Chapter Nine

Annabeth thought she had enough shocks of people coming from the dead, but seeing an upgraded Silena Beauregard was very surprising compared to the others. She was simply gorgeous, celebrity status stunning. The main differences were her hair and her eyes. The former was now black with silver highlights, and the latter was now a swirling sky blue with a glowing white in the middle. Her body didn't change much besides her having a more muscular figure than before. She appeared to be super voluptuous, but her assets were completely natural.

The reason Silena was so prepossessing compared to any other females was that she had so much confidence in her aura. Her aura practically screamed that she knew she looked good and no one could tell her otherwise. Annabeth would've gone into the revived demigoddess' appearance further if she didn't finally process what the beauty said as she spawned in the room.

Before Percy could prepare for her possibly explosive reaction, the blonde already had sprung away from him. Whether it was out of hurt, horror, or shame, the action hurt the commander far more than he expected. He quickly regressed to his naturally frozen persona as the thought of Annabeth's possible jealousy sparked anger over old wounds within him.

Silena began to fear that she ruined the chance of Percy rekindling any type of relationship with her words. "Before this gets out of hand I just want to say a few things. One, it's honestly nice to see you after all these years Annabeth. Two, while I was joking, Percy admittedly had the right to be intimate during his second life and I wouldn't have minded if he indulged in me. The two of you had broken up long before he died here so your flaring jealousy is almost unjustified. Three, Percy and I need to talk real quick, and I thought it would be better in person because he doesn't listen to me over comms."

Annabeth visibly calmed down after Silena pacified the situation and stepped back to retake her seat in the armchair and wait for them to have their conversation. To her surprise, Silena conjured a seat in front of the blonde and sat there before gesturing for Percy to return to his seat next to Annabeth. After he took his place, the beauty got right down to business.

"Your troops on many planets have held up against Tartarus' monsters well, but it's still a heavy onslaught of enemies to go up against. The faster you handle things here, the faster you can rally troops, or handle things yourself. I know that it's hard to deal with your soldiers and them not listening to you because you are a newer commander and I wish I could do more than charmspeak them into listening, but we have to figure this out."

"The worst part about this is that all of the things that make them strong were based off of a terrible commander. I don't physically punish them so they don't feel the need to listen to me unless it's a life-or-death situation. The situation at hand is clearly one that they all will be losing lives in so they're more likely to cooperate." Percy paused in thought. "Should I revert to the behavior of an abusive general to get them in line? I've done everything I could to keep my morals within my actions but the only times I get results is when I hurt or embarrass one of them."

Silena's face projected surprise and concern that her friend would even contemplate doing something like that. She had hoped that maybe being home would help him mentally, but there isn't any change in the clear mental deterioration of the original Percy. The beauty looked at Annabeth expectantly, as the blonde used to be the only person other than Sally who could get Percy's head on the right path.

The grey-eyed girl was honestly but pleasantly surprised to see Silena look to her to help. It's obvious that they've had issues in the past years, even more for Percy, but his fatal flaw won't allow him to just throw their connection away. Annabeth never betrayed him or intentionally hurt him, she only allowed others' input to get the best of their relationship and showed that she didn't trust him as much as he trusted her. While that hurt him, Percy simply removed her as a romantic interest in his mind. There's no reason he should've lost his best friend too.

The demigoddess put her hand on her best friend's shoulder. As she thought about him giving in to hate, their encounter with the primordial Akhlys came to mind. Annabeth remembered how scary it was to watch him torture someone and somehow be happy about doing it. The look on her love's face, as he made the goddess choke on her own tears and saliva, was probably the worst state she'd ever seen him in. The daughter of Athena didn't want her former best friend to fall into a similar state and it showed in her eyes.

Percy looked up to Annabeth as she touched him, still upset at her reaction earlier, but when he looked into her eyes and saw the same fear there as he had in Tartarus, he looked down. Frost would've pushed it aside and disregarded any reactions to his actions, but Percy didn't want Annabeth to fear him again. Respect is earned through actions, not by fear.

Though neither of them said anything aloud the commander relented, "You guys are right. Thanks, that was a weak moment for me. I'll find a way to get the army on my side, but saving this planet takes priority. Silena, is there anything else we need to speak about?"

"While shadowing your operation, I noticed that one of the hunters of Artemis behaving strangely before getting on Isaiah's ship. I did a visual analysis using the walls of the vessel and everything appeared to be the same until she nervously ran her hands through her hair. When she turned her hands, the analysis picked up a new fingerprint. The main problem is that all other data says that she's the same person…"

"I'll check in with my brother as soon as possible. I'm guessing he restricted access to his ship for everyone except me and Chaos?"

"Unfortunately, yes. Handle this quickly please, I don't want to assume betrayal but we also have to be ready for all possibilities."

Silena stood up, leaned down to Percy to kiss him on the cheek, and stopped to smirk at Annabeth before grabbing his face and beginning an intense make-out session. He was surprised because she always harmlessly flirted with him, but this was a whole new level. He had to admit though, she really was an amazing kisser.

The beauty stopped when she felt like Annabeth could glare a hole into her head, but made sure that there was a string of saliva connecting their mouths as she pulled back. The daughter of Aphrodite licked her lips at Percy before winking at the blonde next to him.

"Come see me later cutie," Silena said as she fell into a portal that opened under her feet.

This left a very awkward son of Poseidon and an angry daughter of Athena together in the training room. The former was very ready to get back to training, but the latter was glaring at him with her arms crossed. She wasn't necessarily jealous of Percy being romantically involved with other women, their ship had sailed a long time ago. Her problem was that they certainly had a good time doing it and it reminded her that she'd been missing out. The womanly pride within wanted to ensure that she since was his first, she was still the best he ever had.

A plan worthy of Aphrodite formulated in her mind and she gave him an evil smirk that made him shiver and take on his Frost persona. He stood up and made the chairs dissolve, dropping her on the ground. She looked up at him angrily, then smiled smugly as she rolled over and rubbed her lithe ass as if she was in pain from the fall.

Annabeth rubbed and spread her ass in front of Percy in the skin-tight suit all the specialists wore. She began to moan as she did it, faking as if these actions relieved her of the pain from falling. The Percy she remembered got super embarrassed whenever she acted sluttily, then felt worst when he got aroused by it. Annabeth made a mistake in her lustful plan though, she relied on Percy being the same, inexperienced boy whom she lost her virginity to. Unfortunately for her, he decided that he wasn't Percy right now, he was Frost and he demanded that his student listen to him. This wasn't the first time that he'd had a female student misbehave, he trained Silena after all…

Frost looked down at the blonde demigoddess rubbing her ass below him and smirked as he recalled having her in this exact position during their time together.

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After following the map she quickly memorized, Artemis made her way into the dining room to see many of her hunters and Bianca already waiting. The cadre of girls looked nervous, waiting to hear about what life on this ship would be like. She sat next to Thalia, her only hunter who wasn't nervous and was actually holding a conversation with the female assassin.

"There's no way that Lord Hades is cool with Lady Chaos like that!"

"No, he really is! He told her that he didn't want my potential wasted, so she asked Isaiah and of course, he wanted some sort of company. He trained me himself, and I naturally got better than him. I'm just so cool that-" Before Bianca could finish putting a smug look on her face, a screen opened up in front of her on the table showing Isaiah's face.

"Don't be talking shit when I'm not there. Once everyone gets there, the ordering screens should pop up. Just let me know, and I'll stop working to have dinner with you guys. Oh, and save me a seat right next to you beautiful." The screen turned off and receded back into the table. Bianca turned red at his last statement but did push in the seat next to her to ensure that no one sat there.

After feeling the looks that Thalia and the girls were giving her, she smirked and said, "What, never been called beautiful before?" She flipped her hair and took out a smartphone to play a game on it while she waited. The girls had no response to what she said and also sat waiting for the other girls to show up.

As the final bit of the hunters trickled into the room, Zoë walked in and sat next to the seat that Bianca reserved for Isaiah. Artemis had to admit that she liked that there was no chair at the head of the table. She was sure that if there were one, Isaiah would sit there and she would freak out. Zoë looked at Thalia sitting next to Artemis, as the lieutenant of the hunt should. She knew that it would be wrong to be jealous because her former mistress had to find a new confidant, but she found it hard to be at the same table as Artemis and not be her right hand.

Before the goddess could notice the way her former lieutenant was looking at her, Bianca clapped her hands and screens came out of the table. They were smaller than the one that Bianca spoke to Isaiah through but were big enough to hold a menu. The options available were literally everything that counts as food. It accounted for vegetarians and vegans, people with strange quirks about food, and from any planet.

"The food is made so that it tastes the way you expect it to but doesn't have anything that will counter a healthy diet. You are only getting the nutrients needed to be strong." Zoë clarified that for them when she noticed everyone going for the healthy options.

The hunters were still skeptical until Isaiah suddenly appeared in the seat between his two assassins, tapped his screen a few times, and a bacon cheeseburger with crispy-curly fries spawned before him. If the leader of the Assassins of Chaos could eat like that, then Zoë was probably right. Everyone ordered their food and began to eat. There was only quiet, nervous conversing from the hunters as they ate.

Isaiah and his assassins, however, were having a lively exchange that involved old memories, poking fun at each other, and a lot of bashing aimed at the leader himself. Artemis quietly observed as she slowly ate her food. She didn't have much of an appetite ever since she saw Percy in the throne room and she found herself wanting to share in the happiness at the front of the table. It wouldn't have been difficult, given that Thalia was joining in when she could relate to a story.

The goddess just couldn't think of anything to say to them that didn't involve Percy and how he thought of her after all this time.

"Nah, I bet Artemis wants to hear this one," Isaiah said while laughing so hard he was unable to hold his burger.

Zoë's cheeks shined silver as she shook her head, "Um, I would rather that she didn't, to be honest."

Artemis became intrigued when her old lieutenant didn't want her to know something. This was an easy way to get closer to the one girl she considered a best friend and get on Isaiah's good side before exposing him to be a terrible male like the rest. The only good man is Percy, she wasn't ready to accept that anyone else was like that.

"Well, if you don't want me to know, I have to know now!" Artemis leaned towards the others to hear the story.

"Aight so we were assigned a mission on Pn- 23. The planet decided that the most advanced society they could achieve was very similar to that of Ancient Egypt on this planet but upgraded with high levels of technology and magical investment into their religions and gods. The only issue was that in order to turn a king or queen into a god or goddess leaders had to sacrifice the lives of civilians. The worst part was that the people were tricked into believing that this was an honor and would be disappointed when they weren't chosen to die 'for' their leader. Our mission was to infiltrate the pyramids and kill every single person turned deity. We could've easily teleported in and out but that would have sent the citizens into a frenzy and we didn't want that. We all had to find a way to infiltrate. I camouflaged as a soldier, Bianca an angel that led leaders to godhood and the others I selected for the mission had good covers too. Zoë had many choices as to what she could have used for cover, and ended up going with the one choice that did not even come close to suiting a former huntress of Artemis." At this point, Zoë was being restrained by a laughing Bianca and all the hunters were very interested in learning about someone who used to be close to their mistress.

"Anyways, given that her skin has a coppery tone, she was a good enough match for the ritualistic dancers for the civilization there. The thing is, the garments they wore were basically brightly colored outfits that strippers wore. The only reason I found out was because the squadron I joined had apparently just captured the most food and deserved a reward. Imagine my surprise when three girls came in the room wearing practically nothing, dancing and swinging their hips in a sensual way and Zoë was one of them. I still had my helmet on so she didn't know it was me there, I could see in her eyes and her body language that she was unbelievably uncomfortable with the situation and would give anything to not be there. Suddenly the other two girls grabbed three guys each and dragged them into empty rooms nearby to obviously have sex. Zoë was left with the last three of us and looked sick at what she was expected to do. Before she could react, the two guys with me stood up and pulled out their dicks, and stalked towards her happily. It ruined and expedited our mission progress, but I had to kill them before pulling my helmet off and laughing hysterically at her face when they just whipped themselves out in front of her. Her face shone silver when she realized I knew what she was doing and proceeded to try to beat me into promising that I wouldn't tell anyone."

By the end of his story, Zoë had stopped fighting and instead buried her face in her hands as everyone laughed at the situation she was faced with. Artemis laughed at what her former lieutenant got herself into but was surprised that Isaiah was that quick to save her before something happened. She was happy to know that he would protect Zoë since she was his disciple but was still wary of him.

"Laughter is great to engage in, but know that the person you're laughing at is also going to be training you for the coming weeks..." Once Isaiah dropped that ball, the huntresses quieted up and gave the former huntress an apprehensive look. The girls knew that they were in for training worthy of Lady Chaos herself, it would be stupid to make it worse for them by acting silly.

Bianca leaned forward, "Okay, here's the outline of what will happen while you guys are here. We know that accuracy, stealth, and reaction time are all really good for you guys. The main issues are your apprehensiveness to engage in hand-to-hand combat, your lack of skill in hand-to-hand combat, general strength, and your hubris in battle. We will primarily work on those while also ensuring that you are retaining your natural abilities given by your mistress and your parents. Thalia and Alíra are receiving special training from Isaiah when they aren't being trained by me or Zoë. Artemis, you are going to do the same training as your hunters until Thalia and Alíra are done with their training. Then you'll get moved to advanced training like they had but only on a godly level."

"What do you mean, 'only on a godly level?' Shouldn't my training be at a higher level compared to the demigods?" While Artemis appeared to be on the more humble side, she was still an Olympian Goddess and a daughter of Zeus. In moments such as this, her pride shone brighter than usual.

"By undergoing this training, Thalia and Alíra will become Chaotic Warriors and will be far more durable and powerful than you at your godly level. Thalia already has everything we are looking for in an assassin with her hand-to-hand combat, her huntress skills, and her control of her powers. She merely needs to speed up her movements, make it quieter, and remove the cap over her powers to become ten times greater than she already is. Alíra is easily the most powerful demigod in this room, she and Aphrodite have been hiding the true power that she has. We need to mold that power so it can be targeted and affect large areas when necessary. Then there's the normal training required for assassins that she will also gain but that will be done by me."

Everyone looked at the two girls mentioned, some in awe, some jealous, but all intrigued at how they would be after the training. Artemis couldn't help but be slightly miffed that her lieutenant and some random camper were going to become more powerful than her and the other Olympians. Then she realized that was the Zeus within her and decided instead to try to be happy for them.

Zoë snapped her fingers and a board came down from the ceiling, revealing a schedule. "This will also appear in your personal rooms so you can follow it correctly. Time moves differently here than what you'd be used to, but we still follow 24-hour days and the 24-hour clock. Be sure to be attentive and be where you need to be on time. Thalia and Alíra, you two will find modified schedules when you get to your rooms, but still overlook this one."

Assassin Training Schedule

0600-0700: Wake up and shower (Optional)

0700-0750: Breakfast (Mandatory)

0800-1150: Morning Warm-Ups and Cardio Training (Mandatory)

1200-1250: Lunch (Optional)

1300-1650: Muscle Building and Strength Training (Mandatory)

1700-1800: Rest (Mandatory)

1800-1850: Dinner (Mandatory)

1900-2150: Power Training (Optional)

2200-0600: Sleep (Recommended but not required)

All the girls looked at the schedule and felt that it was fair and doable, although they were apprehensive about the almost four-hour training periods. It was currently 19:30, so they looked at the assassins to see if they had to start training today. Isaiah was stuffing his face with fries as he scrolled through his phone, then stopped when he felt all of their eyes on him. He slowly ate some more fries, sipped from his cup, and cleaned his face and fingers with a napkin before addressing them.

"Aight, so y'all get the rest of the night off. Those rooms are personalized to whatever you want so if you want something to entertain you for the night, just think of it and it will appear. There will be injection capsules on your beds that will painlessly insert information about Chaos and her assassins into your heads, with instructions on how to do it. If you have any lingering inquiries, I will be available in the control room of the ship anytime after 21:00 to answer them. Bi and Zoë will also be here most of the night too if you don't feel comfortable talking to me."

With that, Isaiah pressed a button on his screen and the table cleared his plate and drink, then proceeded to leave the room. Bianca did the same and rushed after him, making a face that suggested that he just did something wrong. Zoë gave everyone a small smile and mentioned that she would be in her room as she said goodbye and left as well.

The huntresses felt like they were dismissed, but just out of tradition, they looked at Thalia and Artemis to make sure. Artemis dismissed them and began thinking about the upcoming few weeks that she would be spending on this ship, and how to find out what Isaiah did to get two of her hunters on his good side. Maybe even three given that Thalia had no problem melding with their conversations at dinner. The goddess whispered to her lieutenant about being wary of the way Zoë and Bianca had been acting before the demigoddess left. She flashed to her room to find a strange syringe on her bed. The instructions said to place it at the base of the back of her head and press the button on the back.

The lying male said that this would be painless! This looked as painful as needles could get but it made sense that the only way to get the information quickly was to attach it to lobes within the brain. Artemis nervously lifted it to the back of her head and winced as she pressed it, only to have water get sprayed out of it. She brought it to the front of her and looked at it in confusion, the needles never came out. Suddenly the water on the back of her neck floated in front of her and spelled out, "Damn, you had the balls to take a needle like that? You a crazy lady!" Then it swirled and spelled, "Once your food digests, the info will come to you, a perk of eating Chaotic food on my ship. Tata! ;-)"

Artemis growled at the assassin's immaturity and grabbed her new bow to find hunting range. Turns out that the male wasn't lying when he said the rooms could be modified because as she rounded the corner back towards her door, she found another door labeled Range. The moon goddess opened it to find a huge archery range that she sometimes dreamed about being on. The goddess smirked and decided to enjoy her time here until she could personally interrogate Isaiah.

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Annabeth had to admit, she hadn't had sex since she and Percy broke up and the thought of being able to do it again made her super horny. She only intended to embarrass him and ensure that she still had an effect on him sexually. Then they would finish her initial training while he was flustered and continue thinking about her even afterward.

Imagine her surprise when the back of her suit was ripped open. She knew she was getting wet from how horny she was getting. The blonde moved her hands to block her drenched pussy but was too late as a dick too big for her was shoved in instead. Annabeth's eyes widened comically and she placed both her hands on the floor to brace herself. She turned her head around to see Percy smirking at her evilly with frosty, lust-filled eyes as he began thrusting rapidly into her soaked pussy.

The stormy-eyed girl had her fair share of wet dreams about the son of Poseidon over the past years, but this was very unexpected. Before, he was always really cute and even more adorable when he tried to impress her in bed as if she had experience with anyone else, but now he was sexy and confident. Demanding and forceful. And worst of all, his dick was bigger than when they were together. Put those together, and her mind went blank as he sped up his thrusts.

Percy felt almost animalistic as he fucked Annabeth deeper and deeper into the floor. The horny part of his mind often thought about her crawling back to him, crying that she missed him and made a mistake when she broke up with him. She would do anything to get him back and he would put her in a position such as the one she was in now and Percy would use her body for sex whenever he wanted to. The only problem with that was he felt really bad about thinking like that because that wasn't his character at all.

However, thousands of years later, he was bound to have had experience treating girls like that to complete a mission or uphold a cover to get the mission done. Any guilt he would have felt a long time ago was pretty much gone and he had no remorse as he flipped the daughter of Athena over and continued his onslaught. Her pussy always seemed molded to perfectly fit him when they were dating because he was the only guy in there, but now that he was bigger, it felt good to stretch out this tight, unused pussy.

Annabeth's brain felt like mush that could only process pleasure as her former lover's dick reached places it never did before. His cock plunged up and into her, as Percy rubbed his hands around her body, his hands roughly squeezing and kneading Annabeth's stomach and breasts.

She was gasping at the violent intrusion. Annabeth could feel his hot breath as he leaned closer to her face. Her rational mind knew not to kiss him because that would create confusing emotions in her head, but seeing his intense eyes looking through her made it difficult to resist the urge.

Losing all sense of himself, Percy became a vessel of lust, pumping and rutting his hips against Annabeth. He gripped her breasts, one in each hand, pulling and squeezing them as he fucked his entire length deeply into her sex. What made this so intense was that he remembered the way he used to softly and romantically make love to Annabeth. Percy could finally go all out without remorse and he did exactly that.

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Annabeth's tight pussy became too much for Percy's dick and he was ready to cum. Without realizing it, he had been at this for almost fifteen minutes and Annabeth lost count of her orgasms after the third. Gasping out a cry, Percy froze and clung to Annabeth's body. His hips jerked as his orgasm flowed out of him and into the blonde's insides. His erection pulsed and heaved within her, spilling its contents in a continuous stream.

The demigoddess was too paralyzed with pleasure to protest him cumming inside of her and hoped that there was some sort of Chaotic power that could stop her from getting pregnant. Percy fell on the floor next to her with a satisfied smile on his face. There was a silence that consisted only of both of them catching their breaths. The quiet period was broken by the cum in Annabeth's pussy finally coming out and splashing onto the floor. This made the old couple begin to laugh because that was the familiar signal that their actions really happened.

Percy stood up and helped Annabeth to her feet as well. He snapped his fingers and they were both cleaned, his pants were redone, her suit was fixed, and she couldn't feel the cum inside of her anymore. Hopefully, that meant that she wouldn't get pregnant but the son of Poseidon wasn't stupid. He knew better than to be that careless.

Rather than address what just happened, Percy lifted his arm and typed something into it before a screen popped on the wall saying Annabeth was exempted from the test needed for specialists. Before she could ask or say anything, he proceeded to shoot something in her arm causing her body to freeze. Then unbearable pain began to travel throughout her body, similar to how she felt holding up the sky all those years ago. It turned up a notch suddenly and she fell to her knees while grunting.

Luckily, the pain disappeared and left a new feeling of soreness all over her body. Annabeth stood up to stretch, hoping that that would make the pain go away. However, when she thought about making the pain go away, it did. Her muscles still felt tight as if they were sore but she didn't feel the pain that should be paired with that tightness.

For the second time, before she could ask any questions, Percy put a finger to her forehead and it pulsed with a black light. This sent full knowledge about being a Chaotic Warrior into her head but left her a little light-headed. The commander's insignia appeared on her chest and she buckled a little bit, making her best friend jump forward to catch her.

Imagine Isaiah's face when he teleported in the room to this sight. Absurdly loud laughter filled the room soon after.

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Thalia stood outside of Bianca's room, wanting to knock but wasn't necessarily sure about what she wanted to ask the assassin. Before she could walk away or build up confidence, the door opened to another corridor. Thalia walked through to see one door on her left labeled "Memories," two doors on her right labeled "Training" and "Special," and one door in front of her labeled "Bedroom." The bedroom door opened and the angel was found lying stomach-down on the front of her bed with a gaming controller in her hand, staring intently at the TV and mashing buttons.

She scooted over to the right of her bed as if to make room for Thalia. The daughter of Zeus tentatively walked over to the bed and saw Bianca's shoes on the floor next to the bed. She took her shoes off and laid down next to the assassin, watching as she shot people in the video game they played.

"You were standing there for a while Thalia, you must be nervous about whatever you have to tell me."

"I wanted to talk more about what you guys do as assassins besides the information that came with the stupid fake syringe… but I feel really bad about wanting to do that and I don't know why."

Bianca cursed as she died and had to wait till the next round to respawn. She handed the controller to Thalia and pressed her finger to the demigoddess' head to pass on the knowledge of how to play. "You feel bad because you're intrigued by the idea of using everything you know and taking it to the next level. Your mind registers that by taking it to that level, you have to leave the hunters who hold you back by staying away from men, some of whom could help advance them, and by relying on natural abilities to fight and survive. You want to go through Isaiah's training, then experience being an assassin for at least a little bit, but know that means saying bye to your sisters."

Thalia was surprised at how well she was able to play once Bianca "taught" her how to play. She was also surprised at how well the assassin was able to surmise her guilt. "The worst part is that I owe Artemis everything. The first time I met her, she saved my life from a manticore. Then Atlas. Then the Great Prophecy itself! Almost everything good in my life was because of her and the only thing she ever did to hurt me was chase Percy away to his death. If I complete my training- FUCK! HOW DID THAT GRENADE REACH ME?!- I'm not sure if I could still travel around with the hunters if I naturally overpower all of them."

Bianca smirked at Thalia's reaction to dying in the game as she took the controller back. "It all depends on perspective. Some may say that you were made instant lieutenant to appease your father. Zeus was upset that one of his top fighters was captured so easily before the war officially began and that his only demigod daughter was put on a deadly quest. What better way to make up for that than to not only keep his daughter away from men by adding her to hunters but also put her in a position of leadership, where all his children belong? Right? Artemis is unfortunately similar to her father through ego and paranoia about her image. I don't know if she told you but the reason Percy went to the bottom of that lake was because she told him they wouldn't work out as she would lose respect on Olympus. But if you love someone, it shouldn't be a problem who they are or what a relationship with them would do to your image."

Thalia had to admit that Bianca bashing Artemis made her suspicious of the goddess' hypothesis that Isaiah brainwashed the two former hunters. But then again, all those points had a ring of truth to them and the daughter of Zeus was confused about her goddess' true intentions about how close they were. The mention of Percy's death dampened her mood, considering that her best friend and brother hadn't even attempted to reconnect with her. "Okay… this is honestly hurting to think about so let's talk about something more entertaining. Tell me some of your favorite stories about your adventures of being an assassin!"

Bianca looked at Thalia for a second, obsidian black eyes connecting with electric blue eyes, and she smiled causing the other to smile as well. Despite being in the middle of a match, she turned the game off, moved to the head of her bed, and laid on her back, nestling her head in the pillows. She patted the pillows next to her and Thalia crawled up next to the beautiful assassin and laid down, ready to listen to all the stories she could hear for the rest of the night. The demigoddess didn't realize she thought of the woman as beautiful.

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Esmeralda couldn't help but laugh as she looked at all the specialists squirm in their boxes, then woke up angrily because they failed before falling back into the simulation. Suddenly, hysterical laughter came from the adjacent training room and that told her that Isaiah was here for something and didn't know how to act. At least laughter was better than the moaning she heard a short while ago.

To her surprise, Leo was the first to succeed and he was one of the last to get in the machine. The same kid who was annoyingly hyperactive… The same kid that needed Hazel to hover a ruby in front of him to finish the laps… The same kid whose profile she was looking at as Percy snorted and said that they'll both lose brain cells training…

The box released the Latino, who practically leaped out of it. He proceeded to dramatically stretch out his joints which felt super stiff. Leo looked up to see his trainer staring at him in surprise, then smirked because this would be the perfect time to get on her good side.

The demigod slid next to her and waved his hand in front of her face to wake her out of whatever reverie she was in because of him. "Hey, I know I'm dreamy but you don't have to dream if I'm right here beautiful."

Esmeralda shook her head to snap back to reality and laughed at his attempt to flirt with her. She had to admit that he was kinda cute but way too immature to take seriously so she would merely entertain him for a little bit. "I'm impressed you had such strong willpower to finish that training so quickly. No puedo esperar a ver qué más puedes hacer," she practically purred in his ear. (Google translated btw. If it's bad, blame them.)

Leo almost melted when she whispered in Spanish but before he could react, she stepped away from him and straightened up as Amy's box opened and she climbed out while wiping away tears. The daughter of Hecate noticed the genie waiting for the rest to finish and glared at her. How dare that woman make her go through heartbreak that she buried away a long time ago? If Amy didn't know that fighting the alien would be stupid, she would have jumped the purple-eyed girl right after she got out of the machine.

Kevin was shaking as finally woke up. It hurt to sit back and watch as his father died, but if he moved, he would have revealed the location of his brothers and sisters from camp. The only good thing he could take from that was that his dad could reform, that's what got him through that challenge.

Will failed three times before learning his lesson and not moving. No matter what he did, Nico's sister died and he failed the only man he had ever loved. Will knows that Nico's biggest regret is not being there to help his sister and letting her join the hunters to eventually die on her first quest. The simulation showed him many different ways to save her, but none of them worked because he wasn't strong enough. Now that he's awake he knows that she's fine and is with Chaos now but before he felt so much pain seeing the disappointed and heartbroken look Nico gave him every time Bianca suffered because the son of Apollo moved when he wasn't supposed to.

Rather than let this get him down or blame the box for making him feel this pain, he resolved to get stronger here and grow so that he would be able to save anyone close to him or Nico.

Katie's biggest regret was letting Percy die for her when Orion attacked. In her mind, she felt like Artemis would have been fine if attacked by Orion with whatever poison that was. The Olympian gods always survive in the end so Percy was more protecting the hunters than the goddess. But to see her friend crumble to dust without a chance to properly say goodbye was terrible.

Now for the box to put her in a position to not move and not get caught by Orion, causing Percy to save her and die, really hurt. Then it wasn't Orion, it was Artemis who was the reason Percy wasn't initially there to protect them. For some reason, she passed when it was Annabeth even though that was one of the people who hurt Percy the least. Katie felt an anger burning within as she got out of the box and wanted to give Esmeralda a piece of her mind when the son of Ares suddenly blew up.

Derrick jumped out of the box and proceeded to kick and beat at it explosively out of anger for what it made him do to finally pass the challenge. The others were a little disoriented from the emotions they had from the box but all stood back as he wailed on the machine.

Before Esmeralda could do something to stop him, a door appeared on the wall that connected the training rooms and out came a smiling Annabeth. That smile, however, disappeared as she saw Derrick hitting the simulation box he was in. She ran to him and with a surprising show of strength, restrained him by pulling both of his arms behind his back and dragging him from the machine. This clearly wasn't the first time the camp leader had to deal with an angry child of Ares and she was good at it too.

Annabeth sat him on the floor and glared at him. Powerful son of Ares or not, he couldn't stand up to the scary blonde's angry gray eyes. He couldn't help it though, he had to watch Clarisse cry over his death, his mom die to monsters, and in order to pass, had to watch as his father beat his siblings trying to find the child Percy said could surpass him. That box did nothing to improve his willpower! It merely made Derrick hurt emotionally since he didn't care for any physical abuse done to him.

He stood up and walked back over to the others who were watching him cautiously and waiting for the last two boxes to open. Unfortunately for them, Hazel wasn't strong enough to let go of the Sammy in her simulation and Reyna loved her sister more than the world itself, allowing it to burn if it preserved her family.

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The reunited couple jumped away from each other while Isaiah laughed at them. Annabeth because she didn't know what her ex told the assassin about her and how he felt during all those years. Percy because he knows how well his brother can pick up on things and doesn't want him to know they had sex. The melted part of his emotions didn't want Annabeth to feel embarrassed at the way he jumped from her as if he was ashamed of their actions.

So, he walked back next to her before flaring his eyes to a glowing white as he glared at his brother. Annabeth felt reinforced as her best friend took his rightful place at her side. She liked the intensity behind his eyes as he glared at Isaiah and wished her eyes could glow, and remembered the powers she got with becoming a Chaotic Warrior. Suddenly her eyes began glowing gray with a literal storm happening in them and she glared at the master assassin as well.

Isaiah finally calmed down to see two pairs of glowing eyes glowering at him and stood up straight with a smirk on his face. "Lemme guess. 'It's not what it looks like!'" Then proceeded to start laughing again, not at all concerned at the angry gazes aimed at him.

"Any reason why you are interrupting my training session? I'm punctual and knew to start training today rather than giving my people a free night, unlike some other lazy people I know-"

"Oh please, Percy. One of the obvious things assassins are trained in is picking up scents. You may have cleared any weird smells from the room, but a whole lot of your scent is covering Annabeth, and her scent is all over your pants. I wonder why," Isaiah dramatically changed his face to that of the thinking emoji.

"My methods for training should not concern you. Now, why did you come here, because if it was just to irritate me, I have no problem demonstrating a real fight to my specialists?!" Percy didn't immediately realize but his words hurt Annabeth a little. Was what they just did merely a training method? He didn't really want to do it?

The assassin noticed her reaction and didn't want to ruin whatever was going on between them so he decided to stop teasing and playing around. "Since she's the last one you're training today, once you're done, lemme know because you need to visit your mom. It's not fair to her that you're actually on the planet and can visit your sister but you still haven't. I want to make sure you remember what you're fighting for and family is more important than anything."

Percy was actually touched that his brother was going out of his way to help and knew that he had been putting this off for a while. Before he could reply in some form of agreement or thanks, Isaiah cut him off by ruining the moment.

"And of course, she should know of your sexcapades since you've been on the planet. And it hasn't even been a full twenty-four hours. Hahahahaha," Isaiah laughed as he dissolved into a portal under his feet.

Percy growled at his brother who could not be serious for more than a minute at a time, but returned his eyes to their original state and turned to Annabeth who reverted her eyes as well. She was laughing at the assassin's antics but Percy could still see hints of disappointment and sadness in her eyes. He backtracked in his mind to find where she could have derived emotions like that and found how bad it sounded when he referred to their fornication as a training strategy.

To fix his idiocy, Percy smiled at her and leaned in to kiss her on her forehead but couldn't risk kissing her directly. Their personal conversation wasn't over yet and he couldn't confuse either of them by engaging in any overtly romantic actions. This gesture did reassure the daughter of Athena as she realized why he did it.

"Annabeth, there are clear strengths that any child of Athena has. Genius intellect, natural leadership, strategy and battle skill, and craftsmanship. The difference for you is that you have the potential to actually take full control of telumkinesis and audiokinesis. You already instinctively know how to use any and every weapon and disarm people of their weapons to use yourself if you don't have one. I want to train you to possibly summon weapons from the natural elements around you, to place curses on other people's weapons, and to transform a weapon into a different one. As for the audiokinesis, you have always had a way with words when you want to persuade someone and have a vast memory bank that stores practically everything you see and hear. To take it to the next level, we need to bring your persuasion powers to the point of charmspeak, but you aren't forcing them to do anything, you're convincing them to genuinely want to do what you're telling them to. Also, need to make it so that you hear almost everything around you and store it away in that memory bank without having to concentrate on doing it. It should happen subconsciously. I wish we had more time to go over this and give you a preliminary test like I did for the others but we took too much time… doing other stuff."

Annabeth marveled at the things that she could learn to do and was surprised that she had the many powers that her mother also had. She blushed when he referred to their coupling, but secretly hoped that future training sessions held similar vibes. She hugged Percy, "Thank you so much for today and I'm not sure what exactly is going on emotionally, but I really want to ensure that we are still best friends above all else."

Percy smiled and hugged her back, "Of course we are. I know I cut you off from what happened between but that was a long time ago and my loyalty knew better than to let me lose one of the people that have been there from the start. I'll see you tomorrow."

He waved his hand and a door appeared on the wall connecting the two rooms. Annabeth began walking out but Percy slapped her ass and smirked before he walked through his ice portal. Annabeth turned slightly red and glared at him as he disappeared but retained the smile on her face as she returned to Esmeralda's training room.