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Pain. It's a word that everybody knows and we've all experienced its treacherous waters. Some people, however, receive the greater end. I believe that Pain put me on the top of its list. My life was pretty much set up to feel pain. From getting beat up by monsters or raw emotional pain, my life has its share. After I went through my state of pain and shock, I moved into a stage of pure anger.

'Whom am I angry at?'

I didn't have an answer to that and in my frustration I might've destroyed a planet.

"I can cross that one off the bucket." I mumbled to myself sadly,

I found myself wandering to a lush grassy hill that turns into a cliff with thousands of jewels made into it. It offered one of the few view of Chaos. One thing that sucked about Chaos is that there are no large bodies of waters at all. Even though I was disowned by Poseidon, the water oddly still gave me comfort and strength. At Camp Half-Blood, I went to the beach to clear my head, here I go to this hill. I finally took a look at the case file from Lady Chaos.

'I wondered what Earth would be like now?" My mind started wondering.

I scoffed, 'Don't even remind me.'

'You're bringing it up in your own mind, technically.'

'Just shut up already!'

To be honestly, I've always wondered what Earth is like now. However, when I open my kelp-filed brain, I only remember the awful things that happened there.

~ Since the Drakon incident, everybody has been cautious with me, as if I was planning on doing the same thing to them. All of my closest friends who knew about Tartarus understood. I thought everything would be forgotten, but gods was I wrong. It all started with the stupid Hecate kid that helped out with he drakon.

One day, a few monsters got near the borders, Aiden was on patrol and needed help. I still thought he was a nice guy and he fought well, although I took down the majority of the monsters. After returning, Aiden told everybody that he was the one that defeated the monsters and that I ran away. As if Percy Jackson would run away from defending his friends. Worst of all, everybody believed the curly haired boy.

"Don't you think Aiden is brave, Percy?"

"He sure is, Drew. Didn't Piper tell you it was your turn to do the reports?" The girl rolled her eyes and walked away.

The next few weeks the only thing I heard was his great deeds. Even the naiads were speaking about how good looking he was with his dark blue eyes and charming smile. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a guy who looks for attention, but stealing credit for someone's accomplishment is completely wrong. Yet, it wasn't even the worst part.~

I snapped out of the flashback, I had to maintain control of myself if I were to return to Earth. With a deep sigh, I surveyed the world of Chaos, a beautiful world but it felt off. I opened the file, the paper feeling smooth on my calloused fingers.

'What's this threat?'

Since the briefing was in Greek, it was easy to understand. A mysterious figure wanted to overthrew Olympus, typical. The bad thing was that no one knew who this person was. Kronos and Gaea were ruled out because they couldn't have formed a new presence that soon. They guessed it was someone before the age of the Olympians. The gods figured since Chaos has been here for a very long time, she would had an idea. From the reading, even Chaos didn't have a clue.

'How long has it been since I was there?' I pondered

I heard a slight crunching noise and looked back with my hand near Riptide for safety. It was Luke. He was out of his training gear and was wearing a plan t-shirt and jeans.

"Where have you been Percy?" Said the son of Hermes as he joined me on the hill,

"Don't call me that."

He rolled his eyes and looked towards the case file that was sprawled out over the hill. "Is that our new mission?" He said with clear excitement as he quickly scanned the papers.

Mumbling, "Unfortunately, yes."

Iroas sat down beside me, "I still think that there is something weird with this. Nothing makes sense."

"The Greek Gods are alive and well today, of course this doesn't make sense. It never does!"

A long silence passed between the two of us, but Luke stared right through me, as if he was drawing out my answer. Which he did.

Luke's Eyes: 1

Mine: 0

"Do you still think they're still there?" I questioned.

"Who know Chorís, as far as we know everyone down there is dead."

"Or maybe they're still alive!"

"Chorís, you really need to let go or at least try to figure out what really happened at camp. If you are still thinking about the past, you will only remain in the past. Be brave. Be the hero you really are."

"I'm not a hero, Iroas, never was. J–just gather the team and tell them to get prepared for a new mission. We're leaving when the blue star hits its peak."

Luke stood up quickly and ran down the hill, but he gave me one last look before he left. We had about two hours. Of course since here in Chaos we have no set time, we had to find other ways to organize our days. We came up with a really weird and confusing system that uses stars placements as a way for time. Definitely not the smartest way to deal with that.

I ran my hand through my hair and sighed for the thousandth time that day. I was really scared for this mission and something else. Chaos and Aura's conversation were still echoing in my thoughts . Based on the words that I was hearing, it sounded important.

'It's probably about the mission. What do they not want me to find out?'

Something wasn't right. There was something fishy about all of this and it wasn't my clothes,

'I'll find out more later.' I told myself. I needed to get prepped.

"Is everybody ready?" I yelled out. Right now, we were trying to get everything in order before we left to Earth. Everyone on my team had their supplies in a duffel bag, or in Silena's case, a designer tote bag.

"Yeah, we're ready to go commander," Luke started, "we need just need to go through the portal." You see, the only way to get in and out of Chaos is through a hole in Tartarus, which nobody likes, or by portals. When I first came her, Lady Chaos granted me a lot of powers. One of the powers I received was creating portals, which Luke got as well. Before we left, I had to set ruled for my team.

"Everybody gather around."

Obediently, the members of my team circled around me, waiting for me to speak. Aura came and stood being me, cutting of Luke who was going to take that place. I didn't really think much of it and started to explain the rules to the team.

"As all of you know, we are going to return to Earth." A cheer rose throughout the crowd before me.

"I get to steal stuff!" Said no other than Thief.

Some other comments were being made, but I cut them off, "There's going to be rules ." With that, groans came out.

Travis took a step out with a coy smile, "Really Chorís Nóima? We aren't kids, except for a certain someone who likes to throw tantrums and ruin an obstacle course."

A bit laughter escaped from the crowd, which I quickly shut up with a glare.

"Anyway," I emphasized, "there are going to be some guidelines while we are there. First, no overuse of powers. We can't scare anybody. Code names only, everyone is prohibited from revealing themselves to anyone, even if they are your closest."

A bit of disbelief ran through everyone, which I understood. They all wanted to go back and live. I actually wouldn't mind, but Chaos herself order this. According to her it was a safety issue. I looked toward the back where Luke was standing, shaking his head. He probably didn't approve of this rule.

"One last thing, wear your clocks and keep the enchantment on."

Beckendorf, Forge, created the clocks and were probably on his top five of coolest inventions ever made. When you put them on, the hood creates a magical shadow on your face so no one can tell who you are. It has the capability of altering your voice as well. The best part, it blocks the wearer from magic spells and can't be removed without the wearer's permission.

"We all have our clocks on!"

I concentrated to the back where Luke was standing and willed a portal to appear. Light came swirling in a dust cloud, similar to when Chaos rescued me from Earth. Now I'm going back there. In a few seconds, an oval appear and it looked like a purple tinted mirror. I motioned to Luke.

"Alright guys, let's go!" Luke said and took the lead, stepping through.

No one could noticed by my hands were sweating and I felt anxious. Hopefully the team would think that the portal tired me out. One by one we went through. Aura looked back at me, moving her arms as if I could go first.

"You can go first" I stated.

Steadying my breathing, I strode forward into the portal, and let it consume me.

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