Percy's POV
I move out of the way of the car and head to the only people I can trust, my parents.
It takes me little time to find their apartment but when I do I can tell it has been abandoned for well over twenty years. I head up the stairs and stand at the door to their room. I knock lightly twice, no answer. I knock a couple more times loader and use the door bell, still no answer. I try to open the door and find that it is unlocked. As I enter the smell of death and decay enters my nose.
"MOM, PAUL?" I yell, still no reply
I check there rooms, then the family room, and finally the kitchen. As I enter the kitchen the smell increases by tenfold. I look at the floor to see a sight that will haunt me for the rest of my immortal life. My Mother and Paul lie in a bloody heap on the floor. They appear to have been dead for well over thirty years. I can tell both there heads have been cut off. This looks like it might have been and execution.
Rage fills my body, and I want to kill anything I see but my target is a certain group of immortals on top o the empire state building. They will pay for what they have done!
-flashback-
"All those who disagree with the charges raise your hand" Zues says addressing the Olympian Council and the Greek and Roman counselors.
One hand was raised, one. That one hand belongs to my favorite Goddess, Hestia. She is the only one, Thalia, Nico, Clarisse, Connor, Travis, Reyna, Leo, Piper, Jason, Annabeth none of them had their hands raised, not even my own father had his hand raised. I know why they didn't have their hands raised, one word- fear. Hestia told me that yesterday.
" They fear you, you single handedly defeated Gaia, so they have decided to get rid of you" Hestia says sadly.
" All in favor of eternal banishment"
Every hand (except Hestia's) was raised. Most refused to look at me but some did not. Annabeth stared straight at me, a look of betrayal evident on her face. She would actually believe that I killed my best friend after everything. All of them for that matter, taking their parents word and agreeing to send the savior of Olympus to Tartarus for all eternity. They all had so little faith in me . I just realized now that Kronos was right, I am just the gods pawn. I win their wars for them so once their done with me they decide to get rid of me.
"Any last words, traitor" This time it is not Zues who speaks, but my own father.
" I don't know how, or when, but I promise I will kill you" I say In a voice almost like a whisper.
-END OF FLASHBACK-
I will for fill my promise, and I will kill he gods and the people that betrayed me.
I spend the next day burying my parents and giving them a proper funeral. I cannot fully blame gods for the death of my parents because I do not know, but I will kill them non the less. I head back into the apartment to see if they have any money I can use. As Im in the kitchen a red light blinking catches my attention. It is the camera my parent's installed many years ago because of all the break-ins happening. I go to the computer it is hooked up to. I open the camera icon and a big message at the top says
"Memory full" well duh, its been going for like fifty years. I start to watch some videos and see my parents goofing off, my Mom making blue chocolate chip cookies, them dancing to old music. Im about to go when the next video starts, it shows some of my least favorite people. Ares, Apollo, Zues, and Poseidon are inside the kitchen. Ares and Apollo are holding my Mother and Father.
" You don't need to do this" Poseidon says
" He has to be erased from history, You must understand if the truth is ever found out our children will hate us" Zues says a pleasing look on his face.
Poseidon sighs "You are right brother, It must be done"
Ares then grabs Paul and shoves him on his hands and knees.
"Any last words"
"What have I done, I di-" he is cut of as Ares cuts his head off of his body in one swift movement.
"Now the woman" Ares says
"Poseidon, please stop this!" Sally pleads
"Im sorry, it must be done" he says a tear falling from his eye
She then meets the same fate as Paul.
"We should burry them" Poseidon says
"No there is no time" His brother replies.
They all then flash out and the video stops. I jump to my feet grab my sword and race out the door. I make my way to the Empire State Building. I am about to enter but I need to think, I cant just waltz onto Olympus. I have to think about my approach. I need strength and numbers if I am to challenge Olympus. I am going to need a base. And for that I am going to need money. An were is a place that has lots of money? A bank. I head back into my parents apartment and grab Paul's M9 handgun were he keeps it just incase. I run to I quickly load it grab a ski mask in a box were we keep winter clothes, and run to find the nearest bank. I quickly put on the mask and enter the bank. I shoot the nearest guard, then the next. I walk over to the back were they keep the safe. I shoot the man with the key and unlock the safe. I put all the money I can into my garbage bag and walk into the main lobby. I see multiple S.W.A.T. Vans and police cars outside. I put the bag behind my back and walk out of the bank. I begin randomly shooting around not even aiming for people. The police and S.W.A.T. Teams open fire on me. Every bullet that hits me is painless. I have felt much worse pain then a couple of bullets, plus I am immortal so that helps. Just to show off I mist travel back into my parents apartment. Mist traveling is basically were all the molecules in my body evaporate into mist and appear where ever I wish. Im guessing that there is about 8 million dollars in this bag. I feel no sorrow for the people I killed to obtain this money. Being in Hell for over forty years does a lot to a person. I feel nothing for anyone anymore, but deep down I know that is still care for my ex-girlfriend and some of my old friends.
-Time skip-3 years-
3 years of preparation and building. I put that money to good use. I built my base underneath the apartment my parents used to live in. It is an abandoned neighborhood no one lives within 3 miles of this place. This is gang territory, but even the fiercest gangs come no where near my apartment. The apartment is the same as it always was but once you enter my mothers apartment there is a key pad. Once the correct code is typed in a hole appears in the ground, connected to that hole is a spiral stair case. You go down about fifty stairs, and you reach the main room, tables are all over the place. All kinds of weapons lying on top of them. The room is about half the size of a football field. Training dummies lye strewn all over the place. Then there were 4 other doors branching off. The first room was the armory were I have any kind of weapon you can think of. The second room is my bedroom, it contains one king size mattress, and two dressers nothing else. The third room is the work out room which contains many different types of work out machines. The fourth and final room is the power room. It is a room that is made to withstand almost all powers, it is basically a place to practice you're special abilities. I walk into the power room to practice my powers. First I will practice my powers over darkness. I think about the room being brighter and all the sudden the light in the room multiplies by ten. I concentrate on darkness and soon a shadow appears out of the walls and continues to cover the room until it is as black as Tartarus. After practicing that for another thirty minutes I move on to my water powers. I make a real life dummy appear (courtesy of Hecate) and practice a new trick I learned in Tartarus. I make the lifelike, moving dummy freeze in place. I then control the water in the dummies blood to bend to my will. I practice removing the water from the body or making it evaporate, either way it kills people. Next I move on to my lightning ability, its actually more of dark lightning. I make the darkness reappear and mix it with electricity and shoot it at the nearest dummy. An arc of black lightning shoots from my hands and fries the dummy. Now for my final power, fire. I can control the fire as good as I can my water powers. I summon fireball after fireball and hurl them at the dummy. I then practice my fire tornado, I wrap my self in fire and spin very quickly. Soon a vortex of fire has surrounded me and I am incinerating dummies left and right. I stop the tornado grab my sword and head out.
-Time skip-1 day-
I finally arrived at the Underworld. It took me a while but I finally made it. I put my black hood up just in case I run into Nico. I run over to the river Lethe and walk along the shore, looking for who I have come for. I spot him wearing a janitors suit and a name tag with the name "Bob" on it. I approach him slowly, I am about to tap on his shoulder when he turns around and yells
"Hi I'm Bob!"
"Hello I am Order" I say thinking that sounds like a good name for myself.
"Bob, your real name is Iapetus, and I took away your memories" I say needing him to trust me if I am to have him as an ally.
Bob's face turns into a look of confusion.
"No, my name is Bob!" He says a look of frustration on his face.
"No it is not, now let me return your memories" I say before handing him a black, glass bottle.
He looks at it uncertainly before grabbing it and drinking the whole thing. In about ten seconds a look of remembrance appears on his face, Im guessing his memories have returned.
"You! You pushed me into the river Lethe!" He says before quickly advancing on me.
" Yes I did but now I have returned them, I need your help!" I plead not wanting to fight him
"Now why would I help the Gods?" He says still advancing
"I want your help to destroy the gods, I know they are evil and I wish to rid this world of them. The Gods did not return your memory, your brothers the Titans didn't, but I did!"
" Only to get me to help you, otherwise you would have left me here!" Hey yells still coming towards me
"Yes, but the Gods or Titans would never have helped you, I need your help and skill, you will be a king! And we will rule the world with just unlike the Titans or the Olympians!" I say sincerely
"I agree to join you, but if you even think of betraying me I will cut your throat!" He replies seriously
"Then welcome aboard!"
-Time skip-six months-
Iapetus is actually really not that bad, he started out mean but he is actually my friend now. We now have Me, Iapetus, Hecate, Hestia( in secret), six Demi-Titans and four Demi-Gods on our side I still have many more people to recruit. The Demi-Titans are one son of Kronos, one boy and one girl daughter/son of Oceanus, one daughter of Hyperion, a son of Atlas, and a son of Krios. The Demi-Gods are two sons of Hades not related, a daughter of Athena, and finally a son of Mars. We also are in contact with a over one hundred plus clear sited mortals all over the country who were trained to fight. We all stay in my base (except for are mortal soldiers) they stay in my recently constructed barracks. Today we plan to make our selves known. The Gods (except for Hestia of course) do not know of me being free, so we plan to send a face to face message to the Demi-Gods of Camp Half-Blood. We plan on sending me, Iapetus, the sons of Mars, Kronos, and Atlas, and the Daughter of Oceanus. We will arrive in one hour carrying our flag, two black swords crossing pointing upwards with the words "Death to the Olympians" written in Ancient Greek on the front. We make our way right next to the border of Camp Half-Blood the dragon, Peleus, is fast asleep/ knocked out by a potion Hecate gave me. We are on our horses the flag in my left hand and my sword in my right. As we advance forward me and Iapetus in the front, the sons of Kronos and Atlas next then the son of Mars and the Daughter of Oceanus. I am wearing a pitch black mask on my face covering everything except for my eyes, and a black robe covers my body. Iapetus and the Demi-Gods/Titans are wearing the robe except not the mask. We cross the boundaries into camp and look around to see people training, eating, and having fun. A little boy about six or seven sees us,
"LOOK, BAD GUYS!" The little boy yells
Soon dozens of Demi-Gods clad in armor surround us. I scan the faces to see non of my old ex-friends. Good they died, just not by my hands.
"Get the counselors!" One of them yells
"We can't they are in a meeting!" Another replies
"Just do it!" The same kid says
A couple kids run off to get the counselors. Great I can't wait to see have they have dis improved over the years. I am shocked to see the boy return with all the cabin counselors from when I was here. Clarisse, Travis, Connor , Nico, Thalia(guess she is not in the hunters anymore), Mason, and lots more, but worst of all Annabeth. Rage swells up in me I want to kill all of them, but I am on a diplomatic mission I cant kill any of them, yet.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Annabeth says now a few yards away from me.
"I am here to give you a message" I reply my now black, gold, and green eyes boring into her.
"And that message is?" She replies wanting an answer.
"We are going to burn Olympus to the ground, oh and FUCK YOU!" I yell before blasting her back several yards with black lightning, its not fatal but it will hurt like Hades.
Quickly the Demi-Gods advance on us, We draw our swords and start slashing at them. I lead my group around the camp slashing campers, and burning cabins. We come to a stop as Clarisse, Travis, Connor, and Leo stand in front of us.
"Return to base, I will be there In a little while!" I say to my soldiers and Iapetus.
"No, we are not leaving you" The daughter of Oceanus replies.
"That is an order!" I say with a little anger in my voice, they get the hint and head back to base.
I turn back to my ex- friends "Long time no see eh?" I say with venom in my voice.
"Who are you?" Travis says.
" I am the forgotten, I am the betrayed, I am Order" I reply using my new name.
"Enough talk, lets fight!" Clarisse interjects.
I pull out my pitch black sword and advance on them. Connor comes at me first. He swings down at my head but I parry and slash across his ankles, they have gotten worse. Travis and Clarisse come towards me at the same time. Clarisse jabs at me with her spear, I block it and slash at travis, he quickly parries. I shoot black lightning at Travis an send him flying into the air. He smashes into a building and falls to the ground, unconscious. Leo joins into the battle. He throws a flaming hammer at me, a look of shock covers his face as I catch it in my hand.
"Wha- how did y-" He didn't get to finish his sentence as the flying hammer is sent back and hits him in the head. He crumples to the ground.
Clarisse a look of rage on her face advances jabbing a million miles an hour at me with her spear. On the thirtieth jab I grab her spear and twist it, dislocating her shoulder and leaving her weaponless. I kick her in the gut and she falls to the ground. I am about to end her life when Connor gets up and tackles me to the ground. Once in top of me he starts punching at me quickly. I roll over effectively getting him off of me. I stand up and punch him roughly in the face while he is still on his knees. He falls to the ground again.
"Is this all you've got, I mean this is to easy!" I say trying to taunt him.
He stands up and charges at me. I grab him as he runs into me and put him in a headlock, I knee him in the stomach multiple times. I let him out of the headlock and punch him in the jaw with all my might. I hear a crack as he falls to the ground, I'm pretty sure I just broke his jaw. I walk over to him slowly, pick up his limp body and run my sword through his heart. The first casualty in this war.
