This is my first fan fiction, so please give some slack.

Ice crystals crept up my throat as two, intense green balls of light shone from the darkness of the gaping hole in front of me. A gaping hole in the side of the rock, scattered with stalactites hanging dangerously at the roofs, appeared through my blurry vision.

Eyes.

The figure carefully came closer, not making a sound or sign of any movement, except for her glowing emerald eyes that would dim from the little times she blinked. Mist from the river I woke up in carefully wrapped around my throat and up my nostrils, making me intoxicated and disoriented. My peripheral vision no longer existed as it was blackened out.

"No!"

The lady, who I barely noticed had already crept out from her cave, came running toward me, her white silk dress flowing in the night wind behind her. Her vibrant green eyes ceased to shine the way they were before. The young woman's dark chocolate skin went along with a light brown set of slightly curly hair, and only thing that still unsettled me were her eyes, along with her pupils, which were a lot more dilated than I was used to.

She pulled me to the shore from the wide expanse of the flowing water, and sat down beside me. My orange shirt was in tatters, but despite the river, it wasn't wet. Instead, it released a misty gas that soon dissipated into nothing as it tried to return back into the water.

"Wait what's-"

"No!" the girl screamed. She turned her head upwards to look at the full moon that shone above the ravine opening above us, and screamed something else in a language I was not competent with.

"Come on, hurry up!" she yelled at me, pulling my arm up, but I resisted.

"What are you doing?" she asked me loudly, shouting over the swift flow of the water beside us. "We need to get you in before-"

I'm not sure what sudden urge made me compelled to say it, but I asked, "What's my name?"

Her eyes, no longer wide and in fear, went to disappointment and unbearable grief. She knelt down and studied my eyes and used her thin fingers to lift up my chin.

"It's happened, isn't it." Her eyes glowed a bit brighter in what I almost believed was excitement, but it dimmed just as quickly. A slow tear traveled down the bridge of her nose as her features softened. But she told me anyway.

"Percy Jackson."

Any advice, suggestions, or constructive criticism will mean the world to me! I know it was short, but please understand that this is the first chapter to my first fan fiction!