The Sons of Hades

Meeting the Masters

Quote of the Chapter 

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Song of the Chapter

Legends never die ~ Against the current

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Jason stared at the lifeless body of his sister, his eyes cold and emotionless. Her lifeless blue eyes stared in the distance unseeing, her blood still dripping out of her mouth and out of the wound on her chest he inflicted. Before the bleeding stopped and rushed back into her body as the wound closed, Thalia took a gasp of air and retched from the lack of air and the taste of iron on her tongue. She puked as she was on all fours,she sat on her heels looking at her three captors. 

"Why bring me back to life?" Thalia asked suspicious but made no move to attack, considering she was killed and Artemis assumed defeated if the men were here. 

"Because Thalia Grace, you never betrayed us." The man on the right said he was tall, but not as tall as their leader. 

Thalia looked confused before asking. "Who are you?" 

In response the men took their hoods off slowly. Before tears sprung to the eyes of the hardened demigod of Zeus, she sprung up and hugged the three boys she considered some of the only family she had ever known. 

"I thought you were dead." Thalia openly crying now. 

"We were, Chaos brought us back to destroy Olympus. Will you join us?" Percy said seriously. 

Thalia hesitated. "Zeus is to powerful now, he controls a mortal army with fifteen thousand and a demigod army of twenty thousand. But I will join you three, you are going to need a girl to plan." 

Laughter came from the woods, the boys smirked as a feminine figure walked out of the bush, bow on her back. Thalia looked at the bow with envy, it was gorgeous. 

"That is what I said to when I first started." The girl said. 

"Good to know I won't have to deal with the boys by myself. I am." Thalia started

"Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus. I know who you are." The girl responded. 

"Yes I guess you would know who I am, what should I call you?" Thalia asked. 

Thalia saw only the mouth of the woman she was talking to as it shifted into a smirk. "You can call me friend, but my name is Zoe, Zoe Nightshade." 

Thalia's mouth dropped open, she hugged Zoe tight. They became good friends years ago when they freed Artemis from underneath the sky. 

"It is good to see you Zoe." Thalia whispered. 

"It is good to see you as well Thalia." Zoe said hugging her friend tight. 

"Alright if we are done with the hello's we got some work to do. We got the Huntress and the Storm, now all we need is an army now." Perseus said with a smile.

"And how will we do that?" Thalia asked. 

Percy smirked. "We go south into the desert kingdom, they have a slave army. I plan on buying it." 

Zoe and Thalia's faces turned to disgust. "You are going to buy slaves?" Thalia exclaimed. 

Percy rolled his eyes, but smiled as he told them his game plan, his brothers and sisters in arms smiled sadistically.  The dragon the size of a Great Dane ran up to Percy and sniffed at Thalia before bearing it's teeth and hissing at the daughter of Zeus.