Chapter 2 of the Adventures of Cyrus: An: Hey people, judging by the lack of reviews, views, and other such things, I'm going to have to add Percy in sooner than I thought I would, but onto the chapter.

Cyrus PoV:

It took 300 years for Zeus to discover our existence, our allied god and goddess, in Olympus, sent a one way Iris-Message, it went something like: "I call this council to session!" Zeus had boomed over everyone's bored voices, everyone instantly shushed in respect (Or rolled their eyes which was most) at Zeus' tone. "I have a pressing matter to address to the council, it appears, that a demigod we sent to investigate the strange power spikes in the East came back with a tale of a city, and a hidden castle of outcasts…Obviously these exiles, outcasts, monsters, and immortals seek to overthrow us, Artemis, you my daughter will take Athena, your hunt, and Ares with you to eradicate them from existence…" Zeus said, his voice changing from authority, to severity, and finally to anger and a bit of unnoticed fear. "Your main target is their leaders; their leaders go in from this order, lowest to highest: Johnathan Vercelli, an Italian assassin who has mastered the art of deception, Altair Ibn-La-Ahad, trainer of the Assassins, and one of the most dangerous, Tyrande "Night-runner", a Woman who has Aphrodite's beauty, yet a dangerous skill with a bow, crossbow, and something they call a blunderbuss, Julie and Julia Skavros, two dangerous twins with unknown parentage with skills with ranged weapons, close combat, and they never are away from the other, Raven Salvatore (IF I GOT THIS WRONG DON'T YELL AT ME PLEASE, JUST DON'T HAVE ME HANGED AGAIN) a Daughter of Tartarus, a dangerous woman with many skills in her opponent's torture, and lastly…" Here Zeus took in one giant breath.

"Cyrus Skavros, unknown parentage, is the main leader of this band of outcasts, has skills with bows, combat knives, throwing knives, something they call blunderbusses, a hidden blade, a hook-blade, and any sort of ranged weapon, and is always unseen by his foe…" While Zeus said every little thing of Cyrus (Me sorry forgot), Artemis got paler and paler, no one noticed except Hestia and Hades who were called in for the emergency meeting, they shared a look and had a hidden conversation, then Hades discreetly looked at the IM and mouthed unnoticed by all except us,

'Prepare for war, we will try to send you aid as soon as possible, remember your people come first', I nodded gravely, hoping he saw, he had a ghost of a smile upon his face when I did so, but I broke the IM anyways and said "Raven, I want you to take everyone out've the city, including Julie and Julia, those who are too young to fight." I said with an urgent sounding plea, she looked at me confused before nodding to gather the people of Masayaf for one massive exodus, an exodus from our original and permanent home; I spoke to the building as if it were alive… "Masayaf, hear my words, I swear it on the name of Chaos, that I will return one day with our people, together, and we will prosper once more, when I return, I pray that your eternal secrets are still about for me to discover for eternity…" I muttered lowly… I could feel the stone's sorrow somehow…I sighed lowly, and continued down the mosaic riddled walls, floors, and roofs with a somber mood set upon my heart.

"Tyrande" I called for my half-sister, she came and raised an inquisitive eyebrow, and I quickly continued "Give this letter to Raven if I do not return by the 5th week of the siege that will fall upon our home, tell her I was sorry for not being there…Tell her I loved her." I said with sorrow in my tone, I quickly chided myself from these thoughts and blew the Horn of the Elders, calling everyone but Raven, Julie, Julia, and Tyrande, they all came in, John with an envy filled look, I always wondered why he seemed jealous and filled with arrogance…

"Brothers, Sisters, I call you here today because Zeus has finally discovered us, he has sent Tyrande, Julie, Julia, and I's mother, Artemis, along with Athena and Ares to eradicate us, no doubt with a dozen of Demigod Contingents. I ask that you stand with me, fight with me, bleed and die with me so our people can escape safely, many or none of us may live through this, you do not have to fight if you do not wish to, if that is the case, I ask you to join Raven in leading the exodus of our people" I said my tone flat, but my eyes betrayed me, I was worried for them, as I moved my gaze around, I saw that not a single one wanted to step down from this fight, I was immediately filled with emotions I was rarely familiar with: Happiness, Loyalty, Pride, and the sense of family. "We are family, and we do not leave one another behind" John said his eyes filled with determination and actual compassion for once…John was peculiar, he had silver white hair, icy blue eyes, and had a scar going from his forehead to his shoulder, I found him running from a Hydra, Raven and I helped him kill it, and we recruited him into our small family we were building up, John's favored weapons were his hidden blade, deception, anonymity, a snake he would throw at people, and a Syrian Sword. His clothes consisted of a basic robe and face wrap, like most assassins within our people, he used a hidden blade. The other Elders I had never mentioned were:

Altair, who wore white robes with red trimmings, used a hidden blade, a hand crossbow, and throwing knives, no one had ever seen his face before, but he has many scars from battles riddled upon his face. Then there was Marcello , "Son of Jack", he had raven black hair, a lopsided grin on his face, sky blue eyes, along with blonde hair, his weapons were a sword, throwing knives, a crossbow, a blunderbuss, and lastly of course, a hidden blade. He was the one who made puns and jokes to keep our spirits up in a war time. There was also Vierno, who was a pig to most, but we needed his skills with his silver tongue, metalworking, and medicinal professions, he was arrogant, obnoxious, thought everyone loved him, thought all should be bowing to him, he even thought he should be leader, everyone pretty much loathes him, and he always tried to get rid of me, but I kept him praying he would change… I was wrong as usual. And that was it for the Elders, now we had to prepare.

Artemis PoV: As soon as the meeting ended, Athena, Ares, and I flashed to my hunters camp, "Girls, we have a new mission, and it will take us out've England." I said with a hint of despair at my voice, I prayed no one knew who Cyrus truly was… "What is the mission Milady?" My lieutenant, Zoe asked. I looked at her, Phoebe, and Atalanta, and said "We are to hunt down exiled and dangerous enemies to Olympus." I said coldly, "And father has assigned Athena and Ares to assist us." I said tenderly, knowing they would be angry. I looked over the amount of hunters I had. I had over 15,000 hunters, for we haven't received a mission for a long amount of time, allowing us to bulk up our hunters, I knew many of them would not return from the war, but I also knew Ares and Athena called in 15 contingents of campers, meaning 150,000 campers. I knew Cyrus was more than a match for most of them. I prayed to every divine being to let us win…

Assassin PoV: When Grande Mentore (Google translate people) Cyrus told us of the upcoming war, many of us had fear in our hearts, he said not many would survive, but still, none stepped down, we would fight for Masayaf till our bitter and dire end, which I fear will be soon.

Cyrus PoV: "Sir, we have a sight upon the attacking force, they number over 151,000, what are your orders sir?" asked the forward scout, I paled unnoticeably and replied "Wait for them to reach the strait, then we shall ambush them there, and make sure the Assassins with Rope Darts are in the hanging branches, concealed and ready to strike, tell the Ranged division to be ready with all of our weapons, including guns, and lastly, tell them to place the powder kegs at the bottle neck to be destroyed." I ordered him, he quickly gave me a salute and ran off to relay my orders…"I pray to you Lord Hades and Lady Hestia that we survive the upcoming battle, and send whatever aid possible soon…Thank you." I prayed quietly. I walked into the field that the hunters were coming to, alone and ready to fight them, then, I saw her, the goddess of the Hunt, or Tyrande,

Julie, Julia, and I's mother, Artemis… "So Zeus sends the hounds of Olympus to destroy us, I suppose I should feel honored." I said dryly, and challengingly. Artemis looked at me sadly but then, the one with the tiara, her Lieutenant I believe, said "Watch your tongue around Lady Artemis boy." She had practically spat the whole sentence as if it were our special poison… I raised an eyebrow and said "Do you wish to test our people Huntress? Because the Assassins are formidable, unseen, quick, silent, and deadly, yet I am here alone, how foolish do you think me?" I said with anger in my voice… Slowly, I made a one way IM playing the song of sorrow of our people… I don't own the song, so I'm gonna be lazy, look up on YouTube, Far over the Misty mountains cold full version or just use this link: watch?v=GuHB18GvA9E listen to it or burn! Back to our story

To say it unsettled the Hunters and Demigods was an understatement, their unease went from none, to some, and had rose up exponentially until they had fear upon their faces… I raised my hand, closed my fist and all they heard was a hawk screech and the first 100 of them dropped dead, or were pulled up into the branches and hanged with rope darts, now, my assassins stood by my side, ready to fight till our end. Both sides charged each other, with both sides using ranged weapons to launch volley after volley at the other, I charged at my own mother, Artemis and all I said was "Hello mother." She sent one last look of sorrow, which was most likely a ruse, and attacked me. Let the Siege of Masayaf begin…
AN: Whew, pretty damn long chapter, I don't know if I said this before, but any OC in this story, is an open OC to be used in anyone's story, just please give me the OC rights before you do, because then people think I stole from that Author and I get into trouble for allowing my OC's to be used by everyone, so please, just do it otherwise I'll flat out say no one can use any of my OC's unless I give them to the person for a story, or allow them to use it. Next chapter will contain the beginning days of the Siege of Masayaf, and I'll give whoever guesses Marcello's family connection into the future a free OC into my story or any story of their choosing, see you all next time. SLAM4C OUT PEACE!