AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello once again readers! I am rather disappointed that I got maybe two different reviews on that last chapter. It takes maybe a minute for you guys to write a review, and it doesn't hurt you to do it. It means a lot to authors. In fact, I want you all to try something. Whenever you read a story on the site and like it, post a review. Tell them what you liked and what you didn't. It helps us a lot. Anyway, I thank Grey Fox Ninja again for continuing his great editing for me, and I ask you all to check out his story for the origins of Fox. I will say this though: do not complain about the length. I have a set goal for how far I want to go, and when I get there, I get there. Some chapters will be long and some will be short. Now that I am done ranting, ON WITH THE STORY!
Percy's POV:
When I left Artemis's tent, I had an odd happy feeling. It was odd. I shrugged and ran to the woods, where my team was waiting for me. They greeted me warmly.
"How did freeing the girls go?" I asked. Their faces fell a bit.
"Not so well. Four girls died before we could save them. They were split in half." Nico says. Thalia gripped her bow tightly, Zoe looked ready to explode, and Bianca had tear streaks on her cheeks, some things that did not go unnoticed.
"Thalia, Zoe it is ok. I beat the living shit out of him, and by this point he has probably already been given to the Olympians. He will be punished. Bianca I know death is a difficult thing to deal with, over the past years I've dealt with the guilt of your and Zoe's deaths and the deaths of many others. It's something you learn to move past or live with. But it's never easy" I said Thalia and Zoe both nodded, Zoe giving me a smile, Bianca smiled and wiped her cheeks, I continued.
"We did well guys! I wish we could have saved everybody, but there are casualties in every war, and believe me, this is war. Mark will escape, I guarantee it. Chaos will take him. But, that does not mean he will get away with this. There is no where he can hide now. The gods know his name and face, and now that that is done, we will move on. We are going to make a name for ourselves, but to do that, we need to come up with a way to hide our identities. Hopefully, Tartarus will be finished with our base hut thing soon so that…" I said before trailing off as a strange sound filled the air.
EERrwWwoooooSHHHhEERrwWwoooooSHHHh EERrwWwoooooSHHHh.
It was a sort of wheezing and groaning sound. As the sound filled the air, a big blue box slowly materialized.
"What is it?" asked Reyna.
"Should we attack it?" asked Nico.
At that moment, a door opened on it and Tartarus jumped out.
"Hello! It is ok! It is me, Tartarus! I finished the hut for you guys, and here it is! It was actually more of a fix though than an upgrade. This is what is called a T.A.R.D.I.S. That stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Basically, it is a time machine. This will make it far easier for you to make the Cavalry known throughout the world as a force for good. Come on inside!" He said excitedly. I had never seen him this excited in all the months I had spent with him. I looked at my team and shrugged before entering.
Like the hut, it was bigger on the inside. It was all a golden color with a big console in the middle with a tube leading to the top. It was odd though. All of the lights were off and the whole thing seemed almost... sad. The rest of my team walked in and when Kronos walked in, he gasped.
"No… It can't be!" He whispered. Tartarus looked at him gravely.
"Yes it is." Tartarus said.
"Wait, can somebody explain here? What is going on?" I said, feeling rather confused. Kronos slowly walked to the center console and placed his hand on it before explaining.
"Did you ever wonder, Percy, why I did not just use my powers over time to go back in time every time you beat me and stop it from happening? Or why, after I knew about you, I didn't just go back in time and kill your mother? It was because of this. A long, LONG time ago, I was able to do that. During the first Titan war, the gods captured this, my TARDIS. Without it, my powers were cut in half. I was never able to find it because they hid and damaged it. Otherwise, it would have just come back to me. Now, my greatest tool, my greatest friend, has returned to me." He said with tears in his eyes. I patted him on the back.
"Can you still fly it? And can you make it so we can keep our mounts with us? I don't think they will fit through the door." I said, turning serious.
"Fly it? I could park this baby on a dime, Percy. As for a place for the animals..." he said, turning to Tartarus before continuing.
"Is the chameleon circuit fixed?"
"Yes, it is, Kronos." Tartarus answered.
"Good. Just a second then!" Kronos said. He turned to the console.
"Wake up, old friend. We have work to do. Give me a garage, because we have some big passengers." He shouted happily to the ship. The lights all lit up and the dome room was lit with a warm glow. The ship became alive and, if a machine can be happy, this one definitely seemed happy. There was a large bang, and the ship rocked to the side. We all ran outside. Now, it looked like a house with a two car garage.
Everybody led their mounts inside. Once everybody was inside, he shut the door and called out again.
"Alright, back to normal! I know you like the police box form." He said. There was another bang and the ship rocked. He turned to me now.
"On here, I may be the helmsman, but you are always the Captain. Where do you want to go? This baby can take you to any where and when in the universe." He said proudly. I nodded.
"Take us into orbit for now. I want to talk to everybody. Do you need us to drop you off, Tartarus?" I asked, turning to Tartarus. He shook his head.
"Nah, I can always teleport back to my realm. See you guys later though! I'll check up on you all again soon." He said before snapping his fingers and vanishing.
"Alright! Kronos, take us up." I said. There was a deep bong, almost like a gong, before that wheezing and groaning sound began again.
EERrwWwoooooSHHHhEERrwWwoooooSHHHh EERrwWwoooooSHHHh
The ship rocked back and forth as Kronos manipulated the console, his fingers like a pianist's across his keyboard. He used a hammer a lot, which I thought was kind of odd, but when the ship stopped rocking, he had a huge grin on his face.
"Are we in orbit?" I asked. Instead of answering, he grinned and leaned against the console. He pressed a button and the doors popped open.
We all grabbed on to something, having seen enough movies to know that is we didn't, we would be sucked into space. He fell over laughing as we all slowly realized that nothing was happening.
"ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE? YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US!" Thalia screamed at him.
"No, I couldn't have. The TARDIS protects us. Go look outside! I know you want to." He said, still chuckling.
I lead the way over to the door slowly. When we made it over to the door and looked outside, we all gasped. Well... all of us except for Thalia. She threw up and staggered back. Heights... oops, I had forgotten. That is something I will have to fix.
"Alright, Kronos, shut the doors." I ordered he nodded and hit a button, shutting the doors.
"Now then," I said, addressing my team. "We need ways to hide our identities. Several of us are known, and to be quite honest, hated by the Gods. As stupid as it sounds, we need to come up with names. Any ideas?" I asked. They all looked at each other. Finally, Beckendorf spoke up.
"I have an idea. Lets call Moschion The Bard. You did say that you were a sort of warrior bard before you became the Minotaur, didn't you?" He said.
"Yes, I did. I like that. I like that a lot, actually. It has been a long time since anyone called me a bard." Moschion said, scratching his chin thoughtfully. He nodded.
"Yes, that will do." He said.
"Alright then, who's next?" I asked. Nico stood up, blushing furiously.
"What about calling Thalia Huntress. I know it is already a superhero in comic books, but she is a huntress, so it does work." He said, sitting down quickly. Interesting. If I didn't know better, I would say that Nico has a thing for Thalia. I filed that away for later as Thalia shot up.
"NO! I know that comic, and she is a whore. I will not be named after some whore comic book character. How about… Lightning. That seems pretty tough." She said. I nodded.
"Ok, that'll work. Who is next?" I asked. Thalia stood up again.
"I have one for Nico. How about Shadow Rider, since you can do your shadow travel thing." She said. He nodded, too embarrassed to talk after her rejection of his idea.
"Ok. I have one for Kronos. How about… The Doctor. I don't really have a good reason, but it just seems like a good one for him, what do you think?" I said. Kronos toyed with his scythe.
"I kind of like that. I am trying to right my wrongs, and part of that is helping people like a doctor does." He said. Now Fox stood up.
"I have one for myself, because I have one more power I didn't tell you about, because it is rather hard. Call me… Arkangel." He said. He then rolled his shoulders forward, kind of like someone who is stretching and about to lift something heavy. Out of his back popped two massive, black, feathered wings. They were beautiful.
"Why didn't you tell us about them earlier?" I asked.
"Several reasons. For one, they are associated with my title which I also didn't tell you guys about I'm called The Angel Of Judgement. These wings are completely indestructible and I'm pretty good with them I can use them in battle provided I'm not carrying tons of weight. I haven't used them because Toni said they get in the way of things around the house So I kind of forgot. They retract, so if I am not using them I can't even tell I have them. My title also gives me the ability to control hellfire" He answered sheepishly.
I nodded. "Ok, I suppose it works. I have one for Crepsley though." I said. He looked up. He hadn't said anything for a while and so I kind of assumed he was just being moody.
"Do I really NEED one? Nobody knows me." He complained.
"Oh, don't be such a party pooper. This is fun! In a stupid kind of way, anyway." Nico said. He grunted.
"Besides, I think you will like this one anyway. What do you think of Night Hunter?" I asked. He thought about it and nodded.
"I suppose I can live with that." He said grudgingly.
"Good! Then who is next?" I ask, gazing out over the people.
"Who is left?" Nico asks. Beckendorf, Reyna, Link, Bob, Bianca and I raise our hands.
"I have an idea for Beckendorf." Moschion says. "What about... Firestorm?" He says. Beckendorf nods, not saying anything in his usual strong and silent way. Next, Reyna stood up.
"Let's call Link... Revere. Paul Revere was a famous horseman, and since he is the only one among us that rides an actual horse, it fits pretty well." She said. Link nods his head.
"Since we have a time machine now, I would like to meet this... Paul Revere. I have never heard of him before. If your explanation is true, however, I do like that name." He said in his formal knight's way. "I have a name for you, Reyna. We should call you... Golden Blade. You are the only one of us that has a golden blade, and when you are in battle, it cuts a path through the monsters like an unstoppable force" he says. She nods.
"Ok, I'll take that." She said.
"Alright, all we have left is Bob, Bianca, Zoe, and Hazel. Anybody have an idea?" I ask.
"What about West? You ARE the titan of the west" Kronos says.
"Ok. That works." He says. I nod. Fox raises his hand next and I nod to him.
"What is we call Zoe Astra or Calista? The Greek meaning is star for the first one the other means beauty and Zoe did come back from being in the stars, plus she is beautiful." Fox said and Zoe looked at Fox eyeing him carefully as if trying to figure him out before shrugging.
"I like it, it has meaning but also sounds pretty good to me, I think I prefer Astra though." Zoe said and I smiled, at the two.
"Looks like you two could have something nice going." I said and Zoe looked angry but a blush covered her face. Fox blushed but he wasn't angry.
"Perce I'm married bro." He said and showed me his hand which clearly displayed a wedding ring making me blush with embarrassment. Thankfully Nico saved me with a name for Bianca.
"What if we call BiancaAdelpha? It's Greek meaning is sister." Nico said, Bianca smiled at he brother and hugged him, obviously that was a yes. Fox stood up for a name for Hazel.
"How about Esmeralda? It's spanish for Emerald, and Hazel summons precious stones right?" Fox said and Hazel seemed nervous around him, why was every girl suspicious of him?
'Guys stop looking at Fox like he's weird. I mean he knows everything about us already, he's been around us in his universe for years." I said and Fox nodded me his thanks and everyone looked down, Hazel espesially.
"I'm sorry Fox, I didn't mean to treat you weird, I mean after everything I grew up with I should've known better." She said as she stood next to him, Fox smiled and put a hand on Hazel's shoulder making her look up at him.
"It's fine Haz, I got made fun of when I was younger too, I understand completely. I need to realize I may know all of you but you all don't know me." He said and Hazel smiled before sitting down next to him, already our team was getting stronger as a group.
"Then that's everybody!" I say, clapping my hands together. Fox gives me a devilish grin.
"Not so fast, Perce. We still get to make one for YOU" he says with a wicked grin.
"Naw... y-you don't need to do t-that." I say, stuttering in panic from the devilish grin on his face.
"Yes. Yes we do, Barnacle Face" Thalia says with an equally evil look. They gather the whole team into a huddle to come up with a good name for me. I try and hear what they are saying, but I can't. Finally, they break their huddle. Fox steps forward.
"We have a name for you, Perce. You shall be known as The Avenger. All your life, you have worked to avenge the wrongs done to you and other people. When you were offered godhood, you turned it down, choosing to instead help out the minor gods and avenge the wrongs that were done to them by the major gods. You will be known as The Avenger." He said. I noticed his marks glowing as he said this. I realized that this was being made formal by the Marks, and mine were probably glowing too. When he finished, his Marks stopped glowing.
"Alright, I guess." I say, knowing that there was no way I was going to get them to change their minds. I turn to Kronos. "Alright! I am going to go and find a place for us to start making our name known. This is Kronos's ship, so you are to do the jobs he gives you. Kronos, when you are done assigning jobs, meet me in my room." I say, turning towards the doors to the rest of the ship.
I walk down the halls, finding my room with only a little bit of trouble. After I was inside, I opened up a demi-top. A demi-top is one of the Athena cabin's newest inventions. It was a laptop for demigods. It accessed all the godly sites and prevented monsters from picking up the signal. How it got in here, I had no idea, but I was thankful for it.
Once I booted it up, I started searching the web for a place to start. Anything. Anything at all. While I was searching, I heard the door open up. I looked up. It was Kronos.
"So, where do you think we should go?" I ask him.
"Link was interested in the Revolutionary War. I say we go there." He says. I nod.
"That sounds like a good place to start." I say. I turn back to the demi-top.
"Percy, there is something we still have to do, if you remember." He says hesitantly.
"What was that?" I ask, not really worried.
"I am going to make you a Titan" he says. I sit up.
"Since when?" I ask, not knowing what he was talking about. I was a little panicked.
"Since you agreed to travel with me. We made a deal. If we got out of Tartarus, you would become a demi-titan, allowing you to be the bridge between the Titans and the Gods." He says. I remember now. That was the other reason he trained me with the Scythe. How had I forgotten that? I swallow nervously.
"What do I have to do?" I ask.
"First of all, you need to relax. You will still be you, you are just going to be an immortal now. The titan part of you will replace the mortal part. You will be the world's first half god half titan mix, along with the vampire half of you. You will gain powers over time like me." He says. I nod. I don't have anything tying me to the mortal world, so me becoming an immortal doesn't sound too bad.
"Ok. That doesn't sound too bad. Will you teach me to pilot the TARDIS?" I ask. He nods. "Alright, then what do I have to do?"
"First, you need to stand up. This is probably going to hurt." He says. I stand up.
"Great, more pa... SHIT!" I start to grumble before I am hit with a golden light. My body is wracked with pain as I feel my blood boiling. My bones are breaking and my muscles are being torn apart as my body changes. Suddenly, it all stops. Then everything starts again, but in reverse. My blood stops boiling and instead it feels like my veins are flowing with liquid power. My bones begin to meld back together, and my muscles begin to knit themselves back together.
When it all stops I turn to Kronos. "That... really... hurt!" I manage to pant before doubling over and puking all over the floor. When I am done, he helps me up.
"Did it work?" I ask. He laughs.
"See for yourself" he snaps his fingers and a mirror drops from the ceiling. I look at myself. Not much has changed, but there are differences. My normally sea-green eyes are streaked with gold. I am wiry, as before, but my muscles are more toned. My hair is still dark, and I am still average height of 6'.
"Not much has changed…" I say.
"If you don't like it, you can alter yourself. I can teach you how."
"No, no!" I exclaim. "I am happy. Very happy." I grin widely and stand up. "Set the T.A.R.D.I.S. for the revolutionary war, Kronos. Let's get this party started." I say, walking out the door and heading for the main room, followed by Kronos. He grins back and sets his hands on the control console. The TARDIS glows brightly, happily. He begins to turn knobs and dials, and the entire thing lurches and we take off.
Artemis's POV:
It has been a day since the… incident. I can't bear to call it anything else. My girls woke up an hour ago, and refuse to talk to anybody. They are traumatized. I have not been to see them, because I cannot bear to face them. I failed them, and yet I was the only one that was not punished for it. Tears began welling in my eyes again.
"I have to go to them." I whisper, standing from my bed. I walk downstairs to them and open the door slowly. They are all there, curled on their beds in a fetal position.
"G...girls… I… came to see how you are all doing… and apologize." I stammer nervously. Phoebe slowly sits up.
"M… My lady? Wh… why are you here?" She stammers, looking around nervously at her sisters. "Y… you're going to throw us out… aren't you?" She asks, tears running down her face as the rest of the girls slowly sit up. I look at her shocked and wrap her in a hug.
"Never. I would never throw you out of the Hunt for something like this. It was not your fault." I say. They all hobble over and give me a hug.
"My Lady… what… happened? Why are we all not… dead?" a girl named Elizabeth asks me. My face falls.
"You are all alive… because we were saved. The rapist almost got me too… but as he was about to… to do the deed… I was saved." I say quietly, ashamed of my weakness.
"By whom?" Phoebe asks.
"By… The Cavalry." I answer. The room falls silent.
"Who, or what, is this… Cavalry?" another hunter asks. I fall silent, unsure of how to answer her question. Finally, I respond.
"The Cavalry… is unknown. At this time, I do not know who they are. All the Olympians know is that they say they fight for Olympus. They are powerful, very powerful. And yet… something about their leader seems familiar. I cannot explain it." I say with as blank a face as I can manage. The girls are silent, before one in the back speaks up.
"I… remember something. One of them… at least one… was male." She grits her teeth "We were saved by Men! How low we have fallen." She says bitterly. The other girls blanch, and began muttering amongst themselves.
"We were saved by men, yes. That is true. However, we are no less than we were before. The rapist has escaped, and as soon as we are able, we are going hunting again… and this time…" I grin a wicked grin "This time, we will tear him limb from limb. He will rue the day he touched you." The girls looked at me, shocked.
"But… he beat us so easily last time… What if… what if he does it again?" one asks. My face falls.
"I… I don't know."
Mark's POV:
"YOU HAVE FAILED ME!" Chaos roars at me. "YOU WERE TO DEFILE THEM ALL! YOU HAD ONE JOB! ONE JOB!"
"I… I was surprised. You… you failed too, my lord" I stammer fearfully. Chaos rises up, looming over me and I pale.
"Tell me, HOW DID I FAIL?" He roars.
"P...Percy J...Jackson. H...he lives, my lord." I stutter. Chaos steps backwards.
"I...impossible. I cursed him. He was cast into the pit."
"He has returned, my lord. He showed up and… defended the bitch." I say bitterly. Chaos roars and punches the wall in anger.
"We must destroy him quickly. He must not be permitted to interfere with my plans." Chaos says severely. I nod.
"What shall I do, my lord? I cannot defeat him. He is far too strong for me" I say, hating the taste of the words. He smirks.
"At least you are bright enough to recognize that." He says sarcastically. I glare at him. "Go to the telekhines. Give them this." He hands me a scroll and I nod.
I leave and go to the telekhines. I hand one of them the scroll. He opens it, and his eyes widen. He barks to his friends excitedly
"A master work! We will make this for you immediately!" The leader says. I nod, rather unnerved by their appearance. "Return in a few days. It will take time to forge the starsteel." I nod and leave as quickly as possible.
Percy's POV:
I laugh as I whirl through the persian ranks. I had always wanted to see the Battle of Thermopylae. My team fought beside me, helping as much as we could to fend of the persians. We had just finished helping people off of the Titanic as it sank, and before that, we helped to track down John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln. Before that, we went back and made sure that Hitler really was dead. Turns out, he survived the bombing. He wasn't even there. He was hidden away, building up the Third Reich again. We thoroughly enjoyed tearing them apart. WE all even got to punch Hitler in the face. And before that...
My attention was pulled back to the battle. "Avenger! They are coming from the pass! We need to go!" Fox shouts at me as he decapitates another, so called "Immortal". I nod
"Cavalry! Time to go!" I call out, and we all withdraw quickly. "I am sorry Leonidas. We have done all we can." I call out as I shut the door. Kronos fires it up right away, and we blast away.
"Where next, Captain?" He asks. I pause for a moment, thinking.
"It has been about a year in our time. I believe it is time to return to our time. Set us for one week after we left." I order. He nods, and a few minutes later, we are there.
"Well… I believe it is time for the gods to see us, don't you think?" I ask the others, grinning widely.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: And that is it for this chapter! I am SOOOOO sorry for making all of you wait so long. I had a bunch of shit going down, and my life was basically a mess. But, I have finally had time and now you all see the results. I will try to be more frequent in my posts. In the mean time, keep reviewing! I want to know what you think the God's reactions should be. I need ideas too. ALWAYS ideas. I try and make you guys happy, but I need your help!
Son Of Hephaestus: Another easy to edit chapter! So the next chapter is the new chapter, the one none of you have read. I'm so excited but anyway tell me what you think of the new characters names? Good? Bad? Just need to be changed? Let me know.