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“Marinette , wake up!”she heard the sweet voice of her mother reverberating in her dreamland.
Her dreamland, was unlike any other girl’s her age. While teenage girls wanted riches, comfort and love, she wanted adventures, risks and acceptance from her family. Well, family as in not her parents. They loved her a lot. Bur her family, her Olympian family, she never was sure of their love.
Sounds weird, right? But this is what her life is. What she is. A half blood.If you’re wondering whether she’s crazy and spewing nonsense, you better not.
You see, Greek mythological creatures and gods, all of them actually exist albeit hidden from a regular mortal eye with the help of a veil called the Mist.
They visit earth and have children with mortals. These children are called half bloods and she’s one of them. Her father, the son of the god of simplicity, married a demigod daughter of Athena and she was born, as he didn’t want to be associated with the Olympians, he tried to avoid any contact with them. He tried to keep her away from his world, but she was a half blood because of her parentage.
And not a normal half blood but a powerful one who wanted adventure in her life. Her life was not plain as well because monsters were attracted to her scent like ants to sugar. They attacked her and she had to fight them off.
Though unwillingly, her father had to send her to Camp Half blood, a summer camp and training centre for children like her, where they were trained to fight monsters and survive in this dangerous world.
You’d think everything was perfect. She wanted adventures and she got them. But you see, her life was messy.
Due to the monsters always after her, she was expelled numerous times for creating trouble. She changed schools almost every year and today was her first day of her new school.
The centre of the gods’ power, Mount Olympus, had moved on top of the Empire State Building and so all those related to Olympians, including her family, were slowly moving nearer.Maybe things won’t be as bad in her nee school as she feared.
She heard her mother’s voice calling once again, “Get up quick. You’ll be late for your new school!” “I’m up, Maman! I’ll be ready in a minute!”
She realised that she had only thirty minutes to get to school. It was plenty of time as she lived near the school, but knowing her rotten luck, she knew better than to dally. Something or the other was bound to make her late to school. So she better hurry.
Breakfast was a pleasant affair with her parents constantly reminding her to be good at her new school as long as she can. They were always worried about her safety though it was kind of part of the contract of being the parent of a half blood. You know your child is constantly in danger but you have to live with it. All you can do for them is hope for the best.
While the Olympians, responsible for all of this and capable of protecting every single half blood on the planet with a flick of their wrists, keep to the side lines because of some stupid rule prohibiting them from helping their children. This rule, quite ironically, was made by them and can be cancelled by them, but they still obey it.
The only explanation: It’s just an excuse to neglect their children and to not care for a thing in the world.
Yes, they were rotten. But she still couldn’t get rid of her desire to be accepted and identified in Olympus as she wanted to fit, and the mortal realm was not a place where she could ever fit. So Olympus was her only bet.
A greedy part of her couldn’t help wanting to get access into Olympus as the Fallen Olympian had.