Ch. 4 The Unconscious

Previously…

But just then, the earth began to shake and both Leo and piper fell to the ground. Their eyes widened with shock.

"That feels like… Gaia. Oh no! We need to find Percy quickly."

Leo and Piper proceeded quickly. Less than a minute later, they came to a stop; their pupils constricted.

What they saw was Percy surrounded by Gaia and two others who looked equally as powerful.

Without thinking, Leo charged at them from where he was standing 30 metres away.

"PERCY!"

But it was all too late. Before Leo had even ran 5 metres, Gaia and her two companions vanished, taking Percy with them.

Percy just got… KIDNAPPED!

Planet Earth, Mt. Olympus. 6 Hours Later…

Around the time when Percy picked the people he wanted in his Army for Chaos.

"PERCY WAS KIDNAPPED?!" Poseidon was raging. There were countless floods all over America and the sea level in the Globe overall had increased. Who knew how long it was going to take before a tsunami hit somewhere.

Around 20 members from Camp Half-Blood were bowing in front of the gods as they explained the matter to them. Chiron was there as well; his had his head down.

*Ding*

Just then, the lift in the 600th floor of the Empire state building opened and around 15 demigods of Camp Jupiter stepped out led by Reyna, daughter of Bellona. Their facial expression were similar to those from Camp Half-blood. Most of the gods started flickering between their Roman sides and Greek sides as their children bowed down to them.

Athena stayed in her Greek form as her roman form- Minerva- had no children. It was the same for Poseidon. Zeus, however, took a huge change in facial expression as he saw the Roman half-bloods; he had really bad feeling. Instantly, his Roman form took over. This was all because: he couldn't find Jason in the group of Romans.

"WHERE IS MY SON?!" Bellowed Jupiter.

Reyna stepped forward. "H- He had just arrived back at Camp Jupiter from Camp Half-blood and was telling us the situation there when he just froze and went unconscious. And then a few minutes later, he just vanished. We looked everywhere in the camp but couldn't find him"

"N- No… It can't be." As Jupiter heard what Reyna said, the tiny spark of hope he had left in his heart had completely vanished. He had hoped that Jason remained back in Camp Jupiter, but deep down, he already knew.

Athena frowned. She was almost certain that Jason along with Percy was kidnapped by Gaia and her siblings. But something didn't quite feel right. Despite being the smartest Olympian and Roman god, she wasn't able to put her finger on it. Nonetheless, she knew her feeling was right.

If Primordials attacked, even if they had already accomplished their goal, they wouldn't just leave like that. This bit, Athena was certain. But why did they not attack camp a bit more a take a few more demigods before they left. Unless… there was something that she didn't know about them. Athena had no idea about the situation with their kalόs and kakόs situation.

*Thud*

Just then, Nico fell from where he was standing, completely and utterly unconscious. It seemed that a similar thing that happened to Jason in Camp Jupiter is happening to Nico.

Hades flashed in from the underworld.

"No… not Nico as well." Hades was trembling. "I already lost Bianca today from Elysium, I can't lose you too."

He held Nico in his arms and tried to get him to wake up.

Jupiter's form flickered and he turned into Zeus again as Artemis also flashed in holding Thalia in her arms.

Zeus' pupils constricted, "NO!"

Out in the mortal world, a similar scene to when Poseidon and Zeus were fighting when Zeus' lightning bolt was stolen was occurring, but on a much bigger scale.

Athena frowned once more; nothing seemed to add up.

Planet Celestia, Chaos Place. Few minutes earlier.

"As I was saying," began Chaos. "Other than Bianca, Beckendorf and Silena, you can recruit the rest of the people to the team. Should I bring their conscious here now for you to ask them?"

"Yes, please." Percy stilled wanted to know the true reason as to why he couldn't bring them and Annabeth but trying to find out now was pointless. All he could do was sigh.

Chaos closed his eyes for a moment and in the instant he opened them, there were five illusory holograms in front of him. They belonged to: Calypso, Zoë, Luke, Nico and Thalia.

It was because of this summoning by chaos that their real body went unconscious. However, you do not need goddess Athena to figure out that Jason was not one of the five, summoned by Chaos. So as to what exactly happened to Jason, it was still unknown.

Whilst they were all confused as to what just happened, Nico's eyes settled on Percy.

"Percy!" Nico exclaimed. "You are okay!?"

"Well, yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

It was at this moment that the remaining four came out of their confusion.

"Percy?" Thalia said. "What's going on?"

"I thought you were kidnapped by Gaia and two other Primordials." Nico was still scanning their surrounding for anyone other than Chaos. Then he finally pointed at Chaos and said: "Who's this guy?"

"Yooooo.. wassup, emo kid?" Chaos started acting like a 'teenager with hormones acting up' again.

Thalia immediately interrupted Chaos' introduction as soon as he said 'emo kid' to Nico.

"You looking to die?" questioned a furious Thalia, wielding her close combat spear.

"Wow.. wow.. wow.. chill, sparky." Percy stopped Thalia before she got herself killed. "That's Lord Chaos right there; don't go getting yourself killed so quickly."

After that problem was sorted and Chaos properly introduced himself, Percy began to explain why he asked Chaos to bring them here; for the army that Chaos wanted him to create.

As all this happened, Percy turned to look at Zoë and Calypso.

He wasn't quite sure what to tell Zoë. After all, she did sacrifice herself to save Percy Annabeth and Artemis. Thanking her wouldn't be enough to express his gratitude hence, he merely looked at her and smiled, awaiting her reply.

"I am willing to be part of thy army." She smiled back at him.

"Oh boy," Chaos chipped in hearing her say that. "We sooo need to get her up to date; both with the way she speaks and the way she's dressed."

Zoë glared at him as he said that but did not dare to say anything. Even though Percy hasn't been with Chaos for very long, he was already starting to get used to Chaos' behaviour. Sometimes, so serious that he would kill you if you did something out of the ordinary but other times a complete… idiot.

Percy faced Calypso, who also had a smile on her face.

"All those years ago when I came to your island, I made a promise." Said Percy. "I guess it's about time I fulfilled that promise. Are you willing to join my team here in planet Celestia?"

"Do you even need to ask?" The smile on her face turned into a grin. She was filled with gratitude towards Percy. All these years, she wished someone would take her away from that island and finally someone has fulfilled her wish.

"Wait, Percy, I have question." Thalia suddenly blurted out.

"Yeah, what's up, Sparky?"

"Is my brother, Jason, here already?"

"Your brother? Why would he be here?"

"Because he went unconscious just after you were kidnapped," said Nico. "Just like us right now"

Whilst Nico didn't know it, his own sister was also missing from the underworld.

Even though no one could see it, there was a slight grimace in Chaos' face. Earlier he was not 100% sure when he made up a reason to tell Percy about Annabeth. But now he seemed to figure out what happened to the few people that Percy wanted to bring here and that son of Jupiter that these children just spoke of. Chaos knew it wasn't a good idea to tell them exactly where he supposed they were, in case he got their hopes up and what he said was not true. So in the meantime, Chaos decided to make up another lie.

"Percy hasn't brought him here, but don't worry, he's safe." Chaos announced.

"Phew... I am glad," Thalia thought out loud and then immediately bowed to Chaos. "Thank you, Lord Chaos."

"Hmm… you two," Chaos began, looking at Nico and Thalia. "It's best if you don't say your good byes because even the gods do not know the difference between our kalόs and kakόs side. If they find that they do not actually rule everything and just barely one galaxy, they will surely rebel with their level of intelligence. Even though there are some rather intelligent ones, they wouldn't even have a chance to give in their input.

After confirming that Nico and Thalia are staying, Percy turned to face Luke. There wasn't much needed to be said. They both felt gratitude towards each other. Percy; towards Luke because he was the one who gave Luke the dagger. Luke; towards Percy because it was because of Percy that many people came to accept him in the Elysium.

"I would be glad to work as a member of you team, Percy." Luke sounded like he did when Percy first came to camp; the person that considered Percy's wellbeing when he was in the Hermes Cabin.

At this moment, back in Olympus, Nico's and Thalia's body disappeared just likes Jason's. However, as to what exactly happened to Jason, no one knew.

1 year later…

"You ready?" Chaos probed.

"Yup," nodded Percy.

"Don't forget what I said," reminded Chaos. "Just condense all the particles around you into steam and use that to travel to the desired place, okay?"

"I know, I know..." And Percy was gone, just to appear 300 metres away.

"Good job." Praised Chaos. "I think that was the quickest one yet."

Percy was just practicing teleportation. As mentioned above, he used the steam to teleport. It was quite difficult to explain but he named it 'Vapour Travel'. He managed to use this teleportation ability as he gained enlightenment and guidance from Chaos as he showed Percy a mist vision on how his descendant Pontus used his teleportation ability; it was on a whole other level compared to his father's - Poseidon's – technique.

Thalia's looked the coolest as she 'rode' the lightning, like the ghost riders in supernatural myths. Well, I guess after all that has happened, you can't really call them myths. Just the lightning flashing lightning produced as she teleported was enough to leave your mouth open for a fly to go inside all the way to your stomach and back. The name she gave her technique was quite simple: 'Lightning Flash.'

Calypso's teleportation ability was linked to earth and it's nature. Her teleportation ability causes the natural law to descend down on to earth which she uses to flash to her desired location. So it made sense that she called it 'Natural Heavenly Descent.'

Nico's teleportation ability was extremely similar to his 'shadow travel'. However, the distance covered by this was much greater, at least by a 100 times. And just like everyone else's, Nico's teleportation power as comparable to a primordial god. His enlightenment regarding his teleportation was from a mist vision shown to him by Chaos which showed the techniques of Erebus, the primordial god of darkness, and Asteria, a lesser goddess of the stars. He combined those – especially the techniques from the goddess Asteria – with his own shadow travel to create something that he called: 'Star God's Broken Shadow.'

Excluding Thalia's teleportation ability, Luke's was the fastest as it had something to do with Wind element. Whilst it was not as fast as a lightning ability, it was still fast beyond compare; it was the second fastest teleportation ability in the team. Even though Luke had mastered his teleportation ability already, he felt like as if it had further potential to evolve real soon. Hence, he had not named his technique yet.

The longest activation time was taken for Zoë's teleportation ability. This was because: out of the six people in the team, her teleportation ability had the greatest range; it was able to cover an entire planet. Her teleportation almost created an image of a moon. Even though she gained powers from Chaos and is probably almost as strong as Artemis, if not stronger, she still viewed Artemis with great respect. It's as they say, 'once a master, always a master.' Unlike the others, she hadn't quite mastered her teleportation ability. It was understandable given how difficult a technique it was to grasp. Therefore, she also hadn't named her teleportation ability yet.

Just as everyone was about to leave, completely exhausted from their hard work and training, Chaos called after them.

"Tomorrow, all of you must come to the briefing room. I think it's about time you did your first mission."

Interesting Fact: If you feed a random horse (you see walking around on a street by itself a donut), and it accepts it, there is 76.84% chance that it is Blackjack. He he…

Chapter 4 is here. As always, please point out any mistakes, including grammatical errors; I will try to fix them as soon as possible.

NCH, teleporting away, using Nico's 'Star God's Broken Shadow.'

-Published: 24th January 2017