A Daughter's Sorrow ✔️

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A raven-haired young woman knelt at the foot of Halfblood Hill, coated in dirt. Sweat. Golden ash. And blood. So, so much blood.

Her's.

Her friends'.

Her enemies'.

Zeus must've taken pity on those still alive, as it started to rain. Like the King of the Gods was trying his hardest to wash away the stench of Death.

The woman sensed a presence behind her. But she did nothing. She could only stare at Riptide, embedded in the loose soil.

Unseeing.

Unfeeling.

A strong, warm hand squeezed her shoulder as the ravenette began to tremble. Small cries left her before gut-wrenching sobs shot through her body. Perci looked up at the person, tears tracking through the dirt and grime down her cheeks.

Tired, sea-green eyes that mirrored her's, filled with a mix of relief, pain and sympathy.

Poseidon.

"Daddy," The young woman tried to stand, but her father scooped her up into a fierce hug.

His baby girl was alive.

The gods surrounding them mourned their children. But Poseidon's daughter had survived, "I'm so sorry, my little water droplet. For everything."

Perci stared blankly as the gods spread death shrouds over each fallen demigod by hand and not with their godlike power. She closed her tear filled eyes as the dead were set all alight.

:3

It'd been an hour or two since the campers lost was burnt, sending them all to the Underworld. Perci sat at the bottom of the lake she had claimed as hers, twisting her pen with both fingers. Poseidon was sitting beside her, an arm around her shoulders, tucked into his side, "What do I do now? Everyone's gone, Dad."

"You can come home with me, Perci. To my palace. You'll have your own room or even your own wing if you want. Anything you need, I will give you."

Amphitrite, her step-mother had taken a liking to her, having only one daughter, who mostly kept to herself. Besides the fact that the girl had saved the world.

Twice.

"I don't know if I can, Dad. I just think I'll...I dunno."

Poseidon sighed and pulled her closer, "Council will be held tomorrow. A few things must be sorted and...I'm not sure if I'll see you so soon afterwards. So I'll tell you now. Persephone Eris Jackson," At the sound of her full name, Perci's back went ramrod straight, almost instinctively, "Daughter of the Sea, know now that I have never been more proud of you than that I am at this moment and any choice you make tomorrow, I will support your decision," The Sea God's voice wavered forthose last few words.

He coughed into his fist, took a deep breath and cupped his daughter's cheeks to make her face him, "Stay with me tonight then. Under the sea with me. You will feel safe after...this."

Perci looked up at her father's face, tears beginning to fall once more. But they were lost in the lake.

Poseidon winced at how broken she looked. She'd lost everything and needed someone with her, even if Perci said she didn't.

The poor girl gulped and nodded a few times.

:3

"Jason!!"

The demigoddess's head snapped around at Thalia's strangled voice. The Huntress was dragging herself towards her brother with one hand, the other clutching her stomach.

"Jason!!"

Again, the ravenette's attention then shot to Piper. The daughter of Aphrodite was holding him close, his blank, lifeless eyes looking skywards. In horror, Perci watched as a cyclops came up behind her and shoved a dagger into her back. A shriek of pain left the girl's mouth and she collapsed onto her boyfriend.

The screams of children and roars of monsters dulled in Perci's ears, hearing only her heartbeat. She looked around to see Hazel in the dirt, an axe in her skull, surrounded by blood and precious gems and Frank with his parts of his body heavily burnt, not too far from him was a small pile of ash.

Reyna lay on her side, claw marks running down her neck to her groin. Leo was propped up on a tree, his throat sliced. His blood was a sickly red down his oil-stained, orange camp shirt.

Perci couldn't look behind her.

Demigods, both Roman and Greek, known and unknown, friend and foe, lay dead. She had seen Nico and Will, opposites like night and day, stomped to death before being torn to shreds by a hell hound.

A dizzying rush went through the girl's head and she frowned at a warm, wet sensation touched her lips. Raising a hand to touch it, Perci paled to see blood.

There was an evil, muffled cackle and the Daughter of Poseidon looked up to see Gaia holding Annabeth by the throat. The blonde was kicking out her legs and slashing away at Mother Earth with her dagger. The primordial being cackled again before an amused smirk plastered itself on her face.

Perci watched in horror as Gaia then clenched her hand and Annabeth fell still at the sound of a sharp crack.