Percy Jackson One Shots

Watchers

Hey guys! This is actually for a Underworld_Skylar or Skylar's writing competition. But I actually really like this one. So I'm putting it here too.

Enjoy!

-Jaz

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Watchers

There wasn't much hope left as she laid there waiting for a monster to bite her head off. She was weaponless and surrounded. But then she was saved in the most unlikely of ways.

By becoming a tree.

The lighting didn't bring pain. But she felt something surrounding her. Protecting her like a second skin.

When she opened her sharp blue eyes darkness surrounded her.

Am I dead? She wondered vaguely. She sat up slowly already feeling dizzy.

"Careful child, the journey here must have been draining."

She turned sharply ignoring her dizziness, and throbbing head. The darkness seemed to melt in her peripriphel vision and came to the front of her sight line leaving the room stark white in its wake. The black- now blob soon flowed in a shape becoming the outline of a person.

She watched shocked as the blob figure solidified into a woman. Her eyes were closed but she wore a pair of jeans, shirt, jacket, and combat boots all in variations of black. Her hair was pulled back I n a pony tail and it color was just as strange, it was white at the root and grew darker until it was black at the end. Not to mention that her skin was pitch black. When the women opened her eyes, galaxies made up her eyes which changed scenes each time she blinked.

The woman smiled with blinding white teeth. "Hello Thalia Grace."

Thalia blinked unsure what to say or do.

"I am Chaos," the woman said. "Creator of all. I welcome you to the Void."

"The Void?" Thalia repeated confused.

Chaos nodded. "The Void. I am The Void and The Void is me. Have you never wondered where immortals go when their time is up? They fade and return to where everything started. They return to me."

"But I'm not an immortal," Thalia said confused.

"No you're not an immortal," Chaos replied with a smile. "Nor immortal, not yet anyway. You my dear, are here because you have been chosen."

"Chosen? What for?" Thalia asked finally getting to her feet. She swayed and Chaos was at her side instantly. Chaos helped Thalia to sit on a bed- which Thalia swore wasn't there before.

The room had changed. She now sat on a bed of a bedroom which she swore hadn't been there.

Chaos stepped back and pulled a chair up to the bed and sat herself on it. "You have been chosen to be a Watcher."

"Watch what? Wait- aren't I dead?"

Chaos shook her head. "No you're very much alive. This form of yours is only one aspect of your soul. The other is still resting in the pine tree your father turned you in to. As for your first question I should explain more first."

Thalia nodded and waited for the women to speak, Chaos seemed so trustworthy. Like Thalia had finally had the mother she had always wanted.

Chaos nodded. "As a Watcher you must watch and prevent. You will not be able to touch, been seen by or communicate with others or step into most situations. You will watch over those you chose and then prevent the worse. For example, if there was a monster ten blocks from us you could go kill it before I knew of it. But once it comes to my knowledge you will not be able to intercede. It becomes my worry and problem."