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Ok! Thanks for guessing everyone! The prize goes to I'm not ofreakingkay for guessing one of the "powerful beings"! They guessed Aether and Tartarus! Aether was one of the beings! And no one guessed the other one, so you're just gonna have to wait to find out. ;) I own nothing, but please enjoy this chapter. :)

Percy's POV

Again, I nodded, still hopelessly confused. "Okay... But Chaos, who are these two powerful beings?" I set my bag on the ground. I guess I wouldn't be leaving after all.

Chaos took a deep breath. "I fear that these two powerful beings are the primordials Aether and Pontus."

Next to me, Zoë gasped. I jumped. When did she get there? Wasn't she behind me?

Shaking the thought off, I spoke up. "Who the heck are they?"

Zoë sighed. "Didn't the daughter of Athena teach you anything?"

I flinched, a spear of sadness and regret shooting though my heart. Zoë noticed and put a hand gently on my arm. Her face had apologies written all over it.

"I'm sorry; I wasn't thinking," she apologized softly. I nodded, trying to swallow the pain.

Chaos cleared his throat, awkwardly looking between Zoë and I. "Anyways..." He coughed before becoming serious. "Aether is the primordial God of light and the upper air. He's extremely powerful, as all the primordials are if you cross them. Pontus is the primordial God of the sea and is father of almost all ocean life, and many of the marine deities."

I nodded slowly, digesting the information. "So this Pontus dude is like a mega Oceanus then, right?"

Chaos hesitated before nodding. My mention of Oceanus must've thrown him off.

"And this Aether dude is like a mega Apollo?" There was no hesitation before the nod.

There was a brief moment of silence. Both Chaos and Zoë looked scared out of their wits, torturing themselves with wondering whether the primordial a were going to help us or not. I, of course, had to break the silence.

"Well, what're we waiting for?"

Zoë blinked. "Excuse me?"

"What are we waiting for?" I repeated. "Let's go hunt down the primordials, convince them to help us, then kill the offending Olympians."

Chaos opened his his mouth to argue, then closed it. "That's not a bad idea."

I grinned, while Zoë looked on in disbelief. "We're going to basically charge the primordials and hope they'll charge with us, not against us?"

Chaos and I nodded as if that made perfect sense. Zoë sighed. "We're screwed, but I'm in. Let's go."

O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.O

We trudged through Tartarus for what felt like days. Time became harder to judge as we traveled deeper and deeper into the pit. Thankfully, Chaos made everything easy to travel with, using his magical creator-of-the-universe powers.

We had just stopped to rest for the night (or what we assumed was the night; it could've been mid-afternoon for all we knew) when i heard a strange noise. It sounded almost like waves crashing against the seashore, although we were miles underground. The waves were mixed with what sounded like a crackling fire, both of them complimenting each other in a strange and unusual way. I had been on a beach while sitting around a bonfire, and the noise I was hearing differed from that past one.

I gasped. "Do you guys hear that?"

They stopped all conversation to listen in. After a few seconds, they both shook their heads.

"I don't hear anything other than the faint screams of pain that come with Tartarus," Zoë said, eyeing me in a suspicious-yet-concerned manner.

I frowned. How could they not hear that? It's almost so loud that it's making my ears explode. I tried to cover up my ears to block the sound.

"Seriously guys! Stop fooling around!" I yelled through clenched teeth from the pain of the ever-increasing volume of the noise.

They shared a look. "Percy," Chaos started, "we honestly can't hear anything."

Suddenly, the volume increased dramatically. It was so loud that it forced me to my knees, trying in vain to block my ears with my hands. "It's so loud," I grunted.

Zoë ran over to try to help me, but nothing she did seemed to dull the noise. Splashing my face with water only served to make me wet. Stuffing tissues in my ears only seemed to (slightly) increase the volume of the sound. Slapping me across my face only put in me more pain.

Soon, the sound drowned out every other noise. I could see Zoë and Chaos running around in a frenzy, before the pain behind my eyes caused me to shut them. When a man's voice cut through the wave-fire mix, I thought it was Chaos. I was about to cheer at finally having been saved, until I realized that the man's voice sounded nothing like Chaos's.

"Perseus... Come seek us out. Alone. Do not allow your friends to follow you, or we will choose to wage war against you before you've even left this pit."

The noise dulled further, finally letting me think properly. "You're either Pontus or Aether, aren't you?"

The man laughed. Er, I could hear him laugh at least. "Yes, godling, I am Pontus. Seek out Aether and I alone. You will know the path. Tell no one where you're going. Or else..."

With that, Pontus withdrew from my mind, taking the gods-awful noise with him. I sucked in a breath of air through my mouth, grateful to actually hear myself breathing again. It was only when I started to eat dirt that I realized I was laying on the ground.

I sat up slowly, my body aching for reasons I didn't know. Looking around, I spotted Zoë sitting next to me on the ground, staring into a small fire.

I was about to talk to her when Pontus' words rang in my head. Do not allow your friends to follow you. Even if I tried to stop her, Zoë would follow me. Especially if I couldn't say why she couldn't come with me or to where I was going. She'd never forgive me if I ruined her chances to return to the world above.

Then again, she might never forgive me for what I was about to do. At least this way she'd be able to live her dreams.

Silently, I sat up and grabbed my sword that was still sheathed at my waist. The sword slided out of the sheath quietly, barely a hiss as the metals rubbed against each other. I crept up behind the huntress that was still entranced by the dancing flames.

"I'm sorry," I whispered under my breath. That was all it took though. Zoë broke from her trance-like state, whirling around to find my unconscious body, only to discover that j was very conscious.

"Perseus, what—" she tried to say before I hit her on the head with the flat of my blade just hard enough to knock her out. Dropping the sword once her eyes rolled back in her head, I caught a limp Zoë before she could hit the ground. Making sure Chaos wasn't around, I carried her to her tent and zipped up the flap, locking it from the outside. Although I knew it probably wouldn't do much good, I locked Chaos's tent flap from the outside as well.

I ran to my cabin to grab a few essentials for my (hopefully) brief mission. Looking back once more at the tents that contained my friends, I hurried off towards Pontus and Aether.

Hey guys! Howre you all doing? Great I hope! So, I'm gonna be on a quick weekend only vacation this weekend with my family! So I'm not gonna be able to update on Sunday. I'll update again on Wednesday, okay? I think it's the 20th. (Of July) Anyways, I'm sorry for not giving more of a warning! It was kinda unexpected. Anyways, keep being awesome you guys! You all rock! :) ❤️