Summary: The Gods of Olympus were defeated long before Percy was born and since then the planet has been under the evil and terrifying rule of Kronos. While Percy lives on the streets with his Mother and Grover there is a secret, underground force called HBO. He is fine until he learns about the existence of his father and about a secret underground rebellion called HBO and worse yet, the Minotaur kidnaps his mother. He then sets forth on a journey to reunite with her…but along the way he meets other…unexpected people.

PAIRINGS: PercyxAnnabeth, JasonxPiper, SilenaxCharlie PoseidonxSally and other pairings…deciding whom little Leo should be with.

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DISCLAIMER: Hmm…if I were to own Percy Jackson what would I do? No point thinking about it…. I DO NOT OWN!

Chapter 11: I learn About Bianca

Recap

"Who…" I gulped. "Who was your head lieutenant? The one who is now a tree and guards the borders of the camp and who Kronos said was daughter of you're father Zeus…?"

Artemis gave me a sad smile. "A very brave girl she was…great friends with one of my first lieutenants Zoe Nightinshade, but no matter…her name was…"

I leaned in and listened, curious.

"-Her name was Bianca Di Angelo, daughter of Hades."

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My eyes widened substantially, so wide that I thing they were as wide as dining plates, no, as wide as a Saucer! In fact, I had really not been suspecting that that I fell backward off the stairs and onto my butt I was so surprised!

Artemis put her head down, I heard a snicker, and then a chuckle…

And then she, the goddess of the Moon, began laughing her head off at me…

Again.

I blushed, I must really look stupid to make her laugh when she had just been tortured but I smiled lightly. I was glad to make a fool of myself if it meant that I was helping the Goddess, it always good to have a Goddess on your side!

She looked up at me and gave me another look before bursting out laughing once more. I blushed again and stood up and walked back up the stairs to her chained form. Artemis stopped laughing and she smiled up at me, water glistening in her eyes. I had a feeling that if she wasn't shackled that she would wipe a tear of amusement from her eyes right now.

"Sorry Percy, you take humor where you can get some." She said with a smile. Then she rolled her eyes. "Wow, I sound like Apollo, that's not good."

Then her face took on a more serious look and I knew she was going to answer my previous questions. "What you asked before is true, my head lieutenant was Bianca Di Angelo Daughter of Hades, and everyone thought her to be my Chosen One."

"What is the 'Chosen One'?" I asked, completely confused. "And what do you mean Bianca Daughter of Hades was your head lieutenant? I thought it was like some girl who was daughter of Zeus!"

"One question at the time, and each question has a very complicated answer."

She looked at me with sincere eyes. "I will try to answer you best I can though. First of all, I will start out with the prophecy."

"Kronos was talking about a prophecy before," I said out loud, not noticing that I was, yet again, interrupting her. "The last time I dreamed this place up he also said that about… Bianca. And you said something about your brother Apollo making one, a prophecy I mean, at the end of the war of the Olympians vs the Titans."

She nodded again. "All true, my twin brother Apollo predicted a prophecy at the end of the war right before they took us all way and imprisoned us. I cannot remember the words sadly having it been fifteen years and all but I believe the Oracle at your camp should know. But the short version is the Chosen One of each of the True Olympians shall join together, twelve in all, and defeat the Titan Lord."

My eyes widened again, but I made sure not to fall off the stairs again. For just twelve people to defeat him, that still seemed rather impossible.

She continued. "Where Bianca Di Angelo comes in is that she was thought to be my Chosen One being my head lieutenant everyone presumed her to be the one to represent me in the prophecy despite her being a daughter of either one of my uncles or my father. It was odd but not too odd for something like that and you can never control prophecy. I thought that she would be protected since she was a child of either my uncles or my father so she couldn't possible be my Chosen One."

"But when the time came and it was either her or my true Chosen One…I let Bianca take the fall…I let them think it." She said the last part with a sort of sadness. "If I hadn't… my true Chosen One would have been killed for sure and all hope for the prophecy would have been lost… So I…."

"You…lied." I said softly. I understood why she did it, we both did. And we both realized how hard it must have been. To betray one of your sisters…or to give a chance to save the world… that must have been such a difficult choice.

A tear ran down the Goddess's face. "Yes, I lied to protect her and had to sacrifice poor Bianca in the process."

"How did it happen?" I asked softly.

Her eyes seemed to glaze over a bit. "I was at Half Blood Hill, and my Hunters were stateging battle plans with the campers when… Kronos brother, a horrible and powerless… and he made a deal as I laid trapped under one of his own traps. He said if I turned in Chosen One and I that he would leave the camp and the rest of my hunters unharmed and just kill the girl here. He even said that he wouldn't tell Kronos where the camp was."

She continued the story with a shamed look in her eyes. "You see, he knew that I would never willingly give up my Chosen One but it was either the whole camp and my hunters would fall or just one of my hunters. I was trapped, and I didn't want any more of my sisters or children of my family to be harmed... I was about to answer no, but then… Bianca intervined and answered for me. She said that she gave herself up and that she was my Chosen One protecting the girl in the camp who I knew be my True Chosen One. Kronos brother believed it, beliving the Daughter of Hades and my head lieutenant to be mighty enough to be my Chosen One. Another reason why Bianca was the perfect subsitute was because my Chosen One wasn't yet a hunter."

I furrowed my brow confused. "What do you mean? How could she not be a hunter and yet by your… Chosen One?"

"Despite the name, us gods of the prophecy don't choose our Chosen One but we know its them the moment we first meet them. I was about to commit her…when it all happened and I was unable to."

"What happened next?" I said quiet.

Artemis let another tear fall out of her eyes. " For Bianca, nothing that she deserved. Kronos's Brother shackled her to the ground and readied a blast in his hand sure to kill her. She stood on the hill and just as the blast from Kronos brother hit her… she told everyone not to be afraid and that she would protect the camp from now on. Then… she died."

She continued, her eyes still glazed with memories. "Before Kronos brother could take me away I gave my very last ounce of power to completely erase his memory of the camp knowing that he lied and would tell his brother where the camp was, and I wasn't going to let Bianca last sacrifice be in vain. As he took me away, convinced that he had done his job but not knowing where he was, Bianca father, my Uncle Hades, I saw him turn her body into the great oak that stands on the hill today. It was unlike him but I was sure that she had told her father this as her last wish and he granted it."

Artemis quieted her voice. " Looking back now I wish I could of done something, she was such a promising girl and I even promised her that I would help her find her brother."

She slumped down in her shackles. "A promise I have failed miserably to keep."

Both of us didn't talk for a few minutes after that as I tried to remember something. That, what Artemis had just said, sounded familiar… where had I heard that about Bianca before…?

"Annabeth!" I said out loud making Artemis look up surprised.

I blushed and tried to explain why I had just said the girl of my dreams, forget I said that, name out loud like a love sick puppy.

"My… uh friend Annabeth told me the story of Bianca and how she wanted to find her little brother." I didn't know if I was just trying to get off the subject of Bianca's death and onto a new one or if I was geinuly curious about her brother.

Artemis nodded sadly. "This… friend of yours, Annabeth was it?, is correct. Bianca had been looking for her younger brother for many many many years."

"How many?" I asked, it couldn't be that long… could it?

"Seventy."

My eyes popped out(no, not literally!). Seventy years! That was incredible! Who would look that long for their brother! Wait… How could she?

"How is that possible?" I asked Artemis.

"Excuse me?" She asked, seemingly confused.

"How could she have lived and been able to fight that well that well? I mean, she would have been pretty old and wrinkly by seventy years past right?"

Artemis nodded. "Yes, she would have, but she was one of my Hunters so she became immortal."

My eyes widened again, I seemed to be doing that a lot. "You're hunters become immortal? How?"

"It's quite a simple process Young Hero, if I find a maiden who is worthy of becoming one of my hunters I ask, or they ask, to become one of my servants for eternity swearing off men and they give up the ability to age."

I whistled. "Wow, that's pretty cool. Too bad it's only for girls."

I wondered if Apollo had some hunters? Like, the Arrows of Apollo? Or perhaps Warriors of Apollo? Maybe even Archers of Apollo, yeah, that sounds cool.

I realized that I was thinking absolutely ridiculous thoughts and stopped, trying to think of some more questions to ask Artemis before this dream ended and I had to wake up. A thought struck me.

"What about the girl? The real 'Chosen One' of yours? You said that after… that… happened that the camp was safe from Kronos's Brohter, but what happened to your Chosen One?"

Artemis nodded. " After the time I was captured I was able to appear lightly in the dreams of some of my hunters for a few seconds and saw glimpses of her. The Hunters spent four years in the camp, unable to do anything without a head lieutenant. And they couldn't just make one of their own I had to choose."

"But anyway, In that time, my Chosen One spent it at the camp learning about It wasn't until she was sixteen and I was able to go into her dream and that she became a true Hunter. The reason why substituting Bianca for the true Daughter of Zeus worked was because my Chosen One wasn't yet a hunter when Kronos found them, I was about to commit her but… things went wrong and I was captured. Bianca had offered me that if all else failed that she would put herself in my Chosen One's place until I could fully accept her promise into the Hunters… and we went with it."

I blinked my dreamlike eyes. I know I said, thought, before that it would have been hard for Artemis to betray her sister like that but it was just now how much I realized that also Bianca had to give up. What a selfless person to do that, I wished that I could of met her.

"Where is Zeus's daughter now? You said that she was at the camp before but then you accepted her into your Hunters, where's she now? With the rest of your Hunters as your head lieutenant?"

Artemis nodded. "Yes, part of the reason I'm telling you this is because you need to find her and enlist her help to help free me. I'm useless while trapped and I can help you find the rest of the Chosen Ones once I'm freed."

Suddenly a thought struck me… why me? Why was Artemis appearing to me and not someone like Chiron or Zeus's Daughter, her own Chosen One? Why was I so special? I am serious, nothing is great about me!

Artemis seemed to know what I was thinking and answered.

"The reason I chose you is because you, are one of the Chosen One's."

I felt faint like again (Faint like in a dream, weird), like before when I found out about my father from Artemis silent message. I was one of the Chosen One's? But I wasn't anything special! And even with eleven other people I wasn't sure if I could take down Kronos, there wasn't any hope if I was the one doing it!

"Artemis, you have to be wrong!" I said protesting once I found my tongue. "I can't do anything! I'm not strong, or fast, and horrible with a bow! Especiallly the last part!"

She chuckled. "You know? That's what Thalia told me, subtract the bow part of course, but she still had the same attitude of not thinking she was good enough. But you will find that you are a lot more important than you could ever know."

I didn't want to argue with the Goddess but I still disagreed.

"But Artemis…!"I stopped, hearing myself made me think of a little whiny child. I blushed, I was just so pitiful some times wasn't I?

She laughed again, and suddenly I felt my self fade from this place.

"You…will be fine…young hero-"

My eyes closed, and I felt myself being transported. We would talk again… hopefully.

With that I woke up, looked around and saw myself to be in the familiar surroundings of the Hermes Cabin. It was still a bit early, and everyone was snoring and talking in their sleep.

I sighed. I had so much to think about. I quietly stood from my bed, and while dodging the creaky floor boards of the cabin ground, left the cabin. I knew just where I wanted to go.

I walked down to the beach and stretched gingerly. I looked out to the rippling waves and white crests of the tops of them. The smell of the ocean overpowered the smell of the hot strawberries fields in the distance and the burning smell of the volcano a little bit away. The breeze went along softly, like nothing was different about today.

But I knew so much had changed since the last time I had last seen this beach yesterday. I had a place to go, a mother and goddess to save, and a father to find. I had so much to think of, now that I knew where Artemis was I needed to make a plan but first I needed to fine Artemis Chosen One.

The Daughter of Zeus.

I looked back out to the ocean and into the rising sun.

I had to find Thalia.

Elsewhere

The boy in the dark black clothing was no longer in the land of ice and frozen monsters in Upper Titan or, as they called it back a long time ago before he had went to this strange motel, Manhattan. Who named a place Titan? It was kind of weird… like Greek type weird. He stopped for a moment, where had the word Greek come from? Who knew.

He was far away from Upper Titan or Manhattan or whatever and was now going through some town. Probably like Lower Titan or something. He didn't know and frankly he really didn't care.

He shivered. It was snowing hard here too! He looked around miserably once more and sighed. He had to keep going, he had to find shelter or something and find out what the heck (A/n Yes, Heck, he doesn't know about the Gods) was going on. He couldn't remember much, only that his father had taken him to a hotel and then… fire. There had been a fire at the hotel his father had taken him and he had to run out, then… it was a bit of a blur.

He remembered someone taking him as soon as he got out of the hotel and trapping him in that prison. He had been so scared. He had wanted his older sister or his father. They would have protected him, but… his sister had disappeared so long ago and his father had left him in that hotel and he hadn't seen him since. Then… that horrible woman took him and locked him up in that miserable prison below ground.

He had been in that horrible prison for a few months now and somehow he had gotten out. Why or how he didn't know but was glad he was out now! The only thing he remembered was something from his dreams… some guy… a pretty weird guy who had directed him out of the prison. The weird teenage guy, though still weird and strange, had been his only company in his dreams so he was a bit grateful to whoever he was. Whenever he was insane or crazy or he was actually dreaming of some weird bright skinned teenage guy who told horrible poems.

He looked up at the falling snow with a bit of misery on his voice, kind of wishing that guy from his dream was here leading him now. He blinked when a few pieces of snow invaded the top of his right eye.

Yeah, that really weird guy… the one in his dreams who had apparently hijacked the name Apollo.

What a weirdo.

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