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Nico POV

I was presently hiding in my room from a probably pissed beyond belief daughter of Zeus. I knew Percy was going to get it bad when he finally truly showed himself, but he still had to get his own body back from Chaos, apparently remaking a body that has been turned to ash is difficult, even for the creator of the universe.

I heard a light knock at my door and Leo's voice from the other side, "We need you out here dude, planning the strike back at Erebus."

I got up and opened the door only to be met with an electrified fist to the face.

I felt my nose break and most of my face go numb. On the other side of the door was a seriously ticked off daughter of Zeus with Leo held up by his hair in one hand and was had sparks shooting off her skin like firecrackers.

"Thanks Leo, real considerate." I grumbled and slowly got up.

"Sorry bro, she made me."

"You say with an evil grin and knowledge you could get away if you really wanted."

"Right, well, I'll leave you two to settle things , although a duel to the death is one way to settle things, just saying." And with that remark, Leo slipped out of Thalia's grasp and was gone in a heartbeat, cackling like the little Mexican devil he was.

"So what's up Thalia?" I slowly got up and grabbed some ambrosia off my dresser, I had a feeling I was really going to need it.

"WHAT'S UP? THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY AFTER HIDING OUT WITH THE SECERET NINJA HUNTER PACK? NOT, I'M SO VERY SORRY I NEVER CONTACTED YOU AT ALL THALIA, OR, I'M SORRY I NEVER TOLD YOU YOUR BROTHER AND COUSIN THAT YOU HAVE MISSED OH SO MUCH ARE ALSO ALIVE AND WELL, NEVER THOUGHT TO DROP BY ONE SIMPLE LITTLE IRIS MESSAGE, HUH!"

She broke down into tears and started throwing wild electrified haymakers at me, I let myself take the beating I probably deserved.

When she was done, I shoved the ambrosia into my mouth and once it kicked in, I slowly got up and stretched out, multiple bones cracking back into place, ugh Thalia could really throw a mean punch.

"I take it sorry isn't an option?" I tried

"WHAT DO YOU THINK CORPSE BRAINS?" Thalia pulled back for another punch, so I tried something

"What about a long string of apologies over dinner in one of the cafes here, I know some that have good burgers, if you still like burgers that is?" My suggestion caught her completely off guard, she actually let her fist drop to her side.

"Like a date, because you know I am a part of Artemis's hunt, the immortal no guys club, I would get a feast in my honor for beating you like I just did, you know that right?"

"No, just as cousins where one needs to suck up to the other to get back on their good side, nothing more, I'll bring Jason or Percy if you want." So she was serious about the whole no-dating-hate-all-guys thing, there go my hopes and dreams, probably gonna cry this out when she leaves.

"Definitely bring Percy and Jason, they also need to get a reminder of why not to leave me in the dark on matters of importance." Shit, I just got myself into more trouble.

"Percy will probably be busy preparing everyone for the next attack, so just Jason then."

"Oh no, I need to give kelp head a little nice to see you again present IN PERSON, not another mist form trick." Thalia glared at me, daring me to challenge her.

"You got it, I'll see you sometime tomorrow then, and I'll swing by with Percy and Jason for catching up and beatings."

"Don't you dare skip, I know where you live now." She tapped on the doorframe and left without another word. I flopped back on my bed and groaned loudly once I thought she was out of earshot. Damn, there goes my heart and probably my limbs when Percy finds out what I promised Thalia, or when Thalia finds out Percy didn't want to meet her for some reason.

I looked at the only picture that made me happy when I felt completely awful, it was the one of Bianca and me at the amusement park in Elysium. Once I freed her soul from Tartarus, it was reborn as a lion, the one I rode now actually. But about a hundred years ago, Chaos remade her body to as it was before. Except her eyes, they were white. She lived a full life as a normal mortal before making it to Elysium. I got to keep my lion after Chaos gave it a new soul.

The picture was from one of the times I visited her in the underworld, she was determined to embarrass me as much as she could, and was kissing me on the check in the picture, one of her new bright white eyes visible to the camera.

But seeing the picture didn't help today, it just made me think back to the dreadful trip to Tartarus I had to take.

I laid back on my bed and cried myself to sleep, letting thoughts of Tartarus overtake me in their full nightmarish hell.

Thalia POV

The first person I recognized in a pack uniform was Cal, or as I now saw, Leo. That stupid flirty son of Hephaestus was probably the only person I was glad to have gone after the Giant War, and of course now he had near infinite power. But I could still get him to do what I wanted. I made him take me to Nico's room in the main pack building, which was in the basement unsurprisingly.

Once I let Leo go and gave Nico his first round of many not telling me you were alive beatings, he surprised me, he asked me out.

But of course I had to get nervous and revert to the hunter mindset the had been mercilessly drilled into my head for the past 800 years, then I accepted to adding people to our little outing, which turned out not to be a date.

Then I saw it.

There was a photo on his desk of him with a girl I didn't recognize. She had long black hair and vibrant white eyes. They were sitting together in an amusement park, and she was kissing his cheek while he smiled cheekily at the camera.

I thought this was before the whole pack thing, but he had scars on his face that weren't there before his 'death'. Also, the date on the picture frame put it at 100 years ago.

I made my way out of his room with a broken heart and a threat. I made my way back to the hunt's building, starting to really believe everything Artemis always preached.

All men do is break your heart.

Piper POV

Sometimes, I really hate being a daughter of Aphrodite, it makes me overly emotional at the worst of times. Of course when I finally get to see Jason again, my Jason, I had to go and fall unconscious for several days, then forget he was wanted by Olympus for something Hercules did and spill to my mother, then start a full man hunt for him.

Not exactly the reunion I had always pictured, but suited my life to a tee.

So when all Hades broke loose on Olympus and Jason flew out of nowhere in his full superman glory to give me help, even though I had the situation completely under control, I had to try not to swoon.

We fought together just like old times for a while before we started to get over run by the sheer number of monsters, but he just pulled me into his chest and flew us off into the sunset, much more what the evil Aphrodite part of my brain wanted than before.

After we got to whatever city he had been in, I gave him a good talking to, several smacks to the face, and I also charm spoke him into telling me whenever he was faking his own death, so I wouldn't fall apart like last time, although, living with a half crazed shell of your best friend didn't help with that either.

After a much better nice to see you again, I cuddled into his side and exhaled softly. I had missed Jason, having him back was almost worth the heart crushing depression I went through, I didn't want to go through it again though.

I laid back and let myself truly relax for the first time in hundreds of years.

Artemis POV

When Thame told me I had to face Dominic Sr. again, that he was alive and in the pack the whole time, that he had tried to kill his mother, but lost and Thame intervened to save him.

Thame led me to what he called the pack's main living space. He pressed on one of the many buttons by the door, like what mortals had on their apartment buildings.

Shortly after, an all too familiar face came out of the building, I recognized him from the pack to, it was 25, the one I had caught to start all this. Oh the irony.

"Good to see you again in the flesh Lady Artemis." Dominic Sr. bowed deeply then quickly righted himself.

I was speechless, here was the one person that I had never thought I would see again, words temporarily escaped me, so I used a method I was certain Thalia was using elsewhere, probably multiple times.

I decked him in the face.

He flew back into the wall, knocked out. Thame only groaned.

"You couldn't have waited until AFTER I explained my plan to get Dominic Jr. back." He complained and I turned on him.

"You want the next one?" I asked, staring down his scarred face.

"As if you could, just take him over to the building with a purple roof, Reyna will be waiting for you two with the plan, don't kill him either, we'll need him to make this work."

"Fine." I grumbled and picked up the lost son of Acyls and marched off into the city.

I found the building easy enough, it was only a block away, I knocked on the door and Reyna greeted me and led me to a meeting room within her house.

Dominic Sr. finally came too when I chucked him onto a couch.

"Plan time, if my memory is correct, completing orders was your sole function, so just sit there, be silent, and let your superiors discuss matters." I growled at him, it was taking a lot of self-restraint to not deck him again, my fist crunching against his face had felt so good, maybe I shouldn't hold Thalia back when she asks to deck someone next time.

"Maybe back then, but I don't follow orders anymore, except for Thame, he scares the crap out of me."

"And neither Reyna nor I do?" I shot back

"Compared to Thame, not in the slightest. But that's beside the point, Reyna, you have plans for Thame, lay em out, we gotta get my son I didn't know existed."

"Didn't you live around him for hundreds of years, shouldn't you have made the connection?"

"He choose to hide his reason for being among the hunted, I blamed Acyls. Neither of us removed our cloaks, only Thame had seen the both of us, maybe Cal and Thorn, or Leo and Nico as you know them."

"Yet you still missed your own child, you really are another sick male."

"Said the bitch who threw an infant into Tartarus because they reminded you of something unpleasant."

Once again, my fist went to meet his face, but Reyna stopped it.

"If you two would stop arguing like an old married couple, can we get started on the mission?"

"WE AREN'T A MARRIED COUPLE!" I roared at her, my patience dwindling quickly

"Well if you two keep acting like that, I will pull a Venus and force you two to fall in love, so shut up." That silenced us both quickly

"Now then, Thame told me that the only way to break Darren's mind control is to remind him of who he is, to break through the cage that is keeping him from controlling his body, Darren can control the mind, not the heart. If the three of us can get his heart to overpower his mind, Darren's control will be broken."

"Great in theory, how do we do it?" Sr. asked

"As Eros's champion, I am able to see into someone's heart, Eros helped me do a long scrying to see into Dominic's. He wants someone by his side through thick and thin that loves him, and I want the same thing with him so no problem, but the second part is where you two come in. He also wants to see his parents get along, see that he isn't from a hateful broken home."

"Well that's not going to happen, based off sunshine's story over here, she never wanted or cared for him, I was completely clueless."

"Like a typical male." I muttered under my breath.

"Look, we need to be honest with him, apologize, get him to realize who he is, break the spell, then we have him back and the score at least tied as far as champions goes. If the others pull off the distraction successfully and Thame gets back Annabeth, we have the advantage, this NEEDS to work, now if he makes a request of you two, you do it, end of story, am I perfectly clear?"

"Fine." We both grumbled.

"Good, I believe it's almost go time, so suit up."

Leo POV

After leaving Nico to deal with his completely enraged crush, I made my way back to Percy/Thame. I knew he was waiting until he got his own body and Annabeth back before showing himself, but even then, how many people would he show, his trust in people and basically gone through the floor since the whole original mind control business.

When I was at the meeting pavilion, I saw Percy talking with Chaos, knowing they both already sensed me, I just hung around and watched them. Chaos gestured at the portal she had made and Percy nodded. Then Chaos flicked him in the forehead.

His body began to glow, his stature changed, I could see the tips of shaggy black hair come out from under his hood. Percy had his body back, and he was ready to go.

Slowly, everyone made their way to the pavilion.

"Alright everybody, here's the plan. I am opening a portal for Hades's army and the hunt to storm the portal from the Tartarus side, Artemis, Sr and Reyna will be going with them, along with Hazel and Nico.

Poseidon will be taking his own army along with the aqua squadron from the pack along with the surviving campers, Hephaestus and Zoe and Leo. They will be directly assaulting the elevators, going up in small elite groups.

I will be sneaking in directly to Olympus to retrieve Annabeth. We clear?"

"You shouldn't be going alone into Olympus, no doubt Annabeth is heavily guarded, how in Hades are you going to get through?" Artemis questioned him, I already knew the answer, and I think Nico did too.

"I will have my own backup." He cryptically answered.

"Why are you taller now?" Thalia piped up from the back, I saw Nico slip away from her when he heard her voice, good, I properly scarred him.

"Chaos returned my true body to me."

"So what you showed us at meeting wasn't real, and you're still hiding."

"Only a little longer Thalia, after this mission."

"Now everybody, positions, WE FIGHT FOR OUR SURVIVAL, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN, FOR THE GODS!"

And with his war cry, we all jumped through our designated portals, ready to hand out a serious beating.

I apologize, a thousand apologies, I ran completely out of ideas for this chapter, I finally got inspiration from my brother, bless the little devil. The next three chapters should come fairly quickly, they are the three fronts of the battle. There will be more secrets revealed. A popular request I have been getting is to tell more backstory and Percy and his time in the pack, I decided aside from necessary backstory, I will be writing a separate story of the pack once I am done with this story. This story will have a sequel, and the pack stories will be a prequel.

Thanks for putting up with me being really slow, Happy Reading-Centurion Africanus