Zack Hillbrey.

Zeus's new demigod was something anyone who knew the king of the gods would recognize if they saw him, even the god himself could not deny it and that was exactly what intrigued him so much. At that moment, Zeus was sitting in the meeting room of the Olympians with a frown on his face staring off into space, his eyes glazed over, as if he was deep in thought.

He wore an elegant navy blue suit with his hair, eyes and beard dark with some shades of gray in it. A sigh escaped the being on the throne before he leaned back in his throne before looking up at the ceiling of the room.

"Zack Hillbrey... Zack Hillbrey... I feel like he's my demigod, but his age is the same as Jason's and I'm sure I hadn't done that with any other mortal..." Zeus murmurs confused, trying remember everything he had done that year, but nothing came to mind.

"Did Hera do something? To make me forget my son... or was it Hades? Or maybe Poseidon? Is this a way to steal the throne of Olympus again?" Reflects Zeus with his paranoia showing again.

He was so deep in thought that he never noticed how a small peacock feather flew into the throne room towards Hera's throne. The feather slowly landed on the quilt before appearing to evaporate into an olive green mist that began to waft into the throne, giving no indication that it was ever there.

(At the same time.)

Dark-Hera watched with a small smile for her fan that showed the image of Zeus sitting on his throne thinking, with that she immediately closed the object in her hand raising her head to look at the violent sea of the island. She was on the balcony of the big tower looking quite happy with herself, the woman stayed there for a few moments until she entered the tower.

As she walked up a large flight of spiral stairs, Dark-Hera began to fan herself with her fan until she noticed a hooded figure standing against the wall of the stairs in front of a wooden door. It did not take much thinking to recognize the figure, which made the woman approach the figure.

"Dark-Hades, I certainly did not expect you to be here now." Comments Dark-Hera passing by Dark-Hades who just started to follow her.

"I imagine you managed to plant your feather on Olympus." Dark-Hades declares calmly, receiving a nod from his companion, with that the hooded woman seems to be silent for a few moments until she turns her head to the other. "I… I need to know how he is…"

Upon hearing this, Dark-Hera stops walking and turns completely towards Dark-Hades, however the latter did not seem bothered by the look she was receiving and remained firm in her position.

"No." Declares Dark-Hera without hesitation before walking away again.

Dark-Hades on the other hand just watched her walk away. She stood still on the stairs before turning back up the stairs with her cape billowing with each movement, as the shadows of the place grew more pronounced and darker, as she went upstairs the door from before opened revealing Dark-Poseidon putting on his helmet, which made the two face each other.

Interestingly, the shadows returned to normal when the two gazes met.

[…]

"I swear…if I hear one more person fawning over me for being his demigod I will kill something." Zack thinks in the middle of his combat class with some other demigods.

Despite his dissatisfaction with the situation Zack could not deny that the demigods knew how to welcome newcomers, however he would love it if there were not so many sycophants wanting to know details about Jason and Thalia, his half-siblings, he hadn't even met them yet, as he should know anything about them? At the same time that was happening, couldn't he deny that he was also perfect for gaining the trust and good graces of all the demigods in the camp, after all not an arrogant or megalomaniac son of Zeus? Who wouldn't like someone like that?

Of course, his charm was not all he had, his own physical prowess and his mastery of his powers, despite the latter he was holding back, were impressive to most of the camp, as at the present time.

Almost lazily, Zack blocked the blow coming from a camper he quickly let pass him before he landed a light kick to the leg, knocking the demigod off his feet and with that aiming his sword for his throat.

"Surrender." Asks Zack calmly before stepping on the flat part of his opponent's blade, making the same widen his eyes and stare at him.

"...I surrender." Declares the boy, who made Zack smile before extending his hand to help his opponent to stand up, which he accepted with a smile on his face. "You were lucky; being the son of one of the big three must really make you more powerful than the rest of us."

"Hey, do not think like that, you almost got me there anyway, I just got lucky." Guarantees Zack with a shy smile on his face while he laughs nervously, while controlling himself not to explode with the mention of being the son of Zeus indirectly.

What he never noticed though was Chiron's watchful, wary gaze on him. The centaur kept his gaze before he heard someone approaching, as well as the sound of a hiss, with that he turned around and saw Dionysus approaching him with a can of coke zero, the god quickly stopped beside the hero trainer before to take a sip of his drink and look at the new demigod.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you like this, cautious." Comments Dionísio with a tone of disinterest, however, Chiron could say that there was something there. "Why exactly are you staring at this… Zane Hilley?"

Normally Chiron would correct the wrong name the god of madness said, but this time he did not and kept looking at the boy, before finally turning to his mate.

"I must admit, that I myself find myself intrigued by this, but there is something strange about this boy... something very strange, his age apart, it may be that he is from another time and was trapped in the Lotus casino, but if if that's the case how would he have freed himself? In addition, mostly, don't you think he is too perfect?" asks Chiron, making Dionysus think for a few moments, which made the centaur continue. "Besides, it might just be me, but I feel strangely alert around him, almost like I'm talking to one of the Olympians."

Hearing this Dionysus looked again at the teenager before turning back to the centaur.

"Yes... I know what you mean, I noticed almost immediately how his aura is greater than that of any other demigod, damn I thought he was possessed by some Zeus who was trying to create a new species of demigod." Mocks Dionysus ignoring the look of the centaur. "Besides, all the titans are trapped, Gaia is asleep, and the giants aren't a threat again… all I can think is that he must be a new kind of demigod, an evolution maybe, but he still is... dangerous."

Chiron was visibly startled, his eyes widened and his jaw dropping as he turned to the god who now contained a serious gaze.

"He has a glint of madness, a lot of madness." Reveals Dionysus sternly before turning to Chiron. "Like a certain traitor we had before. 🇧🇷

(Some time later)

Zack walked calmly inside his hut before stopping beside a white marble pillar, the demigod stayed there for a few seconds and suddenly his fist lodged in the pillar breaking it while sparks of electricity came out of his fist and eyes. A frown was present on his face, which made him take a few deep breaths until he finally withdrew his fist from the crack, after which Zack looked at a statue of Zeus inside the cabin.

"Was it already done?" Asks Zack suddenly before turning to see Dark-Aphrodite leaning against the wall.

"Yes, Dark-Hera already has control of all means of Zeus and any other Greek god spying on you here." The woman in armor waves, which made Zack nod with a tired sigh before raising his hand to pinch the space between his eyes, as if trying to relieve a headache.

"Great, I already felt like I was going to go crazy with all this damn flattery and pretend to be the perfect golden boy." Zack declares before turning to the woman. "And how is the situation with them?"

"The girl from Aphrodite… it's interesting, her knife is the same one that Helen of Troy used in her time." Comments Dark-Aphrodite suddenly, which makes Zack narrow his eyes on her. "Katopris is one of the most dangerous weapons they have and that could reveal to us, we need to deal with it soon. The other seven in the prophecy are not as powerful as we are, although dangerous, I would say she is the main immediate threat."

In response, Zack remained silent for a few moments with a thoughtful look on his face before nodding and turning to the armored woman with him.

"Very well, I'll keep an eye on her and proceed according to the situation, but until then..." Suddenly Zack disappeared before reappearing in front of Dark-Aphrodite, however now he was wearing all the armor of Dark-Zeus without the helmet as he stared at her with a serious look. "The labyrinth of the Minotaur, Dark-Dionysus should already be there waiting for you to start the search."

In response, Dark-Aphrodite just walked away before disappearing in a purple glow, which made Dark-Zeus sigh making his armor disappear. The boy grunted irritably before walking to his bed sitting on it before a peacock feather flew to the floor in front of him turning into a mist that rose until it became a portal that showed Dark-Hera there.

"Dark-Aphrodite is plotting something about you." Warns the woman making Zack nod with a frown.

"I realized the moment I felt her in the hut, Dark-Hera I left you in charge of being the bridge between the others and me while I was undercover, I cannot continue if she decides to keep showing up here." Growls Zack with a frown, which makes the woman nod her head.

"I understand, I will take the necessary measures."

"I hope so, anyway, I believe the others have filed their reports haven't they?" Asks the boy raising his eyebrow, which made the woman nod, which made Zack nod for her to start.

[…]

Flight or fight, that was the basic instinct of every living being when facing a big game hunter, but not for Lycaon's pack, no, they were the biggest predators that existed.

The werewolves of Greek mythology, cursed with lycanthropy by Zeus after Lycaon, former king of Arcadia, broke the law of the host by killing a wanderer who had come to the city and offering him as an offering to the god. For a while, the curse truly terrified those affected, but over time and under Lycaon's command, they came to see lycanthropy as a gift, that it made them the best predators of the Greek world in their eyes.

Nevertheless, for the first time, werewolves were no longer the predator, they were the prey now.

Licaon ran in his wolf form with concern, around him there were some other wolves running at the same speed. Suddenly an arrow of silver light hit the chest of the wolf next to Lycaon, which made him widen his eyes and try to speed up his pace, if that thing reached him, not even he would be sure if he would survive.

It was at that moment that he had to stop running when three arrows hit the ground in front of him, which made the werewolf look up and he was relieved to see three girls in silver clothes using bows and arrows pointed at him. At that moment the girl in their midst stepped forward looking directly at the first werewolf.

"Lycaon, you are getting too close to the territory of the hunt, retreat now or die." He threatens the girl severely, which makes Licaão growl.

"What the fuck, get out of my way! You hunters are the least of my worries now." After that, the werewolf seemed to widen his eyes in fear before turning to the forest behind him looking in all directions, which made the hunters look at each other.

"...This isn't something a monster would normally do when it sees us." Comments one of the hunters making the others nod.

The girl in the middle frowned, after all she had been on the hunt for over a century and had never seen any monster that found the group do that, it would make him tense, true, but he would never turn his back on them all the more because Artemis always she would be on hand to help her hunters. However, Lycaon was already running before... no... He was running away from something, it could not be any hunter; they were all inside the camp, lieutenant Thalia assured him of that.

However, that begged the question, what was stalking Lycaon?

Suddenly an arrow made of silver light hit the werewolf's knee making him scream before several other similar arrows hit the creature causing it to fall with blood exploding from its wounds. However, one thing the three hunters noticed was that the monster was not exploding into golden dust like the one it normally did.

Lycaon fell to the ground in a thud moaning in pain from the arrows. The skin around the projectiles began to darken as silvery veins began to spread across the werewolf's body.

It was at that moment that a figure appeared as soon as the moonlight found it. The figure was a boy, wearing a navy blue cape with silver details with a hood covering a silver helmet with a visor in the shape of a horizontal black line; it looked like he was wearing a gray suit with pieces of armor made of silver covering it.

However, that was not what caught the hunters' attention, but the beautiful bow of what appeared to be white marble without a cord, but with silver blades on the rims, shining in the moonlight creating a faint ethereal blue glow on the weapon. Slowly, the new boy in the clearing advanced towards the Lycaon on the ground before stepping on it, making the same yelp of pain as he fell to the ground while staring at the hunter who stared back at him.

The gaze lasted a few seconds before a blur occurred and the werewolf's throat opened up creating a crimson geyser that spewed blood everywhere. The boy watched in silence as Lycaon choked on his blood, with that he raised his hand causing a dark smoke to come out of the werewolf and fly towards him condensing into a small ball.

Seeing this, the boy calmly kept the ball while Lycaon stayed on the ground stretched out in his human body.

The Huntresses on the other hand were shivering wide-eyed watching what was once a monster they had hunted multiple times, dead and in the form of a human to boot, this person broke the curse of lycanthropy as if it was nothing, and he was dangerous. With that, the three raised their eyes to stare at him and widened their eyes seeing that he was now staring at them.

"You…you are Artemis' hunters, three of them at least." Comments the boy staring at them, his voice however sounded lethargic, like someone who had been sleeping for a long time, in addition to an unusual hoarseness, which made them even tenser. "You know… I really, really hate Artemis, she took what was most important to me, and it would be fair if I returned the favor…"

The boy starts to advance, which makes one of the hunters raise a horn from her belt, taking a deep breath to blow on him before an arrow of light hits her throat making her choke with the blood falling to the ground and beside her, her two hunter sisters fell too. She watched with tears in her eyes as her killer approached them, strangely making the girl sleepy.

As soon as he got close enough, he knelt down in front of the three of them staring silently as he started to reach his hand behind his back and began to pull out a small crimson dagger with a blade similar to a scorpion's stinger. The boy looked at his dagger before looking at them again, seeing how the three of them could barely move and the tears fell from their eyes, giving him looks begging him to spare them.

"I'm sorry, it's nothing personal, but Artemis hasn't been kind to me…" With that, he raises his dagger, a red glint appearing in his eyes. "Then I cannot be merciful to you."

(At the hunters' camp.)

A red-haired girl with tanned skin and silver eyes looked at the hunters around the camp, a frown on her face as she watched them all. She wore a silver hooded coat with jeans and plain sandals, a quiver on her back, as well as a bow.

It had been a few minutes since two new hunters left with one of their seniors, Amelia, but the three of them must have been back some time and that was worrying Artemis. It was at that moment that a new girl, this one in her mid-teens approached the goddess, this girl wore punk clothes with black hair with a silver tiara on her head, and this was Thalia Grace.

"What happened Lady Artemis? Is something wrong?" Asks the demigoddess making Artemis nod.

"Yes, it's been a while since Amelia, Amy and Layla left to patrol, they should have come back." Artemis reveals making Thalia frown after all it was true.

"Yes… that is weird… I think I will gather some of the girls before we go after them." Declares Thalia, but the conversation is suddenly interrupted by a scream full of pain and fear that made everyone in the camp freeze.

Suddenly Artemis ran towards the fountain with her bow drawn as Thalia began to command the Huntresses to prepare for an attack. The goddess quickly arrived at the place where the scream occurred and widened her eyes seeing Lycaon's body on the ground, as well as that of her missing hunters, all three trapped in the trees with their bows stuck in their throats and chest with several cuts around which had a vile smell coming out of them.

"Poison... From a manticore? No... It is more potent... I can't identify it..." Suddenly Artemis' eyes widened, there was someone else with her.

Immediately the goddess looked around studying every corner her observer might be. However, unknown to her, in a tree right above her camp was the hooded figure that killed Lycaon, however he was looking directly at her, even with the distance between them. Slowly his free hand seemed to glow a silvery light as the moon seemed to grow more intense, however everything suddenly stopped when a hand grabbed the figure's wrist causing him to turn around.

There on his side was a man wearing a knight and samurai armor, yellow and red, his helmet was identical to that of a samurai; however, his mask resembled a red eagle with two flaming spheres in place of the eyes, moreover in his waist had two sheathed katanas.

"Don't do that Dark-Artemis, it's not yet time to kill her." Declares the samurai-like figure making Dark-Artemis growl at the distant goddess.

"I have her on target... I could end this now... cripple her while she watches as I destroy all her prey, one by one..." Dark-Artemis snarls before snapping her wrist and looking at your colleague. "Give me a reason why I don't do this Dark-Apollo."

"It would be too easy." Dark-Apollo responds immediately making his colleague face him. "If you just shoot the arrow now, it wouldn't have the same emotion; you want revenge so make every second count."

Dark-Artemis was silent before nodding, which made Dark-Apollo nod as the two transformed into purple energy before taking to the skies.

[…]

A beam of light descended from the heavens before exploding on the ground raising a decent amount of smoke and dust, as well as a small shock wave. However, this did noticed by a man wearing purple and black armor with some golden ornaments in the shape of grape clusters, he also wore no helmet showing pale skin with long, curly brown hair, his purple eyes glittering with a small goatee and in his hands, and he had an old bottle of wine.

The man looked into the smoke before rolling his eyes and turning forward to see what appeared to be a small gate at the base of a mountain.

"Dramatic." Grumbles the man taking a sip of his drink.

In that, Dark-Aphrodite comes out of the smoke walking slowly towards the man; however, his eyes fixed on the great doors of the mountain.

"Am I the dramatic one? Ironic to hear that from you Dark-Dionysus." Mocks the woman drumming her fingers on the hilt of her sword, which makes Dark-Dionysus stand up cracking his back when a helmet suddenly starts to mount on his head

It was a simple helmet even made of a black metal with a purple mask that was the same used as a symbol of the theaters, its right half showed a smiling face while the left half showed a sad face. Dark-Dionysus then opened his hand before closing it causing a club of considerable size to appear in his hands with some thorns appearing on the tip of the weapon.

The man let out a small yawn as he cracked his back and neck before finally slinging his weapon to his shoulder and looking out at the large maze.

"Let's just get this over with, shall we? The faster we do it, the faster I can get back to my nap." Grunts Dark-Dionysus advancing, which made Dark-Aphrodite laugh as he followed.

The two walked until they stopped in front of the gates, once there, Dark-Dionysus raised his club and hit it on the gate throwing the doors into the labyrinth's entrance. At that, the two new gods entered the labyrinth, the sound of their footsteps echoing through all the corridors of the place.

(At the same time.)

Dark-Hades was on the balcony of his base's tower looking out to sea; she was completely silent and remained so, even when she heard a set of footsteps behind her until they stopped beside her. After a few minutes, she finally turned her head to face Dark-Poseidon standing there looking at the sea as well in an almost disinterested way, though Dark-Hades could tell that he wasn't really paying attention to the sea around the island.

"What is it?" She asks calmly, not showing a single emotion in her voice.

"I came to see if you were okay." Admits the Dark-Poseidon turning to her, which made the two face each other. "Unlike them, I knew you before you became one of us, when I was with him, I know how you regretted what you did and that you miss him."

Hearing this, Dark-Hades let out a sigh, turning around as she walked across the balcony, hugging herself with her arms; she stopped at the other end before turning to her companion who continued to stand in his starting position. With that, she started walking again towards him, though her steps were faster than before.

"You're right, I miss him more than anything, I loved him so much, and he was my little brother..." Dark-Hades growls, stopping suddenly in front of Dark-Poseidon before raising his head to face it. "But the mission is more important than fulfilling my extremely selfish desire, but make no mistake, when I have him again, I will never let him escape or abandon him again."

"I know." Dark-Poseidon nods calmly before hugging Dark-Hades, which was immediately reciprocated by her. "And I plan to be with you every step of the way."

"I know and I thank you for it." Declares Dark-Hades with his head hidden in the chest of Dark-Poseidon.

The two continued like this for some time until they walked away, facing each other, however this time Dark-Poseidon took his hand to the side of Dark-Hades' face, the two stared at each other before the blue one walked away.

"I know this may not replace your desire to meet him again, but… I got permission to we fulfill one of your revenges." Reveals Dark-Poseidon making his companion's eyes widen

"One of them… You mean that…"

"Yes, we will leave in a few minutes." Declares Dark-Poseidon before walking away, leaving Dark-Hades alone on the balcony.

She was completely silent before lowering her hood revealing a skull-like helmet with glowing red eyes, with a few rubies on top like a crown, whereupon she quickly raised her hands to the helmet and removed it. Dark-Hades sure was a beautiful woman, her hair and eyes were dark with her slightly silky curls that flew in the wind, and her skin was pale with a few freckles on her cheeks.

The girl looked at the door where Dark-Poseidon walked away, turned to the raging ocean around them, and smiled as a small tear ran down her cheek.

"Soon, little brother, we'll be together again… I promise you, I'll find you and I'll never leave you again, Nico."