Chapter 4: Curses and Training

When we were finished for the day, we walked into a cabin made for us by Chaos. Our troops were already there.

The next day as we ate breakfast, Key asked me.

"Can I beat up Sparks? I really want to beat him up."

"So do we!" The rest of my lieutenants and half of our army agreed.

"Hmm." I said wondering what who I should choose to beat him up. "Who has the best means of torture?"

There was a lot of arguments as everyone argued on who was better at torturing. Finally, Arrow said.

"Key definetly is. He did the best last time we had to get information out of someone through torture."

"Very well, Key, he's all yours." I said to him.

"YES!" Key exclaimed happily and then he kissed me on the cheek.

Percy sent a glare at him and he shrank back. See even though Key and I had been dating for 92 years, Percy still played the overprotective brother act. I hated it which is why I always teased him about him and Arrow.

Alpha, stop glaring at Key or else you will deal with my death glare and you and I both know that it actually brings death when I want it to. I told him silently.

He instantly paled and backed away. I smiled even though I knew that tomorrow he would go back to being the overprotective baby brother I loved so much.

I turned to Key and then I said.

"Don't hurt Sparks too badly, I want to beat him up too."

"Of course." Key said.

Suddenly, a conch shell sounded and I yelled at our troops.

"TIME FOR TRAINING!"

Some of them groaned but all of them got up when I sent a mild glare at them. After a few minutes, all of our troops were in the arena. I however was hanging back and I noticed a girl with sea-green eyes and brown hair that reminded me of my brother.

I walked over to her and asked.

"You seem familiar, do I happen to know you from somewhere?"

"I don't think so." She said shaking her head before saying. "My name's Angela Jackson, daughter of Hermes and descendant of Poseidon and Athena."

So a descendant of Percy. Great. Just great.

"Omega." I said.

That startled her real bad.

"Sorry." Angela said. "Sorry. I wasn't at the amplitheatre last night because I was sick because of this curse I have..."

"Wait what curse?" I asked.

Angela sighed and then she said.

"When I was a baby, an enemy of my great-great-great-great grandfather, Percy Jackson, came and my mom fought him. She defeated him but before he disappeared he cursed me and now whenever I try and use my powers they make me sick. And eventually they'll..."

She trailed off but I knew what she meant. And I realized that I could not allow that to happen. I remember when I got my powers, and I remember what I could do with them. I remember what I once did for a child. And I decided to do it once again.

"Angela, who was this enemy?" I asked her.

"A giant by the name of Polybotes." Angela replied.

"I hate that giant." I muttered before saying to her. "I should be able to do something about your curse."

"You can?" Angela asked her eyes shining.

"Yes. Just not today." I replied. "Listen, it may take a few days or even weeks but I may be able to take it away. Now that's not a guarentee that it will work." I said when she started to get excited. "But at the very least it should help you."

She stared at me and then she hugged me. After a minute, she pulled back and asked.

"Why would you help me?"

"Well Angela, despite my many years and I mean many many years." I began. "I was once a simple demigod."

"Really?" She asked in shock.

"Yeah and I just happened to be a daughter of Poseidon." I replied.

She stared at me for a moment and then she asked.

"You mean like Jake and Pearl?"

I smiled at the mention of my fourteen and fifthteen year old siblings.

"Yeah but don't tell anyone." I said nodding.

"That's so cool." Angela said and then she asked. "Did you ever meet Percy Jackson?"

"Yeah. He was such a nice kid." I said and she looked at me strangely. "What? I was over 400 years old when I met him."

She nodded in understanding and then Percy came rushing up beside me.

"Omega, come on, Key's about to beat up Sparks."

"Well before we go see the fight, Alpha, I would like you to meet Angela Jackson, daughter of Hermes and descendant of Poseidon and Athena." I introduced them and I added silently to Percy. She's your descendant and I'll explain more about her later. For now, don't make a fool of yourself.

Ok. Percy replied silently to me before saying. "Very nice to meet you Angela. Wanna come watch the fight with us?"

"Fight?" Angela asked.

"Key, one of our lieutenants, is going to fight Sparks and Key will probably beat him to a pulk." I replied.

"He deserves it." Angela said firmly before explaining. "Jake and I went on a quest with him to defeat Medusa again. But he just stood back while Jake and I defeated Medusa. Then he took all the credit for it and a lot of people believed him. The only people who didn't were Pearl and my brothers and sisters."

"Ok, now I hope Key beats him up twice as bad." I said angrily. "No one should ever do that."

"He does it all the time." Angela said.

"Ok, I'm telling Key to beat him up worse." I said and then I sent Key a telapathic message. Key, I don't care if I don't get to beat him up so give him a very good pounding.

Roger that. Key replied.

"And now let's go watch." I said grabbing both of their hands and dragging them into the arena.

We sat down in the stands just as Key and Sparks were about to face off. Then the fight began.

Sparks charged Key and tried to land a hit on him but Key just kept dodging every attack. After a few minutes, Sparks used his powers to rise into the air for a height advantage but Key just used his wings to lift him up into the air as well.

"You think a height advantage will work on me. News flash, every member of Chaos army has wings." Key said angrily.

"I will defeat you!" Sparks cried lunging at him.

Key dodged the attack and then he started pummeling Sparks until he was just a bag of bones. Slowly, they both sank to the ground and some Apollo kids rushed over to heal his injuries. Key turned to the audience and said.

"Do not underestimate any of the warriors of Chaos."

The crowd seemed awestruck and then I decided to flash myself down next to Key.

"Very well done, Key, but why don't we give them a proper demonstration?" I asked him.

"But Omega, you beat me every time." Key complained.

"Yes but even if I beat you in ten seconds like I usually do, they'll learn of at least one of my talents." I said grinning.

"Ok you're scaring me more than usual which is why..." He disappeared as he flashed away.

I sighed and then I yelled.

"Alpha, get down here and fight me!"

In an instant, he was beside me, holding his sword.

"I won't go easy on you." He warned.

"And I won't go easy on you either." I agreed before striking at his left side. He parried and then struck at me. This continued for several minutes and then suddenly, my sword was on the ground and his sword was pointed at my throat.

"Do you yield?" Percy asked and that was when I smirked evilly. I kicked his sword out of his hand and then I tackled him to the ground.

"Does that answer your question, brother?" I asked smiling.

"You are a poor sport." Percy said and then I got off of him.

"Wow, that was an interesting battle." Angela said walking over to us.

"This was nothing." I said. "Our usual fights usually end up with Alpha getting hurt and me worrying about him."

"You don't have to worry about me, sis, I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself." Percy said.

"I'll believe that when you get rid of your wings." I joked.

He gasped and then he exclaimed.

"How dare you even suggest that!"

"Relax, brother, I'm kidding." I said laughing.

"You don't kid about the wings." Percy said folding his arms.

"And this is why I call you baby brother." I said ruffling his hair.

"I'm not a baby, I'm over 200 years old!" Percy complained.

"You will always be my baby brother though." I said grinning.

Angela stared at us for a minute and then she said.

"It's amazing how much you two sound like Jake and Pearl."

"We always argue about this." I said to her. "He doesn't like to be called my baby brother even though he is and we always end up arguing."

"That's just like Jake and Pearl only they argue about who's older because apparently Jake spent some time in the Lotus Casino." Angela exclaimed.

"How long?" I asked.

"Well he was eleven when he went in and when he went out he was supposed to be sixteen." Angela replied. "And now he and Pearl are always arguing over who's older even though it's clearly Pearl."

"HEY!" I recognized the yell of Jake. He appeared behind Angela and said. "I'm so older than Pearl."

"She's fifthteen and your fourteen so yeah, she's older than you." Angela said.

"I will punch you." Jake said and then he noticed Percy and me. "Right after you explain to me why you seemed so comfortable talking to two of the most powerful beings in the world."

"Omega says she may be able to get rid of my curse." Angela replied.

Just as Percy was about to say something I sent him a telepathic message.

I'll explain later. For now just play it cool.

Jake turned to me and then he said sternly.

"I don't care if you are one of the strongest beings in the universe. If you are lying to her, I'll kill you."

"I'm not lying, I plan to help her." I replied. "It just might take a few days or weeks."

"Why that long?" Jake demanded.

"Well there are two ways I could remove or at least help her with her curse." I explained. "One would be to use my powers to try and remove it. The only problems with that are that it would take a while to store up power and I would have to get permission from Chaos."

"And the other?" Jake asked.

"The second one would be for Angela to join the warriors of Chaos." I stopped for a moment to catch my breath and then I continued. "The only problems with that are that I would again need Chaos's permission and I don't think Angela would want to leave after we are done here."

"Not really, no." Angela replied.

"So we'd have to go with the first option." I said. "It takes a long time to store up enough power and since we're fighting in a war, I may not be able to store enough power at the moment."

"That's quite alright, I'll just be glad to finally get rid of my curse." Angela said happily.

"Omega!" I heard Jewel yelling for me and I turned to go. Before I could though, Jake said. "Hey Omega?"

"Yeah?" I asked turning to look at him.

"Thanks for offering to remove Angela's curse." Jake said and I gave him a soft smile before running to find my lieutenant.

Author's note.

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

To answer MyLittleBigBangSwitchedAtOlympus: Chaos never recruited Annabeth into the army so she never became immortal and soon after Percy died the first time, she died as well. And Chaos still didn't recruit her. If you're a Percabeth shipper then don't hate me. It's a tiny part of my plot. And don't worry, it's different from the average Chaos story.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed Chapter 4 and remember to Review!