Chapter 123: PJ690
Chapter 681
Percy stood silently, he thought and finally broke the silence, "then that
day I'll will come to terms with what has happened. Our dreams are not
reality, it's not who we are, it's what we want to be, but know that we
never will be."
"That is where you are wrong boy, I'm the god of dreams, I have been
so since eternity began. Believe me when I say this, the person one
perceives themselves to be in their dream is the truest form of them.
They are weak, they are cowardly, they hate and they steal. That is
humanity, that is what you claim to protect."
"Then aren't demigods the same?"
Morpheus was stumped. He honestly didn't have an answer. He
cleared his throat, "t-they can change."
"Then so can humans," Percy shot back.
The God of dreams growled, "enough of this! Don't you see?! I'm doing
this for you people!" the God roared sending out a blast of mana right
at Percy.
Percy jumped to the side and rolled. He got up and growled, "we didn't
ask for this! We never asked for this!"
"You never did, but they did!" Morpheus pointed to the many pods
around them, "they dreamt of not fighting in this war! Do you know
what happens when they sleep? They always come into my realm, they
visit, and I take care of them. I help them dream! I help them
contemplate the problems of the day and I nurse them back to a stable
state of mind in order to face the next day! And the next, and the next! I
help them up, only for them to come crawling back, broken once more!
I couldn't do anything to help them, I could never interfere! But
now….now I can no longer simply stand by and watch! They dream of
a better life, and I will give it to them!"
Percy looked at the god, and noticed a single feather slowly fall down.
As the black and white death hit the ground Percy realised something,
something important.
"Would you do that….even at the cost of your own life?" Percy asked
gently.
"H-how did you know?"
"You're shedding," Percy pointing to the fallen feather on the ground.
And now that he was looking for it he realised there were several
feathers all over the place, a trail of them where ever the God walked.
"A God's form is absolute, not a strand out of place not a blister on their
skin. But if you are losing your form...then that means you are growing
weaker. There is so much power being supplied into those pods, you
must be exhausting yourself forcing us all in here, making us stay.
You….you're risking fading away aren't you?"
"How….,sigh, yes," Morpheus floated down standing before Percy, "I
was never meant to bring so many of you here...it's not natural. My
control over my own realm is slipping...that's why you managed to
break it, otherwise not even Zeus could have done something like that.
It's against nature, but….but if it means saving your lives then it must
be done!"
"Morpheus….I understand why you are doing this," Percy lowered his
weapon, "I do... You and I...we have the same flaw. Loyalty. But
this...what you are doing...it's just wrong!"
"You mean like you did when you went into the underworld to bring
back the souls of 36 demigods?" Morpheus argued, "you were risking
death in doing that, so if you, a demigod could act so noble, why can't
I?"
"Because I never realised the implications of what I did that day," Percy
shot back, "all the people I saved...they were dead because of me. It
was my duty to save them and I was willing to face the consequences.
But what you're doing...it's robbing them of the will to chose!"
"Who would chose to die for people who never cared for them?!"
"ME!" Percy yelled, "and Thalia, and Annabeth and Michael and so
many more demigods! You say you know their true selves? Then tell
me now, is there a single demigod there who won't fight for Olympus?
Who won't fight for humanity?!"
"You do this...and you would be robbing those who wish to not fight a
chance of happiness."
"Then I'll take that burden. If they want too they can leave, no one ever
forced them to stay. They stayed though...because it's who we are. We
are demigods, being the hero is in our blood."
"You still don't see do you? You never never their children….you were
always their weapon. They leave you, abandoned you to the wild and
then when you are broken, isolated and desperate for attention they
will come and act as benevolent beings offering you a place to stay. If
the God truly cared about you they would have never left you alone. At
the very least they would have left you in camp half-blood, with your
fellow siblings."
"Yes...we know. But we don't care. Do you know the reason we all act
like heros? The reason we have such a….such a hero complex? It's
because we know we are screw ups, we know that we don't belong
with humanity. They reject us, they look down on us, calling us
worthless. But we protect them….because we want to prove them
wrong. We want to prove them that their hate,their rejection doesn't
bother us, that whatever they say to us won't make us become like
them. They can hate us, but we won't hate them. We are better than
them, we are heroes."
"Sentimental rubbish," Morpheus growled. He snapped his fingers
causing the white pods above to glow. Slowly shadows began to fall
down from the pods, they flew towards Morpheus, surrounding him like
a cloak before slowly transforming into the worst creatures Percy had
ever scene.
There were monsters of old, chimeras, minotaurs, a hydra, a fury and
even a demented looking clown with a blood red smile and a very
sharp knife. Each figure was darkened like a shadow, their eyes
glowing red. Percy could feel power rolling of them, through his mana
scene he could tell that Morpheus had created them.
The Legendary Minotaur,
Lv- 100
Chimera,
Lv- 100
Fury,
Lv- 100
Evil Clown,
Lv- 100
And they were much stronger than their original counterparts. Percy
gulped, he was in deep do do this time.
"You wish to be a hero then JAckson?" Morpheus asked, "then take on
their nightmares! Fight for them! Prove you're worth demigod! Or die!"
The god threw his hands forward causing the monsters to charge
Percy.
'Well shit,' Percy cursed lowering his visor. He raised his weapons just
as the shadows landed on the ground and charged at him. Percy
ducked down and raised his blades. The Chimera reached him first, it
pushed its powerful legs and leaped at him with its mighty jaws wide
open. Percy dodged at the last moment rolling away as the Chimera
fell into the giant opening her created in wall and down into the
bottomless pit behind.
"GRRR!" it cried out as it's voice grew distant. Percy smirked as he got
up, 'nice,' and then began to run. The shadow monsters followed him,
managing to keep up despite his impressive speed. So he activated his
strength;
STR- 0.146 (+11+20+75+2) = 108.146
Seal Release: Layer 10 Time: 1 1.2 Months
STR- 42,467,328 (+11+20+75+2) = 42,467,436
Percy turned back and saw them gaining on him, seeing no point in
running he trailed around and brought waverider down hard. The air in
front of Percy was sent forward due to the force behind the slash, the
shadow minotaur was cleaved in half.
Percy then began his attack. His swords flashed blue and bronze as he
hacked and slashed through the swarm of shadow monsters. The
beasts cried out as Percy carved through them, each swing carrying
with it enough force to turn stone to dust and carry entire buildings on
his back.
The monsters kept coming though, they didn't care for their own lives
for they had nothing to live for. They lived only to torture, only to hurt.
Percy saw them in different forms, most were greek monsters, the kind
any demigod would be naturally afraid, while a few looked human,
Percy swore he saw one that looked exactly like a disappointed Julia.
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Percy didn't stop, he kept attacking. Each monster he cut down he felt
a wave of appreciation come upon him. Like the person whose
nightmare he killed was thanking him for it. He looked into those red
eyes and he didn't blink, he didn't stop. But then he saw it. A shadow
that gave him pause. A shadow that took on the form of Percy Jackson.
The demigod halted, for a whole second he halted. He slowed down,
and just stared at the blackened red eyed figure before him. 'W-who's
nightmare is that?' he wondered, and in that moment, a shadow lion
plunged it's teeth into Percy's shoulder, biting into his armour and biting
skin.
Percy's eyes went wide with pain, "ARGH!" Percy bent his knees from
the pain, he dropped Riptide and immediately punched the lion's jaw
breaking it off easily. The shadows saw their chance and launched
themselves on him. Percy kicked his own shadowy self into dust, but
they came on too fast.
The dog piled him, another minotaur pinned him down, showing it's
smelly mouth near his helmet. A hydra came on top of them and then a
giant bear of top of the snake. Monster after monster jumped onto, and
Percy could slowly feel himself being crushed under the weight.
Percy panted, 'why did that hurt? How did that lion hurt me? My armor,
it was like my armor wasn't even there! Okay, so maybe these things
can bypass my armour...and my marble skin...then I can't afford to let
them hurt me, meaning...'
Percy focused on his mana and gathered it into his core. The mana
traveled through his body and suddenly was released all at once
sending out a wave of energy that blasted the monsters off off Percy;
Energy blast, Lv- 1 (43%)
Sends out a blast of energy.
Cost- 100 MP
Damage- 100 MP
The monster's weren't hurt, but this gave Percy a chance to escape as
he launched himself into the air using his telekinetic flight. The monster
quickly got back to their feet and jumped up to attack Percy in the air.
The demigod cut them down, spinning on the spot to strike down
monsters that attack from the back.
Slowly Percy spun around faster and faster, his very form reminiscent
of a tornado of death, a storm of swords. He kept cutting them down,
one after another. Monster after monster fell to his blade, it cut through
them like butter. He didn't even register what form they took now, all he
care about was destroying them.
And then something came from him. It was a blue in the corner of his
eye, but he caught it and moved just in time to avoid a downward slash
of a black and white blade. Morpheus had entered the battle.
The God swung his blades at Percy. The demigod dropped down to the
floor, cutting the monsters under him to form a fighting space.
Morpheus looked down and followed Percy, dropping down as his
swung his sword sideways.
Percy twirled Waverider between his fingers turning into it's trident form
once again. He then held it up catching the two blades on the shaft of
the trident. The blades clashed with an audible ring, a wave of force
was sent out knocking back the shadow monsters a good ten feet.
Percy held Morpheus there with his trident, with his free hand he
reached into a compartment in his leg gaurd and found a re summoned
Riptide. He took the pen out and uncapped it in one motion. Morpheus
tried to move back but before he could Percy thrusted the bronze blade
forward piercing the God's right wing.
"BASTARD!" the god of dreams yelled. He sent out a blast of energy
similar to Percy's own energy blast throwing the demigod into the
monsters behind, killing several before landing outside the ring.
Percy growled in frustration as he slowly got on his feet. Morpheus
held his now bleeding wing in pain as he walked out of the swarm of
monsters.
Percy narrowed his eyes at the ichor bleeding out of the God, "I'm
sorry...I truly am."
"I know," Morpheus growled, "but you can't afford to be. You need to be
ruthless, you need to kill without mercy. If you want to lead the
demigod, if you want any hope of carrying their dreams and defeating
their nightmares...then you need to be more than just a sad demigod."
"I know what I have to be," Percy answered back, "but that doesn't
mean I have to be cruel."
"Yes...it does," Morpheus snapped his fingers and suddenly the
shadow monsters disappeared. The turned into a thick fog, slowly
joining together to form a sphere of darkness so thick Percy couldn't
see what was being formed inside it.
"You used to come here didn't you Percy?" Morpheus said as he flexed
his injured wing, which was already almost healed, "you used to
dream, I remember...I always remember. You used to dream of days
where you and your mother could live a happy life, away from
Gabe….away from school. Away…..from the freak that you were."
Percy narrowed his eyes, he remembered them, of course he
remembered them. Those dreams, the ones which he was glad he no
longer dreamt. The days when he blamed himself for his mother's
sufferings, the days when his biggest issues were his abusive step-
father. The days...the days which he missed if only because he was
truly free of responsibility back then.
Morpheus flicked his hands forward and suddenly the shadow sphere
charged at Percy. The demigod turned to run away, but when he did he
found himself facing a wall of shadows. Percy cursed and turned back
again, but it was too late.
His vision turned black. He couldn't see a thing. He was standing in a
spot light, but the shadows were surrounding him.
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They moved like water, the water from the deepest parts of the sea, so
deep not even the light of the sun could reach it. And out of the
shadows came a shadow figure in the form of Percy's mother.
"Why did I ever have you?" she cried, tears came down heavy, "why?!
If you weren't born then I wouldn't have to live like this! I would have
had a normal life!"
"M-mom I-" Percy stopped, 'no, this...this is wrong. She isn't my
mother.' And just as Percy realised that a grey hand came out from the
shadows and grabbed Sally by the hair.
"Ah!" she screamed as she pulled back and forth, shaken like a leaf.
Out of the shadows Gabe stepped out, in one hand a can of beer and
in the other Sally's hair.
"You ungrateful bitch! I take you and your idiot son in and this is the
thanks I get?!" He emptied the can of beer and threw it away. He pulled
her hair up to eye level before swinging his palm across her face,
slapping it hard enough to throw her down to her knees.
"Mom!" Percy cried out, he turned to Gabe, his eyes turning red, "you
bastard!" Percy leapt out of the shadows to attack Gabe, but the
moment he did a flash of white flashed across his chest cutting him
hard.
Percy moved back into the spotlight and held his chest in pain, "what
the hell?!" He could feel himself bleed, and yet his armour wasn't cut,
he marble skin wasn't hurt. Again the power of Morpheus overwhelmed
his defenses, luckily though it seemed other than pain Percy hadn't lost
any HP, considering his health bar was still full.
"You shouldn't get so riled up Percy," Morpheus's mocking tone called
out, "you know these aren't real...right?"
The shadows spat out another person, this time it was Thalia. She
smirked at him, "you stupid boy, you actually thought I loved you didn't
you?"
Percy growled, "you're going to have to do better than that
Morpheus."
"Hm...yes, I think so," the God agreed. Suddenly a black and red blade
pierced Thalia through the chest, the daughter of lighting looked down
as she gulped blood out of her mouth, she looked at Percy as the light
faded from her eyes.
The blade swung up throwing her limp body into the spotlight
underneath Percy. Blood came flowing out of her chest and mouth,
dark red blood. The colour shook Percy, shadows couldn't bleed, what
if….what if…
Percy bent down and touched her cheek, it was warm. "No...no, no,
no!" Percy threw his weapon to the side and kneeled down. He held
her head on his lap, "Thalia? Thalia?!" The shadowy skin slowly started
to shed away, her black hair grew a strip of blue, the same blue strip
that he loved so much. Her skin became clear, her previously red eyes
turned blue.
"Pathetic," a figure stepped out of the shadows. He was big, bigger
than anything Percy ever saw. The shadows covered him from the
chest down, but Percy recognized the cape he had tied around his
neck. It was the second half of the golden fleece, and that meant this
could only be one person.
"Kronos," Percy spoke.
"How can you stop me? If you can't even save one little girl?" the Titan
asked as he wiped her blood from his blade onto the golden fleece.
Percy looked at the titan and then to Thalia. He sighed, "I can't believe
I feel for that again," he pushed the dead body off of him and stood up
straight, "I must be slipping or something."
Kronos raised an eyebrow, "really? You treat your love as so? Maybe
you and I aren't so different after all Jackson."
"Cut the act Morpheus," Percy growled, he summoned Waverider and
Riptide and leveled it at him, "you aren't fooling me."
The titan smirked before turning into the God once more, "clever. What
gave me away?"
Percy formed, "you weren't scary." It was true. The first time Percy
meet Kronos is was just a glimpse at his arm, but even that frightened
him. And then back in the dream world created by the entities who
gave him waverider, when Percy fought that Kronos he was scared, his
every voice shook his bones, this one however was a pathetic clone.
The God chuckled, "true, true. I'll admit I'm not that good of an actor.
Bu admit it, I had you going for a second," he snapped his fingers
causing 'Thalia' to disappear.
"What was the point of all of this?" Percy asked, "why did you even
bother?"
"Because I wanted to show you that even you had demons, that you
have nightmares to run from."
"And?" Percy asked, "I faced them...and I'll continue to face them."
"And where would that leave you?" the god asked, "what would happen
if you continued on this path?"
"I don't know….I don't think anyone knows," Percy admitted.
The God laughed, "yes, that's true. No one knows the future….but I
do."
Percy stopped, "w-what do you mean?"
"Why do you think demigods can dream into the future Percy?" The
god circled Percy like an animal about to pounce, "why do you think
that they know what's going to happen before it does? You don't
dream….but surely you have heard of others dreaming about the
future?"
"I-I…."
"Don't deny it," Morpheus waved his words away, "do you know why
they can dream the future? Because the Fates allow them too, through
me they show them the future...and now I know it as well."
The shadows began to change, they displayed images, frightening
images. Percy saw the white house burning, he saw the city of San
Francisco flooded, he saw forests burning and the sun blackened by a
crescent moon. And then the images turned. He saw New York, his
own city. Olympus no longer floated in the sky, it had crashed into the
ground, cracking the ground below.
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The city of the Gods was destroyed, its buildings reduced to ruins
found in modern Greece. The throne room was destroyed, the thrones
of the Gods reduced to dust. The flames of the hearth was put out by a
pile of bodies. Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Apollo, Hermes,
Hephaestus, Dionysus, Demetre, Hades and so many demigods were
piled onto the pit where once the Hearth of Olympus once burnt.
And sitting on top of the throne was a man dressed in black. He wasn't
a giant, he wasn't even a God. Percy blinked as the shadows revealed
the thing that had done this, the monster that had destroyed Olympus
and everything he loved. The man stood up and removed his helmet
revealing a demigod.
The youngest son of Poseidon. The boy who brought back Zeus'
lightning bolt, the boy that had dived into Hades to bring back his
mother. The boy who had fought a monster beyond Earth and saved
lives. Percy saw himself, and dropped his weapons in horror.
"N-no," he whispered as the shadows died away. Percy had been
transported, he now stood in front of the giant hole in the purple wall he
had created, but he didn't even realize it.
"Do you see now Jackson?" Morpheus appeared in front of him
unarmed with his wings folded, "do you understand now why I don't
believe you are capable of saving anyone?"
"T-that isn't me," Percy muttered, "i-it can't be."
"No...it is," Morpheus sounded sad, almost guilty, "that's why I did this.
Not just to save them from the war….but to save you from becoming
that."
"You're lying."
"Do you really think so?"
"Yes."
Lie failed!
"Percy….I'm sorry. But….but we can stop that from happening. I can
stop you from becoming that thing."
"H-how?"
Morpheus placed his hand on his chest, "like this," and suddenly Percy
felt a blast of energy push him back. The demigod felt himself being
pushed through the hole, he felt the shadows reach out and grab him.
"NO!" Percy cried as he tried to fly away, but the moment he crossed
the threshold between Morpheus's realm and into the darkness he was
gone. But Percy kept pushing, he kept trying to swim back to the crack
in the wall, he stared at Morpheus, who simply watched the demigod
struggle.
"Good bye…..Percy," the God snapped his fingers causing the crack in
the wall to repair itself.
"No!" Percy pushed harder and harder, his fingers stretched to grab
onto the edges of the cracks, but as they brushed against the solid wall
the crack disappeared. For a second he felt a solid wall, before even
that disappeared. And suddenly Percy was jerked down into the
darkness, his screaming drowned out in the numbers of nothing.
In the real world;
Triton looked down, his eyes blinked, "Iris...where's Percy?"
Iris looked up from the miniature rainbow she held in the palm of her
hand, "what do you mean? He's right-" she turned around and stopped
seeing an empty spot where Percy's body used to be. "What in the
world is going on?!"
"I don't know, but I'm guessing it's not good."
GROAN!
The tons of concrete and metal above them started to shift, Triton
grimaced as he pushed his will power to the limit maintaining the
sphere of water.
"Triton, are you okay?" Iris asked, "reduce the size of the sphere, Percy
isn't here...something happened to him, I don't...I can feel...something
pulled him away."
"Do you recognize the signature?" Triton asked reducing the size of the
sphere to lessen the strain on his mind.
"No, I don't," Iris replied frustrated, "which is not something the
goddess of teleportations says on a daily basis." Suddenly the rainbow
in her hand started to glow drawing her attention to it, "yes! The
charms are down!" She grabbed Triton by the arm and the two
vanished in a brilliant flash of rainbow light. The sphere of water
disappeared as well causing the debris that was being held up to come
crashing down.
The Lighthouse;
Eunomia sighed for what felt like the hundredth time, "she hasn't
called...this isn't good."
"Oh would you quit your worrying, I'm sure they're fine," Nemesis aved
the goddess concern away.
"Iris would have called by now," Zephyrus, Iris' divine husband spoke
up, "or at least sent word everything was going on schedule."
"Maybe she and Triton are having difficulty locating Hypnos' lair?"
Hecate suggested, "we all know the bastard likes his sleep."
"Maybe it would be best we try and contact them," Eirene suggested
with a hint of worry in her voice, "just in case."
"Agreed," Eunomia nodded taking out a drachma ready to Iris call the
two missing minor Gods. But just then a bright rainbow light exploded
in the middle of the table as Iris and Triton dropped down in a heap.
"Well….that's something you don't see everyday," Nemesis admitted.
"Iris!" Zephyrus called out as he helped his wife up, "what happened!"
"Hypnos betrayed up," Iris replied groggily.
"The damn bastard tried to blow us into pieces," Triton growled.
"How did you survive?" Eunomia asked in surprise.
"Percy," Triton pointed to the staff, "he had this with him at the time,
saved both our lives."
"Where is Percy?" Eirene asked, her worry showed on her face.
"We don't know," Iris admitted, "one moment he was there with us and
the next...something happened to him."
The minor God council looked at each other, they were out of their
depth here and they knew it. "We need help," Eunomia finally admitted,
"we need to inform the Olympians of what happened."
"Aged," Triton nodded and slowly everyone started nodded as well,
with Nemesis being the last. Once Iris and Triton were properly treated
the minor gods went to Olympus, the smell of war was in the air, and
everyone knew it.
Elsewhere;
Hypnos stood in front of a giant circular portal in a large forest with his
hands spread out. His eyes glowed white with power as he poured
mana into the portal.
"Hurry up Hypnos! We grow impatient!" the titan Hyperion called out.
The Titan stood tall and proud, his sword strapped to his right over the
stump of his arm.
"It is done Hyperion," the minor god yawned as he put his hand down
and walked to the side.
Hyperion huffed as he slowly walked forward and pushed his left hand
inside. Feeling no resistance he smiled and walked away.
He moved past the gathered forces of the Titan army. The monsters
stood at attention, waiting for the order to move, waiting for their
master to proclaim the beginning of the war.
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Hyperion walked past the troops and into a tent. He slipped inside and
bowed, "it is ready my lord."
The figure smiled, "good. Very good," he stepped passed his brother
and into the night. The troops all turned as one and stared. They cried
out cheering his name, they praised him, they worshiped him. The titan
smiled, he turned to his army, "tonight we fight the first battle to
bring down Olympus! Tonight we take away the only weapons the
God have! Tonight we take away their children!"
"AH!"
"ALL HAIL KRONOS!"
"Go forth my faithful servants!" the mad titan pointed at the portal,
"go forth and bring death to them all! With this we strike first!"
The monsters cheered as they marched towards the portal, going in
rows of five like a legion of roman soldiers.
Hypnos stepped up and stood besides Kronos, "and you will keep your
end of the bargain?"
Kronos nodded, "once Morpheus and the demigods are gone...you
will be the new God of dreams. I swear it."
Hypnos smiled and bowed, "thank you lord Kronos."
The titan nodded. He turned to his marching army and smiled.
Nowhere;
Percy didn't understand why. Why did he turn? Was he truly evil? Did
Morpheus lie? No...no he told the truth. Percy….Percy did that, or he
would.
The demigod looked around and saw nothing. Less than nothing. And
the question came, where was he? Was he to suffer through all of time
like this? Aware of everything he did...but be unable to do anything?
He looked around, and suddenly he realised he wasn't nowhere. The
ground, it was grey and made out of stone. But it wasn't there before,
it...it just showed up and….what is going on?
Percy looked around, and everywhere his eyes feel something popped
up. There were pillars around the platform, greek style pillars. There
were no walls, just an endless expanse of sky that looked like it
belonged during a sunset, and yet there were no stars around.
The platform he stood on...there was nothing else there, no one else
there. And just as Percy thought that, someone apparel.
"Well this is a surprise," a figure spoke up from a red velvet couch. It
wore a men's suit, but Percy couldn't tell if it was male or female. It's
was was stars, galaxies were formed inside with stars dotting the edge
of it's frame.
Percy was curious, but before he could speak the thing spoke, "who
am I? Well that's a long answer, are you sure you want to know?"
Percy blinked, but before he could speak it started again, "how did I do
that? Well simple I know what you are thinking because well I suppose
in a way I am you and you are me. But that's too meta for you to
understand right now."
Percy raised an eyebrow, he opened his mouth, but once again that
thing beat him too it, "yes yes I know you have an INT stat of 150,
that's impressive and all that, but this requires wisdom, which isn't as
vast. You should really change that you know," the figure chuckled.
Percy blinked, and again before he could speak the figure spoke, "ah
yes, I suppose this is getting a bit irritating. Well I apologize, I just
assume it's easy for you to understand, but it must get annoying after a
while."
Percy began to speak, but stopped, he expected the figure to interrupt
him again, but surprisingly did not. The figure motioned for Percy to
continue and with a sigh he did.
"Who the Hades are you?" Percy finally asked.
The figure shrugged, "isn't it obvious? I'm the collected human abstract
opion system."
Percy looked at the figure, "ah…..sorry?"
The figure shrugged, "Chaos. I am Chaos. And you are not supposed
to be here. But, I must admit I'm glad you are. I have been meaning to
talk to you. After all every Percy needs a Chaos doesn't he? Such an
overdone cliche, but I suppose it must be done."
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Thalia lowered her spear at the far wall of her prison. She channeled
her mana into the spear causing electricity to spark down the shaft.
She took a deep breath and charged forward, she swung her spear up,
the tip collided into the wall, the electricity surging through the wall.
"Shit!" Thalia cursed, she removed her spear from the wall, 'not even a
dent,' her mana had surged into the wall, but it didn't have a single
scratch on it.
"That won't work," Morpheus' voice called out as he suddenly appeared
in the middle of the room. Thalia narrowed her eyes, he looked
different, his wings were thinner, his suit was damaged, he had been in
a fight.
"Percy's here," she smiled.
Morpheus nodded, "yes...he was. And now he's not."
"Where did you send him?"
"Somewhere nobody could survive," Morpheus explained with a hint of
regret in his voice, "such a pity. I really didn't want to do that."
"He'll survive," Thalia spoke up, "he'll survive and he'll come back. Just
you wait," the daughter of lightning snarled.
"No my dear...he won't," Morpheus shook his head, "he's gone, dead."
Thalia raised an eyebrow, "riiiight, totally. You do you're talking about
Percy Jackson right? The guy who escaped the underworld when he
was 12?"
"Yes, that's true...but I never said he was in Hades now did I?"
Now Thalia looked worried. Her anger grew as she growled, "where is
he?"
"It doesn't matter," Morpheus shook his head, "he's dead, now the
survival of all demigods is insured-"
KAPOW!
Thalia charged ahead, lightning shot through her fist as it collided with
Morpheus's chest causing the god to go flying backwards into the
room's bed.
"Shut the hell up! Where is he?!" Thalia roared as lightning sparked to
life around her. It danced in waves, almost life like, her eyes glowed
electric blue, her muscles bulged as the power surged through her.
Thalia jumped into the air and brought down her spear. Morpheus
rolled to the side just in time to avoid the attack, causing the spear to
break the bed in half. Thalia swung around, using the spear as a pole
to kick the god in the chest knocking him on his ass. She pulled the
spear out of the bed and leveled at his throat, lighting sparking on the
blade, her eyes glowing with held back fury, "where is he?"
"He's dead," came Morpheus's simple reply, he looked at the spear in
her hand, "are you going to kill me?"
"I'm thinking about it."
"You do realise that if you do do that this entire realm will break apart
and everyone who is asleep will die?"
Thalia growled, "why should I believe you?"
"I swear on the Styx what I said is true," the God replied, and suddenly
the roar of thunder rang out startling Thalia, she could feel the power
just outside this room, the lightning in her blood called out to the
lighting she heard.
Thalia narrowed her eyes, "so you and the realm and connected huh?"
Morpheus smiled, believe she would let him go in order to save the life
of everyone else there. But instead of stepping away from him body
Thalia grabbed the God by the collar and pulled him up, pushing him
into the wall.
"What are you doing?" the God asked curiously.
"Getting out of here," Thalia then charged at the God, Morpheus was
so surprised he failed to move in time causing Thalia's spear to pierce
him in the shoulder sending a wave of thunder surging through the God
and into the wall behind him.
"ARGH!" he cried out in pain, the wall behind him surged with electricity
as suddenly it began to crack, and then suddenly to broke open.
Thalia charged forward and found herself back in the purple and red
corridor from before. She pinned Morpheus down onto the ground and
looked around, desperate for any sign of her beloved, "Percy?! Percy
where are you?!"
"He's gone," Thalia snapped to Morpheus to yell at him but suddenly
was dealt with a blast of energy straight to her face sending the
demigoddess flying backward.
Morpheus groaned as he pulled her spear out of his shoulder and
climbed back on his feet. He held his injured shoulder, golden ichor
dripped out slowly staining the ground, but thankfully it was healing.
The God threw Thalia's spear to the side, "that was smart of you, bet
you feel proud of that huh?"
Thalia's face hurt, it was numb from pain. She held her nose, it was
bleeding, she got on her feet and squinted at Morpheus, but even
through the pain she had only one question, "where is he?"
"I told you, he's dead."
"Really? Wheres his body?"
"I sent him somewhere where nothing can exist. Outside these walls is
oblivion. We exist even below Tartarus, stuck between the void and
reality. No one can survive."
Thalia raised an eyebrow, "you have met Percy Jackson right? Tall guy,
great kisser, has a trident in his pocket along with a sword? Super
hot?"
Morpheus growled, "he's dead Thalia Grace! Understand that!"
Thalia huffed, "okay, let's say he is dead, not that I believe you, you
claim to want to protect demigod kind, and yet you just killed our best
warrior. How stupid can you be?"
"Kronos agreed to stay away from here as long as we do not interfere
with his plans. We have no need of a warrior."
"And you expect the crazy farmer to keep his word?"
"He will keep his word!"
KAKOOM!
Cracks in the air suddenly appeared down the corridor from Thalia and
Morpheus. They shined neo blue as they grew bigger and bigger in the
shape of a circle. Air started blasting out of it, fresh air, Thalia felt her
connection to the winds activate, this was wind from the real world.
The demigoddess turned to Morpheus, "50 dollars say that the first one
to step out of the portal is going to be a titan." Morpheus didn't reply, he
was too busy staring at the portal in horror, he whispered in a low tone
that Thalia couldn't hear, 'no, no, no, no!'
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A shadowy silhouette walked through, it was a big figure, with a
missing right arm. Thalia had never meet him, but she knew who he
was.
Hyperion stepped through, his armour gleaming gold like the sun as
fire licked his skin. He held his flaming sword with his left hand while
his stump of a right hand had a bronze shield strapped to it.
Morpheus rushed forward, "what are you doing here?! We had a deal!"
Hyperion looked down at Morpheus and smiled, "we are altering the
deal Morpheus."
"Kronos gave me his word!"
"My lord promised you nothing! He just implied it, next time get an oath
from him you stupid minor god!" Hyperion raised his sword and brought
it down on Morpheus. The God flapped his wings and managed to get
away by a hair's breath. But his right wing was injured, a gift from
Percy, and he stumbled and fell on his back.
Hyperion jumped forward and brought his blade down again, Hyperion
froze, and for a second he accepted his end. But Thalia didn't. She ran
forward and grabbed Morpheus' by the collar and summoned the winds
to blow them away from the attack.
They landed a good twenty feet away as Thalia threw Morpheus to the
ground, "I don't want to say I told you so, but I totally told you so."
"This is not right! Kronos promised!" Morpheus yelled out.
"Yeah well life's a bitch ain't it?" Thalia readied her spear as Hyperion
got on his feet, sword at the ready. The portal then became shady
again as another figure stepped out. This one was dressed very
strangely, he wore a set of blue striped white pyjamas and had snow
white hair. His eyes were drooping, almost as if he was half asleep, but
the moment Thalia saw him she knew he wasn't an enemy to be trifled
with.
"H-Hypnos?!" Morpheus gasped, "what are you doing here?! Did you
bring him here?!"
Hypnos ignored Morpheus, instead turning to the white pods hanging
on the ceiling containing the demigods. He turned to Hyperion and said
in a very droopy voice, "they're in there. You can take them out, but as
long as Morpheus lives you can't kill them. Injure, yes, torture, yes, but
no killing. The only person who can kill in this world is Morpheus."
"So how do we complete our mission?" Hyperion asked.
Hypnos shrugged, "it's simple, he is the only one who can kill...but also
the only one who can die," he turned to Morpheus, "so just kill him."
Hyperion smiled, "with pleasure."
Morpheus was scared, "what are you doing Hypnos?! This isn't you!"
"And please be quick about it," Hypnos sighed, "I do hate it when he
starts talking, keeps going on and on, it's almost like he loves the
sound of his own voice...oh wait..."
Hyperion charged at them, Thalia grabbed Morpheus by the collar and
summoned the winds once again. The two flew away as Hyperion gave
chase, Thalia looked back, they wouldn't have much time, and she
couldn't keep this up forever, not with the amount of wind she had
under her control. If this was the normal world than maybe, but no dice.
"We need a plan Morpheus!" Thalia yelled out as she swirled to the
right avoiding a fireball Hyperion threw at them.
"I-I don't know! We can't let them get to me! If Hypno's get's his hands
on me then he could steal my powers and use it to kill every demigod
here!"
"Well fuck! Still think this was a good idea?!" Thalia cursed as she
danced around, avoiding Hyperion's fireballs, while carrying an injured
god. She prayed, 'please Percy, I need your help!'
Nowhere and everywhere:
"Okay...what the Hades are you talking about?" Percy asked staring at
the figure claiming to be Chaos, the creator of everything and
everyone.
"Well first of all I'm not the creator of everything and everyone, just a
few things," the being shrugged.
Percy blinked, "what?"
"Sorry, just doing some fourth wall breaking, please ignore it," Chaos
waved Percy's confused look away, "you see simply put I'm a being far
above you, as such I see the world differently. I can understand things
you can't."
"Like what?" Percy asked.
"Like the fact the world is controlled by the whims of a jackass and the
annoying chatter monkeys that follow him," Chaos shrugged, "but I
can't really complain, the fact that I'm even allowed to say that means
the jackass likes me enough as a character to give me said freedom.
Or maybe that freedom is just an illusion, who knows?"
"Ah…..I'm sorry...but what?"
Chaos chuckled, "never mind, it's not important. What is important
though is why you are here. And it's not because every story involving
you needs me as an obligatory cameo. Who am I? Stan Lee?"
"Dude you have got to start making sense."
Chaos shrugged, "it's simple really, I created the world, but who
created me?"
Percy was stunned, "I….I don't know."
Chaos nodded, "exactly, and you aren't supposed to know. Ever. It
ruins the fun after all. But it doesn't matter right now. Right now we
have a job to do, you my friend need talking too, and I am here to give
it to you."
Percy was surprised, but before he said anything Chaos jumped out of
its chair and the sky world around them vanished swirling into a misty
fog. The ground turned into a lush field of grass with trees around
them, but the fog was so thick Percy could barely see through it.
"Where are we?" Percy asked.
"We are in the same place as we were before, nowhere," Chaos
replied, "I just changed things around. Come on, I have things to show
you," the figure motioned Percy to follow as it walked into the misty
forest.
The trees slowly gave out revealing a familiar sight, camp half-blood,
only this time it was empty, like in one of Percy's IDs. As they walked
into the camp however Percy started to see something, the shadows
started to move around, he heard laughter, his laughter.
And then suddenly he saw himself as that boy from two years ago. He
saw that 12 year old boy looking up at the climbing wall. He looked
barely old enough to stay up past 10, Percy was surprised, he never
realised how young he truly was.
"That's me," Perry said as the younger Percy turned to his side and
spoke. Suddenly Annabeth appeared next to him, she smiled and
chuckled before grabbing his hand and walking away. Chaos moved to
follow them, motioning for Percy to do the same.
"It's very strange to see oneself, not like a reflection. You find that you
are often...bigger than you originally thought," Chaos said with a shrug,
"I don't know why, but that's always the case. Maybe it has something
to do with your spacial awareness or something."
"What is this?" Percy asked, "this is….a memory?"
"Correct!" Chaos cheered, it snapped it's fingers summoning a lollipop
into Percy's hand, "here, have a lollipop!"
The demigod blinked in surprise, "ah...thanks?" Percy licked it and
suddenly his senses became altered. A feeling of warmth spread over
him, he felt safe, the worries he had, the constant stress on his
shoulders let up. He sighed in relief, "t-that felt amazing. What is this?"
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"Ah. figured that it isn't a normal lolli have you?" Chaos sounded
amused, "you are right of course. It's the emotions you felt when you
first came here. You felt warm, safe, not a care in the world."
"My mother had been kidnapped by the God of the Underworld," Percy
replied flatly.
"Meh, so what? It was just one soul, who cares?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "are you trying to piss me off?"
"Ha, is this the part where you threaten me?"Chaos chuckled, it
snapped it's fingers and suddenly the camp melted away, replaced with
a scene from hell. Percy and Chaos stood in the middle of lake of lava.
They stood on a rocky platform that was slowly being chipped away
piece by piece.
Percy's eyes went wide, they rock wouldn't last long, he took off into
the air using his telepathic flight skill. Immediately the stoney platform
broke off, Chaos however stood right there standing on the boiling
magma, like it was just a day in the park.
It looked up at Percy, "understand this Percy Jackson, in the real world
you can get away with threatening the Gods. There was always a
chance for you to defeat them, to surpass them. Even if that chance
was 0.00001%. But when facing me," it snapped it's fingers and
suddenly Percy was falling.
'What the shit?!' Percy cursed, he started to panic, he expected the
claim of Gamer's mind to wash over him soon but it never came. He
felt fear strike his heart, his powers had been switched off and he
couldn't find the on switch. He tried to focus, but he couldn't and he
went into the pool of magma.
Percy closed his eyes and expected pain, he expected to burnt to a
crisp. But the heat never came. The pain never came. He felt the
magma around it, and it was cold, like water he got out of the fridge.
HE opened his eyes and found himself swimming in the organe liquid,
he was alive.
Percy let out a gasp of relief, he was alive. Suddenly Chaos stood
before him, stood, like the lava around them didn't exist.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega Jackson. You cannot defeat me, there
is no chance of that ever happening. This is not a boast or a brag, it is
a fact. I am a part of you Jackson, as you are a part of me, defeating
me would be akin to a leaf trying to kill a tree. Pointless, difficult and
suicidal."
Percy opened his mouth to speak and suddenly they were back in
camp, back in his memory. His clothes were dry, it was as if that whole
ordeal never happened. Percy looked at Chaos. "I'm not calling you
lord."
"I wouldn't expect you too," it shrugged, "saying that I'm your lord
implies that one day I might not be, or that one day you might replace
me. It's a very small title giving an ego boost to small beings, I don't
need to be reminded of what I am."
Percy remained silent, he was releasing slowly just who he was talking
to. This thing….it was a cut beyond every enemy he ever faced. Zeus,
Kronos, Darkseid, they all limits. Even Cthulhu, the being Percy felt for
barely a second was stronger than all of them combine, and yet it had
limits. Chaos did not.
"I see you are finally realising what it is you are facing," Chaos nodded,
"yes Cthulhu is indeed powerful, the willpower of a planet behind his
back. But I have the universe behind mine."
"Stop reading my mind, it's annoying," Percy hissed.
"Sorry… also about my earlier comment of your mother. You must
understand though my perception of reality and yours is different.
When a soul is born it enters the world, to you that's amazing, but to
me it's just like reading the first chapter in a story. When the soul lives I
live through it, and when it dies the story ends. But the book, the soul,
it is always a part of my library, it is always with me, it never leaves, so
death is…..just too small of an event for me to care about."
Percy eyed the being up and down, he was honestly uncomfortable at
the sight of it's clothes. Most Gods had clothes like this, galaxies and
all that. But with Chaos, it was like the galaxies displayed weren't just
cosmetic….they were real. The thing literally wore galaxies as a suit.
Percy thought for a moment before speaking, "if...if you are all that
powerful and if life is simply….that small to you. Then why am I here?
Why did you bring me here?"
"Percy," Chaos chuckled, "I never said life was insignificant to me….I
said death was. Death in a single moment, a small minute event, but
life...well that has an impact in the world now doesn't it?"
Percy sighed, "that isn't an answer."
"It wasn't meant to be," Chaos paused for a moment before speaking,
"tell me...do you even know why the Fates gave you your power?"
Percy frowned, "if you are really as powerful as you claim to be then
you would know the answer to that question."
Chaos shrugged, "I wanted to ask you instead of telling you, I believe
you found that annoying, yes?"
Percy sighed, "Gods help me."
Chaos chuckled, "right… so...do you?"
"I...I think so," Percy looked around camp, he knew it wasn't real but
still he couldn't help feel a sense of pride and connection to this place.
"I think I'm supposed to save this place."
"Camp?"
"Yeah...from Kronos. Am I right?"
Chaos shrugged, "partially, but no, that's not the reason why the Fates
chose you Percy, nor why they gave you this power," Chaos snapped
it's fingers again and suddenly a quest box activated in front of Percy;
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Find about the real history of the divine!
Rewards;
?
?
?
?
Percy's eyes widened, "what does...what does this have to do with
me?"
Chaos looked at Percy, "everything."
Dream World:
Thalia dodged another fire ball, this was starting to get tiring. She
turned around and sent lightning bolt at Hyperion, the flash of blue
lighting hit the Titan in the chest, but it didn't even slow him down.
Chapter 689
"You're going to have to do better than that bitch!" Hyperion roared as
he swung his sword forward sending a wave of flames at Thalia.
"Yeah yeah!" Thalia sent a harsh blast of wind whisking the flames to
the side. She continued to fly away with Morpheus by her side, she
turned to the God, "any bright ideas?"
"W-we can't let them hurt the demigods, we have to stop them!"
"I don't know if you haven't notice but the only ones who are here right
now are me and you. You aren't strong enough and I am barely making
a scratch!"
"Then….then we even the odds," Morpheus looked up at the white
pods, "I have a plan."
"I'm listening," Thalia did a barrel roll avoiding a blast of fire sent from
the angry fire Titan, "and make it fast!"
"Turn right here!" Morpheus yelled out just as they neared a fork in the
tunnel. Thalia banked hard and shot into the tunnel. Hyperion skidded
a bit but quickly managed to gather himself and continued the chase.
"Now what?!" Thalia yelled.
"Keep him busy for a few seconds," the God the lowered his head
going limp as Thalia struggled to hold the unconscious God.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Thalia cursed.
"Come back here girl and I won't kill you!" Hyperion yelled out sending
a ball of fire that Thalia almost didn't see. She managed to lean on
Morpheus weight in the last second to escape the attack, but the went
spiraling down and into the tunnel wall.
"Shit!" Thalia cursed as she pushed the unconscious God to the side
and got on her feet. She drew her spare just in time to block Hyperion's
downward swing. Her bones vibrated from the shock of the impact as
Hyperion's strike stunned her for a second.
The Titan disengaged and pushed forward swinging his sword at every
opening she had, her limbs, her neck, her torso, her head. Thalia
managed to block each strike with her spear, placing it just in time to
stop the flaming blade. But the force of the attacks started to drain her,
her hands were becoming numb, and the flames had heated her spear,
it hurt just to hold it.
"ARGH!" Hyperion roared, he swinging at Thalia's side, the daughter of
lighting tried to block it, but the impact was so strong it sent her into the
other side of the wall shattering her spear with a loud crack.
She closed her eyes from the pain. Her head was numb, her hands
were hot, she still held onto both parts of her spear but they were
broken beyond use. Her chest was heaving, her ears ringing, and she
could feel the vibrations of Hyperion's foot steps coming closer.
"And with this the prophecy will end," Hyperion claimed, he raised his
blade up high. Thalia opened her eyes and looked up at the Titan. "Any
last words?"
Thalia stared at the Titan, Hyperion wondered if she was finally
accepting her death, whether it finally dawned on her there would be
no last minute rescue this time. But instead of fear, hope came into her
eyes.
She smiled, she smiled that cocky smile Jackson so often did, and she
said, "yeah, just one. Alpha lighting."
And in a flash of blue she was gone.
"What in Ha-"
CHẠCH
It was the sound of Thalia's heel smashing into Hyperion's spine. Pain
shoot through the Titan's body as he was sent flying into the wall in
front of him. He quickly turned around and swung his blade wildly, but
there was no one there.
A flash of blue and then a voice whispered into his ear, "boo." Two
hands covered his eyes and suddenly electricity surged through his
head as every single scene in his body became overloaded with pain.
KAK!
"Argh!" he yelled, but the pain never stopped. It went on for what felt
like infinity and suddenly it stopped.
Hyperion feel to his feet as smoke poured out of his ears. He fell flat on
his face and standing behind him with electricity surging through her
body was Thalia, her hair standing up wildly from the electricity she
was generating.
Thalia drew back her fist and channeled her mana into it. Blue lightning
flashed in the palm of her hand as it slowly morphed into a sphere, she
then thrust her hand downwards only to have Hyperion roll away at the
last second.
Thalia's fist impacted the ground sending a several lighting bolts every
which corner, one catching Hyperion in the side. Thalia clicked her
teeth in disappointment as she jumped back gaining distance between
the highly skilled swordsman and herself.
The Titan stood up, his feet wobbling, "w-what did you do?!"
"A little trick I picked up from a stupid mermaid," Thalia smirked, "like
it? I made it with Kronos in mind, but I suppose you'll do as well."
Hyperion's growled, "pathetic spawn of Zeus! I'll have your head!" He
was upon her with a single leap, Thalia smirked, and in a flash of blue
lighting she was gone. Hyperion looked around for the daughter of
lighting but just then a lightning bolt came flying down striking him in
the temple.
"Argh!" the titan cried as he fell on his knees once again. He growled
as he saw Thalia land a few feet behind him.
"Best thing about fighting with lighting? Everyone always wears such
nice conductive armour," Thalia's fists sparked alive again as she
flashed forward.
"Enough of this!" Hyperion smashed his sword forward summoning a
shockwave of flames that lashed out and threw Thalia back. The
lighting girl rolled across the room but quickly got back up and faced
another ball of fire.
Thalia activated her speed and dashed down the corridor, "Alpha bolt!"
she cried sending a blast of lighting at Hyperion. The titan was too big,
he couldn't doge, so he took it head on using his shield.
'Shit,' Thalia sent blast after blast of lightning at him, but Hyperion kept
coming straight for her, charging like a mad man with his shield held up
in defence. He was upon her now and swung his sword at her head.
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She jumped to the side to avoid the attack, but Hyperion's large metal
boot came to meet her face. 'Shit!' she cried out as she activated her
lightning speed, dashing to another corner of the room. This time
however Hyperion could follow the lightning, she was getting tired. He
roared sending a blast of fire at Thalia which she barely dodged by
throwing herself to the side.
Thalia quickly got back up and readied herself for another assault. She
was panting now, sweat covered her face. That was the problem with
this power, it was a last ditch resort, to be only used when you have no
other choice. Thalia needed to end this, now.
"Flaming arrows!" Hyperion cried out as suddenly dozens upon
dozens of fire arrows appeared over his shoulders. They all drew back
slowly like they were being knocked into invisible bows and took aim at
Thalia.
"You fuc-"
"Fire!"
The arrows zipped through the air. Thalia couldn't go back, they would
reach her easily and she doubted she could outrun them for long. She
did the only thing she could, she charged forward.
She activated her powers and charged at Hyperion, the first wave of
arrows were already launched, and she was running right at them. The
first few slowly made their way towards her head, but Thalia was fast
enough to dodge them, bending downwards as she ran through the
hail of arrows.
As she approached Hyperion she zipped past his side with her
impressive speed, but the moment she was next to him his shield
came up and smashed her side sending her flying into the tunnel wall.
Thalia felt pain again, that numbness. Her lighting was slowly draining
away, she was exhausted. Hyperion's large steps came upon her, "you
were getting slower."
Thalia gritted her teeth as she stood up holding her side in pain, "I
know."
"Given time you would have been an impressive opponent girl," his
voice had...pity? No...no it was something else, but Thalia couldn't
bring herself to care.
He created a ball of fire and held it before her, "good bye daughter of
Zeus, and say hello to Jackson for me," he flicked his fingers sending
the fireball right at her. Thalia however had no intention of dying.
Her legs gave out, from exhaustion or on purpose she didn't know or
care. The fireball hit the wall right above her head, Thalia felt the heat
on her head, 'sigh, please let me not be bald!' She swung her leg up
and kicked Hyperion right between his legs.
The Titan of the West squeaked in pain as any normal man would as
he stepped away holding his groin in pain. He growled as he looked at
Thalia, "I'm going to kill you for that!"
Thalia channeled the last of her mana into her right hand for one last
lighting blast as Hyperion got ready to charge her. But the moment he
took that first step a flash of gold whisked through the air plunging into
Hyperion's remaining forearm.
"ARGH!" Hyperion yelled in pain at the horror as he dropped his sword
in shock. A golden spear was sticking out of his remaining arm, "my
arm! My fucking arm! Who did this!"
"That would be me!" Hyperion and Thalia turned to the new voice.
There standing with a look of pure rage on his face was Jason Grace.
Behind Jason was Julia and Robb from the Roman camp, along with a
few other kids Thalia remembered from her own camp. Jason stood
before them with bright yellow lightning dancing across his body as his
face expressed pure rage, "get away from my sister!"
Nowhere:
"Are you going to say something or are you just going to stand there
silently?" Percy groaned.
"What's that? Oh sorry, it was a cutscene, I had to stop otherwise I
would be forced to repeat everything, and believe me there is nothing
more than a pain in the ass that having to say something twice," Chaos
replied with a shrug.
"I...I see….is the cutscene over now?" Percy asked in halting words.
"Yup, that's why I'm talking to you now, duh," Chaos replied as if it was
the most obvious thing in the world.
"Right," Percy nodded, "well are you going to tell me what's going on or
what?"
"I will, but first, maybe a change in scenery," Chaos snapped it's fingers
and Percy found himself sitting in a booth in a small coffee shop her
frequented in New York. Chaos sat in front of him and they both had
two cups of black coffee in front of them, Percy looked around and saw
no one else there, they were alone in an empty New York city.
"Tell me Percy how do you think the universe was made?" Chaos
asked as he sipped his drink.
"I-I….well, the big bang?"
Chaos nodded, "correct. And how do you think the Gods and all their
origin story fit into this world?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "I'm sorry, but what do you mean?"
"Every religion has a different origin for the universe. Greeks as you
know believe I created everything, or more specifically I created the
Primordials who created the Titans who created the Gods who created
humans. The Christians believed I created everything end of story. The
Egyptians believed that world rose from a sea of chaos that is ever
spending and infinite, the Hindus believe that….well it's a bit meta
physical but let's just say it involved a God creating everything and
then lusting after it."
Percy blinked, "huh….hindus are weird."
"No, not really. It's just their ideas are a bit too complex, but then again
if you are trying to give an origin for the universe you shouldn't expect
anything less," Chaos shrugged, "now tell me, how does this all fit in as
one?"
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