A New Olympus
I didn't notice the hand hurling towards me till it was too late. A loud slap was heard as I fell to the ground.
"Percy your senses are getting dull!" Alpha laughed.
I scowled rubbing my cheek, "That wasn't necessary, it was a flashback!"
I was about to retaliate with a nice godly sized punch of my own when the door opened. In came Chaos with a smirk on his face, "I never get tired watching you two but we need to leave and get your fist away from Alpha's face Vapor", Chaos scolded.
It seemed as if Alpha had just noticed my curled up hand next to his nose struggling to obey Chaos orders.
"Holy Sh-", he didn't get to finish as his chair tipped over and Alpha fell from his seat to the cold, hard, ground.
"Owww" Alpha groaned.
We burst in a fit of laughter at his ineptitude. "Get your ass off the ground Alpha, we need to get going" Chaos said still laughing as a portal opened. "And also, take these."
He threw us a pair of hooded cloaks.
"These shall cover your faces when you meet the Olympians." We grinned. For a second I had thought we needed to reveal ourselves.
"Thank you Chaos."
He waved off our thanks. "You are like sons to me. Of course I would like the best for you. Now let's get going." We smiled and followed Chaos through the portal.
What I saw on the otherside was certainly perplexing. It seemed as if the Olympians had somewhat changed their selfish ways. The gods were sitting around in their usual seats except with a difference. Instead of just the Olympians, a smaller council of seats were placed for some of the minor gods.
I raised my eyebrow. I didn't think Zeus would take anyones word of advice. I glanced at Alpha who was smiling obviously pleased that the minor gods had gotten a seat of power in the council.
We walked straight into the middle of a meeting behind a few of the thrones. I wasn't surprise they were talking about someone however what shocked me was the subject of the conversation, Me.
"Now, has anyone seen my dear nephew Percy?" Zeus asked, a tint of saddness evident in his voice.
Everyone elses moods darkened with each negative response from the council until it was Hades turn.
"I think I have a lead to what might have happened to Perseus." The room suddenly brightened with such intensity, to any mortal, it would have been like looking at the sun.
"What leads do you have Brother?" Poseidon asked worriedly, leaning towards the Lord of the dead.
"I don't know why we haven't seen this yet though it seems so obvious." With that, Hades snapped his fingers and a screen appeared in the middle of the room.
"Take a look at this. Since you were all too busy getting enough of that scumbag of a Son of Poseidon at the immortlization ceremony, I was busy tracking where Percy was." The screen flickered to a shot of me with a newspaper in my hand, the front page clear on the paper.
The Gods gasped at the words etched on the paper 'Apartment decimated after fire'.
"Wait, but isn't that..." Hera started.
"Yes, this is Percy's parents apartment and also when my signal started to faze. I couldn't see him for any longer. What you must realize is that something disrupted my scrying signal."
Hades then snapped his fingers again and the picture turned to an image of me Iris Messaging the camp.
"I don't know what he saw through the image but it must have been something bad because..." the image flickered until it showed me with so much anger and betrayal etched in my face. All the gods looked down in shame.
"It was a mistake, a misunderstanding Brother." Zeus whispered.
Hades returned a glare, "It does not matter if was a mistake or misunderstanding, what matters is that Percy seems to now be gone, and who might of caused his dissapearence" Hades said
He snapped his fingers again and the image shimmered into that of a bolt striking down on Percy.
"This is the last image I could take before the disruption was too great. All the gods gasped as they turned their glares at Zeus.
"You killed him?" Artemis hissed, "The only good man in the world?"
Zeus raised his hands in defense before sighing, "I made the mistake, but didn't we all think that? Weren't we all twisted by her?"
The council all nodded in agreement. Who was this "her" they were talking about?
Hades softened his glare, "Yes Brother, we were all twisted however please explain what happened afterward."
Zeus nodded, "You see, I was angry at Perseus for treating our so called savior and his brother so badly, and as it seems pretty stupid of me, I tried to kill him after I saw him through the Iris message. It just enraged me to see him for some reason."
The council nodded and gestured to him to continue.
"I decided I had enough of him and decided he would be better gone than live." Zeus said with a sad facade.
Poseidon was gripping his seat in anger at his brother even though he knew his wrongs. "I tried to strike him down with my master bolt." Poseidon gritted his teeth in dispair.
"But instead of blasting him to oblivion, it seemed as if...as if..." Zeus could barely sluttered out his words.
"What happened Brother!?" Hades yelled.
"It seemed as if he absorbed my master bolt." Zeus said with a shocked look on his face.
It suddenly got so quiet in the throne room you could hear a pin drop. Everyone's eye widened in absolute surprise. "It's as if he got suddenly so powerful he could rival my power."
The council simply were too shocked to respond so Zeus continued.
"He absorbed the power of the bolt and somehow converted it into pure morbid energy and did what I least expected at that time."
The council was knocked out of their shock, "What?", they asked in unison.
Zeus sighed seemingly pondering over how to express what he was about to say. Once he found no other way around his response, he answered. "He redirected the energy from my bolt right back to me. Did you not notice how weak I was that day?" He asked with a glare to anyone who dared laugh at him.
The room was literally completely silent until Hades decided to intervene.
"Did you see what happened afterward?" he asked with a curious face.
Zeus glared at his brother, "Did I see anything?" he said with mocked imitation. "I was knocked out for 2 weeks!"
Hades chuckled at his younger brother, "Ok fair enough because what happened afterward is a mystery. Ten minutes after my scrying signal died, the signal suddenly came back except this time, Perseus was gone."
Hades snapped his fingers and an image conjured itself showing the street where Percy had suddenly disappeared from.
"As you can see, he is gone. I immediately went up to where he had disappeared and I might have found our most compelling evidence yet," he said as he took out a small vial with silver essence emmiting from it.
I knew exactly what it was, it was the essence of a Primordial. They were the earliest beings all being created from Chaos.
I turned to the Creator with a raised eyebrow, "It was nessacary," he whispered in my mind. I nodded and went back to speculating the coversation which I found quite interesting.
"This is the evidence that could lead to where Perseus may be, Athena do the honors." Hades said handing the vial to the goddess of wisdom.
She studied the vial closely until her eyes suddenly went wide. She slowly raised her head and stared at Hades.
"Is this what I think it is?" She said with a shocked tone.
Hades nodded "It is and although most of this is still a mystery, I think a few things are quite certainly explained."
"What is it?" Zeus asked.
Hades was about to respond but Athena beat him to it. "Father, the substance in this vial is the essence of a Primordial being, but who it is is a mystery."
Everyone sat in a stoic position, no one spoke all thinking of what this meant.
The Lord of the Dead took out another vial that contained another sample of silver essence except this one had a greenish tint to it.
"That isn't the only Primoridal essence I found however and I'm afraid it may not be the only" He lifted his hand for everyone to see the vial and it's contents.
"This, was found in the camp forest. A wood nymph was quick enough to gather it before it faded. She then gave it to my son who brang it to me."
Athena looked at it, deep in thought, "But what does it mean?"
And it was then I Chaos decided to interupt her thinking.
"I think I can answer that" Chaos said as he motioned for us to step foward to the middle of the throne room.
The sudden shock of someone appearing in the throne room weared off as everyone took out their weapons and pointed them straight towards us three.
"At ease Olympians" he said as he snapped his fingers. A second later all the gods weapons dropped.
Zeus looked quite angry that we could just interupt their conversation but decided to resolve teh situation in a more diplomatic approach.
"Who are you?" He asked straight away.
Chaos smiled "I am Chaos"
As soon as his name was heard by the immortal being in the room, they all fell on their knees in a bow, even Zeus!
"Lord Chaos, what brings you here?" Zeus asked as respectfully as he could.
"No need to bow to me Zeus, I was never one for formalities but I apprieciate the respect. What I am here for is because to warn you", he said pointing to the vial containing the Greenish-Silver essance. "That is the Primordial essence of Gaea. She is rising again except this time she's not alone."
All the gods looked annoyed. But I mean who could blame them. How would you feel if you killed someone and he or she would just reform a few centuries later but stronger?
"Not another war" Zeus muttered, "But what do you mean she is not alone?"
Chaos turned to Zeus with pity, "Zeus, this time Gaea has help from not only the Titans and Giants but also some of her Brothers and Sisters."
Zeus looked confused but Athena decided to ask, "Lord Chaos, do you mean Erebus, Nyx, Hemera, Pontus and the others?"
"Precisely Athena, they have gathered to form an alliance. They will try to obliterate Olympus and with all of them together, you simply have no chance." Chaos said.
"Lord Chaos, you said you were going to help us?" Aphrodite asked.
Chaos nodded, "Although most of my daughters and sons have joined Gaea's side, a few of my favorite sons and daughters are against Gaea's plan. You will have support from my daughter Nyx and Aether as well as Hemera. Though, Nyx is on our side, you must keep in mind her husband is on the other. I eternally respect her for opposing his husband just to do what's right, however I do not know if she will keep to her commitment, she may just end up being neutral in the end."
"Even though this is a great allied force, I just don't think it will be enough", Athena said worriedly.
"Yes Athena, you are right, it is not enough. This is why I have one more ace to pull", he lead his hand towards us.
"These are my commanders, the commanders of the Army of Chaos"
Sorry Guys! I read through my other chapters and really felt that they just didn't fit. I am now doing rewrites on every chapter and have deleted them. I think you will like this version better.