Chapter 2 - Til' death tear us apart

Time: 3:46 PM, Date: 11/17/21

TW: Gore, cursing (1)

Words: 1,332

POV- Percy 

As Argus drove the van, I looked out of the window, seeing the view along the way was interesting; Riptide was in my pocket, my duffle bag was at the side, Argus' eyes were looking at everywhere. For a moment I zoned out until I realized thunder struck above us, I looked outside as we passed the oak trees, I saw the ocean, waves were raging hard and the thunder was like trying to hit it. But from the looks of it, the water is pushing it back. On my mind was like: 'Is dad and Zeus fighting again? I wonder on what..' Right then, Argus suddenly stopped. I dropped off from my seat and fell on the floor. "What the? Argus, what happened?" I asked, the hundred-eyed monster shrugged, so I got up instead and look to see what the problem was. There standing in front of the van were the Minotaur and a couple of hell-hounds. "What the-?"

I decided to get out and fight the monsters since I didn't want to get late. I get  Riptide from my pocket and started to uncapped it. There in my right hand was my seven-foot-long sword. The bronze shined as the sunlight hit it. The monsters that were eyeing me were growling, maybe in fear and fury. Next, the hell-hounds started to run towards me. I dodged them all, but one bit my shoulder. Luckily the bite wasn't that serious. Ok fine it was, blood was gushing out of it very fast. Luckily it rained, my wound started to heal slowly. The next thing I knew was that I killed the group of hellhounds. Now, what was left?  Ah yes, the bull-man itself. 

My archenemy; the minotaur, charged. His charge was sloppy though. I easily dodged his first attack, but I wasn't that lucky on the next one. The minotaur charged at my back causing me to hit a nearby tree very hard that even the tree itself broke in half. 'Gods damnit.' I mentally cursed. Blood gathered at my throat so I spit it out, can't believe this cow is getting his anger out of me, I mean I was the one who broke his other thorn.  I got back into stance and then charged at the monster, the bull gripped his axe and tried to swing it, but I dodged it. I jumped into his mid swung axe and I slashed my sword onto his neck, his head fell off as golden blood fountained out from his body, right after the cow exploded into dust. The rain then fell faster than last time, my bite wound was healed though it left a scar. The blood from the bull washed off along with the golden dust. The van's light was shining in front of me. My clothes were dry and the blood that spilt into my clothes washed off. I decided to uncap riptide back to its pen form and head back into the van.

Argus started the engine once more, while I, drifted to Morpheus' realm. 

I woke up as I felt someone was shaking me, I turned towards my left and saw that it was Argus, he grunted and pointed at our front, I look to see we were stuck in traffic, nonetheless, we were close to my apartment. "Hey Argus, I think this place is ok for now, I'll just walk since my apartment is near, tell Chiron I said hi ok?" I told the one-hundred eyed creature, Argus gave me a nod and decided to leave the door open for me to get out. I picked up my duffle bag and went out, I closed the van's doors and started to walk. 

As I walked through the streets, I noticed, there was a huge crowd in front of the traffic. 'What's going on?' A cold shiver crossed through my spine, I ignored the feeling and decided to go on further. I pushed through the crowd, many were whispering and were recording. I was confused about what is really happening so I decided to push further. When I got to the front, there were police cars and a couple of cops in front of a building. And that building was my apartment.

My adrenaline shot up, I ran to the nearest cop I could find, "Umm Sir? UUh, w-what happened here?"I asked. The male cop turned towards me and said, "There was a murder in room 818, we're still investigating since there were only two body's there and one toddler" 

My body froze, that's our apartment. "S-sir by any chance the bodies were Sally Jackson and Paul Blofis?" I asked the cop nodded. That's where I started to hyperventilate. The cop noticed me and tried to calm me down. "Hey, hey kid. Calm down, there's no need to worry, everything's fine. From the looks of it, you know the now late couple, what're your relations to them?" He asked. 

"I-I'm the woman's son P-Perseus Jackson." I stuttered out. The cap's eye went wide and he cursed under his breath. "Sh-t. By any chance kid, do you know any close person or people that your mother and father-"

"Stepfather." I automatically corrected. 

"-Stepfather, became enemies with?" He asked. I didn't want to tell him it was me who's drawing the enemies to them. "No Sir," I replied. The officer sighed. "Ok kid, come with me, I'll lead you to your sister." He said

I followed the man to the ambulance that was at the side of the crowd. News reporters were trying to interview the officer who was leading me. 

'Sir, may I know. What happened to the victims who were inside the apartment?'

'Sir, who's that on your side?'

'Sir is that the possible son of the two victims'

More questions were thrown out to the officer but the cop ignored it all and kept going. We finally stopped in front of the ambulance. There were nurses and people carrying out the bodies of mom and Paul. I almost let out a sob, but instead, a tear dropped off my eye. The officer noticed, so he gave me a sympathetic face. I hate those faces. We finally arrived at Estelle's ambulance, Estelle was sitting in the ambulance's back trunk, she was crying; tear stains were covering her face, people were trying to calm her down but she kept on crying. Then she finally spotted me. Estelle came down from the trunk and ran towards me, she pounced and gave me a hug, the pounce caused me to go off balance and fall. Estelle hugged me tight and started to very in my shirt. I could feel the tears coming to my shirt, but I did not dare to dry it. 

Finally, I broke down and hugged Estelle back.  I grabbed her finally let it out. Estelle and I were both crying. All because of pain, we shared the same fate of losing a family. But I felt it worst. I felt bad for Estelle, she was still four, and yet, mom and Paul died in front of her. She was traumatized. That's when I realized. 

All those fighting along the way was a distraction. The monster came here and killed mom and Paul. 

Anger took over my whole entire body causing a phenomenal earthquake. The officer tried to cover us, but the earthquake only took thirty seconds. Finally, personnel gave us both blankets to get warm and lead us back to Estelle's ambulance. There I and Estelle finally laid down. I gave my little sister a hug and tried to calm her down. After five minutes, both of us finally closed our eyes and rested. But that was Estelle.

'I promise to the river Styx, I will protect and raise Estelle with all my life, 'til death do us apart.'I thought, with that, I finally rested my mind.  

AN or Author's note (important):

To all the current and future readers, this will be all about Percy and Estelle. If you are confused, the POVs are only from Percy to Estelle. And maybe somebody else, but mostly the two siblings. So before moving on, I need to say this: I will not ship Percy, instead, in my book Percy will do something in the end. So blame me (or don't) if the stories are making you sad or you're literally crying behind the screen since I may or may not put too many details sometimes. Now anyways, byyyeee. 

'~'- Thinking

"~"- Speaking/talking