Chapter 13

Thalia's Pegasus landed first. The others landed behind her. They were in the town where Percy had been just hours eariler. Dead villagers laid all around them. Some cut in half, others had their heads missing. Thet starred in horror at the bodies. There was so much blood. Katie turned her head away, ready to puke. "Gods, what happened here? A slaugther fest?" Thalia muttered.

Grover was green in the face. "Please, tell me Percy didn't do this," he said.

"I don't know if he did," Thalia shrugged. "He might of. I don't think a villager went crazy and killed all these people. If he did, maybe he had a good reason."

Thalia looked among the bodies, looking for Percy's. His body isn't here so he much be still alive. Thalia thought to herself. "If you're looking for Percy, he isn't here," a voice said.

Thalia looked up and saw Ares standing in the doorway of a store with no name. "Dad," Clarisse mumbled.

"Where'd he go?" Jake asked.

"The mountains. Oh, and if you were wondering if he killed all these people, he did. But in his defense, they attacked him first," Ares told them.

"Could you....take us to the mountains?" Thalia asked.

Before Ares could answer Blackjack came hurtling down from the sky. His wings were almost froozen. That's it! I quit! I'm never going on another quest again! This is the last time! Blackjack complained.

Though, no one understood him. "Blackjack!" Grover cried.

They helped Blackjack into a small house nearby. There was wood in the fireplace. Thalia stapped her fingers and a lightning bolt flew from her fingers and lit the fire. "We can't leave Blackjack alone, does anyone want to stay with him?" Thalia asked.

"I should stay," Grover said. "I'm not that great in battle. I won't make much of a diffrence."

"Fine," Thalia said.

Percy's POV

Annabeth was still asleep when footsteps were coming closer to the cell door. "Annabeth, wake up," I whispered.

"Percy, what's wrong?" Annabeth opened her eyes.

The cell door opened. Cain stepped inside. There was a grin on his face like he'd been expecting me-which he probably was. Nick and Mark stepped in behind him. Mark grabbed the bag with all my climbing stuff in it. Annabeth and I stood up. I drew Backbiter and stepped in front of Annabeth. Before I could react Nick kicked Backbiter out of my hands. Then he grabbed my hands and twisted them behind my back. Nick forced me to the ground. Cain wrapped his arm around Annabeth neck. "Annabeth!" I cried.

When I tried to get Nick off me Cain pulled out a gun. He pointed it at Annabeth's head. "Be still, Jackson, or I'll shoot the girl," Cain told me pressing the gun to Annabeth's cheek.

Would he really kill her? When I struggled again Cain said, "It's your choice, it doesn't matter to me if she lives or dies. You're here, I don't need her anymore."

I stopped struggling. Mark kicked Backbiter farther away from me. Then another person stepped through the door. "John Martin," I growled.

His eyes were cold as they starred at me. He looked like he could freeze Zeus himself with one glance. John's blond hair was messy like he'd just gotten out of bed. "Percy Jackson," he greeted me.

His voice was deep and cold. John knelt next to me and examained my face. He looked at my scar. "Let me guess, Tom gave this to you, right?" John asked moving my head to left then right.

"Yeah," I muttered.

John stood up and held out his hand. "Let me see the sword."

Mark put Backbiter in his hands. John looked at it carefully. "Celestial bronze and tempered steel," John said. "Put it in the armory. I'll decided what to do with it later."

Mark nodded and took Backbiter out of the cell. Cain still held the gun to Annabeth's head. My eyes didn't leave her's. "Leave us," John barked at Nick and Cain. "Oh. And Cain take miss Chase to another cell for now."

Nick tied my hands tightly together, then left and slammed the cell door shut. I leaned against the stone wall. "Tell me, Percy, do you enjoy taking lives?" John asked.

"Uh...not really," I shrugged.

"Well, you seemed to enjoy killing all those villagers. All they were doing was their job and you slaugthered them all," John shook his head.

"That was different. First of all, they tried to kill me first," I protested.

"Ah, but did you ask them?"

"Gee, excuse me for not asking 'Hey, are you trying to kill me?' when they were trying to slice my head off!"

"I see. Well, I dislike killing too," John sighed.

"Then why do you kill innocent demigods?" I demanded.

"See, I am in the same situation as you were at the village. You killed them because you feared for your life. Self-defense, if you will."

"It isn't self-defense if you kill them when they didn't even attack you."

"It's almost more of a revenge situation now that I think about it," John grinned.

"Because your parents died?" I asked.

"They were murdered,"John snapped. "By your kind, demigods. And do you know why they were killed?"

"No," I muttered.

"Because Zeus feared my power and thought that by killing my parents I would live in fear of him for the rest of my life. So I would never use my power against him."

"What 'power'?"

"Cain and I are the same except I can give people thoughts. I can show them my past. Sometimes even influence their choices. However, to understand my pain, Percy Jackson, you much understand my past," John said.

Before I could say anything, John pressed two fingers to my forehead.

I wasn't in the cell anymore, instead I was standing in a house. It was night outside. The house was dull. No paint on the walls. I walked through the house. There wasn't much to look at. It looked like a normal boring house. Suddenly there was a scream. It had come from the kitchen. I ran toward the screaming. Three demigods with masks and swords stood in the kitchen. John's mom was the one who sreamed. His dad grabbed a knife from the table. John, as a kid, hid behind his mom. He had his dad's blond hair and his mom's brown eyes. "Get back!" John's dad pointed the knife at the demigods.

The demigods were silent. "I-I don't know who you are, but take whatever you want! Just leave us alone," John's mother cried.

I could see the demigods's eyes through their masks they looked like they didn't want to do this. The middle demigod raised their sword. John's father threw a chair at the demigod and ran. John and his mother followed. They ran to the basement. But the demigods weren't far behind. John's dad got cornered. "Go run and hide!" John's mom whispered to him.

John nodded and quickly ran to another room. The first demigod cornered John's mom and the second demigod cornered his dad. The third one started looking around the room for John. "I'm sorry," the second demigod said.

I could tell by their voice it was a girl. Then she stabbed John's dad through the heart. The first demigod said sorry to John's mom and did the same. The one that stabbed John's mom was a boy. "Did you find John?" the girl snapped.

"No," the third demigod answered. The third was a guy too.

"Well, find him!" the second demigod barked.

They moved to the room I had seen John run into before his parents were killed. John was hidden behind a pile of boxes. The demigods found him in seconds. John curled into a ball and shivered. The third demigod raised his sword, but didn't bring it down on the helpless John. "I can't do it," he said.

"You HAVE to! We all know what he becomes in the future do you want that to happen?" the girl asked.

"You do it then! He's nothing but a kid!" the third demigod protested.

She pushed him aside and raised her sword. She, too, didn't bring it down. The other boy tried aswell. None of them could do it. They fled the scene. Then the vision ended. I had broken into a sweat. "And I'll leave you at that, Mr. Jackson," John said then left.

He was lying when he said Zeus killed them to scare him into not using his pwer against him. Those demigods knew about his future. But none of them could kill him because he was a defenseless kid. Sortly after John left, Cain came back in with Annabeth. He threw her back into the cell. I told her about the vision and John wanting revenge. "If that's what the demigods said I doubt Zeus was just trying to scare him," Annabeth decided.

"I know," I agreed.

We talked for a little while, but we both fell asleep. I dreamed, which sucked.

In my dream, I was watching the demigods who had killed John's parents run through the streets. They didn't look back. Finally they stopped between two buildings. "We should have killed him," the girl muttered.

"Well, none of us could do it, but if you want to go back, be my guest," one boy said.

"No thanks!" the girl shot back.

There was something wrong. I knew those voices. Then all three demigods took off their masks. When the stepped in the street. I realized how I knew them. It was Thalia Grace, Nico di Angelo, and me.

Author's note: Okay, do you guys like this idea? I'm not saying that Nico, Thalia, and Percy are going to time travel. I'm not even sure I like this idea.