Hey Everyone!!!! I happened to look and over one hundred people have totally looked at my story!!!! I also have two people, PikkieSmit and dannyjoko who have voted for all my chapters! I thank you all! As more of a thank you here is a chapter that had come out earlier than I thought I would have it out. Me No Rick Riordan.


Ani̱leí̱s POV

I left the camp and decided to go check on the quest. They had only left two hours prior, but I wanted to make sure things were going smoothly. I knew they had part of the prophecy quest wrong, but I didn't know how their deduction was wrong. I tracked the necklace I had given Annabeth to a small town right out of Pittsburgh. I wondered how they had made it from Long Island to there. Train or taxi? Maybe Annabeth stole a car again, however they were walking now. I flew above them where they couldn't see me. I guess it was good that they had chosen a direction to go. They were cutting through some woods as I flew above them and noticed something that they didn't, a camp. It had monsters in it and seemed to be waiting for the group. Time to put their fighting skills to the test. I would keep an eye on them and jump in if a bigger foe decided to show up.

 Thailia POV

We had just left Pittsburgh where we had dumped the broken down car that Annabeth had hot wired. We were cutting through a forest to try and avoid mortals. Annabeth and Aiden were leading in front, while Nico and I were in back keeping watch from behind. Surprisingly nothing had happened so far as we stepped into a clearing.

"I sense something," Nico said. Of course our luck couldn't hold out. We all stopped and listened. We heard crashing coming through the woods. I pulled out my bow and aimed towards the noise just as monsters poured into the clearing. I let arrows fly as the rest fought with their swords. I took care of any monster that got too close for comfort to the others while they defended me. I knew our luck couldn't hold out. We still didn't even know where we were going, we were just going west. The ground started to shake right when we thought we had vanquished the monsters. A titan came in, it was Krios.

"Hello Immortals. Ready to go to be painfully reformed in Tartarus? Maybe be tortured for a while?" He laughed evilly. We all stood up against him. There was no way we were losing this battle, not until Koios stepped in did I get slightly worried. Two first generation of Titans we were battling against.

"Nico and Thalia take Koios, we've got Krios," Annabeth yelled as she and Aiden rushed towards the other Titan. Nico rushed towards Koios as I shot arrows trying to make an opening for him. Koios simply swatted them away. Nico went to strike as did Koios, which was when Nico pulled his trick. He fell through a shadow on the ground and reappeared behind Koios. He stabbed him in his back, as Koios was unprepared to have Nico appear behind him. Koios turned, but Nico was already gone, this time coming from right below Koios striking at his legs giving him two deep gashes that bled ichor. Nico again disappeared to reappear behind Koios, but this time Koios was prepared. He sent a punch at Nico that sent Nico flying, but I had been prepared for this and while Nico had been attacking Koios I had pulled out my knives and had snuck upon the Titan. When he sent Nico flying I was already prepared to attack Koios and dug my daggers into his chest, hitting his heart. The Titan looked at me in surprise as he turned to dust. I ran over to Nico who was lying on the ground. He sat up with his head bleeding.

"Gods that hurt," he mumbled as he wiped the ichor away. I smiled and helped him up. He smiled at me. "Thanks Thals." We both turned as we heard a crash. Aiden had also been sent flying, but was unlucky as he hit a tree. He tried to get up as Annabeth protected him, but he slid back down. Nico and I rushed over to help the two. I brought out my bow and fired at Krios, who had been paying no attention to us as he was interested in Annabeth. I hit him in the arm that help his weapon he was about to kill Annabeth with. Nico disappeared into a shadow bursting out to stab Krios right in the chest, while his focus had been on me. Krios had also turned to dust. Annabeth went straight over to Aiden. He had ichor coming out of a wound on his chest and Annabeth had tears in her eyes.

"Please wake up Aiden," she begged. His eyes fluttered and he looked up smiling at us.

"I won't leave you," he said as he sat up. He was fine as we handed him a small piece of ambrosia to heal him. I also handed a small piece to Nico, but he denied it, saying that it was best to wait until they had a more serious injury.

"Well that was fun," I said smiling. Nico gave a laugh as did Aiden, but Annabeth seemed to be in her own little world.

"Hey Annie you in there?" She glared at me and I laughed.

"Come on let's move a bit and then we can make camp for tonight," she finally said. We all agreed and started off again like we had been traveling before. It was a good day so far. We killed two Titan's that had most likely hurt Percy and now we were back to the quest.

Later That Night After Making Camp

We had just gotten done eating some food we had brought along with us and were sprawled out around the fire. It was nice to be in the woods again instead of at the camp.

"Well who is going to take the first shift," Annabeth asked.

"I will," Nico said. He sat up sitting his sword on his lap. Good, I was tired after fighting the Titans. I looked up to the sky and saw Zoe's constellation. I smiled. She had been an awesome person and even after five hundred years the hunt still missed her. She was a great huntress. Wait didn't the quest say Look to the Skies to Find the Road, The One that the Huntress will Bestow? We were idiots, I thought as I hit my forehead and sat up.

"Guys I think I figured out the rest of the prophecy." Annabeth and Aiden sat up to look at me. I pointed up to the sky. Confused the three looked up and then Annabeth also hit herself on the forehead.             

"Of course," she said. "Look to the Skies to Find the Road, The One that the Huntress will Bestow. We have to look up in the skies to see Zoe's constellation and she is the huntress that will bestow. I bet the opening is near Atlas and The Garden of the Hesperides."

"Should we tell Ani̱leí̱s? Maybe this is where he helps up by taking us there," Aiden said. Annabeth nodded and touched the necklace.

"Ani̱leí̱s."

"Yes," his voice came as we all jumped. We couldn't see him until he stepped forward into the light of the campfire.

"How did you do that," Nico asked. "You didn't come out of a shadow." Ani̱leí̱s's mouth twitched.

"I am blessed by Darkness I can be where ever it is. So in truth I can be anywhere there is darkness." That was a scary thought. He was powerful and could appear anywhere with no light. Talk about a living nightmare. A real Freddy Kruger with no way to get rid of. 

"So we have figured where the opening is," Annabeth told him. His wings fluttered slightly.

"How and where?"

"The last to lines are meant to look up at the sky at Zoe's constellation." Ani̱leí̱s looked up and nodded.

"She is the Huntress that will bestow you the road," he said. "He looked back down at us, well I guessed he was looking at us.

"Right," Annabeth said, "so we think that the opening is at The Garden of the Hesperides and guarded by Atlas, who has most likely been freed from his prison under the sky."

"Well then all of you sleep. You will need your energy and when day breaks we will go there. I will watch over your camp tonight so all of you will get rest. After defeating the two Titan's earlier I say you need it." I gave him a puzzled look. How had he known we had fought with two Titan's earlier? I was so tired, that it didn't matter to me. This time when I laid down I closed my eyes and immediately fell asleep. I was woken up by someone shaking me.

"Get up," the harsh voice, which I wasn't used to waking up said. I shot up to Ani̱leí̱s kneeling next to me. I glared at him, but like usual it didn't seem to faze him. I looked around to see that the sun was just coming up.

"Get the others up. I have to go, but I will be back by the time you eat and are ready to leave." With that he left in a shadow.

Ani̱leí̱s POV

I had stood watch over the four's small camp as they slept. It had been a long night of waiting. Usually when I didn't sleep I had plenty of things to do, but instead I had to stay and watch four people sleep, which I found utterly boring. I had woken up Thalia and then left to go back to camp, knowing that the people there were at Zeus's Fist waiting for me. They all were standing there when I arrived above them in the sky. I floated down to them.

"Hello everyone. I have good news they have found the location of the opening and are going to go there to close it." Many of them seemed happy about this. "Today you will warm up with running of an hour. Then move on to rock climbing. After breakfast the tournaments begin. I have already made a list and it is hanging on the outside of the Big House." That is what I had done with some of my night. "Follow it and we will see what happens." That's when the gods appeared. I found Hestia and Demeter glaring at me. Poseidon was standing there, but his life force was weak again. He should man up already. I went up to him, where I got cut off by the two sisters.

"Don't you even dare. He is only here because you demanded all of us and we do not want you to harm him further," Demeter said. I ignored them both and looked at Poseidon, who gave me a hollow look. It made me angry, the only real emotion I felt anymore, well that and pain. Why does he get to do this? I used shadows to remove the two sister to another spot a couple feet away as I grabbed Poseidon by his throat.

"Why do you look like an empty husk Poseidon? What gives you the right when it wasn't you being tortured and beaten in the first place?" I spat the words in his face. "Man up and deal with it. Make up for it if you have to, to get over it. Do not however, look like an empty shell and expect pity when it wasn't you who had to go through everything!" I threw him on the ground when my wings were set on fire. I wanted to scream at the pain, but instead immediately put it out. I tried to quickly turn to find that I couldn't by the roots crawling up me.

"How fucking dare you!" I used my injured wings and gave a great push. It was painful, but I was used to it. I was ripped from the roots and turned to find the two sisters glowing, one greenish brown and the other orangish red. I drew Reaper and like an arrow dove for both sister, however I drew short when Poseidon stepped in between them and myself.

"STOP!" He screamed. He grew younger and his features grew rough, like a warrior. "I will not allow you to hurt my sisters for something I did." He brought out his trident, but didn't attack. He was hoping I would not attack any further. Unfortunately for him I was Merciless as I floated to the ground and held my sword out ready to strike.

"Then you will die knowing you saved your sisters." His face hardened and I was about to attack when I felt a tug from my chest. A white light appeared making me scream. This was a pain that was so intense, not even I could stop from crying out as I fell to my knees. For whatever reason I knew the pain was due to the fact that I was going to kill Poseidon. As soon as I had given up on that thought, the pain and light stopped. I got up shakily. Everyone stared at me and I glared at Poseidon.

"For whatever reason a higher power doesn't want you killed. Be thankful for this or you would have been dead by now. I have things to do." With that I called a shadow over and went back to the other four.

Artemis POV

We stood in horror, and rage as Ani̱leí̱s grabbed Poseidon by the throat and yelled at him. Then we stood in awe and shock as Demeter and Hestia, the most well-tempered of us, attack Ani̱leí̱s. First by Hestia setting his wings on fire, which he immediately put out without even crying in pain. He went to turn to us, but he was stopped by Demeter's strong vines. He used his burned wings and pushed of the ground with such force that the roots were decimated and a crater was left. He drew out his powerful sword and came down like a bullet to take on Hestia and Demeter. Poseidon threw himself between his sisters and their would be attacker. 

"STOP!" He grew to his younger self and looked like a soldier ready to fight. "I will not allow you to hurt my sisters for something I did." Poseidon brought out his trident, but didn't make a move. He was waiting to see if Ani̱leí̱s would stop, but like the monster he was, Ani̱leí̱s came down and got into position to attack Poseidon.

"Then you will die knowing that you saved your sisters," he growled. Both looked ready to attack when a bright light came from Ani̱leí̱s's chest. He screamed in pain falling to his knees. We all stood in shock at this, so much that Poseidon didn't even try to attack. After a moment the light died and Ani̱leí̱s stood up shakily. He glared at Poseidon.

"For whatever reason a higher power doesn't want you killed. Be thankful for this or you would have been dead by now. I have things to do." He called a shadow and the monster disappeared. We all stood silent for a moment, until Father spoke up.

"I suggest we thank whatever stopped Ani̱leí̱s. I also suggest that no matter how furious you get not to take him on." He looked at his sisters and brother.

"We now see that he has no qualm in killing us, just that he was stopped for now. Whatever stopped him, might not do it again. I wish to fight him, but I know that we cannot do so until Gaea and Kronos are gone. Therefore we will all get started for today." I think several of the campers thought Zeus was becoming a coward, but the gods knew that he really didn't want to see any of his family hurt. So for now he would keep calm, but I had no doubt in my mind that when this war was over that there would be a fight, most likely to the death. The children went and did as told. As we went up to have a meeting. It was one that would decide how the monster's fate would end and we all wanted a part in it.

Nico POV

We had literally just finished packing when Ani̱leí̱s came back. What great timing he had, but then I noticed there was something wrong. He looked annoyed and his wings looked damaged.

"What happened," I asked. He gave off a killing intent. Okay then, time to keep the mouth shut.

"So what is going to happen," Aiden asked. Sometimes he reminded me of Percy with his air headedness. It had hard when Percy had left, over the years we were now able to talk about him without becoming a mess. I could think about him too without doing that.

"Now we go to the garden and you guys close the portal while I hold off everything from attacking you." I gave him a perplexed look. I knew he was powerful, but how many Titans could he take on at once? There had to be a limit.

"You're going to be able to fight off everything that comes our way by yourself," Annabeth asked disbelievingly as she mirrored my thoughts.

"I can handle myself. You four just worry about getting the opening closed." With that a shadow enveloped us. It was weird to be traveling in shadow on someone else's whim. At least I was used to it, unlike Aiden. Thalia and Annabeth had traveled with me and other gods before, so it wasn't as much a shock to them as it was to him. After a moment we landed, well if you can call it that, we were floating in the air above the garden. My stomach sank. Monsters as far as I could see. There had to be at least a hundred thousand of them. How was Ani̱leí̱s going to take them all on his own? We also saw some Titans, one of them I noticed was Atlas. Who was holding up the sky?

"There," Ani̱leí̱s said and pointed. A dark hole was in the ground and monsters were still coming out. How could that even be possible?

"Okay Son of Hades," he said bringing me out of my thoughts. I looked over to him. "Shadow travel yourselves over to the hole as soon as I make them leave it." I nodded.

"Daugher of Zeus can you make sure that you four stay for a couple moments or will that be too draining?"

"If it is less than five minutes it won't be too draining." Ani̱leí̱s nodded.

"Good." With that he disappeared and I felt a different power holding us up. I looked at Thalia who had her eyes closed in concentration.

"HEY OVER HERE!!! The three of us looked down to see Ani̱leí̱s near the hole making lots of commotion. The monsters and Titans took the bait as they left the hole and went to attack him. Thankfully, nothing more came through. Ani̱leí̱s turned into a black blur.

"Thalia on the count of three I am going to teleport us, so stop keeping us afloat. One, two, three." I felt us slightly fall as my shadow came over us and we were at the hole. I looked down in to see nothing but darkness.

"So how are we going to close it," Thalia asked Annabeth. Annabeth stood there to think and looked at me.

"Can you try and close it?" I shrugged and gave it a try. No dice.

"That would be a no." She thought some more and then her eyes lit up.

"They said that they hadn't found it to close it up and the prophecy never said anything about us closing it."

"What are you talking about?!" Annabeth had lost it in her own world again. Instead of answering us she closed her eyes.

"You prayed," Nyx's voice came after a moment. Erebus and Tartarus appeared by her side. We knelt down. Now I understood what Annabeth was talking about. We had to find the opening, but they had to close it. We couldn't close a hole that another Primordial made.

"We have found the hole Lady and Lords. We cannot close it however. We figured that you could." Nyx smiled.

"You are a child of Athena," Nyx said. She and her brothers circled around the hole. Black, grey, and a color some how darker than black that drew light from around it spread around the hole. With a groan it closed. After that was done they came over to us, but then looked passed us.

"Did Ani̱leí̱s fight that whole army alone?" Oops. I had totally forgotten about that. We stood and turned to a surprise. The hundreds of thousands of monsters were now a sea of gold dust. I mean he was flying, because the gold dust was so high up that it probably went up to my waist in the area he was in. He just stayed in the same area letting them come to him. There just two Titan's left, Atlas and Oceanus. At the moment Oceanus was on the ground and then dust. Atlas was bleeding ichor and looked to be on his last leg. They both disappeared in a shadow.

"Hello Lady Nyx, Lord Erebus, and Lord Tartarus." I jumped as Ani̱leí̱s's voice suddenly appeared behind us. I heard Thalia give a little yelp as Annabeth clutched onto Aiden, who clutched her back. We turned to find him standing there hold up an exhausted goddess of victory, Nike. She must have been holding up the world. Nyx went over to them and smiled.

"You have done well champion." With that she healed Nike who knelt and thanked her. She disappeared right after saying something about fights she wanted to watch. Ani̱leí̱s looked to be totally unscathed by his encounter, but as soon as Nike flashed out he started to fall only to be caught by Nyx. He mumbled something to her, who nodded.

"Honey can you please escort these four back to camp?" Erebus smiled at her.

"Of course." With that we disappeared into a shadow so dark, even I couldn't see in it. Light burst into our eyes as the shadow dissipated. We were standing in the middle of the arena.

"You're back," we heard a male say. I turned to find Jason and Piper coming over with a smile. I looked around to see that in the arena there were many fights going on and people watching. So this was what Nike was talking about. Lord Erebus had disappeared, not even appearing I camp.

"Where is Ani̱leí̱s," Jason asked in a cautious, but angered tone.

"With Nyx, Erebus, and Tartarus," Thalia said.

"What is going on here," I asked as the gods flashed in. Dad came over and hugged me. I hugged him back.

"I am glad you are safe." I smiled.

"I didn't do anything dangerous. So what is going on Dad?" He frowned.

"Ani̱leí̱s set up a tournament for you guys to participate in. He wanted you to get used to fighting with your new skills." He spat Ani̱leí̱s's name. I tilted my head. I knew that Ani̱leí̱s hadn't been on good terms when we left, but what had happened? It must had been this morning between the time that he left and came back.

"What is going on between you and him?" Aiden asked. I looked at all the gods who seemed angered. I noticed that Poseidon looked strong now. What had been done for him to do that?

"If he could have he would have killed Poseidon, Demeter, and Hestia. We don't know what stopped him, but they almost went full fight."

"Wait Lady Hestia and Lady Demeter about got into a fight," I asked disbelievingly. Hestia was the most level headed goddess.

"No one messes with my family," she said.

"I got that," a voice said. The ground shuddered and Ani̱leí̱s came from it. "Now if we are done discussing this shall we get on with the tournament. You guys aren't even a quarter of the way through and I want it done in two days so we have time to prepare for war." He had the ability to pop out of basically anywhere. He turned to the gods and tilted his head. He then shrugged and turned to the camp.

"Let's get this show on the road. I need to know all your strengths so I know how to strategize!" He walked out of the arena and the rest of us who weren't fighting left also. When we got out he turned to the four of us.

"Go look at the list to see where on the list you are and prepare to fight." I wanted to stay and talk to Dad, but I thought it better not to so another fight wouldn't start.

This chapter has been edited. If you notice that I missed something please let me know!