Roses are red, violets are blue, I do not own PJO and unless you are Rick Riordan, neither do you! I do own Mark, Robert and Theseus though.

Last Time:

I was about to ask what that meant, when a hand touched my back. I turned around and saw a confused Artemis staring at me. "I guess you don't remember anything do you?" Artemis shook her head and waited, while I told her and the rest of the Olympians, the story of Zeus' downfall.

Now:

Frank's POV

I sprinted up the stairs of the Senate House, with Hazel and Reyna on my heels. "You said it yourself Frank, we have to sacrifice them." Reyna stated.

"I don't care. I know what I said, but it wasn't right. I can't just leave the people in the Barracks to fend for themselves! What would you have me do? Leave them to die? That's evil. I need to try, even if I die. They put their lives in my hands and I won't disappoint them. I am going, whether you like it or not." I stated.

"Frank, you can't just leave! We need you! Do I need to remind you of what happened, when we sent the scouts on their eagles? They were shot down from the sky! We can't do anything, without you. You're our only source of defense, besides Hazel. Without you, we are just fish in a barrel. They have weapons and we don't, so that means we don't stand a chance!" She paused in her rant, before a spark of determination filled her eyes. "Unless… we steal some weapons." She stated.

She continued, "Right when we were attacked, Terminus disappeared. So now, they have full access to an abundance of weapons. Either we steal some or save our people in Barracks and take some from them. Looks like you are getting your wish after all, Zhang. Now, let's go save our fellow legionaries." After she spoke her last word, she turned on her heel and started to walk away.

"That's it? We just waltz in there and steal some weapons? We need a plan, Reyna." I declared.

She smiled, before answering, "We will improvise. Come on! There's no time to lose!" She pulled me along and soon we were descending into the basement.

THIS TIME SKIP WANTS FOOD, PLEASE GIVE IT SOME.

Amazing what the children of Pluto can do underground. They can literally make tunnels in the ground, to lead them exactly where they want to go. When we reached the basement of the Senate House, all Hazel had to do, was to create a tunnel the way she wanted it.

In no time, we were walking down a pitch black tunnel, hopefully to the Barracks. All we have to do is get inside the Barracks, grab some weapons, rescue are friends and then leave. Piece of cake.

After a couple of minutes, Hazel informed, "Guys, we are directly underneath the Barracks. I am going to build a way up, so be prepared to fight. Who knows who or what, we will see up there."

Hazel closed her eyes and developed a look of concentration. Soon, the ceiling began to rumble and a huge chunk of stone melted, before my eyes and was replaced with a steep set of stairs. Reyna and I went in front, with Hazel ready to provide backup behind us. Then we began our short climb to the ceiling.

We ascended the stairs, to reveal the First Cohort bunking room. The room was dark and I could hear a couple of people sleeping. Time to be stealthy. We crept along the floor, towards the door at the other end of the room, with light coming from underneath its frame.

I took a step forward and the floor immediately creaked. Schist! I shook my head at Reyna and Hazel, signaling that the floor was too loud. Well… Since we have to fight anyway, might as well take some of the out beforehand.

I motioned with my hand towards the people in the bunks and put a finger to my neck and pulled it across, in an attempt to tell my friends that we should kill them. Reyna and Hazel nodded their heads, so we silently moved to their beds. There were only six people in the room, so if each of us takes out one person, we would be even in numbers.

How am I going to kill them? I looked around them poorly illuminated room and found a stool. I hefted it over my head and counted to three on my fingers. On three, I slammed my stool into my opponents head and he flailed around, while screaming in pain.

I slammed my stool into him again and by this time he was a bloody mess, so I hit him again, before he finally went limp. Reyna and Hazel had also dealt with their enemies in a similar way. The other three people in the room were awake and unsheathed hidden daggers.

I should have just crushed his windpipe or something. One person opened their mouth to talk, but I slammed into him as a tiger and mauled his face, with my claws. After he stopped wrenching and coughing, I turned to the remaining demigods. They looked at me with fear in their eyes and quickly sprinted towards the door, with me in hot pursuit.

I dragged one to the ground and tore his neck out and turned to the remaining enemy, who stood there, shaking in fear. "P-please don't hurt me! I won't tell anyone you are here! I promise!" He begged. By this time, I was in human form and slowly walking towards him. "I am sorry, but we can't risk it."

"You're a monster!" He screamed at me, while crying. I walked over to him and abruptly broke his neck. "I am sorry, but you would just have told them that we were here and I didn't have anything to tie you up with. I am sorry."

I walked away from the mangled corpses and sneaked through the door, with Hazel and right behind me ready to provide backup. Outside of the Barracks looked like a war zone. There were craters littering the ground from Greek fire and other explosions, while a couple of enemy demigods were waiting near a door, with their weapons ready, as if to ward off any attackers.

That must be where the remaining loyal demigods are. I was happy that it was night and the evil demigods were resting, for tomorrow.

"Okay, so here's the plan. I am going to transform into a mouse or something and get into the room. Then, once I tell them what is happening, we will kill the guards and rescue them, while avoiding the remaining guards. Then we make a run for the tunnel and escape. Piece of cake, if everything goes well." I commanded, while I whispered the ending part.

Without waiting for them to reply, I transformed into a mouse and scampered towards the doorway. I passed under the feet of the guards and quickly squeezed through the bottom of the door. The inside was barricaded with couches, beds and stools, but after I made it through the rubble, I saw some demigods on couches and beds, while some of them tended to their bleeding comrades, who looked like holocaust victims.

Fortunately, this building connected to the armory, so they had many weapons to defend themselves. I transformed into human form, making people jump for their weapons and hastily point them at me.

I pushed them away and asked, "It's all right. It's just me. Reyna, Hazel and I have a plan to rescue all of you. Just listen to what I have to say, and then tell me what happened."

I told them about my plan and they slowly started to nod their heads, when someone came forwards and stated, "I will tell you what happened. We were just doing our daily duties, guarding the city, when riots started to rise up in the streets. So we went to help, but right after we left, a group of demigods came and slaughter a lot of our legionaries."

"Once we realized what was happening, we saved as many people as we could, while we sprinted towards the armory, knowing that that would be our only chance. And now, the other groups of demigods are trying to break through, while we wait for the inevitable to happen."

"Okay, I am going to get you guys out of here. I promise." I vowed. I transformed into a mouse and scurried in between the barricades, before I snuck underneath the door. I ran to where Hazel and Reyna were hiding, before I transformed again and nodded to Reyna and Hazel, telling them to get ready to attack.

I transformed into an eagle and flew over the area, trying to get a view on what was happening outside the Barracks. Camp Jupiter always looked beautiful, with the River Tiber winding around the city and Mount Diablo glittering in the distance, but today, darkness had covered the valley with a shroud of black blotting out all light.

There were great plumes of fire rising from the houses and screams of pain and terror rang throughout the city. There were a great army of demigods attacking the Senate House and they were burning down the shrines to the gods, no doubt making the gods pissed.

There were legions of demigods marching around the whole valley, burning houses and hanging demigods from the top of buildings. The cries of the forsaken were heard, as many civilians were shoved off of the top of a building, before abruptly stopped. It was terrifying.

I grew angry, at the prospect of my people being tortured and executed, just for living in a city. It wasn't fair. The civilians didn't do anything. Somewhere, just children, who didn't even know right from wrong yet, were being killed, while they look upon the emotionless faces of their killers.

Why don't the gods do something about it? The Titans can attack anything they please, but the gods can't do anything!

The coliseum's huge gates had been closed, as some refuges prepared to fight for their home. It was a hopeless battle, with never ending forces of enemies, with more coming tomorrow, all armed to the teeth and trained to kill.

I quickly stopped hovering and dived towards the ruined earth below me, as fast as I could. When I had almost touched the ground, I extended my wings and inwardly grounded, even though my wings were keeping me from falling and slowing my descent drastically, they still hurt, because I had waited too long to begin the procedure of landing. They felt like they were being pulled from their sockets.

Once I had slowed down enough, I landed on my feet and continued to run, before my momentum stopped. I transformed back into my human form, while Reyna asked, "How does it look?"

"Not good." I responded and started to stealthily approach my enemies, before Reyna had a chance to ask for more information. I shape-shifted back into an eagle, before flying low above my eight opponents and dive bombing one, by dropping onto him, as a bear.

He crumpled to the ground, and before his buddies could do anything, I crushed his head, with my jaws. I quickly turned on my other opponents and barely dodged a spear to the face. I growled, before lunging forward and wrenching the spear from the demigod's hands. His smug face turned into one of terror, as I charged forward and dealt a punishing blow to his face, killing him instantly.

I whirled around and saw that Reyna and Hazel had joined the fight and had confiscated weapons from their opponents. Reyna and Hazel were each fighting one person, but from their opponent's expression, I realized that they would deal with them soon enough. That left me with two adversaries I have to "put down."

I roared a challenge at them, daring them to step forward and face me. The essentially stepped forward, before I disappeared for a second and reappeared as a rhinoceros and charged forward, and quickly impaled my challenge, before throwing the bleeding body off of my horn and into his buddy, before I walked forward and stomped on top of them both, making demigod soup.

I turned around and admired how Hazel and Reyna had dealt with their foes. Hazel had suspended one in the air, by a massive rock spike, which was about thirty feet high and he was only hanging from a slowly tearing shirt.

All I could see of Reyna's victim was blood and dismembered body parts splayed across the cracked cobblestones in the middle of the commons area, coating the stones crimson with the bodily fluid of her enemy. They both had a look of ferocity on their faces, making them seem like ravenous animals, ready to kill for the slightest hint of meat.

We hurriedly knocked, on the now blood covered door and outstepped Don the Faun, looking ready for war. See, after the fauns heard of their more helpful relatives, they started to learn how to fight and help around the camp. It was actually a pretty nice change.

With Don's help, we led the rest of the refuges to the tunnel and sent them through, until it was just Reyna, Hazel, Don and I.

"Okay, the people are safe, now, let's go grab some weapons." I suggested and we darted across the commons area and back into the armory and grabbed golden swords, knives, daggers, bows and shields. Reyna, Don and I lugged a few, while Hazel levitated the rest to the entrance of the cave, where we quickly set them down and prepared for our journey back to the Senate House.

Reyna, Don and Hazel descended into the tunnel, but right before I walked into it, I felt a sword touching my neck. I turned around and found myself face to face, with a man with black hair and an eye patch covering his eye, so he kind of looked like a pirate.

"You thought you could escape from us? We are members of the Abyss, the demigods who fight for a way to rid the world of the Olympians. Since you have allied yourselves with the Olympians and attacked our companions, you will die." The leader spoke. My friends charged up the stairs and unsheathed their weapons, before getting into a defensive position, while eye patch man got into an offensive position and his friends did the same. "It will be a pleasure killing you." Eye patch man stated. "You can try." I shot back. We charged at each other and in the last second I shape-shifted into a komodo dragon.

I slammed into his legs, which made him fall to the stone floor below him. I transformed into a Bengal Tiger and clambered on top of his chest. He spat in my face, before I was tackled off of him, by one of his allies. I shape-shifted back into human form and delivered a vicious punch to the other man's face.

He grunted, before shoving me off of him and rejoining his fight with Reyna. I rose to my feet and dodged a knife thrust, aimed at my stomach. Eye patch man stabbed again and I side-stepped and grabbed his arm, before slamming my elbow into his face.

He crumpled to the floor, releasing his knife as he fell, before rushing after it, with me right behind him. He grasped the knife, before swiping with it, causing me to jump backwards, but not before it cut my stomach.

I grunted in pain, before growling at him and kicking him in the stomach. He doubled over in pain, before thrusting with his knife, yet again. I grabbed his arm and grabbed both parts of his arm, before bending it the way it wasn't supposed to bend, causing him to whimper in pain, as I attempted to break his arm.

Through the pain, he punched me in the face, making me fall backwards and crash into the ground. He fell to his knees, while clutching his arm, while I slowly rose to my feet, while holding my stomach and touching my face.

My hand went away covered in blood and that got me angry. This guy thought that he could kill us and all of the other people in the city, just so that it would hurt the Olympians'. It wasn't right! Why did they hate the Olympian's anyway?

I was taken from my thoughts, when he rushed forward and punched me in the stomach multiple times, before finishing with a vicious uppercut to the face. I fell hard onto my back and was sprawled on the ground, while eye patch man leisurely walked up to me and asked, "Any last words?"

"Yes, why do you hate the Olympians?" "Because they didn't do what they promised! And neither did Jackson! It's you demigods fault for not realizing that the gods are terrible rulers. We will be much better under the influence of the Primordials or better yet, me!"

"I deserve this! I gave my eye, so that I could have justice, but I never got it! But now I will, by killing you. I will receive the recognition I deserve, by killing one of the seven to defeat Gaea herself! Now, I will end your pitiful existence."

After he spoke those words, he raised his sword above his head, before quickly bringing it down, while Hazel screamed my name.

Who is the eye patch man? Will he play an important part in the story?

Sorry I took so long, I had to read a book for school and I was away a lot of the week, plus, my power went out. Anyway, please comment and tell me what you think. Thank You for reading my story.

Yours in demigodishness, MakaidosTheFirst