I have been so busy the last month with college, don't hate me! Here's chapter 11, the longest chapter I have ever done!

Chapter 11

Months went by since my arrival on Mount Orthys all I could do was train. Sun who I know now as Hyperion and Crius or Krios as the Greeks call him.

I was sent out on little missions to raid Hunters of Diana's safe houses and to get weapons and armour for the army, I disrupted Roman demigod missions and Greek ones in the eastern side of the country, I recruited demigods for the cause for "my lord" Saturn, who by now I was sick of. I had heard from Sun that Samuel Strife had been captured by the enemy, I was glad for him to get out.

Lord Saturn sent me out often enough to eliminate monsters that would not join him, usually cyclops and empousai that he said don't believe in his rule, and when they come back from the pit their minds will be changed.

I usually ended up sparring with Hyperion one on one and when I started I was getting swatted around by him, but now I could at least hold my own for a few minutes until he won, so I knew I was getting better and Hyperion was impressed.

He would boast about how he thought I could eventually stand up to one of the big three children long enough for one of the titans to help me defeat them, mainly two of them, who I now know as Percy Jackson, a son of Poseidon and Thalia Grace a daughter of Zeus, who had been on the mountain when our lord had been resurrected.. I had gritted my teeth when he mentioned my lord, because Sat-Kronos, had been heavily disappointed with my leading of the army and having them decimated before even going into the battle with the enemy.

I hated this place and I knew I had to get out, I had tried to get in contact with Samuel or anyone else who could be of assistance but nobody was responding to my messages for help.

But that had been the last few weeks, I had been training and doing more missions for Saturn in an increased number, in the morning I would be sparring with Hyperion or Krios, which usually left me exhausted because all I simply did was dodge, I couldn't beat them. I had kind of guessed something major was going to go down, that was what I thought until I had been sent to New York to scout out the easiest route into the city. That's when I had met an old friend.

I was walking up the road towards the Brooklyn bridge to hopefully scout out another route, I had coined the Williamsburg bridge as one of the points, I turned a corner and slammed face first into someone who yelped, I ended up on the floor on my ass, I slowly shook my head and stood up coming face to face with…."Silena?" she broke into a grin "Blake?" she replied. I hugged her and she hugged me back with extra gusto.

She broke apart from me and stood there smiling, blue eyes with the look of sadness and long black hair. "I..I haven't seen you in years Blake, where have you been?" I shook my head "I can't explain, it's quite complicated" I kept thinking to myself, what are the chances! Silena and myself used to be friends in San Francisco growing up, before I stopped going to school that is at 15, but she disappeared soon after I left, and her family had acted as if she had never existed.

Silena cut me off with a quick glance, "I know you have been working for Kronos Blake" I looked at her with shock, but before I could reply she continued "because so have I" she took out the scythe charm bracelet below her top and in response to her action I followed and took my one out as well. She looked down at the floor, "I can't do this anymore Blake, I was told I could save a lot of lives by working for him, but the only thing it seems to bring is death, Charlie my boyfriend might be dead within a year and I'm guessing that others will soon follow."

I looked at her with what I could only feel as regret as she gripped the charm with white knuckles and said "follow me" we hopped onto the nearest subway which brought us towards the Brooklyn Bridge, we got out as quick as could and I told her I needed to make a toilet stop, she told me "I need to go contact a friend called Sam" I paused "Samuel Strife?" her eyes widened and she smiled "you know him?" I blushed slightly "indeed I do" I paused for a second before continuing "I want out as well, I want to help fight Kronos, I do not want to fight for him anymore…all the Titans do is beat me." She nodded as I went to go to the toilet.

I came out and she reported that she had made contact with Sam and that he would meet us on the bridge. We quickly made our way up to the bridge as I saw a Pegasus in the distance coming towards, its colour white as the snow that used to sit atop Mount Orthys. As Sam got off his Pegasus the first thing he said was "Blake? What in the name of the gods are you doing here?!" he glanced at my clothes and my helmet tucked under my arm for comfort.

I looked Sam dead in the eye "I don't want to spy anymore! I've been to trying to contact you but weren't responding"

Sam sighed "I don't know what to tell you man. I don't work for Kronos anymore so you're on your own." I frowned and drew Verdict, the anger I felt towards him for not wanting to help grew rapidly. He quickly responded by drawing his pistol and laughed "You beat me last time because we were in your element and I couldn't use my guns. Look around you Blake, you're in my territory now. Do you really think that thing could even touch me before my bullet reaches your heart?" he said as he aimed the gun at my chest. I was calculating the chances I had of winning until I finally sighed internally and shrunk it back to my ring and slipped into onto my finger. Sam looked at Silena and asked her "So why are you here anyway? How do you two know each other?"

I glanced at Silena who bit her lip "we went to school together, we were friends". Sam's head looked like it was about to explode as he replied "okay okay okay, Blake why do you want out?" I scratched my head and looked at the charm which I had subconsciously taken out of my top to hold in my hand.

I took a deep breath and spoke "I'm betraying the people I care about I want to stop! How did you get out of your situation with the titans?" Sam looked at me with sadness in his eyes "Dude, I almost died! I was possessed by an evil spirit and actually hurt a lot of people at the camp. Ask Silena she was there, the camp finally accepted me back a few days ago. You know after a brutal torture from some campers and a god they accepted me back. The point is man just stop, have the titans threatened you or anything like they have Silena?"

I looked at Silena with anger "They threatened you?" I felt ready to explode before Silena cut in "Blake that's beside the point! You aren't being threatened probably because Sam was the one that recruited you. You have an out! Take it!" she finished and the Sam stepped forward

"Silena no! if he leaves then you are the only spy left! You'll have to tell them everything to make up for it! We'll find another way out of this!" he gritted his teeth in anger. Silena put her hand on Sam's shoulder "This is my burden Sam, I'll handle it, the less spies there are the better anyway. Blake go back to camp and get rid of that charm okay?" I pulled the charm off my neck and tossed it over the side, we all watched it as it fell down into the water and out of sight. I looked at the two of them smiled and waved goodbye as I drew verdict swiped it in an arc into the air creating a doorway(an act which I had practiced and nearly ended up dying from) to which I stepped through and re-appeared in the middle of the senate in session.

I looked around as I collapsed from exhaustion, the last thing I heard was "Get the traitor!" as the realm of Sommnos overtook me. I sat up gasping for air as my forehead connected with that of another who was like a hairs breath away from me. I quickly shut my eyes and held my head in my hands and groaned at the pain that was now throbbing through my entire head. The other person was on the floor from what I could hear from the groaning "you have a hard heard Blake" the other person moaned out, who I pinned as Jason as I slowly cracked open my eyes and look around seeing I was in the infirmary again. I looked down to see him holding his head on the floor with Reyna studying both of us in the chair behind him. "I am finally home" I sighed in relief as Reyna and Jason got up and approached the bed, Jason glanced at Reyna and back to me.

Reyna spoke first "Blake, you have been deemed a traitor by the Augur, and must face sentence, you have allied yourself with Saturn, and must be punished" she muttered "I'm sorry..I'm so sorry" Jason was looking at me with sadness etched across his face "we thought you had been captured, but Octavian and his visions showed us you training with Sun and Crius. He sighed and went on "the senate wishes to see you exiled from the legion". I bit back quickly "I have information that could lead us to victory!"

Jason locked eyes with me and nodded for me to continue, so I told him everything, from meeting Saturn, to Hyperion, to Krios, to what happened after the quest, how I was forced to lead the army into the labyrinth to another demigod camp, I kept Sam out of the adventure and the Greeks because I knew it would lead to even more questions of loyalty, I talked about how I was tasked with disrupting hunters of Diana and the legions troops on supply missions outside of camp, how I sent information about New York back to the Jason, I also gave the roman leaders a description of what Orthys and the layout of the rebuilding fortress. The number of monsters present and other outposts and safe houses on the west coast.

Reyna held up her hand and looked like she was weighing her options "you tell this to the senate, and I feel like you might be acquitted, but we must first go through the trial" I nodded in response as I was helped up by Jason, who then left the room following Reyna as I changed into a toga for the ceremonial whacking that was about to take place. I left the room and then soon flanked by the two praetors, with their purple capes flowing in the breeze that picked up, as we walked through Camp Jupiter I could feel the eyes of the Legion on us, as we passed the boundary into New Rome I felt a little zap, which I could only guess was from Terminus, the Lars who were usually harmless and silent in camp whispered the words "traitor" or "Aduro" we quickly swept through the streets before the massive senate house stood in front of me, its imposing structure making me swallow in this shadow, I could hear the raised voices form out here, but the one voice I could hear above all was Octavian. I swallowed with the nerves as Jason pushed open the doors and swept in with me in tow, and Reyna following behind me.

Everything went silent as Jason and Reyna and myself walked to the centre of the room, as I could feel all of the eyes of the senate on me, all of Octavian's lackeys eyeing me up for blood. I stood in the centre as Jason and Reyna took their respective seats on the podium, because the moment they did, the whole room erupted in roars, people calling for my blood, people calling for me to be exiled, people wanting me to be executed here and now. Thunder boomed louder than ever as I looked up at Jason who was sparking slightly as Reyna put an hand on his leg to relax him, he glanced at her and that seemed to relax him.

Jason stood up and took his chance to speak "As many of you know, Blake Jefferson son of Janus, has been hailed as a traitor, an Aduro by some people, including the Lars, by naming him an Aduro, they seem him as someone who set fire to the people of Rome, a person who has betrayed them, but, I do not see Blake as an Aduro, I see him as young man who was tricked by an being that is thousands of years old, into what they believed was right. Blake's father might be siding with Saturn, as we had found out during his absence, But we have had another son of Janus within this camp who was a hero, a Praetor. Do we wish to dishonour the son of Janus, who was told by his father to dishonour the gods?." He took a breath and went on

"Hear me, people of Rome, as your praetors it is myself and Reyna job to lead new Rome to victory no matter the cost, I believe that Jefferson, the son of Janus could help us win the upcoming battles against Saturn, he may have joined them, but he is here now, he has returned home, I call for the dissolution of his exile, I call for him to be reinstated as a centurion and for him to be respected". Jason glanced around at everyone as they seem to mull over his words until Octavian stood up and Jason looked at him and nodded. "Son of Janus" Octavian started with utter disgust evident in his tone.

"I see you have returned to what we call home, you plead innocence yet the auguries are clear, you took your place with the enemy, you joined him and opposed Rome, you have no rightful place here, no matter what the others say, you joined us a second time, I had suspected since we met that you were an agent of Saturn, your father joining the cause of a titan is even more evident that you chose to side along with him." He took a long look around the room, to which I mimicked as everyone I looked at was staring back with fire in their eyes, only a select few were looking at me with sadness and regret. "I demand his immediate exile, or execution." His lackeys roared in approval

"that is all I have to say praetors" Reyna nodded and stood up "Blake Jefferson, Son of Janus, what do you have to say?" I swallowed and I knew what I said would be life or death.

"My life has always been plagued with choices" I chuckled to myself, "being the son of the god of choices is really hard way for me to leave, and if Varus was alive I'm sure he would agree, I am an easily swayed person, easily angered, I joined Saturn out of fear of being executed by Octavian, afraid of being labelled an outsider by the whole camp, being a son of Janus means being different, we are even more rare than children of the big three, there have only been two demigod children of Janus, do you want to know why?" I scanned the crowd "we are one of the most troubled children of the gods, we are even more conflicted than children of Discordia for god's sake!" I took a breath "I want to serve Rome, I want to live, I want to destroy Saturn for what he has done to my friends, I want to make sure he can never rise out of Tartarus again. I beg you senators and people of Rome alike, please, I beg you, let me serve." I shook my head "I have information that can end this war if we march on Orthys! I can help Rome be victorious!" I stepped back and bowed my head as the room was completely silent.

Someone started to clap slowly and then within a matter of seconds the whole auditorium was full with cheers and nobody but Octavian and all his lackeys swept out of the room with pure hatred on their faces, even the praetors were up and clapping at me. I was quickly greeted by senators who I had not met before demanding my immediate return to the legion, to help with the war effort, the praetors immediately agreed and soon I was once again a centurion in the legion. I was escorted out of the room and back to my cohorts barracks where Axel the old man was waiting for me, the moment I walked in with the paper which showed my re-joining the legion, he grinned and hugged and said "welcome back son"

I honestly teared up a little as everyone came over to great me and hug me, even the ones who didn't like my little take over after rescuing Jacob, they came over and congratulated me, Kit came limping over with crutches and crushed me in a hug as I grinned and hugged him back.

"it's good to be home" and chuckled as I was caught up on all the news.