LUCID

Father

"Jason!" Veronica yelled at the abyss she was in, scared and confused, a minute ago she was walking towards an object and suddenly she was filled with darkness, she felt like giving up, her energy drained and memories from her past returning.

"Hello my child.." A familiar voice was heard from afar, Veronica looked around, but couldn't see over how dark the place was. Shivers were running down her spine, cold sweat was invading her body, making her fall back to her knees.

"Please! Someone help!" She cried, she was too weak, her voice wouldn't even come out clearly. "No one is going to help you in here, it's just you and me.." He spoke again from behind, Veronica gathered all the strength she could and turned around to face at the man who was speaking to her.

"You're him, aren't you?" She barely made out her words, the faceless man who was haunting her in her dreams was revealed to her in the middle of the darkness.

"You're a quick one, just like your mother.." He spoke again, getting down on one knee to be at Veronica's level. He let out an evil smirk as he caressed the skin on her face, making her flinch away from it.

"Get the hell away from me.." She spoke, still feeling weak but not letting him notice. "And like your father.." He replied coldly as he got up and turned to face at nothingness. "What the hell do you want? My powers? I don't have any.."She spoke again, this time gaining a little bit of her strength and slowly getting up on her feet.

"You see, you actually do and I want that power , but due to respect to your loving dead mother, I'm asking you nicely." He spoke again, still turning his back to her, but the minute Veronica heard those words coming out of his moth, she got filled with anger.

"You mean the women you loved and killed? You really are a joke!" She replied without even thinking what would come next. Hades turned to face Veronica and before she could react, she was being held up by Hades, one hand on her neck, she struggled, trying to get away but lost consciousness in the process, she was too weak to face him.

|Veronica's POV|

Here I was, I assumed myself dead, I blacked out again or died, I couldn't tell, but whatever it was, it was better than talking to Hades, the place I was now looked just like heaven, a gold palace out in the distance, my feet wanting to run towards it, but I was stuck, looking around, thinking it was one of Hades's mind tricks, but suddenly I heard a voice that brought peace to my troubles.

"My child, you shouldn't bee here, unless.." He spoke, I turned my gaze towards the voice and there stood a tall, man with white gray hair, he sure looked like a god of some sort, his voice was gentle, but his figure was intimidating.

"Who are you?" I spoke, still a little skeptical about the conversation, he got closer to me with a gentle smile and grabbed both of my hands. "Just like your mother.." He spoke with a bitter sweet smile and that's when it hit me. "You're..Zeus." I spoke, still not believing what I was seeing.

"Your father, Veronica, that's the name your other parents gave you, your mother and I named you Lucid, but Veronica suits you well.." He spoke again "I think is time for you to find that power within yourself, you are much stronger than you think! You're the daughter of a God and a human, but you are still equally as powerful as the rest of us up here!" He spoke firmly, his words brought confidence in me and it reminded me of the time Rachel said I was stronger than I thought.

Then it hit me, all of this, was an illusion, Hades illusions, I came here myself as I felt my weakest and somehow got out of his grasp. "How can I? it's been twenty five years and no sight of this power everyone is talking about.." I spoke with disappointment, but was taken back from Zeus's sudden laughter.