Hello everyone! Yes I'm back. Yes I took forever. I know. SORRRRYYY. I changed schools AGAIN. This is literally my ninth school. I am so freakin tired of it all. So yeah, have to adjust, get ready to move. It takes time. Anyways, ON WE GO!

Previously: She just kept sobbing. I didn't use my wings much, sometimes they made me uncomfortable cuz I had more of Poseidon than Zeus in me. But right now, they felt every bit as if they belonged. And I wrapped them around Eris, holding her in a tight embrace,"Calm down," I murmured,"You're gonna be fine."

Percy's POV

Eris looked up at me, tears shining. She sniffed once, then twice. "I'm sorry," she looked down,"I made your armor all wet."

"Eris?"

"Hmm?"

"Look at me."

She looked up, and then away.

"No, Eris, look me in the eyes."

She did.

"We'll get her back, no matter what it takes. We will." I reassured her.

I helped her up, she flapped her wings, then turned to me,"Percy, I'll scout from above, shoot down whatever monsters I can."

I looked at her grateful that she was able to push her grief away for sometime.

"Good. Take down as many as you can, update me as soon as you can."

I watched her fly away, soon enough, the blood would be blowing in the breeze.

It's my own remorse. But then again nothing ever lasted indefinitely. I was about to turn away from the slowly separating group. I would've started walking, just for a little bit of alone time, but just then there were multiple silver flashes.

I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding,"Lady Artemis, you're here! I could really get you on the 5th Avenue Entrance, Kronos will likely come from there, the irony would be so tempting."

"The irony? What exactly do you mean Perseus"

I scowled at my name, I had always preferred Percy over Perseus, but I replied anyway.

"The Grand Army Plaza."

She nodded.

They left, and I thought I was alone, until I felt a hand on my shoulder, I uncapped Riptide and jumped back, holding Riptide against the other's neck. It was Raven, holding his hands up in surrender.

"Please don't take my head off." He smirked at me. "Nervous?"

I was practically shaking, I swallowed the lump in my throat and answered,"Nothing I can do, doesn't matter whether or not I even want to fight. Unlike most, I do not care for war glory or honor. I'd rather not even be here, except for the fact, that at the moment everybody want to rule the world."

Raven looked at me with this weird expression on his face,"Well no one's gonna be holding your hand, but I'm glad that we've almost made it. We've only got the war left."

"Yes, only the war."

I sighed. Everyone was spread out, no one was around where we were, it was just Raven and me. That is until an arrow came whistling over the building lit on Greek fire headed straight for the unsuspecting Raven. My eyes widened, adrenaline pumped, "RAVEN! DUCK!"

I ran, and I ran, and I fell. I pushed myself back up, barely conscious and immediately flew back by the Greek fire's explosion. There was a cut above my eyebrow, dripping ichor into my eyes. As soon as the dust cleared, I stood up, albeit shaking, but I stood, and Raven was still standing, and he looked mad, he was being lifted up my his own sphere of silver crackling energy. I looked the other way where the army of Kronos had taken the advantage of the explosion and had gathered their ranks where Raven and I stood. By now it was likely the other groups had also met with their share of the monster army.

I was completely out of it, but Raven seemed unfazed,"COWARDS!" He yelled out. I started hobbling forward, my sword dragging across the pavement, making that screeching nails-on-chalkboard sound. I had hit my head pretty hard, I couldn't even pick up my own sword. But it didn't seem Raven needed my help. He was gathering the silver electricity in the palms of his two hands, he filled them up until you wouldn't be able to see his fingertips, and he threw them like fiery silver dodgeballs. Except they expanded as they got closer to the army of mixed monster and traitorous demigods, so you couldn't exactly just shift two inches to your right and 'dodge'.

And that was when I blacked out, my knees buckled and the sky cracked.

Artemis POV

I was expecting to see my artifact, the only acceptable male in my eyes, but that was only because I raised him. Taught him how to treat women respectfully. But I didn't see Raven. I had heard that he was here. I would understand if he wanted to avoid me, especially because of the last time we had been together. He hadn't always lived with the other artifacts. He used to travel and live with the hunt, until we pushed him too far. There was a fight, and we broke him. Raven didn't leave the hunters totally unscathed either. He took three hunters down with him. Had he been anyone else, without his excuse for rage, I would've killed him on the spot, but I had never seen Raven get so mad. Because Raven was not just an ordinary artifact. In fact, he wasn't an artifact at all, but the only ones who knew that were Raven, me, and his dead mother.

"Milady!"

"Yes Thalia?"

"We've been here for three hours now, there hasn't been a single monster come our way. Yet there is smoke rising from the center of the city, where Perseus was."

My eyes widened.

"Thalia, take three of the most experienced hunters with you, scout, and see what went wrong, I'll find Eris. I was told she was doing airborne scouting."

"Yes milady."

She ran off to get Phoebe, Atalanta, and Emma, who we recruited in the Middle Ages after saving her from a psychopathic knight who thought it was his mission to "claim" all the young maidens in the kingdom.

Just then I saw a smoking figure with what seemed like wings, fall out the sky. She collapsed at my feet. It was a very burned and charred, Iris. No wonder we, gods, couldn't contact each other through Iris. Zeus had become paranoid thinking Iris had taken the Titans side.

"Mi-Mil-ady."

I gasped and turned Iris over, her rainbow eyes just barely open, and raindrop wings were steaming away.

"Iris!"

"Pers-," she coughed out smoke,"Perseus has been," she coughed again, hacking out the gold colored ichor of the gods,"He's been hit."

"No." I shook my head,"He's the prophecy child!"

"L-Lord A-A-Apollo has b-been taken," She coughed up more ichor. "Hera's throat has been slit."

This time she vomited out what must've been the acid in her stomach.

"Ares has been kidnapped, and," she croaked out, breathing hard,"Dionysus has been strangled by his own vines."

Then she threw up blood. She looked up,"Listen carefully My Lady, the gods have been killed and sent to the pit, or they've been kidnapped. Some are missing. I will be gone soon. You will find help in the sea, but wisdom's knowledge will soon be of the past, should Apollo be gone for long…"

She threw up what must have been the last of her blood, and fell back limp.

Tears of silvery gray fell from my eyes, but I wiped them away before the hunters noticed.

I turned to face them, "Come girls, split into groups of five and go to the various entrances see if there is anything you can help with, once everything is in the clear for today, head to the middle of the city, we will regroup at the Empire State Building tomorrow."

But I wasn't sure, because according to Iris the other gods were going to be around for some time, and Perseus was not the prophecy child. Or he

was, but the prophecy wasn't about him.

Once all the hunters were gone, I flashed to the middle of the city, where I found something I definitely did not expect. Perseus was back on his feet, standing back to back with Raven, both dripping sweat and firing shots of energy into the crowd of opposing demigods and monsters, Thalia, Atalanta, Phoebe, and Emma were all lying unconscious between Raven and Perseus. But Ancient Laws forbid that I directly interfere, if I broke any law, I would be in Tartarus with the other reforming Olympians. And then I realized something, Raven and Percy weren't just fighting, they were both on the verge of collapse, Raven from overuse of powers, and Percy had a profusely bleeding wound above his eyebrow, as well as a heavy wound going from his shoulder to his lower back dripping ichor. And just then Raven collapsed, Perseus wobbled, shot one more bolt of sea green and black energy and then seemed as if he was gathering his strength. And then I saw something that I never would have expected from a child of Poseidon, even if he was a legacy of Zeus and Hades. . .

And cliffhanger. I listened to Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde while writing this, it's kind of obvious. By my choice of words anyway. I would recommend listening to it while reading this chapter. Anyways Read/Rate/Review. PM me if you have any questions.

Peace OUT!

~Cinaedion