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"What!" I yelled. Perses the Titan of Destruction and Hippy-something bane of Hermes?!

"Yes my lord" the dracaena stuttered nervously.

"This isn't good" Damasen noted.

"No it isn't" I agreed. "Can I survey the- eeer city?" I asked remembering I owned a city now.

"That's a great idea" Damasen exclaimed. "And since you are the ruler, you should name the city!"

"Okaaay..." I said wondering how it got to the stage of having my own city. "I think I'll name it- hmmmmm. Salutem. Latin for safety."

"Good name" Damasen commented. "You heard him" he said to a cowering dracaena. "Go put up a sign identifying the city". "I'll show you round the city myself" he said to me.

Time Lapse of what is the equivalent to 2 Weeks in Tartarus to monsters outside Salutem

I looked down from my tower onto my thriving city. With over 800 buildings, 10 towers and a massive fortification of walls and Tartarus Metal stakes. I had sped up time in the city to allow the monsters to finish building the wall and other buildings. It had been exhausting though and I'd slept for over 5 days. Suddenly, the alarm bell went off. I ran down into the city straight to the commanders meeting area as fast as I could, which was quite fast considering I could speed up time around me. I arrived to find the other commanders discussing something.

"My lord" they bowed.

"We thought you were still asleep!" exclaimed Damasen.

"I'm not, so what's happening?" I asked, hoping it wasn't anything majorly bad.

One of my dracaena commanders stood up. "There is an enemy force 2000 strong 1 kilometre from our walls. It seems to be the army of Hippolytos."

"That's not good, I suppose we'll have to do something about that" I said, grinning evilly. "One of you go release the Stymphalian Birds. And prepare all Hellhound riders and archers." "I want Riders to attack then fall back. That's when the archers will open fire on them."

"But my lord, we could simply wait until they reach the city walls" another dracaena said.

"But that will cause all our buildings to fall into danger. The wall is only a last ditch defence" I said thinking strategically. "Now go!" I yelled as no one responded. They all ran out. I followed and ran to the Hellhound stables where I mounted one of Mrs O'Learys puppies, whom I called Savage and she ran to ride in front of the already prepared 100 or so mounted soldiers, mostly dracaena or Empousa. "Follow me I yelled and we all rode out the gate at the army. The army barely noticed us, as they were too preoccupied with the Stymphalian birds.

As we hit their army Savage emitted a glow and time slowed for us and some Hellhounds and their riders around us. Maybe Mrs O'Leary and the puppies had gotten some of Kronos's scythes powers. We rode forward, hacking and ripping the enemy soldiers, who were mainly dracaena, apart. We heard our horn being blown and I immediately retreated. I saw dozens of other riders ride out of the crowd of enemy soldiers and I increased the speed of time for them so they could get out of the target zone safely. I heard many twangs as 600 dracaena and Empousa archers opened fire.

I turned to look at the enemy army to see hundreds falling with each volley. After 10 volleys the archers began running back to the walls, a couple of hundred meters away. 50 of our Giants, mainly Hyperborean but also with some Laistrygonians walked out of the gate tasked with finishing any survivors.

"We won!" I yelled as I rode back into the city to cheers of jubilant citizens. I dismounted Savage and he walked away to the stables. I walked into the meeting room and found my commanders celebrating. "What's our casualty count?" I asked.

"We lost 32 Hellhounds and 39 Riders" A draecana reported. "We also lost two archers and there are reports that we lost a Laistrygonian and two scouts. "

"Good. I'm going to go rest" I said. I limped to my quarters and realised my thigh was sliced open. I didn't care and immediately fell asleep.

Later

I was woken up by Damasen prodding me with the blunt end of his spear.

"Wake up, something important has happened" he roared at me.

Any trace of sleepiness left me and I jumped up and followed Damasen to the cells where I saw a teenager with nearly golden hair and purple eyes staring back at me. "What the-" I yelled in shock. What was he doing here?

"He says his name is Alexander Sheperd" Damasen said interrupting my thoughts.

"Your Percy Jackson!" Alex blurted out.

"I am," I said. "Why are you down here?" I asked.

"Zeus threw me down here" he said bitterly. " Zeus said I was causing the strife in camp half-blood."

"What's happening up there?" I asked eagerly.

"Well after you were banished, Nico and Thalia convinced many people that Thomas Fowle was just being a wimp and hadn't been badly hurt. One camper offended your honour and Thalia shot him. It was a son of Ares and Ares asked Zeus do punish Thalia. He wouldn't, instead he banished me after blaming me for everything" the camper said coldly.

"Why did he blame you?" I asked.

"Because I'm a son of Eris, Goddess of Strife" he replied.

"Well, do you wish to join me as one of my commanders?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"Yes!" he yelled eagerly.

"Unlock the cell!" I ordered the dracaena.

"Yes sir" it said disappointedly. Never the less the monster complied and Alex walked out of the cell free.

"Do you have a weapon?" I asked.

"No, Ares destroyed mine" he muttered.

"Well I guess we'll have to do something about that," I said grinning.

Thanks for reading this chapter, please review.

Thanks to V God 22 for the character Alex.

I will include most of the character profiles I received, so if you submitted one you will probably see the character very soon.

Next chapter: Percy finds a way out of Tartarus.