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Chapter 3:

In America, just outside NYC

The dust cleared and there were ten huge craters. One by one people stepped out. They were all impressive, some were male some were female. The males were all around 6ft2; you could see the muscle under the terrifying black armor. The females were lean and had the bodies of gymnasts; you could tell that the black armor permitted them to move around as if they hadn't been wearing any. Then the tenth person climbed out of the hole. He was the scariest, he was a least 6ft4, and had muscle, although you could tell that he didn't have too much. His armor was a light black almost grey. He had a helm on that had green glass over where his eyes should be. He wore a cloak, a pitch-black one, over his armor; making him look deadly.

The group started running at incredible speed towards the city. When they got to the outskirts they climbed up the side of a building. They leaped from roof to roof silently and with grace. As they got into New York, they could see that Titans did not care for mortals. You could see some people hiding in the shadows of broken down buildings. The closer you got to the center of town the better the housing got. The richer mortals had joined Kronos. They learned that the children of the gods who had joined Kronos during the war lived on what use to be Olympus. The group in black got to central park and what they saw made them tremble in rage. There were human beings tied up in chains all around the park. They had wanted to get to the underworld and then Tartarus to save the gods. Not wanting to cross the country they were going to go to the doors of Orpheus. But that seemed out of the question now. Not that it bothered them to fight ten thousand monsters but they wanted to be able to free the gods before they were discovered.

They all turned around to go. That's when they noticed that the one in grey armor and the black cloak had stayed behind. Shadows had started to swarm around him, electricity crackled around his body, fire flickered from his fingertips, the ground shook. They all knew only one thing could get him this angry, they looked down at the park and saw they were correct, a blonde haired girl with grey eyes was walking past the human slaves, sometimes kicking or whipping them. One of the girls in black stepped forward and put her hand on his shoulder.

"Percy," she whispered, "You need to calm down."

The boy in black calmed down little by little. When he calmed down completely, his head dropped and he sank to his knees. He reached for his helm uncovering unruly black hair. The girl that had spoken earlier put her arm around his shoulder. She also took off her helm and kissed the boys cheek. He looked up and deep sea green eyes met her volcanic black ones. Zoe Nightshade looked into the eyes of the only man she would ever love; she saw all the pain and sorrow that the grey-eyed blonde had put him threw. She knew that Percy wasn't over what Annabeth did to him. Over the past years she had tried to help him. They actually had started to date 20 yrs ago, but the love Percy had for her was buried under a lot of hate for Annabeth.

Percy got back up and with a last look towards central park turned around and headed out of the city. When the group was far enough Percy stopped and started to think about how to get to the underworld.

"We should get to Los Angeles and we will get to the underworld from there." He said at last. He added, "And I kind of want to try out the new rides Chaos got us." With that he took a round sphere out of his pocket, he pressed a button on the side and let it drop to the ground. There was a flash and in front of him was a kind of motorcycle. It was big and black, Percy guessed it was a hover-cycle, as it had no wheels, the seat on his was sea green. One by one the hover-cycles appeared in the place of the spheres as they were dropped to the ground. All of them were black, the only difference was the seats, each had the color of their godly parent and matched the color of the glass in front of the eyes. They each got onto a motorcycle and sped off.

As they sped off across the United States, Percy had time to think over what had happened in the past 100 years. After her betrayal, the only thing keeping him going was revenge, all he wanted was revenge. A voice in the back of his mind told him that is wasn't true. Then it hit him, at first it had been revenge, but it all had changed 50 years ago when he got friend again, when he got Zoe back. Zoe, she was why he kept going, she was his anchor. All his hate for Annabeth was pushed to the back of his mind as it was overwhelmed by love for Zoe. He was brought out of his thinking by some really bad singing. He looked around and saw Leo singing loudly.

I'm on the highway to Hell! I'm on the highway to Hell!

Percy chuckled at the other boy as one of the girls with the pink brought her motor cycle next to his and hit the back of his head.

They got to Los Angeles in the evening. Percy brought them to the DOA studios. As they went in he grabbed Zoe's hand and pulled her in for a kiss. As he stepped away, she saw happiness in his eyes, the same she had seen on the quest for Artemis.

"I love you," he whispered.

In that moment, she knew that Percy had overcome his hate and had brought out the love he held inside him. With that he went into the building.

What Percy saw inside the building was not what he expected. After all he expected it to be a lobby with a couple of souls that couldn't go to the underworld. But that was not what he saw. Everything was falling apart, the walls were crumbling. The room was packed with souls. Then he saw why, there was no way down, the elevator was sealed shut. He walked over to it with his team. They all had their helmets off so he could see who was who. Leo put his fingers in the doors and tried to pull them apart. They didn't budge, they were all surprised because Leo was really strong, well not as strong as the other men in the group but way stronger than any other person. Percy walked up and did the same thing as Leo and the doors slowly slid open.

"Man, how come you get super strength and all the other cool stuff?!" whined Leo. Percy looked at him with a glint in his eyes.

"Because I'm awesome." He then jumped down the elevator shaft. His friends jumped down after him. They got to the bottom and entered the underworld. It was a devastating sight. Fires were burning everywhere. Percy looked over to what use to be Elysium, dark re lights illuminated black buildings, an evil aura could be felt coming from there. His eyes wandered to the tunnel leading to the pit. He pointed to it and said, "Lets go."

In Tartarus

The Olympians sat with their children, thinking about the past years. Everyday was torture, they had no hope of surviving Kronos had become to strong, even Annabeth or Luke was stronger than all the gods together at full power. They sat around Hestia who was tending a fire that had lit the night before. It was getting brighter, it warmed their hearts.

They heard noises from the hallway. They looked out and saw the fifteen guards pick up their weapons. Suddenly they were struck down. You could see arrows stuck in their hearts. The guards crumpled to dust. The gods and demigods looked at the arrows and saw four different types of arrows, one was silver with a black streak, another was gold with a black streak, another was red with a black streak, but the most interesting was the last; it was black with streaks of silver and sea green (AN: I know the description changed). They looked up and saw a group of ten people dressed in black. Four had bows out. The one in the front, with the grey armor walked to the door of their cell and broke the lock. He made a sign for us to follow him. At first the prisoners were wary of him, they couldn't see his face because of the helm he had on. But they decided to follow him. The mysterious group led them out of the underworld.

As they got to the surface they saw two figures waiting for them, Annabeth and Luke. They could feel the endless amount of power coming from the two of them. The gods saw the leader of the group in black step forward. They tried to warn him not to. They could not feel any power coming from him.

As Percy walked towards Annabeth and Luke, the pair took out their weapons. Annabeth took out her knife and Luke took out Riptide. Percy growled, Luke did not deserve that blade. He made the original Anaklusmos appear on his back and revealed it in all its glory. He heard Poseidon whisper, "Impossible, the original was lost a long time ago." Everybody else stared in wonder at the blade.

Annabeth and Luke charged at him. Annabeth tried to go around him as Luke attacked him from the front. The gods and demigods looked at the fight in awe. Nobody could land a blow, they looked over at the people in the black armor and saw that they were all sitting down, some even had popcorn. They looked back to the fight it was a blur, all of a sudden it stopped. Luke had his hands on his knees and was breathing; Annabeth was on her knees. They looked at the man and saw that he wasn't even tired.

"Who are you?" asked Luke.

The gods listened very closely for the answer. After all he was a lot stronger than them, he could be a threat. He started to answer.

"Go back to Kronos." Luke and Annabeth looked relieved at that; the gods were confused, he had just captured them why was he letting them go. "I have a message for him. Tell him that the prophecy isn't finished." There were a lot of confused looks at that, everybody was confused at that, all the children of the big three had become immortal. Unknown to all Chaos had just told Percy that he was taking away his immortality, so he was going to turn sixteen in a little less than a year. "After all I haven't died yet."

That got everybody even more confused. This person was a child of the big three and he wasn't sixteen yet. They all looked at the servants of Kronos. Luke had the same confused look they had, but Annabeth had a scared look in her eyes. She started to tremble, she got up and walked closer to the mysterious man.

"Impossible, I stabbed you. He stabbed you. You died." The man chuckled, but it had no humor.

"Did anybody actually see me die? Did anybody find my body? Gods I thought you were smart."

The man reached up and started to pull off his helm. He was facing Annabeth and Luke so the gods did not see his face, but they saw Luke's eyes widen. Then the man said something that filled the gods with happiness, some more than others.

"Its been a long time Wise Girl."