It's so cold...I felt like I was freezing up. Literally.
I felt like everything inside was beginning to change...who I was, what I was, and myself as a whole.
I opened my icy blue eyes. Everyone I knew, Annabeth, The Seven, the Gods, everyone except my mother, Paul, and Grover, betrayed me or wanted me dead.
I was a demigod on the run. And I was losing myself to a part of me that I never knew existed.
The morning dew on the leaves around me froze to crystallized droplets as I walked by.
Just as I was admiring the beauty of it all, a shout came from behind me and I turned.
A hunter was pointing my way and more people came. Twenty more hunters, and roughly forty demigods.
I turned away from them and ran while taking out my sword. Riptide.
It wasn't what it used to be. Before it had a blue green colored trident etched into a glowing bronze metal and a golden hilt. Now? The bronze glowed silver because of a thin layer of deadly ice. The trident became an icy blue, just as my eyes had changed and the hilt was now black and silver.
Why?
I'm changing. The world destroyed me. So I'm changing. To someone I'm not. I can't stop it. I can keep running before I freeze over entirely. Then I'll be unstoppable.