Mated to a demigod

Chapter Zero: Demigod

Demigods do exist... I mean, I should know since I am one. I remember the first time my mother told me who and where my father actually was. I remember the day she took me to the beach and pointed out into the sea.

"There..." mother told me. At first I thought she was crazy. My 13 year old self didn't understand what my mother pointed at into the horizon. On that day, I asked mother why I didn't have a dad like the other students in my school. That night, she took me to the beach and just pointed to the sun setting line that separates the sea and the sky. I didn't know what was crazier, the fact that she thinks my father was in the sea, or the story she told me right after.

"Your father was not like any other man, Scarlet. He was something... great. A god. The blood of a god courses through your veins," she explained to me. I remember the eyebrow I had raised at my mother in confusion.

"Gods don't exist," I told her. She chuckled then looked out to the beach.

"I told you she wouldn't believe me," she told the water. The waves started getting stronger and stronger which was scientifically impossible since it was around seven o'clock at night. In the water rose a man. My eyes widened and I took a couple steps backwards.

"Do not be frightened my child," the mans voice said as his dark figure walked towards me. The man looked no older than of 30 years. He wore a white cloth that hugged his waist. On his head was a crown of seaweed. he smiled at my mother.

"Hello again Ruby, my gem," he said warmly then walked from the water to the sand. The only features I had from this man was his grayish-blue eyes, other than that, he doesn't really seem like someone I can introduce to anyone as my father. The man walked towards me and stood front and center.

"Scarlet Almonte, my only daughter. It's a pleasure to meet you," he said. I squinted my eyes, still unsure of this man.

"Who are you?" I asked. The man chuckled.

"Ruby, you have not taught her anything about Greek mythology?" the man asked my mom. She shook her head. I wasn't into the Greek myths, I preferred science than silly stories.

"My love, she is about the reality of the real world," Mother replied. I being my stupid self just stood there.

"Well my child, I am Poseidon, God of the sea. You are a demigod," he told me. I looked at mother.

"Okay can you explain the man walking on water with science?" she questioned. She did have a point.

"So that means that the gods are real?" I asked, Poseidon nodded. "It also means your uncles are Zeus and Hades, and your aunts are Demeter and Hera, and your-"

"I got it," I said remembering what Mrs. Locksmith taught in Greek history.

I looked Poseidon straight in the eyes. "Why... did you leave mom?" I asked him and looked at my mother. Poseidon sighed.

"It's... complicated. The Gods can only stay on earth for so long until an unnatural disaster happens. That's why we cannot be at aid in wars, or conflict, because then there will be an imbalance between the real world and the world of gods," mother explained. I nodded, mother was a know at all in this type of stuff. She's a archaeologist, she literally spends her whole day in dirt looking for lost fragments of history.

"That is why demigods where born, to aid and protect the world," Poseidon said, I questioned, "are there others out there?"

He nodded in response. "Demigods are hard to find these days, however," he gave me a necklace with a trident pendant on it, "I will have your cousins of Zeus and Hades come around, and maybe... your brothers might want to see his blood sister," he said.

"I have brothers?" I asked, he nodded.

"Two of them. Jacob Wills, and Maximus Abraham," Poseidon explained.

"They are really nice boys, they visited you when you were born," mom explained.

I looked down at the beautiful black trident in my hand.

"In case you need me, just come to the sea and call," Poseidon said, then his body transformed into water where he collapsed into the sand and back into the sea.

That day was the day I found out I was a demigod.

I am Scarlet Almonte, daughter of Poseidon.