Not Your Hero ✔

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"And you are...?" Percy asked, raising his head slightly to see the person who knew his name. He was a man wearing all white, his eyes had no iris and his pupil were either white or not there. He matched the area around him, blank and empty.

"Well, Percy, my name is Order." The man said. His name is Order. Chaos, Order, why should Percy even care anymore? "And you know my name because..." Percy started. He knew it was going to be some life-changing answer and he full-on expected him to bust out the 'I am your father' line.

"Well, I've been watching you for awhile Percy. I hope it's okay to call you Percy. People tell me you only get called Perseus if that person is trying to kill you. I'm not trying to do that." The man identified as Order said. Well, that's nice to know, albeit a little creepy.

"Well, I wish to make an arrangement, one where we help each other." Order says. Percy noticed that he no longer felt pain, and was just lying awkwardly on the floor. Or what Percy thought was the floor, he didn't see the end or beginning of an actual object and he only saw white.

"Yeah... It's either listening to you talk right now or out in space as a cold corpse just floating around. It's such a hard choice." Percy said with a raised brow. His hood was down, he'd be surprised if it wasn't. It's not like he occasionally glues his hood to his hair or anything...

"Well, it seems that we both have a dislike towards a certain creator of the universe. You can do a few things that will surely make him blow a gasket for me. I'll provide transportation now that he has destroyed the SolarTravels operator. Well, there will be another, but he shouldn't have a chance to kill another innocent." Order said. Percy realized Order really liked the word 'well'.

"Me and the other two-three?" Percy asked, remembering the clone was thought to be a real person. "Well, of course."

"What things would you have me be doing?" Percy asked. "Well, what you've been doing. Punishing those who take advantage of their power, of course!" Order said excitedly. Um... Kay.

"Sure why not." Percy shrugged. "But only if I agree that they deserve to die, be tortured, or anything that you mean when you say 'punish'," Percy said.

"Well, I'd have it no other way! So, you are the one they call Maelstrom? I'm sorry, they haven't gotten much on you so I haven't really been able to distinguish you from your friends." Order rambled. "Yes, I'm Maelstrom. And who do you mean 'they'? And who told you that I prefer the name Percy to Perseus? And exactly how long have you been watching me?" Percy asked.

He probably should have asked these questions before he agreed, but it was only to get rid of a few douchebags to anger an even bigger douchebag. Percy couldn't really argue with that.

"Well, that all has one answer: I've been with you since you were chased from your camp. As Order, I sensed it automatically when something drastic happened and the balance between him and Order shifted. My brother didn't feel it or just ignored it as he is him and secretly enjoys it when his creations wreak havoc and, well, his name." Order said.

"Then why does he have my friends as his militia or whatever they are?" Percy asked.

"Well, Percy, he's planning on releasing my younger brother. He, as in my younger brother, is currently captured in his own domain thanks to yours truly. He and Ch- him were thicker than thieves. But my younger brother is his elder one, and he feels as though I unfairly trapped him, though his goal was to destroy everything our parents created."

"Your parents being...?" "Existence and Reality. With that, they gave the power of Creation and Destruction to their children. They faded long ago." Order said anger flashed across his face. "They are both dead because of him, only because he thought it would be his way to rule. When your creator created life and everything along with it, our brother sought to rule it's rubble. Pain and suffering was all he wished for. That is why he is trapped inside his own domain. If he gets out, the universe is going to change. Even if your creator changed his mind, it would be too late. When he killed our parents, their power went to him. He is more powerful the both of us combined. And, well, we must prevent it."

Taking all of that in, Percy rested his head back on the floor. He had gotten used to the blankness of the room and felt his anger build up. The creatures of Chaos attacking the hunters when he left Earth, the nightmares, threatening Tim, using his friends.

"You're that little voice I kept hearing. The one who..."

"Well, the one who told you the language of Goruk, and the one who puts the idea to go to each location in your head." Order said proudly. "I was going to say the one who told me that I wasn't a shadowhunter but that's true too. Wait, you put ideas in my head?" Percy asked. "Well, not really. More like I made that part seem so interesting you had to look at it." Order said.

Oh. He should've done that when Percy had school. Maybe he would've gotten better grades.

"So... When you said 'they don't have much on me' when you asked for my code name and 'people told me' you just meant you were there and you just didn't care to explain even though you did so a second ago?" Percy asked incredulously.

"Huh, the last few years have made you smarter huh?" Order grinned in triumph. "But seriously, I kept getting your wolf friend, you, and your clone mixed up. Code names are hard."

Code names are hard.
          ~ Order, brother of the creator of the universe, year I don't even know.

It was such a beautiful quote, Percy was beginning to tear up.

"You're strange," Percy said.

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"I meant it as one."

And that's the end. Yeah, this whole chapter was a conversation but I wanted to get it out of the way so.the story can finally move on.

Comment your thoughts and I hoped you enjoyed!

Also, 26.5k reads.

Just... Give me a minute... I'm in public... I must... hold... down... excitement... Nah THANK yOU GUYS SO mUCH fOR rEAdiNg!!!!

Also, Percy, you're an idiot.

Percy: I'll take that as a compliment.

I meant it as one.

Bye!!!!!!!!!!!
              ~DemonsFromAbove