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~"Alone" by Alan Walker up there! Enjoy♡~

*Six hundread years later*

I spotted an iron door at the end of the hallway. I turned around and faced Annagenniménos, or how we call her, Anna. Her hair was bright white an her eyes were a deep mixture of blue and purple. She was wearing her usual uniform, although it still made blush whenever I looked at her. It's not that I like her or anything, it just.. shows to much. It looks like a one-piece swisuit for women, but it's made out of Kevlar and the edges are of Celestial bronze.

Anna had her dagger ready to attack the first soldier, she only needed me to give her permission. I counted at least seven soldiers. Easy Peasy. I could go and kill them by myself, but I sensed that Anna was started to get bored, so I nodded slightly and she grinned at me, before turning invisible and attacked the soldiers. I walked out after her and head towards the iron door, not worrying about a soldier interfiering my way because I knew Anna could handle it by herself.

The door was obviously not made of human iron, it was Iron from the void. Really useful material when talking about constructions, but not useful for doors. I slightly move my hand and the door exploded.

I walked in the room, admiring its treasures. It was covered with Celestial bronze and Imperial gold, but what caught my attention is that they had Chaos glass. Chaos glass was, well, glass, but if you saw through it you could see the galaxy you were standing in. It is believed to be one of the most dangerous materials since it can kill immortals, but you can only find it in Chaos planet. Seeing it out of my planet, well.. makes me wonder how it got there.

I walked until I reached a cage, more like a fishbowl. Inside, there was the most beautiful naiad I have ever seen in my entire life. Our mission was about that. We had to rescue the gold naiad from the hands of a species of warriors called Fneimous: creepy dudes who had no waists nor crotch. Weird, right?

I walked towards the 'fishbowl' and place my hand on the glass. The naiad inmediately turned to me, noticing I wasn't one of her kidnapers. I held a telepathic conversation with her.

"Hey there, my name is Perseus, and I'm here in the name of Lady Chaos. We came to rescue you", I said, trying to sound as kindly as posible.

The naiad stayed some seconds in silence before replaying. "How can I trust you?", she asked mentally.

I didn't know what to answer. I just said the first thing that came into my mind. "I'm a son of Poseidon. You can sense the sea in me"

The naiad analized me for a moment. "You're right.. But there's another force inside you and I can't figure out what it is.."

In that moment, I heard Anna entered the room calling for me.

"They... Are coming", she said breathing deeply, as if she had been running for miles. "An entire army of Fneimous are heading here. Now."

I looked at her. We needed to get out of there before we have to fight an army of ten thousands. Fneimous may not have a crotch, but they reproduce as if there was no tomorrow.

I grabbed Anna by the hand and place my free hand on the fishbowl. I closed my eyes, trying to focus and we soon teleported to the surface. I stood there incredulously. My other two friends, Dumbo and Luke hadn't arrived yet. Dumbo was a boy we rescued from an unknown planet a few centuries ago. He didn't have a name, he called himself number two hundread eighty seven. What he did have were ears. Damn, that boy looked like an elf. In the end we called him Dumbo due to his similarity with fictional character. And Luke. Luke is Luke Castellan. He used to be Krono's vessel when the Second Titan War took place. When I became immortal, carrier of The Light, prince of the void, blah, blah, blah, Chaos gave me the oportunity to return one of my friends from the dead, so I chose Luke. I chose to him a second chance because, in the end, he was the hero, not me. Ever since I brought him back, we've been so close that even Anna came up with a ship for us: Perluke. Lame.

I was suddenly snapped out of my thoughts by Dumbo. Apparently, they have arrived while I was disteacted.

"Percy, hurry! Those dudes are close!", Luke shouted.

I quickly opened a portal big enough for the fishbowl to pass through it. While my friends were crossing it, I focus on the weight of the cage and lifted it up with my mind. I won't lie: it was heavy and it was taking all my strenght to drag it, but I managed to pass through the portal with the fishbowl before it closed.

We landed on the throne room of the palace, Chaos staring at us with satisfaction.

"I see you have complited my request. Thank you very much, everyone. You've done well. Now, go and rest, I will take care of her from now", she said greeting us.

We all bow just to bother her and left the room quickly before she could reply. We laughed once we were in the hallway: we knew how much formalities bothered Chaos, so we used it against her.

We arrived at the playroom eventually. It was full of soldiers. Each of them gathered in different groups and playing different games. When we entered the room, they turned to us and cheered. I saw Silena running towards us, followed by Bianca, Beckendorf, Nakamura, Yew and Zoe. Well, Luke wasn't the only one that I brought back.

"Guys!", Silena yelled once she reached us, "How did it go?"

"Good. But those Fneimous are a pain in the a--", Luke said before he was cut off by Zoe.

"Language!", she shouted.

"Sorry, Mom.", he replayed sarcastically.

Luke and Zoe started fighting but I decided to ignore them. I looked around at my army. It was conformed by soldiers of different species, sizes, ages and galaxies. Everytime we went on a quest, we brought a new recruit with us. We would train him and, in a month, he would be ready. We were all diferent, but we had something in common: a family. My objective was to create a family formed by people different from each other, to show that we may not have the same blood, but we still were a family. And a very united one. There were some heroes even older than me here, but I didn't care. I wasn't alone anymore. I had a family.

I went back to reality, and looked at my friends. They were the contrary to each other but, in the end, they loved the other one.

"Hey", I called Anna. She turned to me. "A race to the dining room. Whoever wins, gets the others dessert." I may have sounded a little childish, but I knew Anna was as immature as I was.

"Deal", and before I knew, the white-haired girl was running towards the door.

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