The Mysterious Hero

Mind Speak

-Jenna-

It didn't make any sense.  Why was I back here, and why did the last eight years of my life seem like a dream?  I was so dizzy, so tired.  Percy loomed over me, looking awfully young.  But so did I.  What was I, eight?  Nine at best.  That was weird.  I recognized the twins over me, Artemis and Apollo.  Artemis looked scared, and Apollo looked confused.  So Apollo was mostly normal.

"I don't understand."  He was murmuring to himself.  If this really was 2014, then he wouldn't know what I know.  I had basically just out-prophesied the god of prophecy.  Cool.

"I didn't give..."  His voice trailed off, but I knew what he was thinking.

"Yes you did."  I informed him, "It was involuntary, but you did.  Sorry about that."  He looked at me like I was insane.  I wouldn't believe an eight year old laying on the floor on a forest either.  It turned into a 'yes' 'no' war between us, and I used the old trick where I say no and he says yes instead of vice versa.

"Hah!  See, that proves it!  You just said yes, and you can't lie.  You also said no, which is also true because you didn't GIVE it to me, but since you said yes, its true that I have it."  I had outsmarted a god. *Smiles on the inside*.  He scowled at me.

"Gave what?  I'm confused."  Percy interrupted my triumph.

"The gift of sight."  I said knowingly.

"I did not!"  Apollo protested, "No way would I bless you."

"Well thanks, I feel so loved."

"No offence intended."

"To late.  And also... I have it."

"How!?"  

"Your relation to my parentage forces you to bestow a gift, and the most recognizable of yours is sight.  So I have it, weather you like it or not."  He didn't like that, "And, as the god of truth, do you sense that I speak any lies?"

"No."  He grumbled.

"I told you so."  That was the phrase that my life was based off.  He grunted and Artemis looked at him as if to say 'did you seriously just loose an argument with an eight year old daughter of Artemis?'.

"I am not eight!"  I said out loud by accident.  The twins looked at me simultaneously.

"You just heard that?"  Artemis asked.  I nodded, and she looked at Apollo like 'is this also your fault?'.  Then he looked at her, 'no.  she's YOUR daughter.'  'yes but I don't have the gift of sight.'  'well duh'   I giggled.  'she can hear us you know.'  'I DO know because I have the gift of sight' 'would you shut up about that!'  'no!  I think the fact that she has it might be important'  'maybe so, but still.  that has nothing to do with you.'  'it has everything to do with me'  

"Stop!"  I said too loudly.  I was clutching my temples.  Their bickering was giving me a headache.

"I'm just gonna go now."  Percy said uncomfortably getting up.  I forgot he was here.

"Don't go."  I pleaded.  I would need him if all this got too weird for me to handle.  He cautiously sat back down next to me.  I might have been freaking him out a little bit, but I'd done (or will do) that enough times for me to not care.

"What's going on?"  He was really confused.  Why was everyone always so confused?  It was starting to get irritating.  People should trust other people, and be trustworthy in return.  That is the only way to make the world easier to live in than it is now.  I explained what was going on to him using vocabulary that must've surprised him, because I'm eight and all, all the while ignoring the twins' current argument that has something to do with why I never should have been born in the first place and Artemis trying to defend herself but loosing terribly.  I hated that I was an item of conflict.  Not only was I a demigod freak, but I was also forbidden.  Great.

"Well, don't I feel welcome to the world."  I said sarcastically to Artemis.  She rolled her eyes at me and thought some nasty things.

"That wasn't very nice."  I said in my best little innocent kid voice.  She heaved a sigh and turned back to Apollo, saying in her head how she hated that I could hear them.

"I heard that."  I said, and she made strangling motions where my neck would be in her line of sight.  I smirked at her frustration.  I was only doing my Artemis impression.  Apollo snickered and looked at me.

"And I heard that."  He said, "That's cool.  And good impression, by the way."  I smiled and Artemis was confused.  (Again with the confused!  Why can't people just be smart?)  I whispered to Percy what was going on, and now that he had joined the smart people club, he laughed.

I stood, "This is getting repetitive and pointless.  Anyone want to do something constructive, like figure out what the Tartarus is going on and why I'm eight?"  Apollo raised his hand and Percy stood.

"I'm tired."  He walked out of the clearing, probably because it was after midnight.  I looked up to see the moon, and judged that it was 2:48.  I can tell the time using the position of the moon in the sky.  Yeah, I'm awesome.

"I don't have a choice, do I?"  Artemis said regretfully, standing up Apollo's height.  I felt really short for once.  I'll outgrow them when they are in this form by the time I'm thirteen.

"Thirteen?"  Apollo must've heard me, so I stuck my tongue out at him.  "Now I get how prophecies are annoying."

"You think."  Artemis was such a buzz kill sometimes.  Others, she was on my side.  We all went further into the forest, where they then promptly went into their ''I'm gonna incinerate you' forms.  (That's what I call them)  I had to squint, and it gave me a bit of a headache, but I was fine.  I blinked a few times to get used to the light.

"What was that for?"  I whined.

"I'll always be taller."  Apollo smirked.  He was about seven-three, and Artemis was seven-two, and they weren't even full-sized.  Then they would be somewhere around thirty feet.  That would attract some attention.

"To see if you could really stand it."  Artemis answered sensibly.

"I liked Apollo's answer better."  I let be known.  He gave an 'I'm better than you' smile to Artemis.

"Can we do something productive, please?  I practically begged.

"Tell us what you saw."  Apollo suggested, so I began the long explanation of the future.