Percy POV

I paced anxiously in front of the infirmary. Lee and Will were working on Killian still and had sent Lilly out. It had been several hours since Theo and Killian's battle and we were still waiting on word of his condition. Zoe was comforting Lilly off to the side while she cried.

Michael and Bianca had gone to Olympus to tell them what happened, without Theo there to screw it up. Speaking of Theo, after the battle I had glimpsed Travis and Alex dragging him away. I had later found out that he was locked in the Big House with Castor, Pollux, and Luke guarding him. He was whining to everyone about how he had a right to doing what he did to Killian but no one listened nor cared.

I finally stopped my pacing and took a look at Lilly. Since she had come out of the infirmary tent she had broken down crying several times. Zoe was doing her best but couldn't do more than hold the young girl while she cried.

After another hour Lee emerged from the tent. We all stood up immediately. Lee took a breath.

"Killian is expected to make a full recovery." He said with a smile. We let out sighs of relief and thanked him. "He will be out of the infirmary tomorrow but take it easy on him. He'll need time to fully recover."

"Can we see him?" Zoe asked. Lee shook his head.

"He's unconscious at the moment." He said. "Unless you just want to stare at his unmoving body, I suggest you go make use of your time. I'll let you three know when he wakes and is talking."

"Thanks, Lee," I said and started to walk away. Zoe and Lilly followed me silently.

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After a week of Killian being injured and healed, he was beginning to come along nicely. He knew his current limits pretty well and never exceeded them.

Theo was let out of the Big House yesterday day later and tried to confront Lilly about the battle. He was soon turned around by six angry boys and five pissed girls. It was nasty. Lee was holding Estelle that day so he couldn't do anything, and Maddie was with him, feeding my baby sister. Bianca was sitting next to Michael, of course, and Zoe was next to me. Beckendorf and Silena were with us, and so was Katie. Travis was off talking with Pollux about something that he wouldn't tell anyone but Michael, and my brother knows how to keep a secret.

Anyways, when Theo came up, Bianca, Beckendorf, and I had to hold back Michael while Nico held back Katie. Theo walked up to Lilly and demanded an apology. Lilly said he didn't deserve one. Theo tried to hit her, which Killian blocked. Theo pushed Killian to the ground and tried to kick him.

Quicker than a flash, Michael was holding him by the throat, and Beckendorf, Bianca, and I fell backwards off the bench. That's how hard we were pulling on him to get him to remain seated.

"Leave," Michael growled inhumanly. "Do not bother Lilly again or I will drag you down to Tartarus and you will never see the light of day again." Michael shoved Theo away, and the son of Khione ran away, holding his throat.

"What do you mean you had a vision?" Lee asked Connor and Travis the day after the Theo incident. Connor had just brought up that he had a vision while sleeping last night.

"I mean that I saw the future." Connor insisted. "Something bad is going to go down with the gods soon. I saw it."

"This could have something to do with your powers, Connor." Michael pointed out.

"What powers?" Connor asked, bored. "We've tried to see what powers we have but I just can't find any."

"All we've found out about being Chronos's host is that we are better at swordplay and everything slows down a little if we will it to." Travis added.

"You said this vision was of the future, correct?" Michael asked. He nodded. "Chronos is the primordial of time. Maybe you can be like a seer and be able to see into the future, or at least get glimpses of it."

"I see where my brother is going with this." I stepped in. "It makes sense though. Maybe you can only see these visions while you're asleep and that's why you can't access them while awake or conscious."

"Maybe, Perce, but I just don't know." Connor sighed in defeat.

"What was the vision of?" Zoe asked from beside me.

"I only saw short scenes," Connor started. "I saw Killian standing before a big room full of people in purple cloaks. He was in one as well. Then it changed and I saw Michael and thousands of these weird creatures fighting by his side against something I couldn't see. It changed again and I saw the forest on fire and campers on the ground, dead or alive, I couldn't tell. Then I saw Killian and Lilly falling down into a seemingly bottomless cavern. Finally, I saw Michael, Percy, Zoe, and Bianca all fighting against something evil. I could feel the evilness." He shivered.

"That's all so random," Bianca commented with a look of concentration on her face.

"People in purple cloaks?" I asked. He nodded. "Sounds like the Romans."

"I wouldn't know," Connor admitted. "I never really met any of them besides Reyna and Daniel. Daniel is my half-brother on the Roman side." He clarified at our confused looks.

"Killian goes to the Romans?" Michael mused aloud. "I'm glad that neither he nor Lilly are here for this."

"You met the Romans?" Zoe asked incredulously. "And you didn't have a civil war?"

"That's a story for another time," I told her. "We'll tell you another time, too, Bianca," I promised. She nodded.

"Do you have any idea what the cavern led to?" She asked. Immediately flashbacks to Tartarus ran through my mind. I shuddered violently.

"Percy?" Zoe said, sounding concerned. "Are you all right?"

"No," I admitted. "Not at all."

"That cavern leads to Tartarus," Michael informed them and more flashbacks flashed before my eyes. I shuddered again. Someone pressed a glass into my hands and I drained it quickly. "In the last timeline, Percy and Annabeth fell in. Out of all of us champion hosts, I'm the only one who would be able to go in there and not be scarred or driven insane by the horrors in there. Percy's still afraid of the place."

"It didn't seem so bad when we were there," Lee commented.

"That's because you didn't go outside," Michael corrected.

"And you did?" Connor retorted.

"Yeah, I did. And even to me, it's horrid." That shut Connor up. No one said anything about Killian and Lilly falling into that hell.

Michael poured another cup of water and handed it to me. "Keep drinking the water, bro. It'll pass." I nodded gratefully and sipped on the water. "We've found that water helps him get past it." Lee nodded like he understood why it worked while the others nodded like they understood that it just worked.

Before we go too much farther into it, a flash filled up the pavilion. When it died down, Hermes stood before everyone. Everyone bowed to him.

"Lord Hermes," Chiron greeted the god. "What brings you here?"

"I am here to take a demigod to Olympus," he explained. "After a meeting, the gods concluded that her parentage is considered treason against Olympus." Well, that explains why Dionysus isn't here.

"Who is it?" Chiron asked worriedly. Hermes turned towards the Hermes table.

"Lilly Kittle." He said. I saw her eyes widen from across the pavilion.

"Hermes," I said, standing up. I wobbled a little but kept on my feet. "She is under our protection. She won't be harmed by the Olympians."

Hermes shook his head sadly. "She must come with me to Olympus. I wish I did not have to, but Zeus has ordered me to."

"Fuck Zeus's orders," Michael stood next to me. "She's our friend, and will not be taken to Olympus."

Hermes opened his mouth but whatever he was going to say was drowned out by a sudden clap of thunder. Faster than I could react, a bolt of lightning struck Lilly, transporting her to Olympus. I know that this happened because there weren't any ashes left, which there would've been if she had been vaporized. Michael suddenly grabbed my shoulder and flashed us to Olympus.

When our light died down, we saw that Lilly was chained down to the floor in front of the council. Hermes flashed into his throne and his eyes widened at the sight.

I looked around the throne room to see who else was appalled by this.

Apollo was fuming, Artemis was glaring at Zeus, Hephestaus was gripping his arm rests, and Hestia looked furious.

Looking at all the gods told me who had discovered and leaked her parentage. Hera was looking down at Lilly smugly.

"Lilly Kittle!" Zeus thundered. "You are herby accused of treason against Olympus because you are family to one of our oldest enemies. How do you plead?"

"I-Innoc-cent," she cried. Her body was shaking with her sobs of fear.

"Guilty it is!" Zeus roared. He hefted his lighting bolt, but Michael and I lashed out with our powers before he could do anything. Zeus dropped his bolt from the force of our attack.

"We said," we said in perfect unison, "she is under our protection. No Olympian shall harm her unless they wish to be sent down to Tartarus."

"She is the daughter of Achlys!" Hera cried out, glaring at us. Images of the misery goddess flashed on front of my eyes. Her hideous outlook. Following her to the edge of Tartarus. Choking her with her own poison. "Her mother wants us to fall. Lilly is a way for her to collapse our family! And she has no respect for the gods!"

"You are bitter, Hera," Michael growled, "because she did not show you the respect you thought you deserved. After this, none of our friends will respect you. She represents the kind of family that you loathe, one that isn't perfect. Except that her biological family isn't her real family. We are." He bared his teeth, his canines slightly longer than before. "Now let her go."

"She is accused of treason," Ares said. "She must be put to death."

"You can try, Ares." I told the war god. He narrowed his eyes before leaping off his throne, running towards Lilly. Michael let out some type of bark before lunging for Ares.

But Ares was too quick. He stood in front of Lilly, a sword in his hand, poised to strike. He raised his sword but before he could swing, an arrow knocked it out of his grip. The sword clattered to the floor and another arrow knocked it farther away.

I looked over to see both Artemis and Apollo with their bows out, aimed towards Ares.

A heavy thud drew my attention back to Ares and I blinked in surprise. Michael was holding Ares down, his hands on his shoulder. Only, they weren't his hands anymore. He had paws, and by the look on Ares' face, he had claws that were digging into his flesh.

Where Michael should've been was a large wolf with brown fur. The weird part was that he had wings, covered in pitch black feathers.

"Now," I started, not letting my surprise show. It was probably better that the gods didn't know that I had no clue about this aspect of his powers. "Do as my brother said. Let Lilly go."

"Why should we?" Poseidon asked. "She might turn against us."

"If you don't, the demigods might turn against you." I countered. "Most of them would follow us when they find out that you were putting an innocent girl to death because of who her godly parent is. Do you want that war on your hands? During a war with the Titans?"

"I say we do not kill her," Athena proposed, always the one with the brains. "All in favor?" Herself, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Hephestaus, Demeter, and Aphrodite raised their hands. "Then it is settled. Majority says that she lives." Athena snapped her fingers and the chains holding her disappeared. She fell to the ground, shaking. "She is free to go. Take her back to Camp Half Blood."

"Thank you, Lady Athena." I said gratefully. I walked up to where Lilly was and picked her up bridal style. "Come on, Michael. Let's go." Michael bared his fangs in Ares' one last time before lifting himself off the god with his mighty wings. He shifted back midair and landed next to me, human once again. He grinned at me and I noticed that his teeth were a little sharper than before.

"It'd be nice if you don't mention that to anyone," he said and he placed a hand on my shoulder. "It's still a work in progress." He flashed us back to camp.

Once back in camp, we immediately took her to the infirmary. Once inside, Lee noticed us and slumped in relief.

"Everyone thinks you're all dead," he told us as he helped us get Lilly settled. He checked her over. "Just a little bit of shock. Some sleep should help with that. You can rest here tonight. If you need anything, pull on this." He handed her a white rope. "It's tapped into my powers and it'll wake me up." He turned to my brother and I. "Now, out. She needs sleep, and she can't do that with us here." He shooed us out and began leading us to the Big House.

"So, did we miss anything?" Michael asked jokingly.

"Killian asked Alexia to be his girlfriend."

"What!"