The Mortal Godling (A Demigod/Percy Jackson Fanfic)

The Child Of Time

After I left the Big House I had no idea what to do, so I decided to go for a walk around the camps grounds with my trusty sword Lullaby, I hadn't known it's name till I read the Greek writing on it's side last night that read νανούρισμα which for some reason I was able to decode into Lullaby.

As I was walking around the camp I didn't really have any exact place I aimed on going to in specific, as I walked around I noticed that the sun was beginning to set and they began sounding the horn at the Pavilion. I stood up at the top of a hill and watched as everyone walked over to the Pavilion for dinner.

I didn't really feel like eating and I jut had this terrible feeling settling in the pit of my stomach. So I walked over to the valley and sat down by this huge pine tree, I wasn't sure what to think about this quest. The oracle gave me a riddle which was telling me I was gonna be the Gods lap dog and I was either gonna die painfully or comeback as a "hero".

"You shall resolve your personal mystery / While fueled by your own curiosity and greed", those to lines from the prophecy kept on echoing in my head. My own personal mystery? Was there sometime of untold secret about me? Maybe I had some type of untold power that nobody not even the gods knew about. Fueled by my own curio usury and greed? Sounded like it was gonna be my downfall, maybe i was gonna be really nosey with this thing that the gods wanted me to retrieve for them.

"Hey, how's it hanging?" I heard a familiar voice say from behind me, I turned around to see Jake walking to me with two plates pulled high with briskets balanced in his arms and to empty glasses.

He took a seat beside me and handed me one of the plates with briskets and an empty glass as well. I was so thankful for him, I hadn't noticed but my stomach was beginning to grumble and ache.

After we both finished our plates of food we sat in front of the dying sunset in silence, "So tell me Smophie, what's bothering you?"

"What makes you think something's bothering me?" I asked looking at the floor

"Well let's then, you woke up today and talked to Chiron after lunch and since then you've isolated yourself and missed your personal training with me, then I found you here all alone looking really upset"

"Well don't worry I'm feeling just fine, no need to worry about me" I said half-heartily

"Okay seriously Smophie you aren't tricking me that easy," he slide over to me and put his arm around me, "trust me you can tell me if something's bothering you"

His arm was so warm, just his entire presence made me feel better, he was like a massive warm teddy bear that I couldn't help but soften up to.

"Okay you got me, so apparently I have a prophecy to my name now and I'm kinda nervous about it, it's kinda creeping me out and I'm not sure what to make out of it"

I felt slightly relieved once I told him, it felt like if a massive hand had finally loosened it's grip around my chest.

"So I'm guessing you were offered a quest by Chiron and you aren't sure wether or not to accept it? Well how's about you repeat the prophecy to me?"

"You shall travel to the land of information and no rain,

You shall slay the Messenger's ancient bane,

You shall uncover a dirty and untold history,

You shall resolve your personal mystery,

You shall recover what the gods need,

While fueled by your own curiosity and greed"

I glanced over and looked over at Jake, he a had a puzzled expression and was rubbing his chin, showing he was clearly in deep thought.

"ο χρόνος περιμένει κανένα" Jake said with a serious expression on his face

"Time waits for none?" I slightly understood

"Yup, it's a saying I learned from my godly parent"

I realized that I didn't know who his father was, he'd never told me and I had never asked him but it seemed like something I thought I would have already know.

"Hey Jake I hope you don't mind me asking but who is your godly parent? it's just that I've never really found out"

When I said that he hung his head low and his expression got really grim, "my godly parent isn't something I'm generally to fond of sharing but I guess it is fair that you now"

He drew his silver sword out of it's sheath, the sword shined in the light emitted from the final lights shining from the beautiful sunset. He was rubbing sometime of emblem at the hilt of his sword I hadn't noticed before, it looked like some type of clock of some sorts.

"My father is Chronos, the god of time"