What if... Kronos won the war?

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                         Charlie's Pov

"There's too many of them." This wasn't about the battle, there aren't anymore people from Kronos' army, this was about the aftermath of the battle. "I know, child." Chiron said. All of Camp-Half Blood was gathered in the amphitheater. Twenty, maybe thirty, people were killed, all because of Lukes stupid idea. I wanted to scream, and cry, and throw things, but I couldn't. I had to hold it together for Bea and Pollux, they had just lost their brother. Not to mention cabin sevens loss. They just lost their cabin counselor, Lee, and all of the countless others. Cabin seven was a mess. Bella, Nikola, Sara, Janvi, Maddy, Jasper, Lincoln, Leilani, Micheal, Will, Kayla and Austin are all crying and just about screaming. The only one even trying to hold it together being Bella, the new cabin counselor, was still sobbing. Just to give you an idea of Apollo's cabin.

Before I continue, let me set one thing straight, I'm not supposed to be here. I'm a half-blood, yes, but I'm also a spy. Yeah yeah, not smart, but it's the only way things will work out. I get inside and help camp from within, but there's one small, itty bitty, slight, problem. Ethan Nakamura. He couldn't trust me less honestly. After I was kidnapped one night, that's a funny story for another time, and taken to the Princess Andromeda, Luke's ship, I joined his army. If I'm being honest, I don't know how I made it, or why I did it. But that doesn't matter now, because for some reason that dumbass trusts me, the other smartass however, doesn't. So, as one would expect, it caused problems.

Not only has he tried to kill on multiple occasions during our very fun (very fucking annoying) trainings, clearly failing each time, he has reported me to Luke five times. All for stupid reasons and tried to get (push) me off the ship. Over all, he doesn't trust me, and he shouldn't. I'm doing all of this, risking my life, for my camp. Never in my life would I betray them, and Luke should've known that. I know that this could all be a ploy on Luke's end, some way to make Percy mad, scared. I know the risks, but I've accepted it. I am willing to risk everything for my camp, and maybe that's why Ethan doesn't trust me, maybe that's why he's trying to get me to leave, or maybe he cares. I've never been good at reading people, that was more of Kats thing, so I assume something and stick with that, but with Ethan, it's easy to read him. It shouldn't be, especially with Luke being around, but it is.

While Ethan probably knows about me spying for camp, he's never reported me for that, it's always been being late to a meeting or training or being out to late in the water. Never once was it for being a spy. So he knows how loyal I am to camp, he knows I would do anything for them. Like holding a funeral.

I've only ever done this once before, a couple weeks, maybe days, ago, for my twin, Percy. While I lost him (for just a little), it could never compare to the loss we just had.

The Battle Of The Labyrinth, thats what they're calling it. No matter how hard I trained, or how much I practiced manipulating the blood, it wasn't enough. I couldn't get the monsters and Luke's army out in time, and we lost so many. I know I shouldn't blame myself, but it's like I have too. I know I could've stopped them, I know I could've just trained Percy and Bee to control blood, but it's dangerous. I've almost died three times because of it, and I know they aren't ready. No matter how strong they are, no matter how powerful, nothing could prepare them for what happens when you control the blood of another person. It's terrifying, overwhelming, and so damn draining. You feel too powerful, it's not something easy to explain. You feel way to damn calm doing it, you don't notice how tired you get, or how sick you get, you just keep going. You move the blood, make them do things against their own power. There was a reason Chiron never wanted me to learn this, and I should have listened, but when do I ever listen?

"Uhm, I know that we lost a lot of kids, and I know that none of us want to do this but, we need to. They deserve to go to Elysium, and they will." I said, looking out to the crowd. When I looked back down at the paper in my hands, I stalled, it showed all the campers I had to call up to burn the shroud of their brother and sisters. Of their family. No matter how much I didn't want to continue, I had to.

"I am going to ask one person from every cabin to come up. It might not be the counselor, keep that in mind." I said, looking back up at the crowd. They were just kids, the oldest one here being 18. No one here deserved to feel this way, to have to deal with a loss this great. I looked at the list and saw that it went straight to cabin four. "Katie, Demeter, Cabin Four, please come up." When Katie walked past me, I saw the tears in her eyes.

It wasn't fair, every cabin had lost someone. Every cabin but mine. It wasn't fair, no ken should've lost anyone. No one should have died in that stupid fight. Luke was going to cause a war. I knew this, and I was prepared to stop it. I would do anything it takes to protect these kids.