━━━━HURRICANE!
❝ it's all we know,
the hurricane. ❞
( the mark of athena & the house of hades )
( l. valdez x fem!oc )
( p. mclean x male!oc )
( heroes of o...
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chapter twenty-nine, ❝hazel levesque❞ 『H A Z E L』
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━━━Hazel Levesque is not proud of crying. She wishes she could say she simply got teary-eyed and brushed them away, ordering her friends to follow her, marching toward the Doors of Death bravely whilst taking down a sorceress. But that's not what happened.
Hazel cries.
After the tunnel collapses, Hazel weeps and screams and curses. She can't move the debris that had separated her, Leo, and Valentina from the others. But she still pounds her fists against the stones, yelling curses that would have earned her an intense mouth-washing with lye soap back at St. Agnes Academy.
She lets out all of the frustration she has kept in over the last few weeks, so, very angry ━ angry that she was roped onto this quest, angry that she lost the person she cared for the most in the world; angry that she hadn't been strong or quick enough to grab onto that person, Regina, and fallen in with her like Percy did Annabeth; angry that her brother, Nico, had held her back from jumping in after her. She is angry at Hecate for giving her such a shitty destiny━to the point where saving Regina and her other friends rely completely on Hazel and her alone. She is angry at Hecate for not giving her enough time to figure all of this Mist shit out. She is angry at the Fates for giving her such a difficult life. She is angry. So, very angry.
She almost brings down the entire House of Hades in those moments, her eyes ablaze gold with power, clenching her fists so deeply that her nails cut into her palms and give her little crescent-shaped cuts. The whole cavern shakes, reminding her of the island she wiped off the map seventy years ago.
She almost slices off Valentina's head when the redhead puts a hand on her shoulder. Leo stands a few feet away, looking terrified━(terrified of Hazel)━and speechless. Valentina looks a bit uneasy, too, but she speaks to Hazel gently anyway.
"Hazel," she says. "I understand your frustration, but they'll be okay. They're all strong. They can make it through."
"She's right," says Leo, his voice shaking, managing to look Hazel in the eyes. "Jason can spark some lightning bolts. Piper's good with charm-speak. Nico can summon the dead. Romeo is a better fighter than the world's best MMA fighters all put together, and Frank'll probably turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu."
"Exactly." Valentina smiles warmly. "Breathe, all right? We have to save Percy and Annabeth and Regina. You're going to save them."
Something settles in Hazel. An intense sense of determination. She's sure Valentina is probably using charm-speak, but she doesn't really care. Because Valentina is right. She will save Regina━and the Fates be damned because if somehow, someway, she does not get Regina back, the gods of Olympus better be shivering in their thrones. Hazel alone will bring down the world itself to get her Regina back.
