Demi-Goddess (Percy Jackson Fanfiction)

The Black Figure

I couldn't sleep that night.
The infirmary was quiet.

When we arrived to what Grover called, "The Big House", a strange man in a wheelchair opened the door, half asleep as his glasses were upside down.
Turns out his name was Chiron, and he was half horse. Yes, I said that right. Half horse.
I shouldn't have been surprised though.
He got Will Solace, who's from the Apollo cabin, to take care of me.
He brought me this amazing godly food, called ambrosia. I almost killed myself eating a bit too much of it.
My wounds healed, but I was told to stay in the infirmary tonight.
My mind raced as I laid down in one of the beds, playing with Ostrya's seed in my right hand. The dryad gave up her life to guide us to Camp Half Blood. I couldn't help but feel responsible.
I sighed and closed my eyes in the silence.
My mother's voice rang in my head
I'm not your mother.
Okay, my ex-mothers voice.
I swore on the River Styx.
She was sworn to secrecy, to raise me for someone else. My parents must've known something weird about me. Maybe they planned it that way, or maybe it was to keep me safe. Yea, I doubt it.
I couldn't help but feel a sense I never thought I'd be able to feel. Loneliness.

Life before camp was pretty normal.
My mo- my ex-mom would be gone from the morning before I left to school, and arrive at home right before I fell asleep. I was a hard child, so I couldn't blame her impatience with me. My D+ grades and suspensions pushed her a bit, but she never got mad. She'd get disappointed.
I felt a lump in my throat I couldn't swallow.
I was so used to being alone, but now I felt left in the dark. I still had Grover, but he hasn't explained much after we got to camp. I turned my head to see him. His face squashed into his pillow, snoring like a goat.
I was thankful for Grover's fitful snoring as I fell asleep to it.

I heard a baby crying in an alley way. It was dark and cold, an autumn night. The street lamp was the only thing lighting up the path between two large apartment buildings, fire escapes running down both sides. There was a figure walking down the long path, it's cloak flowing in the wind behind it. I followed cautiously, shivering from the cold winds of the night. The black figure reached the gate that ended the alley, and knocked on a dark door attached to the building on the right. As the figure turned anxiously, I saw a bundle, and inside was a small flustered baby, crying quietly.
Θα είναι εντάξει, παιδί μου.
"You will be okay, my child", the figure seemed to say in Greek, yet it's voice echoed through my mind. I couldn't tell if it was a male or female, or if it was even human at all.
Then light was released into the alleyway as the door opened. A young lady stepped out, and I squinted my eyes to get a good look at the woman. There was complete silence as I tried to get closer, but I stepped onto crumbled leaves, the crackling noise gave me away.
The figure and lady turned their heads, and I was grabbed from behind, sheer pain ripped through my back as I was pulled into the darkness. I shrieked. A deep and darker voice shouted through me.
ΑΝΉΚΕΤΕ ΣΕ ΜΈΝΑ, ΤΏΡΑ.
"YOU BELONG TO ME NOW"
I woke up with a jolt, scaring Will as he jumped back and tripped over himself, falling to the floor.
"Woah, there. You okay?", he asked, getting up and dusting himself off.
"Yeah...sorry."
I threw my legs over the bed and stood up, pushing back locks of my curly brown hair. I noticed that I had no scars from the burn marks yesterday, and Ostrya's seed was still inside my pocket.
"I didn't have the chance to say this properly last night, but welcome to Camp Half Blood.", he showed no enthusiasm in welcoming me.
"You could at least try.", I suggested, and he chuckled.
Okay, so remember all those really weird things that happened yesterday? Things got even more weirder.
Out of Will's shadow, this guy appeared. He was dressed in black jeans and a black t-shirt that said My Chemical Romance. He could've been the shadow himself.
The guy just waved, but I started to get creeped out with the fact that he just came out of a shadow.
Will noticed my confusion.
"This is Nico, my boyfriend. He's the son of Hades, so he can shadow travel.", Will explained this, but it seems like he's said this before about a million other times.
"Don't call me that.", Nico crossed his arms.
"My bad. What should I call you, my soul mate?"
I broke the teasing between them.
"So let me get this straight. I'm a demigod. One of my parents is a Greek god or goddess. This gives me some sort of power, and also attracts weird monsters that really don't know how to stay out of my business and likes to kill my friends.", I let out everything I learned from yesterday.
Nico and Will glanced at each other, then turned to me.
"Yea pretty much.", Nico said.
Will noticed the seed that I pulled out of my pocket moments before.
"I'm sorry about Ostrya."
"It's fine.", I said, putting away the seed.
Grover then sat up from his bed, and noticed the pink bald spots on his legs. I thought I heard Nico stifle a laugh.
"Alright which Stoll was it?", he asked, and I knew he was talking about some pranksters from the camp.