Reborn In Percy Jackson World! The Battle of The Labyrinth

Taking Down the Pesky Wall that Keeping My Memories

I sat nervously on a couch, a couple of fluffy pillows are stacked nicely on the end of the couch. Hypnos sat on the chair groggily as he heard Hecate talked to him. Hypnos had 'teakwood' skin and golden eyes, his had long black hair that rest a few inches above his shoulder. Hypnos sometimes put his fist over his mouth as he yawned, Hecate only stared at him for moment before shook her head.

"Uh, so what now?" I asked and looked at Hypnos, whose now asleep.

Hecate sighed again and took a seat next to him "Wait a moment, he will wake up soon enough"

As if he heard her, he lifted up his head and stare at me.

"Is this the guy from before?" he asked in groggy tone

"Yes" Hecate answer "We need to remove the wall that block his memories"

"But.." he trailled off and he yawned "Those gods will kill us if we do that"

Hecate rolled her eyes "And?"

Hypnos stared at her and managed to sneak a couple naps before turned to face me. Looks like he's too lazy to argue.

"Lie down" Hypnos commanded lazily "Put your head on the pillow"

I nodded and took my shoe off, I lied my head on a pillow and stared at the ceiling blankly. Then something cool and rough touching my forehead.

"Sleep" he command again.

This time my eyes flutter closed and I fall asleep within a second.

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It felt cold in here, I'm floating in the darkness once more. Then my feet managed to find a solid ground and I managed to stand up right. I reached out and began to walk forward, trying to find my bearing. But, this time I found a big wall blocked my view to the other side. It's not like those glass wall that separate Kronos from me. Its juts a big brick wall, I saw a few big crack here and there, and it's in the verge of collapsing. Just one push and it will collapse. I pressed my hand into the wall and felt an odd sensation came from my brain. 

I begin to punch at the wall, repeteadly. At first a dull pain throbbed against my skull, then the pain increasing every second and it became unbearable. I hissed in pain as I clutched my head with my free hand, slowly I fell into my knees and a scream escape my lips. Its felt like someone split my head into two and stabbed my brain with hot butter knife. My ear rang painfully and my every nerve burned, tears flowed from my eyes to the point that I'm couldn't see clearly what in front of me. Black spots started to dance in front of me, then I heard something crumbled faintly.

Then I heard something snapped and I found myself unable to breathe properly, or think properly. I breathed heavily and shakily, I tried my hard to swallow my own saliva since my throat burn. I pushed myself up weakly and stumbled into the ground, my chest hit the ground hard and I let out a hiss. It hurts, it hurts, I repeated inside my brain. I clenched my fist and tried to get all my sense back, I took a deep breath and tried to stand up, slowly. The pain began to subside as my sight began to focus to what in front of me again. The wall had been destroyed, the debris scattered around. I saw a man around his twnties sat on the ground, his back facing me. Tentatively I walked towards the man and stopped walking when I heard a soft sob came from the man.

"WH-who are you?" I asked "And what are you doing in here?"

The man turned to face me and I saw myself, my previous self with auburn hair and green eyes. I just realized that in my previous life, I was more thin and much more paler. Probably because at that time, I spend most of my time reading and studying. 

 His eyes is red and puffy, his body is trembling violently. He looked scared and sad, he stood up and shook his head, as if he disapointed in my action. One more thing I just realize, I was always afraid back then, always afraid of confortation, afraid of people dissapoint in me, afraid of them leaving me behind. Am I a coward?

I could only stare at the man in front of me, that man is me and he avoiding my eyes.

"Why?" he croaked "Why did you do that?"

I blinked "Do what?"

"The wall" he mumbled "It supposed to keep you away from me"

"I want to know the truth" I said again "I have to"

The previous me shook his head violently "No! You can't! You won't be able to handle the truth. I know it, because you are me."

I was taken a back for a moment. True, I might be unable to handle the truth why am I here, true that it might break me to the point of no amount of love and friendship power able to fixi it, true that it might make me go berserk and kill everyone around me. 

But, I have to know the truth. I need to understand why this happening to me, why I have to put my life on the line. I need a reason to fight, a reason to keep going.

"I have to!" I raised my voice "I need know! I need a reason to fight!"

"You already have!" the other me shouted back "You have them! Why are you looking for more reason?! Aren't they enough?"

Do I have them? The answer is yes, I know I fight to protect my family and friend, to keep the world safer for them. To keep away the bad guys from them, to protect their smile. I know that, believe me I know. But, I deep down I know I can't accept all of this, deep down there's part of me yearning to know the truth, and someday I need to face it.

I took a step forwards and me flinched, he took a step back and shook his head.

"Please don't" he whispered "You won't able to handle it. Just back away"

"Why?" I shouted desperately "Why won't you let me?"

The other me lowered his head "I'm sorry, but its better this way"

There you go, the old me who always try to hide his feelings. Push people away. Huh, this attitude kinda suck and annoying. So this is what Percy and the other felt when I did that. I always says I do this to protect them, but the real reason? I just a coward.

Well, I guess I have to use Percy tactic. I have to force myself to open up, even if its painfull.

I sighed and lowered my head "Then I'm also sorry"

"For what?"

"For doing it" I said and launched myself at him.

The other me tried to escape but I'm much faster, I grabbed his arm and brought him closer to me. Our eyes clashed and he trembled in fear, green eyes widen terror, his bottom lips quivering in fear. Oh man, the old me really need to hit a gym twice a week, he wouldn't survive a fight.

"Just let me" I said calmly "Whatever happened, I have to know all of it. Why am I here? Why they choose me?"

After a few moment of silent, the other me sighed sadly and looked up at me "Are you sure?"

"Yes"

Then he offered a forlorn smile "Okay, then. Good luck"

Then he grabbed my face and put his forehead against mine. I gasped in pain as tons of memories began to flood my memories. After a few moments, the old me is gone and I just stood there alone, in the darkness, with my old memories.