HoO One Shots

🌊 The Son of Water 🌊

Gender neutral
Child of Aphrodite
Part 1 of 2

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'The water is alive. Once you dive in, it will immediately bare its fangs and attack. But, there's nothing to fear. Don't resist the water.'

The water had always been your safety net. No matter what went wrong in your life, you always found your way to the water.

You always believed it was because of your parents, your love for the water. Your mother, know for her Olympic gold medals for the 100 meter freestyle swimming event, basically grew up in the water. From the day she could hold her head up, she was in the water.

Your other mother, Aphrodite, was said to be born of the mixing of Ouranos and seafoam. She apparently rose from the water which you found to be almost similar to yourself.

You, just like your mothers, were introduced to water at a very young age. By that, I mean you were born right into water.

March 22 was the day you were born. You found this to be very suiting as it was the day in recognition towards fresh water. You didn't know but you secretly wished it was planned that way.

When you first arrived at camp, nothing really interested you. The camper showing you around, some blond guy with this scar by his eye, showed you around. He showed you the Pegasus stables, the arena, and even the woods but he couldn't catch your interest. That was before you approached the lake.

The lake seemed like it was calling out to you. At first it was little whispers that you had tried to ignore. The incident was too fresh in your mind despite happening a few years ago. You told yourself that you simply wanted to try new things at this camp so you pushed the urge away.

Soon the whispers became louder. This was around the time when you found out that your mother was Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love. The water was calling for you still but you were trying to fit in with your love obsessed siblings.

They all took the love thing too literal. Drew Tanaka pushed the breaking hearts rule onto all of your siblings, except you. You didn't know why she left you out. Was it because she saw the heartbreak in your eyes whenever you looked out towards the lake? Whatever her reason was, you were thankful. You didn't care much about the romantic type of love. It wasnt fulfilling.

You spent your days around Drew and sometimes with Silena. They both tried their hardest to get you to swim again but you couldn't put yourself out there. You wouldn't tell anyone what happened but those two knew. They knew that you were afraid.

'That time, the water had bared it's fangs and attacked'

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'Out of the water, I am nothing'

You met Percy Jackson the day he arrived at Camp. He was drenched and you could tell his heart was aching for someone. You didn't know who until that night when everyone was supposed to be asleep.

Whenever someone in the Aphrodite cabin had a nightmare, it was natural to see the rest of the siblings awake. Though outside of the cabin, others believe the children of Love hated each other. That was far from he truth. They all might have different personalities but they were always there for each other.

This time it was Hannah, the youngest in the cabin, who had had a nightmare. She had been dreaming of her father being taken away and now was sobbing into Drew's arms. It was then when you heard from Silena that Percy's mother had been taken by Hades.