Chapter 1

Chapter 1

It was a freezing night on the streets of New York; the city was full of lights and of decorations, dozens of families spending hundreds of dollars on presents for the family. It was a perfect sight, however that was only the bright side of the city, in the dark underground community everything was darker than ever, the drug dealers gave the drugs to kids who just wanted to be high, many men bought the body of women, some of them under age for a couple of bucks, and thieves were a common site.

On an old apartment full of rats and with the walls looking like they could fall any moment stud a man on a expensive looking suit. The man would be on his late 30, he had a tall muscular body, pale skin with a hair as black as night, but the best thing of his handsome features were his eyes, pitch black, with little emotion and full of power capable of destroying whole cities. Behind him there was a young woman of about 18 years old lying on an small bed while she covered her body, her hair wasn't as black as her client and her eyes were of a dark green that showed an intellect by far higher than normal people.

"Your money is on the small table, and as we discussed you will not tell anyone of or relation ship for this past few months." The young man said coldly while he finished tying his tie.

"Ok, however as we dialed we can no longer see each other again, I'm already tired of your world, I just want all this to finish." She said on a happy voice while counting the money and making sure the powerful being in front of her hadn't tricked her.

"Well it was a nice relationship." He said while glowing and flashing on a bright light disappearing to continue his job.

"Hope to not see you soon." Muttered the girl not wanting to see the god any sooner. After that she went to her wardrobe putted some underwear and clothes, opened a small space on the wall and took a small bag, opening the bag she putted most of the money she gained with the death god and she saved the rest on her small purse.

Unknowingly the death God had let a final gift to her unknown to both of them, it was a gift that would arrive on 9 months.

-9 months and 12 days later-

The young girl was on the Hospital giving birth to her first baby, the young woman called Sarah White had just gave birth to her first son, Perseus White who had a very dark green eyes and was smaller than usual babies, but other than that he was healthy.

Sarah had just came back to her new apartment she bought with the money she had been saving from years, however she had continued to do her job as prostitute because now with the baby she would have more expenses, she would have to work by home too, she just hoped the baby didn't give her many problems with any client.

-6 years later-

Perseus White was what people would call a genius, he was smarter than kids his age, he had noticed that he was different from mortal's kids and he noticed how he could see an aura around people, and if that aura was bright then he would live long but if it was losing its color he would die shortly. However unlike kids his age he didn't care about his mom or who his father is, he thought of taking life as nothing, and he had started noticing how he had what people would say as 'super-powers'.

Perseus was walking through a small alley to get to his moms home, however he knew he couldn't go right now, his mom was working and she always told her to stay out until the sun went down, while that would scare a normal 6 year old kid Perseus thought it was great, if there were 3 things he liked it was: Mystery, Adventure and doing Experiments. He had always been with his mother while she worked as prostitute and he had seen many people with they're outer soul aura being darker than night. And he liked to talk to them.

After a couple of hours the client with his mom went out, he was one of the top 3 in a thieves band on New York and he came many days to enjoy Perseus moms talents.

"Hey kiddo, you can go up now." Said Jeff while smoking a big cigar that left a big cloud of smoke. Jeff's aura wasn't totally black but to Perseus, each time he saw one black or close to be one, he felt as if a little of his energy came to him.

"Bye Jeff." Said Perseus in his a big smile showing some if his teeth because most had fallen of, when Perseus was sure Jeff wasn't looking he went back to his empty eyes and serious face, he never liked to show emotions and most of the times felt none, but after many years he had learned that if you faked them all, people would trust you easily. And you never know when a person can be a useful tool right?

"Hi mom! I'm here." Perseus yelled while opening the front door, when he opened the door he was hit by the smell of cigars, beer and sex. He had grown use to it. When he entered he noticed how there were more beers than usually and how many plates were left outside with out being cleaned. So with a expressionless face he went to the kitchen he took all the plates and started cleaning, however he noticed how a rat was eating the left out of a sandwich, so he went to pick it up and he didn't notice the small black glow that there was on his hand.

When Perseus hand touched he rat, it passed right thought her, however there was a grey shadow in his hand with the form of a rat.

Surprised Perseus opened the palm and the shadow left, however before it went far it dissolved in to many shadows and it disappeared but most of those shadows went to Perseus, when Perseus saw the rat he noticed how it wasn't breathing and how the eyes were completely black, so he approached to take the body, however a feeling in the gut made him to say.

"Up!" And the body of the rat went up. Trying to see that he wasn't crazy, he said. "Move Around!" And immediately the rat started to move around the room, however 2 minutes later, she stopped moving and her eyes went back to normal and the rat fell down, the black shadows leaved Perseus body and he felt on one knee exhausted, but that didn't take the excitement on him, so he went to continue cleaning the dishes while thinking of ways of using this power he found.

When the dishes were clean and he had made some order on the kitchen she went to his mother's bedroom, knowing that she would stay there after taking a shower when she finished working.

"Mom I already made the kitchen, and tomorrow I don't have school." Perseus said while handing the note to his mother. Sarah grace had changed drastically this last 6 years, her hair had started falling and her once beautiful white teeth were now yellow due smoking, her eyes showed indifference at the child in front of her, this past few years she had been taking drugs due to depression, and almost all of the money she made was going to alcohol and drugs. Ignoring how her aura was slowly becoming darker and darker until it had become almost black.

"Ok good boy, but tomorrow mom have to work, so you will have to be in the morning outside." Sarah said while she lighted the cigarette.

"No problem, I wanted to do something anyways." Perseus said while closing the door. Just when he was going to go to his small room, he remembered something and told his mom. "Mom, in 2 months is my birthday, you promised to tell me who dad was, remember?" Perseus said when he remembered that promise when he realized his father must have been the reason of why he could sense the people soul.

"I haven't forgotten, but once I tell I don't want anymore questions about the matter." His mom said, Perseus thanked her and went to his room to think about what had happened with the rat.

He had many experiments he wanted to do with his new powers.

-2 months later-

Today was Perseus big day, he had been running experiments every day since the day he found out about his new powers, it had taken him a while before he new how to take souls again of any living being, he had done it to many homeless animals he found on the streets and had learned how to completely separate the souls from the body, how to attach the souls to things and in that way he could keep it for as long as he wanted and how to make the souls get in to other living beings. But he knew that was just the tip of the iceberg of his powers, today he was going to know who his father was, and to start the new phase of his experiments, however he needed information before starting.

Perseus had just arrived home, like always he went to do the dishes and tidy up the kitchen. When he finished he went to his mother room and ask her about his dad. Perseus birthdays were always like this, he did the kitchen went to his mom, she gave him enough money to buy a small piece of cake and he bought one, however this year it was different, there was an important piece of information he was going to receive from his mother. Who was his father?

"Mom the kitchen is done now is your turn to full fill your promise." Perseus said impatiently while sitting on the small bed besides his mom.

"Well, you would need to know one day, your father is Thanatos, the Greek god of death." She said as fast as she could and trying to see any kind of reaction from her only child and see him denied it. What she didn't know was that Perseus wasn't surprised at all. However to him this changed his plans greatly, if Thanatos was a god and his father, then there must had been more people like him, Half-blood. And he was already thinking of ways to experiment with them.

The rest of the day was normal, much to the surprise of Perseus mom, he eaten his small piece of cake and went to sleep after reading a small book about mythology that his mother had. When it was over 3:00 in the night, Perseus went to his mom room quietly, and after waiting a couple of minutes inside to get use to the darkness and to make sure she was sleep, he started his plan.

Taking a small black notebook that he always had with him he touched the first 4 phrases on a language he had created over the months, when his finger tips touched the notebook, shadows in the form of different street animals poured out and getting closer to Perseus mother, the animals transformed on black smoke around her and restrained her arms and legs also making sure she could not make any kind of sound.

When he was sure she would not be able to move he turned on the small light, when his eyes adjusted he saw the semi naked form of his mother however this didn't bother Perseus, some time she was so drunk she went around the house with out clothes. He could keep her restrained for over 10 minutes so he had to get started with the experiment.

Sarah had woken up in the moment her son turned on the lights, at the beginning she didn't know what was happening, however after the 1 minute she noticed the black smoke restraining her and her son with a marker painting symbols around her body, she tried to yell, however there was also black smoke on her mouth preventing her from screaming. After 5 minutes Perseus had stopped painting on his mother body and had taken the black notebook out again.

"Thanks mom. If it wasn't for you it would be very difficult for me to find a good test subject, and not only that, you provided me with information about my father, and for that I am truly grateful. However you aren't very useful right now. But don't worry I will find more uses for your body." He said to his mother.

"I'm sure that my experiments with you will be very productive, so please don't resist." He said while his eyes turned black and his pupils turned white, after that he started chanting the words he had created to make his powers work easily, after 2 minutes the soul of his mother came out of her body in the form of shadows and quickly entered the book except a small portion that stayed on her body and another one that went to Perseus, after that the shadows restraining her went back to the book.

"Stand up!" Perseus said wanting to see if the experiment had worked, the body the first seconds didn't move then it went up. Perseus knew it had been a success, the experiment was supposed to take off her soul from the body while most of the soul went to the book, but 1/10 stayed inside while another 1/10 went to Perseus body connecting it with her body and wasting almost nothing of his divine energy, as he had decide to call his power, and being able to order her around and fulfill all his order.

"From now on you must call me lord, I want you to keep working as prostitute and to get as much money as you can, you will give me at the end of the day the 80% of the benefit, and I want you to buy with the rest food." He ordered her after that to stand by all night and to clean up the house while gathering all the money she had been saving.

Perseus woke up the next morning while seeing his mother body sitting on the chair looking at him.

"I want you to keep doing your job as always, if someone ask questions, then lie and tell me later." He said while taking his small backpack and some money he needed to buy books.

Perseus smiled while closing his door and going to the school. Experiments and test subjects were going all over his head, however it wasn't the right time, his divine power reserve was too small to control many people at once, and he had asked his mothers body or n1 as he was going to call her, stories about the mythical world, and the idea of monsters and demigods was interesting. But he needed to get stronger physically before he got into that world.