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Chapter 1 - What the Hades....

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???? POV:

*We did it...

We created life, life from just a few particles in Deepspace, life from a few particles found in protocores known to be both toxic and poisonous to anyone with even an ounce of contact with human skin...

But we did it, WE created *her* Asphodel X03...

Our greatest creation yet, just like what we did with Maia X01.

She will be our ascension to immortality, she will be what this world needs to achieve the impossible. It's just a matter of time...*

Asphodel POV:

My head.... What the....

Where am I? What is this place?

I continued to look at my surroundings, wondering why I have this blistering headache and why in Hades' name can I not remember anything?

Wait

Hades? Who was that? Why did a random name just pop in my head?.... Nvm, what's important is to process my surroundings better so I can get the hell out of here.

But... Hold up, something isn't right.

Why can't I remember anything? Why is the only memory in my mind a place of darkness and suddenly being thrust into the light?

"Doctor, she's awake" wait she? Are they talking about me? I look to the side of the room to see a large window with people on the other side in white lab coats taking down notes.

"E-excuse me?" My voice came out rather hoarse, as if I've been screaming for the past hour. "W-where am I?" I asked, "hmmm, note it down. Awoken after a few hours of rigorous testing both in organs and skin. It seems her body is adapting quickly from all the chemicals injected in her body and not only that but she's regenerating rather quickly unlike the other two."

What.

Testing?

Chemicals?

Regeneration?

What the hell are they doing to me? I stared at them in both shock and horror wondering what they were doing to my body, mind you my body, from what I can see, is the body of the child. Are they sick or something? Doing experiments like that to a child? A child who just woke up not even a few minutes ago?

A week has passed, how do I know that? Beats me, I know a lot of things that even I can't explain. But they continue to do these tests on my body, seemingly hoping to find more answers to whatever it is they're finding.

Somehow after a week, they let me go. Some guards are escorting me to a room from the back of the facility, some of the scientists who experimented on me told me I would meet the others who're just like me.

And now here we are... After opening the door, the guard just threw me into the room with no regards whatsoever for my health btw and shut the door from behind. I look across the room to find not only one but two other kids like me, a boy and a girl.

The boy, who looked at me with wariness in his eyes, feels familiar to me somehow. Like I've seen him before. The girl on the other hand is looking at me with curiosity, both so familiar to me but I can't just place where I've seen them before in my head.

"Uh... Hello?" Finally saying something to them, I nervously greeted them with a wave of my hand. "Who are you?" The boy asked, holding his hand out in front of the girl seemingly protecting her from my presence and glaring at me as if I was the one hurting them in the first place (which I get, I mean scientist experimenting on you suddenly brought in another child to your room without explanation? I would be wary too but jeez turn the glare down to a minimum would ya?)

"Um, I'm Asphodel X03? That's what they call me anyway" I shrugged, I didn't know how I was so nonchalant with everything that's been happening tbh, all I know is that when I woke up during my first day here, they continued experimenting on me and somehow I can't feel even an ounce of pain from all the cutting and stabbing they did, all I felt was a itch in my skin that never seems to go away.

"A-are you just like us?" The girl asked stepping around the boy's hand without an ounce of fear. The boy watched as the girl went around his hand staring at her shock, as if to say that she should be more wary of strangers. "I guess so? I mean yeah, they did experiment on me more times than I can count." I replied to her shrugging, the boy stared at me in shock.

"Y-you! You can't just say something like that like it's nothing!" The boy shouted ( Jeez calling him "the boy" is getting old ) "What's wrong with what I said? Is it not the truth?" Ok maybe I'm being arrogant here, but you would too if you've experienced what I've experienced so far, being experimented on but feeling nothing more than an itch that you can't ignore.

"It is! But still you can't say something like that so blunty!" He shouted again, his eyes darting from me to the girl beside him, like it's telling me to think and look at her expression. Which I did, and oh boy.... Her face looked so pale, her eyes terrified. "Oh."

"Yeah 'Oh'" he rolled his eyes at me, bringing the girl closer to him to comfort her. Now I feel bad, "Hey, I'm sorry.... I didn't know that this would be your reaction...." I moved closer to the two, looking at the girl with apologetic eyes conveying my apologies to her. The boy on the other hand.... Looked at me skeptically.

"Look I'm really sorry" I looked at both of them. "I-its fine" the girl finally spoke up after a few seconds. "I'm X01, I think that's what they call me..." She said, her face is laced with confusion as if somehow forgetting her name every time, "tsk..." The boy looked at me still skeptical "02..." She said, tugging on the boy's sleeves and looking at him with eyes so doe like, you could've mistaken it for an animal's eyes.

"I'm Caleb X02... But they don't call me that here, it's just 02 I guess." He looked to the side after introducing himself... That's weird, why does that name seem so familiar? Where have I heard that before? "Agh..." Suddenly, as if electrocuted by a lightning bolt ( SIDE NOTE: future Asphodel here everyone! Seeing as how I remember my memories from the past life, this line was quite ironic seeing as how who my friends were. Alright back to the story! ) I started convulsing and dropped to the floor. The two in front of me suddenly panicked, while the girl wanted to come close to me, the other one wouldn't let her afraid that maybe she would be affected by the sudden electric current radiating from my body.

Then two guards emerged from the closed door taking the two in front of me by surprise, "You're now situated with each other, now let's go. They're waiting for you" one of the guards suddenly grabbed my forearm tightly, dragging me to the close door while I continued heaving after getting electrocuted so suddenly.

While the guards were dragging me through the door, I looked at the two still inside the room seeing them both so afraid of the guards just barging in and taking me away.

That happened around a week ago, now I've been a constant presence to both X01 and X02 inside the room, they even started trusting me once I figured out I could heal their injuries from the experiments those Dam ( future Asphodel: get it? Dam?.... Ok I'll stop ) scientists did to all of us. Though for some unfortunate reason, I can't seem to heal myself but I can heal others just fine.

"Jiě jie are you ok?" I looked up startled as I heard X01 call out to me. "Oh, I'm fine just thinking about something" I replied to her.

"You don't look fine" someone from behind me said, I looked back to see X02 standing behind me with his newly bandaged arms crossed and looking at me with narrowed eyes. "I'm fine X02, just thinking about my healing powers again." I looked at my arms as I said that.

X02 sighed "you know you don't have to heal me right? I know it takes a lot of your energy to just heal one of us, let alone two people." He shook his head, arms uncrossing and putting them to his hips.

"Yeah Jiě jie, Gege's right. You don't have to heal both of us." X01 said, looking at me with those soft doe eyes. If she keeps looking at me like that I won't be able to stop myself from pinching her cheeks. Why does she have to be so cute.

"You know I don't want to stop healing you guys, besides... They do more damage to both of you than they do to me." I look down onto my lap, thinking about the times wherein X02 comes back with open wounds on his arms and scars on his back and us watching how they tortured and killed X01 more times than I can count.

*WARNING*

Suddenly, alarms start blaring out the facility, issuing a warning never have I heard before ever since I got to this place.

"What's happening?" X01 looks afraid, clinging onto my arm tightly. "I don't know" I replied back, this hasn't happened before. Why are there suddenly alarms blaring out a warning? What's going on?

"Both of you stay here" X02 looked at the door with suspicion.

Wait, where was he going? I thought to myself as I saw him walking towards the door slowly. "X02" I called out to him "where are you going?" I stretch my arm out to catch the ends of his shirt holding him back from going towards the door.

"I'm going to check what's going on out there" he replied taking my hand out of his shirt and walking to the door, but then it opened.

All three of us froze, but once we saw who the figure was X01 relaxed slightly. There in the door, was one of the scientists tasked to experiment on all three of us, especially X01.

If I remember correctly, her name was Josephine. She looks disheveled. Like something dangerous was happening and for some reason I could feel a sense of death outside the room.

"We have to get out of here X02 grabbed X03 and lets go" she said stalking towards both X01 and I who stood up a few minutes ago, and grabbed the girl from behind me and pulled her towards the door looking at X02 and then at me.

"W-wait" X01 looked up at her then to X02 and me and said "What's going on? Where are we going?"

"There's no time to waste, come on you three." Josephine said, still tugging X01s hand to get through the door. X02, sensing that something was amiss, grabbed my hand and followed the two of them outside. Once through the door, all I could see was a sea of red light, the siren blaring out warnings so loud that caused my ears to hurt.

All three of us continue to follow Josephine through the corridor and after a few twists and turns we finally see a door just up a head.

But unfortunately, things don't always go according to plan.

A sudden explosion from behind us led to us being separated, my hands slipped from X02s grip and I was thrown back to a wall while I heard both X01 and X02 screaming for me.

I can tell my head was bleeding from the impact that explosion caused, and my ears were still ringing from it.

But a sudden warmth spread through me, I could feel hands start to carry me from where I laid and brought me through the door. With my eyes still blurry from the impact and explosion, I could see a blueish - silvery mask of the stranger who saved me.

Seemingly sensing someone staring up at him, he looked down at the girl in his arms and brought a hand out to her eyes "sleep, you're safe now."

With that reassurance, I was out like a light.

When I came to, I saw two familiar faces up close, one more closer than the other. Which surprisingly, isn't X01. "Wha-"

"Jiě jie!"

"X03!"

They both exclaimed at the same time. "Jeez, tone it done a little would ya? My head's killing me" I said as I clutched my throbbing head. "Of course your head would hurt dumbass, you have a wound on it. If it weren't for me you would've died from the amount of blood you've lost!" X02 exclaimed while helping me up from my position. From this angle I could see both of them more clearly than before.

X01s eyes were red, which I guess comes from all the crying, while X02 is glaring at my head as if it offended me to a serious degree. "Wait... Where's that woman?" I questioned, now realizing that it was just the three of us here in this run down building.

"She went to find supplies for all of us" X01 replied, sensing my confusion.

A few days have passed with Josephine having come back from finding those supplies, we ventured away from the building we've stayed in for the past 3 days. At least that's what they told me seeing as how I was unconscious for 2 of those days.

Then, we found a shelter with other victims of the catastrophe that happened a few days ago, Josephine decided to let us stay here for a few days, that is until she finds us a permanent place to live in.

The days felt like a routine, waking up, eating, cleaning ourselves, contemplating what to do next, and then sleeping again. It just keeps repeating for almost a week, until Josephine finally found a place for us at Whitesand Bay.

(A/N: Yes I know that's where Rafayel lives in but, bear with me for a second, I don't actually know where Mc and Caleb lived in before the main story started, and it's been a long time since I've read the earlier chapters of the game so excuse me guys if any information stated in this chapter feels so fanon coded, when really I've just been relying on the information I still have stuck in my head. Could I have just read the story again? Yes. But it's time consuming and I don't have a lot of time for it with my Research and school projects coming along as well. So I'm very sorry if there's any misinformation in here, but I would be so grateful to people who decide to comment on things that I've gotten wrong and to correct me for them. Now let's go back to the story.)

It was a two story house with 5 bedrooms in it, 3 upstairs and 2 downstairs. Josephine told us to take the upstairs bedroom while she stays on the first floor. After we settled ourselves in, she told us to come to the living so we could talk about what to do from now on.

"Since we're now living together, why don't the three of you decide on a name?" The three of us looked at each other with weariness in our eyes, X01 being less weary than us but still weary nonetheless. I didn't trust to say the least, she might've saved us from whatever it is that happened back there, but that doesn't erase the fact that she was one of the people who partook in the experiments those scientist did to us.

"M-mira" both X02 and I look at X01, well I guess Mira now, in surprised. Then we looked at each other and sighed in resignation. "Caleb..." X02, now Caleb said after a few minutes of silence. Then I quickly followed with "Asphodel"

Josephine smiled, as if quite pleased with the names both Caleb and I chose. "Alright then, hello Mira, Caleb, and Asphodel. I'll be taking care of the three of you from now on. You three can call me grandma." She smiled, portraying a sense of comfort I didn't know if I could trust, but for now I'm letting my guard down.

We aren't in that place anymore, it's time for a new beginning. One filled with happiness, laughter and maybe perhaps love.

???? P.O.V

Your journey is just beginning Asphodel Chen. Just wait and see.

We'll be waiting for you up here, see you soon Pretty Girl.

Word count: 2.8k

A/n : so here's chapter 1, finally posted after a half month hiatus from me. Sorry about that Guys, it's just been so busy with school and at home lately that I haven't gotten the time to finish chapter 1 a few weeks ago. But here it is! The finished product, if there are any spelling or grammar mistakes in here, please forgive me. I'm running on a cup of coffee with about 4 hours of sleep last night so I might've been out of it when I made this chapter. But nonetheless it's finished and finally posted! Thank you guys for being so patient and I hope you enjoy this chapter, as much as I enjoyed writing it. See you all on the next one!

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Prologue - What Happened?

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sʏᴘɴᴏsɪs:

𝐀𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧.

𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞/𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫?

𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 : 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗦𝗙𝗪, 𝗗𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿, 𝗲𝘁𝗰.

𝘈/𝘯 - 𝘐 𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴! 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵

Before we start the story, let me introduce myself first.

Hi! The name's Asphodel Chen, yes if you're wondering I was named after the Fields of Asphodel, you can thank my dear old dad for that.

I was 18 years old....wait 'was'?

Let me explain, so yeah I'm dead:D

You might be asking "Hold up Asphodel, what do you mean 'Dead'?" I mean that I'm dead, like gone, in the underworld dead.... or am I?

Yeah that's what's confusing me too, being a demigod you would think that once you died you'd be in Elysium by now, but nooooo fate decided that my journey is far from done after the two wars I was a part of.

What? back up a sec wars? Yes wars, the 1st one happened when I was 17, also known as The Battle of Manhattan or in which my boyfriend Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon btw) happens to be in the center of a certain great prophecy.

I won't bore you with the details, just know that we defeated kronos and saved the world yada yada yada, now you might be wondering "what about the other war?" Yes yes I'm getting to that part.

You see, dear old mother earth decided to wake up from her sleep and is that bad? Yes terribly so. So fate decided once again to give us demigods one more great prophecy to deal with a few hours after the 1st war happened, something about 8 demigods traveling to defeat said earth and save the world again, you know the usual.

Now here I was battling with a bunch of Giants after both Greek and Roman camps came together to defeat the foe, but somehow fate decided to mess with me.. AGAIN LIKE WTF DUDE SERIOUSLY?!?!?!

Anyways, yep here I am actively bleeding to death while Percy holds me tight...

"Ash...?" He said as he holds me tighter in his arms

"Hey seaweed brain..." I smiled at him, I can feel my life force slipping away, being the daughter of [REDACTED] does have its advantage when you're actively dying.

"Don't talk pretty girl, j-just hold on tight please.... I can't lose you" Oh percy.... As much as I would love to, I can't baby, I'm sorry...

"Percy... It's ok, it's going t-to be ok you hear me?" I gazed up at him eyes full of love and assurance, I knew I wouldn't make it out of this alive, I mean who would when your body has a large hole in the middle of it and some organs are missing.

"Live your life to the fullest for me would you? I love you seaweed bra..in....." I breathe in a final breath as I said my final words to him, the last face I ever saw as I closed my eyes for good this time.

I died yes, but what the hell am I doing here in this void type place? I was supposed to be in the underworld by now, just like all my fellow demigods who have died before me, Castor, Lee, Silena, and Luke.

But no, right now I'm face to face with the Fates...

"Asphodel Chen

Daughter of [REDACTED]

Hero of Olympus

And Lady of the Fields of Asphodel"

"Uhhh hi? What am I doing here? If you don't mind me asking" I quickly backtrack my sentence into something more polite, because you don't and I mean don't want to get on the Fates bad side. Because like hello??? They're the Fates themselves, they see your past, present, and future. They themselves can decide whether or not to cut your cord right now if they want to if you show even an ounce of disrespect to them.

"Your journey is far from over young hero" Clotho said. "Wait what? But I'm dead aren't I?" I replied back.

"Indeed you are young hero, but not all journeys ends once the hero is dead, is that not right?" Lachesis replied to my question, "I mean I guess so? What's going to happen now?" I asked.

"You will be reincarnated, to a time where greek mythology is nothing more than just names written in a history book" Atropos, the last of the fates said.

"You young hero will save this world again, but you will not be alone, you will have companions to be with you as you journey through this new life of yours" Lachesis said once more. "But be warned, for your knowledge of this world can either be it's downfall or it's greatess ascension to what other can only perceived as impossible to attain." Clotho said.

"Hold on what? Knowledge? How can I know what's going to happen if it's from the future???" I asked bewildered by the new information the Fates just gave me. "And what about my friends here? What about Percy?" I asked again more panicked this time.

"That young hero can only be answered in due time, now off you go" Atropos waved her hand, and suddenly I felt the void shake and feel myself get dizzy before everything faded to black once more.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭: 850 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬

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