The Demonstration

Chaos POV:

I suppose that we will have to show these buggers whose boss. I had my sword, robe, and healing rod. I had Percy go out and disable the main forces' weapons. There was some strange feeling in the air though. I dismissed it. If a demigod was in danger, I could heal them, and Percy can handle himself.

I saw a bunch of Apollo's children working over one boy who was basically bleeding his life out. There was more blood on the floor then there should be in a human. I went over to him and waved a hand. All the blood went back inside, and he was completely healed. "He's still a little stiff, but he should be fine." They just looked at me in awe. My army snickered at this. They had seen displays of my power many times, but each time they still stood in awe. Each time, that is other than when they are trying to impress.

I then let all of the Apollo campers try to do the hand waving trick. The truth of the matter is, I didn't reverse time, I merely sped it up, so it looked like the blood went back into his body, but really it just disappeared and more of his blood was produced. It's a fun trick to show a newbie. The one thing that people don't understand (especially Kronos, considering he froze everything instead of learning from me) is that speeding up time is a lot easier. You see, for me, the universe is like consistently maintaining something, and to speed time up, I merely let go of my hold just a little bit, but not so much as to make the entire universe disappear in the blink of an eye.

I had to check up on Percy because I knew he doesn't like being so close to so many of the friends that betrayed him. He told me what happened with Annabeth, and honestly, don't think that she should get him. Yes, I sound like an old Earth-parent, but she cheated on him and now expects him to merely accept her. He told me all of the stories of them and how she would never make it easier for him. This is where I disagree with but won't interject his plan: make it hard, but possible, for her.

I finally found him training with Nico while Grover was bleating on and on about how fantastic enchiladas. I'm glad that the person Pan chose a satyr like Grover. A sense of humor and a longing need to protect the wild are the two traits I asked Pan to see in the mortal that he chose. When the group had neared Pan (or when Grover and Tyson neared Pan) I gave Grover the key that has held back all other satyrs: understanding. I had given three other satyrs this gift, but they had all wanted power too much. I trusted them too much. You see, the reason I feel such a connection to my assassin is that we share similar fatal flaws (even though it wouldn't be fatal for me, but probably very close to that). My 'fatal' flaw is trust. In order for these to be defied, one must see how much of a mess that flaw has gotten them into with absolutely no possible alternative. Percy's was almost broken, but his loyalty had one thing next to it to back it up: love.

Just then a spaceship crashed into this one just as we were about to enter the atmosphere that Mars had set up. I looked out and saw that the spaceship didn't have aliens on it, but was a homing device, and would call in twenty ships very ten to fifteen minutes.

Twelve minutes later, I saw a fair amount of ships, but concentrated hard to summon a dying star. I didn't create the star, but merely dragged it through time and shiftd its course by a couple of thousand miles. I sped it up to just before it would die, and minimized the now black hole. All of the ships including the one that had attached itself to our ship were all sucked into it. Beore we could start to be dragged in, I reversed it through time and gave it a second birth. A nebula was created at this, and everyone stood in awe as they saw the first birth-place of stars that they had ever seen. Given the new light (not that I needed it, but Percy was trained by me after all) I spotted a hint of red, and Void-traveled over there. I caught him just as he was leaving. He saw me and bowed.

"What have you come to talk to me about sir?" "Percy, we need to give these people a demonstration so they know that you are also good on the battle field." He grinned at this.

Percy POV:

I was about to make the big announcement. "Everyone, pay attention. I challenge you!" At first they were all slightly confused, but then Connor Stoll asked: "Who?"

I listed off all of my old friends excluding Nico and Grover. When I was going to say Annabeth's name, I caught myself from breaking down in tears.

When they agreed after a little protest that it wasn't fair, I agreed, but the thing that they didn't know was that I was Percy, and I had bathed in the River Styx, then I was raised by Chaos, the creator of the universe. When I agreed I was agreeing that it wouldn't be fair for them.

We all got to the training section, and had one hell of a battle. Connor and Travis charged me while Katie summoned vines from behind me. The thing that she didn't realize was that Connor and Travis were idiots.

I sidestepped Travis' lance throw, and let it nail the humongous poison-ivy plant behind me. Well, they all got better skills, but they don't know how to use them against someone who can walk. The plant exploded in poison, but I used Connor's body to shield me from it. I had predicted that. Something would happen when it died, because Katie actually did know how stupid her boyfriend was.

Connor's body started leaking ichors slowly out of his back. I knew that Katie would see how ths would turn out, so the poison didn't disable Connor, but I did when he swung his sword at me. I made sure I had my glove on so it looked like the glove was really some super strong metal that could stop a sword. No, these were the ski gloves my mom had given me the winter before I found out I was a demigod. I punched near the base of the sword so his hand twisted, but then I kicked him in the face with a roundhouse instep kick. Think of Ryu's high kick. He was out cold. There is nothing more to say.

He was on the ground, but Katie was re-summoning all of the poison on the ground. Meanwhile, Annabeth was creating some sort of electrical tower. She then invented a water canon ball. I realized what she was trying to do, but didn't let the water out. Instead, it shot out of the back, and hit the tower, which then fell on top of Thalia, who had been powering the tower. Funny. She worked so hard to create something that slapped her in the face. Sound familiar?

I didn't let the water touch Thalia too much because it would seriously injure her. I merely wanted them all in the infirmary for a couple of days. Clarisse and Chris charged me, but Chris palm struck the air and hopped into the hole he made. He popped out behind me, but I predicted this. I grabbed Clarisse's swinging spear and solidified the water within me to create ice. I coated the spear in a sheet of ice so small that no one could see, but it still did the trick. The spear snapped.

I laughed as I realized that this was the second time I broke her spear. All of a sudden, a wild boar appeared and charged me. This distracted me from Chris, who was about to stab me in the small of my back. I didn't notice this, because a boar had just hit me in the gut, throwing me even further back towards Chris's blade. I snapped me head around, but I couldn't fly, so I tried to control the moisture around me to move me to the left. I was too panicky. In my peripheral vision I saw Annabeth freak out and throw her knife at Chris's blade. I could feel the tingling in my back, with a familiar tug in my gut. Was the moisture thing working? No. I saw Chris's blade fall out of his hand, and the tug in m gut was the realization that Annabeth had just saved my life.

Now, since I'm immortal, it woldn't actually kill me, but I wouldn't be able to take form for another billion years. With Chaos's help, I would have been summoned much quicker, but that wouldn't be for still another couple millennia. I would be his assassin, but I would be seriously out of practice. I had already 'died' once, and when I came back, I couldn't move. It had seriously increased my powers, because it was unlocking y true potential, but it still sucked. I became a lot tougher, faster, and my senses were maximized along with my powers. I had died because I was pushed off of a bridge. Underneath was just spikes. I summoned the remains of my power to take the moisture out of the air and stab the woman through her heart. Back then, when I wasn't even one million years old that was the hardest trick in the book. A spike stabbed me straight through the small of my back. Funny, the River Styx gives you more power, but once it's broken, your power is maximized. Chaos had bathed in the River three times. He did it once with Achilles, the other with Luke, and finally with me. It's funny how the universe works. (Get it? Universe?)

I saw a small smile appear on Chaos's face. Had he momentarily taken my powers so that Annabeth would save my life? He wasn't really for the whole Annabeth Percy thing, but he knew that I till loved her, so I guess he just wanted me to be happy? No wonder I couldn't solidify the moisture in the air. There was none left. I love Chaos.

Speaking of the proper noun, the common noun and definition of the ward is what followed. Aliens crashed through the roof, even though we were ten seconds away from landing, and started wrecking havoc. Chaos didn't seem too surprised. In fact, he made eye contact with one of them and merely summoned a force field that made every one behind it paralyzed with fear. I helped Connor get up and healed him with healing water that I kept n my suit at all times. Of course, healing water was just normal water. Katie was helping Travis who was dazed. I took all the water out of Thalia for literally less than one billionth of a second, ad put it back in refreshed. She was going to feel a little dizzy for a couple of seconds, but there was no more electricity in the water. Annabeth didn't have a knife, and was currently beating the crap out of two of these things. Wait, these were my training bots. Something was up.

I started destroying these things, but they just kept on coming. I had destroyed maybe three hundred when I finally made my way to Annabeth with her knife. I tossed it to her as I jumped and did the most intense move I had ever done without water.

I twirled in the air throwing knives that constantly impaled monsters. I kicked one in the face so hard it flew back and exploded on impact with a bunch of other robots. Now this sounds cool, but it doesn't sound that effective. Just think of it this way: I threw over one thousand knives. Each of them took out one to two monsters. The exploding one took out about ten. The kind-of-enemy ship was almost empty, but that move was exhausting, and I had to pick up all of my knives. As I was doing this in a matter of seconds, I saw the chief about to grab Annabeth with its electric hands. It was moving as fast as me.

I teleported over to it and put all of my water and ice powers into my hands. I had the ice on top, but it didn't really do much to protect the water from getting electrocuted.

The pain that surmounted into my body was unexplainable. Imagine you are in the ocean (which I kind of was, thanks to my powers) and that twenty million watts of electricity are being directed straight at you. I was about to let go, but then a picture of a dead Annabeth filled my mind. If I let go now, it would take at least 3.17 seconds to recover. It's not much, but it would be enough for me to fight again. That's how much this hurt. Like I said, it wasn't much, but this thing is moving at eighty percent the speed of light. I was moving slightly faster, but in three seconds, light can travel twenty one times around the Earth. Eighty percent of that is still a lot.

I took all the water in my hands and pushed it slowly though the monster's hands. I know at first you probably thought it was stupid to coat myself in water and attack utter electricity, but water is one of the two ways to destroy one of these things. The other way is to attack it with the shadow power that only children of Hades (and of course Hades) have.

There are three kinds of these monsters: Sky (this one) Earth (water kind) and Death (the other two elements could destroy this one). Water was at my disposal, so I used it. Chaos knew I would.

The thing started to shut down slowly, because the water had finally reached its cyborg heart. I froze the water and the thing finally died.

I fell to the ground with smoke rising off of me. Let me tell you, that it was a lot of smoke. The last thing I remember before passing out was seeing Annabeth lean over me in concern while glancing at the monster with confused look. Understanding passed over her face as I said: "You save my life, I save yours." A single tear glistened down her cheek. She said something, but I couldn't hear her, and she knew it.

I suppose she got her demonstration.