PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF - UNCLAIMED

8. Seeing Ghosts is normal

[Y/n's Pov]

As it turns out, sleeping was the wrong move. Dreams are great for a mortal but for a demi-god? It can be very bad and right now, I am looking at a girl with a pinecone face.

"Hey, Y/n. Nice to see you. You look older," Thalia told me as if it was normal for a former tree to speak.

"You were turned to a tree and that is the first thing you say to me?" I shouted at her, emotions flaring up. Could you blame me?

"Come, sit down. I can finally speak to someone again so calm your ass down," she firmly said. I listened to her, overwhelmed by this.

"Why are you here? Not that I am not happy to see you but what does it mean?" I asked her knowing a shrug would be the answer.

"You still question the will of the gods? I don't know, you have to figure that out. I believe in you though, you'll solve it," She said before hugging me. The hug felt real and fake at the same time.

"I got this, seeing ghosts is normal for me. Usually closer to winter when I see them though," I confidently say. Thalia believes in me so I have to solve it.

"Did you ever figure out your parent?" She asked me, looking concerned.

"Nah, have a few guesses though. One worse then the others," Thalia pets me on my head in response that.

"Is it Hades?" She softly asked, rightly so. If it was Hades, i'd be the child of prophecy and i'd burn the world without a single doubt in my mind.

"No, no. It is not. Zeus told me that I was no child of the big three, do not have the power. I think my mother is the godly parent," I tell her. Flinching as I say Zeus, sparky subject with Thalia. She started to fade before I got a response and I just went to sleep.

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I was now sat beside Annabeth on a bus, still reeling over the intetraction with Thalia.

"Hey, Percy-" I tried to ask Percy about the Oracle before getting interrupted by Grover eating the apple we were playing with. We laughed at that for awhile.

It was going smoothly. Just as I thought that, hairs on my arms tensed up. I looked around before spotting three old ladies and something in me felt connected to them.

"Owl eyes, look." I whispered and glanced in the direction of the furies knowing she'd be smart about it.

"Shit," the child of Athena profoundly stated. She then got the other twos attention as I applied WWTD (what would Thalia do?) When I realised I had no way of turning into a tree, I panicked.

"I need to use the bathroom," the first one said as they stood.

"So do I," the second one said.

"So do I," the last one said.

"Percy, they are only looking for you. Take my cap and leave," Annabeth told Percy the plan. I hated the plan, he listened.

"Where is it?" The furies screeched at us. It? Rude, Percy is not an it.

"He's gone. He is not here," Annabeth said. I pulled out my silver sword, a gift from Artemis.

"So Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera. Which one of you wants to go report their failure first?" I asked before standing in front of Grover. Annabeth can fight so she'll be fine.

They screeched in fury but before anything could happen, the bus flipped with me going out a window and landing on my ass. Before me stood Magaera, the vengeful one. Looking very angry, how fun.

"I was told to lay no harm to you but you had the guts to taunt us so you'll die," she screeched at me.

I responed by putting distance between us, using Chloe's bow to keep her back as I recover. She just charged at me causing me to use my bow to block her claws. In anger she pushed away my bow and cut down my right eye. I screamed in pain and fell to my knees holding my eye with an arm pointing in the direction of Magaera. As I started to get up I heard sounds of choking, I look at the fury and saw her body overgrown with vines coming out of her mouth. WWTD worked, I could not turn myself into a tree so why not do it to them? She faded away after a slow death.

"Oh no. No. No. We are going to the underworld and I may be, nope. Don't think about it," I said to myself before turning to find the others. It's summer as well so I can't even ask about it when we get there. I found the others, Percy and Annabeth just finished bonding with each other as I approached.

"Flipping a bus, is it fun?" I said to Percy with a grin.