Sorry I didn't post anything yesterday. I was at Hershey for medical tests all day and had no time to write or anything.
DISCLAIMER: OWN NOTHING
Annabeth POV
I frowned. It was dinner time at Camp Half-Blood, and about a day after Percy, Luke, Zoe and all their soldiers had left. I frowned over at the Poseidon table where I assumed Zack would be. He wasn't. I cocked an eyebrow and stood, but before I could say anything, I was grabbed from behind, and a second later I found myself face to face with a very angry Percy Jackson. His eyes were blood red instead of purple, courtesy of the Chaos Mist I guessed. I opened my mouth to speak but was interrupted by Percy has he growled out
"Where is he?" I stammered, trying to figure out what his problem is.
"I-I don't-W-what are you talking-" He interrupted me, by tightening his grip on my shirt collar and shaking me roughly
"Don't play dumb Chase, it doesn't suit you. Where. Is. Zack?" I frowned again, and before I could say anything, Chiron walked up and asked
"Percy? What is it? Why do you need Zack?" Percy rolled his eyes at Chiron as he answered in a huffy tone.
"First of all, because of all you traitors, I go by 'Perseus' now. Second, don't protect him. Where are you hiding Zack?" Chiron cocked his head.
"Why? What do you need Zack for?" Before Percy...or as he now calls himself 'Perseus' could answer, there was a short, dark laugh. As we all turned in the direction of camp with our backs to the pavilion, the intruder spoke
"Yes Omega!" He said the name more like a taunt. I glanced over at Percy to see he had his hood pulled over his head again and one hand resting on his Stygian Iron sword. "Why do you need Zack?" The intruder laughed as Percy growled out the name
"Epsilon." So called Epsilon smirked and bowed, his cape swishing around his body as he moved. He dressed exactly like Percy. The only difference was everything Epsilon wore was snow white instead of deadly black.
"I'm glad you remembered me Omega considering you had a little memory issue the last time we encountered each other!" I turned to Percy and asked
"Do you two know each other?" He cocked his head in the direction of Epsilon as he spoke in a strained, monotone voice as if he was trying to keep a hand on his emotions.
"Epsilon is the son of Order. Order is the brother of Chaos. His powers are based on destruction and," Here Percy stopped, and his lips quirked up in a smirk and he chuckled as he continued "chaos." I looked back at Epsilon at the sound of a knife being drawn. I couldn't help but take a step back when I saw how close he'd somehow gotten to Percy. He then held up a strange, silver knife by Percy's hooded head and I noticed Percy's muscles tighten at the sight of the knife. I frowned as Epsilon laughed at Percy's reaction. While he spoke, he flailed the knife around keeping it near Percy and in his line of sight as if to taunt him with it.
"You know what this is made of don't you Omega? You know what would happen if it were to pierce your skin?" I glanced over at Zoe and Luke who stood behind me, and I whispered
"What is it? What's it made of? What would it do?" Luke's eyes flicked down to mine before looking back up to Percy and Epsilon who had suddenly engaged in a brutal battle. As they fought, and without looking away, Luke spoke
"It's a special knife made out of Chaos Metal. It's the only thing that can kill Perseus! Well, that or if he were to take his cape and wrist gauntlets off." I frowned.
"Why would taking his cape and gauntlets off kill him?" Luke sighed sadly and looked down at me as he said
"Perseus was dying when Zoe and I found him. His cape and gauntlets have a special spell imbedded in them. They keep him alive. If he were to take them off, his body would struggle to sustain him and he'd struggle to control his powers and he'd eventually die." I paled at that.
"Oh. That's...that's horrible." Luke nodded grimly. His eyes back on the fight.
"It is. What makes it worse is he has Zoe as a wife, as well as four kids with one or two on the way." I raised my eyebrows and looked over at Zoe who was watching Percy and Epsilon with horror. I hated to take her attention away from him but I really wanted to know her kids names.
"What are your kids names Zoe?" At my question, Poseidon, Sally, the rest of the seven, Nico and Thalia and Chiron walked over to hear the answer. Zoe took a few seconds to look at me, before smiling sadly and answering.
"Our oldest is Jason Nico Jackson." I looked over at Jason and Nico to see them smiling boldly, except that Nico also seemed to be blushing. Zoe went on. "His twin sister's name is Thalia Bianca Jackson." Thalia laughed lightly and Nico looked down sadly. Hazel walked over slowly and put her arm around his shoulders. I looked up at Zoe.
"Who are the other two?" She sighed but before she could answer the question, her eyes went wide and she began screaming. I looked over as the sound of Percy's scream flew over to us, somehow louder than Zoes. What I saw made me nearly scream as well, and as Luke and Zoe rushed to his side I felt light headed. Percy lay on his side with his arms gripping the Chaos Metal knife that was now sticking out of his stomach. I looked around trying to find Epsilon and when I found him I couldn't warn Zoe and Luke in time. Before they could get to Percy there was a flash of bright light and both Percy and Epsilon were gone leaving nothing behind but the knife, Percy's cape and a puddle of Ichor.
That's all here everyone. Once again, sorry about yesterday. I'll try and post more tomorrow but not sure if I'll be able to. Also just a heads up, I might not post anything on Tuesday since I have a acting workshop all day but I'll try and post as much as possible. Thanks.
