A/N- first of all I'd like to apologize for taking so long. A lot has been going on and when I finally got to the chapter, I wrote it at least ten times. I was never happy with it, and to be honest I'm still not happy with it but I figured to just post it and move on.
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Percy pov
It was too much to take in at once, but he just flew through everything. Before I knew it I found myself saying good bye to Tartarus. "Thank you Tartarus for everything I hope that one day our paths will cross again." Little did I know that the next time I would see him would be in the middle of a battle that could mean the end of everything.
With that, I left headed for the underworld, and then Earth's surface, and hopefully back to the void of night so I could get back to my home.
Key word: hopefully. Unfortunately as we all know things never go the way I plan…
(lol I forgot to mention that in one of the time skips percy also got a blessing from Tartarus himself… just basic enhance skills… nothing special but a blessing nonetheless)
For a moment, I stood there in the still pit of Tartarus. A thought crossed my mind, how the Hades am I supposed to get out of this place. At second thought I physically face-palmed as I remembered what happed not two minutes ago.
Not exactly sure how it worked but I concentrated on the image I saw in the flames of the black bird lit up in flames. My eyelids shut together as I tried to focus expecting the usual feeling in my gut like when I use my waterpowers, the sound of a crackling flame… anything. After a few seconds which, thanks to my ADHD, felt like hours I opened my eyes. What I saw was a silent black flame that slowly spread across my body, as it did so I felt myself grow shorter, until finally I was a mirror image of the bird I saw from the torch.
Slowly I spread out my wings covered in the flickering black flame, constantly moving, always silent. As soon as I was able to gather my thoughts, I lifted off the ground for one destination, out of Tartarus. Well I don't mean it in a mean way, it's not so bad as long as you could have some company like I had Tartarus, I mean grant, he's probably not the first person anyone would pick to hang out with but I kind of felt bad for him. He reminded me of what happened with Hades and how the other gods looked down on him just because he ruled the underworld. Moreover, same thing happens with Tartarus and the other primordials.
The only problem I had with Tartarus (the place) is that it was always so dark and you could always hear the cries of pain and suffering from both above in the fields of punishment and all throughout Tartarus with all the monsters awaiting their return to the surface.
At first, I wobbled, a lot. Who would have thought flying to be this difficult? It got me wondering if Jason had the same trouble his first times flying, but that thought even though happy at first, the image of Jason wobbling like a drunk-well like me even- through the air, but quickly saddened, reminding me that everyone abandoned me. After all I had done for them, and they all just walk away so easily. I never did and still do not understand what happened. All I know is that at first I was frustrated that everyone would just leave me like that, over time that frustration morphed into pain. It tore me up from the inside and still does, ever since I joined Nyx I have had distractions, people to help me not think of my past, but no one has been able to truly heal me yet.
I shook my head of the thought as I focused on flying straight up to the edge of the pit. I happened to reach the top much faster than I thought, either Tartarus is not as deep as I thought or I was flying faster than I thought, probably the latter.
The dim light coming from the underworld actually blinded me for a moment after being stuck in pitch black for nearly a year now. When I opened my eyes, well lets just say I didn't expect to run into anything at the entrance to Tartarus, as if to prove me wrong the first thing I saw was a flash of black light headed right at me and vise versa.
The collision was worse than a plain colliding with a truck, which in my opinion, says an awful lot.
No ones pov
Two black figures, both moving faster than light, headed straight at each other for a major collision. In less than a microsecond, both figures were shot backwards towards opposite walls eventually falling to the floor. The figure that came from Tartarus appearing as a black phoenix slowly transformed to a man with sea green eyes and unruly black hair, hidden beneath a cloak as dark as the night. The cloaked man quickly jumped to his feet as he strode across the room toward the figure on the other side still on the floor trying to recover from the collision. The figure was only halfway up when he found the point of a sword at his throat. He looked up only to find a face just as astonished as his.
"Nico!"
Percy pov
"Nico?" I stated while removing my sword from his throat. In response he stared at me with a blank and wary expression, but I could see the confusion in his eyes as he was contemplating on who I was. Finally noticing that when I changed back to my human form, my cloak appeared as I had it before, with my hood up. In that moment I flicked my hood down and watched Nico's puzzled look brightened as realization hit him. Which was then my turn to look puzzled.
"Percy, I'm so happy to see you, how could you do that to us we've been looking everywhere it was as if you disappeared off the face of the earth! Where on earth where you?" he seemed to notice my puzzlement as he cut himself off. "Perce, are you ok?"
I stood there starting to shake my head "This makes no sense. Why are you happy to see me, your furious with me. And same with everyone else. I left because Annabeth broke up with me, my father ignored me, and everyone else was furious with me for reasons I don't even know!" I shook my head harder as if it would clear the confusion going on in my head and to ad to all of it Nyx decided to start talking to me as well.
Perseus, do not listen to the boy. They were mad at you once, they left you, if you go back they will just do it again. After all there is no need to bring this war to the gods attention, we keep from the gods all that they cannot handle and just the mention of this war along with the other primordials will cause unnecessary chaos among earth.
"Yes Nyx, I understand." I responded under my breath hoping Nico didn't hear. Unfortunately he did.
"Percy who are you talking too, your starting to creep me out. And what did you mean before, none of us were ever angry at you, Annabeth never broke up with you, in fact she had been crying her mind out when she found you were missing. In addition, your father has searched every corner of the earth for you. I'll prove it, come to camp with me and I'll show you."
I looked him in the eye and I could tell he wasn't going to stop until I went. I sighed, "Well I don't know who to believe right now, but I will come to camp for the time being." Nico looked at me as if I were Athena admitting to be stupid. Before he could respond I teleported the both of us to camp.
"Ok Percy you really need to tell me everything that happened to you, you're not yourself."
I looked at him, unsure of what to think "Maybe some but everything, no." that seemed to stump him and I could see frustration building inside him and I felt bad, I didn't want to cause any more anger.
From Thalia's pine, we entered the camp and I straightened, ready for the worst. We made our way to the Big house in awkward silence. When we got to the door and entered, we found ourselves interrupting a meeting around the ping-pong table, everyone turned to look at us shock written all across their faces. In the corner, I saw something that broke my heart for the second time. Annabeth sat curled up in the arms of Will. I stiffened and turned to Nico "I'm leaving now. Sorry for any trouble I've cause any of you, if I make it out of this alive I will return to set everything straight, but for now I need to go." I turned back to the door before Grover tackling me in a hug stopped me.
Everyone else came as if out of a trance to follow until they noticed that instead of smiling I scrunched my brows together in confusion as I stepped back until my back was against the door and I slid to the ground with my hands to my temples as I vigorously shook my head.
Everyone looked down on me with concern evident in his or her eyes. It was Thalia who finally stepped forward. She knelt before me, grabbed my wrists and stared me straight in the eye. "Percy, where have you been and what's going on?" her simplicity and concern caught me. I looked straight into her electric blue eyes and stated "I can't tell anyone. No matter how much you guys hate me I can't put you in that kind of danger. I'd rather die than send the universe into chaos." She and the others looked a little taken aback by that. Nico came up behind Thalia and stated, "I told you, none of its true, none of us hate you."
That seemed to get Thalia's attention "What do you mean by us hating you, where have you been, and what are you talking about sending the universe into chaos?" her grip tightened and she was yelling now and I knew I wouldn't be able to leave until she got the answers she wanted.
I though carefully as I explained trying not to say too much "I left because everyone became angry at me, Annabeth broke up with me, and my father had been ignoring me. Where I went, well I spent a lot of time in night's void, where I eventually became the leader to the army of night and darkness, I am back on earth purely for training in Tartarus and if I don't get the box the world will experience the worst evils to ever exist. I will be gone as soon as night falls so I can return home to complete my training."
"JACKSON YOU BETTER START MAKING SENSE TO WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE I REALLY GET ANGRY!"
I looked down and then back up before saying "I'm sorry that's as much as I can say." Thalia seemed to notice the sadness, confusion, and hurt in my eyes and she did the last thing I expected her to do. She pulled me into a comforting hug and whispered in my ear "we're here for you Perce, why can't you just let us help you." With that said she stood up pulling me with her before dragging me along with Nico out of the big house headed in the direction of the beach.
Once we got there, she sat us both down in the sand "now I swear on the Styx not to tell anyone as long as you tell me the ENTIRE story."
(NYX) Perseus remember watch what you say, as long as word does not spread I do not mind you telling these two, however I warn that the acceptance of primordials beyond Gaea and a few others is difficult for the gods and other demigods to comprehend well.
A hint of a smile crossed my face before vanishing. "Thanks Nyx" I whispered before remembering that I was supposed to be talking to Nico and Thalia.
Nico turns to Thalia "see he's going crazy, talking to people who aren't even there!"
Thalia ignored him and turned to me calm again "Who are you talking to? And what is going on?"
I took a deep breath before answering. "I was talking to Nyx, the primordial goddess of the night." before either of them could interrupt I continued "I woke up at first to what I thought was a prank, but eventually turned to nightmares…(I'm only gonna include really important parts as you all know the whole story) eventually a voice came and offered to help me, she said that I could start new so I accepted… I became the leader of Nyx' and Erebus' army so we can get Pandora's Box back before it falls in the wrong hands."
As I finished the story the sun was beginning to set. Confused does not even begin to describe how I feel. I want to stay at camp, have things go back to the way they were, after all, they didn't hate me… now that was it. Why didn't they hate me as I thought they did before? Have I been living through false memories? Anger boiled inside me as the thoughts clicked together, I was tricked, probably by Nyx. And I fell for it.
Nico and Thalia looked like they did not believe me at first and for a moment we just sat in silence trying to work everything out. I want to stay at camp, leave Nyx for what she did to me. While at the same time I knew that if I did not help, not only the world but also the whole universe will fall.
I sighed as I stood up. Looking both of them in the eye before I shifted my gaze to the coming night sky, I was probably going to look like a lunatic but I needed answers. "Nyx! How Could You Do This To Me! I Thought You were there to help me." What started as shouting from rage slowly turned to a desperate whisper.
As I expected Thalia and Nico stared at me as if I had just lost my mind. The only thing that sopped their comments from coming was the figure that formed beside us. Nyx.
Nyx completely ignored the two gapping demigods next to me as she stared at me with a hint of fury dancing across her eyes. "Perseus you must understand what is at risk here. It is not just I who wanted you on our side, without you I am positive the universe will fall and as you already know, there is nothing I, Erebus, Tartarus or any other Primordial can do without tearing the universe apart. We need you. And besides, would you have trusted me if I asked you to be involved in this war instead of being with your loved ones?"
"That's not the point! I thought I could trust you! I thought you actually cared about me, Skia and Altair! "
"Perseus I do care about you and the rest of the army, we just need you. You're a -"
"I'm a gods dammed hero" I finished with the word crossing my lips as if it were a poison, a disease, which one could not escape. Silence set in and I could feel the tension in the air before I decided to continue.
"Then give me at least a few days here." The request seemed to catch her by surprise but I couldn't just leave camp like this, I need to make sure everything is ok before I leave possibly forever.
"Four days, that's all I can give you. After that you will go to Chronus and Andesteia to continue your training." She spoke with finality and as she came to the end of her agreement, she faded, probably back to the void of Night.
With Nyx gone I was left with four days to clear everything up with the other campers.
Nico and Thalia now stood, staring at me in awe and all I could think to respond was "well I told you." They looked like they had a million questions but could not come to find one to ask first. So instead of waiting for them to speak, I walked back to the big house, with them both following close behind, still speechless.
All I could think was that this was going to be a long four days, but I needed to set things straight.
A/N- ok well there you go, again I'm sorry for taking so long I'm just loosing ideas on top of everything else going on. Also sorry for any ooc. But basically with the reunion, well it's hard to have a happy reunion when something really big is troubling Percy. And as you can probably tell Nyx is not bad, she just does has to be done in order to keep the universe in order.
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