"Soldier #9, reporting for duty."
I touch my forehead with my right hand and straighten my back. The commander glares at me, waiting for me to make a wrong move.

After ten seconds, he stops glaring and nods at me with an approving smile. After that he walks further to the left.

"Soldier #10, reporting for duty." I hear to my left. I hold the same pose until our commander stands in front of us and says: "Stand at ease."

I lower my right arm, put my hands behind my back and interlock my thumbs.

I look at the commander. I don't have to look at the others to see that they did exactly the same.

Not that I'm surprised. I've been in our small army for one and a half year now and it's never been any different.

The commander clears his throat. I snap awake and listen to him.

"We've got a new mission from our Lady. She's instructed me to bring four soldiers with me for a scouting mission."

My face stays emotionless, but my mind is doing flip-flops. I really hope to go on this mission. It's been a while since I went on a mission. Most of the time I trained the monster army or the few demigods.

Sometimes I went on missions to guide lost demigods to our army, but those missions were the only ones. A scouting mission means we will to the enemy's camp and think of the best way to attack them. I've never been to the enemy's camp and I really want to know what it looks like.

I wait impatiently until the commander finally says more.

"I will bring soldier #2, #4, #5 and #9 with me. We will depart at 10 PM and be back 'round 1 AM. The others will be training the army."

"Yes, Commander Omega." We all say at the same time and we part ways.

While I'm walking to my room, I can't stop the small smile that's creeping onto my face. I finally can go see the enemy.

When I woke up half a year ago, I was in a dark, horrible place. The air was like poison to my lungs and the ground like knives to my feet. I didn't know where I was, how I came there, or who I even was.

Then came the monsters.

They were horrible, some were like ghosts, some had six arms and some looked like a mix between a machine, donkey and human. I was cornered , behind me was a cliff, but then came My Lady.

She rose from the depths and landed between me and the monsters. The monsters scurried off, afraid of the woman. She turned to me.

She was tall, like, 40 feet tall. She had a pitch black dress in which sometimes appeared a faint purple or blue, like space. She had dark wings and with every beat of those wings, darkness rolled off of them. She also wore a mantle which looked like it was made out of darkness. I couldn't see much of her face, except for her eyes. They shone like fire.

I almost peed my pants.

"Don't be afraid, my brave soldier." She had said. She voice was soft, but with an evident sharpness.

"Wh… who are y… you? Where am I? What were those-"

She spoke before I was finished. "Don't worry, I'll explain everything. I'm Lady Nyx. Come with me and you will be save."

She shrank until she was only a little bit taller than me and held her hand out.

Hesitantly I took her hand. When I touched her hand we were enfolded by darkness.

When we were at her palace, it was totally dark. She touched my shoulder and I felt something surge from her hand into my body. Suddenly I could see in the dark. We were in a sort of infirmary. She healed my lungs and the cuts on my feet and hands and told me about the gods. About how they stripped off my memory and threw me into Tartarus, the horrible place with the monsters.

She told me there were more people like me, whom she had also rescued. They sided with her to fight against the gods and she asked the same to me.

Of course I said yes.

Through the 18 months I've been here now, I learned much more. I learned I myself was a son of one of the gods and learned to control the powers I inherited from them. I also got some powers from My Lady. I could already see in the dark, but I also got the power to shadow travel and I am stronger in dark places.

That's why we are going to the enemy right now, at night.

I walk to the meeting room. That's the room where we meet up when Commander Omega is going to announce a new mission or if you go on a mission. I walk in the room and see that I'm last to arrive. I stand next to soldier #5 and the commander starts talking.

"Our Lady has decided when we will attack. We will attack the enemy's camp in seven days." He pauses, so the information can sink in. "Tonight will be the last time, until the war, that any of us will go to the surface. We will look for the best place to attack them. We will also look for places where people could possibly take shelter, so we can destroy those places as fast as possible when the time comes. We will also set their armoury on fire, so they will have as little as possible weapons and armour to protect themselves with. Understood?"

"Yes, Commander." we say in unison.

"Good. Now, don't get behind and do not, I repeat, do not get seen or captured. If you get captured, we will leave you behind and not even glance your way. Also: don't give any information to the enemy."

"Yes, Commander."

"Ready for departure." the Commander commands. We grab each other's hands while the Commander puts his hand on soldier #2's shoulder.

I feel the shadows tugging at me and I close my eyes. It feels like we go very fast for a few seconds. When that feeling stops, I open my eyes and look at the enemy's camp.

We've arrived.

-A/N-

*I do not own Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, whatever. This is just a mere fanfiction about Rick Riordan's fantastic story.*

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