A sinister kid, is a kid who
Runs to meet his maker
A drop dead sprint from the day he's born
Straight into his makers arms
And that's me, that's me
The boy with the broken halo
That's me, that's me
The devil won't let me be
-Sinister Kid (The Black Keyes)
Alex POV
The day started out normal. But of course, this is me were talking about so it couldn't end that way.
We were all in England because of another shadow traveling mishap. After Trent's little oopsie-daisy, we all checked into a cheap motel using some money we got by selling Trent's overpriced aviator sunglasses (He was still passed out when we took it) and Kane's shoes. Kane said it didn't matter because, apparently, 'shoes always hold him back'.
Now, we were all refreshed from a good nights sleep and we were in a little coffee shop named D's Coffee Shop eating breakfast. My life was normal for once.
Tara was wiping banana off of Kane's face, muttering how 'immature and irresponsible' he was. I knew she wasn't really angry since she was giggling the entire time. Tori and Dallas were flirting- I mean talking deeply while Violet glared at them. Trent was still asleep in the hotel and Jun was with him to make sure he didn't burn anything down when he woke up. Percy sat next to me and we talked about everything that was happening while we waited for our coffee.
"So what now? Do we still continue our trip to Camp Jupiter? Do we turn back?" He fired each question at me and I sighed.
"Why ask me?" I groaned and Percy grinned. He had a genuine smile, not the forced one he had been fooling us with before.
"Because despite the fact that you're a bitch most of the time." I protested with a "Hey!" but he continued to talk. "Your probably the smartest out of all of us." I smiled back at him, and he opened his mouth and then shut it quickly when he saw the waiter coming.
"I'm Cedric, and I will be your waiter today." Cedric was an athletic looking guy, with scars all over his body and face and short brown hair and leafy green. He kind of reminded of a biker. Or a gardener. Or a biker with a serious love for gardening.
"So, what do I have to do for you today?" He never smiled during entire time he was talking to us like every other waiter who has ever taken my order.
"Cedric!" A stern looking man barked from behind the counter in the front of the shop. "Smile, you look depressed."
Cedric gave him the fakest, forced, rudest, most sarcastic smile he could muster and then turned back to us. That's when I realized I was going to like this guy.
"Sorry about that," He spoke with a crisp British accent. "My father is always like that."
"Daddy trouble?" Kane raised an eyebrow and it looked hilarious since he still had some banana on his face, which Tara noticed and tried to rub it off his face like the motherly girl she was.
"Why do you need to know?" He retorted. "I don't even know you!" He growled out and stomped off, only to be stopped by his father.
"Ah, ah," he scolded and waggled a finger in Cedric's face. "Go back and finish the order." Cedric grimaced and walked back to us with his head hung low. Cedric's father looked pleased, so he turned around and walked back to the check out area, but then he shouted over his shoulder to Cedric, "Don't forget to smile." His father turned around so his back was facing us and was helping some big, scary and shady looking guy pick out which muffins he wanted.
"Ugh," Cedric groaned. "What do you want?" I was about to open up my mouth to order, until I was interrupted. Again.
The door to D's Coffee Shop opened and out stepped two guys. One of them was really tall and really muscular and had short, spiked strawberry blonde hair and playful blue eyes. The other was a pale, boy with an average body and messy black hair and black eyes.
"Hey! Look at that, there's our little freak of nature." The really muscular one shouted out with a Scottish accent and approached our table with the pale boy following him.
"I don't know him," The paler boy mumbled, crossed his arms and turned his body to the side as if he was ignoring him.
"I'm working Duncan, and I told you to stop calling me that." Cedric growled at the muscular one, who I assumed was Duncan since he was the one who was talking.
"Why does he call a you freak of nature?" Tara questioned and Cedric sighed while the Duncan snickered.
"Show them, Cedric." Duncan grinned and flexed his muscles, which were very easy to see through his tight tank top.
"No, don't show them or you'll give us away!" The pale boy protested in what he probably thought was a whisper, but we could hear it, and Duncan and Cedric rolled their eyes at him.
Cedric smiled and held out his hand, and then something weird happened. Like, really weird. A small apple tree grew right from the ground. There wasn't even dirt there! Duncan and Cedric smiled at each other and fist bumped, while the pale boy pinched his nose in frustration.
"You reckless idiots!" He shouted at them. "Are you trying to show the world were demigods?" All of us gasped while the pale boy face palmed.
"Now whose being reckless, Donovan!" Cedric shouted at the pale boy whose name was apparently Donovan.
"Shut up." He hissed then turned to us. "Listen, the demigods… they're…" He frantically looked for something to cover up his slip up until Cedric came to his rescue.
"They're a cult," Cedric began hesitantly and Duncan continued. "We ummm… hump chickens and errr… sacrifice Jello." I
"Relax," Percy started. "You don't need to worry, were demigods too." Duncan's eyes shined when we said this. Now it was my term to face palm. Did Percy really have to be so clueless all the time?
"Why would you tell them we're demigods?" Violet hissed at a low volume in Percy's ear causing him to flinch.
"I wasn't thinking." Percy mumbled and looked down. Now, normally I was the mediator of the fights since I'm the most level headed, but right now, I totally support this brawl.
"Do you ever think? Your so reckless!" I jeered in Percy's other ear. Let me tell you something, when you combined both Violet and I growling in Percy's ear, poor ole Perce has a lot to deal with.
"Well, they said their Demigods! They haven't gone to camp so why shouldn't we trust them?" Percy shrugged while Dallas sighed.
"They could be working for Tartarus, genius." Dallas muttered.
"Why don't we just ask them?" Kane suggested and now it was his turn to get criticized.
"And what if they do work for Tartarus, kid? Then what? We get taken by them and were forced to work for them!" Dallas growled. All of us broke out in arguments.
Everyone was shouting and growling at each other while the mortals around us stared at us like we just said we just saw a unicorn in a tutu flirting with a narwhal… Percy must have gotten sick of all of the fighting because he gave a loud whistle and everyone grabbed his or her ears in pain.
"Everyone shut up!" Percy shouted. On the inside, I admired how much of a natural leader he could be. "You," He glanced toward the people I came here with. "We will make them swear on the river Styx that they are not part of Tartarus. He turned towards the three boys. "Repeat after me," Duncan, Donovan, and Cedric all nodded. "I swear on the river Styx that I am a demigod and not part of Tartarus' army." Each of them repeated it with ease and we all relaxed.
"So you are demigods, th-" Duncan cut Percy off, his eyes shining with a happiness.
"Really? Do you know who my parent is? Some dryads told me I was a demigod, but they never said who it was." Duncan looked like he was going to continue, but Donovan cut him off with a hand that slapped over his mouth.
"Shut it, Duncan." Donovan growled. "How do we know your really halfbloods?" He glared at us and Cedric stood behind him and crossed his muscular arms then nodded in agreement.
"Seriously?" Kane asked with raised eyebrows. "We just went through that long and boring speech on proving if you were halfbloods and than you don't believe us?"
"Fine." Donovan huffed. He obviously was not one for being proven wrong.
"Are you from that Camp?" Cedric asked and his eyes shined with longing briefly, but then they turned back into the stony eyes I had seen before.
"Sort of," Percy said reluctantly. "We recently left… lets just say, they didn't give us the respect we deserved." Percy held his hand out for one of them to take. "I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon." Donovan and Cedric shook his hand like a normal person, while Duncan tried to like, bite it or something.
"That's Violet Snow, daughter of Libitina, the Roman goddess of corpses." He pointed to Violet who was busy lining her scythe up with Tori's head, as if she were going to slash her. "That's Alex Bane, daughter of Apollo." Percy pointed to me and I gave them a wave. "Kane Greene, Son of Dionysus." Kane winked at them and slyly slid his arm around Tara. "That's Tara Robinson, daughter of Hephaestus and Tori Holder, daughter of Nike, and right next to her is Dallas Beaudry, son of Ares." He pointed to each of them and they both nodded to the three boys. "We have two more people with us, Trent Blackwood, son of Thanatos and Jun Kirman, Son of Harmonia, but there in the hotel."
The three boys looked dumbfounded by all of us, but Cedric shook his head and snapped out of it first followed by the other two. "I'm Cedric Watson, son of Demeter." That explains the apple tree. "And this is Donovan Redwill, son of Erebos." He then looked over at Duncan with a sad look on his face. "This is Duncan Lyons, he doesn't know who his parent is yet." Duncan looked discouraged and his head hung down sadly.
"What?" Percy looked confused. "The gods were supposed to claim there kids by the age of thirteen!"
"Well, I'm seventeen." Duncan mumbled. "My mom was mortal, and my dad was a god, or at least that's what I think."
"Was?" Kane asked him and Tara lifted his arm off of her shoulders and slapped the back of his head.
"Kane, you moron!" She hissed at him.
"Its fine," Duncan interrupted them. "My dad died years ago, my brother, Liam Lyons, 'raised' me."
"Liam Lyons?" Tori gasped. "Isn't he that Scottish actor or is it singer?" Duncan interrupted Tori before she could continue. "Both and yeah, that's him." He grimaced.
"So that makes you his litter brother? The one who got into that bar fight and ran away?" She asked him excitedly. Duncan looked uncomfortable and Violet came to his rescue.
"Leave him alone Tori! He clearly doesn't want to talk about it!" Violet screeched and Duncan shot her a thankful look. I'm still not sure why Violet hates Tori, but I'll ask her once we get back to the hotel.
Normally, I don't get along to well with girls, and I back at camp I tended to hang out with guys more than girls, but Violet was an exception. Back at camp, almost all of my friends were guys. My best friends at camp were Marcus Flare and Jett McCullan. They were sort of nice guys, a little tough and somewhat morbid, but they were nice.
Back on track, Tori looked angry at Violet's scolding, so she said, "What have I ever done to you besides say hi!" She fumed at Violet, and Violet was going to shoot a reply back until there was a scream heard.
"Ah! He has a gun! Run for your lives!" We probably should have noticed the Cyclops standing at the counter with a sword (the mist tricked the mortals into thinking it was a gun) pointed at Cedric's dad. We had gotten so caught up in our talking that we didn't even notice it.
All the mortals were cowering in the corner, while Dallas stared at them with disgust.
"Wimps," He grunted than he turned to Donovan, Duncan, and Cedric. "Any of y'all know how to fight?" Duncan nodded, but Donovan and Cedric just looked at the ground.
"What can you do?" Dallas asked Duncan. "I like to kick box," Duncan stated.
"Good, you go and beat it until it's a bloody pulp." Dallas grinned sadistically and Kane shuddered.
"What about you two?" I should probably mention that Dallas could be a great leader, but he's way too tough on everyone.
"We can't fight," Cedric shrugged while Dallas moaned. "You just do your witchy plant stuff, got Flower Boy?" Cedric glared at Dallas.
"When you talk to me like that, no." He smirked and Dallas sent him a glare that made me want to crawl in a hole and die.
"This isn't the time to go all teenage rebellion on me. Fight!" Dallas gave Cedric a shove and Cedric glared, but didn't say anything.
"What about me?" Donovan asked and Dallas groaned. He turned to the wall and ripped a painting off the wall and handed it to Donovan.
"Use this!" Dallas shouted and tossed the painting effortlessly to Donovan. Dallas was really strong, a perk of being a son of Mars.
"Ow!" The painting hit Donovan on the head, but Dallas didn't realize it as he was already charging into battle, screaming his head off like a wild banshee.
Dallas was using his cestus, a cestus is basically an ancient boxing glove, with imperial gold spikes on the end. The only thing more terrifying than Dallas in battle is Percy in battle. Dallas was wild and unpredictable with this hungry look in his pale blue eyes as he smashed and hacked at the Cyclops. None of us stepped in because right now, Dallas was at his highest point in his fighting frenzy, and we knew that if we messed with him now, he would probably try to kill us. When he's in his frenzy, he can't tell the difference between friend and foe. On top of that, Dallas doesn't feel pain when he's in the frenzy. Its actually more dangerous because his body feels numb and painless, but he's still getting scarred and mangled, but he doesn't realize it so he doesn't stop to look at his wounds which can lead to death. He gets in the frenzy when he's either really pissed, or he gets attacked when he's frustrated.
We all stood back and watched him. He tore the Cyclops apart while we just stared. We were used to this, but the three newbies just stared at him in horror. They didn't even need the weapons they were given.
By the time he finished destroying the hellhound, the place was trashed. There were mortals cowering in the corner, chairs and tables all over the place, and painting flung off the wall. And this was all because of Dallas and a Cyclops. As charming as he is, Dallas is a force of destruction.
Than Trent and Jun walked into the shop, laughing there asses off and I just wanted to slap them for it. We went through all of this shit and they're probably laughing at some stupid thing Trent did.
Than they noticed the mortals and the thrashed places, so they immediately turned to Kane. "What the hell did you do?" Jun asked Kane.
Kane looked insulted at that. "Why do you assume its me?"
"Dude, you're the biggest screw up ever! Everything you touch dies!" Trent laughed and Kane glared at him.
"And you're a narcissus ass-hole who spends his free time drooling over himself in the mirror." He snarled and Dallas chuckled.
"I got a tad bit angry." Dallas drawled and we all stared at him with a look that said: are you freaking serious?
"Yeah," Tori snorted. "And Trent's only a bit of a man-whore." We all laughed (except for Trent). Then we remembered the mortals.
"Ah… Hey." Kane waved to the awkwardly. "I'm just going to slowly back away now… Down, kitties, down…" Kane walked backwards out of the Coffee Shop and we all followed. Cedric stared at his father, than smirked and followed us out the door.
Once we were a few blocks from the coffee shop, (Kane was walking backwards the whole way.) we started to talk again.
"So what do we do now? I have nowhere to go! I don't talk to my family anymore!" Duncan whimpered and we all gave him with looks of sympathy. Well, all of us except Trent.
"Who the hell are you?" He asked rudely and Violet slapped him.
"Show some sympathy, will you?" Now, Violet was definitely not one for sympathy, but she would take up any offer to hurt Trent.
"I'll have sympathy when the ice on your heart melts," Trent shot back in an icy tone.
"You two, cool it!" Percy scolded and they fell silent. "This is Donovan Redwill, Son of Erebos," Trent looked overjoyed at this.
"You mean I don't have to shadow travel everyone now? Finally!" He smiled while Donovan frowned.
"What's a shadow travel?" Trent looked like someone had just shot his puppy and apologized by buying him a rubber chicken. That means he would have to teach Donovan to shadow travel, poor Trent.
"I'm just going to go cry over there." He pointed to a nearby store window and walked over there and curled up into a ball and literally started to cry. I would say I was sorry for him, having to bring us everywhere at the risk of over exerting himself and dying, but I'm not sorry.
Percy ignored him. "That's Cedric Watson, son of Demeter," Cedric tipped his head and Jun made a face.
"You're a son of Demeter?" Jun asked while I slapped my forehead. I love Jun, he's a great boyfriend and everything, but he seriously needs to pay more attention to things.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cedric growled and Jun looked a bit weary.
"I m-mean you just don't look like a son of Demeter." Jun stuttered and looked down. Cedric glared at him some more until I told him, "Quit staring at my boyfriend, Mr. Melodramatic." Cedric cowered away from me and I smiled maliciously.
"And then there is Duncan Lyons. He's unclaimed… never mind…" Duncan was definitely not unclaimed now. There was a symbol, a bicep, above his head. We all stared at it, trying to remember which god's symbol was a bicep.
"What? Does my hair smell?" He shot each question out and swatted above his head. Trent reached up and grabbed his hand and set them back down at his sides.
Percy sighed, "Meet Duncan Lyons, son of Kratos, Greek god of Strength." Duncan beamed and flexed his bicep and did a bunch of different poses that showed off his muscled body.
We all smiled and congratulated him on finding out his godly parent, but then Violet stopped our cheers with a few wise words.
"Do you realize what Duncan's claiming means?" We all shook our heads. "The gods claimed him. They can still see us. They know where we are." Violet ended her ominous speech. I thought we had been hiding so well, but I guess we were wrong.
"So now what?" Tori started. "Do we have to go back to camp? The gods obviously know where we are!" She put her head in her hands and broke down crying. "I don't want to go back to camp! They all wanted to kill us! My siblings constantly harassed me and tried to kill me! Don't make me go back." She sobbed into Dallas' muscled arm as he came over to her and wrapped an arm around her. We all stared at her in shock. We had never seen her cry, she was never a sensitive person. She's usually a competitive, sarcastic, girl who constantly complains.
"I'm with her on this one." Kane whispered. "I can't go back. They did things to me…. I just…" Kane looked down and rubbed his forehead. Seeing Kane upset was even weirder than seeing Tori cry. Kane was a reckless, jokester who liked to take credit for what other people did and he was definitely not a depressed person.
"Relax," Percy's soothing voice spoke. "Were not going back to camp, were going to stick to our original plan, got it?" We all smiled and nodded. This is why Percy is a leader. He can comfort people, he knows that right thing to say and he's just… perfect.
"Now," Percy cleared his throat. "Lets get back to the motel and we'll decide what were doing next." Jun and Trent shot each other a wary glance.
"About the motel…" Jun trailed off and looked at Trent for support.
"We don't have any money left." Trent bluntly stated and we gaped at him.
"How?" Tara shouted and Trent looked down.
"I spent it all betting on who A was in Pretty Little Liars with the owner's daughter…" Trent looked down and sighed while Dallas let out barks of laughter.
"You watch Pretty Little Liars?" Dallas laughed and Trent blushed, but then he remembered something and he perked up.
"Don't act like I'm the girl here, I've caught you watching the Vampire Diaries when your alone!" Dallas flushed and his jaw clenched.
"I do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"D-"
"Just shut up!" Cedric shouted and we all turned to him. "You two are some of the most annoying people I have ever met in my entire life!"
"Thank you, Cedric." Percy shot him a wary glance and Cedric rolled his eyes.
"Now," Percy's sea green eyes had an edge to them as he said this. "Does anyone have a clue as to where were going to stay?"
"Well, I'm not going to my family!" Cedric grumbled and we took a wary step back from him.
"My brother lives in Scotland, and even if he lived here I wouldn't talk to him." Duncan shrugged.
"My family is dead, so don't even ask." Donovan mumbled and sat down on a nearby bench that looked way to old and like it was falling apart. Wait… Old!
"Guys!" I shouted as an idea popped into my head. Everyone turned to me and I started again. "I have an idea…"
-Finnick-Odair-Is-A-Sexy-Beast-
This is the worst idea ever…. That was all I could think on the car ride there.
Percy was driving in our van Kane had "borrowed" from the car dealership. Needless to say, we were lucky if we could breathe back there. I was in the front and I was trying to soothe him as he clutched his head in annoyance. Everyone in the back was so aggravating I just wanted to scream.
Duncan was harassing Jun, and I just wanted to slap Duncan.
"C'mon, lad, just work out a bit more and you'll have girls all over you!" Duncan poked Jun in his arm. Jun wasn't scrawny trust me. He just wasn't as muscular as Duncan, but than again, I don't think anyone can compare to his amount of muscle.
"I have a girlfriend!" Jun retorted and him and Duncan continued their bickering.
Dallas and Tori weren't much better. They were flirting and all that other stuff couples do, even if they claim they aren't dating.
Then there was Violet and Trent…
"Has anyone told you that you look particularly sexy today?" Trent smirked and Violet rolled her eyes.
"Has anyone told you that you seem more like a man-whore that usual?" Violet shot back at him and he smirked.
"There is a difference between being a man-whore and being sexy and just knowing how to show it off, and I'm the second one." Trent laughed.
"I think its just because your you." Violet glared at him and tried to ignore him and look out the window.
"I'm only me when I'm with you." The way he said it, it sounded so sincere that I almost believed that he loved her. Than I remembered that he was Trent Blackwood, he doesn't fall in love. But there was this look in his eyes and… never mind.
Cedric and Kane were arguing over something stupid, probably something along the lines of 'which waitress in the coffee shop has the best butt'.
Tara and Donovan were being boring and talking about world peace or something else that will make normal people fall asleep.
Finally, my nightmare ended when we arrived at the house. It was a two story, Victorian house and I guess you can say it was pretty.
We all go out of the car and slowly trudged to the door. I reached up about two feet for the ridiculously large knocker and banged it against the door three times.
"Coming!" A high-pitched voice sounded from inside and I waited anxiously for someone who I hadn't seen in years.
Its seemed like an eternity once the door opened. I looked up and saw the face of someone who I had longed to see for years. "Alex?"
A sinister kid, is a kid who
Runs to meet his maker
A drop dead sprint from the day he's born
Straight into his makers arms
And that's me, that's me
The boy with the broken halo
That's me, that's me
The devil won't let me be
-Sinister Kid (The Black Keyes)
Who is at the door?
Do the gods know where they are?
Does Trent Actually love Violet?
If Violet doesn't love Trent will you take him?
Is Kane really that dumb?
How dangerous is Dallas?
This chapter was rushed, right? That's what I thought. Also I got some questions in my PM box and one of them was who do I picture Kane looking like? I picture him kind of looking like Alex Pettyfer. Google him and you will be in awe of his hotness. You can ask me questions like that, if you want.
Daily Questions:
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Who is at the door?
Do the gods know where they are?
Does Trent Actually love Violet?
If Violet doesn't love Trent will you take him?
Is Kane really that dumb?
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