Crystal Riggs and the death curse (a PJO and HOO story)

Chapter 3: I....died

I woke up in my room. My head was spinning and in pain.

"What happened?" I questioned, thinking that I was alone.

"You fainted." Nico and Hazel sat on chairs next to my bed. They seemed to be worried.

"Oh, thank you guys but I think I'm fine now." I tried to get up but Hazel pushed me down.

"No, you need to rest."

"Why are you worried about me?" Their affection was kind of weird to me.

"You're our little sister and we just wanna make sure you're okay." Nico spoke.

Little sister....

Only Daniel had called me that and now I have two other siblings. A big sister...a big sister! I have a big sister! This family might be awesome!

"A family, is that what we are?" They nodded. Hazel pulled me into a hug.

"Ooooooohhhhh I have a little sister. This is the best day of my life!" She cooed. A split second later a shock went through our bodies. We yelped in pain.

"Ow! What in Hades!" I recovered from the shock and sat up on my bed. What did she say?

"I don't think...we can touch each other." She said sadly.

"No I think it's first contact after we encounter each other. Probably because it's after the prophecy was told. I was able to carry Crys here." Nico said calmly. He picked Hazel up off the ground.

"Don't call me Crys." I said annoyed. We chatted for a little bit. It was...fun! I had siblings that seemed to care for me, Daniel always seemed to hate me. He acted like a bully; pushing me into walls, pulling at my hair, picking out every little detail of my looks. He acted more like a monster than a brother.

"Crys you okay?" Nico brought me out of my thoughts.

"I thought I told you to stop calling me that, Nico."

"I've been calling you that for the past half hour. Are you okay?"

"Yeah...I was just thinking of my brother." They looked at each other then back at me.

"You have a half sibling, you better hold him close cause you might lose him like me." Nico looked to the ground sadly. He told me that there was another child of Hades, Bianca. Nico's older sister decided to join the Hunters of Artemis but died on a mission. I would have loved to meet her but Bianca decided to be reincarnated instead. I guess I really shouldn't talk about Daniel in front of Nico then.

"Yea I guess I do." I lied. Ryan burst through my door.

"Crys I found out something about your necklace-" he stopped and stared at Nico and Hazel. These people were his ideals so I started to giggle.

"Ryan ignore them, just tell me why you were trying to look up my necklace?" I said smiling.

"Uh, s-so I thought I saw that necklace before and I was right. Hades had asked my dad to make it in the 1800's as a p-present to his new born daughter." He stuttered. I looked at him perpelexed, I had had this necklace since I was born. When his other daughter died maybe he decided to give it to me?

"Crys when were you born?" Hazel asked.

"Uh 2006 I think?"

"But Hades has never broken his vow. You couldn't have been born in 2006." Nico said putting his finger to his chin.

"Hazel and I were both born before the vow of the big three was made but somehow we made it to the 21st century, and so did you." He said certainly.

"No I'm sure I was born in 2006, my mom has baby pictures of me." I was extremely confused now.

"Crys no you weren't, there's a picture of the family and baby in the necklace." Ryan pulled out a black and white photo from a dusty old book. The baby girl had patchy black hair and wore a white gown. The amulet was around her neck and...and those eyes, my eyes. My golden eyes! I quickly pulled a photo my mom gave me before I left. It was my family when I was born. Daniel, Christian, Mom, me. No, no! I'm not from the 1800's, NO!

"Crys, you okay?" Hazel put her hand on my shoulder.

"I think we should leave her." The group got up and left my room. Nico left a golden coin on the chair, I pick it up and I knew what to do. I ran to a fountain in the garden and threw the coin in. My mother appeared smiling.

"Hey sweetie, how's the house?"

"Mom how are we here, how are we alive?" I asked impatiently. She let out a breath of air and closed her eyes.

"How'd you find out?"

"I just did."

"Fine, the truth is you were born in 1872 but our family is real. I was married to Christian before I had you and we had Daniel, but Christian and I fought. We tried to end the marriage but we lived in a Catholic village. If we divorced the town would shame us, so we took a break and I met your father. After about a year of loving him Christian came back feeling sorry. I broke up with Hades but I never knew I was pregnant. Once you were born Christian and I fell in love instantly, but the village noticed that you looked nothing like Christian. They all said that I gave birth to the devils child, so they try to kill you. But I wouldn't have it so they gave us a choice: kill you or kill the family."

"Mother why, you could have ran." I asked tears streaming down my face.

"If I ran Hades said that monsters would chase us and we wouldn't have a home anymore. Your father said that he would give us a home in the underworld once we died. I wanted to keep us together. Christian and I both chose that this was the best plan for you and Daniel. The town burned the house will all of us in it. It was worth it though. We awoke in the most beautiful place in the world, we didn't have to worry about you or Daniel getting hurt or anything. It was our home, we didn't age, we were happy, but the door was opened up." I looked at her confused.

"The door?"

"The doors of death, we weren't supposed to leave but we did. I woke up in the hospital with you and your brother missing. The nurses told me it was 2006 and a group of hikers found us. That's when we started our new lives in the 21st century. I'm sorry I never told you." I stayed silent, this was all so....breathtaking. I died, Nico and Hazel were right.

"Bye Mom." I left the fountain and went to my room. I sat in silence taking everything in.

Chapter 3 WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.