Chapter 2

Percy POV

I charged at Branuos, our blades touched. I wasn't knocked back like Jason.

"Impossible, the sheer power of this blade should have knocked you back" Branuos said.

I ignored him and continued to parry his attacks, while Chiron stared in wonder. After a while I got exhausted. That was when he got the upper hand. Now before I say this, I did not see that coming. The ground below me shook, there was an earthquake. Now normally I could withstand this, BUT this was different, this earthquake was just too strong, and I fell.

"I'm not called the destroyer of worlds for nothing" Branuos said, as if knowing what I thought.

I started attacking me while I was still on the ground. I parried his attack at the LAST second, if I hadn't responded I would have been dead. After a while I was finally caught off guard. He attacked me, but a miracle happened.

"Your fate is seal, Perseus Jackson" Branuos said, he started to move his blade towards my heart, but just as it was about it hit, he vanished in a golden light. His blade dropped on my body but luckily not with the sharp end pointing at me. I thought I would be crushed by the blade because of its size, when it shrunk to around the size of Riptide.

"How?" Chiron said.

"What?" I asked.

"The reason he vanished, Percy, it was because he was summoned by someone. The other thing is that" Chiron said staring at the blade.

"The reason the blade shrunk, it is because it was accepted you." Chiron told me.

"Accepted me for what?" I asked.

"Percy you are the new bearer of Devikris, the blade of destruction and doom" Chiron replied.

"Um, I'm sure that's great and all, but I'm pretty sure I prefer Riptide" I told him.

"No Percy, you must bring Devikris with you, it will help you, but before you can you must say this: I, Perseus Jackson accept Devikris." Chiron said.

"Fine, I, Perseus Jackson accept Devikris" I said, suddenly a sheath just the right size for Devikris.

"After you put the blade in the sheath, Percy, a button will appear, it will shrink the sheath together with the blade enough to fit in your pocket, when in miniature mode it will also reappear in your pocket like the Riptide. It will also adjust itself so it feels balanced when used by you." Chiron explained, and sure enough after I sheathed the blade the button appear even though it's hard to notice and after pressing it, it shrunk. Suddenly Bruyios appeared again.

"Ah, Perseus, I see you have been accepted by Devikris, and do not fear, while you did not beat my brother Branuos you have completed your challenge" Bruyios told me.

"May I have some more directions than just go south?" I asked him.

"I was getting to that, before I could give you directions I needed you to complete the challenge, now that you have, before going south, you must go to the Lotus Hotel." Bruyios said, I felt annoyed by that fact.

"I know you are annoyed" Bruyios said as if reading my mind.

"But you must get there, and go to room 135, you will meet a person, this person knows the way to the Necromancer of the Swamp, but you must convince this person to help you and guide you to the Necromancer of the Swamp." Bruyios said.

"Fine" I said, and with that Bruyios disappeared.

"Well Nico, Jason, we are going to the Lotus Hotel" I said turning to them. I forgot to mention Jason got back up. Nico's eyes widened.

"What is the Lotus Hotel?" Jason asked.

"A timeless place that traps people for eternity making them feel happy" Nico, and I said at the same time.

"Then can we not go there" Jason asked.

"No, we must go there in order to find this Necromancer, but don't worry, as long as we don't eat anything they offer we will be fine." I replied.

"Great, we have to resist the temptations of food" Jason said, Nico laughed, but I just stared at the distance thinking about Annabeth.

"Let's go" I said.

"How will we get there?" Jason asked, after all its in Las Vegas.

"I have a way." I said, and I summoned Blackjack.

"Let's move" I said.

Mysterious Figure POV

Branuos appeared before me.

"You summoned me sir?" He asked me.

"Yes" I said.

"Why?" He asked.

"They approach Iautia" I said.

"Then I will stop them" He said.

"No, not yet." I said.

"I have another way to stop them" I continued, and showed him a vision of a man in a dark hood, and robe. My favorite Necromancer, the Necromancer of the Swamp.

"I see" He said.

"But if he fails, they cannot be allowed to…

Nico POV

I just cannot believe we are going back to the Lotus Hotel. I hated that place, Bianca and I were trapped there for so long. Bianca… To avoid being sad I started thinking about other things such as who was the person we needed to convince. Suddenly the Pegasus landed, and we are in front of the Lotus Hotel. Well, I hope we can get this over with quickly.

"Let's just get this over with" I said.

"Agreed" Percy said.

Percy… He knew how bad this Hotel was, so he would know not to stay for too long, and convince this person as quick as possible. I had a bad feeling about how this person was. He then moved into the Hotel.

"Room 135" Percy told a room service dude.

"I am sorry but Iautia doesn't take visits" the dude told Percy, my eyes widened at the name Iautia. So it was worse than I thought, we were confronting Iautia. I decided to stay quiet for now until we confront Iautia, then I will tell them who Iautia was. Then I snapped back to reality and saw Percy pointing a sword at the dude, and the dude giving Percy directions, and giving Percy the card to the room.

Percy POV

"I am sorry but Iautia doesn't take visits" the room service guy told me. When I heard that I decided to test my other blade Devikris, which I'm nicknaming Diptide, cause I don't like the name Devikris. I took out Diptide and pointed it at the guy. I also noticed Nico's eyes widened when he said Iautia, weird I have a feeling that Nico is hiding something.

"Give me directions and the card or you die" I said harshly to the guy. He quickly nodded and followed my instructions, giving me directions and the card.

Nico POV

"Let's go" I heard Percy said. I'll admit I'm nervous about meeting Iautia, the things I heard about her weren't good. But I just followed Percy to the room, and when we opened it we saw Iautia.

"Hi, I'm Iautia" She said turning around not surprised at all that we were there.

"Um Percy" I said.

"Yeah Nico?" Percy asked me.

I told him this: "She is…

AN: Sorry I wanted to write more, but I couldn't resist giving that cliffhanger.

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