one point I heard my mom scream."

Reyna looked at me confused, but she listened closely. Her eyes peered into me as I continued my story, "I go to see what had happened and Gabe was on top of her kissing her and I knew what he was trying to do. I may not have realized at the time the extent of what he was trying to do, but I knew mom didn't want anything to do with him at that moment, so I charged at him and knocked him off of her. He got really angry and pulled out a switch blade. I tried to run, but I was to late. He gave me this scar, and said that I forever belonged to him. That no matter how far I ran, he would always catch up to me...He is immortal now, I saw the gold in his eyes. They weren't like that before."

I pointed at the G on my face that was carved deeply into my skin, that one was one of the most painful. She eyed me with tears in her eyes, "Why would you tell me that?"

I sighed, "Because I am tired of keeping things from you. You are the closest person to me in this world, yet you don't know a lot about my childhood. Its not fair to you. I want you to understand why I will stop at nothing to see that man dead."

I looked out to the Ocean which was now pounding on the beach. I couldn't even meet her eyes. She said my name, but I didn't look at her. I was to sad. She then put a gentle hand on my cheek and moved my face to where I was looking her in the eyes, "Percy, we don't have to live in the past. I told you I don't care about that. I just care about our future."

I looked at her in surprise and she blushed, "Reyna I can't ask you to expect a future with me in it. I have the great prophesy over my head that says I will die. The odds of us winning has decreased drastically. I had confidence that I could at least win this war. For my friends, for my family, for you. But now I don't know if I am strong enough. With the blessing of Jupiter I feel stronger, I feel more in tuned with the world. But I met the son of Darunia, he was there. I had never seen a power like his, especially from a mortal."