Disclaimer: I do not own Hero: 108 or Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

AN: Wow...near the end of the story, just the short short epilogue left.

Chapter 13:

Percy grabbed Riptide tightly, growling as he turned to Tartarus who was also holding a sword, smirking evilly. He charged, faintly aware of the others. It wasn't until Zhi Neng came to help him did he notice the other enemies in the room. Zhi Neng worked swiftly to make his way over to the others to help them while Twin Masters gloated.

Suddenly, it seemed like time had stopped. Everyone turned to Twin Masters, who was clutching something in his hand. Somethings that made the six uncomfortable. Yong's whisper was barely audible. "The ardenys."

Twin Masters smirked. "You think I was going to let you run away with your own?" At this, Lin Chung smirked, before lunging at Twin Masters, who dodged. Lin Chung smashed his staff straight through his own ardenys. Shen let out a strangled shout, but Lin Chung didn't react.

Nothing happened.

Twin Masters turned to him in outrage, while Lin Chung smirked at him. "You think that I would be stupid enough to let you have my ardenys?" The formidable foe was now gasping in terror, before he regained confidence. A figure appeared next to him, a woman in her early 20s.

"Khaos." Zhi breathed out, but Percy only tilted his head.

"Chaos? As in the creator?"

The woman laughed. "Not that old fool, Perseus." He shivered- the lady's voice rubbed him in the wrong way. "I am Khaos, the one who rules all."

"Not all." Shen growled, his bow gripped tightly in his hand. Khaos laughed again, before she cracked her neck from side to side.

"Now, let's end this."

As he swung his blade to block off a heavy attack, Percy noticed Ke and Hua engaging Khaos in combat, while Gaea was being dealt with by Shen. Yong, Zhi and Hotei were kept occupied by Tartarus, who seemed to be more powerful that he had expected. He growled to himself. They needed more help.

Lin Chung and Hawk were fighting Twin Masters, who had somehow created a clone of himself. He noticed how tired Lin Chung looked, and how little he was using his harmonic-energy, depending more on his fighting skills than his magic.

The battle seemed to last ages. Clanging was still ringing in Percy's ears as he helped Ke and Hua finish Khaos off, while Shen pounded Gaea into a pulp. Tarturus was looking desperate as he faced against the three powerful allies. Twin Masters and his clone was also weakening, from the combined efforts of Hawk and Lin Chung. Harmonic energy, bursts of water, and rumbling of the earth were frequent occurrences.

His arms were sore from the powerful strikes he had received, and Anaklusmos clanged to the ground after Percy finished Khaos off, finding its way back into his pocket. Tarturus and Gaea were soon down, with only Lin Chung and Hawk left.

Hawk was kept busy with the clone of Twin Masters, while Twin Masters himself was at the brink of killing Lin Chung, who was looking worse than when he had started. Percy frowned, wondering what was wrong, before Twin Masters had a sword pointed to Lin Chung's throat.

The harmonic-energy user immediately disappeared in flames. Large flames appeared at Twin Masters' feet, slowly burning him alive. He roared in pain, but it was no use.

However, even as he was finished, he pointed a hand at Lin Chung, and Lin Chung found himself in a pit of shadows that desperately wrapped itself around his legs, slowly pulling him down into a bottomless pit. He struggled, unable to reach his staff, which now lay shattered by one of the shadows. His magic was proving little to ineffective against them.

Some of his brothers raced to help him, Shen grabbing ahold of his arm to try to pull him out. However, the shadows started wrapping itself around Shen's arms. The shadows immediately burned as Hawk flicked his wrist, but it again proved ineffective as the shadows slowly started to pull Lin Chung down.

Lin Chung suddenly shrugged his hand out of Shen's grip, ignoring his shout of his name. He vanished into the shadows, leaving nothing behind.

Shen looked at the fire in dismay, the flames flickering unnaturally low, revealing the campers' mood. It burned brightly for a second, before dropping low, coming up again, and repeating.

But all the campers' chatters were meaningless to his ears from where he was sitting, frozen, on the bench. He looked at the fire, painfully reminded of Lin Chung.

The gods were also gathered, which led to Rachel announcing that she had had a prophecy, which she recited.

"Made by one, perfected by one,

But chosen to release Lëi's son,

Into the wound, the poison seeps,

And in the end, his life shall weep."

The meaning slowly came to their minds as Shen realised what Twin Masters had done. Why Lin Chung had suddenly shrugged free of his grip. In that moment, in that tiny moment of hesitation, a flicker of doubt had crossed his mind as he wondered if Lin Chung had been worth saving. If Lin Chung had heard their thoughts, maybe by Twin Masters' doing, he would not have wanted to stay.

The wound was the fact that Lin Chung had already been hurt. He had been healing, before the poison - their thoughts - drew deeper into the wound.

Wong Tai Sin looked uncomfortable when Hawk had asked why Lin Chung was not using his magic as much, before revealing Lin Chung's dying condition. Shen had been ready to strangle the god's neck, but restrained himself, telling himself that he was at much to blame as the others.

He sighed, looking into the fire.

Humans always said that there was a time for mistakes, that you could learn from it.

But this time, he couldn't.