Vapors POV: 650 years after leaving
I stood in the arena slashing at dummies, performing my regular routine of various exercises; the bots continuously fell one after another.
I felt a presence nearby and whipped my sword at the opposing person.
My blade was met by an equally powered counter as out swords flared with sparks.
I sheathed my sword and faced Alpha with a smirk on his face.
"Heh, it looks like I've finally found the right technique to block that malicious strike of yours ehh?" he said with a proud look on his face.
I sighed "What do you want Alpha?" I asked though I couldn't hide the smile forming apon my lips. Alpha was my best friend. We fight spar and do our missions together. He's like a brother to me. It seemed he was the first person who could disrupt my concentration from training without receiving a one way trip to the infirmary.
Alpha looked down at his watch, his eyebrow twitched for a second. "It looks like we're due at Lord Chaos office about right…now."
I nodded, "Then what are we waiting for?"
It took us just around 2 seconds to get to the throne even though my estimates are that the arena and the throne room are roughly 3 miles apart. That isn't a problem though since travelling was made easy with teleportation. For us, all we had to do was conjure the place we wanted to travel to in our minds, our powers would do the rest for us. Quietly, we opened the door the Chaos throne room.
It was apparent he was waiting for us and that when we were called this urgently, there was no doubt there was a serious matter to discuss.
"Sit Vapor and Alpha, there is much of concern." he said
Lord Chaos was like… a father to me. The nicest most generous man in existence, though that to be expected from the creator. He took me in after my leaving of Camp which I'll get to you later.
"So my Lord, what do you need?" I asked.
Lord Chaos unsurprisingly heaved a sigh.
"What did I tell you Vapor, I would not like to be referred to as 'Lord'." He replied in an annoyed tone.
"Yes m'lord."
He seemed to mentally facepalm at my response, I saw nothing wrong with it (Sarcasm). Alpha seemed to be holding back a laugh as well.
"They don't get sarcasm" I muttered under my breath so no one could hear.
"To more important matters", Chaos sighed.
"It seems we have trouble brewing on planet Earth again." I instantly tensed up. Earth…that dreaded planet.
It was of course the place where I had felt the worst mental and physical pain ever. It was the place where I had done so much good. Yet, just to be thrown out like a plastic spoon after use. I was just a pawn of the gods, merely a tool.
I turned to Alpha who seemed just as tensed as me after the mentioning of the subject. It wasn't it I was worried about, but what I thought I would hear next.
Chaos seemed sad, as if feeling his own sons pain, feeling our aches and feeling our anger.
"It seems my daughter Gaea is back again and with Kronos and the Titans" he said with a drearily annoyed tone.
"Back again?" I asked, anger evident in my voice.
"Yes, and I would like you two and some of the Chaos army to help." I gritted my teeth.
It was obvious this was going to happen sooner or later and Lord Chaos would want us to help. Alpha and I understood that the Olympians, although very egogistic, were by far better rulers than Titans and Gaea, but that didn't mean I would forgive them nor would I forgive those campers, especially two in particular.
"Alright my lord, when will we be leaving?"
It was clear Chaos was relieved with my calm response. He obviously didn't want another earthquake in his throne room again.
"We in a few minutes, I just need to get ready." He replied walking off.
"So…" I turned to Alpha, "going back to Earth again…"
He didn't look too happy either, "Won't be looking forward to it" he muttered.
"Yep…it's certainly gonna bring back memories."
Ok so let me explain all of this stuff to you. I am Percy Jackson. I left Earth after some real shit happened.
(flashback)I ran up the hill. I was so excited. After 2 months on a stupid quest I was finally going to see Annabeth, my love. I couldn't find her anywhere so I turned to the beach. As I got closer I heard moaning and laughing. I got a glimpse of a blond hair girl with Nick my idiot Brother having a full make out session.
My Brother killed 1 Hydra and all of a sudden he's the hero at camp I was no longer the savior of Olympus.
I suddenly noticed the blonde hair girl looked very familiar…it was "ANNABETH". She turned around as I shouted her name.
"Percy…I…." I was so angry… "Save it Annabeth"
I turned around and started to go back to my cabin, tears in my eyes, when my ego brother spoke up "Don't talk to her that way you freak".
I lost control as I spun around, Riptide in my hand as we started violent sparring match.
I spun, slicing riptide through the air as I slashed his shoulder.
His moves were abysmal, no doubt about that. He was all talk. I played with him some more and decided I was…bored.
Sparring with someone who posed such low skill was…boring and so I knocked him out. Before he fell to the ground however, I caught a glimpse of his eyes…it seemed they had suddenly changed color.
I hadn't even noticed but suddenly realize that his eyes were just a violent shade of brown and not green. "Perhaps it's just an illusion"
I ran towards my cabin, tears in my eyes as I started to pack my belongings. There was no way I was staying anymore. No one cared about me anymore, not my father and my friends were barely even paying attention to me.
The pain…the pain of your friends, family and your girlfriend betraying you…it was if I were cursed with such bad luck. I was empty, left with nothing but my anger, my frustration, my hatred. I was a shell my past, the trash of a divine settlement.
I snuck out of camp that night still heart-broken. I walked down the street to my Moms home when all of a sudden something caught my eye. I picked but the ripped newspaper. My hands trembled violently as I read. Suddenly my hands went stiff, my legs frozen to the ground.
"No…NO!" I screamed realizing my parents had died of a fire.
I broke down in tears right away and decided to just sit until I died. There was nothing I could hope for, nothing left to live for. There was however one man or rather Centaur that had been there for me all my life and I'd decided, he'd better know what happened.
I took a golden drachma out and manipulated the water on the ground to make mist. I threw the Drachma in and recited the phrase
"O Iris, goddess of the rainbow please accept my offering. Show me Chiron".
The rainbow expanded until it showed me the image of the old centaur. But before I could speak I noticed the gods were in the room along with my idiot brother and a bunch of other campers.
"…We have decided to make all the campers of this war immortal." I heard a thundering voice rumble.
There was odd silence as the campers had their eyes wide. Bewilderment and happiness were funny when put together. Clarisse almost toppled out of her chair and Annabeth almost choked on her drink.
"I take that as a yes" Zeus said with a smirk on his face.
"Also" Poseidon started, "I would like to announce Nick (Percy's idiot brother) as my best son completing quest after quest with efficiency!"
Cheers erupted up in the crowd. I gasped and suddenly every head turned towards me.
Surprise suddenly turned to anger as Zeus thundered "You little pest, you dare hurt the best hero in this millennium?"
Most of the other gods and goddesses seemed extremely angry at me including my own father. "Yes! How could you?" they paraphrased the lightning gods response.
A few gods and goddesses seemed genuinely sad for me however. Artemis looked at me with a sad sigh and even a tear in her eye. Apollo gave a similar sad glance and surprisingly, Hades had a sad frown mounted on his lips.
Well it's nice to know some people care. "DON'T YOU DARE SLASH THROUGH THAT CONNECTION JACKSON OR-"
I slashed through the connection as tears streamed through my eyes.
"How could my dad do this to me, how could anyone be so cruel", I thought. I felt betrayed, I felt so…angry.
A evil smirk suddenly formed on my lips as storm clouds hovered over me lightning flashing. Everyone betrayed me, my friends, my father and even Annabeth. Everyone except for Grover, Thalia, and Nico threw me away.
Now that I thought of it, they didn't even bother to mention I was missing. That was the final straw. "COME AT ME ZEUS! GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT!" I hollered.
I felt suddenly so powerful as strength surged through me. Turns out when Anger, Hatred, being completely forgotten by family, your madness is focused around your mind. At that time only your anger is controlling you, your mind is completely blocked out and you won't tire.
Zeus had no idea that there was no way he could defeat me at that moment with the sudden amount of power I possessed.
The amount of pain and frustration I went through to help his sorry ass, and he tried to kill me at the end. All the hard work I have done, he still throws me away.
Are gods really this dumb? It didn't matter. All that built up anger, Hatred, bloodlust had turned me into almost a god in terms of power. A Lightning strike screeched down upon me.
I smirked as I lifted my hand and simply extracted the lightning power. In fact in my state right now, Zeus should be trying to calm me down. Throwing lightning simply makes me angrier.
"THAT ALL YOU GOT SPARKY?" That seemed to have gotten him rather angry as I continually absorbed shot after shot of blazing electricity.
It didn't matter the voltage, my entire system was now run my hatred of this world not my brain. I let out a maniac laugh as I formed an sphere of energy from the stored up lightning and threw it up into the sky at Zeus, "TO TARARUS WITH YOU" I screamed.
A massive explosion was heard as the sky lit up so bright, the sun wouldn't dare compare. He was gone, Zeus certainly wasn't dead but it would take him decades to fully recover.
My vision suddenly blurred as I tumbled to the ground.
That was when Chaos came, offering me place in the ranks of the Army and with my life as bad this, what could I say?
So I followed…
(end flashback)