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Reyna POV
Start of day, about 281,050(I did the math, this is the real number.) My 770th anniversary of being in Tartarus, along with Hazel and Frank. I keep hoping Jason will come busting down here, blasting down the doors and saving me, but seeing as what happened at our last battle, the one that got us minor gods of heroes stuck down here in the first place, it doesn't seem likely. It all started when Jupiter gave us a pointless quest.
~~Flashback~~
"Son, I want you to take the other gods of heroes, minus Athena's daughter of course, and the immortal daughter of Bellona, and free everybody from inside the Lotus Hotel and casino. Kill the staff and the owner, and I shall make you my heir to the throne of Olympus." He said in a bellowing voice to everyone.
He also was toying with his master bolt as a veiled threat anyone who might protest.
"Very well father." Jason had told him. Jason, Frank, Hazel, the whore, excuse me, Piper, and myself set off for Vegas.
Once we got to the Casino, we split off into groups, Jason with Piper, Frank with Hazel, and I was forced to solo it. I saw Frank and Hazel making out on a couch a few hours later and I didn't even want to think where Piper had taken MY Jason. I kept wandering through the casino, killing the few staff members I found on the way.
I made my way into the biggest bar I have ever seen, and found the most repulsive person I would ever meet. Hercules. He was drinking his heart out and flirting shamelessly with multiple women. He hadn't been seen Jason had beaten him up, I refuse to believe that Piper had anything to do with it. I approached him to ask for aid.
"Mighty Hercules," I began. "I have come on a questing party to free all those trapped in this casino. Will you assist us?"
He didn't even give me a proper response. He just grabbed my head and slammed it to the ground and everything went black.
When I woke up, I was tied to a chair. So was the rest of my group. Hercules was talking to two men. One was completely black, clothing, skin, everything. The other one was an old man. He had a full Santa beard and a golden bathrobe, like he was about to take a shower. All three seemed to have different opinions on what to do with us. The man in black made a finger over his throat sign and Hercules nodded in agreement. They wanted us dead.
The Santa man was another story. He was shaking his head vehemently like he disagreed with this extremely. I could hope he won this argument. After several minutes, the black man pulled something from his pocket and showed it to Santa man. He took several steps back and gestured for the man in black to do as he pleased. We were screwed.
Hercules came into the room to boast shortly after.
"Ah, the "heroes" of Olympus. You are all weak flabby cowards." he started
"Then how come Piper beat you in a fight?" Jason questioned. Hercules only growled at this, then began to smirk.
"Then I guess I shall have my revenge on her and torture and kill her, won't I?" He told Jason pointedly. That set Jason off. He started to spark and his hair stood up on end, charged with electricity.
"You will never lay a finger on her, not while I can protect her." Jason growled at him. He was so attractive when he got overprotective, I only wish he was that protective of me instead of that whore from Venus.
"Try and stop me then, brother." he said as he took out his club quickly and smashed Piper full in the face. She went flying across the room and slammed into a wall, chair and all. She was obviously knocked out and had a large cut in her head that was spilling ichor rapidly.
To say Jason flipped would be an understatement.
He leapt to his feet with the chair still attached to him and flipped himself onto Hercules, breaking the chair over his head, probably with the help of wind manipulation.
Hercules crashed into Hazel and Frank and knocked them both out with his flailing limbs. Jason had freed himself from the remains of the chair and attacked Hercules barehanded. Hercules quickly knocked him out and was about to kill him when in walked Santa man again.
"No Hercules." he told him simply.
"But he made me look stupid, he ruined my reputation." Hercules whined
"Then pay him back in kind and use this instead." he told Hercules as he tossed him a crackling staff.
"Wh-wh-where did you get this?" Hercules asked him, completely confused.
"A little party trick, strike him and his friends down with it, minus the one you clubbed. Go ahead." He ordered Hercules with a cheery smile and vanished with a wave of his hand, along with the whore.
Hercules made quick work of Hazel and Frank as they dissolved into gold dust. He turned the bolt towards me and everything went black.
When I woke up, I was in a cell with Hazel and Frank. We were chained to the floor and the man in black stood over us.
"Welcome to Tartarus young gods." He said with an evil smile. "I am Erebus and I shall be your jailer until the end of the world, then I shall make you fade."
~~end Flashback~~
There had been not been unnaturally cruel to us while we were kept prisoner, just an average prison. I kept myself, Hazel and Frank in shape and helped them practice their powers. We always kept an eye out for Jason, but we had yet to get any news on his location so far.
We were at breakfast when Erebus made is first appearance since our arrival in this prison. He was carrying an unconscious boy in a purple cape. Was he the current Praetor?
Erebus threw him on the floor unceremoniously and walked back out. I was about to walk over to him when Hazel stopped me.
"He is heavily shrouded in mist." She told me. "I am going to get rid of in so we can see who we are having join us." and then she snapped her fingers.
He shrunk to about the size of a 15 or 16 year old instead 22 like he had seemed. His cloak showed to have a silver lining and a silver emblem on the back. A pair of crossed hunting knives in a sun. He was also revealed to be wearing a light leather armor and his knife sheathes were empty. His face was still completely covered.
Frank poured some water on his head and he woke up spluttering. He gave us a once over before flicking his hood off. He had a long mane of auburn-brown hair and his eyes were a deep forest green. He had several nasty scars visible on his face, but he had a broad smile.
"Found you all at last, now the boss can stop freaking out." he said, still grinning. "I am Dominic, member of the hunters of Fate."
Artemis POV
I flashed myself and Thame to Olympus and called for a meeting. I still wasn't sure for what, but I was too shaken about what happened to my son to care.
All the other gods flashed in and looked at me for an explination. I just pointed at Thame.
"War is upon us." was all he said.
"Omega protocol?" Apollo questioned grimly and Thame simply nodded.
"What is the meaning of all this, what war, who are we fighting, and why is my precious daughter so upset? Zues started to throw a temper tantrum when his voice stopped working suddenly.
A portal opened in the back of the room and a figure the gods had not seen since Percy Jackson was supposed to be killed.
Chaos nodded at Thame, then turned to the rest of us.
"The time has come for me to aid you in your final struggle. To decide whether this age will live on forever, or a sixth age will decend over the Earth."
Zues tried shouting something, but his voice was still gone. It was rather humorus and some of the more immature gods like Hermes and Ares were trying not to giggle and failing miserably. Apollo was acting unusually serious though. He probably sensed one of his pack had been captured, like I could sense my hunters in danger.
Chaos rolled his eyes and turned to Zues, "You will merge the camps. They will train together, the Greeks have become lazy and boastful, while the Romans drive themselves into the ground with training. They will teach the other the proper way to act. When the camps face the major threat they cannot defeat, I will send my army to assist them, I am trying to keep my help unknown for as long as possible."
Zues nodded, looking slightly defeated he still couldn't speak.
"Artemis has more information on the happenings that caused this development, so she has the floor now." Chaos finished and he left back into his portal. The sound of Zues screaming in rage could be heard as soon as it closed.
"I was hunting the lair of cyclopses with one of the pack," I began, "And after we had defeated them, the shadows came alive and formed a large army. They were led by two of the most powerful being I have ever been in the presense of. Erebus and Tartarus. They spoke breifly with the pack boy. He gave me his weapons and somehow triggered me to flash to Thame's room and he told me to call a meeting and here we are."
"Why would his weapons matter to a primordial?" My half wit brother questioned.
"They matter because they are the weapons of a champion. Primordials are held by ancient laws set directly by Chaos that say they can only participate in combat if they have a champion who is willing to fight along side them. The primordial would give the weapon to their champion to signify they their champion. When they get the weapon back, the person is no longer the champion. The hunter who went with Artemis was Tartarus's champion." he told the council. Everybody jumped up and started shouting.
My son was the champion to an evil primordial, that didn't make any sense.
"We must kill the boy, he has gone back to his master and betrayed us." Athena said in her ever prideful voice.
" He rejected Tartarus and refuses to fight with him. Him being alive is preventing Tartarus from joining the battle against the gods. His capture can be exploited though. He was probably taken to the same place as the other captured immortals. I have a mind link to all members of my pack so I am going to take Cal and Thorn with me to rescue them. We welcome any gods willing to come to Tartarus with us to rescue them."
"I want to go." I told him and he nodded, unsurprised.
"Why would want to go help males Arty?" Aphrodite questioned me.
"He is in Tartarus and it is my fault." I told her. "And if I am not mistaken, there are two maiden among the captured immortals, and I always try to help maidens in need."
"If you three and Artemis are going to Tartarus, who is going to lead the pack?" Athena questioned.
"Either the most senior member currently traveling with us, or I am going to try and convince Percy to come out of retirement." Thame responded and Poseidon's head shot straight up.
"Tartarus is currently barred to all those who have not entered in the past." Hades said. "Unless you have been already, you will not be able to go in."
"Thorn has survived Tartarus twice and I have been once. Cal will be going for the first time, as well as Artemis." Thame calmly replied. So he had been to Tartarus, hmm, wonder when.
"Twice, how has he gone twice and still made it out. If he is that powerful, he must be killed." Zues thundered, idiotic father. I was going to tell him to put a sock in it when Thame beat me to it.
"You will do nothing of the sort. While we may be fighting against primordials, we also have several on our side. For certain we have Anake, Aether, Hemera and Eros looking for champions to aid us. Eros says he knows who he wants, as does Hemera. Anake has asked me in the past and I told her I would accept once all has been revealed. Erebus has his champion as does Tartarus, but he won't do anything that Tartarus wants. Also on their side is Pontus and Phanes. Nyx, Thallassa, and Chronus are not involved in the fighting and Ouranos and Gaia have been forced to fade. Chaos's champion died several millena ago, and she is unwilling to replace him. She cared for him like a son." Thame told them with authority.
Who are Eros and Hemera planning on asking?" Athena asked Thame, she usually asks a lot of questions, but this is geting ridiculous.
"I do not know for Eros, but I know Hemera is planning on asking Ms. Levesque upon her return from Tartarus." Thame told her while nodding at Hades. "She has grown strong in the pit, you should be proud of her." He told Hades directly and Hades changed form breifly to show his face swelling with pride as Pluto, before reverting back to Hades.
"Who is the champion of Erebus?" Hephastus asked, speaking for the first time today.
"Darren, the evil son of Zues who drove Percy from the camp and broke Ms. Chase's mind." Thame said, did his voice sound bitter?
"My son would join a fight against me!" my idiotic father shouted.
"He was acting on Erebus's order to get rid of Percy, he escaped Poseidon's palace when you learned of Percy's location and has since rejoined his master." Thame retorted.
"We will get no where by fighting," Poseidon shouted at Zues, who had been about to yell at Thame again. "I felt his presense leave my palace the day you assigned the hunt to watch the pack. This meeting is adjourned. Mercury, prepare to move camp Jupiter to Camp Half-blood. Everybody else will loan him power for the mass teleport. This meeting is adjourned." He announced with finality. It was good to see my uncle coming out of his depression, he looked healthier knowing Percy was ok.
With that the gods flashed out, one by one. Apollo came to me first.
"Be careful sis, Tartarus is one wacked up place. Thorn is going for round three in there so I feel confident you will be safe with him and the other pack members. They will not let harm befall you. Now go find your son sis." he grinned at the last part, he was never going to let me hear the end of this.
Athena came to me next, followed by Annabeth.
"I want my daughter to join your hunt." Athena told me. "She has broken her mind fighting over boys for the past 800 years. I am sick of her being usless and sitting around sobbing all day. She is still just as skilled as she was before and needs a new purpose." Athena spoke of her daughter bitterly.
"Are you sure Athena, Percy may be coming back and she may go back to normal when he returns." I asked her, this was something i was not expecting.
"Yes, now accept her already." Athena demanded impatiently.
"Annabeth Chase, please step forward." and she came forward at mycommand. Her once pwerful grey eyes had the look of broken glass. There were lines going through them that were a light blue. The effects of my evil brother's powers.
"Are you sure you want to join my hunt?" I asked her cautiously, "You will never see Percy again if you do join." I warned her. She just nodded.
You have seen my oath taken many times, go ahead if you really want to join.
"I, Annabeth Chase, reject the advances of men and join Artemis in the eternal hunt." she said robotically. I waved my hand and her clothes became a hunting uniform.
"Welcome to the hunt." I told her.
Annabeth POV
I was wandering through my house looking at my old pictures of Percy. I feel terrible that I willingly betrayed him. My mother showed me what I did to him. She said I was not worthy of him, that I should just be with Darren when he is released from his prison. But I want to at least ask for Percy to forgive me. I don't deserve him anymore, but I needed closure.
My mom came to me earlier and she said she had a job for me. She wanted me to join the hunters of Artemis. She told me that she wanted me to get information about this other group that was recently discovered and was traveling with them. They were the pack.
I had told her no, but she said this was the only chance I would get to see Percy again. I wanted to see him to apoligize, but why would he be near the hunt, they hate men. So I told her no. She looked at me sadly and flashed in someone I didn't recognize, he was wearing a black cloak and a hood so I couldn't see his face. He placed his hand on my forhead and everything went black.
Whoa, summer at last. Thanks for the great reviews from last time and I have fixed the grammer mistakes that were in chapter 2, chapter 1 is next, then it should be all fixed. I am taking suggestions for who should be each primordial's champion. I know for Anake, Eros, Hemera, Erebus, Tartarus, Gaia, and Ouranos. The ones I am unsure about are Aether, Pontus, Phanes, Nyx, Thalassa, and Chronus.
happy reading-Centurian Africanus
