The New Chaos Army

Him!

Annabeth's pov

I wanted to kill him. I wanted to rip him apart. Who did he think he was!? Just barging in here like he owned the place and claiming he was the most powerful person in the universe and he was smarter than Athena. If he keeps acting this way I can't be held responsible for what I'm going to do to him.

Jason, Leo, and Frank went back to the pavilion to continue eating, after seeing the commanders boot in my food I lost my appetite.

"What's wrong?" Hazel asked.

"Nothing it's just...I've only known that stupid Commander for five minutes and I already want to rip his head off." I said. Piper studied me.

"You think he might know something about Percy." She said. I nodded.

"He said he knew about us. If there is millions of other planets out there I doubt our story would spread across it. We've never heard anything about the other planets. And he's from chaos army, in a dream I heard Percy mention something about chaos. None of us knew about chaos until now." I said.

"Well if you want to find out about Percy you need to get on the Commander's good side." Hazel said.

"Well he really doesn't like you." Piper said.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"I can tell, it's like how I can tell if someone loves someone, but the opposite. It's like he has years of hate for you, even though you've only known each other for ten minutes." Piper said.

"Why would he hate me so much? We just met." I said.

"I don't know but he does." Piper said.

"So how do we get on his good side?" Hazel asked.

"Well I say we get the most likeable person out of the six of us and see if they can become friends with him." Piper said. "The question is who's the most likeable person?"

Me and Hazel stared at her.

"Me!?" She asked. We nodded.

"Plus you have charmspeak. That's like the ultimate friend making tool." I said.

"What if it doesn't work?" Piper asked.

"We'll all try to make friends with him. I'm sure one of us can do it. Maybe Nico or Will could try." I said. (A/N:Nico and Will are immortal too)

"Yeah, I'm sure Nico would be really good at making friends." Hazel said. We all laughed.

"What happens if none of us can make friends with him?" Hazel asked.

"We'll cross that road when we get to it." I said. I didn't like not having a good backup plan but honestly I couldn't think of one.

As soon as we finished talking Apokíryxe walked out of the cabin with a girl in dark red robes, Scarlett I think her name was. They walk straight to the arena.

"Hey this is all you Annabeth, your a lot better of a fighter than me." Piper said.

"Come on, we can spar." I said grabbing her hand and leading her to the arena.

"Good luck!" Hazel called after us. Then she went to join Frank at Archery.

Apokíryxe and Scarlett fought like nothing I'd ever seen before. They were so fast I could hardly see them. There was flashes of black and red. Suddenly they stopped when Apokíryxe cornered her in a corner with a sword at her neck. Me and Piper tool this as a good time to start sparing. I unsheathed my Drakon-Bone sword. Piper unsheathed her own sword. She still had katoptris but she hated fighting with it if she didn't have to. We exchanged blows for awhile. We were so focused on our own battle we didn't even notice Apokíryxe and Scarlett had stopped fighting to watch us.

"Your being to consistent." Apokíryxe said to me.

"What?" I said as I deflected another blow.

"Your using a pattern, if I noticed it your enemy will too. Then they can predict your next move." He said. As he said this Piper figured it out too and she managed to counter my attacks and disarm me. I cursed silently.

"Wish I still had my dagger." I said to Piper.

"What happened to it?" Scarlett asked. Apokíryxe's stared off into space.

"I fell into Tartarus with my boyfriend about twenty years ago and when we landed I lost it." I said. My voice cracking as I mentioned Percy.

"Why aren't you sparring with him then?" Scarlett asked. Apokíryxe seemed to shoot her a warning look, as if he knew this was a touchy subject.

"Why don't we just keep sparring." He said. "Scarlett why don't you train Piper, Annabeth needs a little more training with a sword."

Scarlett reluctantly nodded as if she was upset she didn't get to here my story. She drew her blood red sword and faced Piper.

I picked up my own sword and faced Apokíryxe. His sword was as dark as Tartarus. In fact, the sword reminded me of Tartarus. The blade seemed to be designed like Tartarus. The patterns on the hilt reminded me of the heart of Tartarus, where all the rivers connected. The blade itself seemed to be forged from the rock and ores of the abyss. It also seemed to emanate small clouds made of what looked to be blood. The long blade seemed to represent the long fall into Tartarus, it almost looked like a small person was on the blade falling into the abyss. The handguard had small designs of monsters on it. The sword was one of the most frightening weapons I had ever seen. It was even scarier than Thalia's shield Aegis, which had the head of Medusa on it.

Apokíryxe and I circled each other for a bit. The small blows he attempted I was able to deflect. He was just toying with me. He was ten times better than this. Then it hit me, he was waiting for me to attack. This whole time I had only been defending myself. He was waiting for me to attack. I decided not to give him the satisfaction just yet.

"Where'd you get your sword?" I asked him.

"I made it." He said.

"Is it supposed to look like..."

"Tartarus?" He said finish my sentence. I nodded.

"Yes." He said simply.

"You've been?" I asked.

"I've been many places." He said. He struck at me again causing me to regain my focus. I wasn't able to question him anymore. That was probably his plan, to fight so much that I couldn't interrogate him.

By the time we were done I was ready to collapse from exhaustion, Apokíryxe, however had barely even broken a sweat.
Piper and Scarlett had finished just minutes before we did so they went back to their cabins.

"So where'd you learn to fight like that?" I asked trying to start up a conversation.

"I've trained all over the universe. It would take me all day to name all of them." He said. We were both silent for a bit.

"So... Your immortal?" I asked.

"If your thinking like the immortality of the gods then your wrong. It's similar to the Hunters of Artemis where if you don't age but you can fall in battle." He explained. I nodded.

"I know, me and a couple other campers have that." I said,"So why were you being so mean to be yesterday?"

"Because you kept saying stupid things." He said.

"Like what?"

"Sorry, I'm afraid you don't get to know everything." He said. He walked out of the arena, but not before "accidentally" knocking me to the ground. What was with him!? First he's a jerk, then he's nice, then he's a jerk again. Whatever it was I was going to figure it out.

I ran after him.