Half Bloods: A Short Story

We all want what we don't have. Everyone would like to be living someone's else's life at some point of their lives. I wonder if that was what it was like for the half-bloods we always hear about. You know, the half-bloods like Percy and Annabeth, all those ones that we always hear stories about. You spend your time dazing off thinking did they spend their entire lives wishing they could be like regular kids, with no intensity and adventure in their lives? But here's the main question and problem: They made a better future for the half bloods in the generations to come by working really hard. But what are we here for? What's my purpose in life? It is like having a Saturday morning where you have no plans for the rest of the day. You wake up, …show more content…
I know that Percy was real, and I know that I am supposed to look at him as a hero. That's why Chiron states but he will never understand. He personally knew Percy. He was at the field during the second titan war. But I wasn't. To me, Percy and all the other demigods were just a cliche myth like Theseus and Perseus. Half blood that saves the world, or saves someone, and improves the future generation to come. I would never say this out loud but taking out problems on the future generations simply takes out the fun in living. All my life, I have wanted to do things that only half bloods did. Going on quests, expeditions and adventure-all in the hope for a better future. I know it may sound selfish, but there's a wish I would take back immediately if it came true. I would rather have years, feeling abandoned and unwanted, wondering who my immortal parent was. And living in fear, knowing a certain god wanted to slay me the moment he got his hands on me. It's just these kind of happenings that give life the little color. I met someone named Katie, she was the daughter of Demeter. She was once one of the half bloods that fought in the second titan