Walk through darkness and trip and fall. Into darkness.

Disclaimer: Percy Jackson belongs to Rick Riordain

You have to consider weather I'm just suicidal, homicidally evil or misunderstood. Or you can ask you self if I thought that Zeus and Kronos were planning something really evil together and Alex hoped I would trust him enough to join Kronos, no questions asked, simply because Alex had too in a fake ill gotten attempt to get Kronos's trust. Yep, I'm definitely misunderstood cause even I don't understand what the fuck I meant there. Re read and try again. Yeah. Sometimes you just have to trust in a friend. Despite the fact that all reliable evidence points to the fact that he's going to blow up the world. Yeah. Trust that guy. Back to my life!

"Percy, what's wrong?" asked Annabeth. "You look worried about something."

"Don't worry." I said quickly. "I'm just thinking."

Thalia looked at me disbelievingly. "Are you ready Percy?" asked Kronos. Suddenly I caught a glimpse of Alex's face. It's weird, but whenever you catch a glimpse of someone's face it always happens very slowly. And their hair fall even slower. Alex seemed to lengthen his hair just for this purpose. He winked.

"Yeah, I thought back. I thought back the word "Yeah." That's another free flashing insight into my mind. I'm kind of scared of letting people into my mind. You never know when a whole lot of people will gatecrash and drive you out of your mind.

"Right." said Kronos in a loud, carrying voice that carried his words perfectly. "It ends here. He swung his arm, a great crack appeared in the earth, and everything seemed to fall into chaos. Josh was in his happy place. I was in my oh-shit-I'm-gonna die place.

Zeus yelled something in Ancient Greece , and swept his arms, causing a massive wind to throw us back wards, into the wind. I hurt my head on a rock. That's it. If I'm getting to fuck the world, I'm at least going to use protection.

Alex smiled like a constipated pigeon that just arrived at a statue of some guy he really dislikes. He pulled out his black sword and it lit in a tall flame. Zeus fired a lightning bolt at him. He blocked it with a quick swipe and ran at Zeus at full speed. Something happened then. It may have been my imagination, poor eyesight or an odd sandwich I ate a couple of days ago, but Zeus seemed to actually suck at fighting. Alex only false swiped a couple of times before he left a massive gash in Zeus left shin. Not fair, but hey.

"Sorry, Zeus." said Kronos with a quick smile. "But it's over." Kronos drew out his own sword. It had jagged edges that glinted evilly.

Zeus smiled. "You may think you've won. But you have to know, I can run. Really fast." And suddenly his skin fell away. For lack of a better word, as Zeus true form was revealed. I got my eyes closed just in time. Actually I had a couple of seconds to spare, but hey. Who's counting?

"And now.'" said Kronos. "Let's return to my ship." I desperately needed to talk to Alex. I needed to know whether I made a very big mistake, or a huge mistake.

I caught Alex's gaze again. It was quick but, dare I say it? Flirtatious. Or not. Seems like total evil is not my way. In fact, I don't know which way is my way, but that actually proves it's my way. Annabeth and Thalia also looked at me worriedly. "Don't worry. It'll be okay." I said.

"Right." said Thalia. "And next we'll find out you define okay as, probably dead but mostly recognizable. Percy, I seriously think you should reconsider this."

"Reconsider what?" I asked. Had she discovered my swift , illogical descent into darkness? Or was she referring to the new hair style Zeus had granted me with his wind thing?

"Going with the guy who tried to kill you at least thirty times in the last two years, Percy." said Annabeth. "Do you ever think anything through?" Actually no. I usually get confused half way through and. Whatever.

"Look. If we go with him there's a chance we'll be killed. If we don't Zeus is going to kill us for sure. I'll take my chances, however stupid they may be.'" Hmm. In retrospect, that somehow didn't come out right.

"Right Percy. When he starts killing, disfiguring, or threatening to kill or disfigure us unless we join his evil army, I'm so saying I told you so, you inbred moron. And I'll say it, several times." said Thalia. At the time I couldn't think of a witty retort. I just nodded in silent acceptance. Wait. If I'm telling this story in the present future tense, thing, I can add cool lines all over the place until I'm awesome. I'm unto something here.

We walked a while in silence. Annabeth kept looking nervous, but slightly happy, and Thalia kept staring at me. Intently. Josh looked puzzled for a while, then content, then asked me what happen. I made pun joke about him having "Mist" everything and it broke the ice like a fat penguin. Okay maybe I didn't make a pun based joke then, but if I did, It' would've been funny. We were nearing the coastline. My wounds felt like the see air was actually nursing them, and my hair fell back into it's former glory. We had returned to the anchored Princess Andromeda.

"Climb aboard. Climb aboard." said Kronos, making the boat ours. In a relative non legal sense of course.

"Nice boat. Sorry about me trying to blow it up and all that, but you know how it goes." said Alex. Kronos smiled a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes. It seemed to stop right at his nose.

"A common misunderstanding." said Kronos. "As we both know, the position has now changed. We can no longer afford to compete." Technically he probably could afford it. I mean, do you know what this kind of boat costs. "To the bridge. We have much to discuss.

We started walking along the hallways. Then I suddenly realized what Alex wanted to do on the Princess Andormeda. Steal everything that wasn't nailed down. He kept casually sliding things into his jacket, which he later assured me was synthetic leather

"Alex." I whispered. "Please tell me your master plan isn't to steal everything that isn't nailed down."

"Of course not." said Alex. "I'm a titan, nails can't stop me." He looked like he really wanted to laugh. "Just kidding Percy. Our true goal is something far more sinister. The whole stealing and whispering about our plans right next to the guy we're plotting against is just to catch Kronos off guard. Too make him underestimate us." Okay, I'm pretty sure we're playing it by ear now. I really hope I'm risking my life here for something other than the gift shop supplies Alex was stealing.

"Here we are." said Kronos, who probably overheard our entire conversation but decided not to do anything because he was secretly planning to kill both of us. But not simultaneously. It would probably be me, Alex and then Annabeth. They have to leave either me or Thalia alive. I wonder if they issued a life insurance policy on either of us. I'm onto something. Me and Hades can scam the very large amounts of money the life insurance salesmen have out of the life insurance salesmen! That can work. Once, again, I'm unable to properly focus on the fact I'm about to be killed. Damn. I should go back in time and get a policy.

He opened the door. We walked back into the old big room that I have visited, many times. "Hello, Percy." said Luke. He wore silky, black pants and a black ,striped with white and purple, button down shirt. Damn. Annabeth did something that scared the living piss out of me. She blushed. Not. This. Shit. Again. Fuck you Luke. Fuck you, your hair and you delectable fashion sense. I'm doomed. Now I'll never get to, hey I wonder if Thalia is single. She's my cousin, but I'm pretty sure we can work around that. "Hello Thalia. Hi, Annabeth." said Luke, letting the word slowly escape from his mouth. Oh fuck. I'm in too deep again.

"Hi." responded Annabeth. She looked okay, which I'm pretty sure was a bad thing.

"Ah. A cheery welcoming and lodgings." said Kronos, who had appeared to have gotten himself a glass of wine. Dammit. Why is it, that every time an evil guy makes some grim announcement he has to have a glass of wine? Why not vodka, or maybe even Coke. Or maybe they get special deals from Dionysus. Damn him for supporting evil. "It turns out that daddy is coming back."

"Shit! Hide the wine!" I yelled. And then looked around the room. "Sorry." I said. "Reflex."

"Come on, you know you can't keep him from this world." said Alex. "The old power is falling away. Now all that stands between him and his return is the lord of the dead. And he won't stand against him." Wait, what are they talking about? I thought Oranos was like, on the level or something.

"How did the other titans get past Hades anyway?" asked Annabeth.

"Zeus." said Kronos simply. "Zeus, spiked Hades's supply of sprite. He used a mixture of vodka and strong sleeping potion. I think he was asleep for a whole week." Somehow, I always knew the universe would be doomed due to a spiked sprite supply. That was the time a revelation occurred to me. Something, that told me I shouldn't trust Kronos, or Luke or strangers with candy. If Hades is the only thing keeping the fallen in the pit (dun dun) , how much damage did they do to my dad for him still to rather lie there than return to the earth? And, if Kronos feeds on chaos, what does my dad feed on?

"Yeah." said Luke. "But Oranos is a bigger problem. We must devise a way of destroying him without giving Zeus the time to get to him. We must also discover a way for them to then seal Oranos in the underworld without them knowing it. It'll take us about a week. That's how long it takes us to analyze it from every possible angle, and ensure that failure is impossible, and success is inevitable." Man, this is starting to get like my social studies period.

"Hey I have a question." I said. " Why don't you just get one of those murder series writers to help you out? They're good with plots." I'm in need of personal blinds, cause I'm attracting some hostile glares.

"Sometimes, I still don't get how you survived for more than two minutes in a subway." said Luke. Hmm. The trick is to move very fast, and always know when to say, it was that guy!

"Yes. It just so happens that I thought of a very commendable plan." said Kronos. "One that requires the life of our young friend there." said Kronos, grinning in a sickly fashion.

"Alex, please tell me we have an escape plan." I whispered out of the corner of my mouth.

"Too be honest." whispered Alex back. "I never really got passed the, free ship stuff phase in my planning process." He winked.

"You should know I'm standing right in front of you." said Kronos. "I can see the winking and hear the whispering. Who taught you discretion, an exbitisionhist?"

"Oh yeah? Well you suck." said me and Alex simultaneously. Then we looked at each other and grinned.

"I can't believe I ever considered you two competition. While you were , acting like, no excuse me not even you are that good actors, while you were being complete idiots, Luke and his friends have bound and gagged both Thalia and Annabeth, with swords hanging conveniently above both their necks." Huh. I thought it had gone a bit quite.

Author Notes: Percy's alliance is still undecided. Don't ask.

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