Poor Perlia

Poor Little Tweens

Percy woke up with a sense of dread digging a hole in his gut. He shot up out of bed and slipped the knife out of the pillow he slept the night on. It was a cool night, and normally Percy would be sleeping like a rock in the nice New England weather, but something was off.

The shelter was quiet, too quiet.

Next to him, the kid who slept next to Percy sat up as well. "Monsters!" The kid gasped clutching his chest, tears ran down his face. Percy was shocked, "you too?" The kid nodded and started tying his sneakers. "They've been after me since my mom died." The kid explained and Percy's heart winced in sympathy. This kid was around Percy's age, he had long blonde hair and a light tan.

"Do you have any family?" Percy asked the kid, "besides your mom?" The kid shook his head, "never knew my pops." The boy shrugged, "the only thing I know about him is that this was his," the kid gestured to his necklace which glowed a dark green color. Percy stared at the neckless, it radiated power and energy and when Percy moved his hand close to it's glowing pendent it started to hum like it was angry. "Woah!"

The kid nodded and then grabbed his backpack and stopped, "come to think of it I have a cousin in Cali!" Percy nodded, "yeah, Annabeth!" Percy smiled as he watched the kid relive happier memories with his cousin. "You should head over to California then!" Percy advised packing his bag and sharpening his knife.

Together Percy and the kid ran down the hallways of the shelter towards the building's exit. There they found the shelter's manager talking to a policeman, "that boy? Yes, he's here!" Then noticing the two boys pointed at Percy and proclaimed, "in fact that's him right there!" The police smiled and shook the manager's hand, "thank you sir Ì̶͎̮͔͛̄͋'̴͉̩̋l̸̯͝ḷ̷̝̈́̏͂͠ ̷̢̦͙͓͕̓̄͑̈t̶̬̍̽́̂̏͘a̶͈͒̔̈̄k̸̨̦̱̞͒é̸͓̯͑̒̄͘͝ ̴̦̣̥͆į̸͚͍̩̫̀̊̍̕t̴̻̲̥͌͘͝ ̴͖͇̤̗̾f̷͖̏̈́̉̉́͝ŗ̶̔̽̽̽̋o̴̹̯̲̓m̸̧̨͙̤̱̀̎̑̕ ̸̺̔͝h̴͕͙̞͈̓̍̍̓͠ë̸̢̨͈̘̲́̊̽̄̈́́r̸͚̽ẹ̴̰͒͌̐̚͠!̵̟̼͛" Percy winced as the creature's voice transformed into that of a true monster. Percy brandished his knife, "Kid!" He yelled, "reach into my bag and pass me some water!" He nodded and unzipped Percy's bag. "Here!" Percy's right hand made contact with the plastic Poland spring water bottle right as it exploded.

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Magnus Chase age 11 shielded his face as the Poland spring water bottle exploded. When he opened his eyes the water from inside the bottle hovered above Percy, who seemed to be moving the water with his mind. The water snaked across the room and started to pool by the monster's feet. Magnus watched in fascination as the water climbed up the monster's legs, traversed its hairy humanoid chest, and covered the monsters bull-shaped head. The water stayed there covering the monsters head making it so no air could get to the monsters giant head. Magnus's new friend then walked up to the monster and put his hands to the monster's throat, like it was him that was strangling the monster and bit the water.

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As Percy's hands wrapped around the minotaur's neck, Percy thought about his mother. How helpless she was, how helpless this monster was, how helpless Gabe would feel. One of Percy's hands drifted off of the monsters neck and back to the knife he'd put in his pocket, he wouldn't use it now, this monster wasn't Gabe.

Gabe

Gabe

Smelly Gabe

Murder Gabe

"No!" Percy screamed to banish the bad thoughts. Behind him, Percy's new friend took an involuntary step back. Percy clenched his fists and closed the bubble they had formed around the monsters head, decapitating it. The monster's body crumpled to the ground, Percy unclenched his fists and the monster's head joined it on the ground. "Your bleeding!" Percy's new friend cried out and rushed over stumbling over the manager's passed out body. Percy then noticed that in fact he was, his nails had dug into the palm of his hand bloodying them. Percy's friend placed his hand on Percy's and suddenly started to glow, when he finished Percy's hand felt as good as new. "Neat trick!" Percy exclaimed and then stuck out his now healed hand, "I'm Percy Jackson!" The kid shook it and smiled, "I'm Magnus, Magnus Chase."

and that's when Percy got shot
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It was the anniversary of their death and Thalia was celebrating by rehearsing. She stood over a trash bag she'd found in an alleyway and brandished a homemade knife. "I'm sorry! Please don't hurt me!" Thalia whimpered, giving the trash bag a voice. Thalia then grinned and plunges her knife into the trashbag's guts 'killing it,' "there's no forgiveness for what you've done Luke!" A few feet away from her Nico clapped, "bravo bravo!" He cheered in a cherry English voice. Thalia bowed, removed her knife and walked over to him. Nico had been traveling with Thalia for a month and she'd taken a liking to the kid, he was a few years younger than her, 10 years to her 12 but he acted older. She'd found Nico mourning the loss of his sister to a monster and they'd bonded over guilt and need for revenge. Just as Thalia needed to take vengeance on Luke, Nico had a bone to pick with a vampire named Kelly.  

He was her family now.