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Chapter 2

The camps were not too happy to find out that they were going to be 'saved' by four people they had never met before. Sofia and Cadmus especially. Sofia, Cadmus, Nico, Thalia, Leo, Hazel, Frank, and the rest of the seven of the great prophecy. They all fully believed that they would be able to take on this new villain, no matter what Chaos had said. But this new news that Athena had passed onto them was almost definitely the current Great Prophecy, which was…

The lady's warriors

From the four points of the earth

Four united for all that it's worth

But a child of the sea's final breath

Brings the fate, worse than death

By the four, two camps protected

From the foe, long neglected

Sofia found it odd that Chaos hadn't actually said who the villain was. She had been doing some research.

The Four Horsemen of Chaos had first apparently begun way back before the Golden Age, before the Gods.

They had first been known as Pestilence, Death, Conquest and Dread. Over approximately five million years, they had faded, and Chaos had acquired new Horsemen. War, came first, in the 1400s. He had apparently single handedly killed his whole family, mother, father, sister, brother, grandparents. Then the next had been his village. Chaos had apparently found him in the middle of a field of dead bodies, a knife in his hand, and the blood of his family and friends on his hands. War. Tough, merciless. Hell of a good fighter. Always has a large pitch black snake coiled around his neck or arm. Could apparently turn into a lion with ten heads, or a dragon that could spit poison and breathe fire. At least that's what the myths said, but she highly doubted it was true.

Next came Death, after a hundred years or so. Her heart had been ripped apart when she was five, so she never had any emotions. A pure black griffon vulture flying in the sky would show that she was nearby.

And then, most recently, only about a thousand years ago, two more emerged, Famine and Conquest. She couldn't find anything about their past. She knew that Famine had a white raven that never left her side. She was apparently a rare ice mage, from the North.

And then there was Conquest. There was practically nothing about him. He was apparently the strongest of them all, but had never left his boat, and didn't have an animal companion. Some said he was a fish or a merman, and that he had walked out of the ocean in an oyster.

Pfft. Yeah right.

But surely they wasn't more powerful than Cadmus and herself. With her unbeatable wisdom and his water powers and his combat skills. But hey, you never know. Best not to tell dear old stubborn, stuck up, egotistical Cadmus. Athena had told them that the Four Horsemen were coming at sundown. She glanced at the sky, approximately, judging by the angle the sun was at in the sky, as well as the shadows on the ground, she guessed it was 5:47. Not too long. She was interested to see what the 'great and powerful Four Horsemen of Chaos' could do.

Time skip to almost sundown

They would be coming soon. Sofia and Cadmus were on the watch towers, keeping an eye on the horizon. Well really only Sofia was watching. Cadmus was leaning against the railings, twirling his sword around expertly.

"There's something out there…" Sofia suddenly hissed. Cadmus rolled his eyes.

"Is it one of them stupid fancy shmancy 'horsemen?' The ones that are supposedly, *scoff* better than me?" Cadmus smirked, stating the word 'Horsemen' like it was something on his show that a pegasi had left as a present. Sofia ignored him. It was proving harder than defeating a Titan. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to feed his ego so much after all these years…

"No, this is more like an army. Perhaps the enemy is coming…?" Sofia muttered, thinking aloud. That must be it. The enemy was coming. Sofia grabbed the conch horn and blew as hard as she could. It was the sound of battle. Cadmus strolled back down from the watchtower to give inspirational talks to the army, and play the role of a loyal commander, something that he was not. Well, not the loyal part anyway.

Time skip ten minutes.

The pack of Camp Half fighters were gathered around the forest bordering the camp. As usual, Sofia had a plan. A group of about 20 of their second best fighters would hold the army off for, like, five minutes, then pretend to retreat. When the army follows them, into the camp, they group will 'mysteriously' disappear. Then Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter would close in around them and demolish the army as much as they could. She hoped it would work. But if it didn't…well it wouldn't be good. She would just let on she had a backup plan. Sofia snapped back to focus as she heard a rustling in the bushes. Something really really big was coming. A massive shadow loomed from the undergrowth. And I'm talking huge. Not as tall as a skyscraper, perhaps, but not a normal human for sure. About 20 metres into the air. All the fighters' swords, daggers whatever were in the air, ready for battle. And then the figure emerged. It was a huge giant, with pure blue skin and a bald head. It was carrying a massive club, and when it smiled, a row of yellowy-brownish green, if that was even a colour. Holy crap. This is the villain? I don't know so much about winning this war…and with an army that size… Then the second creature came out. A hunched creature about a metre and a half tall, ears like a bat, distinctly resembling a goblin from fairy tales.

"Now, now, ηλίθιος. We aren't here for a fight…" the creature goblin thing chuckled, "Peaceful negotiations only. We're here to perhaps…organise a peace treaty…to avoid bloodshed. Mostly yours, " Cadmus and Sofia gawked.

"Wait, your the evil villain that's gonna destroy the world?" Cadmus spluttered. The creature narrowed it's eyes to black slits, and Sofia swore she saw red glints in the pupils.

"Not quite the world… more the…universe and the universes around that?" the thing hissed in it's slimy voice, cocking it's head, "You have a problem, pretty boy?"

"Well…I was expecting more from an all powerful villain dude. More…you know… evilness?" Cadmus said dumbly. It took all Sofia's self-control to hold herself back from punching the idiot standing next to her, disguised as the commander and leader of Camp Half Blood. The villain dude apparently had more self control. It's slit black eyes, narrowed to even thinner lines.

"Well it seems we have a similarity. I expected more from the saviour of Olympus, immortal leader of Camp Half Blood, favourite of the gods, and representative of Poseidon," the villain said mockingly, dragging out it's words in a sarcastic drawl. Sofia mustered all her strength to force out a smile.

"I do apologize Mr… Mister. He can be a bit…you know," Sofia said soothingly, trying to get back on the good side of the world conquering villain that was up to her waist. "Shall we discuss the treaty that you mentioned?" The creature frowned innocently.

"What treaty?" it said. A sharp toothed grin spread across his face. Then it raised a gnarled hand. And uttered one word.

"Attack."

The trees suddenly melted into dozens, hundreds of shadows, Some crawling, some flying, some walking like humans. Some had gaping jaws, and some with long sharp tusks. There was about five monsters per person. Demons and other various evil stuff, most that Sofia had never seen of before. And they were all coming toward the tiny group of fifty.

"We're in deep crap, aren't we?" Cadmus said, able to fit that scrap of information into his thick skull.

"Yes we are sweetie, yes we are," Sofia said, moving into battle stance, sword ready for battle, facing the oncoming demons.

Time skip ten minutes

They weren't going to come out with a quarter of the people they began with, that much became obvious after about ten seconds. Five campers were simultaneously, instantly killed, their blood soaking the dirt at the others feet. There was no time to cry at their comrades feet, or drag them to the infirmary. If they did, they would be slaughtered as well. All they could was continue fighting. Sofia was fighting as hard as she could, Cadmus by her side. But apparently as hard as she could just wasn't hard enough. She raised her sword to deflect a stinger, but she was too slow, she squeezed her eyes shut, waiting for the barbed hook to sink into her flawless skin. But it never came. Cadmus had blocked the blow with his sword. Sofia breathed heavily, chest heaving.

"Thanks," she breathed.

"Anything for you sugar," Cadmus said, grinning in a way that he thought made him cool. It failed miserably. But Sofia pretended to swoon.

"Aww, you're so sweet," she sad, plastering a fake lovey dovey smile on her face. He smiled, and then turned to stab a hellhound through the heart. The battle was not getting any better. More were dying and they were down to about fifty, standing back to back. Then they were down to forty.

Then it happened. A hydra reared one of its heads and lunged toward Cadmus when his back was turned. He turned around too late, it's jaws centimetres from his face. But then it suddenly exploded into ash.

What the…

Everyone turned around. A figure with, a bowed head and black hood was leaning against a black Ducati, heavily armed with various weapons, nonchalantly flipping a knife. Even the demons turned around.

"Hello pretty boy. I just saved your ass didn't I?" the boy said smugly, glancing up. War. The First Horseman had arrived.

Feel free to give pointers about the prophecy…:\

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