The Beginning

"Urgh, why is it so windy" I groan as I struggle to open my eyes I finally see what was making everything so windy. I was falling 'stupid Gods couldn't place me on the ground but no they have to send me skydiving, did I manage to piss off that many of them with insults in my last life?' 'Lily help please ideas on how to survive this fall?' I almost shout at Lily in my mind while trying to stabilise my body as I was falling though it was kind of difficult as I was trying to adapt to my new body 'how do you women do this the top half is lighter than the bottom half it throws your balance' 'haha switch with me for a bit Night I'll land us then you can try moving and figuring out how to get clothes.' Lily says to me in our mind 'sure just try not to crash us into the ground too hard' I reply as I hand the wheel over to Lily letting her take control of our body.

"Wee this is fun" Lily shouts as she expertly corrects our body helping it fall in a more balanced and stable position allowing us to fall towards the area on the ground below us filled with trees and a town with a tower off in the distance.

Smack, crash, bang, thump. "Ow that hurt Lily did you have to swap back just before impact?" I groan out as I lie on the ground a nice hole in the canopy above me in the shape of a small human. 'Clothes now I can hear movement in the bushes' Lily reminds me of the fact that I currently have no clothing on and the sound of something or a group of somethings moving towards my location. 'Clothes, where do we find those?' as I think this a screen appears in my vision that displays some clothes that it says, are in my mind realm selecting the clothes they appear on my body looking at the clothes I am now wearing, they are a navy blue singlet top, grey pants that can be turned into shorts, black combat boots with red laces and a browny black sleeveless duster coat with a hood that can be pulled up there is also face mask still in the inventory that I decided against putting on at the moment.

"Mum this way I heard something over this way" I hear a voice of a youngish person coming towards me from the direction I had heard movement from after landing.

"Hey, are you okay?" I hear someone ask, groaning still in pain I look up slowly seeing a young boy who looks to be around 12 staring at me as a woman who may have been his mother based on what I heard as they were getting closer. "Yeah, I have been in a worse state than this before so could be worse" I reply to the boy sitting up and holding my head as the girls approach me with curiosity in their eyes "where did you come from?" he asks the curiosity evident in their voices, "not really sure I woke up falling just now" I reply to their question not quite sure how to respond "where am I?" the question seems odd in a way as I recognised the town or city I saw in the distance by the tower I saw when falling but I don't know where I saw it. "We are in a park just outside of New York. How did you survive the fall?" the boy answers my question and respond with his own his mother looking at me with them hoping for an answer "I must have gotten really lucky with the branches I hit on the way down" I respond answering their question while pointing at the hole in the tree canopy above me.

"Oh that must have hurt are you feeling okay? Where are your parents?" The questions both come at me quite quickly from the mother of the two who looked quite concerned for my health. "Yeah I'm fine maybe some bruises but they should heal quickly as for my parents I don't know where they are they disappeared one day leaving me alone" I answer the mother's questions telling the truth about my injuries and telling a lie about my parents after all I can't exactly tell them that I died and was sent here as a punishment almost for my actions in my previous lives. Anyway, now that I know my location I need to figure out the date and if I am in my world or another as God was rather vague about where I was going to wake up at least I am around 11 years old and not some newborn baby as I don't know how I would have handled having to be a baby or even if I would have been able to have my memories for that as the mind is a fragile thing sometimes especially in humans.

As I am mulling over my thoughts I realise that the mother was asking me something "sorry I was thinking about something would you be able to repeat what you just said?" I ask trying to be polite the mother smiles and replies "that's okay you must be worried about where you are I was asking if you had anywhere to go or someone you could live with?"

Mulling over her question for a bit I realise I had nowhere to go and no money or anything to survive with even if I couldn't die permanently anymore I didn't really want to give the Counsel Of Gods a reason to laugh at me so I replied to her "no I am afraid I don't have anywhere to go at the moment I was thinking of finding an orphanage and seeing if they could take me in."

This reply seemed to catch her off guard "well why don't you come live with us for a bit I'm sure I can convince Gabe to accept you living in the house for a bit especially if we see if the government will give us money for adopting you as that would help keep him happy" "oh and my name is Sally and this is Percy" the woman I now know is called Sally points to the boy who she introduced as Percy, "nice to meet you Sally my name is Nightingale but most call me Night as it is shorter and I would be happy to stay with you so long as it doesn't bring you any trouble" I reply to Sally recognising her and Percy from their descriptions in the Percy Jackson books. "Oh I'm sure it won't be a problem now come along we should be heading home now you and Percy will be heading for Yancy Academy next week and we need to get you ready for your classes" 'school great those gods will probably be laughing at me right now anyway, oh well at least we should be able to do well enough in our classes to stay with Percy' and with those final thoughts I run to catch up to my new family hoping I would be able to do something when next summer came along.