Chapter 8: The Calm

Dislcaimer: I do not own PJO or the names from LOTR, aliens are from MAssEffect and Halo.

Annabeth POV

It had been two weeks since Percy, no Angmar, had killed Chiron. Chaos had made good on his promise and his elite soldiers had arrived to camp the day after the funeral. The campers had taken to the training with gusto, but without their leader they didn't know what to do. Annabeth herself had taken to the task of figuring out how to save Percy with similar enthusiasm, though she didn't know how she was going to convince him. The days training had just finished, Annabeth was sitting exhausted in front of the Athena cabin. Jack walked up, waved, and said,

"Hey baby."

After what Jack had done to Percy, Annabeth tried so hard to hate him, but he was so sweet and charming.

"Hey blood brain."

They smiled at each other for a while longer then Jack said,

"How do you plan on getting Percy to come back to our side?"

"I don't know Jack, but I have to. I was the one that broke him."

"What do you mean?"

"Well for starters I believed every damn word you said about him!"

Annabeth didn't mean to shout but the stress of training, losing Chiron and Percy were getting to her.

"What are you saying?"

"After you said Percy broke Jason's sword, I began pushing him away and hanging out with you more. Then one day I was at the beach thinking and you came saying you just saw Percy cheating on me, and said you had a good idea to get revenge. I was so heartbroken I believed you. You brought Leo out to the beach and we did something I've regretted since Percy left. Percy left all of us thinking we hated him."

"Annabeth, yes I did somethings I'm not proud of. But don't you see? I did it to protect the camp. If Percy had lost it before I arrived he would killed a lot of people."

"Enough with the damn lies! He was my everything, I loved him. Now I have to save him."

Annabeth was crying now and Jack wasn't fazed by his girlfriends emotions and continued,

"Well if you're gonna go back to the guy that you cheated on, I'll have nothing of it."

Jack then walked away to the arena leaving Annabeth to sit with her feelings alone. Annabeth after a few more minutes of crying said aloud suddenly,

"We will need to make peace with old enemies."

Angmar POV

"Move faster maggots!"

Angmar was putting some of the new human recruits through their drills,

"Do you think you'll survive the first battle at this pace?! Move your asses!"

The recruits began speeding up. Angmar just shook his head and turned to Achilles,

"Achilles, these recruits aren't good enough."

"I know my lord, I shall double my efforts."

"See that you do."

Angmar then moved on to the next group of recruits, these being Uruks. This group was slightly more skilled than the first. The soldiers within Order's army were very diverse. There were aliens from across the galaxy; Uruk-Hai, Turians, Krogans, Sangheili, and many others. Humans still made up much of the army's officer corps, though the Sangheili had their own command structure and the Turians were mainly special forces. Angmar didn't trust any of them fully, even if they had pledged their lives to the cause. He would prefer to just slaughter all on Earth on his own, but Order told him this would allow him to form a galactic wide empire. This idea pleased Angmar to no end. Angmar after watching this second group of human recruits, he moved on to the Sangheili groups. Of all the races in the army, Angmar trusted the Sangheili the most due to their intense loyalty and honor. Hector was overseeing their training,

"How's goes the training my friend?"

"My Prince, the Sangheili seem to be the most motivated by our cause. They put their all into their training, though their leader would like to speak to either you or Order."

"Thank you Hector, where is he?"

"In the middle of the formation, he said he will finish training with his warriors."

"Alert me when the training ends."

"I shall my lord."

"One last thing, do you know where Mobius is?"

"I'm not sure my lord, I believe she's been in her quarters for much the time we've been here."

"Why is she so solitary now? She knows she must train."

"I've no idea sir, Lord Order has requested your presence immediately my lord."

"Thank you Hector, I will meet the Sangheili Chieftain once I've talked with my father."

"As you wish."

Hector bowed and Angmar teleported to Order's command pavilion.

"Hello father you wished to see me?"

"Ah Angmar I did. We need to form an invasion plan for the Earth campaign."

"Won't that be simple?"

"No my son, the gods of Olympus have made many alliances with former enemies in order to defend against our invasion, this has jumped the number troops they have to over 100,000."

Angmar was shocked,

"How is such a number even possible?"

"As I said before, they have made alliances. The demi-gods of Greece and Rome have allied, along with the demi-gods of the Vikings. The Titans have pledged their forces to Chaos along with many clear-sighted mortals."

"This force makes ours look insignificant."

"Numbers wise, yes. But in skill we are unmatched. Your bodyguard will slaughter it's way through any enemy formation it comes across."

"If you say so father."

"I do say so. Now onto the plan. We need a landing sight."

"I think we should call in Sauron, he has a knack for strategic planning."

"I already have."

Sauron teleports in just then and says,

"My lords I believe the best place to land would be in Kansas, as the wheat fields would provide food for our troops, it's relatively flat to allow for the maximum number of transports landing and its in the middle of the country."

"Alright thank you Sauron, Angmar who do we attack first?"

"The Romans."

"Why's that?"

"They won't have as much time training with Chaos's soldiers. It will also be a blow to the moral of Camp Half-Blood."

"Good, now we need battle plans for the battle of New Rome."

"My lord, I belive we should draw those up at a later date for secrecy sake."

"Good point Sauron, what has been said in this tent doesn't leave. Understood?"

Sauron saluted and Angmar nodded.

"You two are dismissed."

"Prince Angmar."

"Chieftain."

"Not to offend but my title among my people is Arbiter, I would like for that to carry over."

"As you wish Arbiter. What is it you wanted to speak to me about?"

"My peoples role in this army. And how we will be rewarded."

"Well the main goal now is to destroy the Olympians and all who swear allegiance to them as vengeance for past wrongs."

"And after that?"

"Lord Order plans to form a galactic empire, I'm sure he will reward you with a star system or two."

"My people understand why you hate your own people, we will fight for that. But we are honorable beings, and we do not condone invasions for nothing but personal gain."

"Arbiter, the Sangheili are indeed a proud and honorable species and I am pleased to have you by my side. I am placing your warriors in the vanguard, you will be the first on the ground astride myself and my bodyguards."

The Arbiter bowed and said,

"Prince Angmar, you honor us with such an important task. We will preform our duties until death."

"I thank your people for the rest of the army, now prepare yourselves we are shipping out early to throw the Olympians off guard and the landing place has changed as well."

"As you wish my lord."

-Earth-

Annabeth POV

"My Lord Chaos, Order plans to land in Kansas and march on New Rome first. I don't have the exact landing zone or battle plans."

"Thank you soldier, keep up the good work."

Annabeth was at a war meeting with Chaos's lieutenants and the commanders of the other alliance member armies. Chaos turned to one of his officers,

"Captain Castelion, send a detachment of soldiers to New Rome immediately."

A familiar voice replied,

"Yes my lord."

Annabeth spoke up,

"Who are you?"

The man turned and replied,

"I am Chaos's second in command, Omega."

"Who are you really?"

"That is classified."

And Omega then teleported away to his objective leaving Annabeth to wonder at his identity. The days after that incident blended together, Annabeth planned how she would get Percy back and trained until she couldn't move. She avoided Jack like the plague, Thalia and the seven tried their best to help Annabeth plan, but they had no ideas. Two months after Omega left, Annabeth received an iris message from Reyna,

"Annabeth! They've landed early! We need help, the legion has built fortifications but we won't be able to hold the city."

Then the message cut out,

"Oh gods."

A/N: Sorry for the late update been super busy again with college. As always review.