Hey. Sorry for the late update, but school is catching up on me. The only reason I'm able to update today is because it's Friday. Sorry. Start expecting later updates, even if my evil cap decides to throw cliffhangers at you guys. Also, I'm craving ideas for what will happen after the apprentices complete their mission (Yes, Kerran will die. You're welcome). Please post a review or check out my page: there should be an email thing there. Working on longer chapters, slowly but surely. My goal is one day to have 10,000 words a chapter: a long way.

So guys, I'm thinking of rewriting the story. Make it longer, make it more descriptive, but change things around a bit! Like make it just Percy who's betrayed and cheated on. And then Chaos finds him and he meets an army instead of just apprentices, that kind of thing. I'll post the first chapter in the next update, so don't expect another update of this story in the next update, just a trial chapter, see if you like it. I'll keep going with this one in the following update.

So anyway, shoutouts to do! Stories to write! Must move on!

the god of hopelessness: yeah, oh s*** all right

AnonymouslyAnonymousandFreinds: Not this time!

Demigod in waiting: Still working on the longer chapters thing! Yes, I am trying to be an Uncle Rick.

IfOnly42: Meet my evil cap: A stuffed dolphin. Not kidding.

Disclaimer: The same as before


When the light faded again, Katalgida was nowhere to be seen. Neither were the Olympians.

"Hey, Kata, where are you?" Percy called.

"Gods dammit!" came Katalgida's voice. "We forgot about the dam demigods!"

Thalia bit her lip and strode to the other room, where Katalgida was standing over the four demigods.

The demigods held leather-bound books in their hands, and were frozen in fear.

Percy and Setsuki narrowed their eyes at the books. "Aren't those the enchanted History textbooks?" Setsuki frowned.

Katalgida simply snapped his fingers, and Jason's open book flew into his hands. "He got to when we blew up that planet."

Setsuki swiped Piper's, Percy Hazel's, and Thalia Frank's.

"Piper got to when I graduated you three from Stage 4 training," reported Setsuki.

"Hazel got to when we were given our cloaks and stuff," Percy chimed in.

"Frank got to when we were forced to sing in the Intergalactic Chorus. Ugh," Thalia remarked.

The four snapped the books shut and sent them up onto the top of the bookshelf. "Now, may I ask what you are doing?" Setsuki snapped.

"Setti, Hephaestus is waiting upstairs. Should we care to him first?" Percy soothed his girlfriend.

"Nico, go tell Lord Hephaestus to expect a bit of a wait," Setsuki ordered, her voice impatient.

Nico dived out of the room and scurried away, not wanting to see what his friend would do to his former allies.

Setsuki gestured to the remaining two, MM-ing them a command. Percy strode over to Jason, who inched away, and forced his chin up, drawing a vial of some shimmering liquid the same color as Setsuki's eyes from his cloak. Thalia did the same to Piper, her vial slightly emptier than Percy's.

Nico returned to the room reluctantly at Setsuki's MM and jerked his half-sister's chin up in the same fashion as the other two, catching the vial Setsuki threw to him. Setsuki then tended to Frank.

The caps magically unscrewed, and the droppers filled themselves to the most they could. Then they emptied the contents into the demigods' mouths.

The lieutenants jerked the demigods' mouths close, and slapped their hands over their mouths, preventing the demigods from regurgitating the potion. The four demigods thrashed and clawed at the hands covering their mouths, but succumbed to swallowing the liquid.

Then the potion's effects began to settle in. The demigods' eyes glazed over and turned the same color as Setsuki's, their posture straightened, and they started reveling the apprentices like kings and queens, bowing and addressing them as "Your Majesty" or "Your Highness".

Setsuki sat down in front of the demigods on the ground. "What were you doing in this room?"

Jason answered first, and his voice was dazed as he did. "We were taking refuge from your Solar blast, and we noticed the books and decided to read them. When we noticed they were about your past, we became curious and began splitting up the chapters to read faster."

Piper, Frank, and Hazel nodded in their stupor. "Yes, Your Majesty. Definitely." A/N: This works like Veritaserum from Harry Potter.

Percy stepped forward with a tight frown on his face. "Why were Thalia, Nico, and I banished?"

Piper blinked and licked her lips. "Well, when you guys disappeared into the forest on your "hunting" trip, everyone believed you. Who couldn't believe the heroes of Olympus? Then the monsters came. Leftover tidbits of Gaea and Kronos's armies, breaking through the boundaries. The campers were scattered far and wide, and they couldn't rally fast enough. The monsters burned down four cabins and murdered at least twenty campers."

Percy was shaking with rage. "And it was our fault?"

Piper stared at her hands. "No, Your Majesty. Kerran did it. He came right in the middle of the battle, stumbling over his own feet. Killed a bunch of monsters purely out of luck. Then he brainwashed us into believing it was your fault."

Thalia and Nico were barely containing their range, and Percy was already headed out the doorway, Setsuki scrambling after him.

She spun Percy around to face her, and nearly jumped backward.

Percy had never looked so pissed. His eyes were narrowed, and his irises were flickering green flames. His pupils seemed to be lined in silver, and his entire body seemed to glow in an angry red aura. His mouth was set in a grim line, and his eyebrows were scrunched up. One hand was resting on the hilt of his sword, the other glowing a dangerous blue.

"Setti," he whispered. "Let me go."

Setsuki's hand was clenched in a death grip on his arm. Slowly, she eased her grip, but kept her hand on his arm. "Don't do it now."

"Our mission is to kill Kerran Sanders, isn't it?" he twisted his arm slowly. "I'm making it easier for all of us."

"No, Percy. If we don't show them who we are first and kill Kerran, they'll hate us even more. Cast us out, and we will never be respected. We need to reveal ourselves first," Setsuki reasoned with the angry lieutenant.

Percy's eyes slowly returned to normal, and his hand and body stopped glowing. "Alright."

Then he stormed upstairs and slammed the door to his room shut with a bang.

8:30 PM

Camp Half-Blood Amphitheater

Sing-Along Complete

"Now," Chiron announced, pacing around the fire with his horse-tail swinging. "We shall be graced with the presence of our visitors."

The entire camp watched silently as the four hooded figures stood up from their perches on a front-row bench. The hilts of their swords gleamed with precious jewels. Their pendants, each with a huge jewel corresponding to the ones set on their hilts, swung from their necks, and their eyes glowed from under their hoods. Sea-green. Silver-gold. Electric blue. Onyx black.

"Well?" sneered Kerran from his "special" seat. "Are you going to reveal yourselves?"

The four turned their gazes onto him, and Kerran seemed to shrink back in his seat. No one in the camp could blame them. The apprentices' gazes seemed to drill holes into the areas of the body where vital organs were, and combined, you wanted to cower in fear and start worshipping them.

"I shall go first," the figure with the electric blue eyes said, the voice a girl's, yet menacing and brutish. Her gemstone, a diamond by the looks of it, seemed to dance in the shadows of the flickering flames, which glowed a startling red for anxiety.

She reached up and made a motion like brushing her hair back, and the hood of her cloak fell off.

The entire camp gasped in unison.

Thalia Grace, her spiky black hair and blue eyes flashing in all their glory, stood before them.

Annabeth covered her mouth with her hands as she gasped, but Thalia, with her enhanced hearing, heard it and turned her head in her direction. She found her former friend, and her eyes narrowed, glowing dangerously bright.

Annabeth shrunk back, wishing she hadn't sat it the front row.

Jason, who was sitting with his friends in the back row, bit his lip and wrung his hands in unison.

Thalia turned, snapping her cloak behind her, and strode purposefully back to the line of Chaos's lieutenants, the sound of her feet slapping the ground amplified in the silent amphitheater.

The figure with the onyx stepped forward next. Wasting no time, he/she pulled their hood down.

The camp gasped again, and Hazel, who was in the very top row with Jason, sobbed into Frank's jacket as murmurs ran through the crowd.

Nico di Angelo, black clad and shaggy haired, glared at the demigods from under his bangs.

He pulled something out of his pocket and without looking at her, tossed it in Hazel's direction.

It flew, gleaming, in a high arc, and landed squarely in Hazel's lap.

Nico's skull ring, faded and weathered, yet loved, glimmered on Hazel's thighs.

Hazel picked it up, the eyes of the entire camp on the ring. Slowly, the part of the ring with the skull imprint flipped open, and inside the tiny little space behind it was a folded piece of paper.

Hazel dumped the paper onto her lap, her brother watching her with his piercing black gaze, and unfolded it, finding Nico's handwriting scrawled over the page.

Dear Hazel,

It's about 3 AM in the morning, and I'm writing this from the forest at Camp Half-Blood. You probably don't know I was banished with Percy and Thalia because you're at Camp Jupiter. I can't blame you. But some part of me says I should blame you. Some part of me wishes for me to kill you now. But you're the lest sister I have, and I can't do.

Maybe some other time.

Nico

Tears streamed down Hazel's face as she read her brother's last note to her, the final words of Nico di Angelo before he was Katalgida, Fourth Lieutenant of Chaos. She hugged the note to her chest and sobbed her heart away in to Frank, who held her uncomfortably.

Nico snapped his cloak in a similar manner to Thalia and moved to stand next to his girlfriend.

The figure with the blue aquamarine came up next, Hazel drying her tears and watching through tired eyes.

He/she seemed to hesitate before reaching up a tanned hand to pull down his hood.

The entire camp seemed to jump to their feet and cry out in absolute shock. Annabeth fell off her seat, eyes wide and staring at the figure before her.

Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon and former Savior of Olympus, stood before them, absolute hatred pulsing in his eyes.

Annabeth seemed to want to reach out to her former boyfriend, but she couldn't.

Percy didn't say a single word, just tossed a velvet box into her lap and turned away to stand with Nico.

The final figure stood, not giving Annabeth a chance to see what was in the box.

Without a moment of hesitation, his/her hood was flicked down.

All the boys whistled, including the ones with girlfriends.

A girl with long black hair, silver-gold eyes that swirled in the light, tan skin, and an athletic build stood watching each camper, eyes narrowed at Annabeth and Kerran.

"My name is Setsuki Yakimoto, and I am the daughter of Artemis and Helios," she introduced herself.

For a moment, everyone was shocked into silence.

Then Annabeth screamed.

CLIFFY!

I am truly evil, aren't I, guys?

See you later!

-A Panda Named Panda