Chapter 2: The New Beginning

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians, that honour goes with Rick Riordan. Neither do I own any of the characters mentioned later.

Olympus: Kronos POV

I won't lie, I did not expect that to happen. Zeus was the selfish god, he was supposed to use his last bit of strength to try and have me evaporated but no, he had to do the only noble thing in his long life and blow up Olympus. He sacrificed himself to me as a captive in the end but in the process he slayed hundreds of my monsters and several demigods that I had used in the attack as well. But a bigger concern are the Olympians who he had let escape. Artemis, Apollo, Hera, Hephaestus and Poseidon were somewhere in the world, I can't sense them which means they must have put some type of boundary around themselves. No matter, once I take the underworld next and Hades, I will convince Tartarus to join me then I will hunt them down.

During this thought Helios, my brother had come up to me and let me know that the attack had gone according to plan. Both camps Jupiter and Half-blood had been overrun and most of the demigods had been captured. There were a few killed but that was inevitable, some were bound to go down fighting. The remainder however would be used in my next phase of attack, my siege on the underworld. That is going to be a tedious task considering Hades had only allowed a few entrances to be built and can call upon an unlimited undead army. We're going to have to see if my secret equipment will be able to get through that. In the mean time we have to deal with those Olympians however. Zeus will be kept in my palace once we rebuild our stronghold on Mount Tamalpais. Mount Othrys will be bigger and better than before. When we decide to show the mortals who we are they will quiver in fear and bow down, they will plead an oath to servitude to us. If they don't, what's a few billion deaths. Ares' fate has already been decided, he will be taking Atlas' old burden and hold up the sky for the rest of eternity. Krios has already accepted to watch guard over him while he rules the west coast. Helios will watch over Hermes and Aphrodite as part of his duties. Athena, Demeter, and Dionysus will be all under guard by our priceless ally Typhon. We gave him the southern states to watch over and ruin if he pleases, the only limit we placed is that he must wait until we reveal ourselves to the mortals.

That is our plan for the Olympians, the minor gods will be either forced to join our forces or join the demigods and be used as slaves. We won't make the same mistake as Zeus did, we will hold the world by fear and force them to worship us rather than give them a choice. A world ruled by fear will be under more control opposed to a world given a choice to follow or not. The mortals will either bow down or be destroyed. With the minor gods, captured demigods and a army of mortals behind us, there will be no future threat, only a time that will be indefinitely ruled by the titans. For now, however, we have some rebuilding to do at Mount Tamalpais.

One Week Later

"My Lord! My Lord!" Nemesis, a minor god that had helped topple Olympus had come running in the partially built throne room. "There has been another attack at Camp Half-Blood, we think it is the same group that attacked yesterday!". The day before an unknown group of either demigods or immortals had attacked the camp attempting to free the captives we held there. They failed in the attempt but left no dead behind so we don't know who it was. "The same thing happened, they surprised our sentries to make sure no one triggered the alarm then slowly moved towards the captives. This time however it seems they had brought archers, they were able to take out the guards before they knew they were there. They rescued 14 demigods my Lord" Nemesis reported.

"And do we have any idea who these saviours are by any chance?"

"All that we have is our assumptions, we do not believe they were gods for they would have been able to be a lot quicker. We believe that they were a group of demigods that were not at the camp when we had attacked."

"How many demigods do we have left in captive there?"

"We still have 25 there my Lord, we have also doubled the guard and doubled the sentries all around the camp. They won't get in again."

"These attacks are well coordinated, my guess is that a child of Athena is behind this with a small following of other demigods, some are well versed in warfare as they were able to take out the sentries quickly and quietly, as well as able to shoot the guards." This seemed the most reasonable explanation to me.

"I agree, the total count lost is 8 hell hounds, 12 dracaenae, and 4 empousa."

"I could care less about the troops we lost, every demigod life matters however, they are a key piece in my plan to take the underworld and capture the remaining Olympians. I will send Prometheus with one of my own groups of guard. They will go to camp Half-blood and bring the remaining captives to camp Jupiter. There we will be able to hold all the captured demigods from both camps in a small and easily defendable location. While this happens I want you to go and find out where these rogue demigods are and take them out. Can you handle that?"

"Yes my Lord, I am sorry if I have displeased you. I will go find and destroy this group right away."

"Be gone then."

As Nemesis left I couldn't help but overthink the problem. A simple group of demigods no matter how well trained will never break into camp Jupiter so the captives will not be taken from there. Yet they still cause me a headache so I might get one of my brothers to go find them, I doubt that half wit minor god will be able to come close to them. If it is a daughter of Athena, then there is no hope that they will be found easily. I'll have to take it in my own hands.

Top of the Empire State Building: Third Person

There were demigods running here and there in a hurry. Some were stocking weapons, some food. A few were tending to the wounded but a fair few were just sitting down looking at the ruin of Olympus. After the titans had destroyed it a week ago, they left it abandoned taking the Olympians to their jails and their palace in ruins. It was the perfect spot to set up camp their leader had decided. She had known that the last place the titans would ever look is at the place that is the most obvious. From there she was in range of camp Half-blood and was able to get there and back in a few hours, perfect distance to watch them and launch small raids if the opportunity arose. Just that happened earlier today, we had noticed that the usual sentries of dracaenae and hell hounds had lessened so they decided it was time to try again after their failure yesterday. The children of Hermes and Ares managed to take out the sentries sending them to Tartarus and the Apollo kids were able to shoot the guards to a few of the cabins before they knew we were even there. They saved 14 demigods from capture. 25 were still out there though, that's what mattered. In her mind she had failed, she never did anything less than perfect but this time she cam up 25/39 short. It was unacceptable, Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena does not fail. But she would have to take it for now, the rest of the ex-campers looked up to her now for guidance and leadership.

She and a few friends were lucky that they were not at camp when the titans attacked, they saw what happened though. Hundreds and hundreds of monsters, demigods and a titan had stormed through the barrier as if it was nothing. They scattered in an unorganized fashion yet they all clearly had their targets. A group of hell hounds attacked the dining pavilion, empousa took over the swords arena and the rogue demigods stormed the cabins. They watched as their friends either surrendered or died fighting. The attack was so intense and quick that as soon as it happened it was over. Camp Half-blood no longer belonged to the Olympians.

It was up to a small group of demigods who were out of camp just for some downtime. Luckily that small group of friends turned out to be the best in the camp and they consisted of: Clarisse Rue - daughter of Ares, Charles Beckendorf – Son of Hephaestus, Will Solace – son of Apollo, Travis and Connor Stoll – twin brothers and sons of Hermes, and lastly Annabeth Chase – daughter of Athena.

These demigods had witnessed their camp be destroyed and had sound out that Olympus had been ruined. All they knew is that they were alone and that they couldn't let this go down like this. They knew that they needed help but they had no idea that their saviour was just a few blocks away, currently in the middle of a grueling Math test.

Still trying to get the build up for the main plot, please leave a review or pm me if you like the story or have any ideas on the plot line. All criticism is helpful, good and bad. Thank you for reading.

-Alternativewriter