I am so so sorry this chapter has taken so long. I injured my right arm a few weeks ago and typing has been almost impossible unfortunately. It doesn't matter now, here is the new (and final!) chapter!

As for the many confused people after the last chapter. Yes, I'm evil but hopefully everything makes sense after this.

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The hall was silent for a moment as the assembled group took in the woman's words.

Connor Stoll was the first to recover. "I think I speak for all the demigods when I say What. In. Hades?"

His remark was ignored by the gods as Hades stood and walked towards the woman. "Your dead Anastasius." His voice was calm though Nico could see emotions churning in his gaze.

"You of all people should be able to see that I'm not Daddy dearest." The woman turned to look at Nico. "This must be my little brother. What's your name?"

"Nico?" The word came out as a question as Nico tried to recover from shock and understand what was going on.

"Nice to meet you Nico. I'm Anastasius but its a mouthful so I just go by Anna these days." Anna waved a hand and a small chair appeared facing the gods. She sat gracefully and crossed her legs before looking expectantly at the gods with a smirk on her face.

"The First Titan War." Hades had recovered enough to speak again.

"Yes, horrible time really."

"You died in the final battle along with the other first children."

Anna laughed softly. "No. We didn't."

The gods dissolved into chaos, each trying to yell over each other. Her words obviously meant something to them that the demigods didn't understand. This continued for several minutes until Anna looked over at Nico and winked, leaving him more confused than ever. None of the demigods understood anything that was happening or how it had anything to do with recent events.

Between one breath and the next the hall became silent. The gods' mouths continued to move but no sound was heard.

"You are all being incredibly rude. There are children here and they are quite confused. Do you mind if I explain?" Zeus' face went red as he glared at Anna. He tried speaking for a moment before finally settling for simply nodding angrily.

"Good." Anna turned around in her chair to look at the demigods who all regarded her warily, untrusting of the unknown after so many years facing off with monsters.

"Now then, As I said, I'm Anastasius. First daughter of Hades." Nico started to speak but stopped when Anna waved a hand at him dismissively. Shrugging mentally Nico gave up. He was tired, depressed, and frustrated with Olympus. He found that he simply didn't care enough to interject.

Throwing a grin at him as if she knew his train of thought Anna continued. "This means I was the first demigod child of Hades. I was born during the First Titan War. Unlike the war you experienced, ours lasted years. Long enough for me to be born, grow up, and begin fighting for dear old dad's cause. I wasn't the only one. There were three others. Diokles, Chrysanthos, and Sappheiros."

At her words Zeus, Posiedon, and Demeter all looked up intently. Feeling their gaze, Anna turned to look back at the gods. Posiedon was the first to manage to speak. "Are they...like you...alive?"

Sadness engulfed Anna's features and she hesitated before answering. "Not anymore. They moved on."

"But what happened?" Hades prodded Anna to continue her story.

"Hush Dad." Anna turned back to the demigods.

"We four were the first demigods. Born of Zeus, Demeter, Posiedon, and Hades. We fought in the war and once the final battle ended we realized we had never lived without being surrounded by the chaos. We had no idea who we were without the constant threat of death. One day soon after a woman appeared to us and asked if we would help her. She offered us her own brand of immortality. In exchange we swore to aid her in protecting the earth from any threat that arose. We disappeared after that and you..." She broke off and swung around to look at the gods again. The darkness in her eyes spread till black coated her eyes from corner to corner as rage contorted her face. Power leaked from her in waves just like it had from Kaie thought it differed slightly.

"You all assumed we had died in the final battle. You were all so busy cleaning up that mess that you didn't think to even look." Her voice had dropped to an angry snarl that Nico recognized as identical to his own.

The four gods mentioned all looked ashamed, none managed to meet her angry gaze while the other gods stared, riveted just like the demigods.

"Why are you here now?" Hera's regal voice echoed in the shocked hall as she addressed Anna, struggling to regain control of the situation.

Every sign of anger disappeared from her face and all sense of the power she controlled vanished. Anna's face was once again lit by a knowing smile. "Little old me? I had a visitor yesterday who asked me to come up and stall you all."

"Stall us?" Hera asked suspiciously.

"Of course. You were all ready to finish. Sending these demigods back to their camp and dispersing back to your individual duties. There are matters that still need to be discussed."

"Who was it?" Zeus appeared to have finally recovered from his shock.

Anna rolled her eyes rather than respond and held a fist out, face up in front. Her fingers flew open, exposing her palm where Nico could see an ornate tattoo. A shimmering form appeared in the air over the tattoo, revolving slowly. It was a silver tree, bare of leaves, made of mist.

"Gaia." The word fell from the lips of the Olympians.

"Who else? She commands Kallistrate, Kallistrate commands me, and here I am." Anna gave the gods a crooked grin.

"What matters are so important that we must discuss them now? The fiasco with the deathgate has been concluded." Athena questioned Anna, Nico could see her struggling to understand. A rare sight for anyone to see.

Anger rose up at the idea that everything that had happened, everything Kaie had done, was simply a fiasco. He couldn't find the words to describe it but it was so much more but completely different at the same time.

He was awoken from his turmoil by a familiar voice.

"Who ever said it was matters that the gods needed to discuss?" Kaie's voice filled the hall, drawing every eye to the doors she walked through. She still wore the armor from the battle though it was now spotless. Her skin and hair were both clean once again. A silver line was the only sign of damage, running across her throat where the skin had been sliced.

"I'm confused again." Connor Stoll's whisper reached Nico's ears as he watched Kaie and Anna.

"Kallistrate." Anna turned angrily.

"Anastasuis." Kaie's voice was calm as she stopped in front of Anna, ignoring all else, even Nico, as she ran an appraising gaze over the slightly shorter woman. Nico tried and failed to ignore the emotions this brought forth.

The entire hall was silent as the assembly waited for one of the pair to speak. "You got shorter." Kaie's voice was cold.

"No, you got taller." Silence fell again as they continued to watch each other. It reminded Nico of two feral cats circling each other, each waiting for the other to attack.

The silence was finally broken as Kaie laughed. Anna hesitated for a brief moment, biting her lip as she struggled to maintain her glare before she too succumbed to some humor that the rest of the hall didn't follow.

After several minutes of laughter, the pair hugged warmly.

"You really should have come and got me." Anna scolded Kaie though anyone could see the reprimand was halfhearted.

Kaie simply shrugged. "I would have but as soon as I realized what was going on I was running on a tight schedule. You were in the Amazon. How was I supposed to contact you? Really, what was I supposed to do?" "Plus..." Kaie glanced over at Nico, acknowledging his existence in the room for the first time since entering, and smiled before winking. "You have the loveliest siblings."

Anna let out a scream and covered her ears. "Lalalala not listening!"

Athena took the moment after Anna's reaction to redirect the conversation."What do you mean the immediate matters are not for the gods to discuss?"

Kaie glanced over at the Goddess of Wisdom as if seeing the gods for the first time. "Exactly that." She snapped her fingers once and a flash of light bloomed from each gods' throne. When the light disappeared, each throne was empty, leaving the demigods the only ones in the hall.

"Really?" Anna's exasperated voice gave the demigods time to hid their shock and confusion. "Where did you send them?"

"Antarctica is lovely this time of year." Kaie said offhand as she turned to the demigods and waved a hand. A plush armchair appeared behind each and they sat warily after exchanging glances.

Nico hesitated longer than the others. He had no idea how to react. How much of this person before him was the Kaie he had grown to know, admire, and maybe even love?

He was brought out of his thoughts again when he realized Kaie had moved to stand in front of him. "Who are you?" He couldn't even explain why he asked that question but Kaie seemed to understand.

" Me. Kallistrate, The Gray Lady. Not more seperation. No more broken identities. I am what I always should have been. I'm sorry I didn't warn you about what I was going to do. Things spiraled out of control. Forgive me?"

Nico found himself nodding even as the words registered. Her lips touched his softly, questioning for a moment before he leaned in and snaked his arms around her waist. They both ignored the none to subtle coughs from the demigods as they let this kiss deepen.

After another minute, Kaie was forcibly pulled away from him by Anna holding her braid. Kaie grinned, real happiness on her face for a moment before she turned on Anna again."Evil bitch."

Anna ignored Kaie's words and gestured grandly to the other demigods who were in various stages of shock, embarrassment, and annoyance. "Explain to the kids before the gods realize how to get back into their own throne room O Manipulative Bitch."

Kaie rolled her eyes and sat in a chair she created for herself and leaned forward. Her face completely serious as she began to speak.

"By now you have all realized you don't fit in either the mortal world or Olympus. You have seen far to many things horrific and wonderful things to ever have a normal mortal life while you aren't quite right for godly immortality." She stopped for a moment as if to gauge their reactions before continuing.

"You don't fit in at Camp Half-blood anymore. Too many new kids coming and going. Living and dying. You haven't been campers for years. Even your godly parents are drifting away from you, focusing on their younger children. Its not a reflection of you, it is simply what they do. Nothing could ever change that."

Nico found himself nodding. He had begun noticing these things years ago, it was the main reason he spent so little time at the camp. He had always wondered if the other older demigods felt the same way.

"I now give you the same offer I gave Anastasius so many years ago. Immortality and a role in the world where you can help everyone; gods, demigods, and mortals alike. Its not easy, it never will be. You all understand that already. There are forces, like deathgates, that can take away even immortality. Diokles, Chrysanthos, and Sappheiros all found those forces. I can never offer complete absolutes, but the one thing I can offer you is a place that you will always belong in."

Kaie and Anna both stood. "Take some time to think it over among yourselves. I will send you all back to the camp so you can think it over there." She raised an arm to conjure Mist.

"Wait!" Kaie froze at Clarisse's yell. The daughter of Ares was half out of her chair. "I want it." She reached down to grab Chris' hand. "We want it." They both stood and Clarisse turned to the other demigods. "We talked about leaving the camp when Chris proposed. It's not our place anymore but after the killing and everything else we've seen we didn't know where to go. This is us our answer." Silence fell as the group absorbed Clarisses' words.

As Nico watched the other demigods weigh their options he considered the offer. He wasn't sure if he wanted immortality but he also realized that he couldn't continue the way he had been for years. Time was moving on and leaving him behind.

He also considered Kaie as she watched Connor, Travis, and Katie. He wasn't sure what their future held but who was he to ignore the opportunity?

"I'm in." Connor stood from his chair. "I've got nothing better to do and I always wondered what immortality would be like. Guess I actually get to find out." He glanced down at his twin and Katie as the pair exchanged a glance before standing.

"Us too." Travis bumped fists with his twin.

"Travis and I have been talking about the same things." Katie directed her soft voice at Clarisse but her words were for the entire group. "We've been defined by our parents for our entire lives but we didn't know how to find our own identities. I would like to be something other than just a Daughter of Demeter even though I love her."

Nico found all eyes turn towards him, waiting expectantly. Kaie raised a single eyebrow in question and he nodded once. They both knew words were unnecessary. She took a step towards him and grabbed his hand, their fingers knit together.

Kaie held out her other hand for a moment and a line of concentration appeared between her eyes. As the demigods watched, five plain dark silver ring bands appeared in her palm. Nico felt a sixth shimmer into being around the middle finger on the hand that held onto Kaie.

Offering the bands to the other demigods, Kaie smiled. "This isn't an ending. You can visit Camp Half-blood and Olympus. Nothing from your past life is gone, its just changed because your all changing."

Anna held up a hand, light glinting off a silver band on her own hand that was almost identical to the others. "Its a beginning and trust me when I say it will be unlike anything else."

As the final word fell from her lips, the gods reappeared on their thrones. Faces red with anger. Before any of the could speak though, Kaie took a step forward, pulling Nico with her. She offered the gods a bow, as sarcastic as any motion could be. "It's been lovely but we really must run. Places to go, people to see and all that. See you all next time there is a catastrophe."

Nico felt the pull of Mist travel but it was unlike the other times. This time it was like a mirage wrapped around them. Light moved around him in streaks of shining patterns and vibrant colors, weaving around each other in never ending lines. He realized Anna, Clarisse, Chris, Connor, Travis, and Katie all stood with in a few feet of him and Kaie. It was almost like the group was in a bubble as life moved around them.

Years later, it could have been five or five hundred, Nico realized how important that moment was and what exactly what Anna meant when she said it was a beginning.

So yeah, this story is finally done after many trials and tribulations. Please review letting me know what you think!

The reason I wanted to end it like this was because the main issue I had with the Percy Jackson books was Riordan not giving them a solid conclusion. These characters have seen friends die and killed since they were kids and I always wondered how they weren't perfect examples of PTSD and if they would be able to fit into the world. I created this story to answer a little bit of that question and the character of the Gray Lady was just something I thought up along the way that I could craft the story around.

I know Riordan left the story open for the new series but I've always considered a solid conclusion to be one of the hallmarks of a great writer. Tolkien and CS Lewis are both great examples. I am well aware that I will never be at their level but I wanted to take from them and give a solid ending and a beginning to some of my favorite characters. It is very likely that one day Percy, Nico, Annabeth, and the rest will get their new beginning but I am impatient and wanted to give them my own.

What ever you think of this story or the questions I tried to address, please let me know it a review!