The Time Before 『A PJO/HOO Fanfic』❕ON HOLD FOR REWRITE❕

Hazel - 15

My body felt like it was being pulled through jello, a slow and damp sensation that I hope I never have to experience again. The strange liquid Luke gave us tasted like rotten fruit rolled into a burrito made of gym socks, dead rats, and toes. Disgusting. I don't know how the others felt when they drank the potion we were given, but judging by their expressions when I opened my eyes, they didn't like it either.

We lay on the floor in the middle of a large corridor. Gold and silver vines intertwined themselves along the grand pillars that held up the high, and I mean very high, ceiling. A beautiful blue carpet sprawled up and down the hall in both directions. Women walked around us in a hurry carrying baskets and heaps of cloth. Each one of them wearing lovely uniforms that reflect the elegant atmosphere in this palace. 

Luke bolted up sputtering flower petals, beneath him was a large pile of pink flowers crushed by his weight. Across from me was Alkinai, Leo, he still lay asleep face smushed against the velvety feeling of the carpet. Amtrenai was the closest to Dymitro who was scarringly close to the non-railed edge of the hallway. But as I sat up in my seat, a girl a little bit older than the age of twelve ran up to us and gave Luke a hug. "You're Bianca, aren't you? Nico's older sister."

She looked up when I said her name and the smiled she dawned on her face widened, "You know Nico? How is he?"

"He's doing great, lots of friends," I said. "But I don't know how he's handling the situation on Earth right now. Nico was the only one that knew we weren't from Earth, well, our souls and minds at least."

"That's great," She helped Luke to his feet before helping me. "It's nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too." Bianca turned to Luke and ran off down the hallway where she came. It was nice to finally meet her, I had only heard stories of her from Percy, Annabeth, Nico, and those who knew her. When I had thought I was Hazel, I wanted to learn so much about the sister I never knew I had. What she liked, how she was, but I guess I'll never know now that I'm Helios's daughter again.

Not too long after she left did everyone else began to wake up. Alkinai shot up in a panic bumping into Dymitro who was barely beginning to stand and knocking him back down to the ground with a groan. Amtrenai sat up and stretched her arms with a yawn before standing near me, she smiled and gasped at the flowers that decorated the pillars. "I had helped Dymitro pick these the night of his coronation, he wanted something that looked like the nightflies in the garden."

"I still think they're nice," Dymitro stood up finally. Now that there weren't so many people around, I could finally see the changes that appeared. The most noticeable was his hair. Though he still kept the untameable curls and waves, the color shifted from a jet black to a soft snow color. In certain angles and lighting, it looked an off-white shade like his mother's moon, in others it was a blinding LED white. His eyes that were once a ocean-algae green was like a frozen lake blue. Kind of unsettling but pretty nonetheless. "And besides, my mother was the one who confirmed them to be the ones all over the palace."

"Uh huh, yeah right--" Amtrenai smiled before two palace guards walked over to where the five of us still stood in the center of the hallway. Their armor reminded me that of the guards from Tangled, a goldish colored back and breastplate with the arm holes removed so the uranian blue sleeves and matching arm-guards could be shown. In their right hands was a double-edged spear, forged with Eskryian Steel, a metal just slightly denser and deadly than Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold. I once had a lance made of Eskryian Steel that my father gave me, he told me it was my mothers that he had made just for her. I don't remember where it is; but I know that my father has it safely secured somewhere.

"Your highness, general," The guards bowed towards Dymitro before rising. "The king requests your presence in the great hall immediately." 

"Thank you, you are dismissed," Luke spoke to them. His voice strong and commanding.