Hello dear readers. I once again bring you to another chapter! Sorry for the long update, but hopefully you like this chapter anyways.
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Chapter 8: Damn You!
Some place, 3rd P.O.V
Surrounded by fog and shadows, the person stepped forward. It was a man, standing in front of a gray wall that had a black design on it. In the middle of the design was a circle with the shape of an Omega.
The man turned around raising his right palm. You couldn't see what he was wearing, but you could tell he was in a robe. He placed his palm on the circle. Slowly, he pushed it, and the circle sank into the wall.
He took his hand out of the wall and turned back around leaving both of his hands by his side. He muttered something and the shadows increased. He started speaking out loud.
"Have they been given their time yet?" He said. A loud rumbling sound was heard and there was a flash of light, like how you see when you're looking out of a window, and suddenly there is a lightning flash and everything is lit up for a split second, then it all dies down.
Five feet away stood another figure suddenly. He was covered in mist and fog and you could only see his dim red eyes, surrounded by a black circle.
"Yes, my Lord. I suggest we start the operation. But of course taking our prize first? For those fools should have known not to do what has happened," The figure spoke.
"Indeed. We will get out victory like we have promised since the day of the Disturbance. For you see, we are not very different after all, but we will send our armies soon. Chaos is foolish enough to think he is the only one with a highly trained army, and it will be the downfall of him," The reply came, followed by an evil dark chuckle.
"Yes, my Lord," The figure spoke.
"But before I send you, tell me the prophecy," The other man spoke that was in front of the wall. The figure started speaking in a raspy voice.
"You shall see the path
follow it you must,
though your journey will lead to more betrayal.
Seek help for the Mountain King,
for if the third force of the creator finds it,
his rage unleashed leads to death and destruction"
"Excellent, this war is in our hands. Send Team T-S and their assassin to find and capture them. Now go!" The man said. The other figure disappeared in another flash of light and then there was silence.
Aether's P.O.V
He had to do it. He did not want to, but like every other person, he still had to do it. He knew it would cause trouble, but yet they kept on pestering him to send them. Like every other warrior he trained, Percy was special.
But there was something different about send him this time. He had felt darkness immediately starting to rise as soon as he sent them. He, of course, talked it over with Hemera, and she felt it too. We had both went to Chaos to seek information, but of course, he kept it all secret.
Now, when he knew something was going to happen... He couldn't do anything about it. He sighed. He knew what he was going to end up doing.
He was going to end up going against the regulations and go find Apollo, who of course will know something. Though there was one thing Chaos gave away to him, it was that there was going to be a prophecy, and that was mainly the only reason to find Apollo in the first place.
So tomorrow he was going to shine and stay secret, bringing Hemera. For this wasn't only for Percy. It was for his daughter too. He loved his daughter, and he couldn't bear to lose her just like that all because Chaos couldn't tell him anything.
He trusted Chaos' word of course, but he wanted to know anyways. Apollo wouldn't care about Percy, because of course like all the rest of the selfish Olympians, they forgot about him. But Apollo does care about Prophecies.
So he took a deep breath and flashed away to find Hemera.
Thalia's P.O.V
I was at the hunters camp right now, thinking about where Percy could be, though I was in a life or death situation right now I probably shouldn't be thinking about him. He shouldn't have just disappeared like that. It wasn't fair. Now we spend days looking for him without a single lead. Of course none of the Olympians really care enough to help look for him except for Artemis, they just want to look good.
Of course Artemis probably wouldn't be looking for him if he hadn't saved her from the sky and saved Olympus all together. Although I have noticed many fond feelings toward him.
So here I am, getting my bow out and notching an arrow at another monster. We were being invaded at the hunters' camp and we had started to retreat. Artemis was at Olympus in another stupid meeting that she had to go too and as soon as she left monsters had started to come from all directions.
Our camp was set up in the middle of the forest, and we didn't have any place to go. So we concentrated on a single path to get out.
I heard a yelp and beside me, my friend Kate fell down with a hellhound toppling over her. I got so mad just then that overhead, thunder clouds started to appear and seven strikes of lightning came down, all the while I shot the hellhound that was on top of Kate.
Eight monsters crumpled to dust, and we had a clearer path now. There were about twenty dracaenae and a pack of hellhounds in the way of our path. There were three hyperborean giants behind us and five other monsters on each side of us. We were trapped.
There were only ten of the hunters here, the rest had already retreated or were at Camp Half-Blood for the meantime.
All of a sudden something fell from the sky. It looked like a person, no it was a man. He fell down to the the ground on his back with a loud thud. He was dressed in a robe with a hood covering his head. He opened one eye after the other, both were dark green.
The man sat up and seemed to be confused at where he was. Only then did he seem to take in his surroundings. Immediately he shot up and muttered something under his breath. Two knives shot out two his hands from nowhere, one black and one white.
Some of the other hunters kept on shooting, but diverted their attention to the man, along with the monsters. He moved so fast toward the hellhounds that I could hardly see him. He sliced them up like they were pieces of paper, all within a few seconds. A bunch of dust fell to the ground.
He clashed his blades together and I was blind for the next three seconds. What I thought happened was a black beam came from the white blade and a white beam came from the black blade and shot everywhere destroying everything including trees and bushes making them fall over or crumple to the ground.
Every monster died and turned to dust but all of us hunters were still standing alive.
It took a second for the hunters to figure out that the monsters were all dead and we saw the man standing right there. Immediately three hunters shot at him, and each one of them missed. He seemed to be contemplating on whether to attack or not.
A flash of light came and Artemis was standing there. She produced a large blunt metal object and whacked him on the side of his head, muttering a few words. The man seemed to stay up on the ground for a second, still wide awake but his eyes rolled to the back of his head and he fell to the ground unconscious.
"Artemis, what was it that you said to him?" I asked.
"Just something to make him unconscious. Hunters tie him up, set up a tent for questioning and we can see whether to bring him to Camp Half-Blood or to turn him into a rat, while I go to Camp Half-Blood and get the rest of our sisters," Artemis said. Some of the hunters started walking toward the place of where our camp was and some of them went toward the man, getting a rope from Artemis first.
What a hell of a day.
And that's it for this chapter. Once again, I'm sorry for the long wait, and I'll try to update soon!
Hope you liked it.
If you can guess who the man was at the very beginning you get a spoiler for the next chapter before I update or I can answer three questions about the story, only lasts for three days though so come up with a good guess soon! Review please! Thanks to my Beta!
