Chapter 7
The Start of an Uprising
Xereath looked around the cabin as he teleported in, he nodded his approval. It was jet black on the outside, the same inside; there were six rooms each one with its own colour and design. Each one for his Apprentices.
"Xereath who is the last room for?" Leo asked.
"Ahh I forgot to call him." Xereath said face palming, causing everyone to laugh, "MARK!"
The air in front of all five Apprentices shimmered and suddenly stopped, in its place a boy around 16, his eyes glowed grey and gold, his hair was grey in colour and in his hand he held a sickle but it was connected to a staff; the sickle itself was grey with a gold part connecting it to the grey wooden staff, "Greetings, I am Mark son of Chronos, the Primordial of time."
There was silence, pure silence as Mark started to blush and fidget while the other five Apprentices look like their eyes were about to explode out of their heads, suddenly Xereath started laughing, "What's so funny?" Jason asked.
"Your faces oh that was priceless." Xereath said as he continued to laugh spreading it to the others as they started to grin and playfully glare at him.
"Is he immortal?" Thalia asked looking at him confused.
"Well you are all immortal so I assume you are asking is he a Primordial?" Xereath asked looking at Thalia.
"Yeah …"
"Oh in that case no he isn't, he is a demi-primordial."
Their eyes bugged out again, "Th-that's impossible the mortal body would burn from the amount of power it had." Nico said.
"True but at the last possible second Chronos froze time and I stepped in asked him if he would allow me to take the child and train him. He said yes, after of course we fought and he got absolute thrashed."
They all grinned, "Well welcome aboard." Percy said giving Mark a handshake.
"Thank you." Mark said as he firmly shook Percy's hand.
"Mark," Xereath said as everyone turned to look at him, "Percy is the strongest out of this group, by a bit, and is what you can call the 'leader' of sorts since you are all equal. He just has more experience leading people, so that alright?" he asked Mark looking at him in the eyes.
"Yup sure I don't mind, now I don't have to make all the decisions." He said grinning.
"Good, now before I leave, yes I am leaving." Xereath said as they all groaned, "Do not worry I will be assessing you but I am leaving this is your test however for the up coming war I need all of you to go and gain more power."
"How?" Hazel asked.
"Simple, go and drain monsters, Titans, Primordials even some gods if you want." Xereath said waving his hands around meaning he meant anything.
"Okay." They all said in unison.
"Now good bye my Apprentices and good luck, you will need it to past this test." Xereath said as he started to fade away.
"Well …" Percy said as the awkward silence descended, "Lets just chill and get to know each other."
"Cool." The rest said as they all walked their different ways.
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Percy walked out, everyone knew his identities it was no point trying to hide it, but it had been epic when he fought Drake.
Flash back
He had been walking; the day was warm and the trees swayed under a little breeze. He sat there his eyes closed as the sun softly beat its heat onto him.
"What are you doing?" a voice said behind him.
He turned around to look into the eyes of a boy, sea green eyes with a sneer on his face, "What does it look like?" Percy asked casually, the hood hiding his face, "I'm relaxing here, now if you are done get out of my face." He said as he turned around back into the warmth of the sun.
"How dare you!" the boy had screamed at him.
"Oh shut up already."
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!"
His eyes had snapped opened then, "Me? I am Elemental of Water, and yours?"
"Drake favored son of Poseidon, most powerful demigod ever known to this world and best swords man this camp has had in three hundred years."
"Oh I've heard that line before not very impressed mind you." Percy had said soothing his anger against Drake.
"Who do you think you are talking to me like that?" Drake hissed, "Why don't I show you a lesson?" he said as he willed the water to rise and crash unto the Percy.
Percy grinned as he flicked his hand, the water wave had stopped and suddenly it evaporated, "That all you got? Really? Guess all show then." Percy said as he stood up.
"WHY YOU!" Drake screamed as he ran forward to him trying to kill him.
Percy turned around, uncapped Riptide and sliced downwards cutting a line on his face and disarming him before he would do anything, his screams filled the afternoon as Percy's Psionic Riptide cut through his cheek, "Shut up fool. If you are so high and might I challenge you Drake son of Poseidon to an arena challenge two days from now." Percy said as he walked away, "And you asked me who am I? I am Percy Jackson." He had said over his back.
End of flash back
He had seen and heard the whispered and stares he continuously received from campers, Well today is the day, Percy thought as he walked to the Arena, Maybe I should toy with him first. Percy grinned at the thought, Oh well I don't really care.
The gates to the Arena opened and he walked in, the sand filled pit contrasted the white marble walls with the campers sitting on seats above them.
"We are here to witness Drake against Percy Jackson." Zeus said.
"Begin." Chiron said.
Drake dashed across the sand traveling at such speed that he broke the sound barrier his sword a blur as he attacked Percy, he had merely grinned as he uncapped the Psionic Riptide and blocked each of Drakes attacks. He was fast for a demigod but much too slow for the Apprentice of Xereath. Percy then went on the offence his sword leaving a trail of green as his arm and wrist did all the work; golden ichor was flying everywhere as he cut Drake over and over again; his screams filling the afternoon air. Percy slipped his sword next to Drakes and with a flick of his wrist, disarmed him. Drake whimpered as he fell to the ground bleeding ichor everywhere.
"Is that it, oh might son of Poseidon." Percy mocked.
"HOW DARE YOU!" a voice shouted out behind him and he felt it the essence of lightning being called, Percy turned to look at the son of Zeus calling lightning down, he flicked his wrist intercepting the bolt with Riptide and absorbing the energy before blasting it back at the child.
"Wow you really stooped low." Percy commented as he blasted a bolt back at the child sending him flying into the marble walls and creating a crater in it, "Well you must be the first child of Zeus to feel what lightning feels like." Percy said grinning when suddenly he felt the chill of death coming up behind him, "Ahhh nice try child of Hades you will have to do better then that though." Percy said as he flipped around and crashed the side of his blade into the son of Hade's head.
"HOW DARE YOU HURT OUR CHILDREN!" Zeus, Poseidon and Hades bellowed as they flashed in.
"Oh please shut your mouth." Percy said as he walked away.
"YOU INCOMPETENT MORTAL!" Zeus bellowed as he threw a lightning bolt at him.
Percy turned around his hand raised up as the bolt smashed into the shield of water he had summoned, "Oh please drama queen you gonna have to do better then that."
"How dare you defy us!" Zeus bellowed.
"Defy you? Okay I challenge all three of you, the Big Three, to a fight. No killing just unconsciousness." Percy stated.
A silence could be heard before they responded, "Very well demigod you have asked for death and we will give it to you." Zeus thundered.
"When shall we fight oh might one." Percy mocked.
"Right NOW!" Zeus bellowed as he summoned his master bolt and blasted Percy with such lightning that many campers fled at the sight of this.
"Oh Zeus, Zeus, Zeus why wont you learn cheating isn't going to get you anywhere?" Percy asked him as his hand came up and held back the lightning blast with his bare hands, and then tore the lightning apart.
"H-h-how?" Zeus asked stunned, as another eight flashes of light appeared to see the Big Three fight Perseus Jackson.
"You aren't very strong despite what you say Zeus, out of all the Olympians here Hestia, Poseidon and Hades are the stronger ones. You? Ha don't make me laugh king of the gods, the only reason why you are strong is because you have a large domain." Percy said, mocking him, "Hades please attack me do not hold back I want to see how powerful you are."
"Very well." Hades said, but they could feel the fear rolling off him. He summoned a ball of Hell fire and threw it a Percy who just summoned some water, which had a weird glow to it, in front of him and the moment Hade's hell fire touched it the fire turned white and died, "No this cannot be." Hades said his eyes wide.
"What is it?" Athena yelled at him.
"Heavenly water." Hades said stunned, "The only thing that can stop hell fire … Heaven's water."
"What is that Hades?" Poseidon asked, "I am the Ruler of the Sea's and I have never heard of that before."
"It is water which has been purified by the very essence of Uranus." Hades said, silence following his disbelief filled words.
"Very good, you know your stuff Hades." Percy said applauding, before he summoned another bit of Heavenly water and smashed it into Hades, crashing him into the wall and absolutely destroying that part of the Arena, Percy turned back to Zeus and Poseidon both who had their weapons ready, "Come at me." He said.
Roaring Zeus threw bolt after bolt of lightning at him while Poseidon caused a wave of water to crush him. Percy redirected the water to protect him from the lightning bolts and then crashed the water into Zeus forcing him out of the sky as he tried to fly away. Zeus crashed into the ground creating a large crater. He then turned to Poseidon and his eyes flashed green as Poseidon send another wave of water at him, Percy touched the water and Poseidon screamed. Pain ripped through his body as Percy sent wave after wave of acid through the water and into the link between him and water, he fell down nearly unconscious from the pain; Percy ended it with a snap of his fingers, "H-h-how." Poseidon said through ragged breaths
"You don't want to know. Don't worry not many people know that." Percy said calming down the Olympians, "Well if you are done with this." He yawned, "MARK!"
"Yes Percy?" Mark said as he appeared from thin air again.
"Can you fix this?" Percy asked, indicating the Arena.
"Yeah sure." He said as he snapped his fingers, everything flying back into place.
"Meet Mark." Percy said turning to the Olympians his hand on Mark's shoulder, "Son of Chronos, no not Kronos your father but Chronos the Primordial of Time."
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Olympus was in chaos, everyone was shouting at everyone to gain the attention of everyone. Poseidon was in his under water palace, Atlantis, fighting a war against Oceanus; Hades was in the underworld fighting against Thanatos, who some how had gotten as strong as Hades himself and Artemis was tracking down a monster which would could pose a giant threat to everyone, and Zeus just sat on this throne worried about someone trying to over throw him, and as if that wasn't enough Aprodite and Hephaestus were arguing about her lack of commitment to him.
"ENOUGH!" Percy bellowed as he stepped out of a portal, all the Olympians jumped at his voice, "Poseidon is fighting Oceanus in a war, Artemis is out hunting and Hades is in the underworld trying to defeat Thanatos AND YOU ARE HERE ACTING LIKE CHILDREN?" Percy bellowed.
"How da –"
"Shut up of king of the gods." Percy said with a sneer, "Before I make you shut up for good you insolent fool. I'm leaving to help Poseidon, Nico go help your father, Thalia and Jason go help Artemis after you've helped Leo, Hazel and Mark at defending camp. Got it?"
"Yes sir!" they all said in unison.
"Good, move out!" Percy said as they all opened portals to walk through, leaving stunned Olympians in their wake.
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Percy opened his eyes, Atlantis was on fire; this was no ordinary fire, it was Greek fire. Percy closed his eyes and sighed and stretched his sense to find Oceanus, his eyes snapped open glowing dangerous green, There Percy thought, as he rushed of willing the water to propel him to where Poseidon and Oceanus fought. Percy grinned and waited on the side looking as the two fought, Poseidon using his trident while Oceanus used his twin snakes. Poseidon was losing, he was using every technique he knew against Oceanus but he just turned Poseidon's water into poisoned acid, which burned away at Poseidon's very essence.
Percy sighed, "I had thought this fight would be more … epic." He said as both combatants turned to look at him, both too shock to take advantage of their shock.
"Who – ahh Percy Jackson son of Poseidon." Oceanus said with a sneer.
"Nice to know I'm known by you guys."
"Shut up fool, weren't you banished by your father?" Oceanus sneered, "Oh that's right you aren't his son anymore you were disowned." Oceanus laughed seeing Percy flinch.
"Percy –"
"Don't talk to me Poseidon." Percy said with such venom causing Poseidon to flinch, "You have no right to call me by my name now…"
"That's right Poseidon shut up." Oceanus laughed.
"But for saying that Oceanus you will die. Poseidon just consider yourself lucky I'm here to help or I would've killed you as well."
"You can't kill me! I'm immortal!" Oceanus said full of confidence.
"Want to bet?" Percy said activating his Psionic Riptide.
"Wh-what is that?" Oceanus said his eyes widening then narrowing as he started to swim, slowly, backwards.
"This? Oh nothing much, just a blade made to absorb the essence and power of everything I cut and kill." Percy said as he lunged forwards cutting both the snakes he held as weapons; immediately power flowed into Percy, "Wow your snakes had a lot of power. Ohhh they were your source of power. Sorry." Percy said as he saw Oceanus age in front of his eyes, "Oh well goodbye."
"Noooo!" Oceanus screamed as Percy's blade sunk into his heart, his skin started to crack and white light shone forth from the crack. Suddenly a bright light engulfed them and Oceanus was gone, what remained was dust that floated to the bottom of the ocean floor.
"Per –"
"I said DON'T SAY THAT NAME!" Percy exploded, "You lost the right when you chose him over me." Percy said as he faded.
Poseidon floated there, tears un-evident as the sea washed them away. I've lost my son, Poseidon thought, I found him just to lose him.
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Nico shadow travelled to the underworld, and the sight from the look out on his little cliff, which greeted him, was not a nice one,. Hade's ghost army versus Thanatos monster and demon army, for every soul brought down by Thanatos it was converted into a demon found in nightmares only, demons that seem to radiate fear itself; nightmares brought to life. Nico gulped as he saw the whole army advancing to his fathers palace, Elysium was in flames, the Fields of Punishment were broken down freeing everyone there, the people in Asylum were getting killed their souls falling to the floor as a black tint started to spread out from the wound, their screams splitting the air, their body starting to morph until a demon stood in its place; it turned its head and walked back into the army. But the worse was those who couldn't cross, they were massacred where they stood even the three headed dog guard of the underworld couldn't stop them. Nico looked as pain tore his heart to see the guardian falling under the sheer mass of monsters and demons, it cried one last time before he fell his body starting to deform; Nico looked away as he sent a blast of death in that area killing the guardian before anything else could happen. I am sorry my friend, Nico thought in his head as tears fell, I will avenge you.
Nico looked to where his father was, his battle with Thanatos was fierce, but both were tired, their fight had been raging for three days now with neither force giving in. The sheer force of both gods' clashes in weapons instantly destroyed anything that got within a hundred feet. Hades held a pitch-black sword named Sword of Judgment while Thanatos attacked using a scythe called Soul Reaper. Nico unsheathed his sword with a sound that brought all the attention of both armies, excluding Hades and Thanatos.
"Die." Nico said pointing his sword at the monster and demon army. Their screams and wails filled the air, as Nico absorbed their very essence, making him stronger and stronger. Suddenly even the clashes between both gods faded, till nothing but silence remained.
"Who are you?" Thanatos said defiantly.
"Who am I? I am your worst nightmare." Nico said making the ground around him burn with hellfire.
"You are a demigod no?" Thanatos said, "You cannot defeat me! I have been blessed by –"
"It does not matter who blessed you, my blade will reap your essence." Nico said jumping off his cliff and smashing into the ground, creating a crater, "And you will pay." Nico said as he suddenly dashed forwards moving so fast that even Hades couldn't see him; all he saw was Nico standing still, then appearing and slashing at Thanatos, his sword was space-black, with a red outline across the edges, its hilt was black with red lines marking the strips of leather on his hilt. Nico seem to flow with the shadows itself disappearing here and appearing there, slashing and taking another bit of Thanatos essence then disappearing, only to appear somewhere else and cut him again, weaking him further.
"Wh-who are you?" Thanathos said, his eyes narrowing.
"Death." Nico said lunging forward and slashing his sword in an arch cutting Thanatos scythe in half and stabbing right into his heart.
"No! NO! NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME!" Thanatos raged as he fell to his knees, his body flickering.
"Oh simple. I killed you." Nico said as he swung his sword and beheaded Thanatos, his essence flowed into Nico.
Hades stood in shock at what had happened. His son had killed Thanatos without even trying, he had fought Thanatos for three days and couldn't win and his son had killed in mere seconds, "Nico –"
"Do not talk to me father you banished Percy along with everyone else. If you are to talk to me call me Death Walker for you lost the right to call me Nico when you banished Percy." Nico said with such anger in his voice that it made Hades take a step back, as though he had been punched, "I'm leaving, get your domain under control." Nico said as he faded away, leaving the shocked Underworld ruler as tears fell freely, What have we done, Hades thought, we have lost our children by banishing one hero. He fell to his knees and cried freely.
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Mark appeared at camp, everything was going smoothly. Campers were training in their various subjects, satyrs and naiads were playing around, the water sparkled clean from any pollution, and the sky was blue. All in all everything was peaceful; exactly what the son of Kronos hated. He was born to fight and this capped his energy, it was frustrating. It's so boring here, I can fight anyone, if I do they are basically dead, so boring, I'm making sure I give Percy a mind on this when I get back, ugh this is horrible –, Mark was snapped out of his train of thoughts when he heard a horn blow across the camp, immediately the campers rushed to get their armor and weapons, Mark grinned, Finally some fun! Mark thought running to Thalia's pinecone tree, the sight in front of him was not a nice one. A sea of monsters spread out in front of him, waves and waves of them constantly coming from the back, Well you did ask for a fight, Marks subconscious said, Shut up, he said back to it.
"Who is your leader?" Atlas said.
"Who is your leader?" Mark asked as the last of the campers came to form some sort of fighting force.
"You dare ask demigod? Fine I will tell you, I am Atlas commander of this army, Hyperion the titan of light and Prometheus."
"Ahh dang it I was hoping for a challenge." Mark said his face downfallen.
"YOU DARE CHALLENGE OUR MIGHT?" Atlas bellowed, "You will die demigod. CHARGE!" the monsters roared and surged forwards.
"ELEMENTS!" Mark called.
"Yes Mark?" Thalia asked as she appeared in a flash of lightning.
"Well finally a fight." Jason said as the wind blew him in.
"OOOOOH FINALLY!" Hazel said squealing.
"They will burn." Leo said softly.
"ATTACK!" Mark shouted as the Elements surged forwards.
Mark jumped into the fray using his sickle stick, named Keeper, to fight the monsters, anything that came within range was instantly killed, he parried the axe swing of the Minotaur and rotated Keeper around his body the blade slammed into Minotaur's body instantly killing it and vaporizing it. He continued, after getting his rhythm he looked around Jason was swinging his arms in motions that blew the monsters back and disintegrated them the moment they got hit by it, Thalia was using her spear to jab and as an electrical conductor while Hazel caused metal to come forth from the ground and started to bend and use it, filling the air with swords around her killing the monsters all around them while Leo just burned burned and burned some more, a ring of orange flames surrounded him incinerating anything around him. Well I better pick up the show, Mark thought watching his fellow Elements using their powers. He slammed the but of Keeper into the ground slowing down time to a crawl; he attacked his sickle staff moving in perfect motion with him each monster disintegrating as he slashed them. Suddenly he stopped the three titans were left, shocked looks on their faces, he let go his hold on time.
"Well well well if it isn't the three generals." Mark grinned as Thalia, Jason, Leo and Hazel joined him; the monster army decimated, "So guys should we play with them? Or kill them quick?" Mark said turning his back on the titans.
"Lets kill them quick, me and Nico have a date." Thalia said, blushing red.
"Okay you guys agree?" Mark asked as the other two nodded their heads, "Then lets finish this."
"HOW DARE YOU MOCK US MORTAL!" Atlas raged.
Thalia flicked her hand sending a lightning blast so strong that it went right through Atlas, leaving a gaping whole in the middle of his chest, "Whatever." Thalia said turning and walking away.
"ATLAS!" Hyperion bellowed, "YOU WILL PAY DEMIGOD!" he screamed as he started to summon bright light to burn them.
"Don't even bother." Leo said stepping up and letting a jet of flame exploded from his hand burning off the head of Hyperion, he then walked away to get something to eat.
"Um …" Prometheus said looking nervously at all of them.
"Well he ain't going to say anything but I want to go so …" Hazel said flicking her hand causing a metal spike to explode from the earth and stab Prometheus in the back, killing him instantly. As Prometheus exploded into golden dust the rest of the Elements walked back.
"We have to talk to Percy and Nico." Mark said.
"Agreed, but now LETS GET SOME BURGERS!" Leo said sprinting away to get food, as the Elementals rushed after him. Sighing Mark went and joined them.
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The Elementals appeared out of seemingly thin air in the middle of the Olympian throne room. However this time there was no out roar it was silence, the atmosphere laden.
"What's going on?" Percy asked them, noticing the silence and the sadness, which seem to fill the room.
"Artemis is missing." Apollo said his face crestfallen.
