《The Unknown》Chapter 12: Familiar threats and family help

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"Theseus, prepare the warriors. We will depart to Olympus when ready." Lady Chaos addressed her commander.

"Of course my lady." Theseus ran off, his troops being prepared.

Chaos slumped in her chair, setting her head on her hand, "This is going to be difficult."

"Oh, it is going to be more than difficult K." Chaos' head shot up only to see a blank wall, her universe churning on the other side. But when she began to slump again a man walked through the wall, his white hair and eyes casting a light that was bright and harsh. He wore a solid white suit; his entire body was the same harsh white. "You really have let everything go down hill while I was away. I must say it is all disgusting." His voice held the same sneer that was on his face.

"What are you doing Order? I beat you once before and I will do it again." Chaos had no confidence in her words and both of them knew it.

"Now K, you and I both know that you never beat me, that little snot-muncher surprised me but in the end I would have won, just like I will now." Order had walked into the center of the room next to the spinning replica of the universe that Chaos uses to map out strategies. "And the last I checked in, you don't have that Jackson boy that is going to help you defeat me." Order scoffed at this, "Did you really think a simple demigod, a mortal, could defeat me?"

"You underestimate your enemy brother, I will defeat you again. You can not win, there will always be someone fighting you." Her voice was oozing venom and hatred when she said brother. She stood up to Order, looking him dead in the eyes.

"Oh, but I forgot to tell you the best part. You aren't fighting the same brother you did all that time ago. No, I have taken the power of our brother too." Chaos' eyes bulged, "Yes, simple really. He couldn't fight me while I was inside of him." Order shook, "Disgusting, maybe once I am done with you I will make a visit to our snoozing brother and make him fade. It will be good to see that brat gone for good."

Chaos snapped, she slapped him, her hand connected to his cheek but he didn't flinch or react at all. Order sneered at Chaos now, "You really need to think things through dear sister. You were always so impulsive." Order raised his hand and slapped her back, but Chaos flew backwards from his hit, crashing into her own throne, "And weak."

With that the man faded into nothing, leaving Chaos crumpled on the remains of her throne.

Her head screaming from the hit, Chaos just barely made out her commander running to her. Theseus slid to a stop right in front of her on his knees; picking up her head and transferring it into his lap. "Lady Chaos, are you all right?"

Chaos looked up at him, before she could regain her strength. It took a good 20 minutes for her to be able to respond and stand, "Theseus, we must go to Earth now. He was here, and I can't fight him on my own, he is stronger than me." Theseus grew extremely worried, if Chaos couldn't overtake Order than all was lost. "Gather everyone, we will go to earth and we will train our allies."

It had been nearly 4 months since Artemis' venture to Alaska, 4 months of training, preparing and rallying for war. The Amazonians were brought into camp, many decades had gone by since the war but the relationship between the two groups was still well enough for an alliance. All the minor gods had been assembled to train and gather information on the unknown threat.

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"What do you mean there is no signs of stirring?" Zeus bellowed but Dionysus didn't flinch.

"I said that we can't find any movement in the monsters, prisoners or anyone else." Dionysus and the minor gods had been searching for three months now and nothing could be found wrong.

"I can't feel any stirring in Tartarus either, brother. In fact I haven't felt anything from Tartarus in a long time and that is not a good sign." Hades stepped in to assist his nephew.

Zeus huffed, he wasn't angry with any of them, he was proud of all they were able to accomplish but he was frustrated about the fact that no one knew about this war aside from Artemis and she learned all of this from a dead Perseus Jackson. "Has anyone gathered any information on this war or the true identity of Perseus Jackson?"

Every eye turned to Athena and her husband, Theo was sitting in a smaller throne to her right, but when attention was pulled to him he grew quite and shrunk down a little in his chair. Athena face showed slight aggravation, "I learned that my oh so loving husband knew about my sister's rendezvous with Perseus and didn't tell me." She huffed, "Even asked him advice for important decisions for Olympus and the camp." Theo leaned over to her took her hand and began to whisper into her ear, she softened a bit before smiling and receiving a kiss on the cheek. Athena then returned her attention to the council, "I have looked into all ventures of the art of fading, no record is shown of any titan, god, monster or even primordial that possessed the ability to make someone fade. And then there are these children of his that he mentioned. There are many sets of three that are powerful but I still have no idea who could be the child of Perseus. The only beings that don't have both parents accounted for are the primordials and they were created by Lady Chaos many billions of years ago." The room chilled slightly at the name of Chaos. "So there is nothing in the books that can relate to any of this."

Zeus switched his gaze to Poseidon, but Poseidon saw and simply shook his head, "I thought he was just my son."

Everyone knew not to question Poseidon further about this, ever since the last council meeting when he broke down, begging Artemis to tell him about his son, himself and the sea have been in very fragile states, but Amphitrite has been doing a good job calming him while Triton and Aeráki have done their best to govern the seas.

Zeus then scanned the council to find no one offering anything else, "And what about our enemy? Athena have you identified the white aura that the hunters supplied? Or has anyone thought of who it is that is behind all of this?"

No one wanted to guess who they were fighting, all ideas of war were painful, they had lost so much in the last two wars and now they were going to have to fight again. "There are many different white auras that can be found in gods, a few titans. But there is no being that is that powerful that would have that kind of aura. And none are a pure white aura." Athena was flustered now, only calmed by Theo next to her. She was never good at not knowing something and it was happening a lot today.

Everyone fell silent; the council all bowed their heads in thought. If there was anything they had learned in their millennia of life, it is that not knowing something could be the most deadly mistake they could make.

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"Perhaps I could help you children." A cold dark voice said, standing at the door were two figures, one in a golden suit with a black shirt and trim and the other in an earthen brown dress and earth brown eyes.

All the gods instantly grabbed their weapons, pointing them at the pair that began strolling into the throne room. Only to be frozen in time by Kronos, his smirk growing.

"Well is that any way to great family?" Kronos scoffed, Gaea just smirked. "Well we just thought we would be nice enough to tell you about our return, after all, you are going to all fade soon enough."

Gaea continued, "Yes and now that you don't have that pesky son of Poseidon to protect you I will finally be able to have my fun with all of you." Gaea then turned her attention to Artemis, "Oh honey, I see that Khione and Lycaon failed in their little revenge effort. Pity, Lycaon was raving about having you as his new pet." Her face implying that she would have not enjoyed what they had planned.

This outraged Apollo; he hadn't yet accepted Percy getting engaged to his sister, partially because he couldn't understand how it was possible but mostly because she was his sister and no one could hurt her on his watch. And he definitely wasn't going to have anyone talk to his sister like that. He broke through the time freeze Kronos put on him and dived at Gaea only to be frozen once again by Kronos who sneered and drew his scythe.

He raised it above his head, "We weren't supposed to hurt anyone today, only a warning but I hate it when some sniveling little godling tries to attack my mother, and know that I won't fail in making you fade." Just as Kronos was bringing down his scythe Artemis was able to break the spell as well, she dove right in front of her brother, intercepting the scythe's blade.

Many cries were heard when she did this, Apollo being one of them, Gaea's and Kronos' smirks simply grew. But just as the blade made contact with her skin an aura shot out of her ring, the aura had no color to it, just a raw power. The blade bounced off her skin, but not before giving enough of a blow to her and Apollo to send them back onto the steps of his golden throne.

Kronos' eyes bulged for a moment before returning to a cold glare, "You are lucky this time gods, but beware, we will be ready to destroy you all very soon." The two figures both glared at the gods before disappearing in a pure white flash.

Apollo was less affected by the blow than his sister so he was able to wiggle out from under her and lay her on the floor gently, even summoning a pillow for her head. "Sis come on, you can't do this to me." Apollo began to examine her side, looking over where the blade hit, only to find perfect skin. No marks were left. "How did you do it? Why didn't it hurt you?"

Artemis looked up at him with a wry smile, "Because, boys can't do anything right."

Apollo looked down at her as if she was mentally insane, "Artemis, don't do that to me. You can't go all big sister and save me by putting you self in danger."

Artemis just smirked, before getting up and groaning slightly rubbing her stomach where the blow hit. But she still held her smirk looking at Apollo, "You just admitted that I am older."

"What? No I didn't. You are my little sister and we all know it. Right?" Apollo was scrambling now. But all the goddesses were smirking at him to.

But this good feelings time couldn't last, "Now, how are we going to win in a war against both of the enemies from the last two wars combined?"

That dampened everything, no one was smirking, and everyone was silent; that is until the doors burst open. Diane and Bianca ran in, bowing quickly before addressing the council. "Lord Zeus, Prometheus came to camp! Defenses have been increased but he walked right into camp." Many of the gods gasped, their children were supposed to be safe there.

Bianca continued, "He had the same white aura around him that Khione and the lycaons had. He offered that we surrender and we would suffer less. He said that there was no way for us to defeat him, he hit Argus, he flew back nearly 100 feet." Hera eyes flew wide, Argus was her guardian, she was very attached to him.

"This is just getting worse, wha-" Diane was interrupted by a rift being torn in the middle of the thrones, only for a woman and about a hundred armor clad warriors to walk out.

"Olympians, I believe I can help in your war effort." Athena gasped, jumping into a bow, followed by all the Olympians.

"Lady Chaos," Athena breathed.

Artemis gasped; this was the daughter that Percy was talking about. She has come to them before the war, just like Percy said.

"We will be going to war soon, there are disruptions and wars throughout the universe, all of this is being caused by one man though." Artemis disrupted now.

"Your brother," Chaos' head snapped towards Artemis, eyes widening before she steeled her face turning to Theseus.

"Theseus, get your men to camp and begin training any fighting body. " Chaos ordered.

"Son?" Poseidon breathed.

"Hello father." Theseus smiled at Poseidon.

"Yes my army is made up of fallen heroes and the greatest fighters this universe has ever seen. Although we only recruit at the deaths of said individuals." Chaos explained, "In fact most of you have children in my army, but now is not the time for catching up. Theseus you have been given an order."

"Yes my lady." Theseus turned to leave before Artemis spoke up.

"Bianca, Diane go with them and escort them to camp, they need to be trusted as allies." Bianca and Diane nodded with 'yes milady's but right before they exited the room Diane turned around.

"Lady Chaos." Drawing the attention of everyone in the room, "My uncle wanted me to tell you something."

"Your uncle?" Chaos questioned.

"Yes Percy Jackson," Looks were thrown around amongst the army. "He told me to tell something to someone very special to him and I think that is you. He wanted me to say, 'He will fight for you again' he didn't go into detail, he didn't even say who 'he' was but he needed you to know." Once Diane was finished she turned around and continued out the exit followed quietly by Bianca and the soldiers.

Chaos then turned to the gods, "You know where Perseus Jackson is?"

All eyes shifted to Artemis, She looked down sadly for a second before answering Chaos, "He has been with me in disguise for the past 60 years, that is until 4 months ago, he left saying he would return next month at the end of this war." But then Artemis asked her own questions, "This 'he' Percy spoke of, it was your other brother, wasn't it? We are fighting one of your brothers and we can't win with out your younger brother."

Chaos' look glazed over for a second before returning a defeated voice present, "It isn't possible, he gave his life to protect me the first time and then Order took his energy, he wasn't able to wake for billions of years, it is impossible for him to be awake to fight now."

Artemis shook her head, "No Percy is waking him up, that is where he is."

Chaos looked at her questionably, "How do you know all of this?"

"Percy told me, he was the one that said we were going to war with his son." Then Artemis looked directly into her eyes, "And that we were going to be helped by his daughter."

Chaos' eyes widened again, she started muttering, "Impossible, no there was nothing. I was just there. I remember." But she wasn't convinced.

Athena gasped, "The original three, that is what this war is." Many looks were thrown her way. "Lady Chaos, Order and Void, the first ever beings born from pure energy."

Chaos looked at her, "Yes, I was the original, then my brothers came, I didn't create them they just appeared from the unknown, just coming into existence." She then looked down, "This universe was created when my brother Order and I fought. It ended when Void ate him, successfully trapping him but giving so much energy that he fell asleep forever. But now Order has awakened and he has taken the energy of my brother Void, effectively growing more powerful than myself. I was hoping to find Perseus to help me win this war. He had so much raw energy in his body that I felt he could be a worthy commander in my army, but he disappeared before I could recruit him, just as all the heroes that died in the two previous wars you fought that I wanted to recruit, but they were reborn." Chaos paused, "This happened once before but Orion came to us in the end, but he was a completely different man," But then she added something under her breath, "And then there is his fear of wolves."

Artemis' eyes flashed at the mention of Orion, but she didn't make any remarks; Chaos had said he was different now, and she heard the wolf comment causing her to smirk, she had plenty of wolves to send after him if he went close to any of her hunters now.

"But now, if what that hunter said was true. If he is going to be fighting again we will have a chance but all of you must be fighting with your children against this threat. My troops are all well trained, all their previous skills and strengths have been maximized and their weaknesses have been diminished." Chaos waved her hand and a table appeared with a map on it, the gods got up and surrounded it, "We will be fighting at Greece again. The same battle field that you had before, they are waiting for you to assemble your forces their; all hoping to rub salt in your wounds." Chaos sighed, "And I am afraid that it doesn't matter that the doors of Death never opened, because of my brother their army is larger than it was in the last 2 wars and now with all that they have we will need every possible fighting hand and we need them trained now."

"We have the Romans and Greeks trained together now, that has us better prepared for fighting their monster army." Ares voice was laced with a new doubt and fear that it has never held, the situation of this war had taken out his pride and arrogance but he still tried to cling to the hope of their bettered prowess, "And they don't have any minor gods on their side this time. We have the new united Olympus, the strongest we have been since Rome."

"Sadly, that may not be enough," Chaos started but before she could continue there was a crash and the doors flew open.

"She had a seeing!" It was Octavian running in with his wife, and 'colleague' Rachel Elizabeth Dare, slouched on his side and in his other hand was a pair of canvases

The cavern was bright, very strange for a cavern in the middle of the Earth, but a light was being cast from a man sitting in the middle of the room on a white throne, in an equally bright white suit. "Tell me again, did this have a black aura around it? Maybe a speckled, starry aura?" His voice was ancient far more than any other voice anyone in the cavern held.

Kronos stepped forward, "No it was raw energy that radiated off of her. It deflected your blessing, it must be Chaos though; she is the only one that is strong enough to beat your blessing."

Gaea stood, "Yes my mother went to them the second we all left. She must be protecting them. What do you think Koios?"

Koios was sitting on the side, leaning over a map of Greece, "It could be, she is the only option that is awake but the amount of energy for that sort of protection is not in her capabilities after the blow Lord Order delivered to her earlier. He was successful in draining more energy out of her with his one slap; she would have had to place it years ago. Otherwise it is simply impossible for her to bring her army here and maintain the universe's pulls."

Order stepped out of his throne and began pacing around it, "Koios, for the titan of intelligence, you are the smartest one behind myself in this room." Koios beamed, "But you are wrong." His head fell.

"Do you know who did this lord Order?" Kronos asked.

"No." Order's face twisted in concentration and agitation, "But it was on the power levels of myself and my siblings but neither of them are capable now. I am sure of that." He stepped in front of his throne, "It is possible that I have a new sibling. But whoever it is can not stop us now, we will begin step one." Order turned to Koios who was looking at him now, "Ready the hunt."

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