Finding Infinity [Dreaming Alone Sequel] Percy Jackson & The Avengers crossover

Chapter One, Meeting Pepper

CHAPTER ONE- PERCY JACKSON AND THE AVENGERS

"Mom? Paul? I'm back!" I yelled as I unlocked my apartment door, stepping into the apartment. The sight that met my eyes wasn't a pleasant sight.

The entire place was a mess- drawers were just a mess of wood, magazines were torn and tossed on the floor and blood decorated the floor.

My eyes widened in shock. Blood? A gasp escaped my mouth.

"NO!"

I ran towards their bedroom, my heart beating frantically in my chest. My pulse raced a thousand miles.

Then I saw them.

My blood ran cold, frozen in shock and grief.

"M-mom? P-Paul?" I choke out. I took a hesitant step forward, looking into my mom's cold, dead eyes.

They were both suspended from the ceiling like rag dolls, their skins pale. Dried blood pooled below them and looks of horror marred their faces, one of the many evidences that something terrifying, horrifying and disturbing once stepped in here.

I knew who had killed them. 

Athena was truly not joking when she had said the Titans had once again risen. I clenched my fist so tight that my fingernails bit into my palm, drawing blood. 

I took one more look at the ruined apartment, my dead parents, the amount of blood littering the halls. 

Then I ran.

I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do, but I just needed to escape.

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I sprinted through the park, uncontrollable tears streaming down my face as I ran, running away from the scene as though it could be erased from my mind altogether. My heart raced erratically from running but I never stopped to catch breath. I ran as though it could bring them back from the dead. Tears rolled down my cheeks like rivulets and agony consumed my heart. I had already lost my home, Hogwarts. Why did my parents have to be killed as well? Wasn't life bad enough already? What did I ever do to deserve this? I had lost everyone. I was truly alone now.

I felt like puking. My head was spinning and I couldn't breathe. Emotions slammed repeatedly into me like a tornado- killing and burning me from the inside. Why? Why of all people did they have to kill my parents? I never asked to be a demigod. I was okay with a normal life. Why did my parents have to go? They were innocent people.

Finally reaching my exhausting limit, I collapsed to the ground. I had no more tears left to cry, and the numbness was spreading inside out. Emptiness chilled my heart and the only sound I could hear was the inconsistent beating of my heart.

I just sat there in the middle of the park, waiting for some kind of miracle to happen. I was an idiot to underestimate the Titans- they had already captured all the Gods, and being the idiot I was, I brushed it off, thinking that the people around me would be safe ever since I cut off all contact with the Gods. 

Oh how wrong I was.

Leaving Hogwarts was not a smart idea after all. I could have probably- and already have- endangered the whole school. My thoughts immediately went to Draco- I had most probably put his life on the line- the one person who had actually cared after my banishment. Maybe if I had stayed there, I could still have protected him- protected the school, protected everyone.

I buried my face into my hands. Why did trouble follow me everywhere? Just when I had thought I had found my purpose again, I had lost it. Lost everything. Maybe my fate and life was cursed from the start.