Characters: Percy Jackson- Omega, Luke Castellan- Alpha, Zoë- Beta, Bianca di Angelo -Theta, Phoebe-Eta, Charles Beckendorf- Delta, Silena Beauregard - Gamma, Ethan Nakamura- Iota, Castor- Kappa, Lee Fletcher- Zeta, Michael Yew-Epsilon

Chapter 6

When the Knights got back they still had some time to spare so Percy went to the Artemis cabin, Silena and Charles were saying hi to some relatives, and Luke went back to their cabin.

Percy knocked on the door and Naomi answered. "Yes?"

"Is Thalia in there?" He hoped that she wouldn't turn him around because he was a boy.

"Thalia you have a visitor. You can come in if you want." She must be in a good mood. Maybe one of the girls visited her.

"No it's okay. I don't think Artemis would approve. And I would like some privacy." Thalia came to the door and Naomi left. Ever since Bianca, Zoë, and Phoebe came by she had been thinking of Percy. She had hoped it was him since she heard the knock on the door.

"Can we go to the forest? This needs to be in private." Thalia nodded and they walked together into the forest. They made their way to Zeus' fist and both climbed to the top. "Have you guessed who I am yet?"

Now she knew it was him. No other boy would talk to her like that and after Nico saying he didn't sense Percy in the underworld and that ghosts have been disappearing, this was the only explanation. "Percy? Is it really you?" He took off his hood and after making sure he was really there, she pushed him off the rock. "How dare you leave? You left a note but didn't say where you were going! Would you have ever come back if there wasn't a war? How could you!" Now she had jumped off the rock and had her knee digging into his chest.

"Can't… Breath. Please." She got off of him and let him up. "I missed you too Pinecone Face. I really am sorry for what it's worth."

She tackled him in a hug and they stayed there like that for a while, until the conch horn blew signaling the meeting. "Come on we have to go."

"I'm sure the girls told you already. But no one can know of who we are. We each only get to tell a certain amount of people, but for some of us it's dangerous to be here." Percy warned putting back on his hood as they walked back to camp.

"Yeah I know. And don't worry I won't betray you. Never have, never will. Can we talk more after the meeting?" She was so glad he was back that she couldn't keep a smile off of her face.

"I'm going to want to talk to Nico with Bianca. But after maybe all of us can go to my mom's house? She wants me to explain everything and that way that you guys know too."

"Yeah that's fine. Where should we meet?"

"I'll come get you at your cabin. Then we'll walk to my mom's. Who knows maybe she'll have blue cookies for us. I've missed those." Thalia laughed as they walked into the meeting room. It was the same one with the ping pong table, except now it had more chairs for all of the cabins' leaders.

The other Knights were already there and Percy went to stand by them. Chiron tapped his hoof on the floor. "Let the meeting begin. First subject at hand: the Shadow Knights. Chaos came to me and vouched for them. They will help us with this war, but then they will go back to wherever they come from. Any questions?"

"Why wear the hoods. If you want us to trust you why not just show us who you are?" This came from Stephen. Percy grimaced at the sound of his voice and before he could say anything out of line Castor spoke up.

"We wear them to protect us."

"What do you mean? Do we know you?" Annabeth asked.

"Yes you do, but then again no you don't." Percy said bitterly gazing casually at his old seat at the table.

"If we know you, then why do you need protection from us?" She asked.

"Maybe we should just kill them," Stephen said standing up. Percy noticed he was using charmspeak. It was different than the charmspeak Piper used. It didn't affect him or his Knights. "I mean they obviously don't want us to know who they are. And if we knew who they were before, who's not to say that they're criminals?"

"So that's how you did it," Percy mumbled. He didn't know if he could forgive his past friends yet, but now he knew that it wasn't their fault they turned on him. He would have to ask Chaos about different types of charmspeak. "Okay listen," he said more loudly, "we're here to help you win a war why would you want to kill us? So you could lose? So you could die?"

"Omega's right," Thalia said. Apparently she wasn't affected by the charmspeak still. Maybe it was only immortals that could resist it? "We need help to win this war. We all know only Percy could defeat Gaea and Kronos, but maybe with some extra help, we'll have a small chance to defeat them."

Percy smiled. He knew Thalia would always be there for him and he was glad to see it in person. "There's no need to kill anyone. Stephen sit down. Now." Chiron said. He had been watching this exchange intently and apparently wasn't happy with the direction it was going in. Stephen sat down.

"Thanks Chiron," Phoebe said. "Listen-"

"No, this is our camp. We make the rules. You listen to us." Stephen needed to learn not to interrupt the girl Knights. Percy was overprotective of his team, especially the hunters. "If you're going to stay here, you need to learn the new guidelines of this camp."

"New guidelines?" She asked.

"There's been some, um, rules made," Will said. "They're posted in mass hall." He looked ashamed.

"They must all be in Stephen's benefit." Percy laughed to Phoebe.

She gave him a little shove and laughed. "Alright well, we'll just have to look at those," she lowered her voice and whispered to Percy. "And make fun of them."

He laughed and everyone looked at them weirdly. "Alright well you have fun with those rules. We're going to be fighting, and winning this war." Percy said shaking his head and started walking to the door. "I hope tomorrow's meeting will be more useful to the triumph of this war. Guys, we have better things to be doing than listening to this. No offense Chiron."

"You can't just leave during a meeting!" Katie Gardner yelled as they all filed out the door."

"It's not like we were going anywhere with our conversation." Connor said

"Yeah except I think Omega wanted to beat up Stephen." Travis laughed. They high- fived each other and followed the Shadow Knights.

"And where do you think you're going?" Annabeth asked.

"Omega was right: we have better things to do." Connor said and left.

AN: I'm sorry about before hopefully this doesn't happen again. It was a tech mistake.