*Percy pov*

It was dark and I was scared. Where was mommy? She had looked so sad when she left me here. I can't leave. She told me not to, but I want her eyes to stop looking sad. I wanted to make her not sad.

These thoughts aren't mine, they're the younger me's ones. I wasn't dreaming, this was a flashback of the accident that I had tried so hard to forget. Of all the times for it to resurface it had to choose now.

I watch as I shakily pushed my way out of the closet my mom had left me in, and begin to search for her. I was watching the events unfold in what could be described as a spiritual form, my younger self was going about like how he was supposed to while I watched from the sidelines. I was pretty much nothing but a spectator.

I had always hated what happened next, and no matter how many times I tried to forget it I couldn't. I couldn't forget what I saw.

The younger me screamed as he saw what could only be described as pure and utter butchery. My mom lay a few feet away from me and standing in front to her was a indescribably ugly and malicious creature. It was so disturbing I almost puked as I saw it again. This creature reflected evil and malicious thoughts from all over the world and manifested in what each person who sees it look on evil and what they thought it was. I was the only one who saw it as it truly was. A monster.The reason why the younger me screamed was because of the state my mom was in.

Her body was covered in blood, her bones jutting out of her like small knives and worst of all her left leg was missing. The monster was eating it. The younger me ran to my mom and draped myself over her, trying to find a way to stop the bleeding. He started casting a healing spell when my mom stopped me.

"It's too late for me Percy. Percy stop the demon, when you believe in yourself you can do anything. I'm so proud to have been your mother", she said as a tear slipped down her cheek.

The younger me wiped her tear away as even more tears cascaded down his face.

"I love you my dear", she said as her eyes slowly slid closed and her breathing came to a stop. The book that was on her chest faintly glowed as it's ownership was passed to the younger me. The younger me cried and screamed, mourning my mothers death.

The demon growled as it caught onto the younger he's scent.

"Ooh! Is mother dearest gone?! We had so much fun. I thought she would last longer. Oh well, I guess I just have to kill you now", it said stalking towards me.

The younger me's hands glowed a bright green and he picked up the book. The monster smirked at his actions.

"You can't use that, you don't have enough power in you to send me back. The only who did was your mother. And now she's dead. Stop trying to play the hero!", The monster said cackling in a unearthly laughter.

The younger me's eyes began to glow, and his pupils was fully engulfed in the color green. He raised his hand towards the beast and a green light shot out of it and wrapped around the monster. It screeched and tried to fight against the pull. The younger me's beam got stronger, and the monster was dragged towards him.

He began to murmur the ancient words that sealed the demon into the book. The demon screeched and began to fight harder. The younger me finished the spell and the shrieking monster was sealed into the book.

He fell to his knees next to his mother and cried into her dead body. That was how they found me, sobbing on the body of my dead mother. And the house battered and matted with scratches. They announced it as a bear attack and left, left me to the foster system. Before they took me away I returned the book to our underground temple and cast spells on it to make sure it remained protected.

A fat tear dropped down the side of my face and I wiped it away sniffing.
This was not a time to be reminiscing  about things from the past. I had to wake up and get the potion done. I had to make sure what happened never repeated itself.

All of a sudden everything went dark and I could feel my heavy body again. I was back. I cracked my eyes open and turned my head, looking around.

I was in the infirmary bed and an IV was stuck in my arm. There was a beeping noise in the background that I realized was a heart rate machine, and it was attached to me. I sat up, examining the room.

A door suddenly opened and a camper entered wearing a nurse uniform. Once he saw me sitting up in bed he immediately ran out the door shouting that I was awake.

I looked at the door he exited from. What exactly was going on that required him to shout like that? I wiped my face as I realized that a tear was streaking down it.

Suddenly a torrent of footsteps echoed from the hallway and the rest of the seven, Chiron, Will and the nymph from before appeared.

Why did they find it necessary to run? Will stepped forward immediately and checked over me.

"Are you in any pain?", He asked.
The others looked extremely worried and anxious. What exactly was with them? I just couldn't get it.

"No", I reply. My voice sounded  scratchy.

"What's wrong? Why is everyone acting so weird", I ask.

"Percy, you've been unconscious for 2 days", Annabeth said.

What?!