Summary: He didn't want it to happen, it just did. Everything that meant something to him just left. Vanished. Disappeared. He threw everything meaningful aside. He ignored society, the community and his 'so-called-friends'. He ruined his own life, built up a mask to protect himself, to protect others. But he wasn't happy. Not at all.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN THE PERCY JACKSON AND/OR THE HEROES OF OLYMPUS CHARACTERS. ALL THE CREDITS GO TO RICK RIORDAN WHOM I ENVY SO MUCH!

Harsh Words

Prologue

A young black haired boy looked up at his mother with adoring sea green eyes. He lifted up a toy boat and motioned it around like it was cruising on the waves.

"Mommy, look at this!" He exclaimed with excitement.

The mother smiled warmly at her son as she stroked his hair. "That's great, Percy. When your father comes back, make sure to thank him."

Percy nodded as he jumped up onto the couch. "Okay mommy!"

His mother nodded back and stood up. "Honey, make sure to check the oven and tell me if it's heating up too much. I'll be checking on little Tyson."

"You can count on me, mommy!" He replied.

With a little chuckle, his mother left the living room and went up to the baby room.

It had been what seemed like 10 minutes since his mother had left to check on baby Tyson, which got Percy worried because she was never that long. He grew impatient after waiting for another 10 minutes. The clock on the wall said 9PM, the time his father should be coming home at. That was when he heard a thudding sound above him. It was coming from upstairs, it was definitely coming from upstairs. Percy got up on his feet and left his toy boat on the couch.

"Momma? Are you there?" He asked. No response was made.

He then slowly made his way to the bottom of the stairs. "Momma, are you there?"

Yet again, no response.

Percy took a step up the stairs when he heard something…

"AHHHH!"

Immediately he ran up the steps into his little brother's room where he discovered a horrifying site. Blood was splattered on the wall next to an open window, sobbing was made and he heard a knife sharpening. Eyes widen, Percy dropped to his knees as he found his barely 1 year old baby brother lying on the floor in front of him covered in blood and his mother grabbed by the hair, kneeling by an unknown man.

"M-momma…" Percy managed to say.

He had both of the scary man and his mother's attention on him. His mother had a terrified look on her face and told him with her eyes to leave quickly before it was too late, but he couldn't understand. And in that moment, Percy held his breath in as the scary man walked over to him and reached a hand out to grab his neck.

"Perseus Jackson. I knew you had another child, Sally. You're such a bad liar." The man said in his low and growling voice.

He lifted Percy up by the neck to which Percy tried to get out of but he was too weak. His throat started to hurt as the man squeezed on it.

"M-mom…" Percy screamed quietly as he was trying to pull the fingers away from his neck.

"Please! Let my son go! Have mercy on him!" His mother sobbed out as she banged her fists against the man's back.

"Mercy? Mercy you say, Sally? Do you not know what your husband had done to me in the past? This is merely just my revenge." The scary man said.

Percy nearly lost vision as his breathing became heavier. He was going to die. No. He didn't want to die. Not now. Not when his mother was trying her best to save him. Percy tried kicking but his legs were too short to reach the man's chest. He was too weak and too small to fight back. They were doomed.

"Kronos!" Percy's father screamed at the scary man as he stepped inside the room.

He gritted his teeth as he saw the horrendous scene. "Let go of my son this instance!"

"Poseidon, how's my favorite son?" The scary man dropped Percy and walked over Percy's dad.

His mother immediately wrapped him up in her arms and murmured words of prayer. "It's okay honey. It's going to be okay." She kept on saying.

"Favorite? I was never your favorite! Zeus was! He's always been!" His father shouted.

"Now, now. Zeus was the eldest son of the family, of course I had to favor him but I looked at you the most. Noticed you the most." His voice became serious. "But that was until you kids betrayed me, betrayed your family…"

"You killed our mother!" Percy's father exclaimed.

"Because she wasn't as suitable of a wife for betraying me, and I didn't like her. Also, I don't very much like your wife too." Kronos pulled out a gun and pointed it at Percy's mother. "Say goodbye to your beloved wife, son."

"Kronos if you dare—"

BANG!

Percy couldn't feel the beating of his mother's heart anymore and for some reason, he felt something wet drop on his head. As he looked up, he screamed. A hole had appeared on his mother's forehead and as soon as the little boy tried to speak, she dropped to the ground.

"You…bastard!" His father charged at Kronos and within a second, another shot was made.

"I didn't want to do this to you son, but you forced me." Kronos pushed Percy's father towards the young boy.

Then sirens were heard.

"Damn. I triggered the alarm…" Kronos went over to the window. "We will meet again and next time, I'll finish you up too, Perseus Jackson." He then jumped down and disappeared.

Tears streamed down the boy's eyes as he crawled over to his nearly dead father. "Daddy…"

"Percy…I'm sorry for letting this happen. Your mother and I are…sorry." His father was struggling to speak.

Percy shook his head. "No dad, I'm sorry. I couldn't help you. I couldn't be a man like you wanted me to be."

His father reached his hand up to Percy's cheek and wiped a tear away. "You don't have to be a man now. Just promise me that you won't hold a grudge against this and don't do anything foolish…okay?"

He nodded as more tears streamed down his face. "Yes daddy! I promise!"

"Good. And know this, me, your mommy and Tyson loves…you…" His father's hand dropped to the floor and the last breath was made.

Percy stared into his father's dead eyes, hoping that maybe, just maybe, he would come back to life. But he knew better. He knew that his father was as good as gone.

How did you guys find the prologue? I'm sorry if it doesn't make any sense. This is because I just finished this at 5AM in the morning. Yeah, I THAT dedicated to the story. Oh, but don't worry, there's still more to come! And yes, this story is quite gloomy so I apologize if it makes you sad or angry.

This is actually my first time publishing a fanfic…I've written tons of stories but never got to really finish them. Hopefully I'll finish this since I'm putting everything aside for this!

Just to warn you all, I take quite a while to update depending on my mood and if I can continue writing each day. Also, I'm going to be going to America in a few weeks so I'll be drawn away from the story for some time but I'll definitely continue to finish off the story!

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ThinkStupid (~.~)