Summary: Peace never last for long, there's always that one enemy that never gives up. No matter how the Olympians may try to patch things up, another enemy has set his sights on earth and this time, they're going to need some outside help. … That is if they decide to accept it. Reyna\ () OC

Setting: 2 years after the Giant War.

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

{Messages}

'Thought speak'

-Chapter 7-

(Dark's POV)

Staring down at a sleeping Reyna, a small smile spread across my face as I shook my head. She really made this a habit of hers. A small grin formed as I remembered the last time someone trusted me enough to do this. Usually, my aura or my personality, in general, made many distrustful of me. For someone to do this, several times, in fact, showed such trust, it filled me with such contentedness. Staring at her closed eyes I felt myself drawn to her more than ever before. A burst of warmth rushed through me and my heart fluttered.

Mad cleared his throat to draw my attention to him as looked at me from his little hiding spot in the corner of a shadow. He looked over my still healing wound and almost did a double take when he saw the warm bundle next to me.

"I'm guessing she does this often if you aren't surprised."

Surprising myself slightly, I let out a soft laugh as I nodded. I couldn't keep anything from him; he was my brother after all, in more ways than one. His face lit up and for once, he looked like the boy I once knew as a child.

"She's always surprising me, even if she doesn't know it."

Mad smiled, before reaching out to help me set her down in her bed. Slipping her shoes off me tucked her blanket over her before leaning down to brush away a few stray strands of hair from her face. Transfixed for a moment I leaned down and brushed my lips against her forehead before standing up and walking out with mad trailing behind me.

As soon as we were out of the Demigods' quarters he grabbed me by the arm and led me to an empty room. Sighing at his actions, I went along with him knowing exactly what he was going to do next. Swiftly locking the door he stood between me and the door with a questioning look on his face. I ignored him for a second as I took a seat on the bed available. A few seconds passed in silence before he spoke again.

"You like her, don't you?"

I gave him a sad smile response before nodding. He shook his head, before looking me again.

"Do you think maybe she could-"

I cut him off with a feral snarl, I could feel my fangs growing and I was sure my eyes were as dark as blood.

"I gave up on that years ago and you know why." I all but roared.

His stance took a defensive but stubborn quality as we stared each other down. This was no longer a brother or sister or anything remotely human, this was an Alpha staring down a Beta. Slowly after a few moments, Mad started to shift back into a more submissive stance trying to appease me, but only growled at him until he bowed his head down.

I stopped snarling and we sat in silence before I spoke.

"I'm not sure anymore mad. I rather not find out it was her and then watch this world die along with everything else."

"Bullshit!" I glared at him as he continued. "You're just scared of what will happen if it wasn't her! Dark, I found my mate and she died in my arms. I won't see her reborn for the next three hundred years! I don't want you to make the same mistake."

"She's not my mate!" I roared at him, "I have never met her or her past souls! I don't even know if I have one! And I wouldn't be surprised after all who wants to be stuck with such a curse!"

Mad's face fell at my outburst. We stared at each other for a few more second before he turned to unlock the door.

"You have one, I'm sure of it and if I'm right she's standing right in front of you. You're just too scared to go after her. You need to let go of the past Dark, our lives are too long for such regrets."

With that, he left and I was facing an empty room. Closing my eyes, I raised my arm brought it down on the wall. A sickening snap made me wince as I felt a bone or two snap. I retracted my arm from the new hole in the wall and inspected the small cuts littering my hand. With a heavy sigh, I set the bones back in place before redirecting my energy to healing the broken bones.

The rest of my time was nothing more than restless pacing and failed attempts of sleep.


(Time skip: Morning, Training field)*

Stalking across the patch of grass I had commandeered for today's session. I barked out an order to Olympians, the demigods struggling to keep up with the pace I had set for them watched on in slight fear.

The previous night had done nothing to calm me down and that coupled with my lack of sleep made for a rather irritable morning.

"Zeus! Square up your stance. One lucky blow is all it takes for someone to take you down."

Zeus glowered at me but thankfully obliged before I snapped at him. I glared at him for a second longer to get my point across before moving my gaze over the frightened demigods. They all flinched as I scanned the row for any faults. Growling slightly at my inability to find a mistake I gestured to Mad to test the shield wall's strength.

Without hesitation, Mad threw himself at the wall, in what would usually bring down the strongest of men, but the wall held. There were a few shocked shrieks that made my eye twitch, but in the end, the demigod had outstripped the Olympians in terms of maneuvers.

"That's it! We're done for the day. Tomorrow we will analyze the benefits to our group tactics. Don't forget we will also be starting on site medical practices." Shade announced.

She caught my eye as I turned to leave, and the subtle frown on her face told me all I needed to know. With an angry sigh, I nodded and stalked over to our usual meeting area. I turned my thoughts to the previous night. Once again a warmth feeling settled over me before Mad's word struck an icy pick in my heart.

Shaking the burning words away, I focused on the warmth I felt with Reyna. I was so lost in thought that when a hand settled on my shoulder, I turned around with a snarl and fierce scowl.

Instantly the hand recoiled, and my eyes glared down at pitch black hair and warm black eyes wide in shock. Guilt filled me in a heartbeat and my vicious facade melted as quickly as it came.

"R-Reyna! Don't sneak up on me like that." I almost scowled at the stutter, but I refrained from doing so. Reyna, on the other hand, had no such obligations. She smiled slightly at my rather clear shock.

"I've been trying to get your attention for a few minutes now."

I sighed again, before plastering on a small smirk.

"Oh is that so? Well, you have my attention now. What's up?"

Reyna smiled sadly, and my heart pretty much stopped. It was becoming harder to stop myself from grabbing her and running away so no one could ever hurt her.

"I wanted to check on you. Last time I saw you I was rather … well, I wasn't myself."

My smirk started to fade and was instead replaced by a real smile.

"No worries here. Everything should be sealed up by this time Wednesday."

The look she shot me made it clear she didn't quite believe me. I laughed slightly and she flushed pink for a moment. I shot her a sly wink and to my growing amusement, she started to turn red. Deciding to take it easy on her I moved my jacket and shirt down to show a giant scab over my right shoulder. Reyna's eyes flew open slightly before I dropped my hand and covered up the wound again.

"Believe me now?"

I got a slight nod as she glanced between my shoulder and my face. My trademark smirk growing slightly I gesture for her to join me. She hesitated for a moment before falling in stride next to me.

"I was thinking, about what you said last night, and I realized you were right Reyna."

"Dark, no! I was-"

"Let me finish. I had no right to leave you and the other leaders out of the loop for so long, but you must know normally we don't have such a large group to work with. Especially with so many we might not be able to trust, so that's why I want to start making things right, in fact, you saved me the trouble of having to hunt you down later on."

I think I shocked her into silence, but after a few moments, I felt a pair of arms being thrown around me. Taken back at the move I struggled to keep us both upright as Rena snuggled into me. All sense of time and decency was thrown out the door as I relished the feeling.

It couldn't have been long, but it felt like ages before she drew back. She seemed to realize what had done, and I saw the usually cool and calm Praetor descend into panicked stammering. The sight of the usually strong woman in front of me being so flustered over a hug made me smile wider than any before. A laugh bubbled up in my chest and before long I was giggling like a schoolchild on the first day of school.

In the time it took I to calm down Reyna had turned into such a delicious shade of crimson. Choking off the last of my giggles, I couldn't help but think to myself. 'Maybe it wouldn't be such a terrible thing to fall back in love. '


An: I'm Sorry! This took longer than I'm willing to admit. I'm sorry it's not proofread or anything, but I wanted this off my desk as so as possible and I will fix this as soon as I'm back home.

Updates are going to be harder for me as I'm entering school again, but hopefully, the chapters will start to get longer in order to compensate.

* I had to cut that thought off before it spiraled down into flames.

What do you think so far? There's a lot of drama in the future. I have a few things planned out for the next 3 chapters. Hopefully, by then I can dive into the plot once again. Rate and review, anything helps!

Signing off here Dark.

(This is Mad, Dark's brother. Yeah, she based a character off me nice huh ;) Anyway, she won't let me see her art for the story, but I think you'll be seeing it soon. Someone actually liked what she wrote, can you believe that? Anyways she'll be posting the art for this sooner or later. Maybe I'll make another appearance before that. Anyway, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, Bye!)