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Chapter 3:

Shadow POV:

"Alpha, Shadow may I talk to you in private?" Thalia said just as we were about to leave. I glanced at Percy and saw him nod, so we waited for the throne room to empty, Thalia was just about to speak but Percy shook his head telling her to stay quiet for just a little longer. He jerked his head toward the door and I nodded. I focused on the shadows and I felt a familiar shiver run down my spine as the shadows expanded and covered the walls and ceiling of the throne room of the gods. This way not even Hades would be able to eavesdrop. When I was done I nodded at Percy.

"What is it you needed to talk to us about?" Percy said his voice calm but not cold.

"Cut the crap, Percy! I know it's you and Nico!" Thalia said glaring at him. My eyes widened slightly in surprise. How the hell did she figure it out so soon? We both knew she was going to figure it out eventually, but not this soon! We were planning on telling her tomorrow after she had some time to process the fact that the titans were back.

"H-how did you know?" I stammered. I didn't get a response though, because she reached out and grabbed us both and hugged us so hard that we almost couldn't breathe. When she let go of us she punched Percy… or rather, she tried to. Percy saw it coming and grabbed her fist in mid-air.

"We missed you too, Thals." He said grinning.

"You'd better have! Why the hell didn't you contact me any sooner? It's been three thousand years! And take off those damn hoods! I want to see you." She exclaimed. Percy nodded and so we took off our hoods. Thalia gasped and her eyes went wide.

Thalia POV:

My eyes went wide as they took off their hoods and I couldn't help but gasp. Nico's black hair was still long but it didn't look limp or boring, it looked healthy and was short at the sides but long at the back and front, with his bangs hanging just above his eyes. His black eyes were twinkling and his lips were pulled up in a smirk. Arrogant ass, I thought. Percy was smiling warmly at me, his piercing looked good on him and it made him look more… rugged. His unique green eyes where glowing slightly, I mean actually glowing. His black hair was as messy as always but even though they looked pretty much the same, they still seemed, I can't believe I'm thinking this, hotter. They looked like… Gods. I'm pretty sure these guys were on the same level of beauty as Aphrodite. They also looked a bit older maybe twenty three or twenty four, but looks could be deceiving.

"Oh Chaos! Nico we finally managed to find a way to render Thalia speechless." Percy said grinning so widely his cheeks had to hurt. I narrowed my eyes at him but before I could respond Nico jumped in.

"Not even Thalia is able to resist our hotness!"

"Why you little-" A loud bang interrupted me.

Percy POV:

The bang sounded again, this time louder. I pulled up my hood and Nico did the same. It was probably just the gods wanting their throne room back. Nico made the shadows fade and suddenly the door burst open causing Zeus and Poseidon, who were probably trying to open it, to fall to the ground. I couldn't hold back the small chuckle that escaped my lips. It wasn't very loud but Zeus heard it and he looked up and glared at me.

"Why you little-" I chuckled again as he repeated the words his daughter had spoken minutes ago. This just made him more angry. He grabbed his master bolt and just before Zeus hurled it at me, Chaos' voice rang through the throne room,

"Don't throw the bolt!" Zeus ignored him and threw it anyway. I grinned, I get to pay Zeus back, and I wouldn't get in trouble because he had started it. Why do I want to pay him back you ask?

Well three thousand years ago, the pompous, self-righteous, power-hungry king of the gods, decided I had become too powerful and he had somehow managed to convince most of the gods that I was too great a risk and that if I betrayed them I would be too powerful an enemy. Of course not all the gods agreed with Zeus, Hermes, Hestia, Apollo, Artemis and Hades disagreed and protested strongly when Zeus suggested that Poseidon should reveal the son Poseidon had had, the son that he had been raising with him, in Atlantis. Zeus knew that eventually my so-called friends would abandon me for the new son of Poseidon. The gods took a vote and since the king of the gods had managed to convince Poseidon and since Hades and Hestia were not 'proper' Olympians, so they could not vote, Zeus got his way and Ian was introduced to camp Half-Blood. Eventually I was forgotten just as Zeus predicted.

Now I wanted to pay him back by showing him that if he hadn't done what he had done I would not be the second most powerful being in all of creation and I wouldn't have figured out who the love of my life really is.

As the master bolt got closer and closer my grin got wider and wider. When the bolt was about a foot away from me I lifted my arm and grabbed the bolt. Everyone's jaws dropped to the floor, I threw it from one hand to the other, playing with my new toy. After a little while Zeus' shock transformed into fury, thunder was rumbling outside, poor New York, I thought absent mindedly. Zeus was trying to call his bolt back, probably so that he could throw it back at me again, but it wasn't working. My grin widened and I could see the gods shiver, Nico shivered too but that was for a completely different reason. I was using my powers to disable Zeus'.

I was going to throw it back at him, and with it a small blast of my own energy, not enough to make him fade, but just enough to make him think twice about attacking me again. I was just about to throw it when I heard a sigh. It was Chaos, he was speaking in my mind and Nico's.

I'm sorry, son but you must stop. I knew he wanted to let me have my payback but it would bring too much, pardon the pun, chaos.

The gods would be fighting for the position of king and they would not be able to defeat Kronos. He spoke in my mind. Damn it! I reined in my anger and sighed. I released my hold on his powers and the bolt returned to Zeus' hand. Nico stepped forward and placed a hand on my shoulder, his touch calmed me instantly and any remaining anger I had left melted away. I suddenly felt a presence next to me, when I looked I saw nothing so I closed my eyes and focused on the person's soul. I focused on it's shape and it looked female, and it had it's arm outstretched, reaching for my hood.

My eyes snapped open as I realized who it was and what that person was trying to do. I grabbed the arm that was reaching towards my hood and twisted it behind the invisible persons back. Nico had also noticed the presence and he reached forward and jerked the cap off of the person who had been trying to remove my hood and making them visible to the entire throne room.

"Annabeth?"