Disclaimer: Not mine.

This place is beautiful.

I could see Chaos's palace in front of me and it is amazing. Imagine Hogwarts, only the walls aren't stone, they're the universe. Literally. There are little stars and planets spinning there along with entire galaxies there, somehow brightening up the black so that the main colour for the walls is dark blue. I like blue.

Inside is just as cool. There are all sorts of odd-looking people wandering about the corridors. I guess that they're from all over the universe. They all bowed as we walked by them, but thankfully they weren't bowing at me, only Chaos.

We trekked all through Chaos's palace until we finally reached our destination. Chaos turned to me as we stopped in front of some double doors.

"Listen, Percy. My universe is divided into ten sectors. Each sector has a commander, a second in command and a third in command. You will be the top commander. You don't have a sector, you listen to the reports of troubles the other sectors are facing and decide which sector of the army deals with which problem."

"So ... each sector of the army monitors a sector of the universe, but if they find a problem it could be any sector of the army that deals with it?" Man, this is killing my head.

"Any sector of the army, or more than one. You decide. Also, if it is a particularly severe threat, you may decide to go yourself. Or I may tell you to. Got all of that?"

I just nodded.

"And by the way, you'll need a new name when you become Commander. I think Thysia will do for you. It means sacrifice."

I nodded again. It fits.

"Come on then!" He led me through the double doors.

The huge room was dominated by a long table, surrounded with thirty three chairs. Three each for the ten sectors, then three more for the overall Commander, Second in command and Third in command. All of the chairs are occupied except for the top three. Chaos led me to the head of the table.

"Hello, ladies and gentlemen of my army. There is someone I'd like you all to meet." He pulled me forward. "This is Thysia. I think he'll be your new Commander."

"Well then." A boy who looked like he was no more than fourteen despite the fact that he was probably centuries older than me, sat back in his chair. "Let him sit on his throne. If he's really the person destined to be the Commander, then it will change itself to suit him."

Chaos nodded, then gestured to the chair at the head of the table. "Go on Thysia. Sit down."

I walked up to the throne and gingerly sat. A sudden explosion of colour came from it and suddenly it looked completely different. Whereas before it had been an old fashioned uncomfortable looking solid oak chair, it was now a comfortable sea green armchair, with the Greek words for bravery, loyalty and forgiveness written all over it.

Everyone stared at me. Then, simultaneously, they all stood up and bowed to me. I shifted uncomfortably. I don't like being bowed to.

Chaos, sensing my discomfort, chuckled quietly. "Right then everyone, I believe that concludes the meeting for today. There are some other things I need to sort out with the Commander, so until the next time, you're dismissed."

Chaos then left the hall, pulling me after him. "Right. We need to sort out your second and third in command, and also your elite team. We'll go to my office for that."

He led me down lots of twists and turns before we reached his office. When we finally arrived we collapsed into a small room with a desk, two chairs and a lot of paper.

"Paperwork." Chaos sighed. "The bane of my existence. Come on, sit down."

Chaos sat in the chair behind the desk, and began to explain. "You need to pick two people to be your second and third in command. Anyone you like. Alive or dead, I can bring them back, if they agree of course."

"Living or dead ..." I wondered aloud. "I think I'd like Luke Castellan to be my second in command. And I want Nico Di Angelo to be my third in command."

Luke, who died to kill Kronos and Nico, who died transporting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood.

"Very well." Chaos said, his eyes twinkling. "And I would like you to pick seven others to become a team of ten, an Elite fighting force."

I thought carefully. "Bianca Di Angelo, Silena Beauregard, Charles Beckendorf, Zoe Nightshade, Clarisse La Rue, Connor and Travis Stoll." I hadn't planned it this way, but all of them except Clarisse are dead. Connor and Travis died in the second Giant war.

"Okay then." Chaos said. "I'll go ask them." He portaled out, and when he came back he had all nine with him.

"Right, just to make this clear to everyone, you will be much like the hunters in that you don't age but can die in battle. You all still have the powers that your parents passed on to you, but only Percy, Luke and Nico get extra powers because they are the top three in my army. Got that?"

We all nodded. Chaos then formed three balls of light and shot one each into Luke, Nico and I. I couldn't breathe for a second and the light sunk into me, but then the moment passed and I felt fine again. Luke and Nico also seemed fine. Chaos spoke again.

"Percy, you now have the ability to control all the elements, not just water, though water will always come more naturally to you and will also heal you, which the other elements won't do. Luke, you have the power to sense a persons loyalties. If they are about to betray you, you should be able to tell. Nico, you have the power to sense how long until people die. Not with any accuracy, and it isn't set and can always be changed, but if you sense that everyone in one town is going to die at the same time, then that is a pretty big indicator that something huge is going to happen."

We nodded.

"I'll show you to your rooms."

We arrived on the top floor of one of the larger towers.

"This whole floor is yours." Chaos told us. "Your names will be on your bedroom doors. Which reminds me, most of you still need new names. Percy is also Thysia, Luke shall be Epsilon, Nico shall be Omega, Clarisse shall be war, Silena will be Beauty, Charles shall be Forge, Conner can be Jester, Travis shall be Pranker, Zoe is Huntress and Bianca is Angel."

We all nodded and left to explore our new home. It's brilliant. I fell on the bed, exhausted. My last thought before sleep took me was, maybe I could finally be happy here.

Enjoy another chapter. Shib.