Chapter 30

Percy POV

"I'll second that." my dad said.

"Ok so quick run down, the eight of us" Luna said gesturing to her group "are from the future and came back to avoid a catastrophe created by Kronos changing time.".

"Okay but I would like to know how the Hades you became gods, I mean the deal was for when we turn 20 and you don't even turn 18 for another month and a half." the boy on the floor said.

"I'm sorry but who are you?" Athena asked.

"Name's Drake." he said "I'm Hestia's first born.".

"Oh" Athena said "then how did you become a god.".

"Well I became a god because of a failed assassination attempt by Triton, Clytius, and Enceladus but how Luna managed to pull it off." Sam said.

Luna shrugged. "It just happened." she said.

Sam looked at a shadow on the wall and said "You can come out Nico I know you're there.".

"How did you know?" he asked.

"Just a hunch." Sam said calmly "Also I need you to go get Leo, Frank, Jason, and Apollo." Nico paused like he was going to ask more but decided against it simply nodding before disapating into the shadows.

"Mom, Grandmother would you be willing to take Amphitrite to Olympus?" Sam asked. There was a moment of silence before it registered for them "Oh sorry, it hasn't sunken in yet." Athena replied as she placed a hand on the former queen of the sea. "Sure we'll take her." Artemis and Athena flashed away.

We sat in an awkward silence for a little bit so I tried to break the ice "So the how are things in the future?".

I heard a loud slapped to my left "I say this with the utmost respect but that may just be the dumbest thing you've ever said." Grey replied having just face-palmed "We literally just told you there is a huge war in our time".

"And who might you be?" father asked.

"Guess." she said pulling down her hood. Without the necklace from Athena it wasn't really all that hard to figure out who her parents were. She still looked like Athena in almost every way except for her coloring. Her eyes were sea green not grey, her hair was black instead of blond, and her skin was tanned.

"Sophie? My daughter." he said stunned.

"How'd you guess my name?" she asked looking oddly impressed.

"It's the only name me and your mother could agree on." he said "We have yet to decide on a boy's name and it looks we won't have to".

We settled back into a more comfortable silence as we waited for Artemis and the others to return. Artemis, Nico, and the others flashed in at the same time, Frank looked at the 6 figures in silver cloaks and turned to me. "Yes I know just take seat we'll…well they'll explain." I said.

Luna POV

Once everyone was seated I stood up "Ok so I'm sure you're all wondering why you're here, long story short the five people in silver cloaks are from the future and so are me, Sam, Drake, and Zoe. We were sent here by the Fates to correct the changes Kronos made to the timeline.".

"I just can't wait get back to my normal life." Jace said.

"You mean you want to get back to making out with your girlfriend, hey I just remembered as of today you're technically dating a goddess." Sam joked.

'You idiot!' I mentally shouted as everybody in the room all but froze.

'heh heh sorry sis' Sam nervously replied visibly paling. Out of the corner of my eye I could literally the gears in Grandma's brain turning as she put the pieces together.

"Is he saying what I think he is?" Nico asked.

"I think so." Grandma said, noticing Grandpa's confused look she continued

"That boy and Luna are dating.". In seconds my father was standing above Jace and I'm pretty sure he had used his power to make himself taller and more ominous.

"Calm down Percy." mom said calmly. I was so shocked by her calm voice that I just had to look at my mother and I wish I didn't. Despite the very kind look on her face the tone in her voice and the look in her eyes sent an entirely different message.

It was a simple message 'I'll let you live for now but if take one step out of line not even Hades will be able to save your soul'. The room was silent except from the sound of a few people swallowing thickly. In the corner of the room I heard my uncle Apollo whisper to my grandfather "I haven't seen her this mad since the Orion incident.".

"Sam has secret girlfriend in the future." Jace said quickly.

"Say what!" I shouted spinning to face Sam.

"Why'd you have to throw me under the bus and how the Hades did you even find out about Keda?".

"She stormed into the hunters camp demanding to know if you were alive or not, apparently they've been dating for 4 years." Jace said answering my unspoken question. "FYI your parents were and probably still are pissed that you were hiding this from them. And their mad at Melissa for not telling them. Also your mom says you're grounded till you're 1000 when you get back." Jace paused to take a breath 'really' I thought to myself. I could see what he was doing though, by giving out this information to everybody he had successfully gotten the attention redirected to my brother.

"Why don't we get back to the task at hand." Grandmother said looking at Sam.

He quickly straightened up "Um…yes…the reason why all of you were called here is because I've got Kronos' current location." Sam paused to let it sink in "If we can trap him the Fates can send him back to where he came from, and all of us get to go back to our correct time.".

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Apollo said "You say it like it's easy. The last two times we beat Kronos we either had the entire council with us or he was trapped in a mortal's body and therefore not at full strength. Now you plan to face him with a handful of gods, immortals, and demigods we'll be slaughtered and to put the icing on the cake we have to capture him instead of killing him which would be much easier."

"It'll be easier than you think." Sam said "By forcing himself to reform so fast and fixing his body he's not at full power yet and we need to just stun him for a few moments. Given the fact that he is the titan of time the Fates are unable to just send him back. We brought chains with us that can suppress his power long enough to let the fates do their job. This little meeting is nothing more than a planning session so let's get started".

"Um you haven't told us where he is yet" I said.

"Oh right." he said pulling out a piece of paper "He's in…seriously?".

I peaked over his shoulder "Looks like we're going to Nevada because he in area 51." I said.

Leo POV

'Out of all places why did Kronos have to chose here' I thought to myself, slightly creeped out by the deserted compound. Personally I thought it was a little cliche that he chose to come here but then again it did have some practical uses. If any body did see a 20 foot tall titan walking around they'd just be written off as another crazy, probably wouldn't even make the local news.

It really wasn't all that difficult to figure out where Kronos was staying the whole place was falling apart with the exception of one building that looked like it was built yesterday. According to Poseidon that was an ability of his fathers, apparently he can restore inanimate objects very easily, he can also do the exact opposite and force things to break down. Neither would work that well if the objects were enhanced in any way or just magical in general.

Putting my back to the wall of the building I prepped the five greek fire bombs I had. A few minutes later Jason gave the signal, me and the other 3 threw our bombs through the windows from each side of the building. As soon as the bombs went off we all charged in. Jason came in through the north windows with his son, Nico, and Jace.

Percy's group came in the left while Poseidon's came in the right, I dropped in the back with my son and Apollo. It took a few seconds for the smoke to clear, but when it did I got my first look at the titan lord of time. He looked a lot like Zeus, seriously he looked just like him but older, with long grey hair and beard complete with an old black patched up suit that was probably from the 60's. "Such a shame that was a good year too." Kronos said looking what was left of a wine bottle in his hand.

I was never really all that great with a weapon but nevertheless I pull out a mace and got ready to charge but I couldn't take a single step. Hades I couldn't even move 'stupid time freeze' I thought to myself. Kronos let out a loud and completely creepy laugh before turning to his son "Really that was you big plan? Hit me with a few firecrackers and rush me? Even for you that's just plain reckless".

"That was just the first step of the plan." Luna shouted as she swung her sword slicing into Kronos' back. Turns out that being the goddess of time grants Luna a natural resistance to Kronos' powers over time.

No longer in his happy mood Kronos' suit changed to full body armor and his scythe appeared in his hand 'I thought Hestia destroyed that thing during her dad's attack on Olympus'. Before Kronos could even take a swing Sam dropped out of the shadows on the ceiling and stabbed him through a chink in his armor.

Though it was in the neck, the wound wouldn't be lethal but it did work like Athena said it would. First step of the plan: bomb the building to quickly get rid of any low level monsters. Step 2: while Kronos starts to gloat and insult Poseidon, Luna slashes him across the back causing him to lose a little bit of control of his time magic.

Kronos releases his hold on Sam for just a few seconds in an attempt to maintain his hold on the rest of us. He'll chose Sam because he believes the Sam still doesn't have any abilities making the risk minimal. Sam then uses the opening stab Kronos through a major pressure point in his shoulder causing him to lose control completely.

'Note to self never piss off Athena, especially pregnant Athena' I thought to myself. Apollo and his daughter Blair opened fire aiming for the chinks in his armor as Kronos thrashed around in an attempt to throw Sam off since he couldn't quite reach him with his armor on. I ran forward and smashed my mace into the side of Kronos' knee while my son did the same to the other one with his axe.

Jace and Tristan, Piper and Jason's son, followed up by stabbing behind the knees, causing him to collapse on his back. Immediately the others set about using water and shadows to hold Kronos down so Me and Drake could attach the chains. "You seriously think this can hold me?"

Kronos laughed as his left hand tore threw its bindings. "Well what do you think about this?" Sam said as he literally nailed Kronos' hand to the floor with his swords. Kronos howled in pain and tried to rip through his bindings so he could free his hand.

Getting the idea Percy and Nico did the same with his right while Poseidon and Sophie did the same to his legs "Leo, Drake now." Percy shouted. Thankfully the chains were already partially set up so it wouldn't take as long to put on. The chains were connected by a number of golden square blocks, kinda like a web, that had some kind of magic seal on each one which would contain Kronos' power once fully set.

"Come on guy's hurry up." Nico urged.

"Do you want do it!" I shouted trying to attach the last few locks. I knew we were short on time, I could literally feel Kronos building up energy in his body as I worked. Finally I was down to the last lock but Kronos was done charging up. Swords, arrows, spear, and Trident alike were blasted out of his body, the shear energy coming off him was burning my hands like he was radioactive. I was just able to get the chain attached before my hands crumbled to dust. Without my hands I was easily thrown off but thankfully the chains did their job as his energy went down and he winked out of existence.

I looked around to survey the damage, the building looked like crap but everyone seemed to be okay. There was a bright flash and in the center of the room were three old ladies "Time to go." they said.

"Right now?" Piper asked holding onto Tristan.

"Yes, they are not from this time and need to be sent back."

Us adults were upset that our kids were leaving just after we met them but the kids just nodded and lined up and disappeared in another flash of light. "Now for you." the Fates said.

"What about us?" I asked/croaked, man my throat was dry.

"Now that Kronos has been sent back along with the children we can't let you keep your knowledge of the future so we're going to have to wipe your memories.".

"What about everyone else who seen or heard about them, even if you take our memories people will still recognize them when they come to camp." I said.

"They won't, by the end of tonight we'll have erased enough that the world at large will think them to be but a rumor. Even those that knew them well will only have faint memories of them, buried in the back of their minds. You'll all wake up in your beds tomorrow none the wiser." The Fates said "But first let's get your hands fixed."