Percy Jackson and the Dark Elites

XXIV

Ruin

Ruin didn't know how he felt about seeing the gods again.

Unfortunately, that was always how the plan was supposed to end. He just never really thought it through. The Elites had always stayed out of the way of the Greeks and Romans. He'd hoped he could just evacuate back to Coda.

Trial ran up to him. "We never really got to say hello."

"Not here," He stuttered.

"Forget it." Trial pushed his right shoulder back so he would face her. She hugged him and didn't let go. "Do you think Chaos had Repair?"

"We'll find out soon enough. It is possible that Gaea pulled him the second she escaped, he was right by Indigo." He whispered back with his voice code off. "It is our next move to place him as an active Violet in Camp Half Blood. Chaos could've had a similar idea."

"I hope not." She pulled away.

"I think he'll be fine. I remember what it was like, and because Leo was Chaos' test trial for the serum it is flawed enough to fight back." He said, knowing Trial knew about his time with the Riders.

"The kids are okay." She mumbled over the cons as she left. He tensed, trying to hide his joy.

Ruin looked out on the room. Many demigods and Elites quickly averted their gaze.

Chiron lingered for moment and turned away without expression.

Ruin flinched when he saw Grover staring at him from across the room.

So he turned back to the bay doors and made his way to the control deck. Blaze stood with her arms behind her back, staring out at the cave below.

"How're we doing?" He asked as he entered.

A Violet elite that reported to Black saluted him as he walked in. Ruin nodded.

"We're having some troubles. The Nyxis has taken flight and is carrying the Greeks from Ire tomb outside Florida. And yes, the officials lied about it being underwater, but we'll get to that later."

"Okay. What's the trouble?" He took a place next to her.

"We assumed she would be in full power. According to Mr. Zhang she has possessed a human like body, and Trial's operation to save Hazel and Leo was very successful, but we have no way of discovering where Gaea actually is."

"Well we can't just drop Indigo in like a bomb. We could blow the camp, and that could create enough energy for Gaea to do something bad."

"Hopeful not. Indigo will only activate once Piper's charm speak powers it enough. Trial and a couple Hephaestus kids are trying to set Indigo on some sort of delay. She thinks she can set it to Harness Ms. mcLeans abilities and go off when someone hits the switch."

Ruin pondered that. "Pipers Charging it? Okay... Maybe we can set something up to activate the switch from here."

Blaze shook her head. He'd expected that. "We need to be sure it gets flipped. If not we're just handing a bomb over."

Ruin sighed. "And even if we could program Indigo so that we could set it off that would require DNA, which will have to be delivered and can be stolen by Gaea."

"This bomb has to go off." Harley, a son of Hephaestus around thirteen came up to them. "Indio is too powerful. Even if we came up with a way to activate it from here without using DNA... The right amount of pressure or force could set it off. It had to be set off manually."