"Very good, very good I must say your skills are coming along quite, quite nicely." Tartarus commented.

"Now for a final test of mine to observe if you are truly ready to advance to Erebus." Tartarus said, "For your final test you will be fighting a drakon."

"Easy enough" I thought...

"With no armor or weapons except those of what you make while fighting the beast." Tartarus finished.

He lowered the platform on which we were standing to a level where the beast lay waiting. As it uncoiled it bared its fearful teeth, and dove at me trying to rip me apart. As I dodged I saw a glimpse in its eye that spoke wordlessly of total evil and hatred. A usual mortal would have been terrified and stood frozen to the spot. But ever since my trip to the Styx and acceptance of Chaos' invitation my physical and metal features had been altered.

For example my eyes had changed from their original color to those of a white-blue that constantly was swirling mesmerizing any who stared directly into them until I looked away. It also I learned when I faced Medusa kept me from suffering any ill effects of staring monsters in the eye. My physical strengths had been greatly advanced to those of a god, or for that matter greater. I could feel the power of chaos churning inside of me begging to be released but I held back feeling that I was not yet ready to unleash my full power, fearing that I would be unable to stop. I no longer had the ability of the Achilles Heel so that I had skin of steel, but whenever cut or injured my body would regenerate automatically within a moments notice no matter how life threatening the wound turned out to be. My skin however did harden to that of a regular set of armor, so that only a direct hit from a sharp object could cut it, and with my armor I was pretty much untouchable. My hair grew gold streaks, which must have been part of the Chaos thing, or another gift from Aphrodite.

But I saw something else in those terrible eyes, I saw recognition. Then I realized that this was the same drakon as the one from the Titan war. I knew i was bound to find it again sometime, but this must have been organized by Tartarus. I flipped over its back and landed on its head. It lashed my around to try and shake me lose. I focused on the pull of my gut, and a sphere of water formed out of the moisture in the air. It slowly formed the shape of a trident, but I quickly changed it to a double spear, because it reminded me too much of my old life. The blades started to frost over and soon the spear was completely encased in an ice shell. I broke the spear in to two and drove both ends in to the eyes of the beast. The drakon shuddered nearly throwing me, but I hung on for dear life. The body turned to dust crumpling and the shell fell to the ground clattering with a terrible rattle. The shell shrunk down and morphed into strangely the spear I had killed it with, but this time it was made out of drakon shell and it had a sense of pure darkness around it like Tartarus himself had.

"Impressive spoil of war, carry it with care, it was altered by me at the moment of creation so that it shall never break, nor grow rusty. It also shall suck in the essence of the monster, much like that gothic friend of yours." Tartarus said.

"Gothic friend?" I pondered then remembered, "Oh Nic..." My voice trailed off. "Tartarus, with all do respect I have no friends other than you and Chaos, my liege. That old puny self of mine no longer exists."

"Very well, very well young Per... I mean Omega." Tartarus said.

"Thank you. A question though my liege how will I find Erebus?"

"A good question however Chaos has already thought of that. Kim, please come forward." Tartarus said pointedly at the shadows behind him. A young girl of my age, or a year younger stepped forward. She was tan and she had beautiful blond hair, running to her chest.

"Hello Omega, my name is Kim." She said as she stepped forward to shake my hand. As I reached out to grab it, I yanked it back last second remembering that I hadn't had human contact in the longest time.

"Um, hi..." I said very awkwardly.

"Sorry, Kim, Omega here doesn't have to fond of memories with human attachment." Tartarus explained.

"It is no problem." Km said, but sounded a bit dejected.

"So, Erebus..." I started.

"Yes, Kim here is the assistant of Erebus, and is his bridge to the outside world since he doesn't get out much. She will take you to the location of him via world rips." Tartarus told me.

"World rips?" I asked.

"Yes haven't you explored the power of Chaos?" I shook my head so he continued. "World rips are used to travel long distance by ripping through time and space."

"Oh..."

"Very we'll you shall just have to take the long way then." And with a snap we found our selves in the middle of downtown New York.

"So where exactly is Erebus?" I asked Kim.

"He resides in Alaska. One of the only gods to live up there, so he gets left alone. Also, it's the darkest state in the entire country of America, which makes sense cause he's the primordial god of darkness and night." Kim said nervously, and it reminded me of Ella, the harpy, when she's around Tyson. It's a shame the two of them disappeared after the Giant war, cause Ella said it was just too much excitement and they disappeared to "a quiet place with lots and lots of books" as Ella put it.

"Very well, we'll just travel via Pegasu... Um boat I mean." Remembering the painful memory of Blackjack.

"Actually if you don't mind we can go to him with shadow travel, one of the perks of the job." Kim said.

"Very well, but a question, of you don't mind, are you a demigod?" I questioned.

"Well, no. Erebus found me when my house burned down from a lightening strike and he raised and trained me ever since." She answered.

"Then lets get a move on."

"Well you'll have to grab on to me if we don't want any incidents." Kim stated, hiding excitement.

Again I hesitated. The last time I had human contact was when... Well it was to painful to remember. "I'd rather not..."

"Oh come on" she said and grabbed my hand and we shadow traveled.

We landed on a platform of obsidian. She let go of my hand saying "Will your body please decide whether it wants to be cold or hot it keeps changing. Anyways we arrived." Before us lie the great fortress of Erebus.

A/N: I letting you guys decide, should I make the chapters longer and more in detail or post one every day. Review or P.M. As always may your swords stay sharp.