Two Broken Souls

Chapter 1

Percy was strolling by Thalia's tree when she noticed a girl fleeing from a few hellhounds. She looked a little younger than Percy and had kelp green eyes and brown wavy hair. Percy promptly ran over to and killed the hellhounds. As she severely wounded the last hellhound, the girl grabbed Riptide from her hands and finished it off just as the campers arrived.

"You!" She pointed Riptide in Percy's direction. "Why didn't you help me?! I just killed all those hellhounds while you sat there and watched," the girl said sharply.

Now that caught Percy off guard. She blinked, shocked.

The campers all shook their heads at her, clearly believing the girl. The only exceptions of the Athena cabin (they knew Percy would never let a demigod fight alone), the Stolls, Clarisse De La Rue, Katie Gardner, and Will Solace.

Nico, Grover, Thalia, Leo, Piper, and the Romans weren't here, but Percy was fine with it. They were happy where they were and Anthony (male Annabeth) was here.

Chiron trotted forward, asking her name. "Veronica Fischer."

Before anything else could be asked of her, a trident loomed above her and Pegasus circled above her head. Okay, now Percy was jealous because father gave her way more attention than her. "All hail Veronica Fischer daughter of Poseidon!" Chiron yelled.

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A week later

Percy couldn't understand how one person could demolish another person's life in a week, but Veronica somehow succeeded. She basically hurt everyone Percy cared about and blamed it on her. As if she could do such a thing. Her fatal flaw is loyalty. The only one she didn't get yet was Anthony and Percy was determined not to lose him.

That evening Capture the Flag was being held. Veronica and Percy were on the same team. "The games have begun" Chiron yelled. Both took off running. Percy knew that the red team would plant the flag on a mound. When she got there she noticed a bulky Ares kid defending the flag, so she crept up on him and knocked him out with the handle of her new blade (Veronica never returned Riptide. Which she was rather livid about). Then just as Percy turned around Veronica ran and grabbed the banner. She continued running until she got to the blue team's side. The blue team cheered and then Poseidon, her father arrived.

"Behold my ideal child has triumphed yet again," Poseidon declared. Then, Anthony, Percy's assumed loyal boyfriend went up to her and kissed her directly on the lips.

Percy subsequently snapped by that.

She went off to her cabin and threw all her essentials in a pack then proceeded to shred all of the photographs with Anthony in them, but then she got to the last one, which was one of her favorite ones.

She stared at it.

She was in Anthony's arms. They were all beaming in it. She got out a lighter that she had in her drawer and charred it.

It was fun to burn.

She knew she would not laugh like that again because that was the laugh she has only when she is completed by another.

A true laugh.

A laugh that really mattered. She laughs all the time, but there's always one laugh that is only for the one she loves. She doesn't know why, but she kept it.

Then she started speculating about where she would go. She couldn't go see her other friends because they would be ashamed of her, and the unfortunate part was that she knew that she warranted it. She chose to go to her mom's residence, if only for a short while. So she requested a taxi and disappeared.