"What would the gods say if their hero went away?" (A dark Percy/Chaos Fan-fic)

Chapter 3

A/N this chapter is dedicated to my best friend who is always the first to read my story, they were also the inspiration for Estia JokerwasTaken.

Planet 1- Aka Sympan
The same night.
3:43 am 

Seismos' POV~

"Go and wake everyone up and tell them to meet us in the meeting room, in their gear of course" Chaos ordered 

I nodded to Estia and she nodded back. She gripped her pendant and her armour appeared. Her armour was black with a long black cape with gold trims. There were silver embellishments on the chest plate symbolising her position of power. She tossed up her hood and put on her mask. She took off sprinting down the hall towards the rooms.

"What with the hoods?" Apollo asked while reaching up in an attempt to pull down Annabeth's hood. I smacked away his hand with my sword. 

"Don't you dare lay a finger on her" I growled

"Be nice" Chaos sighed as he opened the doors to the meeting room "Commanders you can use the meeting room bathroom to change into your armour"

We nodded and ran into the bathroom, we quickly threw off our hoodies and grabbed our pendants. Annabeth's armour was black and the cape had grey trims and the embellishments were gold.  My armour was identical to hers except my cape had blue trims. We pulled up our hoods and put on our masks. We shared a look before heading out.

Everyone was standing around the meeting table, Ilios and Ombra were bickering about something while Skia just rolled her eyes at them. 

Sotiras was standing beside Estia trying to get her to talk to him but she just ignored him. Sotiras placed a hand on her shoulder to try to get her to turn around, Estia grabbed his arm and judo flipped him, he hit the ground with a sickening crack. Midiki and Ilios ran forward and checked Sotiras to make sure he was ok. They helped him up and into a chair in the corner while they used some healing magic.

"Estia" Chaos' voice echoed in the large room. He always treated her and I like we were his own children, so it wouldn't have surprised me if he started lecturing her here and now. She whipped her head towards Chaos. 

"Don't expect me to apologise, he had it coming"

"I would never expect that of you"

I heard a small gasp, I turned in the direction of the sound. Apollo was standing with his mouth wide looking between Estia and Chaos as if expecting her to blow up. I smirked and walked up to her slinging an arm over her shoulder. Annabeth came up beside me and lay her head on my shoulder

"I'm surprised you were able to control the urge this long" I smirked at her.

"To be honest, so am I" Chaos chuckled 

'So what is this all about, why did you bring Apollo here?' Annabeth asked 

'Earth is in trouble, someone is trying to resurrect Gaia, Kronos and..' Chaos paused for a minute 'Tartarus' 

I felt Estia and Annabeth tense. To be honest I'm pretty sure I tensed as well. Ilios and Ombra stopped bickering. Ombra looked over at me and the four of us shared a look. None of us had very good experiences dealing with Tartarus.

Estia was held hostage and murdered down there, Nico was captured for several months and Annabeth and I were trapped down there searching for the doors of death. 

"That doesn't explain why he's here" Estia motioned towards Apollo

"He will be your ambassador to the gods, I fear they will not trust you unless at least one of them is aware of your identities"

"hold up, we never agreed to this. Some of us wouldn't exactly be welcomed back with open arms" Sotiras argued, he was still nursing his back.

"He has a point, also some of us technically are dead and we'd like to stay that way" Omorfia added in agreement. 

Everyone looked at Annabeth, Estia and I expectantly. We were their superior officers after all.

"I for one don't feel like being bossed around by gods, been there done that don't want to again." the girls nodded in agreement. 

"You misunderstand. The gods will not have any authority over you. In fact, I will personally tell Zeus that myself. But if they are to trust you they need insurance" He turned to Estia "My dear, you were close to many of the gods. If they are aware you are among our ranks, not just that but a high rank. They will have no choice but to trust us."

I looked down at her, she had her hand on her chin in thought.

"I'll do it on one condition." 

"and that is?"

"You don't have to do thi-" she interrupted me holding her hand up motioning for me to stay quiet.

"I will only reveal my identity to Ladies Artemis and Hestia. I'm sure that should suffice as insurance. I am one of your most powerful fighters, I didn't have much of a name before I died meaning I'll be able to catch this traitor off guard when the time comes."

Chaos nodded in agreement. He turned to Apollo. 

"You heard her, go and retrieve the goddesses"

Apollo disappeared in a flash of gold. I mind-linked Estia.

"What's this about a traitor?"

"I had a dream about a battle, things were blurry but we were fighting something powerful I could sense that much. We were winning but then the tide turned. Someone switched sides I couldn't make out who"

I turned instinctively to look at Sotiras. Estia noticed and looked down. 

"Don't say anything until we're sure, don't be rash, it could not be him" She didn't sound too sure of that

I sighed. I only chose Luke for this team because Annabeth asked me to. She felt that he didn't get enough of a chance on earth and deserved a second chance. I still didn't trust him fully but he hadn't proven himself otherwise yet. 

Apollo returned in another flash of gold. This time he was accompanied by Artemis and Hestia, both in their older forms. They examined the room and bowed when they saw Chaos.

"Lord Chaos" they said in unison 

"rise" They stopped bowing "you're here because earth is in trouble as you know. My specialist team has agreed to assist the gods in this war. As insurance you can trust them second in command, Estia has agreed to reveal her identity."

Estia shrugged my arm off her shoulders, she walked around the table and walked in front of the goddesses.

"Hi" Estia said sadly. She missed the goddesses, they took care of her and she happily helped with anything they needed before she died.

"May I?" Hestia asked her softly.

Estia nodded. Hestia reached forward and slowly removed Estia's hood. Her frizzy golden curls tumbled down her shoulders. Artemis gasped and covered her mouth with her hands, tears forming in her eyes. Estia surged forward and gave the goddesses a bone-crushing hug. 

"You're alive?" Hestia asked in disbelief.

"Chaos brought me back so I could serve in his armour" She explained. Tears were starting to stream down her face. I wanted to go and hug her but I thought better of it. 

I wondered if I would be greeted the same or if the gods would smite me on the spot.

Probably the latter. 

A/N Published 07/09/2020