I like second chances, do you? Because if you do, you'll understand what I did in the story, for even the smelliest and evil worm of a man deserves a second chance. What if he loses that second chance? Easy! Beat the f*** out of the little slimy git! . . . why did it censor? All I did was say beat the fish out of him, honestly. Also some clarification with what's going on for some of you: Blayze is not gay(sorry to those that wanted that), but he was referring to why there's a fire inside of Leo, which at the time, no one knows about. Nico was the one that switched with Jason, Nico is at Camp Jupiter, the point was to have each of them gain trust, but the plan was taking too long due to Gaea speeding things up, and it got interrupted. Luckily, we have the two hunts to finally interfere for both the Greeks and Romans to unite. Anyways, back to the story!
Previously…
"It's not a problem, the Deathseekers may not have become what it was today if you decided not to join. Now if you excuse me, I'll be taking a rest for at least 3 days straight." Percy concluded as they arrived in front of his cabin. "Oh, and go easy on her, if I say so myself, her hate for men is just as much as your hate for women." he said as he closed his door, leaving Ryan equally surprised.
Now…
As the week flew by, everyone was doing their own thing. Artemis was still "restocking" when Percy noted that their storage tent was full of the supplies they needed for the tri[. After resting for 3 days, with the help of his blessing from Hermes and Zeus, he was streaking around the camp in a streaking golden sphere of light getting ready for the trip to Camp Jupiter too.
First, he had to cut off Xekes as Xekes had gotten used to the regimen, slowly upping the speed making it harder for Percy to catch up as he relied on blessings more heavily while Xekes was just using raw powers that awaited inside him, crackling. After giving Xekes some food due to the face that he was missing a couple meals, Percy headed for Ryan and the others.
While heading over to check up Ryan and the others, he caught sight of James working feverishly in the Hephaestus forge, as if having a battle of will with the lump of celestial bronze that refused to yield under the constant, thunderous hammerings from the giant boy, who was determined to be of more use to the hunt and refusing to stop until the lump of celestial bronze finally gave way. With a huge grin on his face, he saw Percy waving at him and waved back before he went back to hammering at the celestial bronze. As Percy walked over to the cabin of Nike, which was elevated than most, more like one of the mini watchtowers that were now all over Camp-Half Blood ever since the minor cabins were put in. Passing the first floor which was the training area, he went up the stairs where there were multiple bunk beds that were for the children of Nike, but most were unoccupied as there wasn't that many. Ryan was on his bed which were one of the upper ones of the bunk beds, giving a presentation on that illuminated against the wall about the 32 main pressure points on the body. Nemean was watching, surprisingly wearing a pair of glasses that the Hephaestus girls made for him as he stared intently at the wall, which made Percy think that he was resisting the urge to pounce on the light more than study. Blayze on the other hand was barely trying to stay awake. The only reason Ryan didn't mind was that Blayze was intelligent on another level being a dragon, possibly higher than a god for some.
"Just came to check on you guys, how's it going with the pressure points?" asked Percy. Blayze and Nemean got up, with fires trailing his hand making his hands a red blur followed by hands that the normal eye couldn't follow at all, both attacked Percy for one second before standing back. "Not bad, remember, the armor's even harder around those points, but you got the general areas of the points. Nemean's is more precise but needs more power, and your is just the opposite of Nemean." complimented Percy as he ruffled Blayze's hair.
"Anything else?" asked Ryan. Percy shook his head.
"That's it, we should be able to go in two days, the Hunters of Artemis are almost done "restocking". I still have to go talk to the Seven and I was wondering if you could help me talk to some of them, take a break from the pressure points while you're at it." Percy said.
"Sure, Xekes and James are too concentrated on getting as much training before the two day departure, I'm sure we can pitch in."
"I'll go talk to Jason then." said Percy.
"I'll talk to the fire boy, he's on this list right?" asked Blayze.
"Yes, his name is Leo and he's part of the Seven. Actually, Nemean, can you take care of Piper, I have to see James and see if how proficient he is. If he is, there's something I need him to make." said Ryan, silently grinning at how Nemean would react. Nemean, was still looking at his notes nonchalantly.
"Piper...she's an Aphrodite girl isn't she?" asked Nemean as he put away his notes.
"Yea, later." said the other three in unison.
"You guys…" muttered Nemean as he sighed and left the cabin too.
To Jason…
"The famous brother of Thalia, the lieutenant of Artemis and child of Zeus." said a voice behind Jason as he was stabbing away at dummies in the arena.
"How do you know that?" Jason said as he whirled around, almost stabbing the unknown person, but was disarmed, only to see Percy with Anaklusmos in his hand.
"Artemis isn't the only one who knew, plus I saw you before it happened." replied Jason.
"Don't you feel like you shouldn't be here? Every instinct telling you you're in danger?" questioned Percy.
"Yeah, yeah how did you know? Besides Thalia, can you tell me why I have no memories. She said something about an exchange." asked Jason.
"No problem, the plan has been compromised due to Gaea, so we're changing it up anyways. You were switched with Nico, son of Hades, not Pluto. Right now, he's at the Roman Camp, which I visited before briefly as a son of Neptune. Hopefully they don't kill him though." said Percy.
"So why are you here?" asked Jason.
"Well, you're part of the Seven of course, so we're taking you back to Camp Jupiter. Hopefully by having you we could gain an entrance into the city without all the hassle." explained Percy. "You have two days before we leave. Make sure to pack whatever you want, we have more than plenty enough room to take any of your belongings along." With that, Percy vanished, leaving behind a wisp of gold in the air, which Jason thought was just a trick of light.
To Leo
He had been in the workshop for several hours now, studying the designs of a the mystery warship. Festus had gone to go eat, not campers of course as Leo banned that. It was amazing, the warship, with weapons that were to Leo's liking, but what bothered him was the head of the ship, as it looked like Festus. Was this one of his capabilities, to turn into one of the deadliest warships that could possibly exist today? He didn't get to think more on the subject though, as the door to the bunker opened.
"Fire boy! I know you're here, what is this place?" yelled Blayze as he took in the scene before him. "Whoa."
"Hey! How did you get in here you mon-" yelled Leo rushing for the closest weapon, which he forgot was right next to Blayze, just as he realized who it is. "Oh, it's you...wait, how did you get in here?!"
"Uh, I smelled fire on the door?" said Blayze as if it was the simplest thing to understand.
"Smell fire, what? What are you?" Leo said pointing his wrench threateningly, only for a blast of fire to melt it, coming from Blayze's finger.
"I'm a dragon, which you aren't. So what are you doing with fire inside of you, because even pyromancers have some dragon blood, whereas you don't have a drop. What are you?" asked Blayze as he explored the workshop, hanging on a couple of suspended mechanical parts while he waited for an answer.
"Hey, how about next time we don't go all barbeque on my wrench. I'm just some kid of Hephaestus, that's it." said Leo.
"Hephaestus, like James?" asked Blayze.
"Yea, like that giant friend of yours, James." said Leo. As Blayze was thinking, Leo couldn't help but wonder how the nine year old was a dragon.
"How well can you control your fire?"
"Oh no, you're not making me use them again Salamander Boy."
"You used them on the door. Wait, Salamander Boy?"
"Yeah, how old are you even if you're a dragon?"
"I'm one and a half years old."
"Holy Hephaestus, but you look like your nine."
"So? We grow faster than almost any being, and there's no limit too, Percy told me."
"So does your human form grow too?"
"Yea, but once I reach the human age of 18, I can control my human form, Nemean told me that. You're getting off topic though. Conjure some fire, or you're not going."
"Going where?"
"Can't tell you that."
"Then you're lying."
"Am not."
"Am too."
"Am not."
"Am too."
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"AM NOT!"
"AM TOO!" In an instant, both were drawing upon their fire powers, Blayze about to spew fire as Leo ignited charging forward to tackle the kid. As Leo charged forward, what happened next the Leo Brain Comprehension Machine died for a bit. He was pinned to the floor by a large tail, the flames on him leaving his body. How the fire was disappearing, Leo was shocked beyond words. Only after he was released from his hold did he realize that there was a rumor of someone eating lava from the special rock climbing area.
"I guess I can call this fire, but it's more warm than hot. Alright, I'll teach you how to use fire. Oh cmon, let's get going already Flame Bro." concluded Blayze as he started to walk out of the shop.
"Wait, what do you mean you're going to teach me, kid? Plus, Flame Bro? And where are we going?" asked Leo, his mind still out of action with everything happening.
"Oh, I didn't tell you? You're part of the Seven that my brothers and I are taking with us along with the Hunters of Artemis to Camp Jupiter."
"You did not tell me that!"
"Meh, I told you now," said Blayze, shrugging as he walked out of the door until he stopped at the last moment, sniffing. "Must be the excess oil in here, but I'd watch out if I were you, I smell another dragon." With that, Blayze left the shop, leaving his new disciple of fire in the workshop to prepare for the trip.
Now to Piper…
Nemean sighed. Of course the rest of the guys would leave the Aphrodite girl to him. Now he had to figure out a way to find her without meeting any of the other Aphrodite girls, even one would set off the entire "I Found Nemean'!" alarm. As he watched the Aphrodite cabin from a tree, he sensed something was off. Weren't all the Aphrodite girls in there now, including Piper? He stayed in his position, waiting. After five hours of his life being completely wasted on watching the cabin, it was time to go eat dinner, so when Nemean watched all the Aphrodite girls file out of the cabin to the tables, he silently groaned when he got up sore from staying in the tree for so long after not seeing Piper among them. As he walked over to the dinner tables, he saw his target talking to two other people, two boys about the same age as her. As he got closer, he realized that it was Jason and Leo.
"He knows who I am Piper, only Artemis knew that was only because she was a goddess. If he can help me regain my memories, then I'm going. Hopefully we'll meet again once I remember who I am." said Jason. "I have to go now, Thalia said she wasn't going to accept it if I was late to having dinner with her." With that, Jason hurried off to the Zeus table, leaving Leo and Piper alone, Piper with her head down, saddened by the fact that their relationship was only a false memory.
"Don't worry, I'll watch an eye on him to make sure he comes back after he remembers. False memories or not, we're still friends after all Pipes." assured Leo.
"I told you not to call me that though. But why are you going on the quest?" asked Piper.
"I have no idea, must be the day that I won in the quest lottery." grinned Leo. Nemean stared at him for a while studying him, something wasn't right. The body posture was over exaggerated, his grin somewhat forced, the boy was hiding something. "Hey, I have to go catch up with Nyssa and the others now too, don't let Drew get the best of you Pipes." Leo said as he dodged a smack from Piper, zig zagging to his table while Piper just stood there, staring at the stars.
"You know, I really don't know why they think that you're not part of the Seven." said Nemean, which surprised Piper greatly as if he appeared out of nowhere, which he kind of did.
"Who are y- Oh, you're the one that all those Barbies were chasing. I'm not interested." said Piper as she began to walk away.
"You can leave,of course I'll have to tell Percy, but I'm still going to tell you after staying in a tree for more than 5 hours because I thought you were with the other Aphrodite girls, otherwise you would've been notified earlier." said Nemen nonchalantly, his words ensnaring Piper's feet to the ground.
"So, I'm part of the Seven apparently, that's what you're saying right?" says Piper, a look of worry on her face which confused Nemean, slightly.
"Didn't you want to be on the quest? To be with your friends, help Jason get his memory?" questioned Nemean.
"I do! But now that I can go, I mean...why an Aphrodite kid like me, there's Clarisse Nyssa...Katie...others who are more experienced..." muttered Piper, which didn't go unnoticed under Nemean's ears.
"To be honest, I'm just here to deliver the message. Whether you want to come or not, it's totally up to you. What I do know is that the prophecy didn't pick pick someone like Clarisse, it picked you. Maybe you'll find out why if you choose to go, later." said Nemean as he left to go join the Deathseekers, leaving the child of Aphrodite to decide as she went to go to the Aphrodite's table, where a stern Drew was waiting.
I'M NOT MAKING A LINE BREAK, I'M CARVING A LINE HERE, A LINE IS CARVED HERE
"Ready?" asked Percy, the Deathseekers nodding.
"The Hunters are ready to set off as well." said Thalia, turning around as Jason showed up, waving.
"Leo said he'll be here in a sec." said Jason. Right on queue, a shadow appeared, catching everybody off guard except Percy and Blayze, Percy freezing time to see what whether it was a threat or not, Blayze just smelling it in the air and waiting. To everyone else though, a colossal bronze dragon landed right in the center of the group, Thalia pulling Jason away in the nick of time while the Hunters dodged it with ease. As the smoke cleared, they could see red eyes glowing, drawing their weapons as they recognized it as the eyes of a monster, Blayze's smile widening into a frenzied grin, Peleus growling as the eyes shifted onto him.
"Whoa whoa whoa, ladies and gentleman, refrain from shooting my dragon and I to multiple shish kebabs. We would love to go on this quest whole, not in food samples." said Leo, the smoke and debris cleared as they saw the scrawny boy upon a celestial bronze dragon.
"That's the mechanical dragon that campers were afraid of interfering in the games isn't it?" asked Percy.
"Yea, Nyssa and the others were making traps to catch it while they taught me how to make craft with celestial bronze. They said that it was highly dangerous." James said in awe as they stared at the giant dragon, only to see Percy, Nemean, Ryan, Xekes laugh while Blayze just harrumphed.
"James, have you forgotten that we live with a live dragon?" asked Xekes, which made realization dawn upon James face as he stared at Blayze apologetically for forgetting about him.
"Hmph, of course Flame Bro should be able to catch a dragon like that, but now it brings the inevitable, stay out of this guys." said Blayze, which made the others wonder, the Hunters of Artemis hearing him also and backing up too in confusion. Just as Percy's eyes flickered grey, Blayze transformed into his dragon form, two thirds the size of the bronze dragon and half the size of Peleus, who roared as he broke free from his chain. Bewildered, the campers came running out to see three dragons facing each other, Leo having enough time to side next to the Hunters who were too busy staring at the dragons to knee him in the cogs.
"So, both of you decided to come after all." grumbled Peleus, in the language only dragons would understand.
"My actions are my master's bidding and mine alone old one." snapped the bronze dragon.
"Both of you, stop acting all toughy wuffy. Technically, we came from above and I never got the chance to come to the border as the lava is the fire here. Bronzy, if this is the ritual to decide rankings, you're already low enough, Festus." said Blayze earning a snicker from Peleus.
"Festus? As in Happy?" asked Peleus, shifting his wings.
"I admit, my master is a bit odd for a human. If we were judging this by names instead of talons and fire, would you let the runt win? Peleus isn't a very dragonic name either old one." replied Festus.
"I do not need my name to prove my worth. We are the only dragons on this continent, as I have traveled with my brothers, so this might as well be settled now!" roared Blayze as he leapt forward, his claws scratching upon the metallic armor of Festus who then blew a jet of fire at him, which didn't stop Blayze as he dodged it, only to get hit by Peleus' tail and pinned. Bathing Peleus in his own river fire, he was released after several seconds.
"Impressive firepower, I was surprised it was that hot young one." grunted Peleus as he was then shaking Festus off of him, who attacked wildly with his own tail, knocking both Blayze and Peleus off their feet. Blayze recovered instantly though, turning into an airborne bullet once more as he went for Festus, this time using his head to impact him right in the chin, which made Festus leak quite a bit of oil.
"Enough! The Dragon King of this continent shall be I!" yelled all three in unison as they roared with fire, the Hunters and Deathseekers by this time a safe distance away when they realized there would be a fight. The campers could only gawk in amazement too, some realizing that they would only see this once in their lifetime, as it was like watching Godzilla but in real life. After a couple of minutes, the heat only increasing, when in an instant, the heat began to decline dramatically. Surprised, Peleus and Festus continued to breathe even more fire to keep up the heat to prove themselves, but the fire kept disappearing. It kept disappearing, and when they saw why, their jaws snapped shut.
Blazye was in his human form, some of his clothes burnt(he never like the armor, thought it was restricting)as he was eating the fire that was funneling itself towards him. In only a matter of seconds, the firestorm was gone as the last few flames went into Blayze, closing his eyes as he consumed the last of the fire. When he opened his eyes, a savage grin was etched on his face as fire was burning from his wild eyes, his dragon scales imprinted on his skin, tiny fangs now protruding from his mouth.
"This litt-." Peleus was saying as Blayze instantly appeared above his head, a ghost of him still where he was standing, slapping Peleus' head as if it were a volleyball, slamming Peleus to the ground in defeat. Festus seeing this stopped, for he would be unable to aid his master Leo on his quest should he be annihilated by the little burning boy. Nothing happened for several minutes, the world unusually quiet as it was such an event that even Chaos took a little peek into before resuming his work.
"Yield." commanded Blayze, still growling in the language of dragons despite being in his human form.
"Ha, I yield. You will make a fine King, or Candidate if there are others from the ancient lands, for they will now turn to you. Tell me though, where did you find it? Last I remembered, it was with Prometheus." asked Peleus. Blayze reverted back to normal, a ring of fire departing him which burned a 20m radius to a fine crisp.
"It still was, Zeus's orders weren't the only thing spurring on the scavenging pile of rags, could've turned into a phoenix if he did," replied Blayze.
"Care to fill me in? What was it that young Blayze found?" asked Festus.
"Stop fooling around. Even the young one here was born with the information about it when he was born. You know how we are by default fire dragons, correct? He is not just a fire dragon by default." supplied Peleus, Festus' eyes glowing brighter.
"Prometheus had the real thing? Are you sure?" asked Festus in wonder before turning to Blayze, "Boy! How much did you have?!" Even Peleus turned back to Blayze to hear his answer.
"Ah, about that, I ate all of it…" replied Blayze as he grinned, scratching the back of his head.
"All of it?!" exclaimed Peleus and Festus, their roars of surprise echoing miles around.
"It's decided then, you shall be our King/Candidate. To eat the entire Essence of Fire, one of the 6 elements(Water, Earth, Fire, Air, and I added in Light and Darkness because it's more fun), have a safe journey when visiting other continents, Blayze Pyroclaws. Festus, take care of the King." Peleus as he blessed Blayze, heading back to the tree. Excited, Blayze ran back to the Deathseekers while Festus returned to Leo.
"Percy! I'm a King Candidate!" yelled Blayze as he leapt right into the small group of Deathseekers, James being the tallest catched him with ease.
"A what? You guys just started fighting all of a sudden, but it didn't seem like you were angry at each other. When you absorbed all of that fire, you did the same thing as you did when we happened to come across Prometheus." noted Percy.
"Yeah, I couldn't believe that we came across him too. What a waste it was for him to have the essence." said Blayze.
"Hey, um, I know that the dragon fight was much cooler and all, but I made up my mind." said a voice, everyone turning around to see Piper standing there.
"We'll discuss this new revelation later Blayze, congrats on being a King Candidate for now and on the massive fire boost they gave you." said Percy.
"Pipes!" hollered Leo as he and Festus walked over to talk to the third member of the quest.
"Glad you made a decision Piper McLean." nodded Nemean, earning strange looks from the rest of the Deathseekers. As Leo and Piper walked over to Jason who was overjoyed that Piper was on the quest while at the same time gawking at the dragon that already had their luggage in a compartment. After a few more minutes of lazing around, they all finally headed to Camp Jupiter.
Last time I _ a line. This time, we'll rip a line across this chapter. RIPRIPRIPRIPRIP.
Thanks to Artemis' influence over the mist, covering them from mortals that would see 7 golden streaks, roughly 20 silver streaks, and a flying dragon more as several planes, they were able to make it to the tunnel entrance of Camp Jupiter in 8 hours(Festus being the slowest). The moment they landed, two Romans were there to meet them.
"State your name and purpose." said a particularly pudgy faced Asian, which made Artemis and the Hunters roll their eyes, some even fidgeting with their bows.
"Move aside boy if you know what's best for you." replied Thalia.
"State your name and pur-" repeated the Asian until Percy cut him off.
"Frank, remember me? We're kind of on a schedule here, so can we talk inside?" asked Percy.
"Who are y- Percy? No way, you've been gone for almost 2 years! You should be dead since you're a child of Neptune." exclaimed Frank.
"Yeah, well, I didn't really show you any of my powers when I was in the camp, I was only interested in recruits at the time." explained Percy.
"Recruits for what?"
"The Deathseekers."
"What are the Deathseekers?"
"I'll tell you when we're inside."
"It'd better not be a group of Greeks, Marcus would freak, and he's worse than Octavian. Can you believe that there actually is a group of Greeks though in New York?"
"Wait, how do you know about that?"
"Wait, you know about that too? How did you know about that?"
"Enough! We need to get inside right now." interrupted Artemis as she grew to her godly form, switching to her Roman side Diana, Frank and the other Roman who was a girl dropped their jaws in exclamation.
"R-right away Lady Diana." said Frank, as he hurriedly lead them through the tunnel to the camp. As they walked, they felt the tunnel slowly change as they passed through the Mist, revealing the camp that only those with the blood of the gods could enter. "Lady Diana has arrived, open the gates!" As the gates opened, other Romans were looking in their direction to see the goddess, then wondering in confusion as they passed by why she would allow a group of boys to follow in her presence, along with the colossal bronze dragon with two boys and a girl atop it.
"Lady Diana! What an honor it is for you to arrive to our camp!" shouted a pale boy with greasy black hair. As Diana turned to face the boy, both the Hunters and Deathseekers picked up the vibe that emanated from the crowd of Romans, half of them wanting to kill the boy, the other half eagerly listening to what he had to said.
"Who might you be boy?" asked Diana.
"Dear goddess, I am Marcus, acting praetor of Jason until he retu-" Marcus was explaining, each word slithering out of his mouth, when both hunts and part of the Seven saw the funniest reaction as Marcus caught sight of Jason. His eyes bulged, his tongue slightly sticking out of his mouth that was agape as he took in the sight that Jason was right there atop a bronze dragon in shock. Then as if it never happened, Marcus sucked back in his eyeballs and tongue as he announced with a cold glare at Jason, "Romans! Jason has returned! Our praetor has finally returned!" As the Romans took their eyes off of Marcus and gazed upon their praetor that disappeared suddenly, now here before their very eyes! Cheers ruptured throughout the crowds as they continued to make their way to the Senate House.
Skippity time skip time skip...crowds cheering! whoo! Jason is back! Now at the Senate House…
"Jason! You've returned!" shouted Reyna as she turned to see their arrival through the Senate House, Leo being last as he lugged in Festus in his suitcase form.
"It seems so...who are you though?" asked Jason, a flash of sadness upon Reyna's face.
"Do you not remember? Together, we were the two praetors that helped New Rome prosper." said Reyna.
"His memories have been taken by Juno as part of a plan to unite the Greeks and Romans. Jupiter however upon hearing certain news, has closed Olympus down, cutting off from the entire world. So unless there is another way to restore his memories, it will take at least five years for his memories to pass through the walls of Olympus if Juno releases it today." explained Diana grimly. Marcus was the only one disturbed by that fact, focused on another one to be disturbed by.
"Diana, I believe I misheard you, did you say that we were to unite with the Greeks?" blanched Marcus. Instead of Diana responding to him, looking at Reyna still, Thalia was the one who responded.
"It was the gods' plan and still to unite the Greeks and Romans to fight Gaea boy, and you will cooperate." snapped Thalia.
"And tell me huntress, why should we cooperate with them, they are nothing but a bunch of liars and tricksters." replied Marcus.
"Oh, you're not going to call me a liar and a trickster now are you Marc?" asked Percy, all the Romans that recognized him before shocked.
"Percy, you're-" Frank was asking but was cut off by Marcus.
"You! So that's why you left this camp, you were a spy then! We should have killed you, especially when Octavian disappeared afterwards too. It's a crime to kill an augur Graceus." snarled Marcus, drawing out the last word as it dangled in the air.
"Octavian isn't dead, and I certainly didn't kill him." said Percy calmly.
"Liar, you're just a lia-" Marcus retorted until a two lightning bolts and a multitude of arrows flew past him, his mouth unable to speak as he quivered under the glares of the two children of Zeus/Jupiter and the Deathseekers.
"I don't even need my memories to remember that I would never pick you to be my replacement. Since I'm now back, you may return to your place as the centurion of the Third Cohort, know your place." said Jason, his body sparking with lightning, slightly surprising everyone with this sudden authority.
"Now that we've settled that matter, you were saying something about why we needed to work together with the Greeks? Is it possibly because of the Prophecy of Seven?" questioned Reyna.
"Nice deduction, and that is exactly is why we're here. To discuss the members of the Seven. To be honest, there are six of us here already." noted Percy.
"Six? Isn't there only three right now?" asked Reyna.
"I'm sorry, if we weren't interrupted by Marc over there, we would've gotten to that part. Right now though, everyone here needs to swear on the River Styx that they will keep what I say next a secret, everybody whether you already heard before or not." declared Percy. Everyone swore upon the Styx, even Marcus after another storm of arrows missing him by mere centimeters. Percy then told his story, how he became the Hero of Olympus, later becoming the leader of the Deathseekers, finding his brothers, and how they discovered part of Gaea's plan, to going to Olympus only to be cast out as it shut itself off, then going to Camp Half-Blood, where he learned the names of the Seven. Frank and Hazel, who was the girl beside Frank guarding the tunnel, were more surprised than most of the Romans when Percy said that they were part of the quest. A messenger was sent for Nico as everyone processed what Percy said.
"Wait, Chaos is real, and you met him?!" shouted Reyna.
"I'm part of the Seven?" asked Frank.
"Why am I in it?" questioned Hazel.
"That brother of mine is a Greek?! Part of the Seven too?!" exclaimed Marcus.
"Yes! I met Chaos. Frank, Hazel, if anyone should go on this quest, you two definitely deserve to be on it. Marcus, Nico is more of a hero than you are, and the only reason he was sent here was the same reason Jason was sent to Camp Half-Blood, to help unite the Greeks and Romans, if I hear a complaint from you, you will regret it." answered Percy, threatening Marcus as he turned to stare at him.
"Wait, even we don't know about the last one, Octavian. The Romans say he died." said Diana.
"They say he died because I apparently killed him, but I didn't, so he's alive." Percy answered as the shadows around him contracted, forming into a hole, and out stepped Nico.
"What's going on." asked Nico only to be tackled by both Thalia and Percy.
"Nico, it great to see you again." said Percy.
"Yeah, it's been too long Death Breath." added Thalia.
"Wait, who are you guys?" asked Nico.
"Oh right, well, I'm Percy and Thunder Head over here is Thalia, we're half cousins on the godly side." briefed Percy.
"Right, and Seaweed Brain over here forgot to add that we fought together to save the world from the Titans destroying this world as we know it." said Thalia.
"We saved the world together? Jeez, how could I forget something like that." said Nico as he scratched his head in wonder.
"Well, that's the past, and now we need to save the world again. This time though, you're part of the Seven demigods, both Percy and I will help from the Hunters and Deathseekers if you need any, but I doubt it."
"Great I guess." muttered Nico.
"Cool we're all here folks, now I'm Leo, the one with the giant bronze dragon and child of Hephaestus. You guys can start calling me the Supreme Commander." said Leo.
"Supreme Commander of what?" asked Jason.
"You'll see. Anyways, you guys have to introduce yourselves too." replied Leo as he fiddled with some tools.
"Okay, I'm Piper, child of Aphrodite, and I'm...um…" Piper introduced, her voice dying down as she didn't want to say that she was the daughter of Tristan McLean and apparently Jason's fake girlfriend.
"I'm Jason, one of the praetors of New Rome, child of Jupiter, and...yeah, that's it since I can't remember anything else." said Jason.
"You used to be the centurion of the FIfth Cohort Jason before becoming praetor. Anyways, my name is Frank Zhang, son of Mars, and the newly appointed centurion of the Fifth Cohort." said Frank, Leo already thinking of ways to prank him(couldn't help it, Frank with the baby face and all).
"Hi, my name is Hazel Levesque. I'm also a child of Pluto just like Nico and Marcus. I look forward to working with all of you." introduced Hazel.
"Um, my name is Nico, I'm not sure what's with the Pluto/Hades thing, but I feel like calling myself a child of Hades." said Nico nervously.
"He is actually a child of Hades, not Pluto, and is has the title of the Ghost King." added Percy with a grin, only for it to be replaced with a groan as Marcus spoke up again.
"Funny thing for a son of Poseidon to know that yet can't add up that there are yet only six out of the seven demigods. Truly your brain is filled with not just seawater but some seafoam as wel-" Marcus sneered until he grunted in surprise, a knee to his sternum, unable to breathe as he looked at his attacker. What he saw didn't scare him, it terrified him, for he saw a man clad in black, even upon his face a mask that didn't even reveal his eyes, only small holes all over the mask that gave no clue of his attacker's face, but even he knew the attacker was staring right into his eyes, possibly beyond for all he knew. Before he could stare any longer, the warrior uppercutted him into the air, only to follow as he kicked him upwards, slamming him into the ceiling. As Marcus fell, he knew he must be hallucinating, for he saw a dark black purplish aura emanating from the attacker, making him piss in his pants, terrified beyond means, willing to do anything to get away from this attacker this very instance. Instead, as he fell, the attacker drew back his right first as he punched Marcus right on the cheek, sending him flying to his left straight towards Percy, only for him to run up besides the flying body, grab his head, and slam him into the ground, the only sound in the room being the sound of the floor giving way as the face carved into the earth.
Everybody was silent, even for the Hunters. Some even paled at what "he" could do, realizing that could've happened to them when they got in a fight with the Deathseekers, Thalia and Jason knowing that "he" couldn't have killed the boy as to not start a war, must have been holding back, proving that what Xekes said to them about being second to last in power true. Even the other Deathseekers besides Ryan and Percy were surprised, for all this time, they didn't know how powerful "he" was, not even his name which only Ryan and Percy knew.
Slowly, as if waking up from a trance, the other Romans processed this act as a threat, some enjoying Marcus being crushed, but still as a threat, surrounded the Deathseekers. As they almost surrounded them, Reyna snapped out of it and saw what they were doing.
"Enough! For all we know, there could be another story behind his reason of attacking Marcus. Besides, didn't you pay attention to the story, which Marcus obviously didn't? He insulted the new Primordial of Time! That itself is the right to an execution if we had one." ordered Reyna.
"Oh no, no, no, and no. We are not having executions on my hands just because he said seafoam." said Percy "Sure, he doesn't think, but he's not even that injured. I can heal him with my powers so he learns his lesson and is all better again. You will all still refer to me as Percy though, because Perseus isn't cool," which made some of the Deathseekers laugh quietly as to how the almighty Primordial of Time was acting. "How many injuries does he have?"
"He only has 18 fractures, a ruptured spleen, and 24 out of 32 teeth missing." "he" said. Percy then summoned water, his eyes glowing red orange, his hands turning the water gold as Marcus slowly woke up, completely healed. As he saw "him" he yelped as he ran to the farthest point in the room away from him.
"That voice-" muttered Reyna.It sounds different though. Could it be?
"See? Not that bad, some water, use the blessing of Hestia, add some awesome time powers, and he'll be as good as new. Now I think it's about time you introduce yourself before someone else gets hurt for saying seafoam." joked Percy as he elbowed "him" in the ribs.
Snapping his fingers, three clasps appeared his head, which he unlocked as he took off his mask, leaving the Romans in uproar and confusion, even Jason.
"Where have I seen you before?" asked Jason.
"Here! You saw him here Jason! You have nerve to return after thought to be dead for betraying us." growled Reyna.
"What are you doing here you mangy weasel." muttered Frank.
"Whoa, what's going here taco people?" yelled Leo, unheard by everyone.
"You're with the Greeks! How is it that YOU are with the Greeks!" yelled Marcus from afar. "He" looked at all of them calmly before turning to Jason and the rest of the Seven.
"My name is Octavian, former augur of Camp Jupiter, current co-lieutenant of the Deathseekers, and the seventh member of the Great Prophecy.
It's out! It's out! Newspaper! Newspaper! Get your daily newspaper mortals! The Masked Boy revealed, but why him? How did he end up in such a cool group of potentially amazing hunters? Much less co-lieutenant, this scrawny manipulative snake? Who recognized that when I put the snake on his armor? Congrats to my readers who did piece that together, you guys are geniuses. This has to be the largest chapter(feels like it). Anyways, I may be able to put up another chapter during or after Winter Break, as FINAL EXAMS ARE COMING! If you're wondering, I'm a mortal currently in college, so best of luck to the rest of you, especially to all in college.