Chapter 7
Hey all you beautiful people! Zayden here with another chapter in this story. I hoped you guys had a wonderful Thanksgiving, mine was great if your asking. Also MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! I have decided to post this chapter during Christmas as my own little present for you guys. LOVE YOU GUYS AND THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT! I have also read the reviews so far and I apologize if the latest chapter was a little boring but I just figured that I needed an entire chapter to reveal Percy's dead friends, especially Zoe, coming back and joining his fight. I wanted tie up the loose ends like Leo and Calypso, references to Zoe, and I wanted to add Alabastor to roster as he doesn't seem to be enough credit or mention. By the way, what did you guys think about Zoe as Percy's last mate? I, honestly, was tinkering with the idea and your pleas have made me put the idea in. Now I have to is to scrap all of my previous plans to make new ones for Perzoe. YAH! But no, seriously I'm joking it won't deter me at all. Now then moving on, this chapter will be focusing on Percy's training for the first 300 years (30 in the mortal world) and then maybe the next, depending how long it is. What's else is that I will try my best not to make Percy and everybody overpowered and if you notice any things in this that seem to be from an anime...I'm sorry, I just love these anime. Also I have been thinking about my Pokemon fan fiction idea and, my newest idea, Spiderman conquering the Marvel world and women story, and if I go through with this I will have put this story in a *I start shivering* hiatus. But don't worry I won't do that...unless you guys want me to.
Moving on and beginning with the story, I don't own any of Percy Jackson blah blah blah and it belongs to Riordan blah blah blah.
LET'S BEGIN!
Training, Dragons, and Reunions
Time Skip: 300 years in Chaos space, 30 on Earth.
Percy POV
Remember when I accepted this training business with Chaos and the Primordials to overthrow the gods? Yeah I thought it was going to be torture beyond my craziest imagination. I was wrong.
It was SOOOOOOOO much worse!
After the council meeting, Chaos revealed the location and nature of where we were. You may be thinking that sense its the creator of the universe then it would be Heaven or some other planet, right? Well, it wasn't. The place we were in was an entirely different dimension! Chaos claimed that this world was an entire parallel version of our Earth before the events of the Fall of Man. He claimed that the entire world was still in the form of Pangaea, where all the continents of the world were still one. It was night when we were there and the place looked like a pre-civilization kind of world, where the flora and fauna of the world seemed remotely unchanged, it looked like paradise. Then that image was shattered and made 10 times better due to the giant metropolis of a city.
The city was GINORMOUS! Chaos teleported us to a floating island platform to get a better look at the city. It looked like the size of both New York and Tokyo, the two largest cities in the world, combined! The design seemed to be of a futuristic looking city combined with the cultures of almost every civilization in the world, but the one that was mostly predominant was a medieval kind of look. The tallest buildings were no bigger than 900 feet, almost half of size of the world's largest skyscraper. What was also amazing was that this futuristic metropolis seemed to also be clean, healthy looking, and nature friendly. There were even building made out of giant trees and rocks. To the left side of the city was the vast ocean that with the remaining water powers I had that it was wider than the Pacific Ocean. I would see ships of every kind sailing the waters, all at peace and I could sense no form of pollution in the waters whatsoever. I looked to the right side and saw a vast number of farms and mansions ans well as a vast forest and jungle that blended naturally. I almost had a heart attack when I saw T-Rex walking along the forest, perfectly alive and well. I looked around to see many different kinds of animals, from regular, to extinct, to mythological, even monsters that looked peaceful and friendly.
But none of them compared to the likes of what I saw playing right beside us. The creature was giant over 700 feet long, over 300 feet tall, and over 150 feet wide, it had black scales as dark as darkness itself, but had dark neon blue rimmed scales that seemed to glow in power that seemed to run off him like veins, and he had three giant rows of spikes running along his back. The wings of the creature were ginormous, both combined almost bigger than the length of his entire body, they had the same color scheme as the rest of his body but the leather on the wings seemed like dark blue. The legs were massive, had scaly fingered 4 feet, and looked like it could reduce a giant into pudding with one stomp and claws looked sharp enough to slash a mountain clean in half. Its tail was long, barbed, and the tip was dark blue layered spear. His neck looked regular length for a this type of creature and his head was slightly rectangular shape with a jagged jaw that had two short lengthened spikes producing forward from his jaw and some bigger ones producing from the back of the jawline, black slightly curved horns on his head going back and had a neon glow coming from the edges of the horns, the mouth of the creature was massive a lined with razor sharp teeth that you could feel how sharp they are just by looking them, and the eyes were big with neon blue, scaly eyes, the pupils lined like a snake's. The massive creature was a giant, black and blue dragon!
The dragon's eye moved and looked over at me, my friends, and Chaos, but paused when looking at me. It was like fateful meeting waiting to happen as everything seemed to move slowly as his eye meet mine and his slightly glowed for a split second before looking at Chaos. From the looks of it, Chaos and the creature were having a mental discussion, and after a while the dragon seem to growl in a low tone and flew off towards the city. We asked who and what the dragon was, but Chaos only informed us that we would find out soon enough. He did say that that was one of the legendary Dragons that he made that were on par with the Primordials and Angels. He then directed us to where the dragon was going which was also where we were going.
Our destination was a massive castle that seemed to combine both Disney's castle, Hogwarts, and Beauty and the Beasts's castle and then magnify it to the point that those castles combined would pale in comparison to this structure. The castle was made up of different structures that connect with each other and it was so big that the smallest castle structure was only 800 feet high and the highest, the center one, was 1,600 feet high. It was painted black and seemed to blend with the night sky, even had tiny white dots on it that moved that seem to resemble the stars. It was over 900 feet wide all together and had over half as much in area around it. It was as well surrounded by a massive set of walls that range from 750 feet high, same color as the castle, and had 4 massive gates around the walls for entry. In the grounds behind the castle walls, not only had the castle, but a camp filled with barracks and training grounds filled with different assortment of soldiers and warriors, I swear I even saw some ninjas.
Chaos explained that the city was called Arcardia, named after what the Greeks thought paradise would look like. He stated that the people of this place our usually people who have been betrayed, accused wrongly by the gods, and lost souls, all who have pledged towards Chaos to fight and serve at his command and to find happiness in this second chance. He also stated that the army training and mingling around the castle our his most elite members of his army, those who are especially skilled with their area of expertise, such defenders, hunters, warriors, assassins, technicians and more. He showed us the inside of the castle which was just as grand and fabulous as the outside. Inside there were training arenas and simulators, archery ranges, dining halls, ball rooms, gaming rooms, indoor pools, and a beautiful kitchen. He showed us to our rooms that were conveniently in one of the taller structures of the castle. My room looked like the inside of my cabin at Camp HalfBlood, except with a big flat screen T.V., a fridge filled with beverages and sweets, a gaming system, an exercise room, a fancy bathroom, and a king sized bed. It seemed like home only improved, especially without the snores of an annoying rat of a ex-half-brother. I saw that my pack that I hid in my watch was laying on the bed, which confused me because it should have been in my watch. I double checked my watch to see if I wasn't hallucinating and found nothing in it.
After we and the rest got comfortable we were introduced to Chaos's army during dinner. We were welcomed with open arms, apparently me and my friends have become legends ourselves, especially me. When I was introduced, I saw even a few people pass out, only to get back up and scream at the top of their lungs in excitement. I was announced as Chaos's champion and would train for 600 years here to prepare to fight against the tyranny of the Olympian gods. This got even more cheers and dinner went by in a hoot. I felt like I finally found the perfect place to call home, a place where I can leave my worries behind.
At least I thought I did. That only lasted for the night, as we began our first 300 years worth of training in the morning.
In the process of 300 years, my training practically stretched my limits to the very breaking point. Every day I could feel myself and my friends improving and getting stronger. The ones who didn't have partial immortality, aka me, were given such to stay in peak condition and to not die over the length of over 600 years. My schedule was usually broken between breakfast, training, lunch, training, an hour or two of free time, and more training. It would go on and on for 300 years, my life changing with every single day.
The first part of my training was mastering my hydrokinesis, water manipulation, and my cryokinesis, ice manipulation. This training would be overseen by Pontus, Thalassa, and Hydros. We would normally train either underwater, upon the shores and beaches, in the training and simulation room, the indoor pool, or just outside the castle. The three Primordials gave me their combine blessing that restored my lost strength in water and ice manipulation when my so called Father disowned me, I even got a little extra boost in power as they are beings that are WAY stronger than Poseidon. During this training, the Primordials would be re-teaching me basics of my water and ice powers and expanding upon that, they said that my power over these two elements is greater than any person they have seen in a millennia. They practically adopted me with how fatherly and motherly Pontus and Thalassa would be and how much of a goofy uncle Hydros was. That didn't mean the training was any less brutal.
They would make me control forms of water for long periods at a time to test my endurance, making me turn the water into different forms and temperatures, ranging from ice, snow, mist, and just making them hot and cold, and they would make me control as much water as I can. It got to the point where I made a 100 foot tall wall of water, but only held it for a minute before releasing it in exhaustion. They also taught me how to use the water in different ways such as creating them into whips, swords, and many different forms of weaponry, and helped me master the basic form of hydrokenisis, which is to be able to use the water to redirect the force of one object onto its source. Basically, direct an opponents strength against themselves. They even taught me how to control poison more and to control the blood in people and animals, I could even use this on monsters and godly beings. But I decided to only use these abilities as a last resort, I didn't want to succumb to the feral, monstrous attitude that I had back in Tartarus. My ice training showed how much in tune I was with the element, as with a short amount of time I was able to turn water into ice at a mere instant. Pontus and Hydros especially taught me how to merely create ice from thin air instead of from just water. Techniques they taught me ranged from creating bursts of freezing blasts, thanks to some blessing power from Hydros and Pontus, ability to produce freezing winds, freeze objects at a mere instant, and create constructs made of ice that seemed extremely natural to me. It got down to the point where I froze half the castle. That was a hell of clean to do do, although it was funny seeing Tartarus in a human sized ice cube.
The next part of my training was my earth manipulation abilities, also called Geokinesis. This was overseen by Ourea, which at first was awkward to be around as I could tell she held a little resentment towards me and Leo for killing her mother, but after a while and telling her about the vision I had of her, we became fast friends, even so far as to referring ourselves as cousins. Anyways, Ourea was a strict teacher and would push me in my earth training to the point where I would collapse in exhaustion. She taught me that my earth abilities thus far have merely been a fraction of what I could do, that I have taped in them when I am enraged or lose control, she taught me that to fully be in tune with the earth itself that I have to be steady and strong like the ground, immovable, strong and stubborn. I thought that I already had stubborn down so I focus myself on increasing my endurance and balance to be able to control earth well.
Ourea trained me into being able to control and manipulate the earth from ground, sand, dirt, rocks, gems, etc. She taught me how to harden earth to create dense objects, levitate large objects of earth, create earthquakes and tremors, create gems and minerals from mere sand, use sand to my advantage, use earth and gems to create armor and weaponry made of earth and even dig underground and create tunnels. I especially loved how to make giant constructs out of earth like a giant hand or create a sandstorm. She even taught me how to magically create earth and rocks into more devastating attacks but shouldn't use it to much as it could drain my powers at a large amount.
My shadow training was handled by Erebus and Nyx. They were surprisingly friendly than what I thought they would be. Nyx was more motherly and aunty than I thought and would sorta treat me like a nephew of sorts while Erebus was like a strict, tough, but understanding uncle, like a soldier or general. Their training, however, was no where near easy or smooth. They taught me the true forms of darkness that there were, the absence of light and the darkness of the soul. They said that darkness in the form of light's absence was actually not as evil as one may think, as it is actually as force that is calm and cool but can be used as a very precise and deadly weapon. As for spiritual darkness, that is where evil mostly resides, it is, to be simple, the dark, sinister, and bad feelings, thoughts, and essences in one's heart, like the thought of pushing someone down the stairs or stabbing them with a knife. They would teach me mostly about the light absence side of it and merely talk and even teach me very little about the other side of darkness.
The shadow manipulation,Umbrakinesis, training was brutal, as Erebus and Nyx would push them to new limits and even test those into a breaking point. They improved on my ability to travel through the shadows into actually resting and to exist in the actual shadows. They showed me how to travel and stay inside the realm of shadows, or as they like to call it, the Shadow Realm. There it was cool, cold, empty, and calm, like an endless void but I can see the points where I can leave the shadows and go through. They also taught me how to create constructs of darkness, create blasts of shadow energy, camouflage myself in dark energy to the point where I can be invisible, see into pitch darkness with ease, and in create a field of dark energy that can absorb the light and make those inside it blind. Techniques that they taught me in terms of spiritual darkness are how to bring a person's fear to life or create illusions of them, like Hades's Helm of Darkness, cause them to relive dark, terrifying and traumatizing moments, and even be able to peer into someone's mind. To fully master this power, I had to relive my own worst fears and moments, from my friends' deaths, me drowning in mud and the polluted water from the corrupted nymphs in New Rome, my time in Tartarus, to even the events of my betrayal. Erebus and Nyx, themselves were hesitant to make me relive through the betrayal, but I convinced them to do it, to help me get through it and to grow stronger and braver from it. In the end, it payed off, especially when I used it to make Leo think that his hotdog turned into a zombie hotdog, he screamed so loudly that everyone thought it was a little girl.
My storm capabilities, also referred to as Tempestakinesis, were also a hard ordeal to say the least. Ouranos and I grew closer than expected with both of us having been betrayed by loved ones, how I was able to bring his mother/ex-wife to peace, and the fact that he was technically my great-grandfather and my future girlfriend's father. He even gave me the whole 'hurt her and I will make your regret the day you were born' speech, suffice to say that he made his point when I turn as pale as Nico. Ouranos taught me how my connection with wind energy was surprising, even for a former son of Poseidon, as he admitted that he himself was impressed when I made a mini-hurricane during the Battle of Manhattan, without even realizing it. He taught me how to fully grasped that power of the storms, by creating strong winds, hail, thunder and lightning, blizzards, and many other forms of storms and precipitation. Doing so, Ouranos gave me a small blessing to be able to control air, Aerokinesis, better and a bigger blessing for being able to control lightning, Electrokinesis. I could now easily create hurricanes, tornadoes, and blasts of wind by focusing on the water molecules in the air. I also became an expert on controlling lightning that I would dare to say I could rival Thalia or at the very least hold my own against her. I could generate blasts of lightning, control fields and attacks made of electricity, and manipulate electricity.
Tartarus's training, I have to say, was by far more devastating, more harder, and WAY more sadistic than the previous ones. I spend at lot of time with Tartarus since I had three different kinds of training to do with him, and with all that time me and him actually got close. I saw how he was seen by the mortals, gods, demigods, and even his own siblings and how he was seen as some evil force of nature. When in fact, he was actually a cool guy. Sadistic and brooding? Yes, but overall a great guy, he actually reminded me of Nico, how they both were sad, brooding guys that seemed distant and different from everybody. He seemed like a sorta best friend/distant uncle kind of guy to me. He gave me a super surprising thing to show me. While walking with him to the training arena, he brought up Bob and Damasen, which was the absolute last thing I wanted to talk to him about. Evil persona or not, it was still an awkward and painful thing to bring up. But he once again apologize about how he nearly killed me back during the Giant War and said that there was something that he has been meaning to show me to fully makeup for what happened. When we entered the training room, I saw two figures that stopped my heart in shock.
One was a 10 feet tall, wearing a janitors outfit, had wild silver Einstein-like hair, a scraggly long beard, and pure bright silver eyes. The other was twice the size of the other one, being over 20 feet tall, was humanoid from the waist up with cherry-red skin, iron rusted hair in dreadlocks decorated in leaves, tufts of grass, and swamp flowers, had an iron rusted colored beard, and multiple scars on his calm face. From the waist down he had dragon legs colored red, and had a torn up shirt made from sheep hides and drakon leather. These were the two beings that he never should have made friends with. They were the friends that helped him escape from Tartarus and sacrificed themselves to make that happen. It was the Giant Damasen and the Titan Iapetus, or otherwise known as, Bob. I teared up when I saw them and when Bob and Damasen noticed me they to were shocked but Bob recovered and yelled out while waving his arms "Percy!" I practically ran to the two and so did they, well for Damasen more like stride as he was bid enough to reach me without running that much. I embraced the two, or as best as I could accept being crushed by the two. I asked how are they alive and they responded with them helping bring back Tartarus's good side and take away his evil side from within. Tartarus also joined in with that because of their actions, they freed him from himself and he used his powers to revive the two. I dared to ask about Small Bob and not two seconds later I felt something rubbing and purring on my leg. I looked down to see the same small saber tooth tiger kitty and rubbed the little guy. Tartarus also explained that he decided to also bring back Small Bob and even the drakon that Damasen befriended, as evidence to the drakon that appeared seconds later rubbing its head on Damasen. With this we caught up about what happened afterwards, and they were not pleased whatsoever about Annabeth. Bob cried a little, Damasen shook his head in disappointment, and even the drakon and Small Bob hissed in disgust. But putting sad things aside, we talked and discussed about my future plans and that they would help me every step of the way.
This gesture made me fully trust and forgive Tartarus for the past and we became friends and formed a weird uncle-nephew/friends relationship. His training, however, made me think otherwise, as most of the time his training methods were that of the 'learn it the first time and do it or get nearly to surely killed' kind of way. Against my better wishes, we did end up having to go to Tartarus for his training, which also made me run like a coward. But I if I could face the events of Tartarus in a nightmare reliving trance thanks to Erebus and Nyx I could surely face the real deal. Bob and Damasen would go with us to help in my weapons training as a Titan with plenty of experience and a Giant that can heal me if I nearly die were a great thing to have. Tartarus and Bob would train me how to expertly wield several weapons from fully mastering techniques such as sword-wielding, spear-wielding, bow and arrow, knives, tridents, scythes, throwing knives, twin sai(Raphael's weapon in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), axes, hammers, katanas, bladed gauntlets, and even using my shield as a weapon. Tartarus would even send waves of monsters with only my weapons use and I would wipe out the enemy in seconds to minutes. Bob and Tartarus would even fight me to see how I mastered the weapons.
The other part of Tartarus's training was martial arts. Tartarus would teach me almost every single martial arts technique that ever existed from Taekwondo, Judo, Karate, Jujutsu, Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Aikido, Hapkido, Ninjutsu, and more. He would teach me from the basic martial arts techniques, to advance ones, to the principles and codes from each of the martial arts. For example, Nujustsu involved the techniques in non-detection, avoidance, and misdirection and Shaolin Kung Fu use several forms of fighting but also focused on balance, inner acceptance, health, mediation, and focus of mind, body, and soul. The purpose of learning the arts was to to be able to fight when I have no weapons and to heightened my skills and health.
The third and last part of my training with Tartarus was to train and focus on my fire manipulation, Pyrokinesis, powers that I received from Hestia. In this training, Tartarus taught me the purpose and the true power that can posses, that fire is both a force that nurtures warms life and a force that brings judgement and fury to all evil. In his lessons, Tartarus would show me all the capabilities of fire ranging from manipulating my fire into constructs, burning and melting through metals, even godly metals and even evaporating water at a near instant, and create devastating attacks and explosions with my fire powers. Tartarus would even teach me the difference between the colors of fire, for example, usually my green fire would usually ave the intensity of Greek Fire and can be extremely useful for explosive attacks, my fire can also change color to a gold fire where Tartarus would claim is a type of fire magic that doesn't hurt or burn those with a pure good heart. Tartarus also taught me how to harness and control a very destructive, malicious fire that can even kill a god called Hellfire, a blackish, destructive fire that very few can learn, as it is one that burns everything in its path and burns not only the boy but also the soul of a person. I even created a new fire called Void Fire, a cold blue fire that can burn and freeze people, which I picked up as a sorta of accident when I experimented using both ice and fire powers. Nearly blew up half the castle in the process but was able to fully master and control it.
Even with three subjects to train with, Tartarus's training wasn't actually the hardest one. A close second would be my training with Chronos in the aspect of time manipulation, or also named as Chronokinesis. This training was so hard because the other forms of training that I did were with powers and skills that I had already known about, used, and, for some, somewhat mastered like hydrokinesis and weaponry. For chronokinesis, I had to start from the get-go and not only fully master but fully discover and tap into for the first time. It wasn't exactly easier with Chronos for a teacher. Who knew that I can make Chronos, the Primoridal of Time and seemingly master of being patient, lose his patience?! But over time we began to make a great grunkle-nephew/mentor-prodigy relationship. But this only pushed him to make my training more strenuous and challenging.
Chronos taught me the significance and dangers to controlling a universal kind of power that transcends space and governs the whole universe. No wonder this kind of power corrupted Kronos, and believe it or not, Kronos only scratched the surface of this power! With the ability to control space at will, I could not only slow down or accelerate time around me or others but I can use this power to reverse minor to nearly major wounds, repair and reverse the damage done to objects to make them good as new, use this power to actually increase my speed to become as fast as the Flash, use temporal energy to create devastating attacks and abilities, stop time all together, rapidly age objects to dust, redirect powers back at enemies, and even travel through time. But with all these powers, I decided to only use a small portion of these powers and only use the major kinds of abilities, like time travel, age increasing, and stopping time, for extreme emergencies. I feel if I use all this power all the time that I could end up being just as consumed as the faded King of the Titans.
But this still paled in comparison to the training that Chaos put me through. Apparently, I was right to call him Chaos, as his training was just as chaotic as his name. As I spent time with him, he seemed like more of me than just his older looking form of me. Actually, after the first 100 years, Chaos asked me if he can adopt me and be his son. I still remember the absolute dumbstruck look on my face at the mere thought of it. I quickly accepted his offer, as I did see him as a father figure and sorta like the father that I always wanted, a supportive, kind, loving, 'always there for me' father that can also do whatever it takes to save his family. We hugged and embraced as father and son and the hole that came into being with my mother dying and and my father betraying me was filled. I wish that meant some easier training but that didn't go as expected. Chaos actually taught me two different kinds of power, one the most shocking and seemingly overpowered ability that I have ever seen. One of them was the ability to control space and matter at will. I know, that sounds unnecessary and too much power considering that I have the power over time and spatial manipulation, Spatiokinesis, would seem overkill. But I guess Chaos wanted to give me the best training a champion and son of Chaos should have, and that includes controlling space, matter, dimensions, and reality. Great.
With the power to control reality, space, and matter I learned a vast amount of abilities. These included the power to create energy and blasts of pure spatial power to create shields, beams, and bursts of energy. I could control gravity from making it super heavy or light to immobilize enemies, create rifts and portals to different places and dimensions, sense all kinds of energies in objects and people, create and generate objects of nearly any kind, and combined with my time powers, create space-time abilities that we so strong, Chaos teleported us to a barren, lifeless moon to avoid severe collateral damage. After destroying such moon, Chaos made me promise to never use this level of power unless under the most dire of circumstances. I agreed immediately.
Shockingly, this wasn't the strongest power that Chaos taught me, it was actually another kind of magic, one that he claimed would surely end Zeus and his band of tyrants. It was actually a dual effort that took Chaos and another kind of teacher. The black and blue dragon that I saw. He introduced himself as Balerion, the King of the Dragons and the Space-Time Dragon. Chaos said that Balerion was the first of the Dragons and the most powerful of them, containing not only the power of space and time but strength and power enough to destroy a planet. The news was stunning as I was standing before one of the oldest and most powerful beings in the universe. But the news that came later shocked me more by a million.
Chaos claimed that if I were to be able to fully destroy the gods that I would need to harness a very special and rare kind of magic that only the Primordials, Angel, Dragons, and himself could wield. The ability to fully make a god fade, to destroy their essence and send them to the Void. The power to slay a god: God-Slayer Magic. That made me pass out. When I came to, they explained what kind of magic it was and what it could do. It was as simple as the name, powerful magic designed to destroy the gods, if they ever were to go too far. He claimed only true champions of Chaos and the Primordials could wield such magic. And as if he couldn't make it anymore shocking, he also wanted to learn a type of magic that only the he and the Dragons could wield. The same kind of magic like God-Slaying Magic but a more violent, draconic kind of form of slaying magic known as Dragon-Slaying Magic, the power to slay Dragons. This magic was both shocking and confusing, aren't there dragons that could be killed with just swords and godly weapons like drakons and hydras? They explained that the Dragons were vastly different from beings than the standard draconian beings as they are beings on par with the Primordials and more indestructible towards other beings other than themselves. You know what they say: you need a dragon to beat a dragon. Well this Dragon-Slaying Magic would give me power that can do such that.
I had to gain both the blessing of both Chaos and Balerion to be able to receive such power but it was so powerful and massive, I was unconscious for 7 MONTHS! But when I waked up I realized their was some new features to myself, such as my aura seemed more ferocious and godly than before, teeth seemed sharper like dragon, and my hair became more sharper and wilder. But he the biggest changes were that of my eyes and on my right arm. My eyes changed colors to an ice blue color with a mini-galaxy seeming to be tapped in my eyes and sea-green flames coming from my pupil, which by the way seemed more dragon-like changing from regular eyes to dragon eyes for some moments. The other major change was my right arm. On my right arm there was a weird tattoo of a dragon, spiked, demonic, and awesome looking.
(If you wish to know what it looks like the look up on Google 'blue dragon by moon fire' and the first of the images would be the one. Here is a link to make things easier: search?q=blue+dragon+by+moon+fire&oq=blue+dragon+by+moon+fire&aqs=chrome..69i57.5928j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
Balerion explained that the tattoo was a brand of a Dragon Slayer, more specifically, of the Space-Time Dragon Slayer. After the whole ordeal of confronting an angry and worried Zoe, which is like facing a monster, and concerned friends, I got down to training on my new powers. With God-Slaying Magic and Dragon-Slaying Magic, I can make my attacks and power that I have even more destructive and devastating than before and could reach levels that I'm sure would make Zeus piss his pants, or toga in this case. I could even reach into a higher mode of power with these abilities that can enhance my slayer abilities and my overall power: it is known as my Dragon-God Mode, where my Dragon and God Slayer Magic are magnified and unleash amazing skills and powers. But I see this as a last resort as it drains me severely afterwords.
As for the relations between me and Balerion, if you look past the menacing appearance and the cold, ruthless expression and attitude, he actually is a goofball. He seemed funny, would find most things I did, especially my failed attempts of using magic blowing up in my face, and would be like a wise grandfather to me. Which is ironic when considering that Chaos is my now adopted father and he created Balerion.
Other things that happened over the years would include the changes to my weaponry and armor. With permission from Zoe, I reforged Riptide into a new, more deadly material known as Chaotic Titanium, a metal created by Chaos with his powers and from the metals inside the cores of a planet. The metal made Riptide a more black colored weapon with a trace lines of its previous dominant, now secondary, Celestial Bronze metal. This makes Riptide more durable, stronger, and makes it so that only those I see as allies and with good intentions can even touch this weapon. Riptide can now also turn into trident making it more deadlier than before. Dimios was revealed to have have been made from both Stygian Iron and Tartarian Steel, a rare metal forged in fires of Tartarus. After now centuries of bonding between me and the weapon, it is now like Riptide and permanently bonded to me. Other weapons I have made include Fatum, a white and black long sword forged with Chaotic Titanium and Aetherian Platinum, made by Aether with his light powers. I also have a scythe made of Temporal Chronium, a metal blessed by Chronos, giving it a golden, silver color and a bow named Heaven's Wraith, the bow made of a hard wood and filled with Lunar Silver as well as the arrows which appear when I pull back on the string.
I also got two new companions in my life, known as Lykos and Flare, a wold and a phoenix. The wold I got as a present from Chaos for commemorating me being adopted and being apart of the Primordial family. The wolf was just a little pup, probably not even a year old, had light black fur, light piercing diamond eyes, and even a little scare on his ear. Chaos said that it was a lost wolf pup, abandoned by his pack, which filled me with pity and sadness as I knew what it was like to have your family cast you out. When the pup and I made contact, I saw his past memories, how he was mistreated by his pack, abused, and one night woke to find his entire pack gone, even his mother and father all it feeling was unbelievable sadness and loneliness. I tearfully ended the glimpse and from what I could tell from the sad, whimpering eyes of the pup, that he say my past too. We cuddled and formed a bond between us, one that changed the pup from the grey line of fur going through his body to the eyes that became more bluish diamond eyes. I could feel that he also received some shadow powers and some ice powers. The bond we forged was that we could receive some of the powers and skills from the two and if I died then the wolf would die too, which didn't sit well with me but one look at the pup's understanding made me accept it. I named the pup Lykos, meaning wolf, and over the years he grew to be nearly as tall as my new 6'5 foot form. I also gained some wolfish features and traits from Lykos,like the ability to turn into a wolf, the senses and skills of a wolf, and the urge to get scratched and rubbed, something Zoe would gladly do.
As for the phoenix, I found it 20 years after I met Lykos when I discreetly went to Earth one time, which meant only 12 years had passed after my betrayal while 120 went by in Arcadia. I found her as a year old chick all alone, barely able to fly, over 2 feet tall, had white and gold feathers, pale skin, a golden beak and talons, and flaming red eyes. I took her to Chronos and Ananke to find out that it was Divine Blaze Phoenix, one of the rarest phoenixes of all, and phoenixes are rare enough. I found out that the parents of the chick were forced to sent it away to were I found it after their nest was attacked by none other than Echidna and the Chimera, along with a horde of monsters. They also confirmed that the parents were slain and because they are phoenixes that meant they wouldn't be transported to Taratrus like other monsters, they would be permanently dead and would probably take years to reincarnate but as completely different phoenixes, so the chick phoenix would never see her parents again. So, I took it in and formed a bond with her like me and Lykos, the changes to her being her gaining some light green feathers and her flames not only being gold and white but also green like Greek fire and her gaining lightning powers from me. Our connection also allowed me to be able to gain a sizable boost to my fire powers and able to produce wings of a phoenix with the same feathers as the phoenix. I named her Flare, and the years went by she became 12 feet tall and more majestic than ever, I would sometimes ride on her or fly with her or run or ride on Lykos in my spare time.
I'm not the only one who has changed and been training. All of my friends would be training and adjusting themselves to this new life, and you know, being alive in general. All of my friends took it upon themselves to train as hard as I did and asked the Primordials for training. Michael Yew and Lee Fletcher would be training with Aether and Hermera on using their new light manipulation powers, or also called Photokinesis. They would be able to create and manipulate light energy, unleash powerful rays of light to blind or stun, they even learn how to use this power to heal people. Guess they do take after their father.
Beckendorf would train with his newly bestowed fire powers with Tartarus, sometimes along with me. Leo would also join in to improve upon his own fire powers. We would constantly improving ourselves against each other and the monsters in Tartarus. But Leo and Beckendorf would also train with Hydros on the aspect of forging, and in no time flat they became master forgers. I also got to see Festus, who seemed as good as new. As for Calypso, she trained with both Hermera in healing and light magic and Ananke in illusions magic.
Reyna trained with Tartarus in weaponry and to enhance her war god powers to make her a ruthless fighting machine. Alabastor trained with Ananke and Erebus in the hopes of fully mastering his magic skills and to gain the upper-hand on Hecate. Ethan mostly trained with Tartarus and Anake in enhancing his fighting skills and to control his new illusion powers. He also trained with Ourea to do the same with a his new earth powers that he obtained from Ourea. Bianca spent time with Eros and Phanes to improve her archery, even if I thought there was nothing more to improve on, Tartarus to control her undead powers, and Nyx to fully master her shadow powers. She even got air powers from Ouranos and would train her to control them.
For Luke, he gained the ability to control time by Chronos, because like me, Luke helped kill Kronos and gained the right to his domain like me when Kronos faded. Luke trained hard with Chronos and Tartarus to help him control these powers and would always fear they would take over him, but with help from me we managed to help each other be stronger than ever. He even received powers over poison from Hydros and I would help him try to control the dangerous element. Silena also got training from Eros and Phanes in using her charmspeaking skills and using her love powers to create illusions that even fooled me. She also trained in archery to the point where she rivaled Zoe and Bianca.
As for Zoe, she got training from Eros, Ouranos, and Chaos. She trained with Eros in archery but most of the time after she finished her lessons I would see her walking off and Eros on the ground, squirming with his hands covering his male parts in pain. Good thing he is a Primordial, otherwise he probably wouldn't be able to use those tools forever. She also trained with Chaos and Ouranos to control her new found powers of star powers, also called Astrokinesis. She gained this power from her time in the stars where she can now use the powers of both actual stars, comets, and meteors, and the ability to use the power of the constellations. Zoe said that it means she can use the powers of light and fire and even impenetrable skin from the Leo constellation and the same with the other constellations but would have a limited time to use them. She also got spatial manipulation abilities, not as strong as mine but severely strong enough. We would even spend some free time training to control this power together.
Speaking of which, I finally told her, with help from Chaos, about the whole she being one of my soulmates and me having multiple soulmates. Of course, she didn't take that very well, nearly ripped me in two before Chaos could calm her down. She was even less amused when she heard of Aphrodite and her daughter, Piper, being soulmates as well, but with some words of reasoning, as well as telling her that Artemis and Thalia were also soulmates, she calmed down and understood. After this we actually confessed having feeling for each other, Zoe claiming that she had a crush on me during the quest to save Artemis and the same for me. In the end, we ended up kissing each other under a starry night sky. I know, cheesy, but I would be lying if I said it wasn't mind-blowing. Afterwords, we started going out and trying to get to know each other outside of training and quests. We really got to know each other during our times in Arcadia and we grew to love one another truthfully. She was just so perfect, with her independent, strong, yet kind nature, her awesome fighting skills, and how gorgeous she is that she really was as bright and beautiful as a star. I even gave her the nickname 'Starling', one which she claims annoys her but I know from her blushes and slight smiles that she loves it.
As for my other soulmates, I would watch over them from Arcadia to see how they are doing and wasn't pleased at what I saw. I saw how sad Artemis, Thalia, Piper, and Aphrodite felt without me around that they seemed like shadows of their former selves. I desperately wanted to go down there and cheer them up but it wasn't the right time yet. I also saw my little sister grow up to be an amazing, young woman. I saw how Hestia convinced the Olympians that she was her adopted daughter, yet I would see Poseidon look at her strangely and I could tell that he sees the similarity between her and Sally or at least just thinks its a coincidence. The way she acts and how she fights made me feel like I was looking in a gender bent mirror of myself, as she was almost exactly like me in almost every way, from my snarky attitude to my classic piss off the gods attitude, that which kinda makes me feel a little terrified and concerned. Wow, now I know how my friends and family feel. I saw how the girls would tell her about my adventures, struggles, and life and how it was important to not reveal that she was my sister. But I would see her look up at the star, whispering for me to come back soon and that she wants to see broke my heart to hear that and wanted to rush over but was forced to just watch and not act.
I saw how things were going on Olympus and they were only getting worse. The gods were becoming more angrier, more hasty and paranoid, and were trying to use whatever means they can to gain more power, from bribing and blackmailing and threatening other deities, enslaving monsters to do their bidding, even mess with the human world with events like elections and conflicts between nations. On the bright side, science has really gone up and with it so did the mythological world. There were more ways for demigods to use technology without attracting the attention of monsters and advances in defenses in Camp Jupiter, HalfBlood, and Olympus and to hide themselves from the mortal world. The mortals almost tried going into the area of Camp HalfBlood but with a little bit of the Mist and other forms of persuasion, the Camp was still safe. Speaking of which, Camp is even worse off than ever. Zane and Ryan are practically doing whatever to control camp from screwing female campers, to blackmail, and even Zeus and Poseidon are in on it. I saw how Annabitch married Ryan but now cursed to be infertile, thanks to Aphrodite, and Jason married Drew much to my disgust. The campers were miserable and that only added to my need to go and help them.
I was increasingly wanting to go down and see my allies and friends, to know I'm alright and to help build up our forces to fight against Olympus. Now 300 years have passed up here in Aracadia and over 30 down in the mortal world. My friends and sister are still alive, thanks to some partial immortality and with their prayers for me to come back and things to get better the time was speedily approaching.
Right now, 300 years have past here on Arcadia which could mean that maybe 30 or so years have past on Earth. I have changed a lot through the years. I'm sitting right now in the Primoridal Throne Room in Aracadia along with my friends, waiting for Chaos and the Primordials to come. Me and my friends have since become generals and leaders o Chaos's army, which contains fellow demigods and regular people who have been betrayed and done wrong by the Olympians, good monsters that seek the good and prove themselves as not the monsters that people say they are, and all kinds of deities and people that Chaos hand selected. Our gear is a sorta a mix between Special Ops Division gear mixed with slick, carbon fiber laced fabric as stealth and light a ninja and strong and durable as if you were a fully decked out knight. They were equipped with standard godly weapons, but also with shields that ranged from godly materials to our energy shield vanbraces that can block godly weapons and attacks. They also com equipped with different kinds of projectile weaponry from regular guns and bows and arrows of godly materials and ammo and futuristic weaponry that shoot energy blasts generated from godly materials that are super deadly.
(If you want to know what kind of armor I'm talking about then look up this post/61208137185/tankasaurus-sshaposhnikov-armor-lookit-dat. It is all 4 of the pictures in this site and it would differ on some people. Sorry for having you guys search this up, I don't know how to describe them.)
As for me, my gear was somewhat similar to theirs, but with their own perks and changes. My outfit was a dominant black color with intricate cyan-like colored lines. I had a black jacket that can create a hood on me like Assassin's Creed, it had the same dragon symbol that I had on my arm on the back of it, had a mini-computer device on his right wrist that displays different settings, communications, and other kinds of application was coated in a tri-weave polymer that can absorb sustainable damage and allow to redirect the force back at the enemy and yet flexible and light enough not to affect my speed, and the ends at the top of the jacket could reach high enough to cover my mouth if you would at me from the sides. My chest and leg armor had the same kind armor as the jacket and had an image of a black dragon head with lightning and ice coming from the dragon on my chest. I basically looked like a futurized assassin/Batman, without the cape or helmet. Speaking of which, I do have a device that can stick into my neck and generate a mask-helmet hybrid that looks like Genji's helmet.
My friends have the same kind of armor but different to suit their personality and skills. For example, Zoe's look was that of more a hunter, Luke's more of a warrior, and Beckendorf and Leo's are specifically designed to not burn or get affected by their fire powers. These suits were made by the joint work of Chaos, Phanes, and Hydros. Hydros supplied the materials, Chaos shape them with his powers, and Phanes created the designs of the suits. Apparently, he is a fashion expert *cough-fanatic-cough*.
Speaking of whom, The Primordials have arrived in their seats, as well as Balerion. Yes, I know, how does a 300 foot tall dragon end up fitting in the throne room filled with 30 foot tall beings and a small group of humans that would be easily squished? Well, he actually has a human form if you can believe it. Balerion's human form is a over 6'8 feet tall, cold piercing ice blue eyes, pale skin with contrasting spiky hair as black as a moonless, starless night with neon blue stripes of hair. He would wear a dragon scaled cloak, colored black and blue, a black shirt with an image of himself in dragon form in a spatial background, a black leather pants and black and blue sneakers.
Now that everyone was here we could start the meeting.
"Welcome my children." Chaos said "I see it is time." Everyone nodded in recognition. "I see. So Erebus, Aether, have you two completed the cloaking field?"
Both Primordials nodded their heads, and Erebus said "Yes Father. The cloaking field is now able to shield us from the prying eyes of any deity or mortal."
"Good." Chaos replied. He then turned to Ananke and asked her "Ananke, have you managed to cloak the area from the Fates?"
"Affirmative, I have discreetly cloaked the area from my daughters so that they may not be able to alert the Olympians." Ananke responded.
"Excellent." He then turned towards Eros and Phanes. "And have you guys invited the people requested?"
Eros replied with "All delivered, all discrete, all going." Phanes jumped in with "Wasn't easy. Nearly got caught. I swear I can still feel those arrows." He then subconsciously rubbed his but for emphasis.
Chaos chuckled with "Yes, I see. Perfect then. The preparations for the meeting are set." He turned to me and my friends and said "Are you all ready?"
I looked at my friends for their opinions and they nodded their heads in agreement. I turned back to Chaos and said "We're ready. Time for the show."
Back on Earth: Right after the Olympians' betrayal of Percy Jackson
Artemis POV (Didn't expect that.)
After Percy was cast out into Tartarus, the atmosphere of the throne room seemed so cold and toxic, that nobody seemed to breathe. We were all shocked at what had transpired, from Poseidon disowning Percy, to the dark presence and voice Percy spoke out of, from the threat and promise to Chaos, and finally to Percy falling down the hole, to Tartarus.
After what seemed like an eternity of silence, Ares, still bloody from being beaten down by Percy, shook himself out of his stupor and said "Heh, finally! The punk's gone. Heh, good riddance."
Immediately, I responded with throwing a knife into his shoulder. The knife went through his shoulder and pinned him to his throne. He wailed in agony, unable to get rid of the knife with one arm broken. Everyone shook out of their stupors from that action and the council exploded into chaos. Zeus and Poseidon were joined together bickering against Hestia and Hades, both extremely angry and looked ready to kill. Hermes and Apollo were shouting angrily, demanding that Percy be released, while Demeter and Hera were shouting back their disapproval. Aphrodite was crying her eyes out, which I had to admit that I was too, Athena was trying to remove the knife from Ares's shoulder but was cut off from me punching her straight in her nose. We ended up arguing, me demanding Percy released and Athena saying otherwise, too stubborn to listen to reason. Dionysus, the coward that he is, decided to take shelter from the chaos behind his throne, and Hephaestus looked so depressed that he just looked down at the floor, shame and guilt filled in his eyes.
After a while, Zeus grabbed his Master Bolt and shot it into the air. That silenced the council and listened to Zeus's giant rant "ENOUGH! THE DECISION IS FINAL! THE BOY HAS BEEN SENT TO TARTARUS AND WE CAN'T BRING HIM BACK BECAUSE HE IS A TRAITOR! HE SWORE TO DESTROY US AND US MUCH AS I WANT TO SEE HIM BREAK AN OATH TO THE CREATOR, IT IS FAR TOO GREAT A RISK! WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH THE DECISION, MY JUDGEMENT IS FINAL! MEETING ENDED"
Zeus and Hera then flashed away in a bolt of lighting, leaving the rest of the council there silent. Poseidon teleported away in a swirl of water without saying another word. Hades departed through shadows, anger in his face, as well as Hermes. Athena, Demeter, and Dionysus flashed away as well, Athena looking at me with a smug look. Hephaestus, still looking guilty, flashed away in burst of fire.
Ares went to Aphrodite and tried wrapping an arm around the crying goddess and said "No use crying my love. The punk is gone. I know he was you favorite toy, but maybe you can show me some love in you pala-" Before he could fully the arm around her and finish the sentence, Aphrodite's eyes shot wide in rage and smacked Ares into the wall. I was surprised to see Aphrodite being capable of such strength and ferocity. Ares tried to get up, but couldn't with all the damage sustained to him this day by me and Percy. He then saw Aphrodite towering over him, and he looked actually fearful.
Aphrodite the yelled out "YOU SHUT YOU GODSDAMN MOUTH YOU DISGUSTING PIG OF A MAN! PERCY JACKSON WAS NOT MY PLAYTHING AND I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BE WITH YOU! I CAN"T BELIEVE I EVEN INDULGED THE CONCEPT OF BEING IN BED WITH YOU!" Aphrodite had a terrifying aura around her that even made me shiver. "And you heard me, I never had sex with you, ever. All our so called 'sexual affairs' were in your head and all our children were brain children. I NEVER HAD OR EVER WILL HAVE SEX WITH A MURDERING SCUM LIKE YOU, ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU KILLED MY PERCY'S FAMILY AND DARE INSULT MY PERCY!" That last phrase made my heart twitch in annoyance and confusion. "I leave now with a warning you filthy, useless, war god. Never set foot in my palace again, never even go ANYWHERE NEAR ME, and if you try anything I SWEAR ON THE RIVER STYX THAT I WILL RIP YOU APART! WE ARE THROUGH!"
Aphrodite then flashed away in anger, leaving the rest of the gods there stunned. Ares, the most shocked, looked pissed off. He turned towards Apollo, as if expecting that he will heal him. Apollo replied to the war god's expecting look with "What? You expect me to heal you, take away all the pain that you so rightly deserve? You can heal yourself you murderous bastard. Also, never ask me for healing ever again or Aphrodite won't be the only one you should worry about." Apollo flashed out as well.
Ares's face was looking all the for red in angry at the latest hit to his pride. He then flashed out, which looked weaker than usual. The only ones left in the throne room was me and Hestia. I turned to Hestia, who was sitting by the hearth, the center of Hope and the Flame of the West, the massive flames that signal the power and hope in the West, only now instead of the flames being huge, they were tiny and felt cold rather than hot. I walked over and sat next to the goddess of the hearth. Hestia's calm, gentle face had changed dramatically into one of deep sorrow.
"Are you alright Lady Hestia?" I asked
"Please my dear niece, I thought by now there should be no need of formalities between us. We're family, just call me Aunty Hestia." Hestia responded with her usual playful manner, but her eyes betrayed her...much like us with Percy.
I responded with a sour voice "Yeah, heh, family. Well this family is so messed up, I tend to forget we are one."
Hestia just looked on to the fire, still downcast, seemingly unable to respond. We sat by the weak hearth, wallowing in our sadness and the events that transpired minutes ago. How could things could wrong so fast? How could something this unjust just happen like that? How could Olympus turn on our greatest hero?
Suddenly I heard the sounds of the low moans of a cow. I looked around to see the Ophiotaurus, I believe named Bessie by Percy, mowing sadly, it's gaze towards the spot where Percy jumped down to Tartarus. Seeing the Ophitaurus again, reminded me of how I first met Percy Jackson. How he fought the Manticore protecting Hades's kids, almost jumped down to save the future disgraceful Annabeth Chase, how he looked so determined to save his friend even if it meant throwing himself off a cliff in already poisoned state. I knew that there was something different about him than all the other men in the world, he seemed brave, selfless, passionate, kind, and loyal. I remember my left shoulder hurting, where the symbol I had since I was born. I never knew why it was there or what it meant by I would secretly ask what it meant to those I trust, but to no avail. I just thought it was a mild pain of stress so I just shrugged it off, but ever time I would see him, the symbol would constantly light up, whether it be from pain or just a buzzing feeling, and every time we would get closer it would only flair up more, almost like it's drawing me to him like a magnet, and when we embraced it would feel like a shock going through my body. Now it it feels cold, like the object its drawn towards just vanished from existence, he might as well have.
"You really miss him, don't you?" said Hestia. I looked to her as she reached out and wiped the tears from my face that I didn't knew I had. This only made me feel worse and I started to sob and the tears ran like a river. I felt Hestia's embrace and leaned on to her, crying hard, wanting to let the pain and sorrow out, but knew it would always be there.
"It's ok honey, it's ok." Hestia tried to reassure me. "Everything will be turn out alright." But those words sounded more like she was trying to convincing herself. We then sat there trying to comfort each other, listening to the small crackles of the hearth and low, sad mows from Bessie.
Time Skip: 30 years Later
It has been 30 years since Percy was cast into Tartarus. 30 years since my whole reality crashed around me. 30 years since Olympus' darkest time yet. 30 years since Percy Jackson has gone missing.
Right after my time with Hestia, I went right to the Hunters to tell them what happened. Let's just say that the results weren't pretty.
The Hunters were enraged of what happened to Percy. Piper, who Hestia sent after she told her about the events before the meeting between her, Percy, and Piper, started to cry and in response so did the baby, Andromeda. Thalia was sent into a spiraling rage that I had never seen. She yelled out and a giant thunderstorm emerged so big, that if hadn't stunned her with my powers she would have destroyed the camp. I saw tears on her face, as well as on the Hunters. It took a while to calm Thalia down but she was still depressed. After that the Hunt was never the same again. We managed to recruit new Hunters, yes, but the atmosphere of the place was never the same. The old Hunters wold tell the new ones all about Percy and they would at first be skeptical about him, but some confirmation from me and Thalia, the ones they looked up to the most, and they started to believe and idolize him.
Piper also decided to join the Hunt as there was nothing for her left I both Camp HalfBlood or Jupiter. She also decided to stop dating because she revealed that she liked Percy, but after what happened, whether Percy will get out or not, she will never love anyone but him ever again. As much as would like a capable warrior like her as a Hunter, I couldn't help but feel a sting of jealousy and I could see it on Thalia's face as well, which deserved a much needed talk. We discussed about our feelings for the same idiot boy. Piper admitted to having a slight crush on Percy the first time they met, claiming she found him brave, loyal, and compassionate, always seeing the bright side of things even when they seem dark and hopeless. Thalia, after some pressuring, also claimed to have feelings for Percy. She knew it was wrong as they treated each other like cousins, but she always thought that was so kind, cool, passionate, and so stubbornly cute, even when they fight.
What caught me of was when she said that it would make her weird birth mark of her flair up. Both me and Piper whirled our heads towards her and asked "What birth mark?" We all looked at each other and revealed our individual marks, mine on my left shoulder, Piper's on the bottom of her back, and Thalia's on the top of her right breast. We each said that it was given to us by birth, with neither knowing what it meant and why they flared up in Percy's presence. We agreed to look into it and I had to concede into asking Hestia about it and then to Aphrodite. She revealed that also had the same mark on her right collarbone and the same effect towards Percy. Unfortunately, the only thing that they found out is that it has a unknown power inside it but contains a few traces of love magic, more powerful then Aphrodite's. They are still trying to find out to this day.
But the Hunt wasn't the only one with the drama over Percy. Zeus spread his lies about Percy to both Camps, claiming he was a traitor and was banished to Tartarus. Both Camps had their fair share of reactions to that. Camp Jupiter was the one that believe Zeus, or in their case Jupiter. Few would agree with Zeus that he was a traitor, but they were mostly ex-supporters of Octavian and insecure, jealous demigods. The rest and majority of Camp Jupiter, under the words of support from Hazel and Frank, believed that Percy wasn't a traitor but was smart to just be silent about it to avoid Zeus's anger.
Camp HalfBlood was another story. There were mix cries of disbelief and acceptance. Those who voiced in disbelief were part of Zane and Ryan's group,which now also includes Grover and Will, while those didn't agree were Percy's friends like Clarrise, Chris, Katie, Malcom, Jake, Rachel, Travis, Conner, and others of Percy's friends. Zane and Ryan also fed the concept that Percy created the storm as an excuse to show that he was a traitor an danger to Camp. The traitor gods helped influence them like Dionysus and Athena, while some good gods like Apollo and Hermes would sneak the truth to anybody. Ryan and Annabeth also announced that they are an item and that led to another blowout. Her brother, Malcom, and some of her siblings won't even speak to her to this day. Camp HalfBlood had become a shadow of it's former glorious self.
The realm of the gods wasn't much better, as Olympus, Atlantis, Underworld, and anywhere godly became divided. Half of Olympus was torn about Percy, which led to further chaotic meetings where nothing got done. Atlantis had some family drama that Poseidon would be hesitant to say. The gods of the Underworld were in uproar, as they were mostly mistreated and overlooked until Percy Jackson came along and changed everything. No matter if it was by sea, land, sky, or even another plane of existence, the betrayal of Percy Jackson was like a beacon that signaled a side of the Olympians that people felt was going too far.
But good things have come from these years, like Percy's sister, Andromeda. Over the years, the Hunters and I have trained Andromeda in the ways of the Hunt. Hestia taught her how to control fire, heal people, summon food made by herself, and give and take hope from others. She also made a great adopted mother to Andromeda, and Andromeda in return gave Hestia the joy of having a child of her own to love and care. Hestia also told her about her past and Percy, about the Olympians who betrayed Percy and those who stood by him.
Andromeda, herself grew to a beautiful looking woman. She asked Artemis to allow her to age to 16 years, just like Thalia. Andromeda has beautiful wavy long hair, but normally keeps it in a braid, perfect pearl-like skin, a body that can make most of the girls on either camps jealous, long legs, fit from her training as a Hunter, breasts as large as mine or Thalia's, and deep brown eyes with what looked like flames sprouting out from the pupil. Honestly, if you would turn Percy into a female, and turn the hair longer and both the hair and eyes brown, then Andromeda would be a perfect female version of Percy, with just as much attractiveness to the opposite sex.
Andromeda has also proven to be just as skilled with a sword as her brother and just incompetent with a bow. But after some extensive training, she became as skilled with a bow as any other Hunter, though that was somewhat because of my blessing. Anyways, she also had a knack for drawing attention and danger as her brother as well. She ended up being sent on many quests whenever the Hunters would go to Camp HalfBlood or Jupiter, mostly Jupiter. This would gain her almost as much reputation as her brother, and likewise the hate and jealousy of Zane and Ryan. When we would go into Camp HalfBlood, the two would either try to flirt or mock her, but whenever either dual, they would end up in the ground moaning in pain. This also caused Zeus and Poseidon embarrassment from how what seemed like a regular mortal turned demigod defeating their sons. Andromeda has also been famous for finding the remaining Lost Prophecies of the Sibylline Books, defeating an uprising from some of the remaining, hidden Titans like Oceanus, and aiding my brother find the spirit of the Oracle and helm him become human again.
Yeah, apparently without Percy around, the Olympians started breaking their oaths made by the Styx by him, for example, their promise to spare Apollo from his punishment during the 2nd Giant War. Zeus cast Apollo from Olympus and made him mortal with a quest to find the spirit of the Oracle and destroy the Python again. Andromeda helped Apollo on his quest and made him mortal, growing somewhat close to Apollo and grow more hate towards the Olympians. The corrupt Olympians also decided to break their oaths again by once again ignoring the minor gods and demigods, only fueling the hate towards Olympus. Some of us who don't agree with the Olympians gather in secret to discuss our main topic: to break Percy out of Tartarus. Only with Hades informing us that Percy isn't in Tartarus, that he can't since his soul in Tartarus. Most panicked into thinking he is dead, only to find out that he wasn't. Nico, who has retreated back into the depressing mood, and Hades claim that they can still sense Percy's soul if it is in Tartarus, and that it isn't there or in the Underworld, meaning he isn't dead. They haven't sensed his death and his soul is nowhere in Tartarus, the Underworld, or anywhere on Earth, and even if he became a full immortal, they would still feel his death yet they haven't felt him die so he isn't in the Realm of the Faded. This made us worry gravely, even making some of us cry, like Hestia, Piper, Aphrodite, and me. But we still tried to find him or anyway to stand up against Zeus's tyranny.
But without any way to make things right or anybody brave enough to speak up against Zeus, then we couldn't do anything. We just go through the motions, trying to ignore how the Olympus I know has become less and less of a symbol of hope and freedom.
Until we got the messages.
One day, on the 30th anniversary of The Betrayal, me and my Hunters received letters inviting us to a certain hidden location. We were tempted to destroy them, thinking it was a trap but we read that there we would find the information we seek about Percy Jackson: what happened to him, where he is, and how to bring him back. The only conditions are to not bring any person that isn't invited and to not inform the Olympians or anyone else that isn't invited to the meeting. They claimed to be able to know whether or not they have told. The meeting place would be in a warehouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, time to be would be in three days at 5:00. We were still skeptical about this, but we decided to head to the location but to make sure to come in prepared and ready for anything.
After three days, we disguised ourselves as regular morals to blend in and head inside the warehouse. The inside was rather an empty looking warehouse, despite the table in the middle and the people there talking. The people inside included Aphrodite, Apollo, Hermes, Hades, Hestia, Nico Di Angelo, the Camp Jupiter Praetors Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang, Triton and Amphitrite, which confused me as I thought they were missing, my brother's newly restored Oracle Rachel Dare, some of the minor gods like Thanatos, and some of Percy's best friends from Camp HalfBlood, such as Clarrise, Chris, Katie, the Stolls, Malcom, and Jake.
"Brother? Why are you here?" I asked Apollo.
He grinned seeing me and said in his always annoying, cheerful attitude "Why dear sister, I'm surprised you were called here too. Looks like I owe Hestia a few drachmas." I glared at him sternly, to which he relented and said "Alright fine, we don't know. We all received a letter that told us to come here at this warehouse at this time, and to not tell or bring anyone uninvited. I assume you came for information on Percy as well?"
I nodded my head and said "Yes, at first I was skeptical for coming here, but after we read the information about Percy we decided to go come, prepared." I flashed in my bow to make an emphasis while the Hunters, Thalia, Andromeda, and Piper dissolved the Mist they were using to show their bows strapped on their backs.
Suddenly a voice called out "That won't be necessary."
We whirled our heads to find the source of the voice being an admittedly attractive man. He was wearing blue designer jeans, a red and blue dress shirt, and red and black sneakers. He was also pale, deep purple eyes, a charming sculpted-like face, and shoulder length hair that resembled that of Apollo's. He didn't look like much nut his aura seemed somewhat familiar and yet dangerously powerful compared to the people here, even Hades and Hestia. There was something ancient about him, but couldn't my finger on it.
"Who are you? Are you the one who sent those messages to come here?" I asked
The man smirked in a playful manner. He said "Excellent questions. To answer the second one first, yes I am though not only me, Phanes helped a bit but practically let me take over when you Hunters nearly turned his ass into a pin cushion.
When he said the word Phanes, my mind nearly went blank. Phanes was the Primordial of Love and Procreation, a Primordial that not many have seen in real life, one that I was sure faded. I asked again "I will say this again before I get annoyed and shoot you head with an arrow, who are you and how do you know where Percy is?"
He only chuckled at my venomous threat and said "Alright, alright, I see you are getting impatient." He cleared his throat and said "I guess I should start by introducing myself. My name is Eros, the Primordial of Love and Beauty at you service." Everyone widen their eyes in alarm, as a Primordial was not something you want to take lightly. "Woah there guys!" Eros raised his hands in a waving motion and said "Don't get so worked up. I'm not here to harm you guys, even if I did I'm sure Dad would be rather pissed about it." Our eyes would only widen in panic when he said 'Father'. Eros was one of the first Primordials to be born and his siblings include Tartarus and Gaea, if he said Father then that would mean...
"Chaos." I said as the room darkened in response.
"Oh come on Dad. No need to frighten the already scared guys and gals." Eros shouted out to nowhere and the room then grew brighter "Anyways, yeah my Pops sent me, Phanes helped me summon you here and yes I do have information of Percy and he is why I could you all here."
Aphrodite decided to ask out "Please Lord Eros, tell me, where is Percy? We have been searching for him for so long. Please tell us where he is."
Eros smiled brightly and responded with "Well that answer is easy. He's here. He did ask Dad to summon you guys here."
A second after he said that, a figure started walking out from the shadows. We all tensed as to who this person was, maybe another Primordial. But it was someone else.
The figure looked 6'5, muscular and strong and seemed to be wearing some kind of gear. When he stepped out from the shadows, my heart nearly skipped a beat and we all froze at who was standing right in front of us. The man was wearing a futuristic-looking suit that seemed to combine that theme of an assassin and warrior, and he had a symbol of a dragon head on his chest with weird marking on it and on his arms. But what shocked us was his face and no matter how different it looked, it still looked just like the man the world hasn't seen for 30 years. This man had messed up black hair that seemed to sweep to one side, had a grey line of hair from his time holding the sky, and his gorgeous as ever face was smirking at us. But what fully sold the fact that it was him, was the eyes, though they looked like they have some ice blue inside them, you could still see his trademark sea green in his eyes.
The Person standing in front of us was none other than the missing, betrayed Twice-Over of Olympus: Percy Jackson.
I could feel my eyes start to water in happiness and love crashing over me. "Percy" I asked tearfully
Percy Jackson responded with his classic lop sided grin and said "Hey Arty, you miss me?"
ANNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDD DONE!
I know, I know, cliffhangers are the root of all evil but I figured this was an awesome place to stop. Sorry, if some of the ending parts seemed rushed, they kinda were. Because MERRY CHRISTMAS! HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! I wanted to finish this chapter as my gift to you all for taking the time to reading my fan fiction. You guys are awesome.
I have read the comments and the requests to help out and I will respond as soon as I can. I'm so sorry this took so long guys, but finals, basketball games, and Christmas obligations will do that to you. I will try to make the time between chapter less long and see to put up more chapter sooner.
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