Chapter 1

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Chapter 1

"He has his father's eyes"

A weak gasp comes from the newly single mother, Sally Jackson, as she's looking into her newborn son's sea green eyes in her arms, which were looking back at her, making the mother smile as much as she could, still being quite weak from the agonising pain of giving birth.

"He's going to grow into a very handsome man in the future" A voice speaks up from Sally's side, belonging to the nurse who had stayed with the single mother all night, as she underwent the gruelling labour.

The nurse's words elicited a soft chuckle from the bedridden mother, as she cradled the small baby on her soft arms.

"He will," Sally smiles.

"What are you going to name him?"

The question obviously took the mother off guard, as she stopped staring into her son's eyes for the first time, since she got a hold of him, dwelling on the thought for a while.

After a minute of silence, Sally looked back down, into her son's captivating eyes, as she smiled.

"Perseus..."

"His name is Perseus Jackson" Sally coos.

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4 Years Later

We picked up four years later, now inside a very welcoming home.

The interior looked simple, yet very calm and peaceful, with a quite cozy living room and a clean looking kitchen.

And, as we continue to look around, you could already notice the abundance of framed pictures, all quite different from each other, but had two similarities. Each picture had Sally Jackson alongside a small green eyed boy with jet black hair.

As we got further into the home, each photo showed the growth of the young boy, getting taller with each photo, and as we reach more of the recent photos, it is shown that there were new additions, particularly two small boys who looked to be the same age as the green eyed boy.

The first boy seemed to be the shortest among the three, having a round face, fluffy dark-green hair with big eyes, the same colour as his hair.

The second boy surpassed the first in height by a slight margin, having short, spiky and sandy blonde hair with choppy bangs that hang over his eyebrows. The boy's eyes are sharp and bright red in color.

The three boys looked very happy, smiling widely in the latest picture we see, as a sudden sound of the doorbell ringing, echoing throughout the once peaceful home, results in the sound of someone running quickly down the stairs, disturbing the quiet environment.

"Percy! Slow down! You might trip!" A very worried Sally Jackson shouts out to the young boy, smiling excitedly, we now see at the foot of the stairs, having reached it quickly.

The boy had sea green eyes with disheveled jet black hair, similar to the one in the pictures, as this was, quite evidently, the same boy four years ago.

Right behind the young boy, now stood Sally, looking to be less cheerful and happy than last time, now seeming sleep deprived, with the eye bags underneath her eyes, which was unfortunately the result of being a mother, a single mother no less, having to raise her son all alone.

Sally sighed, as she reached her very energetic son, seeing that he was safe, before pinching her forehead in stress.

'This boy's going to kill me'

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