Chapter 22
It had been another month before it was the end of Camp. Most people went home, and he decided to go as well. None knew about what he planned but Will had suspicion that he planned something and Nico too.
Percy on the other hand was not oblivious or seemed oblivious about it. Others weren't really knowing either, Leo seemed to get as well suspicious. But not saying anything. So, at the end of the summer he breathed out and telling Chiron that he had one last thing to take care of.
But not what it was. Today he got his first Camp bead. It was in a yellow background with a harp on it. It was explained that the council voted the biggest event was the curse of his got broken. It was making him feel conflicted as there were two other big events.
But everyone else seemed to agree on this and it warmed his heart that they thought like this. But now he was going 'home,' nervous that it would backfire on him. But he thought it wasn't. Because this person was after all a mortal. Well it seemed that Mrs. Miley had a new person there.
And it seemed that they knew that he would come. Which was weird knowing that Mrs. Miley expected him to come back. Not after she told him to never come back but here, he was right now getting scolded and yelled at.
But Kelli was well not really the kindest either. She didn't really do much, but her glare was what made him feel so anxious. Or was it something else? Either way she looked at him weirdly. It was as if she knew something.
His heart caught up on his throat as he ended up getting locked in the closet with some really bad bruises. But this time it was this Kelli person who held him really close and the worst was that this person had well bit him.
It felt not alright and he couldn't have moved much. As if this person had put a charm on him. One that made him too enchanted by her. Never was he liking this person but yet he couldn't resist. It was just now that he had been bitten and it was hurting a lot. It was strange and even with his will power he couldn't really snap out of it too much. Until being left alone.
//Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me Percy Jackson//
He thought deeply and hoped that he could see him. The male was right now sitting at the table with a female there. Next to that female was a little girl around four years old. The girl had long blond hair and light blue eyes. Then there was a person next to the female. The same blond hair and blue eyes then the girl had.
"Percy, look you got a call." The female pointed and by now he sat up grimacing a bit. Bad idea to get alone, and worse idea not to tell anyone.
"Holy Hades. Hikaru what happened?" His voice was instantly concerned, and he breathed out explaining the short version of it.
"You- okay I am on my way." Tone was now alarmed, and he could nod trying not to freak out but not easy when you feel really drained.
"Please hurry." He whispered and felt the message cut out. His eyes dropped a few times and all in all he was feeling exhausted. Which was probably why he fell asleep after a while.
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Someone was near. That made his instinct caught up on him and he punched whoever was there. It wasn't even nearly as strong, and he felt a hand caught up on his. Slowly he opened and felt even more scared now.
"You are as feisty as this Percy Jackson boy. This makes me hate you and I could have devoured you entirely but decided to make you suffer." His heart thundering in his chest and he felt too exhausted to really fight back. So he had to watch her leave after he had been bit again.
//I swear it always is me who has to get into situations like this...// A huff went out and he felt his eyes drop again, exhaustion caught up on him. But he wondered how long it would take until he would die...
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Someone shook him but he was too exhausted to really open his eyes. Not a good sign and he just rolled himself deeper now. Even when this was Kelli, he couldn't fight back at all.
"Do you think he is..." A male voice asked but he was a bit too groggy, too exhausted to know who this was.
Someone's fingers were on his wrist and he was confused at why Kelli would let someone take his pulse. "He is barely alive." A new voice said and soon he heard a humming noise. But that was all before he ended up falling asleep again.
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Eyes slowly opened and he blinked a few times. Where was he? Slowly he sat up and looked around. The walls where out of greyish looking stone. There where on each corner a dark wood beam. In the middle of this was a fireplace which had black tiles. On the left was a big bookshelf.
This place looked more like a room in Camelot and it confused him. Had he been kidnapped? Had Kelli took him away before his boyfriend managed to find him. With this thought he jumped up and hid behind where the door would open, as soon as hearing footsteps.
//Alright. I feel healthy enough to fight, but how do you fight a Vampire creature?//
The door opened and he instantly got into action and jumping on whoever this person was. He hadn't even really realized who, even as he felt himself behind judo thrown on the ground. A gasp went out and grimaced, jumping right back in action. His instincts were entirely on survival so that he hadn't even realized who that person was.
"Oi, both of you stop fighting." A new male voice was heard and that led to him feel overwhelmed. That overwhelmed that he fought even harder. So that he overthrown the person and starting to make mad dash out of the room.
It was just that his brain was foggy and all he could think of was trying to escape the place. He dodged the people left and right and soon finding a hiding place. It was space hidden behind a office table. His body small and he shook.
//Dammit, what now? I can't escape. Gods, I am terrified...//
"I can't believe that we all ended up losing him." A male voice said in exasperation.
"He is scared, and I feared this much. We need to find him before he seriously hurts himself unintentional." Another male voice butted him, and he made himself even smaller. Right now, he couldn't even understand who they were. All that was in his brain right now was fear and the instinct to survive nothing more.
"I called it. Someone should have stayed with him when waking up, but no you had to tell us to let him alone. Great thinking, Solace." The male sounded deadpanned and concern dripping off this person's voice. But even now he was too scared to realize that a familiar name was called. So, he let out an unintentional almost quiet whimper.
"I think I heard something." A new male voice. Footsteps approached and he felt himself pulled into a hug. He whined and scratched but the person tightens his hug. It was just that he was terrified, and no one could blame him right now.
"Hey, it's me Percy." His mind barely registered it, but he was still struggling. It was just that his brain was still on survival.
"Okay, Dolphin. You need to calm down." This seemed to make his brain finally realize who it was. The fogginess left and he sacked down, breathing heavily against the person who was right now loosening the hug slightly.
"Wa-Wait Percy?" Voice breathless as he wheezed this out. The person let out a sigh and he finally caught the scent of sea in his nose.
"You finally there?" He nodded and buried his head into the chest and shakily wrapping his arms around him.
"Thank gods. I was worried you would get hurt or something." His body was picked up and by now he clung on him.
"Sorry, I thought you would be one of hers." A shudder went over him at the memory of the female and even after he was put down, he still clung on Percy, like his life depended on him.
"I guessed that much, just glad to finally have you out of survival instincts." Percy mentioned but right now he was still scared.
So that he felt his body shake violently. Percy pulled him closer and he felt a hand go soothingly through his hair. Slowly the shaking subdued and he felt exhausted.
"Is he better?" It was now that he realized that this had been, Merlin. It was now that he remembered that the voices from before where, Merlin, Arthur, Nico, Will and obviously Percy.
"Yeah, but he is pretty much shaken up. Can't blame him, though. Not after what happened a few hours ago." Percy pointed out and he froze a bit at the last part.
A few hours. He had been out a few hours. Gods, he need to get to the police. But now everything was for nothing. Will probably had healed his injures.
"Just great, now I need to start anew again." He mumbled without realizing it and Percy let go and giving him a look that told him 'answers now.'
"Why were you at your old orphanage?" Percy gave him a stern look and he breathed out and looking anywhere else.
"Talk now. Because I remember clearly that Chiron made sure you wouldn't have to go back there." Merlin was as stern, and he looked anywhere else.
"Do I have to get our father, Hikaru?" Another stern voice said, and he knew that now he couldn't hide it. So, he played with his sleeves and still staying silent.
"Hikaru?" A deeper voice asked sternly yet with authority, reminding him of Arthur and he was sure that it was his other Gramps. So that he was frustrated now, and he wasn't sure why, but it just made him even more frustrated that everyone talked on him. Only one person stayed silent and he breathed out.
"Don't be mad at me! I was just wanting to help the kids! They don't even deserve getting hit and I just wasn't really thinking that this-whatever this was- would be there!" His voice was loud yet immensely soft and gaze avoided everyone. Not even a minute later he burst into tears.
"That is why I told you not to talk out on him. See what you did now!" Nico talked with exasperation and he burst just more into tears at this.
"We just meant well and don't you pull that card on me young man." Merlin called sternly and soon a fight broke up between all four. The only one who had not argued back was Percy. The male pretty much was silent and hugging him. Whispering sweet nothingness into his ears, but it wasn't working.
"Alright, that's it." He could hear Percy say low and frustration heard clearly. As soon he heard this, the hug left. More tears rolled down and he hiccupped now, still too upset and too emotional to calm down on his own. Which was why he thought that he angered Percy.
The mentioned male and stood up. His head turned towards the direction. He seen his boyfriend stomp towards the group of people. Eyes starting to widen as he seen him smack each person behind their head and yelling out. "Shut up all of you! I can't calm him down when you bloody morons argue about something like this!"
Then he walked back towards him and leaving everyone watch with wide surprise eyes. He still was hiccupping and by now avoiding everyone's gaze again. A pair of arms pulled him back into a chest and he started to cry even more.
"M'sorry. M'sorry." He repeated now, thinking that he said something or done something wrong. Percy shushed him and starting to say sweet nothingness. By now it was silent other then the footsteps that had left. Slowly the tears dried and slowly he felt himself calm down.
"You better now?" Percy asked and he nodded but still feeling guilty about it. "Good, and don't worry. A new person will work there, someone who I know and was in need for a job anyway."
He sniffed and nodded. The relieve was right now massive. So that he fell asleep soon afterward. Next time he woke up, one by one apologized. They ended up talking more. This part of his past ended with this as well and everything was well.
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