Hey, my name is Evangeline Hill.
I'm a 19-year-old half-blood of Poseidon, I know cool! For most of my life I've been living alone in a mansion being rich. My dad is Poseidon, the Greek lord; My mother is an Egyptian sorcerer or what you may call a magician. But I have this one flaw, heat. I cannot stand hot climates, or I'll slowly lose my powers. But if I can make it to a cold climate or water, I won't die... I think. Anyway, here's my story.
It's another day of my boring life, as usual, I make a quick breakfast of cornflakes with sugar and sit down in my balcony, after eating I run to the garden and sit watching the passing pedestrians and playing with the little critters who lived there, at the time I was rather lonely, I couldn't go outside my father's property, which is a house with a garden surrounded by large gates, I could not even go out to get supplies or food, it was one of my dad's strict orders. I loved going outside in the garden and play in the sun, it was one of the less depressing things I do in my life.
You might think having a mansion all to yourself is fun and what? Free?
No, no, no it isn't, its lonely, dark, and depressing. I'm literally going insane, the only parts of my simple life that I actually enjoyed were the times when my dad would come home and tell me what was happening in the outside world, he would tell me stories about his sons; my brothers; fighting monsters, titans, and giants! I never got bored when he was around, he told me about my brother Perseus Jackson whom I never met fighting the titan Kronos, KRONOS! But my dad being a god, and all could not always visit me and entertain me with these fascinating stories, he tried giving me a mansion, an aquarium, and a garden. I didn't want all that, I didn't need all of this, I needed him.
Whenever I would ask to go outside and see what was going on, he would smile and say, "It's not time, maybe next time" and leave, the only information I could get about the outside world was the news, my dad would always tell me that people could not see the monsters around them as they were mortals, the mist would cover anything going on and make people think 'everything is alright'. Have I told you what the mist is? No? Ok, so my dad explained that the mist obscures the magical elements and makes mortals see what they think they should see. half-bloods, monsters, and lords see the mist, but it doesn't obscure anything for them.
I was told I was a half-blood when I was about twelve years old, my father pretended to be a busy businessman until then, at first, I thought he was joking but when he showed me his control over the water in my cup and shapeshift into animals, he said I could do the same, then I believed him. He taught me how to use my control over water, he warned me about my weakness, and finally he bought me an indoor training ground, and gifted me with 2 black stygian swords on my 13h birthday, he said he found it in the ocean and told his cyclopes in the forges to fix it. I LOVED them. I used them every day in my training ground, finally on my 14th birthday I was able to defend myself and hacked every single opposing magical dummy. But I still couldn't shapeshift, it was too hard, I could only stay in animal form for three seconds before turning back.
I was screaming with joy when I found out my swords can suck a monsters' soul, what if the more souls it sucks the stronger, I get? What if I can summon whatever monsters I killed to fight by my side? I wanted to burst out of the gates of my home and try them, but I held myself back and watched the news instead, in the news wrote in big headlines about Mount Saint Helens erupting, I was shocked, I could not imagine a volcano erupting in this season. Later then I asked my dad and he only smiled and said
"Your brother is an extraordinarily strong and kind half-blood; it was an accident on his part. Now honey I must go, my palace needs me, I will not be able to come back for a while"
Whaaat? Perseus did this? He made a volcano explode?! I wanted to go see him, I wanted to watch him fight, I admired him even though I couldn't see him. I've never been this excited in my whole life. "You'll meet him soon"
I watched my dad turn to wind and fly away to his palace underwater, unfortunately it was under attack, and he only visited me to warn me not to contact him for my own safety.
It's been 6 years since the Saint Helens incident and my father never showed up, he sent me a letter and gifts for my birthdays but never visited. I got worried Zeus might be keeping him occupied, or chewing him up for not taking part in the war because his palace, his letters never told me anything, only this
'Happy birthday sweetie, may the gods bless you'
News reports from Manhattan grew less and less, and I for one got worried for my brothers there, what are they doing? Are they in trouble? Is dad keeping them safe? What if he is hiding something from me?
I started to miss his stories about my siblings, those were the only things keeping me sane,
"Oh, don't worry girl"
I turn to my goldfish; Jerold; he was the only animal that I can talk to other than pegusi which my dad refused to get me in case I try to fly away, it might be weird to call your fish Jerold, but he was more human than fish.
"Oh Jerold, what else am I supposed to do? Father hasn't visited me in years! And the one thing I love to watch is the news which isn't much for some reason"
"If I were you, I would play games or watch anime"
"Hah! Name one anime I haven't already watched" he went silent then sighed making his tank bubble
"What I'm trying to say is that you should enjoy your time alive while you still can, who knows when you'll get attacked, remember you are a half-blood"
"First, I can defend myself thank you very much and second, my father will protect me, right?"
"As much as your father loves you dear, he cannot meddle with your life any longer, your 19. The Fates will not approve of lord Poseidon protecting you any longer, no matter how powerful you are"
I sigh and lay down on my bed, "What a shame.... Good night, Jerold"
"Good night sweetheart"
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I wake up to the sound of the bustling streets of Brooklyn. After preparing a quick breakfast, I hear a knock on my front door; suspicious. I live alone and wasn't used to having company over like…. ever. But it didn't stop there 5 seconds later I hear 3 more knocks louder this time, I rush to the door and peer through the peek-hole surprised to see a tall man with black hair, a neatly trimmed beard, deeply tanned skin, and sea-green eyes standing patiently,
"Father!"
I swing the door open and welcome him in, I led him to the living room couch were we both sat. The mansion was ridiculously large, way too big for just one person but luckily for me I had a wild enough imagination to decorate the entire thing cool style. Each room seemed like a different world; it helped keep me busy when I got lonely so did Jerold. The living room was spacious, tall grey curtains draped over the couch facing opposite to us allowing little to no sunlight in, the white walls still gleamed with the fresh coat of paint I'd decided to repaint (obviously I was acting on my intrusive thoughts at the time).
A wide plasma screen tv hung at the far end of the living room equipped with its own gamer setup green led lights lining its sides, with a ps5 under. As we settled on the couch my feet met the soft black carpet, I glanced up from it my eye finally meeting his.
"So... Father. What are you doing here? Another story? Where have you been?" he must have seen the hopefulness in my eyes, he gave me a pained expression.
"I'm sorry Eva. I cannot stay long; I've come to relay a message." Poseidon said, I can tell he was trying hard not to meet my eye
"I've come to tell you to prepare as a special someone is on their way. I cannot tell you why now but try to make yourself look presentable. I need you to take care of them, ok? And Eva..." he looked at me, "be careful, hon."
He pressed his forehead against mine giving me one last smile then turned into smoke carried by the wind. I stared at the window where he left and resisted the urge to cry.
I sighed "Well, I best get ready for my 'special' guest."
It's 4 pm, the sun is beginning to set, I still hadn't eaten breakfast
(I'm a nice person why would I eat before fighting? Ok maybe I ate a cookie.... or two).
I waited for my guests when I sensed something outside my door with an immense amount of energy, I almost tripped. I glance outside my window to find a young man about my age, opening the gate and walking towards the door. He looked like a normal teen with messy jet-black hair and sea-green eyes. He had around 6 others behind him, I studied them taking note of the weapons strapped to their sides.
Before the poor guy can knock, I kicked the door open flinging him so hard he crashed onto the chair behind him crushing it to bits …oh dang it I liked that chair. His friends looked at me and him with alarm, not knowing what to do, which was confusing.
I must've looked real intimidating in my dolphin pyjamas.
"Ow, ow. Hey lady, some respect. I mean no harm" The guy I kicked struggled to get on his feet
I tapped my two black rings on either side of my fingers and 2 black stygian swords took their place. I just love his reaction; his eyes went wide from shock, his face paled. I smile. He staggered back before pulling out a ballpoint pen from his pocket.
I snort "What are you gonna do with that? Stab me?"
When he uncapped the pen immediately it turned into a long bronze sword. I cursed this guy got some nerve to show such a cool sword, but I guess mine is cooler (I'm not bragging or anything mwahahaha)
"WAIT! Let me explain!" The man shouted, he looked like the leader with everyone surrounding me and him like that. Even so I still laughed and put on my craziest smile.
"You don't need to explain anything. My father told me to be prepared and..." I brushed some dust of my shirt "presentable. He wants me to take care of my special guest. And I'm guessing it might be you." then I charged. Now the moment I charged I realized a few things,
the guy was quicker and probably stronger than me, 2. I was surrounded by his friends, 3. well there is no 3.
I slashed my swords at his direction, but he quickly slid down and hit my back almost knocking me down. I cursed and kicked his leg and stomach, he let out a loud umph sound before staggering back with his hands held up as if he was trying to calm down a wild animal, "Listen, my dad ..." I knocked him down before he could finish, his blade scattered out of his reach, I stood before him placing my sword on his throat.
"Save your breath. You'll need it. What are you some type of Blemmyae?" I tap his skin with my foot no clank "Hmm, probably not. Maybe some evil half-blood?" his friends advanced around me, taking out their weapons,
"Pe-e-ercyy!!" I turned my attention to where the voice was coming from to see a tall teen with curly brown hair, brown eyes, small horns, a wispy beard, and hairy brown goat legs. He bleated and tried to run towards the guy under me, but I pointed my other sword at the goat. He immediately backed away and started pulling out some reed pipes,
"Back off goat man! Or else he gets it!" I gestured towards the person he called Percy, "So, your name is Percy... it's kinda weird that a monster sent to kill me would have a name like that, a name of a hero. Hah, I also have a brother. Perceu-" I paused (Wait my bro? Hmmm) I studied Percy for moment, then realization hit me "Perseus?" he nods furiously
"What's your last name?" I ask
"Jackson" I gasp and help him to his feet
"Are you ok? I'm so sorry! I-I didn't know!"
He shrugged "Don't worry. I'm used to it" he picked up his sword, pulled out his pen cap tapped the tip of it, immediately it shrank back into a normal pen. I willed my swords back into rings.
"Peeerccyy!" the young goat man walked over to Percy eyeing me wearily, "Hi" he said, next to him a young woman walked up towards Percy and sheathed her dagger.
She had long blonde hair tied into a ponytail, she wore the same orange t-shirt Percy did that read Camp Half-Blood, the best part about her was she had stormy-grey eyes filled with confidence and determination. But something about the way she looked at me made me uncomfortable
"This is my girlfriend, Annabeth Chase" Percy explained, Annabeth shook my hand with a bit more force than expected.
"Who are you people? I know your probably my brother Perseus, oh my gosh you look completely different from what I imagined!"
"What did you think I would look like?" he asked
"Oh, I don't know, like Hercules or something, but your thinner and have black hair instead, that's unexpected" Percy frowned and looked around his body "Hm...."
The girl called Annabeth cleared her throat "We were sent by lord Poseidon to get you to camp" her eyes blazed with anger, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned her boyfriend's looks compared to Hercules
"Uh, if he sent you all to get me, why so many?"
"Oh, we just so happened to see each other and these 4 said they'd tag along," Percy gestures to 2 woman and 2 men who stood watching me, they obviously didn't trust me
Percy pointed at a tall teen with a Chinese feature, close-cropped black hair and buffed up build. "This is Frank Zhang. A child of-"
"Ares" I said, Frank looked at me and backed away.
"Well, Mars. But how do you know that?" he demanded
I crossed my arms and explained "You know how monsters can smell you from miles away? Well, so do I, thanks to my dad, you have Ares's aura. And she has Hades's aura." I gestured towards a young woman with long, curly brown hair, hazel eyes that are like 14 carat gold, and dark skin. On her forearm marked the letters SPQR, and three stripes under. Matching with Frank, and Percy.
The girl raised her hand "Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto. Nice to meet you"
"Wait if you could sense our parent's aura why did you think I was a monster?" Percy asked
"Oh uh, I wasn't really paying attention. Hehe."
A young man that looked like a frickin Latino Santa's elf, curly black hair, dark wild brown eyes, pointy ears, a cheerful face, and a mischievous smile. He bowed and introduced himself "Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus! At your service."
The girl next to him rolled her eyes and said, "Piper Mclean, daughter of... Aphrodite."
She was gorgeous! She had dark tanned skin, chocolate brown hair that was cut choppy and uneven with thin strands braided on either side of her hair and eyes that change color like a kaleidoscope going from brown to blue to green. She wore an orange t-shirt and ragged jeans.
The goat man with the reed pipes stepped forward and put on a nervous smile "I'm Grover Underwood, a satyr. I'm a friend of Percy's."
Percy laughed "Friend? Bro you're my BEST friend. AND the one and only official member of the Council of Cloven Elders AND the new lord of the wild!" Grover smiled "Oh come on! You're as bad as Juniper!"
"Well, I'm Evangeline Hill, daughter of Poseidon and May Hill. You can call me Eva though" I said and bowed; Leo seemed pleased by the gesture.
Annabeth slipped her hand into Percy's "It's getting dark, we should probably move. Chiron might be worried."
I frowned "Where are we going?"
Leo smiled "The one and only Camp Half-Blood of course!"
"Let me get my stuff."
I ran towards the mansion while jumping up and down in excitement and into my room, I changed into my orange shirt covered by a black jacket and tapped one of my rings, the moment it turned into a sword I sheathed it at my side. I slipped the other ring in my pocket; just in case. I wore my boots, and bag and was finally ready to roll, I knew this day would come and I just couldn't wait.
"Woah woah what's the rush?"
Oh lords! Jerold my fish! I forgot!
"Um, father sent some half-bloods to take me to a camp"
"What about me?" he complained
"I don't think... get in my bag"
I ran back to the others, and Leo frowned "You look like an elf." I shrugged
"Glad we have something in common"
I took one last look at my mansion, then smiled "Shall we?"