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AyeitsEash: Hello! Yeah! Finally! There's someone who actually didn't complained about updating soon. :DD Thank you! About Poseidon, I'm going to mention him in the future chapters. I'm also going to mention what happened to Camp Half-Blood after Percy and Nico, maybe I'm going to make a chapter with someone's POV from the Camp Half-Blood but I'm still not sure about it. :)) The next chapter will be the start of their quest (A spoiler for you... Sorry.), so I'll do my best to make this story more exciting and suspenseful, and maybe I'll put pairings. I just don't know what pairings I'll put. Yeah, thank you for reviewing. It helped a lot. :DD Thank you!
Yeah, so here's the Chapter 9! I hope y'all like this chapter, and excuse the grammar mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker. I hope you understand.
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Chapter 9
Percy's POV
I looked at the man like he was some kind of freak. Nico and Thalia looked at him with the same expression on their face, while Andrea held confusion.
"You're Chaos?" Thalia asked, holding back her laughter. I want to laugh too, but I don't want to be rude to this guy. Because, who the hell would go to us and ask us how are we then say that he's Chaos?
"I'm confused." Andrea said
"No doubt you'll say that." Nico mumbled
"What?" she asked
"Nothing."
After that, no one dared to speak. Silence filled the air until I burst out laughing. After a few seconds, I heard Thalia and Nico doing the same. Andrea's face still held confusion while Chaos' was stiff and red. I laughed even more until I felt pain shot through my whole body. I looked at Thalia and Nico, and the same thing was happening to them. Andrea was still okay because she sat there with only confusion, shock, and worry written all over her face. I looked back at the guy and he was wearing a smug face. No doubt he's the one causing our pain.
A thought crossed my mind. What if he's Chaos? The real Chaos? He can cause us pain by just looking at us! But actually, I never expected how Chaos showed up to us, also his appearance. I expected his style to be like a cloaked man, or in suit and tie, and looks like a middle aged man, not a guy in mid-twenties that's wearing a stylish pants and shirt that made him look like a Gucci model.
I looked back at him and said, "Stop."
"And why would I do that?" He asked raising his brow.
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry I didn't believe that you're Chaos. Now, I believe you're Chaos, and you're the one who's doing this pain." I said as I clenched my sides.
Suddenly, the pain was gone. I looked at Nico and Thalia, and I can tell that the pain in their body was gone too.
"Okay. Apology accepted. I can't let you in pain for too long. You're important to me, and I can't do that to you." He said with a smile.
"Wait, wait. What is happening right now?" Andrea asked, still looked confused and lost.
Chaos chuckled. "Get up."
"What?"
"I said, get up."
Andrea stood up, as well as Chaos.
"Get up." Chaos said
"What? I'm already up." Andrea exclaimed
"I'm not talking to you."
He's still looking at Andrea as I stood up as well as Nico and Thalia. I know that what he said was directed to us. I noticed that the water dragon was already gone. Wait. Where is the dragon? I thought.
"Don't mind him. He's somewhere else." Chaos said looking straight at me. I looked at him in confusion and then realization struck me as I nodded at him. Of course he can read minds. He's freaking Chaos for gods' sake!
"All of you look at me in the eyes." He said with seriousness in his voice, and I immediately looked at his pitch black eyes then darkness consumed me.
I opened my eyes and looked around me. I noticed that I'm in a pure white room, and when I said pure white, it means that all things here are white. White walls, white sheets, white bed, white floor. Completely white!
I slipped out of the bed and immediately walked towards the door. When I'm already out of the room, I paced the long corridor and ended up in front of huge white double doors. I was about to knock when the door suddenly opened, revealing Chaos in a leathered jacket and a spiky black hair, and Andrea in pajamas. Chaos was smiling at Andrea while she looked at him with shock. No doubt Andrea will be shocked; she and shock are best friends.
"Oh, Percy, we've been waiting for you and the others. Come in." Chaos said as he motioned in the leathered sofa where Andrea was sitting.
I sat down next to Andrea as I looked at Chaos across the coffee table. "Where are Nico and Thalia?" I asked
"Oh, they will be awake soon. Let's just wait for them." Chaos said.
"Hey. Are you okay?" I asked Andrea after a few seconds of silence.
Andrea looked at me and said, "Okay? I don't know if I'm okay. I just learned that all the lessons in our Latin class are real. That the Chaos in front of us is the Chaos in Greek Mythology; the Chaos who created the universe. That I'm a demigod, just like Perseus and Hercules. That my father is Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths. That-"
I interrupted her rant as I said," Calm down, Andrea. Yeah, you're a demigod, just like me, Thalia, and Nico."
"So, I'm not insane?"
I laughed. "We already said this to you before. Yeah, you're not insane."
Andrea smiled at me as Nico and Thalia came out of the white double doors. Both of them are also wearing pajamas. I looked at myself and I saw that I'm wearing the same thing. Nico and Thalia sat next to me as silence filled the whole room. I looked around and noticed that the room looked the same with the room where I was earlier. The only different thing is that the wall behind Chaos' back is a glass, giving us a full view of stars as well as the Earth. How I haven't noticed it earlier? Wait. We're in space?
"So… Where are we?" Nico asked, breaking the ice.
"Well, if you still haven't noticed unlike Percy here who just noticed it now, we're in space." Chaos said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Oh." That was all Nico said.
Silence filled the air again - well, if there's air in space - until Thalia broke the ice. "What are we doing here?"
"We're here to discuss some things." Chaos said with seriousness in his tone.
"Some things? Like what?" I asked with curiousness in my tone
"Well, let me tell you a story first." Chaos smiled
The four of us groaned.
"What?" Chaos raised an eyebrow
"It's boring y'know? Storytelling, I mean." Nico said
"C'mon, it's not that boring. Besides, you still haven't heard what I'm going to tell. Even in your Latin classes or in any Greek books out there."
I looked at him with curiosity as the four of us nodded. He said we still haven't heard it in Latin classes. That can only mean three things:
1. No one knows about it. I mean, only Chaos knows about it, even the gods and goddesses, Chiron or anyone doesn't know about it.
2. It's a huge secret. Like only few people knows about it, and it's some kind of an important secret that's why it's not included in Latin classes or in any books. Maybe only the gods and goddesses, the Titans, and Chiron know about it.
3. It's a children's story or something that's why you won't hear it in any Latin classes or read it in any Greek books.
"Well Percy, you're right about the third one." Chaos said while grinning.
My jaw fell on the floor as I stared at him. I don't care about the fact that he read my mind again, but I do care about the fact that he's going to tell us a children's story.
"What?!" I exclaimed.
"What is going on?" Thalia asked, confused. Nico and Andrea mirrored her expression while the three of them gaped at me and Chaos.
"You're going to tell us about some children's story?" I exclaimed while Nico, Thalia, and Andrea gasped.
Chaos nodded while his grin turned into a mischievous smile. The four of us gaped at him until he burst out laughing.
"You- HAHAHA- should see- HAHAHA- your faces!" He said between laughs. "It's so- HAHAHA- priceless!"
We all looked at him with confused expression until he said, "Of course, it's not a children story! I'm just kidding! Why would you think of that Percy?"
"Umm…" My throat felt dry. I don't know why the children's story popped in my head, but it's just that there's something in Chaos that you would think that he would rather story tell a princess stories than some kind of Greek heroes stories.
"Hey! Wha-"
"Okay! I'm sorry! Can we just move on to your story?" I cut him off.
"Okay. So…" He sat straighter the cleared his throat.
"Once upon a time…" He started.
"Are you sure he's not gonna tell us a children's story?" Thalia whispered to me.
"I don't know." I whispered back.
"I think he's insane." Andrea butted in.
"Yeah. I think Andrea's right." Nico agreed.
I'm sure Chaos heard our whispers but decided to not comment about it. He cleared his throat again and said, "Before creating the universe, Chaos" then he smiled, "-made the four elements. The elements named Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. He used them in making the universe, and when he was done making it, he made the keepers of the elements, and called them Hosts."
"He also made the main sources of the elements, a gem for each element, and he gave them to the elements' hosts. After that, he let the Elements' hosts to have their own nation. They made their own planet and the called it Tessera."
Wait, Tessera? That name sounds strangely familiar.
"They divided the planet for their own domain: volcanoes for the fire host, oceans and seas for the water host, trees and mountains for earth host, and the sky and clouds for the air host. They lived for many millennia in peace. They made their own nation and army. They we're really happy. They treated each other like brothers and sisters. They never left each other's side. So they decided to keep their gems in an unbreakable box and used the blood of a water host's soldier named Stoicheia to lock it."
"They lived for many millennia. Many people loved them. They all adored and praise them. They ruled Tessera happily. Until a bloody war came. Stoicheia was killed and they used her blood to unlock the box. They managed to damage badly the gems that killed the four of them and weakening the universe. Of course, Chaos killed him and tried to restore the gem and the hosts. But Chaos only managed to restore the gems, not the hosts. He never tried to restore the hosts again, but he kept the gems and put it in the unbreakable box. Everything was good, until a huge problem came." Then he looked at us with pure seriousness.
Thalia and Andrea fidgeted under his gaze while Nico and I hold our breaths. His gaze made us really nervous. I mean, who would not?
"W-what?" Andrea asked
"That's my story!" He said then he grinned. We just stared at him.
"Oh! Sorry kids. But I love cliffhangers. And the problem is that the sequel is still ongoing."
"What do you mean 'ongoing'? And why you told us that story? What does that story mean?" I ranted.
"Calm down, Percy. You sound like your mom. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk." He shook his head.
"What?!" I exclaimed.
"Hey! Don't yell at me. I'm just kidding, kid!" Then he laughed. What wrong with him.
"So, like what Percy said, why you told us that story?" Nico asked.
Chaos ignored his question. "You know what? I miss those kids. I mean, the Hosts. It's like they're my own children. I missed Fotiana's seriousness and determination in her works. I missed Nero's angst attitude and his kind-of-play-boy style. I missed Dentrou's loud laughs and hilarious jokes. I missed Sambel's clumsiness and her non-stop questions. And I missed our bonding and our group picnics." He said in a soft tone that you would not think that he's Chaos.
"Who are Fotiana, Nero, Dentrou, and Sambel?" I asked.
"You go picnic with them?" Nico asked.
"Well, that's the Hosts' names. Fotiana was the fire host, Nero was the water host, Dentrou was the earth host, and Sambel was the air host. And yeah, we go picnics in weekends, and we go roam around the universe after it." He said in a soft tone again with a hint of sadness. You would know that he really misses the Hosts by the tone of his voice. Until he spoke again in his usual loud and cheery voice. "Okay, kids! I'm asking you to do something."
"What? You still haven't cleared anything about your story!" Nico exclaimed.
"Yeah. Who are 'them'? I mean the 'them' you said that killed the Hosts? And who is 'him' that you killed? What's Tessera? Where is Tessera?" Thalia ranted.
Chaos once again ignored their questions and said, "I'm giving you a quest! And I expect that it will be finished in a week."
"What? What do you mean-" Thalia exclaimed but Chaos cut her.
"I want you to take this quest seriously; we don't have any prophecy for guide." He said sternly that made Thalia shut up.
"So, what's the quest?" I asked after a few seconds of silence.
"I want you to find Stoicheia." He said in a serious tone.
"Why do you want us to find her?" Andrea asked. Finally this girl talked! I totally forgot about her!
"We need to open the box."
"What? Why?"
"Listen, the four of you. There is an upcoming war, and we need to open the box because the gems are inside of it as soon as possible. So I want you to finish the quest in few days. When you already found Stoicheia, go back immediately to the weird wilderness and I'll be there immediately." He said with pure seriousness in his voice.
"How can we find Stoicheia? I mean, we don't even know how she looks." Thalia said.
"You'll find her. Trust me, you definitely know how she looks and how she act. Just focus around you." He said, smiling.
We all nodded at what he said, but before I open my mouth to ask question, he immediately stood up and said, "Okay, kids! You're going to start now! Good luck!"
"What?! Can we just at least get ready for the quest and change our clothes or maybe take a rest! We can't go fight monsters in pajamas! And we still haven't eaten all day!" Thalia exclaimed
"Don't worry. You already got your rest. The four of you slept for days! I didn't know all of you are heavy sleepers! I expected you to wake up after few hours when we got here, but you slept for few days! You kids amuse me!" He said while grinning. "And you don't have to worry about your clothes and foods, I already got them."
"What's amusing with four teenagers overslept for days?" I heard Andrea mumbled, but she just shrugged it off.
"Now, stand up kids!" Actually, I still don't want to leave. I want to ask many questions about the story. And I remembered my dream; I want to ask him what that dream means. I want to ask what this Tessera is. Why Gaea does know about it but The Big Three looks like they don't know a thing about it? I'm very confused. And his story, it only made things more confusing. But by the tone of his voice, I know that I can't do anything but to obey what he says.
"Oh! Before you leave, I'll give you a hint about Stoicheia. She has a mark." He said as he gave us a small salute. "Now kids, look straight into my eyes." We all do what he said, and before we slipped into darkness we heard him say, "Good luck."
"Percy! Percy! Wake up!" I heard someone yell in my ear. I immediately shot up and looked to where the yell came from and saw Andrea giggling.
"Gods, I think my eardrums we're crushed by your yell." I muttered. She just chuckled.
I stood up from the floor and looked around. I noticed that we're inside the weird wilderness because of the multicolored trees. I looked to my right and saw Thalia polishing her arrows, Nico eating an apple with a frown in his face, and two small backpacks beside him.
"What's that?" I asked as I pointed towards the bags.
"A backpack, duh." Andrea said.
"That's not what I meant." I said as I rolled my eyes.
"It was already there when we woke up. I think Chaos gave it for us. It has Nectar and Ambrosia inside, as well as few fresh clothes. There's a note too." Nico said.
I walked towards the backpacks and opened it. I saw Nectar and Ambrosia, few fresh clothes and a note. I looked closely at the note and read it: Do not lose this backpack. You'll need this. It gives everything you need. Just think about the thing you needed before you open the backpack, the bag will give it to you. Good luck! -Chaos
"We already saw that note. We decided that you and Nico should carry it." Thalia said without looking up from what she doing.
I raised my eyebrow. I don't care about the fact that I'm going to carry a bag, but I do care about the fact that they made a decision without me. "You made a decision while I'm sleeping, and you don't even asked if I approve it?"
It's now her turn to raise her eyebrow as she looked at me. "You got a problem with that?"
Tension filled the air as I stared at her. I am annoyed at what they did. They should at least wake me up or wait for me to wake up before they made a decision.
"No." I said. I know everytime I argue with Thalia even if it's over stupid things; everything go in a mess, so I just let it slip. But I can't help but feel that they don't trust me.
Silence filled the air, but it's not comfortable silence or what. It's an awkward silence. Because of what happened between me and Thalia, no one dared to speak again. I walked towards the bag and thought of apples before I opened it. When I finally opened the backpack, I saw nothing but red ripe apples.
As I took a bite on a red apple, I looked back and studied them. Nico was wearing a black leather jacket, pants, rubber shoes, and a white printed shirt. No wonder it's the reason of his frown earlier. Andrea was wearing a while cardigan, red polo shirt, black pants, and flat sandals. And Thalia was wearing a black printed shirt, black skinny jeans, and a rubber shoes. I looked at my own body and saw that I'm wearing a checkered plaid shirt, jeans, and a rubber shoes. Is this what Chaos gave us? How are we going to fight monsters with this outfit? But I noticed another thing, Chaos likes fashion.
Heh? Chaos and fashion? Who would think Chaos - the creator of all - likes fashion? Actually, Chaos is a really mysterious guy, his attitude is really unpredictable. Before, when I imagined the day I'm going to meet Chaos; I expected that he's a middle aged man with a strict and scary aura who speaks in a deep and stern voice. But when I actually met Chaos, I realized what I expected was wrong. You need to expect the unexpected if you meet Chaos.
You got that right, Percy! A voice echoed in my mind. Chaos?
I just shrugged that off as Thalia cleared her throat. "We need to get going. We need to finish this quest as soon as possible. Is that okay with you?" She asked as she looked at me.
Annoyance boiled inside me, but I ignored it and nodded. Thalia is really pissing me off. I don't know why she's being annoying, but I just shrugged it off.
I took one of the bags and slung it on my back. I was about to start walking when Andrea cleared her throat. We immediately looked at her.
"Uhh… I-I h-hope you still r-remembered y-your p-promise t-to m-me." She stuttered. The three of us looked at each other. Of course, I still remembered what we promised to her, but with this situation that we're engaged to, it's too complicated to do what she requests.
"Umm… Of course, Andrea. We still remembered that. But you know how much conflict it would make if we look for her?" Thalia asked with a calm voice
"Y-yeah. But can we at least go back to our house? If she's not there, maybe… Maybe, we c-can continue it after the quest." She asked, her voice if full of hope.
"Uhh... Y-yeah, of c-course." Nico stuttered, and then he looked at me then Thalia for confirmation. I don't know what to respond because I'm not sure if we can do that. I mean, we don't know what will happen in this quest. And after what happened to Bianca before, I'm very reluctant to make another promise.
Thalia nodded and I shrugged. Thalia shot me a look then turned to Andrea, "Yeah. We can go back to your old house."
Andrea's eyes lit up, then she hugged Thalia while muttering, "Thank you."
"Let's go." Nico said. We all nodded then he pointed to a path. "I think we should take this path. I can feel it leads to the exit."
The three of us nodded as we started to walk towards the path.
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