Percy Jackson and the Armies of Chaos ~ Complete

You've Lost Me

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Annabeth's POV

"Sorry, this meeting is just for Demigods and Gods," I said stiffly to Aiyla. "It does not have to do with the war, so you need not be there."

She rolled her eyes at me. "Wow, we've done so much for you, and this is how you repay us? I'm wounded." She pressed a hand to her heart with a pout in her face.

"You and your team can remain at camp. We will only be gone for an hour or so."

In the Throne Room

"So Percy is at Camp Halfblood?" I felt tears welling up in my eyes. "He's alive?"

"Yes, he's made contact with us, but we don't know where he is. He must have left at some point, and only recently come back," Poseidon explained. "Or we would've seen him if he hid in the forest, the campers don't conceal their faces..."

"What about the Labyrinth?" I asked.

"We did search that," he said. "He's not there..."

"Well, it's obvious who he's pretending to be, isn't it?" Mom said, rolling her eyes. "It's Alkaios. He's the only one who didn't remove his hood, he just recently came to camp, I suppose he felt like he needed to let Poseidon know that he's alive, and Alkaios... The name is significant. Alkaios was a son of Perseus."

"It all fits," Zeus said, solemnly. "But what are we going to do about it?"

"The most powerful demigod of all time is in our midst, and we need to reveal him, right?" Said Thalia.

"Where is the logic in that?" Athena stared Thalia down, one eyebrow raised.

"Well, he thinks that we betrayed him right? And we did, don't get me wrong, but we need to tell him that we're sorry... Maybe he'll come back to us. But we need to make sure, so we need to figure out if it's really Percy under that hood."

"Athena?" Zeus said, "What do you think?"

Mom pressed a hand to her chin, something that I knew that she did when she was thinking. "If you really want to reveal him... Perhaps a fake attack. One of the campers could sneak up behind him, pretend to knock into him, and rip down the hood. Hades?"

"Hmm?"

"If you could release some monsters from the Underworld...?"

"Oh, sure I guess."

"Excellent," said Ares, rubbing his hands together. "More fighting!"

I barely heard any of this, though. The only things coursing through my mind were the words, He's here. He's here.

Later in the day

Alkaios's POV

I stared down at the map of the galaxy that Chaos lent us. "Order's planet is here-" I said, pointing towards the dark star on the map. "It would take a while to send a whole army to attack Earth, but concentrated bursts from his followers on neighboring planets-"

"Would be considerably faster, and more effective." Era took up where I left off. It still amazed me, how well we worked together.

"The neighboring planets- Mars, Venus- there are no intelligent life forms on them," Ralan mused. "So the attacks are coming from Saturn, Neptune, and Mercury. That means that there shouldn't be another attack for at least-"

Someone crashes through the door to our cabin. Immediately, we were all in defensive positions. Reflex, I guess.

"They're attacking- hurry!" The small girl gasped, and ran out into the fray.

"But the timing is all wrong- they can't possibly-" Hale stuttered.

"We'll figure it out later," I said, my voice clipped and commanding. "Right now, we have to go save their sorry lives."

Zeus's POV

The plan was working spectacularly.

I stared down at the teensy camp from my throne, and I watched the demigods rush to the boundary.

He will be exposed soon.

But for now... I winced. Hera was waiting for me, and I was already a few minutes late.

Hades save me.

Alkaios's POV

"Something isn't right!" I yelled. "These monsters are all Greek!" My back was pressed against Aiyla's and we were cutting through the enemy lines like heated knives through butter.

"That's true..." Aiyla said, frowning as she dispatched a Cyclops without even looking. "This is suspicious, the timing, the monsters..."

I knew that the rest of the Seraphim were listening in, we looked out for each other, and they had reached the same conclusion as us.

I was about to say something, but Aiyla whirled away from me to attack a Hellhound that was about to maul a young girl.

I rolled my eyes, reciting the recipe for blue cookies in my head. One thing that I would never forget.

I swung my sword in a wide arc, killing two basilisks at once. I was about to turn towards Hale, when I felt my hood being ripped off of my face.

The bright sunlight blinded me for a few seconds, so I couldn't pull my hood up as quickly as I would've liked, and by the time the light cleared from my eyes, the battle was over, and Era was standing in front of me, shielding me from prying eyes.

I tried to lift my hood again, but whoever ripped it off of my head had torn it, so it didn't conceal anything anyway.

I stood in the middle of the sandy field, the other Seraphim reacting when they saw what Era was doing. I was shielded from all around, and my head was bowed. I prayed that no one saw, but then I heard a small voice that I knew so, so well.

"Seaweed Brain?"

So, I feel like this wasn't my best chapter ever, but please tell me how you liked it... And also how you feel about the Era/Percy pairing. And how I wrote it in the previous chapter. Is here anything that you would like me to change?

Sorry, I just re-uploaded this chapter. I had to fix some things.