Chapter 6

"Ok now I must tell you all about the Protogenoism- Athena was cut off,

"Have room for one more?" A voice spoke up,

"Thalia!" Annabeth exclaimed, the joy and glee expressed on her face was priceless, Percy could not help but smile, this is how he remembered Annabeth, happy and so carefree and now once again he was leading her towards danger...

The two hugged.

"Thalia nice of you to join us, now sit, we must continue."

Thalia immediately obeyed, Zeus had informed her about the Protogenoi on their trip to camp, she was dying to know more.

"Now as I was saying, Protogenoism is a ritual wherein the part of our ancestor, Khaos is awakened within us, as I have told Percy, some of the gods' void were awakened within them, willingly, they themselves awoke this void, for others, like us, the void is still in us and now the Protogenoi want to awake it, for revenge."

"Ok, we know what they're going to do and how why, but how exactly do they do it?" Percy said, his curiosity shared by the entire group, nodding their heads in agreement.

They turned to Athena.

"I'm afraid Percy that is a question I can't answer, the Protogenoism has never been performed, ever, all we know is the result of this ritual we do not know although the process of which this ritual is performed, that is all the knowledge we are equipped with, now you must go forth with what I have taught you, use it to you knowledge." She replied.

"Well as you can see it's lunch time, I'll meet you back here after lunch for you final lesson, I will tell you the powers of each of the gods, so at least give you the knowledge on how you can possibly defeat them."

The children made their way to lunch, all the camper who were busy eating, suddenly paused, all eyes glued on the half-bloods, most especially to Thalia, whispers and murmurs started, the kids simply ignored it, each of them were used to it.

They seated themselves in a table, the discussion immediately started.

"So these Protogenoi, were suppose to find them and defeat them?" Thalia began.

"That's the main objective, yes." Percy said.

"But I mean where exactly do we find them?" Nico spoke up.

"I've been coming up with a couple of theories, I spent the entire night researching, nothing, I mean since they left Tartarus, we have no basis in telling where exactly they went. But after that lesson with my mother, I think I know where. You see, since Khaos is their leader, I think that if they're going to stay somewhere, nothing would be better than Khaos' kingdom right? And based on what mom told us I think that that would be exactly what Khaos would have wanted." Annabeth replied.

"Wait so you're telling us that the Protogenoi are in---"Grover replied, shaking.

"Yes Grover, I'm afraid so, the Protogenoi I believe, are in the space between heaven and hell, the dark void of space." Annabeth spoke up, her voice shaking.

Everyone was silent, they knew what this meant; they had no choice but to travel to the void of darkness, with nothing but the knowledge that Athena had bestowed on them,

But the question is, is that enough?

After lunch:

"Ok now we must study their powers, their weaknesses and strengths. Ananke is the goddess of necessity, she lives of the need of people, greediness and envy are her life source, when you face her you must remember not to fall in her trap, she can talk her way into making you greedy, envious, when you face her erase all these thoughts from your mind, otherwise she will crush you, taking your greed and envy and using it against you." Athena spoke, warning in her voice.

"Erebos, the god of darkness, the Underworld, lives of peoples' hatred, anger is his companion, jealousy is his friend, you must not make him angry, Erebos is well known for his temper, once he got so angry he brought the entire continent to extinction." Athena continued, the demi-gods losing more and more hope with every word.

"Nyx, Erebos' wife, the goddess of the night, is strongest when the moon rises, you must attack and defeat her once the sun is up, when she is weakest, otherwise in the night her powers will be so strong that getting even a mile within her way, she will destroy you."

"Khaos the leader of the Protogenoi, has never quite been fully understood, what we do know is that he is the first of all creatures that sprung, he has lived countless centuries studying, learning, evolving, the last any of us had seen him was over 1,000 centuries ago. We do know that he has no heart, no soft spot, nothing, Khaos is purely evil." Athena finished.

The face before her white as ghosts, they were not ready for this, Athena thought, but they had no choice.

"Now that I have taught you, you must all use these skills to defeat the Protogenoi, you shall start your journey tomorrow, at the crack of dawn, i best leave now, good luck."

The half-bloods looked around the room, bewilderment read on each of their faces.