"No.. Poseidon.. Zeus.. the gods... they aren't real." Clara said as her voice trembled, "You're just having a nightmare, Clara. Wake up."

Poseidon looked at his daughter with a sad look, "Your father gave you that necklace right?"

Clara looked and held her pendant that looks like the symbol of the sea, "Yes.. "

"I gave you that." Poseidon said.

"Stop trying to say that you're my father!" Clara shouted as she covered her ears, "I clearly saw his dead body.. i went to his funeral and his grave!"

"Clara. That was the mist playing with you." Poseidon sighed.

"W-what?" Clara trembled.

Poseidon showed a video and he went inside the video and put his hands through the body. And it was only a wooden stick.

"No..no.. If you say i'm a demigod, then why am i still fooled by the mist?!" Clara demanded.

"Demigods are still half human, you know." Poseidon pointed out.

"..." Clara was speechless.

"That necklace i gave you made you stronger, did you notice that?" Poseidon said.

"If i'm stronger then why did i almost die to a vehicle?" Clara said with a straight face.

"The Fates have their ways." Poseidon shook his head, "It was destiny for you to meet me here and now."

"Fine. You are my father." Clara finally said, "But if you go to my house and my mom denies it, i won't ever see you again."

"Deal." Poseidon said, "You really do have the guts to say that to a god you know. If Hera or Zeus heard that, they probably would kill you in a second."

"I've got the nerves.. i guess." Clara shrugged.

"Yeah, i don't have much time left." Poseidon said.

"You were only here for 5 minutes!" Clara said, "In 13 years you only visit me for 5 minutes."

"I have business too." Poseidon cleared his throat, and he threw a ruler to her.

"Wait what-" Clara wanted to ask, but Poseidon was gone when she blinked.

Clara suddenly went insane, and well, that happened.

**End Of Flashback**

Clara went back to normal and held her head, she also fell down.

"Clara! Are you okay?" Ritha asked in worry.

"I just fell down Rith. Chill." Clara said with a flat tone.

"No, you were dizzy-"

They immediately heard nurses running towards Clara's room.

"Crap." Ritha cursed, "Let's get outta here."

"How?" Clara asked in confusion.

Ritha put on her invisible cloak.

"Are you kidding me?" Clara sighed. She clenched her ruler.

The nurses flung open the door. They saw Clara in her bed.

"Ms. Wings! Are you oka-" the nurse gasped.

"I d-don't know what happened..." Clara pretended to be weak, "What... what.."

"It's okay Ms. Wings. We'll clean that up." One of the nurses said.

"What?" Clara asked in confusion.

"Your food fell, yes?" The nurse said.

"Ah, y-yeah.." Clara pretended to tremble.

The Mist.. Thanks, dad. Clara silently prayed.

The door closed.

"You just used your cloak and didn't help me?" Clara said with annoyance.

Ritha opened her cloak, "You're good in acting, i'm not."

"Tch. Whatever." Clara rolled her eyes, "Let's get outta here."

"Are you sure?" Ritha asked, "It's raining."

"The nurses are coming back in a few more minutes." Clara said, "Let's make a run for it."

Ritha cut through the hospital window without making a sound with her lazer bracelet.

"Who made that?" Clara asked as they jumped out of the window.

Ritha didn't answer anything.

"Ritha." Clara said.

They activated their parachutes.

"Rithaaaaa" Clara called to Ritha that is infront of her.

Ritha kept silent.

"Ritha. Ritha. Smart Girl. Hello? Are you there? Ritha, oi."

Clara kept doing that until they ran on the streets.

"Definitely a child of Hephaestus. Yes?" Clara asked.

"Hm. Of course. Clara you're too smart." Clara asnwered herself.

"Shut it will you?" Ritha hissed.

"Finally Ritha spoke four words for the past 30 minutes!" Clara sighed, "Where are we going anyway?"

"Veera's." Ritha answered.

"Isn't she at the hospital?" Clara asked.

"I'm going to ask her parents." Ritha said while panting.

"Don't tell me.." Clara gasped, "She's a demigod too?"

"What?" Ritha gave Clara a confused stare, "She's mortal!"

"Then why-"

"We're here." Ritha cut Clara's line.

They both were panting, but Ritha was panting harder.

I guess my necklace really does work. Clara thought.

Ritha rang the doorbell. A man immediately opened it and hurried the girls inside. They were soaking wet! No, Ritha was soaking wet. Clara was dry.

"How-"

"It's her thing." Ritha smiled at the man.

"Hello, Mr. Aleska. I'm Clara." Clara introduced.

"Oh hi Cla- wait. You were just in a comma today!" Mr. Aleska exclaimed.

Ritha cleared her throat.

Mr. Aleska immediately sighed, "What daughter are you of?"

"Poseidon." Clara answered shortly.

"One of the big three? No way!" Mr. Aleska's eyes twinkled, "How does it feel like? Can you really control water? Wait, can you breathe underwater? Can you speak to the fish? Can you-"

"Dad!" A girl appeared out of no where.

"Veera!" Clara smiled.

"Clara... y-you're not in the hospital anymore.." Veera trembled.

"She's one of me." Ritha said casually.

"Are all of my friends literally demigods?" Veera face palmed.

"How many do you know?" Clara asked, "and who are they?"

"Here. Have a drink, both of you." Mr. Aleska gave Clara and Ritha each a drink.

Clara thanked Mr. Aleska and started to drink.

Never thought i was this thirsty. Clara thought in surprise.

"Let's see." Veera opened her notebook, "Ritha, Jeanett, Xavier, Jayce, Vito-"

Clara choked on her water when Veera said that name. She glanced at Ritha with worry. Ritha just showed a blank, empty face, without life.

Clara bit her lip and decided to stay quiet.

"-And you." Veera continued as she wrote Clara's name down.

Wait. Xavier does ring a bell. Clara thought.

"Who is Xavier the son of?" Clara asked to Veera.

"Hades." Veera said.

Clara choked on her water again. She started coughing nonstop.

"Clara." Ritha looked at her in worry, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah." Clara cleared her throat, "I'm fine."

"What's wrong with Xavier?" Veera asked in confusion.

"Hades... Betrayed his oath that he promised to keep too." Clara blurted out.

"How did you get this info?" Ritha asked.

"I don't know.." Clara clenched her head.

"Woah, do you want to sleep for a while?" Veera rushed and took a pillow.

"No.. let me finish." Clara croaked.

"So. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades were the only sons of the Titan Kronos, who was a TITAN. The gods' enemy. Those three were the most powerful beings in the whole universe. And they started to have children, that started wrecking everything, blowing up every beautiful thing that Gaea made on earth, and their children ended up being stopped. And they made an oath that they'll never ever have children ever again. Because..." Clara said shakily, "We children of the big three are dangerous."

"Since when did you get smarter?" Ritha asked.

"Probably when i got hit in the head by Poseidon?" Clara shrugged, "And anyways, he's our classmate!"

"Don't tell me he was the red head." Ritha sighed.

"Correcto." Clara nodded.

"So.. Clara. You won't use your powers on us right?" Veera asked quietly. Ritha was freaking out in the background.

"That's ridiculous!" Clara shook her head, "Why would i use it on my friends? Anyways i'm not that strong."

"But still.." Veera said.

"So!" Mr. Aleska changed the topic, "What would you guys like for dinner?"

"We're actually fine, Mr Aleska. Thankyou so much for your family's hospitality." Ritha smiled.

"But i'm hung-"

Ritha put her hand on Clara's mouth with annoyance.

"Oh okay.. Are you sure?" Veera asked in worry, "You two look very hungry."

"We're fine." Ritha insisted.

The next thing Clara knew, she and Ritha said goodbye to the Aleska Household and walked down the streets.

"Is it okay for us to be walking down the streets like this?" Clara asked.

"It'll be fine. Trust me." Ritha said as she sprayed some liquid to herself and Clara.

"What? Ew! It smells like trash!" Clara complained. She sensed someone, she got ready with her ruler.
Wait. Why? Probably to smack them. Clara thought.

"To cover up our scent from the monsters, dummy." Ritha rolled her eyes.

Suddenly they were attacked by a boy with a black hoodie on. His face wasn't seen.

The boy carried a sword and tried to cut Ritha in half, but Clara activated her ruler and it changed to a Imperial gold-Celestial bronze sword, and she held her position. Clara was surprised with her reflexes. She let her senses take over.

Who knew that i knew how to sword fight? Clara thought happily

The boy moved their fight to a closed beach.

Ritha was alarmed and tried to attack the boy with her dagger.

Clara kept clashed swords with the boy, dodging, fail-stabbing, and stuff.

"You're a pretty good sword fighter." The boy said.

Even though Clara couldn't see his face, she was pretty sure that he was smirking.

Clara backflipped and landed on an alarmed position.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Clara said in warning.

The boy raised his sword up.

"What are you doing?" Clara raised an eyebrow.

A skeleton army rose and tried to attack Clara and Ritha.

Clara widened her eyes, "You're trying to kill your own ally here!"

"You both are dracanae. Die for what you've done!" The boy exclaimed.

"Uh.. what?" Clara questioned while she clashed her sword.

"You were tricked! We're real!" Ritha said as she stabbed through the skeleton army.

"Lies." The boy said.

"Wanna know the truth?" Clara said in anger, "WELL HERE!"

A large tsunami came out of one little wave, Clara's eyes were glinting. She felt the boy widening his eyes in shock.

The boy looked up to the tsunami that was going to swallow him up and make him die.

The tsunami dropped into the sand, like literally it just went drip like water from a sink or something.

"So you really are the daughter of Poseidon?" The boy made the skeleton army go back into the ground.

"So now you realize, dumbass." Clara said in a raging voice.

The boy laughed, "Harsh."

"I know you're Xavier." Ritha said as she dust off her jeggings.

The boy immediately turned his head to Ritha and walked to her.

"If you dare hurt her." Clara pointed the edge of her sword to the boy's chin.

"Chill gurl." The boy raised both of his hands up.

Clara was just playing the sword in the back while swinging it back and forth.

"How did you know my name?" The boy asked Ritha.

"You really don't remember us, huh?" Ritha sighed.

Xavier tilted his head. He suffers from amnesia, that's why.

"We're from the same class as you." Ritha said, "The girl who got crashed by a truck? That's her."

"...On the other day... " Xavier said, "When we were attacked?"

"Yup." Ritha said silently.

"She recovered in 1 month." Xavier teased, "How lame."

Xavier dodged as a sharp shell went past them. It could've shot into his brain.

"Oh sorry.. I wasn't looking." Clara said with a sarcastic smile.

"Clara is sweet." Ritha said, "She really is. But when it comes to her enemies, people who try to bother her, and anything that concerns-"

"HER VERY BEST FRIEND." Clara said in a yandere voice.

"-yeah... She becomes a serial killer in seconds."

"I see." Xavier shrugged, "Hey scumbag. Come over here."

"What did you say to me?" Clara glared at him.

Xavier sighed, "Just-just come here."

Clara came there, "What?"

Xavier opened his hoodie. His hair was dark red, cut into a messy undercut, and he has red eyes. His hair was accidentally cut when he was on a mission. But it was cool.

"Yeah-yeah keep showing off." Clara rolled her eyes.

"Okay, i'm sorry from before." Xavier said, "Because when you two were offline, two dracanae looked exactly like you both. It destroyed the school."

Clara and Ritha were shocked, "WHAT?!"

"Don't worry, everyone is safe. I shadow travelled everyone together right before the school blew up." Xavier said, "And i blacked out."

"Lame." Clara stuck out her tongue.

"I was gone for a week, my friend said." Xavier ignored Clara, "Not like some person who was gone for 1 month just because of a tiny car crash."

Clara growled.

"Look. I'm not good in working together." Xavier sighed, "But we have to find the other demigods."

"Jayce, Evan, and Jeanett?" Ritha asked.

"Yeah." Xavier said, "And Vito."

Ritha flinched.

Clara softened.

"Don't say that name in front of her please." Clara whispered to Xavier's ear.

"Why?"

"I'll explain later."

"Okay, let's go find our friends!" Clara said cheerfully

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Hey guys, the author here. Hope you enjoy this quite long chapter! I'm targeting to hit 1500-2000 words per chapter, so.. please enjoy! ^^

Peace,

Clara Wings