(Recap: "Haha hell yeah that's right. And I chose to reveal myself right now 'cause you have no choice but to retreat or let the poor kid die, so these campers have already lost the war. They stand no chance against my master or his mighty army." He said, confident he'd won the war. And he may just have hit my sore spot. I did publicly announce I could do anything for Andrew. I meant it. Literally. Anything.)

Ch. 15

PERCY'S POV

"So Commander." He said mockingly.

"What will it be? Let your son die or let these stupid campers die?" He snorted while saying 'son'.

"I'll tell you, but before that can you tell me whether revealing yourself was your choice or end's orders?"

"I don't speak directly to Master End. My Lord Kronos told me to give you this message Stormbringer. But why does it matter anyway? You either stay out of the war or see your kid's dead body, what do you want?"

"That's what I thought. Kronos is still as foolish as ever. But you? You'll kill a 7-year-old in the name of war? That's what this camp has taught you?"

"This camp has taught me that the Gods never support us! This camp has taught me that nobody cares about us! We have a threat only from monsters. Now I befriended them, so I can live my life peacefully! And if I serve my master right, he'll even let me be his new host!"

"You are a fool. Giving up your body and free will to a maniac. Return my son back and I'll tell the Gods to forgive you for what you've done. I'll get you a chance at redemption, take it before it's too late. "

"Shut up! You have no idea what it feels like to be a demigod! I heard what kind of lives you live on your planet. So peaceful, so relaxed. You'll never understand what it's like to live in constant fear, to live as if no one cares about you."

Oh who would know better than me. I was the most hunted down demigod in the history of demigods. But saying that would give away too much of my identity. And besides, I saw what I was waiting for, a black-haired small figure crouching behind a bush, ready to pounce on James.

"Well James, you made your choice. I knew I couldn't convince you, but I had to try. And now that you declare you're an enemy agent, I'm afraid I'll have to arrest you and take you to our prison on Celestio.

He paled a bit "Wh.. What? You don't want the kid back? I meant it, you know - they'll kill him!"

"If only they could. " said a voice from behind the bushes. And suddenly a blur of raven black hair and a shining temporal white sword pounced on James, making him fall on the floor with the sword pointing at his neck pinning him down. James' eyes widened "You! How! That's impossible! How did you escape!"

"Nice job Andrew," I told the figure, who was indeed Andrew.

"Thanks, daddy. Now lets arrest this criminal shall we?"

Soon my army had their weapons pointed at James and he was cuffed and taken by a few men to our prison at Celestio, where justice awaited him.

Meanwhile, the campers could only see with widened eyes what had transpired. A 7-year-old just took out a 16-year-old camper who had been training since the past 6 years at camp. And made it look so easy.

"Are you alright child?" Chiron asked, his fatherly instincts kicking in.

"Of course I am, centaur, but thanks for asking." came the reply from Andrew. And the campers stared at him in awe and confusion. Because he had just said that in a girl's voice. An adult girl's voice.

"Okay now enough messing around with them! Reveal yourself!"

"Oh, but I was having so much fun! " Andrew pouted. And then there was a bright flash. Brighter than what the Olympians caused when they revealed their true form, but unlike that light, this one was harmless to the mortal eye. You could watch it with open eyes, and not burst or be blinded on the spot. And when the light died down, in Andrew's place there was a brunette girl with onyx eyes and a well-set expression, her face determined and her posture straight with her head held high. She had regal clothes on and emanated a higher amount of power than the big three combined. Every camper drew their weapons and pointed them at this mysterious being, but I interrupted

"Campers! Relax! Is this how you treat the Princess of the universe?"

"What? But I thought you said she wasn't coming today? And she just transformed from a 7-year-old boy! How can we even trust this is her true form?" Jason said.

I rolled my eyes at his immaturity.

"Jason, she is the Princess of the Universe, don't you think she can change her form according to her will? I mean, just look at the power radiating from her. Even minor Gods can do such cheap parlour tricks!"

"Children, I think Commander Stormbringer is correct. I'm sure he has an explanation for all this. Lower your weapons!" Chiron said hastily, fearing that the Princess might obliterate the whole camp with her power if provoked or insulted.

Once the weapons were lowered, the Princess cleared her throat and addressed Chiron

"Wise decision Centaur. Yes, Commander Stormbringer speaks correctly. I'm Princess Skylar Void, daughter of Chaos. I've come here to aid you in this battle against End. You can relax, Andrew was just a form I assumed. It was a plan from Commander Stormbringer in order to catch the spy."

"Oh of course. We can talk about that plan later, but thank you very much for your aide, your majesty." Chiron bowed. Skylar widened her eyes at the use of such words and gestures. Worse was to come though, because just as Chiron rose, Reyna screamed "Ave Lady Skylar, Princess of the Universe, daughter of Lord Chaos and member of the Primordial Council."

"Ave" came the shout of all the campers in unison. And then everyone bowed down to her. She had a terrified expression on her face. And I was silently trying not to fall on the floor laughing. Well actually, most of my army's senior members who knew about her were.

"No! Rise! Stop it! Who told you to hail me? Just a 'welcome to camp Skylar' would have more than sufficed!"

"Uh, but... Your majesty, you love formalities don't you?" Chiron said a bit confused.

"What? No! I absolutely hate them!"

"Oh, we are so sorry we were actually told otherwise. " Chiron said, looking at me accusingly.

Oops, busted. I gave Skylar a wide grin in reply to her dagger stare.

"You," she growled. "I'll kill you today Stormy!"

"Oh no!" I said and ran for my life. I ran towards the forest with Skylar close on my heels. But she was a good runner, and she was angry. So she outran me, grabbed my shoulder turning me around and judo flipped me. "You made the last mistake of your life." She growled.

I gulped

"Uh hey, Sky... Welcome to camp!" Hey! She was pressing her dagger against my neck alright. I couldn't afford the time to think better lines!

"You did this for fun, didn't you? The whole camp bowing to me is fun? "

"Okay, okay now stop being so melodramatic. I know one of these days you're going to get even."

"That's damn right I will." Her lips twitched a bit like she was about to smile.

She calmed down and I got up, dusting my clothes." Let's go, the campers might be interested in knowing whether I survived the onslaught of her majesty crazy Princess or not." I smirked.

"Oh yeah. We should probably hurry up." She chuckled.

When we got back, there were all sorts of expressions in the crowd.

The army had an indifferent expression. They had seen many friendly fights between us. In fact, this didn't even qualify as one it was so quick and harmless. A few years ago when I'd pulled a prank on Sky the fight had lasted a full day. Almost the whole of the planet was in smithereens. The whole planet would've blown to bits had Elmont and Fritz not interrupted. We had a laugh about it the next day, so everything was cool. But we both rebuilt the planet even better than it was before as a gift to them There weren't any casualties obviously. Coming back to expressions, the campers looked confused. The immortal campers understood the plot and were looking a bit angry. Even Chiron had an irritating expression. "The Council's Army as well as The Army of Peace, go to your cabins. Campers, you can resume your guard duties and daily activities. Chiron, we can call a meeting right now at the big house to clear things."

" Yes, that would be good. Cabin counsellors and immortal campers, meeting at the big house in 30. Lady Skylar, you can take that time to freshen up a bit if you'd like. "

"Thank you, Chiron, and please, it's just Skylar. Despite what Commander stormy here had you believe, I hate formalities and titles."

"If you prefer. " Chiron said and left for the big house. I guess he needed time to get over James. He'd trained the guy for 6 years after all.

"Alright Sky, C'mon I'll take you to our cabin. Your room is ready."

"Sure Stormy."

"Can you avoid calling me that, at least in front of the campers maybe? You know I've made an image of me, and that name would so not go with it. "

"Sure, I'll try. But Stormbringer is a mouthful, and I can't call you Percy here so don't blame me."

"Okay. I think that's the best offer I can get from you anyways. Go rest. I'll call you when its time for the meeting."

"Okay."

-30 Minutes later, at the ping pong table-

Everyone had arrived. I and Sky were the last ones. Sky's chair was ready and placed beside mine. Once we had taken our seats, Chiron began

"We have a lot to discuss, but first I'd like to formally welcome Princess Skylar to the camp. Heartfelt gratitude for aiding us in the battle Princess. And for helping us catch the spy." He bowed a bit as a sign of thanks.

"Thank you, Chiron. The idea was Commander Stormbringer's though, so credit to him there."

"Yes, about that plan," Chiron said, looking at me with a hint of betrayal in his eyes.

"I appreciate what you did, but couldn't you have a least warned us about this beforehand? You know how much worried we were for you supposed son? So many lies you said, don't you think saying the one truth that Andrew is Skylar would have made things easier?"

"I'm sorry. I know I should have told you, but I didn't know who the spy was. So I couldn't take any chances."

"So you're saying you thought we could be spies?" Annabeth screeched angrily.

"No, I didn't. Don't take it personally. I just didn't want it to be unfair for the rest of the campers, so I decided to tell nobody." I replied calmly.

"Who gave you the right to judge us, to not trust us? Hey, you or one of your sidekicks could have been the spy for all we know! But we didn't devise a crazy plan secretly to find out!" Annabeth screamed angrily.

"Yeah exactly! Since the moment you've come we've respected your help and listened to you, you can't take us for granted now! You're just an outsider!" Jason shouted, equally angry with me.

"You may be a bigshot Mr Commander, but you haven't done enough for us to be getting the right to do what you've done!" Piper exclaimed.

This was going nowhere. They were really starting to annoy me.

"Hey enough now. Just so you know, even my army didn't know about this. Only I did. I didn't let anyone in on this, not even Elmont or Gregory. Only those from my home planet Celestio who weren't at camp and could have in no way passed this info knew." I said seriously.

"And anyway, would it have really mattered if I had actually done something for you then done what I did today?" I continued.

"What do you mean? Of course, if you had done something big for us we would have trusted you more!" Katie said.

"Really miss Gardener? Something big? Like fighting and winning 2 wars for you? Or jumping into Tartarus for one of you? Or maybe both? But that still wouldn't be big enough according to your.. ahh past records now would it? I said angrily. And left. Just like that. Not back to my cabin, no. Out of the camp. The spy problem was taken care of, and now that Skylar was here, I could leave camp for a while, clear my head a bit. I needed time. A lot of time. I'll apologize to Skylar for leaving her, but later.

I went to the one place my heart was aching to see, the one place that I was scared to visit, it had been so many years after all. But I went there. Nothing had changed, even after hundreds of years. Of course, my powers had something to do with it, a graveyard couldn't be the same for over 450 years. But I kept it the same. As a reminder. A reminder that no matter what I did, there were always three people I'd failed, 3 people I'd forgotten when I'd left. I was standing in front of the graves of Sally Jackson - my mom, Paul Blofis - my stepdad and Brianna Blofis - My sister.

(A/N: PLEASE REVIEW, CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS APPRECIATED.)