I felt like rushing up so here's another chapter.
Chapter 4: Bonds
3rd person's POV
Olympus
The throne room on Olympus was crowded. Murmurs went through the crowd ad lightning flashed across the sky and the room itself shook as typhoons filled the sky. The big three were without a doubt angry, and many were concerned as to what it was. The room shook dangerously as the now half-immortal demigods, the survivors of the titan war, were talking among themselves as to what could have angered them.
Across the room shooting the campers glares were the renowned hunters of Artemis , still sore that others outside the hunt now had their level of immortality. The goddess herself wasn't so pleased with the Idea, but at the moment there were larger issues to deal with.
"Silence!", Zeus Thundered. Shocking everyone in the room. "Let the meeting commence! For we have great and dangerous forces to deal with now." He then proceeded to point his master bolt towards the centre of the council table, Hades and Poseidon followed suit, pointing their sword and Trident at the area respectively. The area glowed with energy as a compartment opened to reveal an object within a force field rising on a small elevator. Upon seeing it, Athena gasped.
"Daughter, from your reaction I believe you see the severity of the situation?" Zeus said in a monotone.
She nodded slowly. Murmurs of confusion ran through the crowd, many could not understand what was happening and the importance of the object. But a select few in the crowd understood. Phoebe, lieutenant of the hunters, gripped her bow so tightly that it were not forged to withstand great force, it would have snapped a dozen times over. Annabeth stood with her mouth open, the danger ahead threatening her to the point where she was trembling. Gabriel Santana sensed her unease and slung his arm around her, she didn't respond, but her trembling stopped at his touch.
"Elaborate what you see Athena." Poseidon said.
Athena nodded. "W-what we see before us… i-is a piece of precious metal a-and gems that are fusing together…sort of like and alloy, and forming," she stopped for a moment before Poseidon gestured for her to continue. "Forming a layer of dragon flesh." Upon her finishing of that sentence, thunder boomed in the background. " This process took place only once in the past," she continued. "And that was when….when….When Alycyoneus was born."
Panicked whispers spread all over the room as people began to realize the possibilities of what that might mean. A few campers actually fainted, many were flustered and panicked. The hunters were in not much better conditions themselves, some of the oldest breaking into tears in memory of the first Gigantomachy. But regardless of basis, Hunter, Demigod, nature spirit or god, one emotion rang clearly. Fear. The whispers became louder, slowly to the point where people were no longer whispering, their voices bordering between exclaiming and screaming as they became more and more enraged and afraid.
"SILENCE" Zeus shouted. "Now, this specimen before us was left in the throne room yesterday, all we can define is that it is genuinely a piece of a reforming giant, and coupled with the report from Percy Jackson before he disappeared," he said glaring at Annabeth. "Polybotes has also risen, giving us reason to believe that the giants are rising again."
"That begs the question as to who sent us this clue and is this person an ally or not" Poseidon said. "And with the power and skill it would need to obtain this item, I hope for all our sakes that the person is on our side."
Scipio's POV
I laughed. The Olympians found the specimen I left them, and they fear me. They have good reason too though, but they don't realize there's more to this than meets the eye…
Percy's POV
I was bordering between excited and scared. Today we would be swearing in to the union between the four of us, we had decided to name ourselves the Guardians, to be precise the Guardians of Mejeston, but just the Guardians for short. Scipio told us that when we swore in we would take an oath, then we would state our names and our titles and Divine names would be bestowed upon us.
And so now the four of us are sitting in a circle, Scipio was channeling energy to bind us in this oath, I took time to look at Scipio now. He was wearing a jacket and a T-shirt inside with dark faded jeans and a pair of sneakers, his face however, had his black hair covering his right eye, and if you looked closely, you could see a scar running down his face on that side, I made it a mental note to ask him about it later. But now I think we have bigger things to do, because Scipio is standing up.
"Okay, let's do this." He said. "Repeat after me and what comes after will be all natural."
"I am a warrior who takes pride in his duties
I do hereby pledge to uphold balance
And to aid my fellow guardians in times of Peril
I swear to keep the universe safe
And to forever uphold the Ideals of the Majestic one"
I felt a huge amount of energy flow into me as I opened my eyes from making the oath and What happened next came on total impulse.
"I am Perseus Drakkar Jackson! Son of Poseidon! Descendant of all the gods! Slayer of Kronos! Defeater of Hyperion! Dioscuri twin! Born of Drakkar! Born of Chaos! User of the warglaives! Wielder of the sword Anaklumos! I am now, and forever, known as, The Assassin Pyrec! The Loyal!"
Following that, my friends made their own proclamations.
"I am Thalia Marie Grace! Daughter of Zeus! Former Lieutenant of Artemis! Ranger of the stars! Wielder of the bow Epsilonia (A/N. the bow of the stars)! I am now, and forever, known as, The Ranger Estelle! The Raging!"
"I am Nico Di Angelo! Son of Hades! Prince of and heir to the Underworld! Scorn of the Shadows! Wielder of the twin daggers Alphion and Omegrax! (A/N. something like the bow of the stars, I made it up.) I am now, and forever, known as, The Bandit Vegrax! The Scornful!"
"I am Scipio Drakkar Draggaron! Son of Odin! Descendant of all the gods! Heir to the throne of Asgard! Heir to the Odin force! Walker of dimensions! Dioscuri twin! Born of Drakkar! Born of Order! Master of the Warglaives! Wielder of the Hammer Mjolnir and spear Gungnir! I am now, and forever, known as, The Paladin Siegfried! The Justifying!"
Upon saying our vows the circle we were standing in began to glow and it enveloped us in a bubble. Then in slowly began to sink into the ground, with us inside it, passing through everything in it's way. "What was that, and where are we going?" I asked
"We have a few minutes before we reach, so I'll explain. Basically what we just did was to embrace the immortal side of our blood, something only achievable when a demigod has powers comparable to the gods. We now have achieved the kind of immortality that the hunters have, only without the limitations and binding of the oath. The Oath we made was a pact among ourselves to forever fight for good and balance and to be loyal to anyone in our ranks, this was sworn upon the Majestic one and if broken, the vow will condemn the betrayer to eternal damnation worse than Tartarus has to offer."
"And where are we headed?"
"To the underworld, to the river Styx and Lithe. And we are almost there."
3rd person POV
The orb that the guardians were travelling in hovered over the river Styx and slowly began descending into the river. Cloaked to the gods, the needn't fear being found but only of the pain that came next. "Focus on the four of us, that to be your mortal link." Said the one of Justice. Then they fell into the river, skin burning as soon as they touched it.
And the memories flashed before them.
Flashback
"And so my dad was like, Justin Bieber music is a punishment on tier 3 of the fields of punishment. Then I was like, who dafugg is Justin Bieber?" said Nico. The Trio began laughing, whilst Scipio only smiled.
"Haha! I sure miss the old days…." Thalia sighed. "Hey but our new lives are much better aren't they?"
"Yeah, now we really are one big happy family!" Percy said. "Right Scipio?"
"I couldn't have asked for better siblings!" he said. "Group hug!"
Then the four of them crashed into a hug and fell to the ground, laughing
End of flashback
It seemed like hours since the four had plunged in, but it was in fact only a minute. The river Styx swirled around them, trying to consume their souls. But the four had found new strength, a new bond and a new goal. The four stepped out of the river Styx, skin now harder than diamond, looking at the others, the one of justice spoke again. "We have one last stop to make. To the river Lethe."
-scene change-
The Pegasi shifted angrily in their stables. Ever since Percy had left camp they had not allowed anyone to ride them, most had gotten off with broken bones or sprains, except for Gabriel. The pegasi trampled him until an entire team of medics pulled him away from them.
Blackjack was angry to say the least. His boss and savior had left camp all because of one little prick and he couldn't do anything. But he felt a calling. A calling to his soul. To travel to….he didn't know where. But he knew he had to go. And so he spread his wings and took to the skies.
On the ground below in the arena slumbered a kind but currently irritable hellhound. All of a sudden her ears perked up and she looked to the skies and saw a black Pegasi flying overhead. With a loud bark, Mrs O' Leary bounded into the nearest shadow and disappeared.
Percy's POV
I bathed in the Styx, and survived, Twice. When Annabeth began to shun me I became so distanced from my mortal point that my connection to the Styx broke and I lost the curse of the Styx. Now not only me, but Nico, Thalia and Scipio all have the curse, bound to each other, forever sworn to be a team. But for some reason Scipio wanted us to go to the Lethe, I was about to ask him but Nico beat me to it.
"The reason," he said. " Is because the mortal point on your body is a flesh location, by using the water from the Lethe, your body would forget where this mortal point is, then you would have the full bodied curse of the Styx with your mortal point being fully spiritual and not physical."
"But wouldn't that one spot on our bodies make us lose our memories?" Thalia then asked.
"Not if I shield our minds and clear our thoughts, then we would have nothing to forget, or a safer way is that I could momentarily pull a Norse magic version of the Lethe trick and we would not have any memories for a period of two minutes, then after that we would regain all our memories. Anyway, enough talk, we're here" he said. "NOW JUMP!"
All four of us took the plunge at the same time.
"Jeg oppfordrer Asgard Magic! La minnene bli falmet slik tilbake(1)!" Scipio shouted. And then I felt my head starting to get lighter. What was my name again?
-Later-
"Hey sleepy head, get up!" I heard. My eye's fluttered open. I saw Thalia, Nico and Scipio. Hey! I remembered them! I remembered them! I…. was in the middle of the forest near the ocean.
"Why are we here Scipio?" I asked.
"A simple answer my friend." He said with a smirk. " We need a base of operations, and I have found just the perfect location."
"And where might that be?" I asked again.
"It is at my home." Came a voice from behind me. I spun around to meet the gaze of a pair of almond coloured eyes. I took a step back and saw who I was looking at. She had caramel coloured hair which was braided over one shoulder. Calypso smiled at my shocked face. "We are going to Ogygia."
Sorry about this, I left the chapter half done and didn't get back to doing it. As an extra note I might alter the first chapter to change the prophecy later on, but besides that…. Remember the essential three R's, and I don't mean reduce, reuse and recycle. I mean remember to Read, Review and Recommend!