So guys I'm here! I've had a pretty bad week and a really bad day, but I'm not letting myself not update out of self pity.

This is solo so excuse the mistakes, Silver isn't here to correct and make my stories better.

I'll explain more about why it took me so long to update in AN below.

Also I'm going to twist a little bit of what happened in the last chapter. You'll see what I mean.

And that's about it!

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Chapter 32

Aeron POV

I'm pretty sure I should get out of the mansion as fast as I could.

Decapitating the owner, blacking out and going completely crazy psycho Aeron and ripping everyone close to me apart, etc wasn't a good reason to stay and explain to the Russian police what happened.

Looking at my string of evilness and craziness, I would have probably destroyed them as well.

The Cloak of Purity was flaring...Not a good sign.

Evil thoughts clouded my mind and I did everything to suppress them.

" Aeron, Aeron?! Are you okay? I'm getting weird signals! " Percy sounded excessively worried, his voice rising.

Strongly to contain a rising amount of...darkness. I am able to choke out a couple words.

" Per-Percy…? I-I thi-nk it * cough * was a bad idea to let me take over. "

" What?! Why Aeron?! "

It was getting darker and darker.

" I am sorry, " I manage to choke out.

And then I succumb, collapsing on the ground. I couldn't put anyone in danger.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what I was going to do.

Percy POV

I woke up with ringing in my head and a comfy bed to support me.

Blinking back dust as I tried to assert where the heck I was.

It was a small comfy room with just a bed.

Having no idea how I got here, I tried to take a step and get off the bed.

I almost immediately fell.

Suddenly, a strong head helped me up.

Looking up, to my great relief, was Pontus.

" Whoa Percy, get back on the bed, you need to rest. After what happened, well you'll definitely need it. "

I froze, what the heck had happened to make Pontus say that?

" What? Why? "

He looked at me grimly, " Tell me Percy, what do you hear? "

I attempted to listen, I heard nothing at all.

" I hear nothing. "

" Exactly. "

Then it dawned on me.

" Aeron? Aeron?! Are you there?! "

Nothing, so feedback at all.

I looked back worriedly, " Where is Aeron?! What happened to him?! "

He looked at me one time, and waved his hand created a video.

" Let me show you, " Pontus said.

I looked closely at the video.

What I saw horrified me.

It seemed to be a live feed from the mansion.

Aeron was tearing apart the mansion, he was literally poisoning the area. Disintegrating monsters, mortals, and everything alike.

" After he killed Diablo, a massive influx of mortals and monsters came to avenge him. You were put in extreme danger and your body...it went into overdrive. "

I stared at a sickening part where Aeron was laughing cruelly and evilly as he stood upon a poison hurricane and sent a row of poison spikes completely killing a line of mortals.

" You and Aeron's powers completely merged together, except it was a lot more tinged with poison then it should be. All in the means to protect you and to get you to safety, " he said plainly.

No, I should have been stopping this. Telling Aeron to stop. I could barely watch as he ripped through another column of mortals.

" What happened to me?! I should have stopped him! Told Aeron to calm down or something! "

He slightly laughed.

" Look and listen closely at the video Percy, " he said ominously.

What did he mean by that? I looked even closer and tried to listen as well as I could.

I saw it. And it horrified me even more than I already was.

Flickrs of me were in there. How the? I saw bits of my sea green eyes and weirdly crooked sarcastic smile.

I even heard my laugh.

Except that there weren't my normal eyes, smile, and laugh.

My eyes were tinted with fierceness and aggressiveness. Not to mention that they had a slight bit of Aeron's green purple poisonous eyes.

My smile was looking more upturned and crooked and it looked a lot more creepy.

But my laugh...It almost exactly mirrored Aeron's.

I looked at Pontus with a bewildered face.

" How did this happen?! "

" Long story short, both of you snapped. With both parties in agreement of taking out a particular goal, especially when the dark side is in control...Bad things happen. You Percy, your entire demeanor changed. You egged Aeron on. You took as much pleasure in it as he did. "

No, there was no way. I was not a monster.

" But-"

" Do you feel remorse? " Pontus asked suddenly.

I was taken back by it, but more I thought about it…

I didn't feel anything except disgust.

And that was guaranteed anyway, what was more scary was that I didn't find any sympathy, empathy, or remorse for even all the mortals and demigods I killed.

My hands were shaking as I looked at them.

" So it's true then, I should have known by just looking at your face, " Pontus said.

I refused to believe that was true.

" There is no proof, I'm not a monster, " I yell out.

" You're not a monster, but you are becoming darker, " Pontus repeats.

" No I'm not, " I scream in utmost frustration and smash my hand against the wall.

Somehow I broke through it.

" Hmmm. Bursts of rage and demon strength. And you say it's not true, " Pontus observes.

God, was I really becoming evil?

" Am I turning -?

" Summon water Percy, " Pontus tell me.

I do and I expected the worst.

And it ended up worse.

The water I summoned had poison tings to it and was murkier.

I ran to the restroom and staring at the mirror, my entire appearance had changed slightly.

For one, the fierce wolf stare that I used to ward off regular mortals, the one that I implemented in my Roman training with Lupa and the same one that Aeron used in more intensity was on m face.

I looked like a freaking guy on weird emo drugs, that weren't cool like Nico, but really weird and super creepy.

I tried for my normal troublemaker smile, and I ended up with something one of those mad scientist smiles.

Not normal at all.

I felt Pontus's hands on mine.

" But, what about the Cloak of Purity? It should have…"

He brought out all my items that I had recovered and to my disbelief, they all were droopy and had purplish and blackish tings to them as well.

" They've been...corrupted per say. Now they give you more power, but in doses that Aeron is accustomed to. Seems like they adopt the appearance of the user, " Pontus says.

" Can you sum it-"

" Yes. Aeron and an overall negative side is winning over your original positive side. Tendency to kill, destroy, and overall fierceness to pursue goals has dramatically increased. Tendency for bursts of rage have also increased. With this also comes demon like abilities like super strength etc. Your abilities and items also show that. Unsheath Riptide please. "

I do and even Riptide has an eerie glow to it.

" Hypothesis confirmed. And this comes to my final question...Do you want to continue? "

" What? "

" It will only get worse from here. I do not want to change you Percy. I cannot bear that and put that one my great-grand nephew, " Pontus looked extremly sad.

" There is no fix? "

" No, Aeron will return in a couple of hours or so and you can discuss it with him. It will only get worse as it gets more dangerous with you facing off against several old and dangerous monsters. The darkness might consume you Percy and merge both you and Aeron into a killing machine for good...or bad. " Pontus said.

I could quit right now. Go back home and hug my sister, mom and step-dad, I could kiss Annabeth.

I could let it go.

But I knew I couldn't.

Taking a deep breath, I looked at Pontus and said, " I'm still in, what's next? "

I need to apologize for being SEVERAl weeks/days late.

I'm sorry guys, work in increasing and my relationship with my parents is waning.

Enjoy this chapter and next one will be next week same time.

I hope I won't be late this time and thank you for sticking with me.