A/N: I think most of you had forgotten. In the beginning of this story, I said that I would make this Pertemis a different one then most of the Pertemis that are already out there. Since no one has thought of this yet, I decided to make Percy lose his powers. Trust me, if I didn't do that, this story would be less entertaining. Well, here's chapter 33. Enjoy. Oh, and to be honest, I didn't mean to make you think it was a Bleach reference when Percy battled the demon. That was purely coincidental.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO, HOO, FF or DmC

Note: There will be a new OC. It would be from my own creation.

Chapter 33

Artemis' POV

Artemis was confused at her boyfriend. For the first few hours, he had been thrashing, changing expressions, sweating and muttering something that Artemis couldn't make out in his sleep. When he started thrashing around, Artemis got worried. She tried to sooth Percy, but it didn't seem to work. This went on for the last who knows how many hours. Nico and the whole army had long left. The only ones here aside from Percy and Artemis were Alia, Michael, Will and Lucy, a daughter of Iris. She and her siblings had created an Iris link with each other, which is what the children of Iris are special of. They can communicate with each other, not caring the distance between them. It had become useful in certain moments, especially when they played a prank on Alia, involving a lot of strings and sticky stuff.

Now, Percy was sleeping, well, normally. He didn't thrash around, frowned or anything. He slept soundly like usually did. Artemis brushed a strand of Percy's hair with her fingers.

Artemis was sleepy. She hadn't got any sleep, because she was taking care of Percy. She was tired and drowsy. Then, Lucy came in the infirmary. "Hey, um, Artemis. Do you need anything?" Lucy asked.

"Nah, I'm fine, thanks." Artemis said with a smile. Then, she yawned. Lucy took another look at her face.

"Oh gods, you look horrible. Artemis' you must get some sleep. It's not good for you to stay up like this."

"It's been only six hours." Artemis said. "I'm fine."

Lucy shook her head. "You don't even know what the time is. Artemis, you've been awake for almost three days."

That explains the drowsiness she was feeling, Artemis thought.

"So? I want to take care of Percy." Artemis said with another yawn.

"You can't force yourself. What would Percy feel if he saw you like this?" Lucy asked with concern. Lucy had a point. Artemis looked at Percy and touched his forehead. "Don't worry. I'll take care of him."

Artemis just nodded and rubbed her eyes. "Do you mind if I sleep next to him?" Lucy smiled and shook her head.

"Not at all, Artemis." Lucy said. Artemis just smiled. She got on top of the bed and rested her head on Percy's chest while lying next to him. She wrapped her arms around him and made herself comfortable. At first, Artemis thought she would have some trouble sleeping, but her eyes closed instantly.

Jason's POV

Jason didn't know how long they had been underground, but it felt like fifteen years, maybe longer. Everyone was tired and beat up. They were resting on a huge room that the Labyrinth had led us to, fortunately. They had made a few campfires, because too much will cause them to suffocate in smoke.

Jason was sitting with Nico and Thalia and several others of his friends. All of them were exhausted, and they have little chance to rest. The moment they stepped into the Labyrinth, some of them were already separated. After three days, there were a few dozens of demigods left with them. The others had been separated, and were already scattered. Either they made it out, or still in the Labyrinth or trapped anywhere, Jason didn't know. One of the Iris children, Julie, had an Iris link with Lucy, her sibling at the base who was staying with Percy and the others.

"This is my fault." Nico said miserably. "I shouldn't have led them in here."

"It's not your fault, Nico. It's no one's fault. We all know of the risks." Thalia said as she put her arm around him for comfort. "Besides, Rachel says that we're close."

"But what about the others?"

Thalia pursed her lips. "I don't know, but I know they'll make it. They're demigods and the strongest that there'll ever be. They will make it."

"I hope so." Nico muttered. Jason kept his eyes on the flames. He had a feeling that not all of them would make it.

Travis' POV

"Faster!" Travis yelled as he dragged Katie along with him.

"It's closing in on us." Katie yelled. Travis didn't have any choice. He lifted Katie up into a piggyback ride and ran. "No, Travis. Put me down."

"You're too slow." Travis said with a grin as he ran. The monsters behind them were closing in. A pack of hellhounds and several dracaenas. Travis and Katie had gotten separated from the army during day two, along with several other demigods. Then, both of them got separated from those demigods, and now they were on their own.

"There's a door." Katie said, pointing at the obvious door in front of them.

"Way to go Captain Obvious. Are you sure we should take the door?"

"It's either the monsters, or the door."

"I'd rather take the toilet."

"Travis!"

Travis sprinted towards the door with Katie on his back. The path they were taking was a long corridor, and the end was the wooden door. Travis twisted the knob, didn't even managed to peek inside, entered and immediately closed the door behind him. He heard several poundings and barking on the other side of the door.

"Um, Travis." Katie muttered on his back. "You might want to take a look at this."

Travis turned around, and saw, well . . .

"This did not go as planned . . ." Travis muttered.

Percy's POV

During his training, he noticed several changes on his body and abilities. He had gotten stronger, faster and had a different power. Demonic powers, is what Chaos called it. Supposedly, demons can make themselves explode, the way Chaos always do when he's in a bad mood. The demons did get Chaos' bad personalities, so that makes sense. They also had a knack of dual wielding, which is what Chaos does to relieve stress and tension.

"So, I get new powers?" Percy asked.

"Yes and you will also get new weapons. Well, technically they're your old weapons, since you suck at handling any weapons that you find unbalanced in your hands."

"You're a real morale booster, you know?"

"Anyways, your new weapons will be embedded with new powers, which I will explain later."

"Wait, weapons? You mean like, there's an 's'?"

"Yeah. You will have to learn dual wielding, or you'll be useless in combat, trust me."

Percy sighed. Chaos was not making this training easy. "So, where are they?"

Chaos waved his hand and two weapons appeared in his hand. In his hands were two identical sword, both had an Ancient Greek inscription engraved on its blade: Anaklusmos.

It felt good having Riptide back in his hands. Sure, it felt good when he was handling Moros' sword, but it wasn't the same. "Hey, Riptide. Its good to have you back."

"Um, you're talking to a sword. You know swords are inanimate objects, right?"

"Of course I do. It's just that, Riptide had been with me ever since I found out that I was a demigod."

"Well, I hate to break your romance with a sword-"

"Hey!"

"-but I have some explaining to do. What you have in your hands are the original Anaklusmos, and a duplicate one. These swords will help you in your training during dual wielding."

"Why is dual wielding even necessary?" Percy asked. He'd never fought with two swords before. He was used to fighting with one hand, or two hand for more power.

"You and the demon need to bond, get it? BOND." Chaos said, emphasising on the word. "Want me to spell it out for you?"

"Shut up." Percy mumbled. Chaos just laughed.

"Anyway, you and the demon have to bond and make a stable connection so your body won't explode whenever one of you gets moody." Chaos said.

"Okay, whatever. You said I'd get new powers, right?"

"Right. So, um, to try it out, try making a slash with one of the swords." Chaos said. Percy did as he instructed. He swung the Riptide in his right hand. Immediately, the blade caught on fire as Percy slashed it. It left a trail of fire in the air before disappearing. Percy's eyes widened in surprise.

"That was awesome. Do my swords get some kind of fire power?"

"Not exactly. Try swinging the other one." Chaos said. Percy did and swung the sword in his left hand. This one, however, was a bit different. Instead of flames, the blade of the second sword had light blue, visible wind swirling around it. When the sword moved, it left a trail of light blue wind in its path, making Percy's hair stood up from the coldness.

"Okay, so my swords are now embedded with wind and fire powers. Sweet." Percy muttered.

"You swords are embedded with the powers of Agni and Rudra, the two angels that created fire and wind for the Titans to discover."

"So, can I call my swords Agni and Rudra rather than Riptides? That would be confusing."

"Whatever you wish." Chaos rolled his eyes. "Now, remember the story of Prometheus giving fire to mankind?"

Percy nodded.

"Well, where do you think the fire come from? The angels had sent it down to Earth. That's when Prometheus discovered this and gave it to mankind."

"Well, thank you for giving us fire. When am I going to start to train?"

Chaos laughed. "Now." Chaos waved his hand and several monsters appeared in front of him.

This is going to take a while, Percy said as he readied his swords.

Ai's POV (a new OC, and yeah, his name is Ai)

Ai was flying around, because he had nothing else to do rather than watch everything.

Yeah, he said flying.

This may seem a bit weird to people, even to the Olympians, but Ai's father was Tartarus. Yes, believe it or not, Ai's father was the very thing that imprisoned the worst beings and deities that existed. For everyone's information, I am the son of Tartarus, only. Tartarus had manifested me with dark energy. At first he had planned to create a servant, who will always be loyal to him. After a few years, Ai got adapted into his son. Ai was made immortal by Tartarus when he was twenty one.

Yes, again, believe it or not, Tartarus had created him years before they launched the Titan war and the Giant war. At that time, Ai understood everything that he needed to understand. He understood that everything in the Greek mythology was real and that he's a demi-primordial and that he's constantly being chased by some bloodthirsty demons.

The power that he got from Tartarus would be the incredible raven black wings that sprouted from his back. They retract back into his wing silts, so he could hide it from mortals and other demigods. Another power was the most dangerous one, on Ai's opinion. Ai called it the 'black hole'. He could create a hole with a massive pulling force that could drag any being and deity and suck them straight to Tartarus, where his father would decide whether they should stay here or back to Earth. The Black Hole was some dangerous shit, because he couldn't control the size of the hole he was making. He could end up even dragging his allies into Tartarus, assuming he had any. Another power that he had was Quicksilver, a power which he owned without the knowledge of anyone except Ai. Since Tartarus had some influence on gravitational pull, he had the same power. With a snap of his fingers, Ai could emit a transparent dome that would envelope everyone within a certain amount of range from where he was standing. The ones that are in his dome would be slowed down. Only Ai would move and normal speed. Again, this power is dangerous should he have allies. His other skills like hand to hand combat, using weapons and dodging insane monsters, his father said that he had to learn on his own. His father can't teach him, as that would raise some suspicions from the gods.

Yeah, what a role model.

So, Ai was flying around with his wings, overlooking the buildings and streets of Manhattan. New York was never quiet. He flew around, carefully staying in the darkness where it would be harder to see him. If they saw him, the Mist would make them think that Ai was a hang glider or worse, a UFO. If that happens, Ai would have to avoid several government attacks and threats that they would bring him to Area 51.

It was a matter of time before Ai saw several people coming out of the Chrysler building. If it were normal peoples, then Ai wouldn't have to worry too much, but they were carrying weapons and wearing armours. There were at least a dozen of them, all looking tired, beat up and looked like they had been in several monster attacks. Ai had no choice but to get down and see what they were up to. Ai descended in an alley, where no one would see him retracting his wings. Tartarus had given him a shirt and jacket that would allow his wings to get through them without ripping them apart.

Ai scanned the area and found the group of demigods. Ai followed them, carefully not blowing his cover. The leader was a pale looking kid, with a scruffy hair. He had a sword; the blade was black as midnight. Ai doesn't know what mortals saw through the mist, but they kept their distance from them. The demigod that appears to be the second in command was a blonde kid, much taller and tanner. He didn't have any weapons, but he fiddled with a golden coin in his fingers.

Then, they started moving. Ai decided to follow them, wherever they were going. They seemed kind of in a hurry. Ai decided to get closer to see if he could listen to them.

"-Olympus! We're outnumbered." A girl with spiky emo hair said. She was wearing jeans and a hooded silver parka. "We have to look for them. They're your friends too, Nico."

"You think I don't know that?" The pale kid said who must've been Nico. "Thalia, I want to look for them, but we can't spend another day there and risk losing any more people than we already have. Jason, what's the news on the base?" Nico turned towards the blonde kid.

"Nico," The blonde kid, Jason, said with depression. "Percy is missing."

Everyone stopped dead on their tracks. "WHAT?!" They said at the same time.

Who is Percy?

Artemis' POV

Artemis woke up because of the loud roar. She expected to wake up on Percy's chest, but dread filled her as she woke up and found out the worst thing she could've expected.

Percy was missing.

Artemis instantly shot awake, as if someone had just injected a shot of caffeine inside her. She looked around, and didn't like what she saw. Lucy was on the ground, unconscious and looked like she had been attacked. Artemis rushed to her side. "Lucy? Lucy, wake up." Artemis said as she tried to wake her up. Fortunately, her eyelids fluttered open.

"Wh-what?" Lucy looked around until her eyes fixed on Artemis. Her eyes then widened. "Artemis! Oh gods, Percy had left. He woke up, and set you down comfortably on the bed. Then, he said that he was leaving. I told him to stay, at least until you wake up, but he made me unconscious."

"What? Why would he do that?"

"I don't know. He said that, he had to get something in somewhere that we can't follow." Lucy said as she sat up. "I'm sorry, Artemis. I couldn't stop him." Lucy looked like she was close to crying.

Artemis shook her head and pulled her into a hug. "Its okay, Lucy. It's not your fault. You did everything you could. But why would Percy do that."

"Artemis, when before he made me unconscious, he gave me this." Lucy handed him a note folded and closed. "He said that only you can read the content."

"Me?" Artemis grabbed the note and unfolded it. Lucy just watched her, but she didn't seem anxious to know what the note was about. Artemis felt a bit of glad but worried as she read the note.

Dear Artemis,

I'm sorry, but I have to leave for a while. It might be a few days until I get back. No, I'm not cheating on you or anything; I just have to get something. Something that I needed. I would've brought you along, but it's too dangerous. Besides, someone has to keep the baby safe, right? So, stay safe and take care. Love you Arty.

P/S: Say sorry to Lucy for me for making her unconscious. I hope it was painless. Sorry Lucy, :)

Your love - Perseus Jackson.

Artemis sighed. Percy hadn't been the most predictable demigods that Artemis had seen.

"What's wrong Artemis?"

"He says he's sorry for leaving me for a while and sorry for knocking you out."

Lucy managed a chuckle. "Apology accepted."

Artemis sighed again. "Oh, Percy . . ."

Percy's POV

Percy was trying to keep up with a shadow figure of himself that Chaos had conjured. Dual wielding was easy, but it was hard to master. It was even harder to use against an adversary that's good with a sword, like Percy's shadow figure. Sure, Agni and Rudra had been helpful, but the shadow figure had Percy's skills as a swordsman. At least, that's what Chaos said. Now Percy knew how it felt fighting against himself. No wonder monsters were scared of him.

Percy had created some combinations with Agni and Rudra, but none of them worked against the shadow figure. "You need to be faster. My grandmother swings faster than you, if I had any." Chaos joked.

"So funny, I forgot how to laugh." Percy said sarcastically as he parried a strike from the shadow figure. "Can't I combine the hilts together so I can hold a spear like thing with two pointy ends?"

Chaos shrugged. "You can try."

Percy groaned. Chaos was getting more annoying than he was. "Thanks for the help!" Percy tried to attach the two hilts together, and it worked. Now, Percy had a hilt with two blades coming out of each end.

"Glad I could be of assistance." Chaos joked again. Percy rolled his eyes.

The shadow figure advanced at Percy. Percy waited. One . . . Two . . .

When the shadow figure got closer, Percy raised his weapon and twirled it in his hands as quickly as he could. Soon, a whirlwind of fire was swirling around him. Searing hot flames and ice cold wind, merging together and forming a whirlwind. The shadow figure instantly dissipated. Percy stopped his whirlwind, and realized how much energy that took.

"Well done, Perseus. You have completed your training which had lasted, uh, three days." Chaos said.

"Well, I'm glad it's over."

"There's one more thing though."

"What now?"

"This is only your subconscious. Which means, when you wake up, Agni and Rudra won't be by your side."

"Then how-"

"Easy. Let me finish. I will place Agni and Rudra somewhere you're familiar with."

"Where?"

"Oh, it's what you and your friends called a big pile of deer dung."

"Oh." This is going to be nostalgic. Now, Percy is somewhere in the middle of America. So he's going to have to travel back to Camp Half-Blood, where Agni and Rudra is. Chaos is annoying.

"So, are you up for it?"

"Well, I'll need a transport."

Chaos shook his head. "Think of this as training. You'll have to walk on foot and make your way to camp. No pegasi, no hellhounds, no shadow travelling and no hailing a cab at New York." Percy groaned again. "So, good luck."

Chaos waved his hand and Percy blacked out.

Line Break

Percy woke up with a mess of auburn hair on his chest. He felt good to see her again. Percy looked around and saw Lucy, the daughter of Iris. Her eyes widened when she saw Percy. "Perc-" Percy shushed her, signalling that Artemis was asleep. Lucy nodded and kept quiet. Percy got up, slowly and gently setting Artemis down on the bed. Percy tucked her in and kissed her forehead.

'There's a note in your pocket that will explain everything to her.' Chaos said in his head.

'Scram!' Percy yelled back. He turned towards Lucy.

"Percy! I'm so glad you're awake." Lucy said excitedly, but quietly.

"Yeah, well, I'm glad to. Listen, I have to leave for a while and, I'll be back in a few days."

"What? What about Artemis? You can't just leave like that?"

"I have to."

"At least wait until she wakes up."

Percy shook his head. "She would either go with me or won't let me go. This is important and I need to do this alone." Percy said. He gave Lucy the note from his pocket. "Give this to Artemis. Only she may read the content."

Lucy reluctantly took the note. "I will." Lucy sighed. "Artemis is going to be mad at me for this."

"No she won't." Percy said. Percy pinched the vein on her neck. Lucy choked before fainting. Percy just grinned. "Vulcan pinch, always works."

Percy took the note from Lucy and read it. He rolled his eyes. "Really? Keep the baby safe?" Percy grabbed a pen and wrote an additional note to the note. He was apologizing for knocking Lucy out. Then, Percy slipped the note back into Lucy's pocket.

Percy got out of the infirmary and intended to sneak his way out. Turns out, he didn't need to. Everyone was gone, the camp was empty. "Where is everyone?" Percy decided to dwell on that later. Then, he noticed something.

Chaos didn't say he couldn't use a flying blue dragon, did he?

Percy summoned Levy, his old friend. "It's good to see you again, Levy." Percy got on Levy. "Let's go to Camp Half-Blood. I'll guide you." Levy understood and soar into the sky, letting out a huge roar.

A/N: So, he's back. Travis and Katie had ended up god knows where, Nico and the others have made it out, but only a few were with them. Who is Ai? What role does he play? All I could say is, he's going to be one of the main characters in the sequel. Leave a review if you like or hate it, a review always helps. Until then, take care.