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Chapter III

Hello! Here you are the next chapter! Also I no Rick Riordan. Warning This Chapter Has Some Torture.


A week later 

Ani̱leí̱s POV 

The past week had gone rather well. Each morning everyone got up to do some morning warm ups. They would then eat breakfast and then start on do a heavier set of exercises. They would break from lunch and then go through the obstacle course and other stations. By the end of the week the immortal demigods were making it through without getting injured while the others were getting through without the help of the gods from almost dying. The other stations were running smoothly and the demigods were getting better and better at fighting. When night fell and they went to sleep I would teach the gods and they would in turn teach their children the next day. Everyone was progressing at a great rate so when the next attack came a week after the first I felt confident for the fight. We again had just gotten done with morning warm up when the horn sounded. I went to the barrier to see what was going on to see twice as many monsters as last time with two Titans. Perses and Hyperion. Both of them had been down there with him. I turned to the demigods who had all formed a group around me.

"Are you all ready to kick some Titan ass?" There were many yells of excitement. "Do not die out there and remember what your training has taught you." With that I turned back to the enemy and led the attack against them.

 Poseidon POV

Ani̱leí̱s made a small speech in his emotionless voice. It was the way he always talked and we now had gotten used to it. Many of the campers were ready for this fight. The training in the past week had been rough, but we would now see if it paid off. I was sure it would. After a few days many of the campers and gods had come to tolerate him. Even though he was rough he seemed to be just. As he finished his small speech he rushed out with the campers behind him. They started to fight the sea of monsters. Again Ani̱leí̱s took the most of them out as he went along his way in a black blur to meet the two Titans. The others were doing well on their own and so far none had died, much less be injured. The training. was paying off. Even to us gods who had fought before the things he taught us were making us stronger and better. He finally came up on the two Titans. Annabeth and Aiden also faced them, but Ani̱leí̱s waved them away so he could fight alone. I knew he was strong, but still he would need help wouldn't he?

"Why are you here Titan of Light and Titan of Destruction?" Perses laughed. "We are here to kill all of you!" He was excited for the fight.  Ani̱leí̱s grew mad at this as a black glow started to form about him.

"We have come here to kill all of you worthless demigods. To reunite you with your pathetic hero," Hyperion bellowed. Ani̱leí̱s seemed to grow even madder at the Titan as the light around him seemed to be sucked into his darkness.

"You have no right to be here!" The two giants merely laughed at him. It seemed Hyperion and Perses had been another to torture my son. I was furious and wanted to storm out there, but if Ani̱leí̱s did as before the Titans would have justice done to them. The three went to battle as both Titans fought against Ani̱leí̱s. Hyperion sent several light blasts at Ani̱leí̱s who dodged them with ease as Perses brutally tried to cut him down. Both Titans couldn't touch Ani̱leí̱s as he blocked their attacks. "You will both go back to where you belong," Ani̱leí̱s told them. Perses was the first one to go down as Ani̱leí̱s knocked him down but at the last second Perses grabbed him and smiled as Hyperion shot another blast which hit Ani̱leí̱s dead on. Everyone stopped and many of the gods gasped, including myself. Smoke came off Ani̱leí̱s's body and as it cleared we saw that his shirt and cloak had been burned away, we also could see the many scars he had on his body. He was covered in them. Whatever had happened in his past it hadn't been a great one, the boy's body told us that. The good thing was that there were no other injuries to his body from the blast, he just looked super pissed off. He stabbed Perses in the heart causing him to turn to dust. Hyperion stood there in shock that his attack had done nothing but burn Ani̱leí̱s's clothes away.

"It can't be," Hyperion stuttered. "You were supposed to be faded!"

"You have the wrong person Titan. My name is Ani̱leí̱s." With that Ani̱leí̱s took a stance with his black sword. Before Hyperion could do anything Ani̱leí̱s rushed forward in a blur and stabbed him in the chest. His eyes grew big and he disappeared into dust. By this time most of the monsters had again been defeated and were on the run.

The fight looked to be over and thankfully again no one had been killed. There were only a few injured and they were being taken care of by Apollo's children. That was when the ground started to grumble and a figure rose up. It was a dirt figure that took the form of a woman. She opened her eyes and looked straight at Ani̱leí̱s.

"Hello child." He stared at her with hate.

"What do you want," he spat. She smiled.

"Only to see if you would switch sides. I know you are working with my sister and two of my brothers. I was hoping you would switch sides young one." Ani̱leí̱s was working with Primordials? Three of them at that. No wonder he was so powerful.

"I will never join your side. Not after what has happened in the past and I will kill you. This time I will make sure you do not come back." Gaea shrugged. What was he talking about?

"Just wait child you will join their other hero Perseus Jackson." With that the dirt figured crumbled back into the earth. Ani̱leí̱s turned to look at all of us as everyone stared at him. He seemed jolted and his wings fluttered as he noticed he was wearing no top. He disappeared to instantly reappear in a replica outfit to the one he had before.  He came over to us. His movements seemed sluggish, that was weird. Had the blast from Hyperion actually hurt him?

"So your patrons are three Primordials," Athena asked. His wings fluttered. I was pretty sure that when he felt certain feelings his wings did that, though it wasn't often that it happened. I could count the many times he had done that on my fingers over the week.

"As I said it isn't for you to know."

"Gaea said that you are working with her sister and two brothers." A black glow faintly surrounded him and his wings extended.

"You do not talk about Primordials that way! You show them respect!" We suddenly heard a female voice that was deep, but feminine.

"It is alright Ani̱leí̱s. They do not know." Ani̱leí̱s immediately went into a kneeling position as three people appeared from a shadow.

"Lady Nyx, Lords Erebus and Tartarus." Everyone was shocked at their power as we all bowed. I now pieced some of the prophecy together. From Torture, Darkness, and Night shall he arise.

"May I ask what is going on," Zeus politely questioned still bowed.

"You may rise," Nyx said and we all did. She was leaning on her husband as Tartarus stood off to the side. "We are here to help against Gaea and our children Aether and Hermera. For some unknown reason to us, they have decided to take over the planet along with our sister Gaea. This means you not only have your old enemies but you have two new ones that have joined their cause. We have trained and sent Ani̱leí̱s here to help you stop this. We and our Father want this place to survive and continue. For this reason we three have blessed Ani̱leí̱s and our Father has given him a weapon to help him on this quest."

"Lord Chaos has chosen to help also," I asked confused. "I thought he went into a slumber not to awaken?"

"That was what he wants many to think. He wanted to be left alone, but have the ability to watch his creations," Nyx answered. "As of now the opposing army has taken a small hit, but they will be back. With our brother Tartarus on our side this time Death's Doors shall remain shut, however we are afraid that Gaea has found another way to get her allies out. We are trying to find this location and close it. I suggest that there be a quest sent out to help us. The enemy has lost some of their side and will take a week to gather more allies. In this time the quest must be a success and the heroes must return to help fight." She then nodded to Erebus and went over to Ani̱leí̱s. I decided to pay more attention to them and I could get what I had missed from Hades. He was taller than her in her human form so he bent down so she could whisper in his ear. His whole body seemed to tremble and his wings constantly fluttered for a moment, until he finally nodded. Whatever she was telling him, he did not like. She seemed to be saddened by it also. She smiled at him and petted his head. After a few strokes she went back over to Erebus, who had stopped talking. He was now staring at me. I gave a polite smile that wasn't returned back. He must have known I was paying more attention to his wife than him.      

"With that settled we will now depart. Good luck heroes." They disappeared into a shadow. Ani̱leí̱s stepped forward.

"Tomorrow we will meet to get the quest. For now we will rest for the day. I think this fight has counted as your training for today." Many of the campers were grateful for this and headed back into camp. I watched as Ani̱leí̱s slowly made his way to the woods. I felt like I should go to him, but I knew that wasn't what he wanted. Whatever Nyx had said he wanted to process it alone, his whole posture told us that. We Olympians also decided to take up his reward to the campers and went to go rest.

  Ani̱leí̱s POV 

My whole body hurt as I made it slowly to the woods. Nyx had reprimanded me. She knew as well as I did that I needed sleep. I had been putting it off not wanting to dream. My body had been rejecting me from not getting rest and that was why I was hit with Hyperion's blast. It had affected my body even more. I felt like I could barely move and was moving through slime. I was able to make it to the clearing like I had previously, before I collapsed. I tried to fight the darkness from swallowing me, dreading what was to come. I couldn't however as I fell into a nightmare filled sleep.

 Dream

Third Person POV

 A boy with jet black hair was in a cell with his head was hanging low. He didn't know how long he had been in there. Monsters, Titans, and Giants came to torture him constantly. He was never alone long enough to have a rest. That was why he was surprised now that he was alone. He lifted his head to find that he wasn't. His senses were getting dull as time passed on. Usually he was able to tell when the enemy was in the room, but recently that hadn't been so. Gold eyes stared back at him with a cruel smile. So Kronos had come back, but he wasn't the only one there. Porphyrion the King of Giants also was there giving the boy a cruel smile.

"We were wondering when you were going to awake Perseus. We want to play," Porphyrion said. He sent out a jab that hit Percy's stomach so hard Percy could feel it bleeding on the inside and crack some lower ribs. A crazed laugh filled his cell as he tried to gasp for air, before he could get it back, Kronos cut into his abdomen making the blood pour out. Next, he cut from Percy's shoulder down to his hand exposing the bone. Both Kings ripped some of the muscle, tendons and ligaments making Percy scream. They popped it into their mouths like candy. They did this until Percy's arm was practically bone. He had been through things like this so much that he no longer passed out as quickly, his body getting better at handling the pain to keep his conscious longer, but they made sure Percy's nerves were never lacking so it hurt like it was the first time over and over again. Even the blood loss didn't affect Percy as it was just a trickle now. Some time while they were eating Percy, his wound had healed into a scar. They had made sure that it didn't take him long to heal so they could hurt him over and over again.

 "Well now that we have had a snack, what about the main course?" Percy was terrified. They had not done this yet. Kronos took his scythe back out again cutting his abdomen, but farther open causing Percy to scream again. That is when they started to take out organs and whatever they could find to snack on. They only had to wait for a couple moments for the organ to regenerate. Percy watched in horror as they ate organ after organ again and again, thankfully after a while Percy's body gave in not being able to handle the stress, terror, and injury to it. He thankfully passed out.

 Annabeth POV

I needed breathing room to gather my thoughts. I told Aiden so and he understood. I loved the boy. I would never forget Percy and he would always have a special place in my heart. Aiden now took a bigger space and made me feel whole. Aiden knew about Percy and understood and accepted the fact about Percy. Heck, he looked up to him. He knew how well Percy had treated me and what kind of hero he had been. All of the campers did. Once every six months we still told Percy's story, about his life, his battles, and his sacrifice. He had become the image that all heroes here wanted to be like. Even the older campers that knew him still strive to be like him in their own way. I shook my head. I needed to think about the war and the quest. I wondered who would sent. Hopefully no one new like Percy and I had. We were too young, but had no choice. I hoped that they had a choice. I went to the beach, my favorite spot and sat there. I could see that the beach looked better and the seas seemed to be healthier. Even though Ani̱leí̱s was a dick he had been helping in what way he could. He had made Poseidon feel alive again after five hundred years of wanting to fade. I wonder if he had done it out of pity, knowing Ani̱leí̱s though, he had done it out of being annoyed from Poseidon's temperament.

I watched the waves roll as I thought of the past and of the present. It was like barely any time had passed, but I knew better as the sun was now overhead. It looked to be one or two in the afternoon. Aiden had to be worried about me by now. I picked myself off of the sand brushing myself off. I started walking past camp and paused. I heard a whimpering that sounded like a wounded animal. It was feint and I knew without my gifted sense of hearing I would have never heard it. I walked into the woods with my dagger out and my invisible cap on. I moved slowly not making a sound. Ani̱leí̱s's training was paying off. The sound was getting louder as I made out a clearing. It was more than a whimper now, it was a loud groaning noise. I looked into the clearing and I was shocked at what I saw. Ani̱leí̱s was in the middle of the clearing. He was tossing and turning, his wings getting crumpled and dirty beneath him. He was groaning holding his stomach. His weapons glistened in the sun. He was groaning loudly as something he was dreaming about. I went over to him and shook him. It was the wrong thing to do as I was suddenly lying on the ground and he was straddling me, his wings were spread out over us producing darkness. He had a dagger at my throat and was breathing hard.

"Are you real Daughter of Athena?" His voice was shaky and seemed strained.

"I am." He still didn't take the knife away.

"Prove it." 

"How?" He didn't answer, he just glared at me with his knife against my throat. I became agitated.

"You know you are a total dick. Sometimes it is a wonder why we put up with you." He moved his knife. Wait, what? I was left in surprise as he left the clearing. How had me dissing him proved that this was real and why did he want to know that in the first place?

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