Unclaimed [Percy Jackson]

i. I repeat: being a half blood isn't fun

BEING a half blood is not as exciting as you may think.

Being a half blood is having a painted target in your back. Your blood makes you to be always an outcast no matter where you go. Too godly to be normal but too human to be considered superior. The ichor running through your veins due to the half godly parentage making you stand out, but don't fool yourself. The only thing your parent did by siring you was not out of love, no, gods always had their selfish motives into mingling with mortals to create their bastard spawns.

Half bloods were nothing but tools, soldiers meant to carry their wars. Since the moment they were born or placed by their mortal parent's doorstep as some gods were weird as sprouting children from their brains, that child's life was doomed.

Amelia would like to confirm that fact.

Being a half blood had its very downsides. Mainly in the way she couldn't stay still, ADHD was called. Battle reflexes she was told the moment she arrived at Camp. Her inability to read or write was due to her brain being wired to only read Ancient Greek, something mortals called dyslexia.

Since a young age, Amelia was called a problematic child.

Was she one?

Maybe.

Did she want to be one?

Hell yeah.

It was the only way she could be left alone.

It worked in the mortal world and it has worked wonders at Camp Half Blood.

Amelia didn't care about her godly parentage. She could care less about their needs. About why they created her.

Amelia wasn't like those teary eyed, mourning boys and girls who laid at their spots by the floor in the only Cabin that would accept him in order to not anger the other deities. She didn't cry nor begged for a sign from the parent who will never care for them in the way they wanted them to.

Amelia would avoid Cabin Eleven every night a camper was welcomed by their new siblings, when a new spot in the floor, mostly close to her side in the corner of the Cabin would empty, ready for the next desperate hopeful soul wanting for ages for a sign that might never come.

There was a spot in the trees, close to the edge of the forest where Amelia would nestle, close to the shadows where she could be hidden from anyone and everyone. Hiding was easy for her, specially at night. Specially when she would sneak past the Harpies.

These past few days, that's where she's spent most of her time, up in that three, secluded from the world and every annoyingly chirpy face. Everyone was too shiny and hopeful and simply bright for her taste.

It's where she was able to hear the commotion coming from Thalia's tree.

Thalia's tree was another evidence that being a half blood sucked. She was a forbidden demigod, forbidden meaning that she was a child of the Big Three, Aka Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. Thalia's father being Zeus. The Big Three had a pact between them of not siring any demigod children for boring reasons Amelia didn't bother to learn, only that she knew they were forbidden. Thalia's existence angered Hades who sent every monster at his disposal in the Underworld after her. In an act of pity or what Zeus called pity, he turned Thalia into a tree at the Hill now known as Half Blood Hill where the protective barrier from camp began, her noble sacrifice was what Zeus got to use to empower the barrier protecting the demigods.

See? Being a half blood sucked.

If you weren't running for your life, then you were either dead too young or turned into vegetables.

Anyhow... Amelia was losing track of her thoughts.

The problem at hand was at the base of Thalia's tree. Amelia didn't bother climbing from the branch of her tree, simply leaning forward as if she could manage to see from where she was. Her legs were tucked to her chest and she didn't act at all when a figure was practically dragging themselves and another one towards the Big House.

Her eyebrows briefly furrowed in vague curiosity but her attention was easily lost and captured by the way the storm raging out of the safety of Camp grounds slowly faded.

Her eyes closed, no more interested into who the new desperate longing soul was.