Here is the next chapter, part 2, enjoy and Review.

Crystal POV:

I sat outside, between my brother and Gabby, eating some food that that our parents had brought with them. While eating, we were also checking out the Vanguards, as in trying to figure out what they were like.

The ones who were dressed like Ka-Boom were all talking with each other about something. I noticed that they were all carrying different weapons, the biggest one was carrying a machine gun, one who was wearing a mask was carrying a revolver, another who was wearing a cowboy hat had a sniper rifle. The smallest one was carrying a ranger shotgun and a guy with a construction helmet and one with an army helmet were carrying regular shotguns, the latter had a rocket launcher strapped to his back. The eighth guy had a something that looked like a hazmat suit and a gas mask and carried a giant flamethrower and the last guy looked like some kind of doctor and he carried a giant gun, which I had no idea what it does.

"Do you think we can trust them? I mean sure they haven't attacked us, but they're with the Minotaur for God's sake." Gabby said. My brother looked at her like she grew a second head.

"How can you say that Gabby, I mean their being led by my Dad for Poseidon's sake, they can't be that bad."

"Doesn't mean they can't give you the creeps, liked that guy over there." I said, pointing to the spiky black hair guy. Every time he looks at something I feel like he's going to let loose something horrible on them, and his unusual size did not help settle the feeling.

"Don't worry, he gives everybody that feeling." Someone said. I looked up and saw another one of the new Vanguards, unlike the other one I was looking at this one was different. He had more of a calm feeling, but I felt like if he ever got mad, Gods help that poor soul.

"You know him?" Gabby asked.

The guy shrugged, "More or less, he and I are usually paired up for missions so he's not that bad." He jumped down so he was standing right in front of us. "The names Shock by the way and the creepy guy over there is Reaper."

I didn't say anything, only nodded and then my Dad and Grandma emerged from the tent. Dad walked out front, his hood hiding his facial features while Grandma's face was shown with shock and a little bit of anger for some reason. Shock spotted my Dad and started walking towards him after doing a dramatic bow to us, "It has been an honor to meet the lovely daughter of Blade." He said causing me to blush. Chad rolled his eyes in sarcasm.

"Flirt" He mumbled as he watched Dad talk to Reaper and Shock. Then out of nowhere, an explosion happened, near the far left of the camp. Sounds of people and gun fire could be heard nearby and soon on the right side of camp. We all got up, grabbed our weapons and my brother and I ran towards our Mom who was with Thalia and Leo. The Vanguards gathered around Blade while the Vanguard with sniper rifle took a look through his lens.

"Skralls" He told Dad, "And Bone Hunters, probably trying surround us while engaging us."

"Wait how did that find us? The Gods made sure to triple the power around the barrier of this camp." Leo said as he readied his hammers. The guy named Wolf rolled his eyes.

"No offense kid, but your Olympian's powers aren't enough to hide you from the Fade." He said and then did a sniff. "Also you guys have a pretty noticeable smell."

"Enough" Dad said, earning all of the Vanguard's eyes on him. "Ka-Boom, take Recon and Trooper with you and engaged the Skralls at the left. Snipes, you stay here and take them out with your sniper rifle. Big, you and Doc go and engage the Bone Hunters at the right, take Stealth and Burns with you. Shock, head into the air and attack from above. Mechanic, start getting us some sentries here now."

Then he turned towards Reaper, "Reaper" He said, "Feasting time"

For a split second I could've sworn that I saw Reaper's eyes turn blood red when Dad said that, just before he faded into a shadow. Then Dad turned towards the rest of us, "All other Vanguards are with me. The rest of you do whatever."

"What do you mean 'whatever'?" Charlie asked, walking up to Dad, "You're acting like you don't give a rat-ass about us."

Dad just stared at him for a moment before answering, "I have no authority over you guys, hell I shouldn't even be talking to you guys. I have more important things to do then help you guys."

And with that he walked away, leaving us to our own devices.

Normal POV:

Shock took the form of an eagle, made out of electricity, and flew into the air. He circled the sky to get a bird's eye view of the situation.

The Bone Hunters were harassing the mortals with hit-and-run attacks, allowing the Skrall to attack the stunned soldiers easily. He could see a few demigods and satyrs now and then but Shock doubted it would do anything. He then noticed that the Skrall were pressing very hard through the southeast area of the campsite.

"Guess I'll start there" Shock thought to himself as he did a nosedive towards the action, shooting two lightning bolts at the enemy. Once most of the Skralls were vaporized he landed and pulled out his dual sword. Electrifying his hands and sword, Shock cut down two more Skralls before engaging the rest.

He heard a scream behind him and turned around to see that a Skrall had been shot dead in the chest. Two more join him as some fast entity ran around the battlefield, baffling foe and ally alike. But Shock knew who it was; it was the fast member of the annihilators, Recon, zooming around the area with his speed. Shock caught a glimpse of him pulling out his battle bat, hitting a Skrall in the head, yelling, "Boink!"

Soon Ka-Boom and Trooper had arrived, "Kill em all!" The former shouted as he launched his grenades towards the Skrall, laughing as they exploded. Trooper had just dodged an attack from a Skrall's thronax launcher, the owner standing on top of a small hill, "Maggots!" He yelled as he fired a rocket, killing the Skrall right on the spot.

'Let's just hope the others are having an easier time then we are.' He thought to himself as he fried another Skrall.

Snipes stared through his weapon's lens, taking shouts on either Bone Hunters or their beasts. As he did he would keeping shifted his attention back to his friends or mates as he called them, who were out in the field. Bigs had begun mowing down the enemy while the Doc was behind him, doing their combo; while Big fired, Doc protected him with a beam that struck his body, turning his skin into an armor of energy.

"Hello" Snipes said as he struck another Bone Hunter in the head. As he reloaded he heard a stomping heading his way. He looked through his lens and spotted at least a dozen of Skrall Elites, bulky warriors of the species with tough armor and clubs.

"Holy Duty!" He cried as he realized that they were heading right towards him. Wasting no time, he opened fire on Skrall elites. Unfortunately, their thick armor made it difficult for a bullet to pierce them.

Bigs was having an easier time then his sniper buddy. His machine gun was literally ripping apart Skralls and Bone Hunters alike. Skralls fired Thronax launchers at him, but with the Doc using his Health cannon, Bigs could shrug off any damage done to him.

"RUN COWARDS!" Bigs laugh as the enemy began to flee from his firepower. Doc smiled until something caught his attention on the right where dozens of Elite Skralls came pouring in, bashing aside soldiers and demigods.

"Bigz, more targetz approaching from the right!" Doc shouted to his friend. Bigs saw the enemy a laughed with joy as he charged right at them, "Ha, Ha, maybe they will put up more of a challenge then their puny friends!"

One by one, Skralls fell to Reaper's power. Darius had to admit it was one of the scariest things he had seen in his life, because from his view the Vanguard was only using his bare hands against the attackers.

Every Skrall that came at him were either torn to pieces, ripped in half, or had some other horrible thing done to them. Some of them started firing the weird spiked balls at him, but they nearly bounced off Reaper's skin, causing him to laugh.

"You're deaths feed me, makes me strong!" He said with a twisted laugh.

Death? Strong? A thought came into Darius's head: What if this guy was somehow absorbing the Skrall's souls and using them to give him strength? That would explain why he was so powerful too.

All of a sudden Reaper paused his pounding on a Skrall, his head coming up revealing a puzzled look on his face. A few seconds later he snarled and tossed his enemy to the side and walked towards the humans. "I must go now, I've eliminated enough of them so they won't give you a hard enough time protecting this position."

And before any questions could be asked, he disappeared, back into the shadows.

Blade POV:

I was leaning against an old car when Shock and Reaper appeared, no scratch marks on their armor or any other signs of wounds, as usual.

"So what's the deal Blade? You made me miss on half of my meal." Reaper said as he picked his teeth, trying to dig out anything. Shock rolled his eyes before focusing on me as I already had begun to speak.

"Miserix is getting impatient; he wants his mask back now more than later." I said, "I've left Wolf in charge of the others as planned so we can head out now."

"So where are we going anyway? The Fade must've hidden it in a defensible location, even for Vanguards." Shock said as he sharpened his swords, electricity following him as he did so.

"To a place that would is more like a maze now than anything else now." I said as I opened a portal. "The islands of Hawaii."

Hi sorry it took me so long. I've been dealing with stress and depression at school a lot due to I have to redo my Algebra regents and with other problems I'm having. Also I got distracted on some of my other stories too.

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