Commander of Chaos

A lesson

The next day, Thalia sat with Nico, Grover, Leo and her brother for breakfast. No one talked for a long time.

Thalia was lost in thought. She, who had found out that the commanders of Chaos were their dead friends, wanted to tell them about what had happened the day before. But she didn't as she had promised Percy that she wouldn't. She was elated by the fact that fact they both Percy and Luke were alright.

She has grown closer to both her brother, his boyfriend (Leo) and her cousin. She wanted to tell them about the whereabouts of the son of Poseidon.

Nico was surly the most affected by Percy's disappearance. She had seen how much the son of hades had blamed himself for not being around for Percy.   

Leo cleared his throat, trying to break the silence. Everyone was thankful for this.   

"What do you think of the commanders?" Jason asked. Thalia suddenly started coughing, choking on her food. Jason immediately handed his sister a glass of water. She thanked him through the fit of coughs and drank it.

She excused herself and left to Zeus's fist. She sat down, wanting to sort out her thoughts. She felt guilty for not telling the others, especially Nico. She closed her eyes and relaxed. She had enough of plaguing her brain with too many thoughts.   

She was startled out of thought at a huge clink sound. She followed the sound to a opening between the trees. There she found Percy and Ethan sparring. What surprised her was that unlike the campers, the way they sparred was aggressive. It was like they were fighting an enemy rather than a friend.   

"Shocked?" A voice asked "Don't worry, it's normal. That's how they do it." It was Zoe Nightshade, daughter of Atlas. Zoe had a smile on her face directed to Thalia ,while her eyes clung onto a certain son of Nemesis.   

As the two boys sparred, campers who were resting after intensive training with Luke, Bianca and Selena, all gathered around to watch them. The way they handled their swords, the way they dodged, the way they moved were all mesmerizing. Even the dryads and nymphs came to watch.   

"What's so great about this? I can do better" Logan says. He intended to impress Bianca by defeating one of them. Hearing this, the two boss stopped sparring and turned to him. Then they looked at each other and laughed.    

"Is he serious? He isn't right?" Ethan asks between fits of laughter only to stop at the sight of his girlfriend glaring at the two. He tried to let Percy know but Percy, who was busy laughing, didn't get the hint.   

"Othyris, Saldora is glaring dangers at us." He mumbled. Hearing this Percy stopped laughing and looked towards Zoe while chuckling nervously.  

"Belfore, Othyris, we're going to have a long talk about your manners after we go back to our cabin." Zoe says still glaring. She turned back as she felt someone touch her shoulder.

"Let it go, Zo. Don't you think it's time someone finally out him in place?" Bianca whispered to Zoe.

"Isn't it obvious that we're much superior both physicality and mentally. Why do we have to prove anything?" Zoe replied almost whining.

"It's not to prove anything. Think of it likeswatting an annoying fly." Bianca replied

"...fine" Zoe finally gave in

Looks like someone was going to be taught a lesson