The Identity

Previously...

Everyone let out a sigh of relief but instantly became serious again when thinking about how the ship managed to surpass the camp security.

"Show yourse-" Frank started to say but there were already hooded figures appearing at the dock of the ship. There were Eight hooded figures.

A female's voice, showing no hostility or friendship, sounded from the front of the ship. From the way she was positioned, it seemed as if she was the leader of the group.

"Camp Half-blood" was her first words.

***

A look of reminiscence flashed through her eyes, but it was hard for the demigods at camp to be able to see that due to the hooded cloaks and masks they were wearing.

"Who are you?" Chiron finally asked. "What is your purpose here?"

"We mean you no harm," A second hooded figure descended down after the female. "We are here on a mission to help."

Chiron didn't reply, but indicated that he was still listening.

But then a third hooded figure stepped down followed by the remaining five. By this point, all 8 of them had descended and they seemed to be lead by the first two that landed in front of the campers.

The second figure was about to carry on speaking when another one of them cut in.

"Hey, come on, guys! Is this how you treat you guests," this hooded figure said. "Why not head to a more open space before we start talking."

"I'm sorry, but we can't do that," this time it was one of the head counselors. "You have shown us no evidence to trust you."

"True," said the first hooded figure in her cold voice that sent chills down everyone eyes. She then looked at the second hooded figure that was clearly a male and nodded at him.

When every switched their gaze back to the second hooded figure, he was already gone. He just disappeared. But before the demigods could even figure out what happened, he reappeared again but this time he had someone grabbed by the collar.

"You're right," the second hooded figure also agreed. "But you have no option negotiation.You can do nothing but trust us."

Then he let go off that head counselor he had grabbed to showcase his strength.

'Too strong!'

This was all they could think of. This person was not to be trifled with. Heck, this entire group was not to be trifled with.

But then again, they were all still safe and sound. If this group of hooded figures wanted to wipe them out, it probably wouldn't have taken much effort. This meant that they probably weren't lying. And even if this was a scheme to earn their trust for some reason, they had no choice but to fall for it.

This was trust earned by force! This was trust earned by fear!

After a few awkward seconds, Chiron headed to the front.

"Very well let's head to the area near the Big house. Perhaps, esteemed guests can introduce yourself over there."

The second hooded figure nodded.

***

"There is another war coming," the female leader of the hooded figures began, "Its way bigger than the Giant war."

"We are here on a mission to help you persist through the war," the second hooded figure took over. "We are here following commands of Lady Order, the mother of the primordial gods. We are the Army of Order."

Many demigods expressed their confusion but Chiron, the most knowledgeable one in the entire camp, had his pupils constricted so much that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.

"Did you say... Order?" Even as he said that, his four legs dropped to the floor and bowed deeply. "Lords, please forgive our ignorance earlier."

Seeing Chiron do that, the rest of the campers emulated him - excluding the four legs part - in a deep bow.

"Forget it, we would've done the same if an unknown group came to our palace and said the same thing." The hooded figures were not too arrogant. "Now, please get up."

"Thank you, My Lords and Ladies."

After the simple formalities were done and over with, the army of order started to introduce themselves.

First it was leading female, "You can call me Order One."

Everyone at camp was staring at her expectantly as if they were waiting for her to carry on with her introduction. However, she simply stepped back after that simple line.

'You might as well have not told us anything,' Hazel thought. This was because what she gave them really was nothing to go on - just a number.

After Order One, the second hooded figure stepped forward. Similar to Order One, he was also very mysterious.

He, too, gave a simple introduction. "Order Two"

The only difference between Order Two and the rest of the elites from the army of order was that his eyes could be slightly seen, even through the tinted mask. It could be made out to be slightly blue but it wasn't too clear.

And so the introductions continued up until the last person stepped forward.This was the fourth and final female of this team.

"My name is Order Eight," she started to say but just as she was about to continue, all the members in her group looked upwards, fully alert.

Noticing the sudden change in mood, the campers also looked up. Far up in the sky, they could see a meteor heading straight for them.

Everyone started panicking and screams could be heard as campers started to run around with their tails between their legs.

"Calm down," Order One shouted, "Get behind me!"

No one dared to delay and every camper stood behind the army of order. Once they were in that position, they felt safe for some reason. They felt embarrassed for reacting like they did just now. Now that they thought about it, the meteor will probably not even get past camp borders.

The meteor got closer and closer until it was just a couple of meters above the camp border. Despite this, the meteor seemed to speed up instead of slowing down. At this point, everyone could make out the meteor to be actually made up of six, human-shaped, figures.

Just like Order's Army, these people also went through the border as if it did not even exist.

BOOM!!!

With a loud bang they landed a couple of meters away from where Order One and the others stood.

The shockwave caused by the change in momentum was easily cancelled out by her but she remained extremely cautious. Even though it was easy for her to negate the effects of this shockwave, it was highly likely that if she wasn't there, most campers would have been seriously injured.

The newly-arrived hooded figures were gradually revealed as the dust from the landing settled down.

There were six of them compared to the eight from the army of Order.

This was the army of Chaos. They were careful enough to make sure that the shockwave wouldn't injure the campers. Other than the bit which was negated by Order One, the rest of them were all contained by them from heading in any other direction.

"Who are you?" Order One asked the leading hooded figure with sea blue eyes.

This person was Percy. Unlike Order's army, who had some members with their mask covering their eyes, none off the members from Chaos' army had their eyes hidden. The reason for this was quite simple. Percy no longer seas green eyes like he used to back in the day and the rest of the members all had normal eyes which wasn't very suspicious.

If one looked very carefully however, they might realise that Order two and Thalia had extremely similar eyes.

"You know its rude to not introduce yourself when asking some for their name?" Percy replied.

Order One didn't seem to be annoyed. In fact, she was still trying to determine if these figures harboured ill intentions though what she witnessed so far told her otherwise.

"I am Order One, leader of the Army of Order!"

"Order!?" Percy repeated with a shocked expression. According to what Chaos knew, Order was still in a deep sleep, but then again, so was Chaos.

He quickly came back to his senses.

"Well... in that case, I am Chaos One," Percy felt quite proud of himself for coming up with a name on the spot, "leader of the Army of Chaos!"

Thought it was hard to tell through Order One's mask, from the way it moved it was quite easy for Percy to figure out that she had furrowed her eyebrows.

"What's wrong?" Percy spoke up. "Oh and by the way, this is Order Two, that is Order Three and where are you? Oh here you are this is Order Four, Five and finally, she is Order Six" Percy said pointing at the hooded figures here and there.

This time it was Order Two that spoke up, "I thought Chaos was supposed to be in a deep sleep or something."

"That's what we thought about Order as well." Zoë quickly added.

"Now that we are all caught up," Luke said, "You are probably here for the same reason as us right? To help fight against Chronus and Tartarus?"

"Yeah," Order Two replied.

"Well then I am gonna go get some rest first," Percy yawned. "Then we can carry on discussing it later in the evening."

On that note, the Army of Chaos and Order went their separate ways and somehow quickly built their respective cabins. It must be addressed, though, that there was an extreme contrast in their quality.

To the campers, the Order cabin looked neat and orderly; it seemed as if it was designed by an architect that knew what they were doing. Contrary to that, the other cabin was in chaos, literally.

Many campers were under the illusion that the difference in their quality and appearance were because of their deity, but little did they know that the difference in quality was actually because the Army of Order two individuals who were experienced in forging and an exceptional architect.

***

Inside the Order Cabin.

Order One was facing the wall and trying to pick apart faults in the design to improve it further. Order Two was standing behind her.

"Do they seem familiar to you?" He asked.

Order One did not turn around. She had her hood down and her dirty blonde hair was let loose.

Order One did not repeat his question, but just waited. He knew it wasn't a good idea to distract her from focusing on her architecture.

Twenty seconds later, Order One's head slowly turned around and her grey eyes landed on him.

This time he asked again, "What do you think, Annabeth?"

The blonde Order One was actually Annabeth, who Percy thought was long dead. He wasn't even able to revive her for the Army for Chaos. At that time all Chaos could tell him was that she was safe to calm him down, but in actual fact, Chaos had no idea where she was due to her being by Order's side.

"Somewhat," Annabeth replied to Order Two's earlier question, "especially that Chaos One guy."

Order Two had a serious look on his face.

Annabeth placed her hands on his shoulder, "Jason, what is it?"

Jason - a.k.a Oder Two now - recounted a similar experience to Annabeth. "I don't know why, but Chaos Four seem to be similar to me for some reason." Little did he know that Chaos Four was actually his sister Thalia.

Just as Jaosn expressed his concern, Order Seven shouted over from the other corner of the Cabin. "Hey guys, who is on joining Team Leo to help set up a better defensive barrier for the camp?"

Everyone seem to just ignore Leo as Order Eight came over to Jason and held his hands.

"Don't worry Jason," Order Eight/ Piper said. "You are gonna find out why she's familiar sooner or later anyway."

When Annabeth saw Jason and Piper act like a cute couple she started reminiscing about Percy. Even though she didn't express it, she was inwardly bothered by the fact that Percy wasn't at Camp.

When she tried to recruit Percy for the Army of Order, Order said it wasn't possible to recruit him along with a few others with the reason for it being something along the lines of the reason Chaos gave to Percy.

She decided, she will ask Chiron later on.

***

Few hours later...

Activities in camp were continuing as usual, except the fact that every now and then people would discuss the arrival of the army of Chaos and Order. Some would gossip about them in excitement whilst others whispered with a tinge of fear in their eyes.

A horn sounded, indicating it was time for dinner. As the campers piled in to the dining pavilion it was crystal clear that there were two more tables than usual and all the old tables have been rearranged.

Usually, in front of Chiron's table, it was usually, Zeus' and Hera's table. Now, however, those two tables were pushed back as in their place were two new tables: one with the symbol of Chaos and the other with the symbol of order.

Just as everyone was almost settled in their seats, the army of Chaos and Order made a timely entrance from left and right respectively. Most of the campers' eyes lit up hoping for something interesting to happen and gossip about, but neither army was doing anything flashy. Both of them just came in had their food without throwing any sacrifice and got up to leave when everyone else was leaving.

"Don't forget, tomorrow is capture the flag!" Chiron reminded as everyone was leaving.

The campers became unusually energetic when Chiron announced that but it was understandable because of the two new factors involved - well, hoping they join in the capture the flag.

Annabeth (Order One) stayed behind to speak to Chiron as everyone else, including the army of Chaos and Order, went to the amphitheatre for the sing along.

"Chiron," she said softly. "Can I talk to you quickly?"

"Yes," he replied almost immediately out of respect. "Of course."

"I heard-" She abruptly stopped and looked toward the amphitheatre.

Suddenly stopping midway through her sentence startled Chiron and looked in the direction she was looking.

"What's wrong?" Chiron started to ask but even before he finished his sentence he saw multiple flashes that caused his eyes to widen with shock.

His reaction was justified. After all, those were teleportation flashes of gods. If someone said Chiron froze from a god's teleportation flash, everyone may laugh at that person cause that would never happen with Chiron's experience. Yet, here he was completely astonished by the staggering scene he just witnessed. There was a simple reason for him losing composure so easily: it wasn't just one or two gods that flashed in... but a whole fourteen gods flashed in.

Annabeth's eyes were still as calm as always. She did not seem to be dazed by this at all.

"We'll speak later," she said. "Let's go see why they visited"