Chapter 11

HEY GUYS! ZAYDEN HERE WITH THE PART 2 OF PREVIOUS CHAPTER! As I said last time this is my April Fools joke and Easter treat for all you guys. To have two chapters for the price of one. Plus if I didn't do this, then then chapter would be too bloody long. Anyways I have recently watched Ready Player One and it was AMAZING! The graphics, the action, all the pop culture references! It made my mind shut down several times in the sheer awesomeness and hilarity of the movie. Also do you guys know one thing about the movie that made my mind go 'Wait a minute.."? When they introduced the characters avatar names (SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE) for Wade, which is Perzival and Samantha as Artemis. Perzival and Artemis. Percy and Artemis. See what I mean, review if you got it. Anyways, this will be as I said the last chapter we before the war with the Olympians may get underway and is my bonus reward for you guys.

So with that out of the way, let's get started. Percy Jackson is legally owned by Rick Riordian and this is all for my creative use of time and for you guys' entertainment.

So without further ado, START!

New Generations: Trials Part 2

Location: Arcadia

Percy POV

During the week off from the trials, many things have occurred. For those who have completed the trials, they have been resting from their grueling challenges, especially Triton, who seemed to have taken the biggest beating out of all of us. That Leviathan must have been something. I have been wondering what the creature could possibly be because it seemed as if it was impervious to any sorta of damage. God Slaying and Dragon Slaying Magic actually hurt the thing, but it seemed to be as effective as giving any monster a punch from an 8 year old. The creature sounded to destructive to be true, even in this messed up world. I was also curious about what Triton said about what happened when the Leviathan was pushed into the Mariana Trench. Flicker of Light? What seemed like flames? Was there something more to the Trench and the monster than we know? If there was, Chaos and the Primordials aren't willing to say anything. Well it seems that that will be a concern for another day.

Anyways, going back to the tired, resting immortals. They were resting after exerting that much power in their trials and dealing with the influx of new energy that they have unlocked. In less than a week, the six were all rested and fully recovered. they even showed us some of their newly improved powers and I have to say that it was WAY more powerful being able to witness it first hand than to see it from a magical monitor. Apollo's light was now actually so bright, it nearly blinded everybody who saw it permanently. So far, they were now twice as powerful as they once were before, even stronger than me, at least until I do the trials, then we will see.

Things have also been accelerating this past week as well. Many of our allies were training and preparing for war. Many of them have also been discreetly adding more allies to our cause. Frank and Hazel, with the help of Chaos, managed to convince the selected Romans and visiting Greeks of Camp Jupiter, which was almost all of them to join us. The ones not selected were at Camp Half-Blood or were off being distracted. We did manage to sneak into the Greek Camp to convince Chiron to join us, mostly thanks to me and Hestia, as well as some of the Greek demigods, satyrs, and nature spirits that weren't tainted by Ryan, Zane, and the Olympians. Things were well under way to also build a multiples bases of operations, most notably in the northern areas, Camp Jupiter and a main home base and future home on Mt. Tam, with a few changes to be made before hand. The upcoming war was soon coming and we are getting more ready and more stronger.

Another thing that happened during the passing week was training. Me and rest of my friends who haven't completed their trials yet were training harder than ever to be prepared. Luke and I would train together the most, with us practicing our swordsmanship and time abilities. Aphrodite, Piper, and me would train with our hydrokenisis abilities, Leo and I would practice our fire powers, Me and Thalia would focus on lightning and wind abilities, Zoe and I would train on astrokenisis, and Artemis and I would practice on our astrokenisis and umbrakenisis. The sparring was hard, intense, and brutal.

But what I had to do this passing week was even more brutal. Finally, it was decided from both me and Zoe that we should tell Aprodite, Piper, Thalia, and Artemis about this whole 'soulmate' situation. Needless to say, that it was chaotic. I had to run from my life from the rage of the girls for not telling them about the situation and they were especially furious about having to share me with each other. But some saving words from Chaos, Eros, Phanes, and Zoe managed to calm the furious ladies down. They shared what they knew about this whole ordeal about how they knew something was fishy when all the girls that liked me had the same strange symbol on them. Phanes explained to the girls that it was a mark of union between the girls and Perseus and revealed that I had one too, secretly on my side. Eros also jumped in saying that the marks never changed their feelings for me because it was already destined for them to fall in love with me, and that the marks were just their to symbolize the union between us. The girls understood and each took their turns confessing their feelings towards me and I with them, all sincere and all true. In the end, I suddenly had five girlfriends, one being a former Hunter of Artemis, two being current Hunters, one being a goddess of Love and beauty, and one a goddess of Maidens and Chasity. This was almost every man's dream come true. Unfortunately, it was also my worst nightmare when we had to explain this to everyone, including the Hunt, who then tried to turn me into a castrated, sliced up jackalope. In the end, it was all resolved, understood, and accepted. Chaos then made sure to change Artemis's oath, saying that it is and was always her swearing off the company of men, unless it was her soulmate, which was me. It was a very fun and complicated week.

And as the week ended, so to was the wait, and the trials commenced once more.

The first two were Leo and Zoe. Leo's trials similar to Nico's, the first being that he had to relive and accept the pain and tragedies he faced. The result was the same, hard and nearly broke him, but Leo endured by the memory of his friends and Calypso. He glowed bright and when it cleared it showed him now 6'4, more muscular but still looking like his scrawny self, and his brown, curly hair, was now less messed up and more manageable, yet some of them would spontaneously catch on fire. Calypso almost drooled at the sight of the new Leo, something Leo would tease her for weeks to come. But Leo was then sent for his next trial, to slay his father's, Hephaestus's, Giant bane, known as Mimas. Leo was transported to Tartarus like the others and came face to face with the Giant. The fight was fierce and almost one sided, against Mimas. The Giant bane of Hephaestus was proven to be immune to fire, but he wasn't immune to the curse of Fire God Slayer Magic and he was even more susceptible against Metal God Slayer Magic. The Giant would then play dirty and trick Leo into a trap of his where the Giant nearly beat Leo to death. The Giant the made the stupid idea to toss Leo into the River Phlegethon, the River of Fire, and laughed triumphantly, thinking he won. But like all the others, they failed to see that they lost at that point. The River glowed and something burst forth from the river, Leo in his Primal Form. In this form, gone was the joking, careless Leo and replaced with a serious, angry Leo Valdez. This one had his shirt off, revealing his black fire and metal markings on his back, he had fiery red scales on his neck with specks of steel gray scales scattered on them, and his curly hair was now spiked, colored blood red and fiery. Leo proceeded to unleash his flames and metal powers onto the Giant, until Mimas looked nice and crispy. Then Leo floated high, and proceeded to unleash his own Secret Art. He gathered his hands together and in between his palms was a ball of unstable black flames, in contrast to Hestia's golden flames, that seem to spark wildly, and then he raised it over his head and it grew to the size of small island. Mimas tried to stand and get away but felt himself shackled and looked to see his hands and feet shackled by Celestial Bronze cuffs, tied to the ground and was forced to await the inevitable. Leo then yelled out his final attack "Inferno's Wraith Fire God's Nuclear Blast Burn!" He then chucked the massive unstable force of black flames onto the giant, resulting in his final cries of sheer agony and a black fiery massive explosion. When it cleared, the Giant was nothing more than a piece of charcoal, gone for good.

Leo returned, exhausted and tired but with a cheesy smile on his face, with cheers of celebration meeting him. Calypso hugged the demigod in worry which resulted in a flinch in pain from the fiery demigod, but still daring enough to tease Calypso, which then resulted in a slight punch in the arm that made the half-blood flinch again in pain.

Next up was Zoe. For her she would also go through the same procedure as Leo and Nico, to face their darkest fears, memories, and tragedies. Being the protective boyfriend I am, I was hesitant to allow this to happen and even more so when I had to see it. But I had to relent to Zoe's understanding, confident stare. I could tell that she view the betrayal she had in the hands of Hercules, how she banished from her home by her sisters, and experienced loneliness, sadness, and despair afterwards, but be comforted by the images of Artemis, the Hunt, and, later revealed, me. She glowed a bright white and when it cleared, I knew I had a dumbfounded look on my face. Zoe's Persian bronze skin, now seem to gleam and shine more beautifully, her midnight hair seemed to look like night itself, and her overall beauty increased tenfold. I would have drooled but with the jealous stares of Artemis, Piper, Aphrodite, and Thalia, I had to restrain myself.

Zoe was then sent to the Mount Tam, where the the old Titan base was and where her father, Atlas used to carry the sky. Their she was told by Chaos that she would have to not only hold the weight of the skies but to rejoin the skies and the earth. She nodded in obedience and went towards the pillar that I made when I helped free Atlas from his curse. Sensing her presence, the pillar automatically shrank to where it matched Zoe's height for her to easily hold the skies. As she raised her hands and accepted the burden, the pillar collapsed and the weight of the skies fell on her fully. She was at first caught surprised at the weight but quickly steadied herself and lifted it as high as she can. She then pronounced an in Ancient Greek an incantation that Chaos taught her. The way it went was "I, Zoe Nightshade, daughter of the Titan Atlas and Pleione, am here to lift the curse of the Heavens and Earth. May my strength bound the sky and earth to each other, may their longing embrace meet at last." Soon after the earth beneath her rumbled and clouds and winds gathered above her. Soon a vortex of wind came down on her and the earth stretched out from under her, and with a big boom the two forces collided and seem to take the weight of the skies from her. Soon after, another vortex of wind appeared and crashed a few feet away from her and another pillar of earth came forth right next to the wind vortex. It was then that Zoe felt a powerful presence being exhorted from both the earth pillar and the wind vortex. As she felt this, the earth pillar started to take shape, as well as the swirling winds, and they both formed into a human like form, one male and one female.

The pillar of earth was shaped into the form of a woman, yet still looking like she was made out of earth. Slender arms and legs made of mud and soil took shape, and solid earth and stone formed the torso, while her face formed in appearance of a female by earth, and her hair seem to be like soil with braids of vines and leaves growing from the hair. The fully formed earth woman looked beautiful, for lady made out of mud, and though she wore no clothes, her earthen form made it seem appropriate. Zoe could sense of familiarity from the earth woman, almost like she seen her before. Before she could question it more, the swirling winds took shape as well, this time, a man. His form was seem to be one made out of dark clouds and winds, his arms and legs made of nothing but compacted air and wind, his torso covered in dark clouds that seem to spark lightning in it, and his face was too made of clouds and his hair made out of wind. He too seemed familiar, and with a squinting of her eyes and memory, she figured out why. It was because he looked like Ouranos, the Primordial of the Skies, but she felt this being's presence to not hold the same strength as the Primordial. She then looked at the earth woman and she recognized the features of Ourea on the her, but the earth woman looked more older than the mountain Primordial. The earth woman then spoke in a graceful, melodic voice saying "Greetings, daughter of Atlas. I see you are here to bound the earth and sky in a peaceful union. I see you are worthy of the task of removing the curse of the Heavens and Earth but you aren't yet finished with the task." Zoe questioned what the woman meant and as to who they were. The mad made of wind took his turn to respond, a familiar deep voice sounding from him saying "We are two of the personifications and guardians of the elements, created by the Primordials themselves. I am Tempest, Paladin of the Air, Winds, and Sky, created by Lord Ouranos, Primordial of the Sky." The earth woman continued with "And I am Gia, Paladin of the Earth, Nature, and Mountains, created by Lady Gaea, Primordial of the Earth." Zoe was stunned at the revelation of the existence of these guardians of the elements. She now knew why the two seemed familiar. The one named Tempest looked like more younger version of Ouranos, while the other, Gia, seemed to look like Gaea, Ourea's mother.

Tempest spoke once again "As for your other question, we are here for the purpose of your task, for you see, any mere fool could call upon to remove the curse and reunited the sky and earth, but to fully remove the curse and restore the sky's and earth's union, one must first defeat us." Gia continued with "As guardians of earth and sky, we test those who seek the challenge to break the curse Ouranos placed here when he was struck down by Kronos, to see who would be truly worthy and powerful enough to unify the earth. Many tried and failed to do so, like your father who would constantly fight us to release himself from the curse, but her would ultimately fail every time and after a thousand years, would give up. Zeus even tried to best us after the Jackson boy created that replacement pillar, and bargained with us to who created the pillar, but he would lose against us as well." Zoe's eyes widened at the thought that these two together could defeat Zeus himself. Now she would have to. So Zoe asked that if would have to fight them, they nodded yes and explained that it was a requirement of the trial, but told her that it wasn't to be a battle to death but until one side may no longer fight.

So the three readied themselves for the fight. Zoe steadied herself, allowing the opponents to charge first, and with careful planning they did and the fight began. Tempest would fly like the wind (get it XD) to strike Zoe, nearly catching her off-guard a few times, while Gia would strike hard and powerful like the earth and break her guard for Tempest to strike. Zoe would attack the two by means of magically powered arrows, spatial blasts, and use her hunting knives. The two would unleash their own respective elemental attacks. Tempest would unleash gusts, blasts, and waves a heavy winds, create clouds to shield himself and use as more aggressive attacks, and even disintegrate into pure air to avoid attacks. Gia would create barriers made of earth and stone to block attacks, create miniature earthquakes to throw Zoe off her balance, unleash attacks of earth, rocks, and plants, and even dig into the earth to surprise attack her or dodge attacks. The two's attacks would batter Zoe around like rag doll, while every few of Zoe's attacks would deal damage. She had to use her Dragon Slayer Magic to deal significant damage, she barely used her God Slayer Magic, in fear that the use of it could potentially kill them. She did use some attacks to level the playing field like her Star God's Meteor, which allows her to fly and strike at super fast speeds like a comet. But even with that the two Paladins were still beating her with their shier power and strength.

It seemed over when the two Paladins combined their efforts to unleash a storm of earth and wind and knock her to the ground of the mountain hard. It seemed over as Zoe was buried under a heap of ruble. But a light shined out of the pile and then a powerful blast fired out of the ruble. Back on the summit of the mountain stood the Primal Form Zoe. This Zoe wore star-like armor, which resembled that of an Amazon huntress, strong and hard for defense, but lean and flexible for agility. The armor of her arms consisted of arm braces with a star on each, and left room for her black star markings on her arm to show, especially the soulmate marking that was her left shoulder, something which I could faintly hear the other girls gasp about it when we were seeing it through an viewing portal. It seemed as though they realized they all had it but I could tell that they didn't knew what they meant. Anyways back to Zoe's amazing and hot transformation, her eyes were now completely black with sparkles of space and stars in them, and her hair was free from her braid and was now long and flowing, glowing semi-purple and now looked as if it were made of space. Overall, my girlfriend looked like an amazing, out of this world goddess, that I wish I could go down and kiss right now. I could faintly hear Eros's, Phanes's, and Chaos's chuckles and I knew they were reading my thoughts. I blushed slightly and just shook myself back into the fight.

Zoe then speed like a meteor towards the two, striking them in their chests sending them flying. They recovered quickly before going back on the offensive. Tempest tried to go fly faster around her but she merely placed her right hand up and then swiped it straight down, Tempest glowed a bit purple and suddenly fell like a speeding comet onto the ground. He tried to get up but he couldn't and I realized that it was because she distorted the gravity around Tempest to make him weight over a million tons. She did the same to Gia and Zoe proceeded to completely annihilate the two paladins, launching them into the air only for them to crash down on the ground fast again, unleashing devastating attacks and going almost as fast a Hermes would have before he trained in Arcadia. Then she brought them down the mountain and proceeded with unleashing he own Secret Art Move, but not a God Slayer one, but a Dragon Slayer one, to not accidentally fade them. She started glowing in purple energy and made several weird hand signals and motions, until I realized the pattern of it resembling that of a zig-zag like Z. She then outstretched her arms wide and began to glow in once more in purple light, but now more intensely than before until she fired it into the heavens, almost disappearing. Zoe then screamed out "Heavenly Judgement Star Dragon's Seven Star Grand Chariot!" She then made placed her hand forward, her left hand opened up and titled slightly to the left, palm facing the sky, and then Zoe slammed her other hand's wrist onto the palm of her left hand, with her index and middle fingers stretched out with her other fingers tucked in her palm. The two fingers on her right hand and all her fingers on her left hand had all their fingertips glowing purple and then the sky had seven glowing purple lights connected into a zig-zag like Z. Then those lights started started to get closer as the Paladins realized that those were giant energy blasts crashing towards them, they tried to flee but found themselves trapped in a strong gravitational force. Before they realized it, the seven giant purple beams struck down upon them and caused a massive blast of purple light to explode.

After the smoke cleared, it showed the two Paladins knocked out, but not dead, showing that Zoe had defeated them. Zoe then proceeded to wake them up, who congratulated her on her victory and gave her their blessing to merge the sky and earth, then they glowed and disappeared. Zoe then flew back to the top of the mountain and saw that the swirl of earth and sky that connected that connected the weight of the sky to the mountaintop was glowing, as if telling her what to do. So she went the vortex and placed her hand in it and the vortex glowed immensely. The vortex then began to form into another pillar, like Percy's, except this one was colored black and looked like a starry night sky. Zoe's task was complete and the earth and the sky were now perfectly balanced, the curse of the sky's weight was now lifted.

Zoe reverted back to her original form and nearly collapsed in exhaustion before she was immediately transported back into Arcadia where Chaos caught her. Everybody, especially Artemis and her Hunters cheered for Zoe. As for me, I wrapped her into a tight hug, one that Zoe tried to return with as much force but was too tired to do so. This caused looks of burning jealousy being directed at me. I knew I was in for extra smothering and attention from the others, who probably have a bet on who was the better girlfriend.

The next were Luke, Thalia, and then Piper. For Luke, he had to deal with the same 'experiencing all trauma, suffering, and sadness all at once' ordeal like the others. Luke was practically howling in pain and torture, probably since he has had the most painful ordeals out of almost everybody. From being scarred by Ladon, being kicked by Thalia off a mountain, having gone into the River Styx, merging with Kronos, and killing himself by stabbing his Achilles Heel. But, unsurprisingly, Luke pulled it through, looking better than ever, he looked a million times better than before and his scar was almost gone, now barely noticeable. But the trials were not over. Chaos sent Luke to Tartarus to slay the reformed, and even more powerful, Titans Krios and Perses. Luke looked around for the Titan only for him to have to roll out of the way of a spear that would have turned him into a shish-kebab. He found the thrower being Krios himself, still looking the same with his ram helmet that covered his face and black armored appearance. Perses, however, was a new face. He was the same height as Krios, looking like a knock-off Ares combined with barbarian, he had gelled back hair, his ugly face covered with scars, and he carried a war hammer and battle axe, sorta Planet Hulk style. Luke and the Titans then duked it out, each blocking blow after blow with each other, with Luke sometimes having to use his temporal powers to either slow the Titans or speed him up. The battle was fierce and destructive, but both Krios and Perses started using their Titan powers to blind and overwhelm Luke, they were beating him to a bloody pulp and nearly killed him. But Perses thought it would be a fun idea to toss him into the River Lethe, a fatal mistake. They tossed him into the River Lethe laughing, thinking that he would be erased from existence. Luke on the other hand was starting to have his memories erase one after the other. But he heard a screaming voice yelling at him to get up, to never give up, to never quit and his eyes flashed open to see Androemda in his minds eyes yelling and crying at him to get up, which was actually happening back in Arcadia. He then started remembering, regaining all his memories, and gaining back his inner strength. He then started to glow golden, and so did the river, which confused and stunned the two Titans.

Then the River Lethe exploded, both Titans running away from the falling water, and out of the water came out a golden glowing Luke. His Primal Form. Luke's dirty blonde was now spiked up, slightly longer and was now a pure golden color. His shirt was torn away, revealing his muscular body and black markings of Time on his arms, his jeans were ripped but still there and seem to be restoring themselves when it was actually their condition going back in time. As for Luke's eyes they were now a solid gold, which would initially scare people because of his time as Kronos, but now, those his eyes, all Luke. The two Titans were trembling in fear, not believing what was happening, but they very much believed the next moment when Luke raised his left hand and launched a powerful golden blast like it was nothing. Luke would then inflict every kind of power he had, from unleashing his temporal powers onto them in blasts and waves, reflecting their pure energy attacks right back at them, and using his time powers to make every injury they ever have reawaken. Before the two could run and flash away, they stopped, frozen in time completely and Luke floated over to them, a sick grin on his face, that honestly unnerved me a bit, and said to the Titans "Nuh ah ah. You think you can run away just like that, you cowards? No, this is where you die, this is where you will meet you end, this is when you time runs out." Luke then launched himself into the air and readied his own Secret Art Move. He gathered temporal energy around him, so much that it seemed like reality was being warped and hazy, and he was shrouded in a golden, powerful aura and with he stretched out his hands to his sides and he brought his left hand up while bringing his right down, both in a clockwise path. He then had his index and middle finger pointing up with his left and and index and middle finger on his left hand pointing down, the other fingers tucked in, and then as he slowly brought them to each other outward from him to the Titans he said "Temporal Wraith Time God's Last Ages." As he said those words, he brought his wrists together, his fingers still pointing up and down, respectably, and at that moment,time itself seem to halt. Then suddenly a gigantic magical circle appeared around them, filled with runes and ancient text and in that instant, a pillar of golden light blasted forth and engulfed them all. Luke remained unaffected, but as for Perses and Krios they shrieked in eternal agony, feeling their very essences being disintegrated, and as they roared their last roars of pain, they were were completely engulfed into the light and were shredded and destroyed, molecule by molecule. And the Titans were gone.

As the light faded, all that stood there was an exhausted Luke, reverted back into his regular self and barely managed to transport himself to Arcadia. When he got there, I barely managed to catch him, and we all cheered for Luke's victory. As for his girlfriend, Andromeda launched herself at the guy making me feel sorry for him, he was going to have to deal with her wraith soon enough. Luke was happy with her but when Andromeda promised to have a strict talk about what happened and how reckless he was, he looked like would rather fight the Titans again.

The next to go was Thalia. Her first task was the same as everybody before her who wasn't a god, like Luke and Zoe, so she had to face all the trauma and hardships of her life. It broke me to see Thalia in so much hurt and pain during the process, but I knew she was strong and wouldn't let a few bad memories knock her down. And by a few I mean her life with her terrible mother, the loss of Jason, dying to the monsters and turning into a tree, have to nearly kill Luke and face Zoe's death, giving me up for Annabeth, at least that is what she told me afterwards, nearly dying multiple times, the pain of losing her sisters in the wars, losing Jason again but this time by his own hand and pride, finding out about Annabeth cheating on me and me being sent into Tartarus. All this happened at once, but the righteous daughter of Zeus took it all, accepted it, and suddenly glowed bright. The new Thalia that came out nearly made me into a drooling mess. Her paled skin became more brighter like a pearl, some of her cute freckles on her nose vanished, her hair became longer, nearly reaching the mid part of her back, and spikier but looking like it was made out of silk, and her electric blue eyes were more vibrant and shocking that made drew me towards her. Luckily, I snapped myself out of my lover boy phase and readied myself for her potentially in harm's way and I would have no control over it.

Chaos sent Thalia to Canada with the task to kill Koios, The Titan of the North, who unlike all the others, stayed out of 2nd Titan War or even Hyperion's revolution that Andromeda stopped. Instead, he was hiding up in the north, his domain, trying to raise of an army, and he wants Thalia to take it down. Once there she saw a vast army of monsters, maybe 2,000 at most, filled with most especially hyperborean giants, giants of the north. She saw Koios there, looking just like his brothers, wearing ice blue and black armor, standing twelve feet tall. Normally in this situation, stealth and patience was needed. Thalia didn't like to patient. So she jumped out from her hiding place and started obliterating the army with wind and lightning powers and arrows. They were taken by surprise but they ultimately recovered and started to attack. But they couldn't touch Thalia, she was demon to them and was slaughtering them left and right. Then Koios joined in the fight and made things even, until it came down to start freezing Thalia and trapping her in a mountain. It seemed that she was done, she was exhausted, weak, and she couldn't fight of the the rest of the army. But she heard both mine and Artemis's voices, telling to not quit, that she wasn't one to just give up, and that we knew she could do it. And not because she was a Lieutenant of Artemis's Hunt or a daughter of Zeus, but because she was Thalia, nothing more, nothing less.

With those words, the daughter of Zeus burst forth in a massive blast of lightning that destroyed everything around, except for Koios. When Thalia came out from where she was nearly frozen, she was different. Her Primal Form gave her a Huntress's war armor, her arms showed her lightning black markings, she was sparking in black and blue electricity, coursing through her body, her eyes were filled with blue lightning, looking like a pissed off beautiful goddess, and her hair spiky, colored stormy gray and sparking with lightning with a storm cloud. As Koios came to his senses, he ordered the army to all attack, big mistake. Every monster that came near her was roasted to either be burned into a crisp, blown sky high, and slashed to ribbons. Koios then attacked himself and he was being beaten badly. Thalia took great humor in torturing with her black lightning. She then had enough and raised herself to the skies, creating a massive tornado that trapped the small remains of Koios's army. She then gathered her powers and raised her right hand to the air, where her black lightning formed into a black ball of chaotic lightning that was growing ever bigger until it was the size of a small park. She then said "Thundering Wraith Lightning God's Storming Bolt Cannon." She then chucked it to the army, consuming them inside the massive ball of lightning. Koios let out a cry of mercy and terror before being obliterated inside the black ball and then it exploded leaving nothing but a giant smoking crater. No army, no Titan.

Thalia made it back to Arcadia exhausted, but was luckily caught by me, to which she snuggled herself on my chest, making every body laugh at me and the girls jealous. The next one to go was Piper. Her little trip down horrible, painful memory lane was just as bad as everybody's, and just as painful for me to just stand back and watch. She experienced all her teasing and ridiculing before realizing she was a demigod, her sadness and loneliness from her father not being around much, her teasing and insults by Drew, Enceladus threatening her with her father's life, all the strife and pain she experienced in the Giant War, the fear of losing Jason and then the pain she felt when he deserted her, and when she heard of my betrayal and my banishment to Tartarus. But as the independent, stubborn girl she was, she didn't give in and she accepted all that happened. She glowed bright and blinded us before it cleared and I was nearly an incoherent stuttering mess. Piper's natural beauty seem to increase to where she was embodying beauty, her choppy brown hair seemed more wild, yet graceful, and her kaleidoscopic eyes were like looking into a stain glass mirror, the colors changing rapidly, but mostly settled on either crystal blue or sea green. I was blushing heavily on the angel I saw before me and she too was blushing madly when she saw that I was staring.

Before anything else could happen, Chaos sent Piper to Tartarus, where she would find and slay the giant that caused her so much pain, suffering, and worry: Enceladus. She arrived at a volcanic landscape looking for the fire-breathing giant and she found him when he snuck behind her and tried to roast her in fire. She noticed in time and dodged the flames and their battle started. The normally helpless and weak girl she was before the Giant War was now completely gone and replaced by warrior princess that would slaughter whomever came near her. Piper met every blow the Giant launched and even sending him flying as well, but the Giant started using his 'bane of Athena' brains to trick her into nearly torching herself in the landscape or to trip and lose her balance so that he would make a blow against her. This is went on and on until Piper was weak and tired and the Giant kept attacking, until he tossed Piper into the River Acheron, which nearly made me want to gown down there myself, with Artemis and Aphrodite trying to restrain me. But as the Giant assumed it was over, the River Acheron did something it never done before: it started to freeze. The River was becoming frozen and a light was shining below the frozen River of Pain. Enceladus did the smart move of moving away from the light, but not the wise move of turning tail and running. Soon the light grew and Piper shot out from the river glowing light blue and looking powerful. She had female Greek warrior armor strapped to her, with her arms and legs only fitted with braces on the potentially weak points and he wrists, showing symbols of ice and love on her arms, which she told me that she disliked. her eyes were glowing icy blue green and her hair turned wild and spiky, colored icy green, and the air around her turned so cold, even the fire-breathing Giant was shivering.

Piper took no time to waste and struck the Giant in the gut sending him flying. When he got up, he tried to breath fire down on her but she merely raised a hand and flames froze! Enceladus was stunned and couldn't comprehend what was happening. Piper took the time to start attacking the giant with a barrage of icicle spears, gusts and waves of cold winds, and blasts of ice and snow. All which either froze, stung, pierced and mutilated the giant. She then froze the giants legs, keeping him trapped in place, and then proceeded to freeze his hands and mouth, preventing him from striking or burning his way out. After he was trapped she quickly spread her arms wide glowing icy green all over her, the surrounding area around her and the Giant suddenly turning cold and frozen in seconds. She then said in a sickly icy tone "Winter's Wraith Ice God's Absolute Zero." She then clapped her hands together and all the cold air and frozen ice that spread around them suddenly made their way to the Giant and froze him to the bone, encasing him in a massive glowing boulder of ice. Piper then landed slowly onto the ground and without so much as a second of looking at the frozen Giant, she walked away, snapping her fingers. The ice crack at the sound and the glowing boulder glowed bright and exploded into pieces, those pieces being the final remains of the Giant Enceladus.

When all was said and done, Piper returned back to Arcadia where she collapsed into my arms, returning to normal. We cheered for Piper's victory but she was passed out. All that she mumbled out was 'Thank You' and 'Percy', making me blush furiously and everybody cracking up in laughter.

The next day was Aphrodite and, finally, Artemis. Aphrodite was sent to the Cave of Completion, like the other gods, to face her Roman self, Venus. There she was greeted by Ouranos, her father, who came to support her. Aphrodite's cave was filled with mirrors and symbols of love ad beauty everywhere, but also had designs and objects of the sea around her, which made sense because she was a goddess born of the sea. At the end of the cavern there was a sea blue pedestal, with corals and sea shells decorated upon it. The two reached the pedestal and sat upon it. Ouranos would tell Aphrodite about how he was killed by his children, the Titans, and how he felt himself ripped to shreds and scattered into far corners of the world. He claimed that before he fell into the claws of death momentarily, he felt one piece of him feel different, he felt it growing it power and turn into another person, another being. He understood how this being we be a new Primordial being, but felt fear for his new child, thinking that Kronos would sense the power a seek for it, so with his last effort and energy, he made it so that the being to be would another class of immortal, the same one he claim would overthrow his son, a god. And as she was born, he whispered into her ear her name "Aphrodite." He then explained how when he re-gain his consciousness, he found himself with Chaos and his fellow Primordials, he was told that by the time he was brought back over a few hundred years had passed. He said that he wanted to see Aphrodite, but that he was warned that to visit her would lead to more problems and that Chaos had made it o that he will see her again, if the his vision of the gods failed. And so it did. But through all the millennia that past, Ouranos would watch over his daughter and whenever she had that weird feeling or voice advise her, it was him, he had heard her pleas to see him, he was always there with her. Aphrodite teared up and embraced her father. The two hugged for a while before Ouranos said that it was time.

So Aphrodite then meditated on her other half, searching deep in her mind and found herself somewhere else. She found herself by the shore of a beach, the same one where she first arrived right after she was born. She saw and remembered the clear blue sea, the sand she felt between her toes, the fishes that jumped out of the sea. She smiled at the sight before she felt another presence, and when she turned she found herself. Her Roman half, Venus. She looked exactly like her, same brown hair, same features, but her hair was more straight than wavy and her eyes were an enchanting violet. Like the other gods, Venus was angry and ridiculed the love goddess, she was angry that Aphrodite were to allow the true concept of love and beauty to be perverted into lust and appearances. Although Venus claimed that she had to admit that the 'Perseus boy' was a truly 'perfect specimen', an abnormality that she never thought would appear in any kind of world. Maybe when she took over that she would have all him all for herself. This enraged Aphrodite and the two fought into a stalemate. Until Aphrodite remembered all the times we spent together, from our talk after the rewards ceremony, to our constant chats during my time with the Hunt, and it gave her the strength to defeat her Roman self. After they reconciled, they merged and in the process Aphrodite was whole. She still looked like her beautiful self but she looked into a mirror and saw that when her eyes become ocean blue, their is a circle of violet along the iris and the same in reverse when she has violet eyes. It was kind of hypnotic and mesmerizing.

Anyways, Aphrodite was then sent to Tartarus, like the rest, to fight her and destroy her bane, Periboia, the Princess of the Giants. She arrived in a mountain-like range where she found her bane walking around. The giant noticed the goddess and so began the fight. Just like Piper, Aphrodite trained hard in Tartarus and began a an extremely deadly fighter. Plus contrary to popular belief, Aphrodite could fight before, as she was actually an expert in daggers and bows. She would use these in fight with Periboia and it seemed as if the battle wold be easy, but Periboia got help, in the form of a group of cyclops and other kinds of monsters. Aphrodite was getting overwhelmed and the giant princess would use this to her advantage to deal blows towards Aphrodite. It was turning bad fast and I wanted so desperately to go down there and help, but couldn't, and that made me want to go down even more. As Aphrodite was tossed around by Periboia, the giantess said that after she has her fun with Aphrodite, that she will imprison her and make it so that she would have to have sex with every monster in Tartarus! This made me snap into a blind rage that both Chaos and Tartarus had to restrain me. Unfortunately for the giantess, this made Aphrodite enraged. The goddess of Love shouted in fury and power and started to have a purple aura around her so powerful it blew any monster around her, including Periboia, flying away.

Aphrodite then turned into her Primal Form. This form of hers gave her a mixture of Amazonian and Atlantean like armor, showed black markings of the sea, love, and mind on her arms, caused her eyes to glow in rainbow colors, and her hair to glow pinkish violet and flowed like it was freed from gravity. She glowed in a violet aura that made every pebble around her float and crumble. The monsters' once devious, evil smirks were replaced with looks of horror and fear. They were just staring to make a break for it and when she raised her hands, they started running like crazy. Suddenly, they stopped, trapped in place like someone hit the pause button on a movie. But they had a violet aura around them, which meant that Aphrodite froze them in place with her newly powered psychic abilities. She looked upon her foes and launched towards them. She became a demon like no other. Slicing apart enemies left and right, flinging them to Chaos knows where with a flick of her a mere flick of her wrist, and unleashing blasts of water that ripped the monsters to shreds. When she reached Periboia, the giantess was all but running in terror, with Aphrodite making illusions in the giantess's mind to allow Aphrodite to reach her. When she did, she attack the Princess of the Giants mercilessly, until leaving her bloody in the black sharp ground of Tartarus. As Aphrodite began her finishing blow, Periboia begged for mercy, to which Aprhodite responded "I only give mercy to beings who have good hearts, yours, however, is as black as the ground you lay upon." She then stretched her hand, glowing indigo in color, out to the giantess causing her to lift up almost weightless and she shouted out with a burst of power and said "Wisdom's Wraith Mind God's Psystrike!" Suddenly a field of psionic energy appeared Periboia and giantess seemed confused as the she thought the goddess spared her. But as she thought this, Aphrodite closed her hand into a fist and the giantess shouted in pain. The reason? The psionic field shook chaotically, orbs of energy appearing rapidly inside the field and exploded upon the giantess. Aphrodite, growing bored in the torture, ended it by opening her hand again and with a glow from the hand the whole field glowed bright and exploded like a bomb. When the smoke cleared, all that was left of the giantess was a hand.

Aphrodite nearly collapsed right there but was transported back to Arcadia, into my arms. She snuggled into my chest, a smile appearing in her gorgeous face. I smiled at her sleeping, tired face, but when she pressed her breasts upon my chest, I was blushing and stuttering like an idiot.

The last to go was Artemis. Like the other gods, she traveled to the Cave of Completion. She reached there to find a cave with patches of grass and flowers, silver gems and crystals spread across the cave walls. When she reached the pedestal, which was colored silver, she saw the wall in front of her was a silver mirror, crystals and gems adorning the walls around it. Artemis laid meditating upon the pedestal, waiting for any person to appear before her and guide her. That person came in the form of Selene, the faded Titaness of the Moon. She appeared through the silver mirror, Artemis half-expecting her after Apollo said he met the former sun deity. Selene talked to Artemis about he troubles she has been facing in regards to betraying her father and family and betraying her oath. She talked to Artemis that it wasn't wrong to make the oath but it was a foolish decision, to judge the whole of mankind on the actions of a few, and as she saw for herself, some are kind, generous, faithful, and loyal. The path to love may be a scary, difficult road, but it's worth it, as long as you find the one that always has your back, the one that is always there for you even in your worst moments, and the one that never gives up on you, that is a very true love. Whether it be a friendly love, a family love, or a romantic love, it is all love. Artemis nodded and even teared up in understanding, that her Hunt, her sisters, Hestia, Thalia, Apollo, hell even Aphrodite, Hermes, and Hades, they were all there for her. Most especially, me. Artemis told me that. After telling this to Selene, she smiled, proud at her successor. Finally, she bid Artemis farewell, and she faded from view.

Artemis, with full confidence and determination, peered into her mind to find her other half, Diana. She found herself at her home island of Delos, the place that she and her brother, Apollo, were born. She searched through the forests of the island to find Diana. She then a rustle and she prepared herself, at just the right timing too because afterwards Diana jumped out of tree and nearly tore Artemis's head off. Artemis blocked her attack in time and pushed her back getting a good view of her. She looked like Artemis, but she instead of auburn hair, she had black hair, vibrant green eyes, a bandanna with a moon pendent on her head, and wore silver hunting clothes. But the most obvious difference between the two was that Diana was the funny one. Diana, unlike the others, showed no ill will or feeling toward her other half, Artemis and Diana, in Diana's mind, have always been peaceful and respectful of each other. The only times they ever were to but heads were when conflicts between the Romans and the Greeks were critical and when Diana was teasing Artemis about her feelings towards me. Artemis actually revealed to me that Diana had as much love for me as she did. Anyways, Diana was cheerful at seeing Artemis and knew about the trials and what they had to do, but she said that before they would do so, Artemis would have to beat her, one last duel for old time's sake. And so they fought, not as a challenge to conquer one another, but to bring together all that they both loved. Their experiences, their hunts, their loved ones, and their love for fighting and hunting. In the end, Artemis won and with the promise to let Diana take over the wheel sometimes, they merged.

The new Artemis look made me nearly faint because of how I was in the presence of an angel. I actually said that and recieved a walloping blow to the head from a embarrassed and blushing moon goddess. Artemis's new form added a bit of green to Artemis's silver eyes which looked stunning, added a black color to the tips of her auburn hair, and the same silver hunting clothes as Diana. Before we could talk with each other more, Chaos sent Artemis to Tartarus, like the others, to fight her Giant bane, Gration. I felt fear crept into my heart because I have heard that Gration was a despicable, evil, rotten rapist of a giant. But I knew that I couldn't do anything, so I had to watch and believe that my Moonshine could prevail.

(WARNING WARNING! THREAT OF RAPE AND NEAR SEXUAL ABUSE, but no actually touching or grouping, just threats.)

Artemis appeared in a swamp like area, with only little puddles than deep swamp marshes and more trees, a perfect hunting ground. Before Artemis could look around any more, she narrowly dodged a giant arrow from behind her. She turned to find Gration, smirking a sick, twisted smirk. He looked like all the other giants, dragon-like legs, the scales being forest green, his dreadlocks combed with arrows and bones from former Huntresses, which angered the goddess, and his skin a pale yellow. He launched another arrow at Artemis, only for her to dodge and launch her own arrows. The two continued to dodge each others arrows, some actually succeeding in hitting Gration, until they soon ran out and proceeded with hand to hand combat. Artemis was faster and more agile than the giant and left plenty of blows, Gration only knocking her back a few times. He then played his tricks and unleashed traps and hidden monsters to distract her, enough to allow him to get the upper hand. Soon enough, Artemis, gravelly wounded, was pinned to a tree, Gration's spear pointing at her throat. Gration let out a booming laughter and said "Heh Heh, looks like you will lose Artemis. It was foolish to try and kill me, especially here in Tartarus and especially without a demigod. But no matter, this just means I get to have you. I will make you submit to me, I will make you my bride and have my way with you, who knows, maybe I will let other monsters have a turn with you, like Lycaon, oh I know he would love to get his wolf dick inside your soon-to-be ex-virgin cunt. Hahahahaha!" It took the combined strength of all the Primordials, all of the gods and demigods in the room, even Bob, Atlas, Damasen, and Chaos to keep me and Apollo from going down there with unimaginable rage to completely and utterly destroy the Giant, ripping its head of, and give it as a steak for Cerberus. But soon we would see that Gration would have the most destructive, terrifying punishment ever known to man. Artemis's wraith.

As Gration laughed, Artemis's eyes blazed in unbridled fury and malice that she was glowing bright silver. Gration noticed and before he could do anything, Artemis howled in rage and released a blast wave that blew Gration away, knocking him down and blinding him, temporarily. When Gration regained his sight, he saw both the power and grace of an angel yet the fury and destructiveness of a demon. Artemis's Primal Form gave her a godly, Amazon hunting armor, with silver braces on her wrists, silver light boots, and sleek, elegant, yet durable armor. Her arms had a few bracers and armor pieces on her shoulders and elbows, leaving enough room to show her moon, wild, and shadow symbols and her mark as my soulmate visible, her eyes glowed silver, and her hair turned from braided and auburn and black tipped into flowing free silver with green tips. She walked gracefully and powerfully towards Gration, with every monster that near her either being disintegrated, sliced to ribbons, or became the equivalent of a monster porcupine. Gration was forced to stumble back, trying to summon and shoot more arrows at Artemis, who did virtually nothing and/or missed entirely. Artemis then speed up like a bullet and sliced at Gration with the speed of a cheetah, the strength of a lion, and fury of a tiger. Soon Gration was left kneeling on both knees, his arms at his sides slack, golden blood pouring like waterfalls down his body, and his head hanged, trying desperately to breath and endure the pain, which was really hard as Artemis sliced his throat of and castrated him. Having enough, Artemis raised her hands up and, glowing in power, she created a ball of concentrated moonlight and godly energy the size of a large basketball. Gration pleaded for mercy and forgivness, but Artemis wouldn't have it, plus she barely heard him in his hoarse, bloodied voice. She then shouted out "Heaven's Wraith Star God's Moonlit Spirit Bomb!" She then chucked it at the Giant, striking at his chest and slowly seeping into his chest. As it did, Gration wailed in pain and agony, every inch inside feeling like a white hot star being placed into his chest. Soon the ball was completely inside him and he stopped yelling, only for him to freeze. Then his skin started to crack, like a mirror, each crack shining in a brilliant silver light. That last thing the Giant could do was shed a tear, and he exploded in a massive explosion, ending the Giant's life.

Artemis transported back to Arcadia where I rushed her into a hug, relieved she was alright. Artemis smiled and hugged me back, only for her to revert back to her regular form and pass out, stumbling into my chest. I carried her to Apollo and sat her down on my lap, where she snuggled her head into my neck, humming in comfort. Chaos and the others laughed at this, while I blushed like a mad man.

The next day, Chaos had a meeting. Chaos informed me that for my trials that I didn't have two trials, but four. I was shocked and was about to ask why but Chronos beat me to the punch saying that it was because I was going to be given the position of King of the New Titans and the only way for me to rightfully claim such an important title and position, that I would have to prove myself to be both worthy, powerful, and balanced, both physically and mentally. I understood the reason and gladly accepted to complete the trials. Chaos smile at me, proudly, like a father seeing his son become a man ready to take on the world by himself. Chaos thanked me for understanding and told me that I would face my first two trials tomorrow and the next two in a week, which is the time where we will make ourselves known to Olympus, where we will wage war on Zeus and his Olympians.

Chaos asked me "Are you ready Perseus?"

I looked at him, determination and readiness in my eyes, and I said "Always."

AND EXIT! (P.S This is an updated version as there were some major mistakes in the story)

And that was the second part of the chapter. What comes next is the beginning of the war between Percy and his allies against Zeus and the Olympians. Percy's first two trials will be talked afterwards this and his first two will be completed during the next chapter. And as you seen, all of Percy's allies have completed their trials and ready for the war to come. And just as a spoiler warning, someone will DIE in the next chapter. Who will it be? Well I know, but that is the whole point.

Anyways, that is it for this chapter. I will be able to work more on more chapters because of spring break but not as much as one would expect because I have other things to do such as Fortnite and important matters to attend. But other than that I will be focused on this story and will be probably expect the next chapter before Avengers Infinity War at the least.

Well that, until next time, please review your comments, helpful advice appreciated, and till next time.

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