When I walked into the room the door shut behind me with a loud clunk and lights turned on in the room. A second later a figure appeared in the room and when i recognized them i got a pain in my chest that i hadn't felt since i left earth, Guilt. The person who stood before me was Zoe Nightshade, the former Lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis and one of the deaths the i most regret. She smiled at me and said, "Hello Percy. It has been a long time. I have seen what has happened to you and i am sorry. No one, let alone the last good man alive, should have to go through what you did. But to the point, do you know why i am here?"

I shook my head. "As you know, the sword of chaos enhances the light inherent in a person so to earn the chance to be tested by the sword, you must battle your dark side. Do you know why i am a manifestation of your dark side?" i shook my head again. "I am not, but what i represent is. I represent your guilt and your inability to move on from said guilt. You feel guilty and pain over all the people you could not save, such as me, Bianca, Silena, Beckendorf, and most of all, Annabeth. You must realize that you cannot save everyone. Not even a god can save everyone and you were just one scared demigod. You did as much as you could and the guilt and pain of the deaths should not be on your shoulders, but on the shoulders of those responsible. The fact that you feel these things shows the truth in your character but the pain and guilt you feel will rip you apart, you must learn to move on. Can you do that? For me and for all those who care for you and consider you a friend?"

By now i had tears running down my face and i said, "I don't know if i can. I-I-I couldn't save you Zoe. I failed you and Bianca and so many others. How can i move on from that?" Zoe stood up and just when i thought she was going to give me a hug she slapped me right across the face, then again, then again, and again. "That is enough self-pity from you. I will not see the last good man alive lose himself to self pity. Yes, horrible things happened to you, accept them and move on. Yes, people have died and you couldn't save them, neither could anyone else and you don't see them crying or blaming you. get over your ego and move on. Do you understand? or do i need to slap you again?" I smiled, "No, I get it. Thank you Zoe, i needed that right now, both the slap and the advice." She smiled and hugged me, "You are welcome, my time grows short so let me say this. Your real test stands behind this door so remember my words, accept what has happened and move on, dwelling on the past doesn't do anyone any good." with the she disappeared and the door in front of me slid open and i stepped through it.

Same as with the last room, the door closed the minute i stopped through it and this time another person appeared in front of me and this one made my blood boil. I front of me stood Liam, son of Thamva the asshole who ruined my life and tortured me. He smirked, "Well, well, look what the cat dragged in. Are you back for more great savior of Olympus?" I could hear the malice and sarcasm dripping off his words and it made me furious because, hey, sarcasm is my thing. I drew my sword and smiled, "Oh, i am going to enjoy this. The things i am going to do to you will drive you insane." i charged but right before i swung my sword i dropped to my knee and spun my leg kicking his leg out from underneath him. I grabbed his sword and threw it away. I placed my sword at hi throat and yelled at him, "Why? Why the Hell have you done all these things to me? what did i ever do to you?" He smiled, "you existed. Before i came to camp i was a nobody. Then i was claimed by a god, and i thought everything would change. But when i got to camp you had all the glory and all the power and i wanted it for myself not to mention the hottest piece of ass in the entire camp. I wanted what you had and i got it and i have to say, all the time it took to manipulate Annabeth into cheating on you was worth it. She was a damn good lay, defiantly in my top 5 but knowing that it broke your heart made it so much better. I used so much energy forcing her to have sex with me i was unable to manipulate anyone else for days, i almost lost control of camp but it would have been worth it just to see the look on your face when i had my way with her and then slit her throat."

I roared and plunged my sword onto his shoulder and twisted it. "You will pay for what you did to me!" he was crying but said, "That's it Jackson, show me the monster inside of you! Embrace your inner darkness and show me that i was right, that you are just as evil as i am and you just hide it better! Embrace your own dark side!" When he said dark side i remembered what i was here to do, i was ere to fight my dark side not to embrace it. i pulled my sword out of his shoulder and looked at him. The man who ruined my life and remembered what Zoe and Ananke said that dwelling on the past isn't good for anyone and that i needed to forgive those that hurt me. I turned to him, "No, i am better than you. I will never be able to forgive you for what you did and i defiantly wont be able to forget but i will not kill you or torture you. I will not sink to your level. Now get out of my sight." He dissolved into shadow and the door infant of me opened up to reveal a sword sitting on a stand 15 feet ahead of me. It was a hand and a half sword, long enough for it to be used with two hands effectively but not too long as to make it unusable in one hand. I was double edged and looked to be wicked sharp. it was pitch black except for the title galaxies and star you could see emanating from it. The power coming from it was unbelievable just this one weapon had more power than one of the big three! I walked forward and grabbed the handle and was about to pick it up when i heard a voice from behind me that made me spin around.

"I wouldn't do that if i were you." I turned to the man, not because i was scared or worried, but because i was surprised because the voice i heard was my own. I turned around to see me, or rather what i originally looked like, 6 feet tall with raven black hair, the only difference was the eyes. As opposed to my Sea green eyes, his entire eyes were completely black, like a demon's from the TV show Supernatural. What? now that i can use technology i had a lot of TV shows to catch up on and watching a show about the supernatural when i am part supernatural is hilarious. He smiled at me and said, "Hello. It has been a while since i have been to the surface before my brief visit in the previous room. You see this room's magic gives me a physical form, but it is you that gives me my power from your hate and your fear of the power it gives you. I am your dark side." I stared at him, "So, now are you going to go all Cloud City Vader on me and say, embrace the dark side and join me, together we can rule the universe? because that is so cliche. Please tell me you have something better to do?" He laughed, "Yeah, i know right? whenever i read a story or watch a movie and they say something like that i am always like, come on dude, be a little original. But no, i am not here to do that. I am here to do something a little more original, not completely original seeing as part of this happened in the Water Temple in the Legend of Zelda game Ocarina of time but this one has a surprise ending. (A/N: Shout out to my fellow gaming and Zelda fans, who have already guessed what is about to happen, at least in part.)

I smiled, "You are going to fight me like the shadow figure in the the water temple aren't you?" he nodded and said, "Let's get started shall we?" With that he charged me. I drew my dual swords and he did the same and we attacked each other but neither of us could gain an inch, it was as if we both knew the others moves and could not counter them, and then i realized that we did know each others moves because he was me and i was him. This was a battle of the minds so i had to think and plan in order to win. What had he said earlier? I gave him power through my hate and my fear of the power it gave me, so i needed to stop fearing my anger in order to weaken him, but even if i did how could i beat my own dark side? Then it hit me, I can't. You can't beat your own dark side. It will always be a part of you, because everyone has a dark side. The best that you can do is accept it and do your best to resist the urges it has. I had a crazy plan but it was the best one i had. I kicked me away from myself. Wow, that is a sentence i never thought i would say, And sheathed my swords.

My dark side charged me and when his swords hit my chest he was absorbed into my body. A few seconds later i heard him behind me again and as i turned around he started clapping, "And there is the surprise ending. I am impressed you figured it out so fast. You cannot defeat your own darkness but you can keep it in check. We all have darkness in us as we all have light. what we need is balance and you have taken the first step to finding yours. This was the last trial of the Sword of Chaos. You and only you may wield it from now on until your death when it will return here or in the case that you become truly immortal it will return here until you reform when it will return to you, but don't worry if you become immortal the sword will be yours and only yours for all eternity unless it decides you are unworthy of its power and which point it will return here and you will be unable to reclaim it. Further more, you will be able to summon me, your dark side to fight with in battle as an ally and i will always have the exact same skills and powers as you because i am you, but don't worry i will appear in whatever likeness you are in from now on. Now go on and grab your new super weapon."

i walked up to it and grabbed it by the handle only to hear myself say, "This might smart a little." i was about to ask what he meant when a burning pain erupted in my right hand where i held the sword and it moved up my hand until it reached my wrist where the pain intensified before disappearing. i looked at my hand to see that the sword had disappeared and was about to panic when my dark side interjected, "Don't Panic. Lift up your shirt sleeve." i was confused but when i did i saw a tattoo on my wrist that looked exactly like the Sword of Chaos, it even had the moving stars and galaxies in it. "Now think about having it in your hand." I heard from being me and when i did it appeared in my hand. "Now think about returning to to your wrist." as likewise it returned to my wrist. "The sword will always return to your wrist from where ever it is, the only person able to stop it would be Void himself and possibly not even him. When you do fond the sword of Order i would recommend grabbing it with your other hand. Ciao!" And with that he turned into shadow and flew into my chest. I walked back through the rooms and back up the stirs to be met by 2 faces i hoped i would never see again, or rather one face and one giant whirlpool of darkness, in other words before me stood the primordials of darkness and the pit, Nyx and Tartarus.

I was about to draw the sword of Chaos when Tartarus' whirlpool faded into a face which was smiling which kind of caught me off guard. "Be at peace, young demigod. We did not come here to hurt you, quite the opposite. we are here to thank you. See, when you passed through my mansion and my brother's pit you freed us from a curse that we had been under for a long time. After we aided our father in his war against Order we were cursed by order to have darkness, hatred and cruelty slowly grow in our hearts until it consumed us or someone passed through our respective domain or mansion and emerged sane, which we thought was impossible until you did it. We primordials never forget the aura of a person we ave met and that is how we know it was you. We are here to thank you for freeing us from our chains of hatred and reward you for your assistance, but we are not the only ones." a dark flash appeared next to her and a man dressed all in black put his arm around her shoulder. "Me, Erebus and Tartarus are each going to give you our blessing to reward you for all you have done for us. And do not worry, we know you wish to have peace so we will keep our meeting to ourselves for now until you are ok with us sharing this information."

Erebus and Nyx shot twin balls of darkness into my chest and then disappeared leaving me alone with the primordial of the pit who was still smiling and said, "Young one, i cannot thank you enough for what you have done, not only for me but for my sister and most importantly my wife. After i was cursed by my Uncle, My Darkness rubbed off on Gaea and infected her as well causing her to be driven mad by the same darkness that assaulted me leading to her and me creating the giants out of our hatred but by the time you freed me and by extension her from our curse the darkness had taken root in her heart and I thought she would never recover until you defeated her. After you defeated her she returned to me. During her battle with you, the light you carried into battle, the hope you inspired and championed rid her of her darkness and brought her back to me. Out of all the children i have had, none have ever done anything near what you have done for me, you hav made my family whole again. Because of this, if you would allow me, I wish to adopt you. You would become the first demigod son of Tartarus, and Prince of the Pit. Monsters of Earth would obey you unless controlled by myself, Typhon or someone equally as powerful. you could enter and leave the pit at will and bring back any who suffer in my realm, just in case someone who should not be there falls in again. This would upgrade and improve your ability to control fire and give you control over Hellfire, the deadliest fire in all existence that can burn away the souls of mortals making it so they have no afterlife and just cease to exist and burn away the bodies of immortals so badly that they will take millennia to reform if not longer. Do you accept my offer?"

I could tell he was genuine and despite the reputation he had i could feel that he was a good person, why else would it take so long for monsters to reform seeing as he has complete control over his domain since it is him and if he wanted to he could let monsters out as soon as they entered. I smiled, "I would be honored to add you to my list of fathers." He looked at me strangely and i laughed at his face, "I have Poseidon as my birth father, Paul Blofis as my step father, Hades and Zeus as my adoptive fathers and now you. I am not lacking in the parents department." He chuckled at that, "Only you could have 5 fathers and be a child of each of the big three. When you run into her next, Gaea also wants to adopt you for all that you have done for her as well if you be willing." i node which made him smile bigger, "Don't worry this won't hurt but it may tickle." when he said that i braced myself because i assumed that that meant it was going to hurt really bad but when the orb of red and black energy hit my chest it did actually only tickle. Tartarus walked up to me and hugged me, "Thank you for all you have done for me son. And due to your position as Prince of the Pit, I have a crown for you. It is the same as your Crown of the Seas, just think about it and it will appear. When you use it, people will recognize your position as my son and leave you alone because the entire universe fears my wrath and what i will do if they hurt my favorite son."

I smiled at this and thought about the crown appearing on my head and i felt a slight weight in my head and suddenly a mirror appeared in front of my head. My crown was a wreath of human finger bones that was covered in black and red Hellfire. "Don't worry, as my son and Prince you are one of the two people in the world that Hellfire won't hurt myself being the other. Even Chaos can be harmed by it. Your crown is like Hades' Helm of Darkness but even stronger. It can turn you invisible and undetected to anyone except me, my wife chaos. It can also show someone what they fear the worst and psychologically torture them, all you hav to do is focus on that person and want it to happen. And if you just want to scare people think the word 'Fear' and a aura of fear and doom will exude from the crown so powerful it would bring Olympian gods to their knees. i wish you luck on your travels and if you want to talk or need help i am just a telepathic conversation away. Goodbye." and with that he disappeared in a pillar of Hellfire.

I sat a while trying to decide what to do next and decide to continue on my path around the universe e and go to the next quadrant of the next primordial i did not have the blessing of which just so happened to be Hemera. I focused on the capital planet of the Hemera Quadrant and appeared about 2 miles away from the capital city. As i walked towards the city i saw a group of five people stand over a figure on the ground and as i got closer i node they were beating the person. I ran up and drew one of my swords and smacked the man who seemed to be the leader cross the face with it. While they were surprised i grab the figure which i recognized to be a woman off the ground and pushed her behind me. I summoned water from the atmosphere around me and hardened it into 5 ice spears and held one at the throat of each of the bullies. "Unless you want to take your heads off slow and painfully i would recommend you leave, now!" They all turned tail and ran away from me. i turned to the woman and asked her, "Are you all right? did they hurt you too much?" She kept her head down but said in a voice a beautiful as as a running stream, "Not too bad, just some cuts and bruises and my side hurts but that is it."

I nodded and placed my hand on her head, "Hold still. This won't hurt but it will tingle a little bit." i used the powers i got from Apollo and healed her wounds. she looked down at herself and saw all her wounds were healed and hugged me. "How can i possibly repay you? Anything i have i will give you." I smiled and shook my head, "You don't owe me anything and i don't need to be repaid. it was the right thing to do so i did it." The woman looked up at me for the first time and her beauty took my breath away. She was more beautiful than Aphrodite could ever hope to be but not in my opinion quite as beautiful as another Olympian goddess, but the thing i noticed the most were her eyes. They were the color of the sky at noon but what i noticed were the things behind them, despite how she tried to hide it she was older than she looked, held knowledge beyond belief and power that would make Zeus sit down and beg. There was only one person i could think of that this could be and i was in her quadrant. I disentangled myself from her arms and bowed to her, "Lady Hemera. It is an honor to meet you. she smiled at this, "I am pleasantly surprised that you recognized me. I wanted to get to know the man who beat my husband in a race, so when i sensed you enter my system i flashed down to meet you where those thugs attacked me. I could have easily beaten them but i wanted to see what you would do, and while i do not know where you got your powers, i am glad you use them to help without asking for a reward. For saving me and being a selfless man i want to give you my blessing, plus you gave my husband a good race and according to him he has not had that much fun in over a billion years. Do you accept?"

I smiled at that last part, "On one condition my lady. I don not wish to be known by the council as of yet, and while i did not expect your husband to keep our meeting a secret from you nor should he, i wish for you to keep ours a secret form everyone except him. On that one condition i gladly accept your offer." she nodded and placed her hand on my chest which made me wince because of the wounds on my chest because the pain will never go away. I have become so accustomed to it that i do not notice it unless someone touches it because, duh it feels like they are poking an open wound. Hemera raised an eyebrow at this but did not ask why which i was thankful for. Her hand glowed white and it spread across my body. She said, "it is done. With my blessing you will heal and be stringer in the day, just as a blessing for nyx would do in the night. It will also increase your healing abilities and light travel capabilities you got from my husband. Oh, and Aether told me to tell you this, he forgot to tell you that with his blessing you now have wings all you need to do is think abut them coming out of your back and they will, just be prepared the first time because it will hurt and when you are done they will return to your back. Goodbye and i hope we meet again."

she disappeared leaving me alone in the desert. I thought bout the wings coming out of my back and felt a seating pain in the small of my back and out popped 2 wings. They were huge with a 40 foot wing span total. The feathers were pitch black with red trimming on them. i heard a voice in my head that i recognized as Aether's, "Don't worry man, this is a recording i sent along with my blessing so i am not in your head. Your wings are indestructible harder than the hardest metal and with them you can fly 17 times faster than the speed of sound but with practice you will get faster. you can shoot the feathers like bullets or arrows and they will regrow immediately. All you have to do t fire them in focus on the place you want to fire and think the 'fire', plus you can shoot at as many targets as you can focus on. well, or the amount of feathers you have, but i doubt you can focus on that many targets at once. Enjoy!" i was so focused on the message that i didn't notice the two man standing in front of me until they were almost on top of me, literally. they were 6 inches from my face before i noticed them. When i realized they were there i jumped back and yelled in surprise. they looked sad and the one on the right said dejectedly, "Aw, we just wanted to give you a hug. I promise that is all we wanted to do."

the one not he left looked at the first one and said, "Speak for yourself!" The first one looked at him and replied, "Control yourself Phanes! Just because you personify something does not mean you have to be that thing." the second man scoffed, "Yes it does! that is exactly what it means! i can tell you are not the personification of intelligence!" the first man looked injured before turning to me and saying, "Hello Percy, I am Eros the Primordial of Love and Sex and this is Phanes, primordial of Lust and Procreation. And before you ask how i know who you are, just like you cannot hide from fate, once you have been touched by my domain, you are known to me. I have watched you for a long time. I had intended for you to have a long and happy life with the daughter of Athena but Fate had other plans or so i thought before i confronted Ananke. She nor her daughters had planned on her death, just her betrayal. I was furious with them still, they broke up one of the truest loves i had ever seen in my long life and for what? they wouldn't even tell me! In return for all the pain love has caused you i want to give you my blessing as does Phanes. My blessing will do many things for you, not only strengthen you physically but give you better endurance for fighting and cough Other Activities Cough.

It will also make you more physically attractive and make it easier for you to find love. Now, by that i do not mean it will turn you into an immoral and insufferable horn-dog like Aphrodite or Apollo. What i mean is it will make you realize feelings of love faster and that will manifest in you quicker than they normally would. And if the person you care for cares for you as well, the same will happen for them. Before you protest, it cannot create love and it cannot change someones feelings into love, it will only speed up the development of your feelings for someone and theirs for you if they love you already. This is to ensure that you find happiness in true love and do not have a meaning less string of one night stands like that bastard Apollo. That man makes a mockery of love. Love does not mean cheap and meaningless sex, Love, Real Love, True Love is nothing like Aphrodite. She would be better called the goddess of lust rather than love. No, love is faithfulness, when you love someone you love them for who they are and not for what they look like. Why do think there are no demi-primordial children of Eros running around? it is because i have been married for eons and have never strayed or cheated. I want you to find true love and to be happy because if any one deserves it, it is you. Do you accept our offer? We will not tell anyone just like you asked of Hemera." I nodded two balls of pinkish light hit me and by the time the light cleared both the primordials were gone. I smiled thinking that with all the blessing i had that i would be able to protect my family way better than before.