A New Order of Chaos

Take The Blind Off!

Rachel felt her head was gonna explode.

That's how bad her headache was. And that headache was occasioned by a meeting between Camp Jupiter's Senate and Camp Half-Blood's Head Counselors. And, both have different ways to do things.

"We cannot allow our traditions being butchered by some barbarians!!" One of the oldest member of the Senate screamed. Which, considering the guy was around 25 years old, he talked like if he was 90 and actually lived during the Ancient Times.

"You wanna see a barbarian butchering you?! I dare you!!" Who other, but Clarisse LaRue, to instigate a fight during a meeting? Though, Rachel will admit inside her head that her reaction was justified.

"Enough!!" Reyna called silence, with her authority voice. Rachel sighed. She was getting tired of this kinds of arguments. Everyone in this meeting agreed to support Percy and the rest, but some were behaving like if they were forced to it "No one is butchering anything, Roman-" Roman? Seriously, who named you, man? "If anything, they're trying to agile the process-"

"I began to think that this alliance with the greeks had turned you soft, Praetor Reyna" Rachel wasn't liking one bit where this argument was heading to "I wondered if Octavian was right, after all..."

Rachel didn't know if to shudder at the memory or to feel pity for the former Augur. In the end, he was doing what he thought it was right.

"So, that's where you wanna head to?" Lou Ellen, Head of the Hecate Cabin, sneered at him "A war between allies? You know what a war could make us!"

"Twelve Legion Fulminata won't lie under the shadows of the greeks!!" Rachel had enough of the guy. Literally, it took everything in her not to punch him in the spot.

"Alright, that's it" she decided, getting up from her seat. Everyone stared at her, the Head Councilors smirking. They knew that, when she put her 'foot down', in a matter of speaking, nothing good could come out of it "Roman, let me remind you that you were the ones who agreed with Reyna into forming an alliance with us. You know what will happen to you once the alliance is broken?" she questioned him, who held his head up high. Stubborn roman... "You'll be at the mercy of the gods, who won't answer your prayers, the same way they turned on your own Praetor, the same way they abandoned you and all of us during the war against Gaea-" Rachel glanced around the room, to noticed the people's reaction: some were quiet, some sad, while others were frowning in remorse "Delphi is gone, the gods are gone, your leaders are gone!!" she emphasized, getting worked up "Be glad the spirits of nature didn't leave any of us or this will be one tough war to win" With that final note, she slammed her hands against the table and walked away from the meeting. She could feel everyone's eyes on her, but she didn't care.

They need to learn that the enemy isn't us.

~oOo~

It was almost dinner time, but she wasn't hungry. She had spent the day walking around the city the retired members of the Legion built for themselves. She didn't know what to think, only that Annabeth would have a fit if she ever saw the city. Though, she didn't know if it will be a good fit or a bad one. The city had been carved into the mountains. Several book sagas came to mind when she saw it: The Host, Inheritance, even The Lord of the Rings!

"You're someone very hard to find, Oracle" she heard behind her. Sighing and smirking, she turned to see Will Solace. He was the only one brave enough to be close to her in her rage state, while everyone thought she will murder them.

"I wasn't hiding, Will" she admitted, sighing "Those Senators take out my barbaric side"

"That's because you didn't see Nico after you left" Rachel glanced at him and noticed some kind of dreamy face on him, making her giggle "Oh, shut up!" he pushed her lightly, blushing. That only caused Rachel to laugh.

"Gods, you're so innocent sometimes..." Rachel poked his cheek, making Will show his dimples "And those dimples are too cute for you!"

"Nico can't hear I'm having an affair with you" he joked, winking at her. Rachel continued to laugh, wiping some tears off her eyes.

"I so needed that..."

"Glad I could help... Now, what trigged you?" Rachel sobered up, knowing it was hard to lie to Will: being a kid of Apollo, he could sense when someone was lying to him. Or not telling all the truth.

"Something that Ella mumbled..." she confessed "It might not be nothing, but I'm sure it will be something if we continue arguing like today!"

"Relax, Rachel..." Will tried to sooth her "You know that getting angry won't solve anything..."

"Works for the Ares' Cabin" se muttered under her breath.

"What did Ella said?" Will asked her, trying to reach the source of her discomfort.

"She mentioned words like 'misunderstood', 'new regime' and 'chaos'... It wasn't something coherent..."

"Maybe, a prophecy about Percy and the guys?" Will suggested, making Rachel shake her head.

"Besides that, it's like she was trying to warn us about a war about to happen..."

"A war between Camps?" he was concern at the moment "We can't afford that... Not to mention the internal war that will happen between the citizens of New Rome and New Athens..."

"Maybe the war isn't between us... But us against something that causes 'chaos'" she used air quotations.

"What causes more chaos than chaos himself?"

"Chaos is a he?" Rachel was caught with the guard down with that information.

"Unless Nyx can turn into a he, I'm pretty sure Chaos is a he" And back to the relax state "Don't worry. I'm sure that, whatever this is, the Camps will forget their differences and unite, just like they did against Gaea"

"It took a lot for that..." Though her words were honest, Rachel's mind was far away, in repeat, looking for an escape.

A way out of the madness she felt responsible for.