Antonia the Daughter of Hades

Chapter 1 (continued)

That's when the dreams started. It was like I was blind, I could only hear the voiced but I couldn't see the speaker. "They'll shun her father! She must come back!" "She decided to leave, as far as I'm concerned she's no daughter of mine!" "But you'll still claim her, right?" "Sure, sure. Now leave!".

Then it went black again. I could hear voices, but I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or not. "The poor child" "She'll be alright though...right?" "I don't know" I tried to open my eyes "I think she's waking up!" That's when I realized they were talking about me. I tried to sit up, but then I felt a burning sensation in my back. I let out a blood curling scream. "Get her some ambrosia" someone said. I turned my head to look at source of the voice and gasped. "You're Chiron, aren't you." I said. I swear, his eyes widened at the fact that I knew who he was."Yes child, and you are?", He inquired. My back burned again and I screamed again. "Where's the ambrosia?" Chiron yelled. "Right here!" yelped a familiar voice. I looked at him and realized he was one of the three that had saved me."Eat it child" said Chiron, handing me a square of something that looked like food. I took it and nibbled on it, it tasted like Demeter's cereal. Suddenly the burning sensation stopped. "Better child?" asked Chiron. "Yes" I replied. "Who are you?" asked the blond boy that brought me the ambrosia."My name is Antonia and I'm the daughter of Hades" I said. As if on cue, my father's symbol appeared above my head.

Chiron kneeled down and said,"All hail Antonia daughter of Hades" the kid walked up to me and said,"Hi, I'm Will. My dad is Poseidon." Chiron got up and said, "Where's your protector?" "Dead" I replied. " I have a feeling that your story might be a long one, can you walk to the Big House?" said Chiron. "I think so" I said. I stood up, so far so good, then I tried to take a step. Big mistake. " You hurt your foot when you were running from the Furies" said Will." I didn't think I hurt it that bad" I replied.

"Would you tell us your story?" asked Chiron.

"My life story?" I asked. "If that explains why you came here and how you knew about this place then yes." I took a deep breath and told my story "When my mother found out she was expecting me she was overjoyed" I began,"She told Hades she was expecting a baby and he told her that she would have to stay in the underworld if she wanted to stay with me (he was afraid that Zeus would kill her like he had killed Bianca's mother) She told him that she would think about it. He left but told her that he would be back a week before I was born. My mother didn't want to live in the Underworld. She thought it wouldn't be the right place to raise a child. So in the week that she had before he came back she thought of ways to keep me in the mortal world.

When he came she told him that she would rather die than live in the Underworld. She ran and he sent the Furies to bring her back. While she was running she found a dagger and killed herself. The Furies brought her body to him. He did his best to revive her but it didn't work. So he saved me. All my life I thought I was supposed to live in the Underworld until (on my 16th birthday) I met my half brother Nico. He told me about a place for people like me, demigods. He told me he would send me a satyr and that I would have to escape by midnight (he knew about Alecto and her daily punishments for me. I couldn't tell my dad about this because he was really busy, so I mostly just hid in his palace and only came out of my hiding spot when I had to)At 12 o'clock sharp I was ready. I shadow traveled to the Empire State Building where I found Doren, my protector. He said' You kept me waiting, now let's go before any monsters find us' He told me where Camp Half Blood was and we got in a taxi. Halfway there the taxi ran out of gas so we kept going on foot. My demigod scent was very strong because of how powerful my demigod scent is. On the way here about every 5 minutes we found a monster. We were about 15 minutes away from there when he told me to hide. A huge, strong, powerful monster was chasing us, he wouldn't tell me what monster it was. He told me to stay hidden until he came back. After 9 hours I realized he was dead and would not come back. Then I sensed the presence of Alecto. I ran in the direction of Camp Half Blood but they were catching up to me. I tried to shadow travel but I was too tired. That's when I tripped and Will and his friends saved me."

Chiron paled and said,"I must go talk with Mr.D, if you'll excuse me" and Chiron left."So, daughter of Hades." said Will "I guess that means you'll have your own cabin, like me. Well, actually I share it with Percy but since he stays with his mom during Winter and Spring it's mine for half the year". ((A/N right now it's Spring. In 2 weeks it's going to be summer)) A girl came in. "Will we're having a meeting right now! You have to be there because you're the leader of the Poseidon cabin while Percy isn't here. Come on!" "Right,sorry Antonia! See you later?" Ha said as he hurried over to the meeting. I started to get bored and quickly fell asleep.