Okay, I am hoping this chapter will be better than the last one. R&R! Oh and I realized that it could get confusing with two characters with the name Alec but I MIGHT have found a way to solve it. I know it will get confusing but, yeah, I guess I didn't think that one all the way through haha

Alec's POV

I stood in front of a small mirror. I stared into it drawing a blank. "Who are you?" I muttered to myself.

I couldn't remember jack shit from before I woke up on Olympus. I knew where I was and I knew my name. I knew where I had to go and what I needed to do but everything else was a humming blank.

How did I die? Did I want to be turned into what I am? Did anyone miss me? Was I supposed to miss someone? I didn't have answers to any of these questions.

There was a tap on the door. "Who is it?" I shouted.

Luke faded out of the shadows. "We brought you another one, Nikki." I had asked for them to not call me by my real name anymore. It had seemed like a good idea at first but I realized that I was a different person than before so therefore I needed a new name.

I glanced in the mirror again. "I'll be there in a minute."

"She's a fighter." Luke commented. "We almost didn't get her in."

"I'll be there in a minute." I told him again in a hard voice. I wasn't sure why but there was something about Luke that I didn't like. He followed orders but I just . . . didn't care much for him.

He left quietly and I took a deep breath. I left my room and faded through the tunnels into the feeding room. I hated the look of fear on demi-gods' faces but I was always so hungry.

The girl had dark brown hair and red eyes—a child of Aries. "Who the fuck are you?" She snapped.

"I'm the last person you're ever going to see. Well, at least while you're alive anyways." I told her bluntly. I found honesty was something they deserved before they died.

"You think you can kill me?" She laughed mockingly. "Bring it on."

I kinda liked this girl. "What's your name?"

"I'm Bex, daughter of Aries. Who the fuck are you?"

"I'm Nikki." I said simply then I attacked . . .

I left the feeding room with a happier attitude than when I went in—I always felt better after I fed. Luke was waiting outside the door. "We have seventy-two demi-gods in holding as of yesterday."

"So the camp will be a bit smaller this year, eh?" I commented.

"Yes, Nikki, but some of the workers want to know why we're not allowed to feed on them."

"Because I said so and if you feed on them, we won't have enough."

"Enough for what?" Luke asked. "We don't understand the orders you are giving us."

"Did you question the GreatOne as much as you do me?"

"No, but he was always clear with what he had planned." Luke told me.

I considered that. "Well, I don't think you would understand my plan even if I told it to you."

"What makes you say that?"

I turned and looked him in the eyes. "Just follow the orders, Luke. Round them up and lock them up. It is not that hard of a concept to grasp. Tell the workers that anyone who thinks I don't know what I'm doing can come ask me themselves."

Luke took a deep breath and nodded. "I'll spread the word."

"Good and have any of the workers fed on the demi-gods?"

"When we capture them, they take a small amount to keep them running but they do not bite the demi-god directly."

"Oh, the incision method, huh?" I smiled. "Well, they better not take more than necessary."

"I can assure you that is not a problem." Luke told me. "Do you mind if I make a request?"

I turned and smiled at him. "What would that be?"

"I would just like to request a demi-god to be brought in." Luke told me. "I would also like to put him at top priority if you don't mind, Nikki."

I thought about that. "Who would you like?"

Luke paused. "It's a demi-god named Percy Jackson."

The name caused something to stir in my stomach but I didn't have a clue who he was. I got the feeling that I should know who he was though; I didn't let it show. "I don't see a problem with that." I stopped a worker who was carrying an unconscious Aphrodite child. "Put Percy Jackson on the Top Priority list."

Nico's POV

I had left camp with Argus to pick up some new fighting equipment. They had been training the students twice as hard since the disappearances started.

We had left at a late hour but we had to get supplies. We shopped quickly and easily and we out in less than an hour. Argus left to go get gas from the convenience store and my cell-phone rang.

I stepped out of the van and walked around to the side of the store to answer the phone.

"Hello?"

"Nico, Chiron says you guys need to get back now. We're under attack. We don't know how they got through the wards but—ugh—hurry." Percy said on the other line.

I could hear swords clinging and shouting all around him and I pictured Annabeth and Percy fighting monsters to no end with their children hiding in the corner. "I'm on my way."

I hung up and started to run off to go grab Argus, but something caught my eye. It was a girl with blonde hair and very familiar features. I froze and stared when she stepped under the streetlight. "Oh, gods." I whispered to myself.

She crossed the street and was walking toward me with purpose. When she got next to me I noticed she was talking on one of those head-set phone things and she was looking for a private place. She passed me and continued down the alley.

I knew I had to go back to camp but it was her! I made a decision and followed her quietly into the alley. She turned a corner and I peeked around the edge before I followed. I ducked behind a dumpster and realized that just four yards away is where she had decided to stop.

"What the fuck do you mean 'we chased him'?" She shouted. "You went into the camp?"

I wanted to smile at seeing her again but something in her voice wouldn't let me.

"You did not get my permission to do that! You were told to follow orders!" She had a hard and deadly edge to her voice. "No! I said he would be put a top priority not that you could invade the camp to get him! Are you stupid? You might have just ruined the plan, Luke!"

I froze. Luke? No, no, no, she couldn't be with Luke now. That's not possible.

"He left me in charge!" She snapped. "You might as well bring in everyone. We'll have to move on this sooner than expected."

She hung up and started to walk away. She froze suddenly and turned back to the dumpster. I pressed myself out of sight but I could feel eyes boring into me. I heard the footsteps getting closer and shouldn't have been surprised when she stopped and looked at me.

"Who are you?" She asked eyeing me.

I stared at her in shock. "You don't—my name is Nico."

She gave me a quick once over. "You shouldn't listen to other people's phone calls, Nico. It's frowned upon in this country and many others."

She started to walk away and I stood up to my full height. "Do you know who I am?"

She turned and glanced at me. "No, but I have to go."

I remembered what she had told me but I couldn't do it. Not now anyways.

I watched Alec walk away and didn't fulfill her last request.

Percy's POV

The creatures from the tunnels were pouring into the camp. Annabeth and I shoved the kids under the bed and grabbed our battle gear. I gave Harley a knife and Alec held up a small dagger that she had taken out of the drawer and they didn't need to be told to use it if they needed to.

Harley was letting her fear show but Alec just looked pissed. "It's going to be okay." I told them before joining Annabeth on the porch to defend our cabin.

We were mowing them down at first but then four came at me at once. They knocked my sword out of my hands and I had to resort to hand on hand combat.

Annabeth took out three and then helped me by getting rid of two of my attackers before she was sidetracked by her own. I kicked one of my attackers under the chin and he collapsed instantly.

The second one caught me in a choke hold. Annabeth had her back to me and didn't see that I was about to pass out.

I heard a shout and then the person holding me was gone. I fell to the ground but shot to my feet to look behind me. Alec was holding her little dagger and breathing hard. "I'm sorry, but he was hurting you." She handed me my sword. "I had to help."

I smiled, took my sword, and patted her head. "It's okay, just go back inside."

I spun around and started fighting again. I took them out faster now. Something about knowing my children were watching made me move faster and kill faster. But they just kept coming.

Nico ran up after a few minutes and began to help us mow them down. We were doing pretty good in the cabin area but I wasn't sure what was going on around the rest of the camp.

We were just getting the upper hand when everything fell apart. I hadn't noticed we had been moving away from the cabin until I heard a shout the made my blood run cold.

"Daddy, help us!" Harley screeched. I turned to see Luke holding my baby girl. She was kicking and shouting but his hold was firm. Alec was being held by three of the tunnel creatures but they were having trouble keeping her still.

Annabeth snapped. She ran right for Luke but the Luke's workers got in the way. She cut down many of them but was soon over-whelmed.

"Let go of my children now!" Annabeth shouted and I could hear the anger and fury and fear in her voice. No one makes Annabeth feel like that and gets to live.

I shot through the creatures and almost made it to Luke before they all piled on me. I was knocked to the ground and held by several creatures. Nico was right there next to me.

"Let them go!" I shouted.

Luke tossed Harley to a worker and she shrieked. I clenched my teeth. The workers pulled me to my feet but managed to keep me held tight. Luke came to stand in front of me. "How have you been, Percy?"

I glared at him. "Go to Hell!"

He punched me hard in the gut and—despite my being invulnerable—it hurt like a mother fucker.

"Daddy!" Harley shouted in fear. I felt so bad for letting this happen.

Suddenly Alec broke free. She shot away from her capturers with amazing speed and leapt onto Luke's back. The men holding me reached to help him instinctively and I used it as an opportunity. I stole a sword form one of them and went to town on those mother fuckers.

Luke was fighting with Alec and she seemed to have a bad ass grip. In the chaos Nico broke free and helped me. This added onto other workers moving to help and Annabeth gain her freedom.

In the end, it was the six of the workers that had been holding Alec and were now holding Harley and Luke on one side and Annabeth, Nico, Alec, and I on the other.

Annabeth was holding onto Alec with everything she had. Alec was gripping a dagger so tight her knuckles were white. I felt so bad for her and Harley being scared like this and it occurred to me that I really should have left them with my mother.

Harley was sobbing. Luke glared at me. "You can't stop what's coming. The half-bloods are being rounded up. You are on the Top Priority list."

"I didn't know I was so special." I snapped. The fact that I was so pissed took away from the sarcasm.

"Well, you are." Luke informed me. "Now if you come with us nicely, we won't hurt any members of your family."

A worker put a knife to Harley as a warning. "Let her go first." I said.

Luke shook his head. "You know that's not how this works, Percy. Now I'm losing my patients."

I saw the worker push on the knife and Harley shouted in fear. "Alright!" I screamed, close to tears. "Okay, you win. You win, Luke." I threw down my weapons stepped away from my friends. "Let her go."

Luke smiled as he minions tied up my hands. Harley started to run off but Luke caught her. "I think we should add one more demigods to the list," He said with a smile.

"You said you would let her go!" Annabeth shouted. She was crying.

"Oh, I will. I'm just going to get as many as I can before I do." Luke said. "So, Annabeth, would you like to come with us?"

"No!" I shouted.

Luke taunted Annabeth by waving Harley's arm. "Don't you want to win your little girl's freedom?"

Annabeth didn't look at me when she threw down her knife. "Let my baby go, Luke, please. I'll go with you just let my little girl go."

Nico spoke suddenly. "Take me instead of Annabeth. I'm a child of the Big Three which means I'm more important."

Luke thought that over for a second and was about to answer when a phone rang. He laughed and answered it. "Yes, Nikki?"

He listened and then froze. "I'll make sure they know. What about a demigod named Annabeth? Is she on the list? . . . No, I didn't put her there, I was just asking . . . alright, Nikki, your orders will be obeyed to the letter."

He hung up. "Well, it seems we will be taking you up on that deal, di Angelo."

His workers tied Nico's hands up and I mouthed a silent "Thank you" to him. He smiled and shrugged. Luke let Harley go and she ran to Annabeth.

Annabeth snatched up her knife and looked like she wanted to come after Luke but one of Luke's workers hit her in the back of her head and she fell over unconscious. I shouted and the girls screamed in rage.

Alec threw a rock at the worker but he ducked. Then we were being carried off and I could hear the girls shouting behind us.