I couldn't believe my eyes. Yeah, Chiron said that there was some mystery army coming to help us, but I couldn't help staring at the guy behind the girl who's name was Charlotte, apparently.

'Percy?' I thought. I hadn't thought that name in years. Ever since Noah had tricked one of the Hecate kids to make him look like Nico so he could tell Percy that I cheated on him, I never wanted anyone else. So I joined the hunters.

I then realized how stupid I was being. This man didn't look at all like Percy. Percy had been slim, but this guy… well, honestly, he had a perfect body. Really buff muscles, not so buff that they're gross, but buff enough to be sexy.

His voice was also different. Sure it slightly sounded like Percy, but it was clouded by the many things this man had obviously seen.

The only resemblance he had to Percy was his messy black hair and his sea-green eyes.

Charlotte invited him to speak, and he was freakin' scary. He slapped two people before we got the message.

!#$%^&*()

I awoke to a blow horn. When I was dressed and went outside, it was still dark.

The general's voice boomed over the field, "You have twenty minutes to eat breakfast!"

"Yes, sir!" everyone screamed.

I sat down at Athena table; I looked over at the general. He was smiling. It was a rather screwed up smile. Two scars crossed over the middle of his lips and there was one coming from his mouth to his jaw, making him look like he had a half-smile on.

He was laughing at something the Charlotte said.

'Hmm,' I thought. Maybe… Our eyes met. He instantly had a look of pure hatred in his expression. His eyes looked out of focus like he was remembering something or like he wasn't looking at me. I turned my head to see if he was looking at someone else. All I could see was forest.

'How dare he?' I thought. 'He doesn't even know me!'

Training was hard as crap. Everyone got to decide if the wanted to be an assassin, a trooper, a messenger, a chaos guard, or tactical battle planner. There were four commanders and the general. Charlotte would train all who wanted to be assassins, commander Ly would train all who wanted to be a messenger, commander Mayeroud would train all who wanted to be a chaos guard, and commander Smithe would train all who wanted to be a tactical battle planner.

Almost every Hermes camper went to the messengers. The ones that stayed were debating between assassins and troops. Troops, you don't have to master as many cool moves, but you were stuck with the hateful general. Assassins would be rigorous training from the nicest out of the commanders, Charlotte.

Every Athena camper went to the tactical battle planning… except for me. I went to the general's people. There were only three people standing by the general to get his training. Noah, Nico, and I. the general looked at Noah in disgust, then at ME in disgust. When he turned to Nico, however, he smiled.

"Nico di Angelo, right?" he said. Nico stiffened. He saluted and said, "Sir, yes sir!"

The general smiled again. "I've heard some great things about you." Nico smiled. The general held out his hand. When Nico took it and shook, the general said, "My name's David, by the way. Sir David to be precise."

Nico saluted again and said, "It's very nice to meat you, Sir David."

It turned out that we three were the only troops of the whole camp.

David led us to the arena and said, "First, let's see you guys's swordsmanship skills."

I realized that he had a New Yorker accent when he said, "You Guys's"

David looked at Noah and an evil smile spread across his face. "So, Noah is it? I heard that you defeated Gaia when she rose to power a few hundred years back."

Noah smiled his annoying, little, arrogant smile. "That's right!"

David's evil smile became even more sinister. "Well, then let's see what you got."

He walked to a black chest in the corner of the arena and pulled out Riptide, Percy's old sword. Wow I was thinking that name way more than usual.

"Uh," Nico said nervously, "That sword is kinda a reminder of a great hero. We don't generally use it."

Nico braced himself for the tsunami of harsh words coming his way. So you can imagine the surprise in his face when the most gruesome sound filled the arena. It sounded like an elephant seal dying. Great gasps in and out.

It was an even bigger surprise when we all realized that the noise was David's laughter. "I've heard a lot about this so called, 'Perseus Jackson,'" he said as he laughed, "And honestly, I think he is a joke!" this made Noah very happy.

"I know, right." Noah said, relieved that someone thought the same as him.

I personally wanted to chop David's head off, and from the expression on Nico's face, so did he.

I opened my mouth to say something, but David got there quicker. He charged Noah with god-like speed.

David simply hit the stunned Noah with the hilt of Percy's blade, and Noah fell to the ground.

"Hey!" Noah screamed. "You little piece of shit! I wasn't even ready!" that got the general going.

"GET UP!" he screamed. "AND DON'T YOU EVER CALL ME ANYTHING BUT SIR OR GENERAL! DO YOU UNDERSTAND, SOLDIER?" he kicked Noah in the stomach.

Noah cringed, but weakly muttered, "Sir, yes sir."

!#$%^&*()

Training was freaking hard. The whole day, David just battled us with Riptide to see our Swordsmanship. He didn't show any sign of emotion the whole time. Just a blank expression, as if he were bored. He won every time. There were times were we held the game out for a few seconds longer, for the duels usually only lasted four or five seconds anyway, but other than that, he would destroy us.

I was currently walking on the beach, for it always made me happy, knowing that this was Percy's favorite place. I was strolling along, when I noticed a figure sitting on the shore.

Now, it was dark, seeing as it was the middle of the night, so I couldn't make it out. I walked closer and realized it was someone sitting down. When he or she noticed me he or she didn't turn around, he or she (Wow I'm using he or she a lot!) just said, "Why are you up so late, soldier?"

I instantly knew who it was. I went to sit down next to him. "I could ask you the same question."

"And I could beat the living shit out of you, wise girl." A second after he said it his eyes widened in frustration for jus a second before returning to normal. I was totally shocked.

"D-did you just call me, 'Wise Girl'?"

"Yes, so what." I quickly regained my composure.

"Oh, nothing. It's just this guy I used to date called me that."

The general looked surprised. "I thought you were a hunter. Didn't you join because you despise boys?"

"No," I told him. "It is because one night he disappeared and I-I was in love with him."

At this David's jaw tightened. "Do you have any idea why he left?" he asked his jaw still rigid.

"Yes," I said. "Do you know that guy in our group? He's got long, black hair and sea green eyes, just a shade lighter than yours?" he nodded. "Well," I continued. "He- I guess he wanted to be my girlfriend or was jealous of Percy-"

"Percy?" David asked, surprised. "Percy Jackson? You went out with him?"

"Yeah…" I said.

"Hmmm…"

I looked at him for a second before going on. "So, anyway, Noah was jealous, so he got a Hecate kid to make him look like Nico, the other kid in our class and Percy's best friend. As Nico, Noah told Percy that I cheated on him." I finished.

The general seemed to ponder something for a long minute before saying. "You know I knew Percy Jackson."

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah," he replied. "He was my first job." Oh-uh. That didn't sound good.

"What do you mean, 'Your first job?'"

"Well, I started out in the army as an assassin. Percy Jackson was my first target. To prove that I was worthy, I had to erase all trace of him. All of his old life. His old friends. All of it."

I looked at him in horror. "Y-you killed Percy?" I asked, stunned.

He looked at me back with a surprised expression, as if he hadn't expected this extreme reaction to my only lover's death. "Well," he said. "Technically, I didn't kill him."

Hope sparked inside of me. "Then what did you do to him?" I asked.

"I ripped his soul out and added it to my own. How do you think I'm so strong and fast. I take people souls."

I looked at him in amazement. I was so absolutely horrified that I wasn't scared. (?)

"Y-You take people's souls? How?"

He smiled at me as if it were some joke. "You'll see tomorrow." He said as he got up and walked away.