(A Sea of Blood Red)

Mars POV

I groan, but sigh in relief as I realize I'm back on the ground.

Everything in my body hurts and I feel like I'm drowning in a sea of blood red.

I try to block it out, but the horrible color doesn't leave.

I hear footsteps crunching on gravel.

I try to stand, but that only makes the pain ten-fold.

"Are you okay? And when you wake up you are tellin' me what's going on." Korri's voice says.

And I black out.

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I moan.

It feels like I'd been out of it for seconds, but it has most likely been hours.

But the pain isn't as bad.

"Hey, drama-queen, you woke up," Korri says.

Or, at least I think it was Korri, every things still fuzzy, and burning.

I don't answer, too tired to do anything.

I hate it.

"Why were you sprawled out on the ground at eight pm?"

"My dad," I mutter dryly, without thinking.

"WHAT?!"

I wince and close my eyes. "I was trying to get him to go away 'cause he does not know how to leave me alone."

I rarely let my grammar falter, yet... it did.

"Who is this person?" she says with disgust.

"Zeus."

I can nearly hear her jaw drop. "WHA???"

"Yup, he's the one you're thinking of... probably."

If two people weren't already either asleep or ready to pass out, I think she would have done the latter.

I can hear by the dead quiet she paled, and she did it well.

"O-okay. But that doesn't explain WHY YOU FELL FROM THE SKY!"

I frown. "I don't know how, or why I fell from the sky."

Then I realize what I'm saying.

"Wait, back up, I fell from the sky?" I ask as I sit up, and a heavy wave of nausea hits me.

She nods.

I wince.

"You should do that, I think you might've shatter pretty much everything in your body,"

I groan. "How do you know that?"

She frowns. "From a personal experience."

"Oh," I say dumbly.

I lay back down. "Thanks, for everything."

She smiles. "I have done nothing."

And I fall back into the haze of black.