Chapter 6: Meet the Parents
Chapter 6 is here! Next chappie we get into the Chaos part of the story.
Chapter 6: Meet the Parents.
As Bianca said that, I hugged her. I was fully prepared for this moment to be the one where we say our last goodbyes. I was overjoyed that it was the opposite. She hugged back and I felt Ryan pat me on the back. She wouldn't leave me. Thank the gods.
As we pulled away, Nico asked what we were hugging about. Bianca and I exchanged a nervous glance. "Well…" Then a similar thought passed through our minds. We can't tell him. It would crush him to know that his sister, the one who's protected and loved him all his life, once seriously thought about leaving him. "Just happy we made it out alive Neeks." Bianca told him.
Grover then spoke up. "Uh, guys. How do we get out of here?" None of us knew the answer. I just assumed that they would have something scheduled. Sure, Nico and Bianca could shadow travel but what about us? Artemis answered our question. "Easy, I could arrange for my brother Apollo to take you all." I was confused. Apollo, god of the sun was going to transport us. How? "Does he have like a magic school bus or something?" Artemis smiled. "Something like that. I'll also need my hunters to go with you. I must journey to find answers." At this, Zoe argued. "My lady, you can't go on your own! We should come with you." Artemis held up her hand. "No, I must do this on my own. You and the hunters will stay in my cabin at Camp Half-Blood. I've already messaged Apollo. Here he comes."
We looked towards the horizon. It was sunrise, and as it rose higher and higher we could faintly see a small shape heading towards us. As it and the sun got bigger we could out the shape of a car flying towards us. "Shield your eyes." Artemis warned and we did so. It's lucky we did because you could almost go blind even with your eyes closed. Soon, the light disappeared and we opened our eyes. In front of us was a brand new sports car. It looked as though it had never been used until today.
Sitting inside the car was a man and he was just… Well if I was a girl, I would've been head over heels in love. Even as a guy, I was still pretty flustered by his looks, his shining smile, his smoking abs and his gorgeous face. Woah, what the hell am I thinking? I have a girlfriend. I looked over at Bianca and she was almost drooling. Understandable.
The man, Apollo, got out of his car and outstretched his arms. "Little sis!" He engulfed her in a hug but she quickly pulled away. "I need you to take these demigods and my hunters to Camp Half-Blood." He looked confused. "Where are you going?" She sighed. "I'm going on a quest." He looked disappointed. "Alright, just stay safe. You know you can come visit me anytime right?" Artemis raised an eyebrow. "What brought that on?" Apollo looked downtrodden. "I don't know. I just feel like we only see each other at council meetings these days. That just makes me feel bad, like I'm being a bad brother or something." Artemis looked conflicted. "Apollo, just… please just take them. We can talk about this when I get back." Apollo looked defeated. "Alright. All aboard!"
He snapped his fingers and the sports car turned into a yellow school bus. After hearing his words, we all got on. "Buckle up!" The said once everyone was in. We did so. I was still confused, though. How the hell would we get out of here in a school bus? Flying? Wait a minute. A flying school bus? Oh no.
Apollo took off with a speed that made us all lurch forward, right off of the cliff. Then, the started singing. "Cruisin' on down Main Street, You're relaxed and feelin' good!" He pulled up so suddenly that I almost threw up. "Next thing that you know you're seein'
Octopus in the neighborhood!" The pulled up, then I realised that the sun seemed to be following us. "Surfin' on a sound wave, Swingin' through the stars!" He slowed down. "Take a left at your intestine, Take your second right past Mars." The flicked a switch at the side of the wheel. My stomach turned itself into knots as we sped off at hundreds of miles per hour. "On THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS!"
Forty seconds later.
"Come on — ride on THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS!" Apollo finished his song and i stood up as soon as I felt the bus stop. Stumbling on the way out, the second I reach solid land I threw up. I heard the rest of the group exiting the bus as well, 90% of them throwing up near or in the same place I did. I walked over to Bianca and Nico right as the bus turned back into a sports car, and it was then that I noticed that we had all puked on the side of the vehicle.
"See you guys later!" Apollo called before the sped off, never noticing the various foods and gross mixture dipping from the side of his brand new sports car.
Ryan came up beside me and put his hand on my shoulder, the other one raised at the sign just above us. "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!" It truly did look like a great place. Children ranging from 5-18 were all hanging around outside. Some of them were practising archery, some were sword fighting and some were simply hanging around. There were 12 cabins all lined up in a horseshoe shape, with two at the end and 5 on each side.
The sound of horse hooves clopping towards us made me turn. Standing there was a creature with the top half of a man and the bottom half of a horse. A centaur. The centaur looked at Ryan and grinned. "Ryan, my boy! I trust that your quest to find the two demigods went successfully?" The was about to start congratulating him until Ryan cut him off. "Actually, Chiron. We found three demigods and we fought a manticore trying to take them all to Kronos. We also have the hunters of Artemis staying at camp now." Chiron's jaw dropped. "Three demigods?! A manticore?! The hunters?!" Ryan nodded.
Chiron thought for a moment. "Very well. The hunters will stay in cabin 8 until Artemis returns. In the meantime, I will notify the gods of the manticore and we shall find out who the parents of these demigods are." Ryan spoke up again. "Actually, we already think we know who their parents are. The siblings are children of Hades and this guy." He said shaking my shoulder and then I interrupted him. "I'm his half-brother. My name is Lucifer Jackson, son of Poseidon." Chirons eyes widened. "We shall see. Now, I want you three to stand in front of me." Ryan backed up and Bianca and Nico came to stand on either side of me.
Chiron started chanting something in Greek, similar two the one I used two learn the Di Angelos parentage, and a golden light shone over us. "Interesting." Chiron mused. "What's interesting?" Chiron pointed at Bianca and Nico. "You two are demigod children of Hades but you…" The pointed at me. "Your father was Poseidon but yet you are not a demigod. Your mother was not mortal, yet she also wasn't a god." My eyes widened. "Wh- what? But my mother was Sally Jackson, a mortal!" Chiron shook his head. "No. She adopted you. Your real mother was something far older, and more powerful than the gods. I will summon your fathers." Chiron walked off, leaving me in disbelief. Bianca comforted me. "You okay?" I chuckled and shook my head. "I understand now how you felt when you learnt that Hades was your dad. I've spent my whole life thinking that the only family I had left was a father I'd never met. Now I learn that the woman who died protecting me wasn't even my mother." I started sobbing, thinking back to the one photo I had of my adopted mother, the one I had cherished because it was the only family I had around. Now that notion was gone.
Bianca hugged me as Chiron came back with two men. One wore an all black suit and had pale skin. His skin was so pale that he almost looked like a ghost. He had neatly combed black hair and a well-trimmed goatee and in his left hand there was a staff with two prongs on the end. The other man wore a set of armor that was designed to look like fish scales. He had a scruffy black beard and sea-green eyes, just like mine. In his right hand he held a trident that had ancient carvings on it. The first man, Hades, held out his arms and ran to engulf his children in a hug. "My children, I have finally found you." Bianca and Nico both tightly hugged back. "Dad… You're actually here." Bianca said after a while. She had told me once that she had been having dreams about a man that fit this description visiting her. She had just thought they were dreams until I told that it matched Hades' description. Then she was convinced that her dad was visiting her.
The other man, my father Poseidon, looked at me. "Strange, I don't remember your mother. The only mortal I have interacted with in the past 100 years was Ryan's mother, yet you say you were born 16 years ago." I was about to tell him the news that my mother wasn't mortal but Chiron cut me off. "Well, we'll leave you all to catch up. Lucifer, you will be staying in cabin 3 with Ryan. Bianca, Nico, you will stay in the Hermes cabin as Hades does not have one." Hades grumbled something about his brother not letting him create one but then the shut up and walked off with Bianca and Nico. I laughed as you could clearly hear Nico asking questions like "Do you have any of your Mythomagic figures? It's the only one I haven't got." and "Does this mean that we can meet our mother?" I heard Hades frown at the last one. "No, child. She is in a better, unreachable place." Nico remained quiet after that.
Poseidon and I remained in an awkward silence for a while. Honestly, I had never thought about what I would say to him once I met him. I had always expected either him to start a conversation, or me to overreact like Nico. Eventually Ryan saved me. "So… Lucifer, should I show you around our cabin?" I nodded and we both walked off, leaving a silent Poseidon.
The cabin was pretty cool. It had a main room that overlooked the lake beside the camp, two bedrooms for boys and girls, and a hell of a lot of water related stuff. Ryan said that I could sleep in the girls room if I wanted since Poseidon had no daughters aside from our long dead sister Eirene. So, now that we figured out where I was sleeping, Ryan and I sat down and talked.
Ryan was really nice, he was the brother I had always wanted. Though Nico felt like my little brother, Ryan was actually my little brother. It felt good to know that I had some family outside of a dead adopted mother, a mother I didn't even know the name of and a dad who was too awkward to talk to me. Eventually, some councillor came in to tell us that dinner was ready. Ryan told him we'd be there soon and the councillor left. Getting up and putting our shoes on, Ryan and I left for dinner.
The eating area was similar to the one at Westover, with the main difference being that the tables were sorted by who your godly parent was. Zeus and Hera's were at the front while ours, Poseidon's, was just beside Zeus' on the next row. Bianca and Nico were sitting with the Hermes kids a few rows down since Hades didn't have one. I noticed that the only one sitting at the Zeus table was Thalia, the punk girl from yesterday.
The food being served was sloppy joes, a food I had never really liked but i still ate. The meal went well until Chiron stood up from his place talking with a guy in leopard print clothes. "Everyone! I'd like to introduce you to our three new campers. Bianca and Nico Di Angelo, children of Hades!" Bianca and Nico stood up and everybody clapped, the Hermes table were the loudest though. Guess they made friends. Chiron cleared his throat and the laughter died down. As the Di Angelos sat down, he started talking again. "Our third new camper is Lucifer Jackson, son of Poseidon." I stood up rather hesitantly as people politely clapped, Ryan was cheering though. As I sat back down, a large flash entered the room and standing there was a man in a business suit. In his right hand was a golden staff tipped with little wings. He looked like one of those young billionaires you see on tv. Hermes, messenger of the gods.
"Sorry Chiron, but father has ordered me to collect some demigods and bring them to Olympus." He flashed Chiron a smile. "I see, Lord Hermes. Who are these demigods you must retrieve." Hermes looked at the campers. "Thalia Grace, Ryan Williams, Nico Di Angelo, Bianca Di Angelo and Lucifer Jackson." All children of the big three. Wonder if it has something to do with the prophecy.
The five of us stood up and walked over to Hermes. "Place you hand on my staff." We all did so and there was a whooshing sound before we were all hurtling upwards, eventually reaching past the clouds. Great, third time I've gone past the clouds in under 24 hours. I closed my eyes and I could eventually feel my feet touching solid ground. Opening my eyes, I took in the sight of a regal palace set on top of a mountain. Mount Olympus.
"Follow me, cousins. Sister in Thalia's case." We did as he said, and he led us into a large room with twelve thrones all lined up like the cabins at Camp Half-Blood. On one side were the god's and on the other, the goddesses. The main difference between the thrones and cabins' formation was that there was only one at the end, and on it sat a man in a suit of armor, a rough beard like poseidon's and a large bolt of lightening in one hand. Zeus, king of the gods. The other difference was that where Dionysus' cabin was at camp, a large dark throne was place and sitting on it was none other than Hades. My father, Poseidon, was sitting next to Zeus and glaring at me.
Hermes announced to Zeus. "Father, the five demigods you requested." Zeus thanked him and Hermes went to sit on the only empty throne. Zeus looked at us for a moment before thundering. "As some of you know, there is a prophecy regarding a child of either me, Poseidon or Hades. This child will reportedly have the power to destroy Olympus and will either use that power to destroy, or save it." We all nodded and he spoke again. "We know who it speaks of. It can't be Thalia or either of Hades' spawn. That leaves you two, spawn of Poseidon." The pointed at Ryan and I. "Which one of you to is older?" I raised my hand. Zeus looked at Poseidon. "Brother, do you remember the mother of this one?" Poseidon looked at him. "No, brother! That's what I've been trying to tell you! Chiron said that his mother was something older and more powerful than us. A titan, maybe?" Zeus remained deep in thought. "What about a primordial? Gaea or Nyx perhaps? All the titans are imprisoned, remember? If the mother of Lucifer Jackson did wipe your memory like we suspect, it couldn't have been a titan because their powers are restrained."
Poseidon thought for a moment. "A primordial? If that is true, then he is a severe threat to Olympus. He could side with his mother and her siblings to overthrow us." Zeus looked at me. "If that is true than something must be done about him." Then, Hades spoke up. "Brother, no! The prophecy says that he will either destroy Olympus, or save it. If you kill him, then he won't be there to stop whatever threatens us." Zeus contemplated for a moment but Poseidon argued. "Brother, if the prophecy is right about him, then he could kill us all! Would you really threaten our survival just for the off chance that something else tries to overthrow us?" Zeus contemplated for a moment before looking at the rest of the council.
"We shall use democracy, as we should. Who here votes to kill the boy?" six put their hands up. These included: Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Ares, Athena and Aphrodite. "Very well. Who votes to spare him?" Six hands went up: Hades, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hermes and Apollo, who started speaking. "I have telepathically messaged Artemis, goddess of the hunt, and she votes in favor of Lucifer being spared." Zeus frowned, then Poseidon stood up. "Anybody who does not attend the council of the gods has no right to vote! Therefor the vote remains in favour of his execution!" Zeus glared at his brother. "Poseidon, this is democracy! You cannot change the rules!-" He was too late, as Poseidon had already thrown his trident at me.
As I heard Ryan, Nico and Bianca's shouts of "NO!" I was suddenly tackled to the side before I heard the trident hit the floor. Poseidon's shout of "BROTHER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" had me immediately awake before I heard Hades shout back from on top of me. "I can't let you do this, brother. HERMES, NOW!" I saw Hermes run and collect me while Hades ran to his kids. As Hades teleported away I saw the other 4 god's that had voted for me, excluding Artemis, all teleport as well. The opposing gods all readied their weapons before Hermes had me grab his staff and we disappeared.
I opened my eyes and found that I was in a dark room. The five gods that sided with me were all standing in front of me, Nico and Bianca were standing with Hades.
"Where are we?" I asked them. Demeter cleared her throat. "You are in the void, child. It is the only place where the gods can't reach you. We've never been here before. We've taken you here to bring you to your mother." My eyes widened. "You know my mother?" Demeter looked nervous. "No, but we know who would" I raised an eyebrow. "Who?" the sound of heels clicking got closer and closer as I heard a woman say "Me, child." I turned around and the god's all bowed, Nico and Bianca did the same after Hades told them to.
Standing there was a woman who looked to be in her early forties. She wore black office attire, a clean black shirt and a pencil skirt. I had to admit, she was beautiful. She smirked as she saw me. "Who are you?" I asked her. She smiled. "Dear boy, I'm Lady Chaos, creator of the universe." My eyes widened and I bowed. "Stand up, all of you." We did so. "So, I assume you've come here to learn who your mother is?" I nodded. "Very well. Stand still." She started chanting in Greek. Seriously, what is with everyone talking in Greek. A minute passed, and the god's looked on eagerly, waiting for the big reveal.
Then something unexpected happened. Chaos opened her eyes and I almost gasped. They were filled with tears. She looked me over for a second before pulling me into a massive hug. "My son. You've returned at last." My jaw dropped, and so did the jaws of everyone else in the room. "M-mom?" I asked hesitantly. "Yes?" she answered. "Is it really you?" She pulled back and smiled at me. She held my cheek. "Yes, my baby boy. It's me." I pulled her into a hug as strong as the one she had just given me and she hugged back.
The gods were in shock, none more so than Nico and Bianca. So many thoughts were running through their heads. Their best friend was Greek Jesus, son of the creator. Luckily, Nico summed up all their thoughts with just a sentence.
"Wow, didn't see that one coming."
Boom! That plot twist though. Actually, now that I think about it, you probably could've guessed from the story summary. From this point on, the story will leave the PJO series and take place in Chaos' world. Characters from PJO will still appear, such as the god's that sided with lucifer. Bianca and Nico will live in Chaos' world with him since Zeus would probably use them to get two two Lucifer. The PJO series will continue with ryan taking Percy/Lucifer's place. Artemis will be freed from Atlas and Apollo will inform her of Lucifer's situation, so she will visit him too. Also, lucifer, bianca and Nico will form a team of heroes that die in the PJO series, just like most Chaos stories. Ryan and Lucifer harbor no hard feelings for each other. Also, I based Zeus, Poseidon and Hermes' looks off of the movies.
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