Chapter 61

Chapter 61:

The army of the titans were the experiments of Argo. Before he 'died' he created a way for the Titans to mutate a large portion of the animal kingdom into demi-humans. These monsters were smarter and skilled at combat each carrying weapons while decked out in an iron chestplate and helmet.

They stood 5,000 strong in front of the large blue portal, many more coming through each second. They stood in rows of 20, shields locked and ready. They were physically imposing, each of them looked powerful enough to tear a human body in half with their bare hands. Tigers had fur strong enough to deflect bullets, rhinos were heavy and large, but charged as fast as a car.

They were all highly trained and physically very imposing. Their senses enhanced, leagues ahead of what a normal human could do or see, able to see clearly in the night, hear the tiniest pin drop, able to track their prey like a bloodhound.

But they never saw him coming.

His form was barely seen, even by their advance senses. His blades had just been a flash of blue and bronze in a rush of speed. It was like a missile hit their ranks, breaking apart the first five rows of soldiers, throwing them in every which direction as he crashed into them.

The whirlwind of destruction stopped at the heart of the army, clearing a way through the center of their ranks. They charged at him, but didn't stand a chance. They were sent flying back, cut into pieces, and before they could even understand what was going on five more joined the battle.

"Fire!" Alecto cried out as she launched five arrows into the army. They each hit their mark in the chest of a titan soldier, but the moment they did, the tip exploded, taking out everyone around them.

A fog of shadows then came crashing into the army ranks, any who entered it didn't come out. The fog swallowed everything, it grew bigger and bigger, until it stopped. The animals around it watched it cautiously, waiting for something to happen, and it did.

The fog condensed into Marcia in her winged wolf form, the demon looked around her and smirked, "looks like it's lunch time!" She pounced onto a juicy looking pig with an axe and tore open its throat.

Just as an alligator swordsman was about to swing at Marcia's wings a ball of compressed wind crashed into him right in the face.

"I got your back doggy!" Timmy cried out as he rode into the battle flying over the animals. He had Zed and Craig floating besides him, both looking very nervous. Timmy turned to the two, "you two ready?!"

"I hate this plan!" Zed cried out, even Craig looked nervous.

"What are you talking about? It's brilliant!" Timmy cried out as he dropped them both with Marcia as the three stood side by side, killing every titan soldier then came close.

"Goblin! I need a wind tunnel!" Alecto called out as she readied an arrow.

"Sure, where?"

"There," Alecto aimed at a elephant with a mace standing near the back, he was charging at Percy, aiming to kill crush him with a body slam.

"No problem!" Timmy called out summoning a tunnel of wind in front of Alecto's arrow. The Fury released and the arrow shot forward faster than a bullet. It flew through the air, implying the elephant right between the eyes causing him to fall on his behind, crushing the animals standing behind him.

Timmy and Alecto brought death from above, Marcia, Zed and Craig took care of the ground troops while Percy created a zone of death, killing everything that came near him before they could even blink. But just as the soldier near the front line turned to charge them, a cry came from down the tunnel.

"Charge!" Rob called out as he charged with the sword of Hyperion raised into the air shining brightly as a torch for the others to follow. The sword gleamed bright yellow, like the flames it's previous master controlled, as it sliced into the body of a charging bear.

The army of demigods cleaved into the monster, killing them with their godly powers. Thalia and Jason combined their power sending lightning bolts into the army, frying several monsters into dust. Julia and a few other children of Venus/Aphrodite used their magic to throw make up into the monster's eyes blinding them before the children of Ares/Mars struck them down.

"Flank them!" Percy roared from inside the heart of the monster army, "Rob! Lead the left, Jason the right! Alecto! Timmy! Provide air support!"

"Aye!" the army obeyed it's leader, flanking the much larger monster army.

"You got it boss!" Alecto cried out as she moved to support the demigod army, killing any monster that even came close to killing a demigod.

The monster quickly gathered themselves from the initial charge and began to attack back at the demigods. They quickly began to push back, they struck with their mighty arms, swinging their weapons faster and stronger than their human enemies could ever hope to match.

Percy saw they were losing the advantage, he needed to move. He threw his weapons into the air and with his mind began to swing them around telekinetically, creating a cyclone of spinning blades.

Percy gathered his earthquake mana into his hands as he released all of his strength seals;

STR- 0.146

Seal release: Layer 10 Time: 1 1.2 months

STR- 42,467,328 (+11+20+75) = 42,467,436

Body Form Activated: Full Body!

STR- 42,467,436 X 10 = 424,674,360

Percy clicked his teeth and took in a rush of speed. His body was a blur as he tore through the monster reaching the front lines. The army was thrown onto their sides as Percy rushed through them like a speeding bullet.

He stopped at the front lines and began to cleave away at the animals ranks just enough for his army to press on the advantage.

Percy's greatest talent had always been his skill with the blade, but his greatest power had always been the pure destruction he could cause with his fists alone. He wasn't a complex person, even with his great intelligence he always looked for the simplest solution. If there was a problem, he would punch right through it.

And that was what he did.

He tore through them with his bare hands. His blows destroyed them instantly, their bodies unable to handle the sheer force behind his attacks. His blades danced around his sides like protection, a chrysalis of metal that tore through any enemy stupid enough to engage him.

He was a storm, their reckoning, he tore a line of destruction through the middle of the enemy army with his army following right behind him. The demigods had flanked them on the side and had a line of attack through the center. They had the monsters cornered, cleaving through them like a knife through butter.

The army of 5,000 was reduced to an army of 2,000 in ten minutes, the demigods fighting tirelessly. Percy's servants were monsters, and not just in name. The titan army was being pushed back so far Marcia, Zed and Craig were able to rejoin in the army's front lines.

Percy smiled, "keep pushing! We just need to throw them through the portal!"

"AYE!" the yelled back as they kept the attack up, the animals running back in fear of their very lives.

But just as things seemed to calm down, the portal started to shake violently. Percy's eyes grew wide in concern as the entire dream world began to shake, the white pods hanging above them clicked and clacked as they shock. The portal started fizzing out as golden lighting started mixing in with the baby blue energy.

"What's happening?!" Thalia asked.

"I think the portal's breaking up!" Julia suggested.

"No," Percy growled, "it's being used to bring him here."

"Who?" a roman demigod asked.

"Kronos," Percy whispered. And suddenly a chilling air came bursting through the portal. A small figure stepped out, Percy's heart started beating faster and faster, was this it? Was that Kronos?

'No, no. Kronos is much bigger,' Percy told himself as Hypnos stepped out, still dressed in his striped pyjamas. The white haired god didn't look sleepy, in fact he looked very alert. There were circles around his eyes now, but they were from stress rather than exhaustion.

"Hypnos," Percy growled, he pushed forward with a great shove, the monsters in front of him all feel down on their backs giving Percy a good look at the god, "I heard you betrayed us."

"Yes Jackson, I did," Hypnos nodded, "I'm sorry you had to find out this way."

"You're a sick little fuck you know that?" Percy growled as he brought both his blades to his hand as he began charging forward, killing any monster that got in his way.

"You know what they say, it's always better to be on the winning side than the right side."

"And whose side are you on?"

"His," Hypnos stepped aside the portal and suddenly the rumbling started again. The whole world of dreams shock as an entity more powerful than the Olympian Gods stepped through the portal.

First a hand came out, Percy recognized the hand, he had seen it grab hold of half the golden fleece, tearing it away from him. The hand was golden brown and slowly the rest of him stepped through.

The head came out next, and all the fighting stopped. The man had hair black as night, his beard was long and thick, flowing down like a stream of darkness. His hair was thick, it reached his neck, the rest of his body tried to come through, but he stopped, almost like something was stopping him.

His golden eyes searched the battle field, until they landed on Percy. He smiled, "Percy Jackson, after so long, we finally met."

The demigods were horrified, they were paralyzed. But Percy had seen him before, he had faced him before. And back then, he wasn't even a demigod.

Percy used his telepathic powers to push away the remaining monsters to the side creating a pathway to the portal. He walked briskly, showing no hesitation. He looked up and meet the titan's gaze.

"In our culture, when two leaders of opposing armies meet for the first time, they show their true faces, not hiding behind helmets or masks."

Percy chuckled, "I wasn't aware, sorry grandpa," he pressed the button on his helmet causing it to pop open revealing Percy's face to the mad Titan, "there, better?"

"Much," his head still the only thing that came out of the portal. He smiled, "you show bravely when others do not. Your men look like they are about to faint."

Percy looked back and smiled, "the only reason I can speak to you and they can't is because this isn't the first time I spoke to you. I'm used to your ugly mug, they aren't."

Kronos looked down, Percy was sure the taunt would have worked, but it didn't. Instead the titan laughed, "ah hahah! Ture grandson, very true. My form as it is is less than appealing. Why I couldn't even get a date."

Percy didn't know why, but he chuckled, "yeah, not many chicks would want to date a 3,000 year old man with anger issues."

"Are you kidding me? Have you see this body?!" Kronos laughed hartley, causing everyone, including Hypnos to blink in confusion. Not understanding what Percy was doing.

"What is he doing?" Julia asked Thalia in a whisper.

"I have no idea," Thalia whispered back.

"Is he actually having a conversation with the Titan of evil?" Rob asked with his jaw wide open in disbelief.

"Any chance you try and not kill us?" Percy asked, "I mean, honestly, it's kind of a cheap move killing people in their sleep."

"Oh? Well I suppose if you look at it that way it does seem cheap," Kronos laughed, "but I have come to far to simply turn back now."

"Hm, no, you haven't. All you would have to do is turn around and leave, that's it, no mess, no fuss," Percy said with a shrug.

"Well for you maybe. Hyperion would kill me if I did that," the titan said, that stupid smile still plastered on his face.

"And what if I killed Hyperion?" Percy asked.

And that's when Kronos's smile faltered. He looked down curiously before his eyes went over the battlefield. He quickly spotted Hyperion's sword that Rob was carrying and narrowed his eyes. Rob, the brave son of Mars, let out a little squeak.

"I see...well I never liked him anyway," Kronos said with a casual shrug. Though Percy could see the smile was becoming more forced.

"He was your brother, don't you care about anything?" Percy taunted.

"I did," Kronos admitted, "I care about power, I care about respect and I care about getting back what's rightfully mine."

"The world?"

"Revenge."

"I see...and then what?"

"And then I rule, as was always my destiny."

"Over our dead bodies."

"My dear boy, that was always the plan," Cronus smirked as he started to pull himself forward.

The portal started to shake once again as Hypnos ran to it's side holding it together. "You need to be more careful!" the God warned as Kronos pulled his body out as well.

'The portal can't handle bringing him through!' Percy realised, Hypnos was keeping it stable, but he needed to have physical contact to do that. Seeing his chance Percy charged at the minor God, Waverider and Riptide coming straight down at the god's neck.

"NO!" Hypnos cried out as he clicked his fingers causing a shockwave of pure energy to explode outwards.

Percy flew across the hall, but spun around mid air and flew right back at Hypnos.

"Shit!" Hypnos cursed as he clicked his fingers again, this time flashing away with the portal in hand. Percy's swords met nothing as he stood where Hypnos was just moments ago. Percy sent out a wave of mana, trying to figure what spell the god used, only for nothing to come up.

Percy cursed, "fucking Hades," he turned to the demigod army and found that even the remaining titan soldiers had disappeared.

Ping!

Exp gained!

1,750 upgraded animals killed!

350 Exp X 1,750 = 612,500 Exp!

Ping! Ping! Ping!

You have leveled up three times!

Percy Jackson

Health- 18,550/18,550 (+2000) = 20,550

Mana- 9,900/9,900 (+2000) = 11,900 (+20% more mana, +2,380) = 14,280

The Gamer

Title- Son of Poseidon

(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)

Level-54 Exp- 109,550/240,000

Race-Demigod

STR- [Original- 150] 0.146 (+11+20+75) = 106.146 (Layers of seals applied - 10)

VIT-150 (+11+20)=181

DEX-100(+11+20)=131

INT-150

WIS-100

LUC-100

POINTS- 80

MONEY- 25,221,683$/ 20,856 D

Percy dismissed the box and turned to his friends. "What happened?" Jason asked as slowly everyone let their gaurd down.

"I don't know, but I think they must have teleported away," Percy grumbled, "low tide," the phrase caused his armour to snap back into his left hand gauntlet revealing Percy's school uniform underneath.

Slowly all the other demigods relaxed themselves, Percy's servants turned into smoke as they went back into Percy's gem. Quickly the 'leaders' of the demigods gathered around Percy, Julia, Rob, Thalia and Jason.

"We need to set up a perimeter," Rob told him, "in case they try and ambush us like we did to them."

"Maybe one on each side of the tunnel?" Thalia suggested, "after all we don't know where Hypnos teleported them."

"Then we need to be sure, where's Morpheus?" Percy asked. And just then said God came flying down and landed besides them.

"Hypnos did something he shouldn't have," the god grumbled, "there is a layer before this world, just below this world. It's sort of like my own version of the underworld where the nightmares go to rest. Any time anyone has a nightmare it's because one of those monsters managed to escape their prison and come up here inflicting the sleeping people. One of my major duties is to make sure that doesn't happen."

"You mean those same nightmare monsters you used against me?" Percy asked with a raised eyebrow.

Morpheus paused for a moment before replying, "when I summon them they are under my control, but Hypnos doesn't posses the came control. He will likely release them wild on the battlefield."

"Great, just great. So how many monsters are we talking here?" Percy asked.

"How many people are there in the world?" came the gods reply.

"And Hypnos sent himself there? Is he crazy?!" Rob exclaimed.

"Yes, and desperate. It was quick thinking going after him Percy. He can't hold the portal for long, especially with Kronos being the one coming through, maybe...not, anyway one good thing came out of this, we have time. Hypnos sealed himself in that realm, but you can be sure he going to come back here, so we have some time until that happens."

"How long?" Percy asked.

"Three, maybe four hours?" Morpheus guessed.

"Could you send us in there?" Percy asked, "we have him on the run, send just a few of us in there and we can defeat Hypnos and close the portal."

"No, I can't."

"Why not? Aren't you the master of this realm?!" Rob yelled angrily.

"I can open get you there, but if I do so then all those monsters will be released. Hypnos' magic is different, he can travel freely, but my duty is not to open breaches, but close them. So I would have to force it open, which could cause permanent damage to the fabric of the dream world."

"Then it's time to leave," Jason argued, "let's go right now, wake everyone up and just leave this realm."

"No, we can't," Rob shot back, "this place is too important to lose."

"Rob's right Jason." Percy sighed, "imagine if Kronos could torture us via dreams? We wouldn't' be able to sleep. Like it or not...we have no choice. This place has become the first battle between us and the Titans. We need to stand here and fight."

The others looked at each other horrified. They shared worried looks, Percy couldn't blame them, after all he did just basically tell them they had to fight Kronos himself.

"So what do we do now?" Thalia asked the question everyone was dreading to have answered. They all looked too scared to say it, so Percy knew he had to do it himself.

"We fight," he spoke up turning to the other gathered demigods, "I know this isn't ideal, and this probably wasn't what you all wanted to happen. But we have no choice, we need to stand our ground here and now, because if we fail here we will not be safe from the Titan's even in our sleep!"

The demigods looked at each other and murmured. Percy opened his status and clicked on his title changing it to 'Leader';

Leader- allows the user to control his troops easily giving a +10 to all stats for all subordinates.

Percy cleared his throat, "I said, are you with me?!"

The demigods yelled, "aye!"

"Good, get ready for round two everyone, we have some time to prepare, but not much. You," Percy pointed at an Apollo camper he vaguely remembered. He looked at his name, "Bart, get a few others and make record of everyone who was injured or in critical condition, I'll heal them all as soon as I can, got that?"

Bart nodded, "yes sir!" He quickly moved getting help from other greek demigods along the way to survey their army.

Percy then turned to Morpheus, "we need more demigods. Since Hypnos is out of the way can you revive all the demigods you put to sleep?"

Morpheus nodded, "yes, I can do that."

"Good, do it," Percy turned to his close friends, "I'll go around and gather everyone Morpheus releases and I'll bring them back here. But there are going to be a lot of people here, especially from the Roman side since I'm assuming Morpheus put their entire city to sleep," Percy turned to the god who nodded, "right, then when I bring them back you guys determine whether they can fight with us or not."

He turned to Julia and Rob, "do you think you guys can convince those who have retired to come out of retirement?"

Julia and Rob shared a look. They whispered to each other in rapid sentences of Latin before July nodded, "yes, we'll try. We'll remind them of their duty to Rome, but I cannot promise you they will stay and fight with us."

"That's fine, even a few warriors will be enough. Julia I'll leave you in charge of that. Rob, I'll leave you in charge of getting the fighters ready, you're the general, get them to line up and ready for anything."

Rob nodded, "right Percy."

"Got it," Julia replied.

Percy then turned to Thalia, "are you okay?"

The girl rolled her eyes, "this really isn't the time to be worrying about your girlfriend Mr. Jackson."

"Yeah but that won't stop me from worrying," Percy said with a smirk.

"I'm fine, I recovered my mana easily enough," Thalia shrugged, "I should be good."

"Right, then you and Jason get those who can use their divine mana and make up your own squad. I want you to focus on attackers got that? Find a Demetre kid? Use them for defense, but find an child of Hephaestus that can control fire? Use him to burn yourself a path."

Thalia nodded, "find the magic users, bring them together. Any reason?"

"You and Jason are both children of the prophecy, Kronos will most likely try and target you first. Oh, that reminds me, if you find Bianca and Nico in here somewhere get them too. So when Kronos does attack I want you and the others to make him regret it."

Thalia smirked, "you got it fish face."

Percy smiled before turning to Morpheus, "we need weapons."

"I don't have any," Morpheus replied, "nor can I summon much."

Percy cursed, "we can't have an army without weapons. I armed these people with the few I have and the few lucky ones that happened to fall asleep with their weapons on hand. We need weapons."

"This is the worst part of being stuck in a dream world," Rob grumbled.

"Wait, what about using the world itself?" Julia suggested. Everyone looked confused so she continued, "this world, this world is real right? I mean sort of. Percy, can you use that tactile telekinetic thing to-"

"-To make it into a weapon!" Percy completed grinning. He turned to Morpheus, "can I do that?"

"This world is a part of me, so I suppose with my permission you can," Morpheus shrugged.

"Good," Percy dropped down and placed both hands on the ground. He closed his eyes and activated his tactile telekinesis, and suddenly the world shifted out from underneath him.

Percy found himself looking at the world from a third person point of view. He saw the entire world covered with vertical and horizontal lines, like a blanket of mass. He quickly realised this was one of the upgrades CHAOS must have given him and got to work.

Suddenly the tunnel started to rumble, everyone got alert, thinking it was Kronos coming back for round 2. But just then the are of the tunnel before them started to shake, as a field of swords came bursting out of the ground handle first. They were dyed purple, similar to the colour of the tunnel, the swords were formed out of the tunnel floor and when they were fully completed the collapsed on the ground ringing out loudly.

Percy opened his eyes and got up, he wiped the sweat on his brow and stood up looking at the sea of blades before them. He sighed, "I should probably also make some shields huh?"

The others turned to him with open mouth. Only Thalia seemed unfazed as she nodded adding, "maybe also a couple of spears?"

Olympus:

In the throne room of Olympus the entire Olympian council stood present with the minor gods standing before Zeus, all twelve looking nervous.

"So let me get this straight," Zeus grumbled, "you twelve created your own council of gods and worked in opposition to us?!"

"No Lord Zeus, we did not," Eunomia, the leader of the minor gods responded quietly, "we formed the council because we needed each other's help. You 12 weren't bothered about us, or our children. We have no choice or say in the affairs of our own lives, we needed to at least be able to talk to each other."

"Why? So in order to conspire against us?!" Zeus roared.

"We didn't mean to-"

"And now because of you our children are in danger!" Zeus roared, "every single demigod child of ours is trapped in their sleep thanks to you people! Tell me why I shouldn't just destroy you right here and now?!"

"Because it's not just your children," Eirene's calming voice cut through Zeus' rampage. The goddess of peace sighed, "all our children are in danger, but not from Morpheus."

"Then who?" Athena asked with narrowed eyes.

"We sent Percy in after Morpheus," Triton spoke up, "we took him to Hypnos to get him into the dream world, but Hypnos betrayed us. He betrayed all of us, he's now on the Titan's side."

"You sent Percy into the dream world? Alone?!" Poseidon roared, "Triton I know you don't care for him, but he is your brother!"

"Which is exactly why I trusted him to do this father," Triton meet Poseidon's eyes, "I believe in him, he said he would bring them back and he will. I know it."

"Then why hasn't he?" Ares asked scoffing, "I mean if you have such faith in your champion why come to us at all?"

"Because we believe Hypnos and Kronos are about to invade the Dream world," Iris spoke up, "and even Percy won't be able to face them all."

"If Kronos is invading the dream world first then was can follow," Athena informed them all, "the ancient rules allow it."

"Yes but how?" Hermes grumbled, "we need a god of sleep to get into the dream world. And last I checked we only have two, one went rogue and the other switched sides. So how do we help out the kids?"

"I can help with that," Hecate said stepping into the light, "I have been working on a spell to send people into the dreamworld every since Morpheus started talking about betraying Olympus."

"Ah-ha!" Zeus exclaimed.

"Oh do shut up dear," Hera scrolled making the king of Gods grumble.

"Anyway, the spell hasn't been perfected, I can't send people into the dreamworld, but I can send things," Hecate smiled, "including mana."

"So what are you suggesting?" Poseidon asked curiously, "that we send a portion of our powers through your portal and hope it reaches the demigods?"

"Yes, that is the only card available to us right now so I suggest we take it," Eunomia nodded.

"You come here and tell us that you created your own council behind our backs. And then you tell us one of your own went mad and imprisoned out children in their own bodies, and now you're telling us to send our powers into a portal?" Zeus growled, "how do we know this isn't some sort of trick? That you and Morpheus have planned this all along, force us to feed you our power?"

"For the love of all that is good Zeus! We don't have time for this!" Iris hissed, "I swear on the Styx we don't have any other intention than to help save our children!"

The sky flashed with lighting as thunder rumbled through the throne room. The gods looked at each other before turning to Zeus who looked displeased.

Sighing Poseidon got up and shrunk down standing before Hecate, "what do I need to do?"

"Poseidon! Stop this at once!" Zeus yelled.

"No brother, I will not," Poseidon dismissed the God looking at Hecate, "can I send my blessings as well? Or just items?"

"You can send mana, spells, anything you want," Hecate nodded.

"Then maybe you should send this," Triton spoke up as he summoned the Pegasus staff bringing it before the Olympians who gasped as it glowed sea green in the presence of Poseidon.

"Triton! Where did you find this?!" Poseidon asked as he transformed into his roman form. His beard looked more haggard, more unruly and violent. He touched the staff and smiled, "still so beautiful."

"Percy found it father," Triton informed him.

"Of course he did," Ares grumbled in the back.

"He intended on using it in the dreamworld, but when Hypnos betrayed us I needed something to defend ourselves, so I had to take it from his grasp."

"That boy, never stops surprising me," Poseidon chuckled. He took the staff, it's green light exploded brightly dyeing the entire throne room in sea green, he turned to Hecate, "can I send him this?"

"Yes lord Poseidon," the goddess of magic nodded.

"Good, then prepare your spell quickly. It's best we don't waste time."

"Poseidon what are you doing?!" Zeus cried out, "as your king I order you stop this at once!"

"And as you subject brother I respectfully decline," Poseidon spat, "this is our children we are talking about Zeus! Not just Percy! Thalia...Jason, they are stuck there as well. And you hesitate to help?!"

"Poseidon-"

"Enough!" Poseidon snapped, "I will hear no more, I have made up my mind."

"As have I," Athena spoke as she got up and summoned a large text book into her hands, "Hecate, I will send this as my gift. Can you insure it ends up in the hands of Annabeth and no one else?"

"Yes Lady Athena," Hecate bowed.

"This is out right rebellion!" Zeus cried out.

"I'm sorry father, but they are right," Apollo said as he summoned a single arrow, "we aren't going to sit back and just watch. Our children need our help."

Slowly one by one the Olympians stepped down from their chairs and brought forth a gift for their children. Ares has a box while Aphrodite seemed to have something similar. They didn't mention what it was, only that it was important.

Zeus' face grew redder and redder as more Olympians got down, until it was only he and Hera sitting on their thrones. "Is that how this is?! Fine! Damn you all to Hades then!" he summoned his master bolt with one hand and raised it high. The other Olympians got ready to defend themselves when Hera cried out.

"Stop!" she said standing before her husband.

"Move aside woman! I'll end this rebellion before it begins!" Zeus growled, his eyes red with rage.

"No Zeus, I will no," Hera stood firm, "you are being unreasonable Zeus. Listen to yourself. You would rather have your children die than swallow your pride and accept the help from the minor Gods?"

"Do you not see what they have done Hera?! Their stupid council is the reason we are in this mess in the first place! They did this!"

"And they are trying to fix it! Are we so free of sin we can hold such a high ground over them? Are we so perfect? No, we are not. We aren't what the mortal see us, perfect in every way. We are flawed Zeus, you are flawed, as am I. If we were mortal we would be punished in the fields of torture when we died. But, out of everything we have ever accomplished, out of everything we have ever done, these demigods...they just might be the one good thing in this world that we have to be proud off. Not our strength or our wealth. It's out children Zeus...remember that."

Zeus started into Hera's eyes, into the eyes of a goddess that had no demigod children to call her own, and yet stood up in defence of them. She was the goddess of family, and so she fought for her family.

Zeus' anger settled down, he dismissed his master bolt and got off his chair. He snapped his fingers and summoned the Roman Eagle. It shined in a golden light before the gods, mixing with the green from Neptune's own staff.

Zeus shifted into Jupiter, looking more proper, more brave. He turned to Hecate, "what do I have to do?"

Dreamworld:

After Percy made another set of shields and spears for the demigod army he set about healing everyone that got injured. Luckily no one had died, the titan army had their plates full with Percy and their servants to do any real damage to the demigods. And even when a demigod got hit another would just come up and take their place, protecting them from further harm.

Percy walked up to Morpheus and gave him the signal to wake up all the demigods he had trapped inside his realm. Suddenly pods among pods over them started to burst open spitting people out.

Percy had to run all over this world gathering the people by hand. There were a few familiar faces in the crowd, but he didn't really have time to stop and chat. Percy picked up a couple of college aged kids, a few full grown adults and even old grandpas.

But the weird part was the children. Some Percy realised was Roman, but the other...well they didn't look or feel roman to him. Why? Because they had a greek godly parent listed over their title. And what's more Percy didn't recognize them at all. They weren't from camp, so who were they?

Percy however didn't comment on this, focused on just bringing them all to the ever growing army of demigods, intent on letting Julia and her people work on sorting the demigod's out.

But while Percy ran and did his job he couldn't help thinking, Morpheus said he brought every single demigod in the world into this place, so did that mean these kids were from other parts of the world?

Percy knew now that other religions were real, but none of the kids belong to another patheon, they were all Greek, so did that mean they were all unclaimed? If so they this was a great opportunity, he needed to know where these kids lived in real life and bring them to camp asap!

As Percy dropped off his 200th or so demigod Morpheus called for him, "Percy, you can stop now."

"What? Why?" Percy asked, "there's still a lot of people to go."

"Yes, I know, let me help you."

"What? How?"

"Before I was using my mana to force all the demigods into a slumber, but now that they are free. There is less stress on my and I regained a significant portion of my powers. Let me help."

Percy agreed, and with a simple snap of his fingers Morpheus brought every single demigod out there right before them. Percy smiled first, he didn't have to do work, but the groaned realising just how many demigods there were.

"The Gods seriously have to learn how to use a condom," Percy groaned as he walked up to Julia's team that were slowly processing people, "we just got a huge shipment of demigods. You guys are going to need help."

"What are you talking about?" Julia asked, Percy pointed behind her causing the daughter of Venus to turn and pause. She sighed, "fucking greek."

"Hey don't blame me, Morpheus was the one who did this!"

Julia growled, everyone looked confused and everything was just a disorganized mess. And she did not like that, not one bit. "These are too many people. We address them all one by one. We won't be ready for Kronos by this rate, even with three hours time to prepare."

"Do you have any ideas?" Percy asked.

"You still good at giving loud speeches?" Julia suggested.

Percy grinned, "got it." He walked up to the gathered demigods, still confused as to what was going on, and took off into the sky. He cleared his throat, "may I have your attention please." Everyone were murmuring, looking around confused and dazed. Percy rolled his eyes, "OYE! LOOK HERE!"

Everyone stopped muttering and looked up. A few gasped seeing a person floating in the middle of the air, and even fewer looked like they recognized him.

"Alright, I'm going to make this real simple, anyone who knows what a demigod is please raise your hand!"

The people looked surprised, while a few confused. A majority of them raised their hand making Percy sigh in relief.

"Good, that's good. Now listen, to those who know what a demigod is, we are currently stuck in the realm of Morpheus! That's the god of dreams!"

"You mean Somnus?!" a roman demigod from the crowd asked.

"Ah," he looked down at Julia who shrugged, "I think so? Look that's not important! The fact is we are trapped here! Do you understand?!"

"I'm sorry what?" a young girl near the front asked, "what are you talking about."

"Did you raise your hand first?" Percy asked.

"Ah, no."

"Right, well just wait, we'll explain it to you later, but for now, everyone who does know everything about gods and Olympus listen up! We are trapped in this world and right now Kronos, or Saturn if you prefer is coming for us! We need to fighting him off here and now! "

They all exploded into whispers and hushed tones, fear clouding their minds as panic began to set in.

"What?!"

"We need to get out of here!" People began panicking. They started looking around hurriedly for ways to leave, finding none.

"Listen!" Percy's voice rang out, "I know you're scared, I know you just want to run away and hide. But we don't have that luxury! We are demigods, children of the gods themselves and if we run now we will suffer for it in the long run! Kronos will come after us, if we fal here then he obtains the land of dreams and we won't be safe, even in our sleep! We have no choice! We must stay and fight!"

"Who the hell are you to tell us what to do?!" a blonde demigod yelled out, "you're not even Roman!" The others, who were looking calmed down before, now started agreeing with the blonde idiot, crying out in protest.

Percy looked down with narrowed eyes, he activated his 8.0 eyesight perk and focused on the haggler. Percy would have said he was surprised when he found out the haggler was none other than Octavian, but that would be a lie.

"Octavian, I may not be Roman," Percy growled, "but I'm your only chance at leaving this place alive. You are a Roman, and yet you act like a coward. Making excuses to run away rather than fight. If you are such a fool than no matter, we will send you away with the old and young!"

Octavian blushed, as the people that supported him looked down in shame. Percy turned to the people at large, "we have two hours to prepare for the biggest battle of out lives. Romans report to Praetor Rob for your assignment! Greek demigods meet Thalia Grace the daughter of Zeus! Retired legionaries and children meet Julia! And those who have no freaking clue what's going on stay right where you are!"

Slowly everyone started to move, as the people filtered away. Percy landed before the remaining people and scanned all their faces memorising them. Soon the others left, leaving only those who had no idea what they were. Percy sighed, it was going to be a long day.

"Alright listen up, I'll make this simple, I'm assuming all of you can't fit in, you don't have the best listening skills and when you read it's like words try and mess with you, always changing. You're probably also ADHD, probably called a troublemaker in school, and you probably feel alone in the world."

The group's eyes grew wider and wider as Percy listed down all the characteristics of demigods. They were speechless as Percy continued.

"There is a reason for this, you're special, more special than you can ever know," Percy turned to the army of demigods gathered, "everyone single person here is like you, special in their own way. We were all called troublemakers, we were all called disobedient. And the reason for this, is because we are all the children of Gods."

"Wait what?!" a boy called out from inside the crowd, "what do you mean children of god?!"

"I mean one of your parents was a god," Percy looked through the crowd of faces and spotted the boy who spoke up;

Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus

Lv- 9

"Your name is Leo right?" Percy asked, a small picture of his own dog popped up in the back of his head, but he quickly dismissed it.

"Ah...yeah, how did you know that?" Leo asked shocked.

"It's one of my powers," Percy replied, "I know the names and parents of demigods, your name is Leo Valdez, and you're the son of Hephaestus. The god of fire and smithery."

"Say what now?!" the guy asked looking partly scared at the answer.

"Are you good with machines?"

"Ah, yeah."

"Do you often invent new things on the fly?"

"Yes but-"

"Are you horrible at interacting with people?"

Leo blinked, "have you been reading my diary?"

Percy chuckled, "no, believe me Leo but I haven't. You're a son of Hephaestus, you are similar to your brothers and sisters"

"This is the worst dream ever," muttered a girl to Percy left. She had brown skin and black hair with a feather for a ear ring on one ear. She and Leo were the only older kids there, the rest all being younger than ten or so. Percy looked up at her name;

Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite

Lv- 7

"I assure you Piper, this isn't a dream," Percy smiled.

The girl looked up, her jaw open, "how-how did you know my name?!"

"I told you, I know all the names of demigod's as well as their parents," Percy sighed, "your mother is the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite."

"What?!" Piper asked looking even more shocked.

"It's true, every one of you here has a father or mother that was a god," Percy looked around the people before him, "each and every one of you has the power to change the world as we know it, and you are not alone."

"Mr.? Do you know who's my mommy?" a small child around the age of seven looked up at Percy. She had blonde locks and was holding a teddy bear closely like it was her lifeline.

Diana Prince, daughter of Athena

Lv- 2

Percy smiled as he kneeled before the girl, "your name's Diana right?" The girl nodded meekly. "Well Diana, your mother's name is Athena, she's the goddess of wisdom. I'm sure people say you're very smart all the time right?"

"Yes," she said softly.

"Well that's because your mommy was a very smart lady!" Percy said with a grin.

"What about you?" a ten year old boy asked, son of Ares, "are you one of us too?"

Percy nodded as he stood up and took out Waverider. He turned it into a trident and planted it into the ground, "I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon."

"Woah," Leo's eyes sparkled at Percy's weapon, "so cool!"

Percy grinned, "yeah, I know. Now, I just have a few more things before we send you all back home."

"Wait what?!" Leo squeaked, "you can't do that! I just got here!"

"I wish we could talk longer Leo, but we don't have time. Kronos is coming, and you all are not ready to face him."

"I'm sorry, but whose Kronos?" Piper asked.

"He's the greek version of the devil," Percy grumbled, "and technically our grandfather."

"Woah," the Ares kid said, perfectly summing up everything perfectly.

"But before you all go you must remember one thing, this is not a dream, understand?" Percy looked at all the kids particularly, "this is real. We are all real. And we are waiting for you. When you wake up don't do anything, to say anything, we'll come for you. Understand?"

The kids looked worried, but slowly nodded. Percy turned to Morpheus and called the God over. One by one Percy and Morpheus sent them away. Percy would pick the child and ask them their address, after memorising it he would have Morpheus send them away by waking them up in the real world.

It took some time, but it was done. Percy and Morpheus then walked up to Julia, who had by now arranged all of the people, putting the ones into the army with Rob, or putting them aside to be sent back him.

"So how many people decided to stay?" Percy asked.

"Most of the college aged students stayed," Julia smiled at that, "including a few older members of the society, luckily though they are still in top fighting form. The elders and young children are obviously not fighting, including certain couples with kids, as they probably don't want to die and leave their child orphaned."

"Alright, so how many demigods do you think we have?"

"Well let's see," Julia calculated in her mind, "we have all the roman legionaries accounted for. That makes a total of 200 Romans, well 202 if you include me and Rob. that plus around another 240 retired romans at college age and adulthood. We have around 442 people on the roman side."

Percy nodded, "right, and last I check we had around 140 greek campers or something. Which makes the grand total at around 582. Not much I know, but believe me when I say they are strong enough to fight back hard."

"We should have enough," Julia nodded turning to Morpheus, "how many monsters can Hypnos summon?"

"Around 10,000 is his limit, any more than that and this realm would break down and him along with it," the god of dreams supplied.

"So we have to assume we are going to face 10,000 of those upgraded monsters along with Kronos himself," Julia grumbled.

"We have around 600 demigods," Percy shrugged, "we'll be fine. Plus I'll be using my servants to provide back up in case you all need it, by the way Morpheus, can I summon Cerberus from the underworld here?"

The god of dream shock his head, "no, you can't."

"Damn, that would have been a boon on our side," Percy cursed, "no matter. Julia you and Morpheus get to sending the remaining demigods back home, I'll speak to Rob and finalise a fighting strategy."

"Got it," Julia nodded as she and Percy went their separate ways. Morpheus watched as Percy vanished in a blur of speed into the army of demigods appearing before Rob. "You coming Morpheus?" Julia called back.

"Yes," the god followed the Praetor. As they walked through Morpheus began to speak, "tell me Praetor Julia, why are you so comfortable taking orders from a Greek?"

Julia looked over her shoulder, "what do you mean?"

"Don't romans usually stay away from greeks? Distrust them? What makes Percy Jackson so special that you would obey his every command without question?"

"Because it isn't a command," Julia responded, "or at least I don't see it that way."

"What do you mean?"

"I may not be a child of Minerva, but I do have a brain. And if I was in Percy's shoes I would be making the exact same calls he's making. It isn't orders as much as guidance."

"I see...and if it was an order?"

Julia stopped and turned around. She narrowed her eyes, "what do you want Morpheus?"

"I want to understand," the god replied, "I have seen your nightmares Julia Roberts, you fear losing yourself to camp, you don't fear death, you fear life. You don't see a reason for yourself to live past being a Praetor, and that scares you. Your loyalty to Rome is unquestioned, and yet, here you are, obeying a greek demigod."

"I don't see him like that," Julia responded, "he isn't just a greek to me. He's a friend. He's...he's the only one who can stop Saturn. Not the Roman army, not me or Rob, not even Thalia. And in our hearts we all know it. Percy Jackson is the one who will save us, and for that I will follow him into the depths of Hades itself. He's making like better for all of us, he even brought those pills that mask our scent, did you know that it really works? For the first time we have a chance at a better future. And it's all thanks to that man there."

Morpheus remained silent, Julia continued walking leaving the God behind. They eventually got to work sending those who didn't wish to fight away, but all the while Morpheus had something else on his mind. He was distracted, and he didn't understand why.

Percy had finished talking to Rob, the romans had their alligments ready making everyone line up based on their cohorts. After making sure that was taken care off Percy ran up to Thalia who had all the greek demigods around her.

"Alright sweetie, please give me some news," Percy said as he appeared by her side.

Thala smiled, "well-"

"-Percy?!" a familiar voice called out. Percy looked amongst the crowd and spotted Annabeth running towards him.

"Annabeth!" Percy called out as he hugged the child of wisdom, "oh my God it's so good to see you!" After Percy had discovered the mark of Kronos Athena had gathered her smartest children and took them away in order to create a team to research the mark. As such Percy hadn't seen Annabeth in real life for a long, long time.

"How have you all been?" Annabeth asked as he hugged Thalia next.

"Fine, fine," Thalia smirked, "what about you? We hardly ever seen you these days!"

"I'm good, lot's of work and all that," Annabeth grumbled.

"Still no lead on what the marks are?" Percy asked.

"No, still no leads," Annabeth sighed regretfully.

"It's fine," Percy sighed, "we need to focus on this for now anyway." Percy looked around and spotted Ed waving at him. Percy blinked, "Ed? What are you...oh yeah, demigod, I forgot."

The son of Hermes smirked, "thanks for that kiddo, and here I was thinking I made an impression on you."

Percy smiled, "right. So what are you doing here exactly?"

"What do you mean? You said it yourself, I have to stand and fight!" Ed struck a mocking pos making everyone laugh.

Percy grinned, "you sure you won't pull a muscle old man?"

"Oh that's mean kiddo. And no, I won't, don't worry," he grumbled. They were about to continue when suddenly;

"Percy!" the small voice of Nico called out as the son of Hades run up the demigod hugging him hard, "yes! We've been looking for you everywhere!"

"Hey Nico, what's up little man?" Percy asked with a grin as he hugged Nico back. He looked over his shoulder and found Percy Decker and Bianca following behind Nico, rolling their eyes at Nico's antics.

"We need to talk to you, right now!" Nico said breaking the hug, stepping back to be with his sister.

"What do you need to talk about?" Percy turned to Bianca turning serious, "what happened?"

"It's about Hermes squad," Bianca began, "we were following a pretty good lead about Kronos' army when we got sucked in here. But the thing is where the lead said the army would be found. Percy...Kronos' base made his base at mount Tamalpais, their very close to San Francisco."

Percy cursed, "how the Hades did they make it so close without the Romans noticing?"

"Maybe someone helped them?" Annabeth suggested.

"A mole in the Roman army?" Percy asked with wide open eyes, "that doesn't seem possible. Those guys are loyal to a fault, borderline fanatics."

"Either way we need to warn them, and soon," Bianca spoke, "from what we learned, they are planning on invading camp Jupiter soon."

"As if we don't have enough on our plates," Percy growled, "okay, we'll deal with this later, after we get out of here. For now keep quiet about this Bianca, and tell everyone else in the Hermes squad to do the same. We don't want people to start panicking, not now."

"Right," Bianca agreed.

Percy turned to Thalia, "so do we have everyone here?"

"Yeah, and then some."

Percy blinked, "what do you mean?"

"Well," Thalia pointed to a couple standing away from the greek demigods, they were speaking in hushed tones, but Percy immediately recognized one of them.

Percy smiled, "I'll be right back. Does everyone here remember their squad?"

"Yes sir!" the greek demigods cheered, some laughing as Percy rolled his eyes at the 'respect' they should him.

After meeting the Romans the Greeks decided they needed to be more effective. Hence they decided to make themselves into squads of ten, each member specialising in one branch of military, be it attack, support or defense.

The Ares kids were obviously had attack squads while the Apollo kids were support squads, sniping with arrows from a distance while healing any injured. There were a total of 14 squads in the camp, and each had been training all summer to work together.

"All right then, every get into your squads and report to Rob, that big muscular Roman guy. He'll put you all to work!" Percy turned to Thalia, "think you can handle them?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Go, you haven't spoken to him in a long time."

Percy nodded, he gave her a parting kiss and walked towards the demigod. He smiled as he walked up to the man, "John! I haven't seen you in a long time!"

John, the son of Poseidon and man out of time, looked around, and smiled. "Percy!" the two half-brothers gave each other a strong hug. Percy broke it and stepped back, he looked over Jon and smiled, the older son of Poseidon looked well, he wore a red hoodie and a black shirt underneath. He had black jeans on and a scarf tied around his forehead like a bandana.

"I haven't seen you for months! Where have you been?!" Percy asked.

"Father sent me on a quest Percy," John explained, "he realised that I wasn't exactly...fitting in at camp. So he suggested thought it would be best that I go out and see the world."

"So what did he ask you to do?" Percy asked in surprise.

"He sent me to find this," John reached under his shirt and pulled out a medallion. It was a strange design, it looked like a moth with it's wings closed around a big blue stone in the middle, "he said it was important, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is."

Percy narrowed his eyes and observed the strange amulet;

Amulet of Mothera,

An amulet that stores the monster known as Mothera. It is known to be a monster of epic power that is rumored in legends as being able to topple mountains with a bat of it's wings.

Mana needed to summon- 50,000

Percy whistled, "damn, where did you find that?"

"In an underwater cave in the middle of a lake," John supplied with a grin.

"Do you know what it is?" the woman standing besides Jon asked. Percy looked at her, she was tall, almost taller than Percy himself. She looked around twenty with red hair and green eyes, she did not look nice. If anything she looked annoyed. She wore a red red tracksuit and carried a baseball bat in hand. Percy looked at her name;

Artemis Todd, daughter of Apollo

Lv- 18

Percy blinked, "you're kind of old to be a demigod huh?"

Artemis blinked in surprise, "how did," she grew angry, grabbing her bat, "how did you know?!"

Percy raised an eyebrow and turned to John, "kind of violent isn't she?"

John chuckled, "she's a redhead, what did you expect."

"Oye! Watch it old man!" Artemis growled before she turned back to Percy, "and how did you know I was a demigod?"

Percy shrugged, "didn't John tell you? It's one of my powers. I can tell someone's parent just by looking at them."

"Artemis, this is my little brother Percy, he was the one I was telling you about," John explained, "Percy Artemis is...well she really is a special case. The lake this medallion was in had a small town living next to it. This medallion had some kind of charm that prevented monsters from entering the town, so Artemis was safe from them, she grew up like a normal person."

"That is until you came and removed the stupid thing," Artemis growled.

John sighed, "even if I hadn't you would have had to eventually leave your town, and the moment you had you would have been dead meat. I saved you Artemis, whether you want to admit it or not."

The girl clicked her teeth before turning to Percy. "So, you know what that stupid thing is or what?"

Percy sighed, "it's a storage box for a monster. It's similar to my gem," Percy revealed the charm over the stone he had imbedded inside his skull displaying the blue gem to Artemis and John, the former gasping in surprise, "it is storing a monster inside of it called Mothera or something. Apparently you can use this thing to summon said monster. But unfortunately it takes an immense amount of mana to use the thing."

"I see," John looked at the amulet and sighed, "can you use it?"

"No, it's too much, even for me. Plus putting a new weapon so far into the battle isn't a good idea, especially one that we have absolutely no idea about."

"So we are really going to do this then?" John asked putting the amulet away, "fight Kronos?"

Percy grinned, "yup, you in for another war soldier?"

John laughed, "so does that mean you're my commanding officer?"

Percy shrugged, "whatever works," Percy then turned to Artemis, "do you know whose child you are?"

Artemis blinked, "I ah...no."

"Apollo," Percy answer, "you're the daughter of the sun god."

Artemis looked surprised, as if realisation finally dawned on her. She looked at John who just smiled, nodding his head, "makes sense," the soldier said, "there was no other way you got that good with a gun so quickly if your dad wasn't the god of archery."

"John, archery isn't the same as shooting a gun," Percy rolled his eyes.

"What? Of course it is! Point and press, same concept!"

"No man, believe me, it isn't, I've used both," Percy chuckled, "so if she's a better shot than you then it means you just suck at using a gun, Mr. Navy."

John grumbled, "I hate having a brother."

Percy smirked, he turned to Artemis, "if you want, I can introduce you to him after we're done here." Artemis looked surprised at that. Percy then turned to John, "where exactly have you been though? I mean yeah the amulet probably took some time to get, but why haven't you come back to camp?"

"It's a long story," John grumbled, "we were planning on coming back, but on the way we sort of ran into another son of Poseidon."

Percy's eyes went wide, "what?! Another one?!"

"Yes, but he isn't a demigod, he's a cyclops," John explained, "his name's Tyson, and a very nice fellow. You would like him Percy, he's sort of a giant baby."

"So...what happened?"

"Well when we met him Tyson was sort of running for his life from another tribe of cyclops and then from there we heard rumours about a monster running lose in Chicago, so we thought we would check it out."

"Turned out to be a mistake," Artemis grumbled, "all we got out of it was a couple of wanted posters and a stupid wise cracking pegasus."

"Haha right, we call him Black Jack, he's a good horse," John grinned, "saved him from a couple of smugglers while in Chicago, and like Artemis said we got caught up by the police, basically branded as outlaws and now we can't enter the city without being chased by cops."

Percy blinked, "woah, okay I swear John after this is done we're so going to have a long talk."

John agreed. Percy wished them good luck, telling the two to report to Thalia to find their place in the ranks. With that done Percy began searching through the entire army, making sure everyone knew what to do and where to be.

Soon they were closing the three hour mark, only half an hour to go. Percy stopped at the front of the gathered army and meet Rob, Julia and Thalia.

"Are we ready?" Percy asked.

"Ready as we'll ever be," Rob sighed, "I just wished we had more time to prepare."

"We deal with the cards given to us Rob," Julia stated, "and so far we are ready as we can ever be."

Percy sighed, "we could sure use some devine help right about now. I mean, shouldn't they have noticed something's wrong with us by now?"

"We can't rely on the Gods," Thalia rolled her eyes, "they probably don't have anyway to get here anyway."

"Yeah, but even so, I just wish they could find a way to help us somehow," Percy grumbled.

Ping!

Your wish has been granted!

Percy blinked, 'oh you have got to be kidding me!' He opened his skill list and there it was;

Wish- Make one wish a week. 40% chance of success, less the more ridicules the wish is. (Used. Waiting time 6 days and counting.)

Percy rolled his eyes dismissing the box, just as a giant white portal tore open above the demigod army.

"What is that?!"

"Are the titans attacking?!"

They all scrambled to get ready, Rob ordering the troops to ready themselves for anything.

"Morpheus is it Hypnos?!" Thali asked.

"Relax Thalia," Percy said with a casual wave, "it's the cavalry."

"What?"

Out of the portal twelve balls of light came flying out, each a unique colour. Percy spotted his father' sea green hue, and Zeus' electric yellow. The balls of light came flying down, each moving to a particular area.

Poseidon's ball stopped in front of Percy, it slowly took the form of the Pegasus staff, glowing brightly. Percy grinned as he grabbed the staff, feeling it's power, his father's power, wash over him;

Ping!

You have obtained a Godly weapon you can connect with!

+1000% HP

+1000% MP

Perfect water control

Summon any amount of water

Absolute control over the sea

Cleaning Polluted sources of water

Earthquake creation

Percy grinned twirling it around, "thank dad."

Zeus' orb stopped in front of Rob, which was surprising. But the reason was revealed as it slowly took on the form of the Golden Eagle of Roman. The sight of the Eagle instantly made every Roman there feel twenty times stronger, their symbol had arrived, and with it, they couldn't lose.

A red orb, presumably Ares' orb, took the form of a box that exploded, transforming into a heap of swords and other weaponry. Then a pink orb, Aphrodite's, came up, took the form of a box, and exploded sending out rays of light to every demigod there. The pink light covered them whole, dawning everyone there without armour with a set of their own.

Percy didn't get one, and the few romans who had their own set, like Rob and Julia, didn't either. But everyone else had their own armour.

Then an orb glowing like the sun descended, it condensed into the form of an arrow, clearly one of Apollo's toys, and landed in the hands of Michael, who looked at it in awe.

A green and purple orb came down together, mixing well. They then exploded outwards sending seeds of green and purple light into the very ground of the dreamworld. For a moment nothing happened, and then the ground began to rumble as plants started exploding outwards.

The entire tunnel was covered with flora, Percy noticed wine creepers, thorny bushes and a few other deadly looking plants. They were gifts from Dionysus and Demeter!

A fiery red ball came flying down like a heavy ball of lead, crashing into the ground behind the army. The ball then began cooling down, sitting in place, before a blue delta symbol appeared on the surface. Percy didn't know what it was, but judging by the looks on the Hephaestus kids' face they did.

A grey ball then came down and floated over the demigod army. It slowly started to disintegrate into dust that touched the heads of everyone there, making them glow grey. And when the grey dust touched Percy's he got a notification;

Ping!

You have got a new blessing!

Speed of Hermes!

Temporary boost in speed! 20% more faster!

Time limit- 24 hours!

Percy grinned, this was awesome! Guess he was wrong, the Gods really do care!

And it wasn't over. Next came a blue and green ball, similar to the tail feather of a peacock, making Percy believe it was Hera's ball. Surprisingly Hera's ball floated down and landed in front of Thalia's open arms. The daughter of Zeus just as surprised as everyone else when the ball started to open up, revealing a bracelet in the form on a peacock.

Percy narrowed his eyes and observed it;

Hera's charm,

This charm acts as a last line of defence, if the wearer is attacked it automatically explodes, harmless to the wearer, but destroying everything else around them.

This charm has been locked to be used against only Kronos

"Thalia, where it now," Percy called out, "it's very powerful a last line of defense against Kronos. It explodes, taking everything around it with it, don't worry though, it won't' harm you."

Thalia looked suspicious, "you sure?"

"I'm sure," Percy nodded, "trust me."

Thalia looked at Percy and sighed. She slipped on the charm and grumbled, "I swear if this things blows me up you're the one who's going to have a single armed girl friend."

"You would still be hot sweetie," Percy grinned, "plus I can always say, 'would you like a hand?' would never get boring!"

Thalia rolled her eyes and just then another orb came down, this one was grey and purple and it landed directly in front of Annabeth's open arms. It took the form of a book, which the daughter of Athena grabbed and looked over, her eyes widening all the while.

Percy was about to ask Annabeth what she was looking at when the final orb came floating down. It was silver, glowing like the moon itself, this one belonged to Artemis, Percy just knew it. It floated down towards him of all people and grew bigger.

And then it popped open revealing a giant black and grey dog that brought a smile to Percy's face. "Leo!" Percy cried out as he charged at the dog.

"Master!" Leo cried back as it tackled Percy to the ground licking his face with it's extra large tongue.

Percy chuckled, "stop it boy that tickles!" he laughed as Leo got off him. He stood up and scratched the dog behind the ears smiling, 'thanks Arty,' he thought, the goddess really knew exactly what he needed.

Percy turned around to the army. Everyone was busy checking out their new armour, some had already replaced the makeshift weapons Percy made for them with the new weapons pile Ares had provided. Percy felt just a little hurt, but meh, can't win them all.

He scratched Leo behind the ears, "you ready for a fight?"

"Born ready!" Leo barked.

"Good, stand with Marcia Leo, you and her will work together, understood?" Percy asked.

"Got it!" Leo barked as he shadow traveled to Marica's side. The demon looked curious but said nothing, choosing instead to node at Leo before turning to face front.

Percy looked to Morpheus, "how long before they arrive?"

"Twenty minutes," Morpheus answered. Percy grumbled, it was time.

"Alright everyone listen up!" Percy took off into the air, allowing everyone to see him as he floated in the middle of the air, "the Gods haven't given up on us yet! They sent us these gifts for us to use! Everyone grab a weapon, but keep the ones I made with you, just in case. Micheal, come up front, you too Annabeth! And will a child of Vulcan or Hephaestus please tell me what that thing is?!" Percy pointed at Hephaestus' gift.

Michael and Annabeth quickly ran forward, while Charles Beckendorf walked right behind him. They reached front of the army just as Percy floated back down.

"What's the arrow for Michael?" Percy asked.

"It's a bomb," Michael stated looking at the glowing red arrow, "it has my dad's power in it, meaning we can use it to blow shit up!"

Percy frowned, "how strong is it?"

"I think it can level a building if used the right way."

"Then we save it. Keep it ready for Kronos, chances are I'm the one who's going to face him, so if you see a shot, take it. Understand?"

Michael nodded. Percy then turned to Annabeth with her eyes on the book, "what is it?" he asked.

"It's a spell," she grumbled, "or something. It has the power to turn the tide of the battle, but she refuses to say what exactly it will do! She just says 'you will know when the time comes' whatever the Hades that mean!"

Annabeth growled in frustration, Percy couldn't help but smile, she was always the same. "Look Annabeth we don't have time to this now...keep to book in hand, trust Athena's words, if she says we'll know when to use it then we will."

Annabeth gave a heavy sigh and nodded, walking back to her squad. Percy then walked towards Charles who was already checking the heavy sphere out, along with a few other children of Hephaestus.

"What is it?" Percy asked them.

"It's a construction orb," Charles responded, "dad put in some kind of machine, when activated it can transform into said machine."

"Huh, cool. Turn it on then."

"You might want to stand back," charles said as he waved everyone away. Percy nodded and got everyone else to back away as well.. Charles pressed the glowing blue delta symbol and walked away. The ball began to wobble from side to side, before it started vibrating. And then it suddenly exploded into a storm of mechanical parts.

The orb exploded outwards and took the form of a giant metal tank. It had two large barrel cannons in the front and several machine guns attached to the sides. It had four surface to ground missiles attached to the back along with fog lights in the front.

Everyone had their jaws dropped in awe, while Percy could only do one thing. "We got a freaking tank!" he yelled throwing his hands up, "this is so fucking cool! We got a tank!"

Percy grabbed Charles and shook him violently, "please tell me you know how to drive the thing! Please!"

"I think so. Please stop shaking me," Charles replied in his usual monotone voice.

Percy did so, but he still couldn't stop grinning, "this is so freaking cool!" Charles and the others quickly got into the tanks and started operating it. They learnt the controls pretty quickly.

The demigod army now stood with newly made armour and weapons. The tunnel was only big enough for two cohort to stand side by side, and so they did with the rest standing behind them. In the middle of the massive army was the tank, TANK!, and near the back were the healers.

The greek attack squads stood towards the left flank, while the support squads stood behind the first cohort on the right. Percy had summoned his own servants and made them stand with the demigods, Timmy and Alecto were air support, with Marcia and Zed near the sides. Craig stood besides Percy and Rob near the front. Thalia and Julia were near the tank, Percy knew it would be the safest place for her, plus she would kill anything that even came near the tank. TANK!

Percy looked at the gathered demigods and sighed, he had a feeling this still wasn't going to be enough. He had way of evening up the score...but he knew he wasn't going to like it. People would free him, they would be weary of him and the Gods...they would be scared of him.

But he had no choice. He owed these people that much to try his hardest and not let hold anything back. CHAOS…CHAOS and Fate had put such a great burden on him, such a heavy one, Percy was smart enough to know he couldn't bare it all alone. He knew that if he tried he would fail.

And so, he wouldn't. He would need their support, but more importantly he would need them alive. And so he will do anything needed to ensure they lived.

Percy poured mana into the gem in his head and closed his eyes. He found himself in the grey well of souls of all the monsters he had killed in the last 24 hours.

It was filled with the upgraded animals, almost entirely by them. They snarled their fangs at him, but did nothing to approach because Percy had not chosen them. Percy kept going deeper and deeper into the well of souls and there, near the bottom, was a figure covered with ghostly grey flames. Percy chose him, and the gem began glowing.

Grey smoke started pouring out of Percy's gem, the others looked on curious as to what would come out and gasped as the figure materialised.

"My master," Hyperion bowed.

"Rise," Percy spoke clearly, "you will not harm any demigod you see, in fact you will be ready to give your life to protect them if need be. Do you understand?"

Hyperion growled, "yes...master."

"Good. You will be part of the front line. Here," Percy created a great sword for the Titan from the floor below and tossed it to him, "this is your weapon now."

Hyperion held it with his left hand growling as he spotted Rob carrying his flaming blade. He didn't say a word to the roman, instead turning to Percy and bowing, "master."

The people began to talk, Percy knew he just became a threat in their eyes. A demigod controlling a Titan? The world was going bonkers! But Percy wasn't done. He still had one more secret to reveal, after all it was like they said, in for a penny in for a pound, or something like that.

Percy's gem glowed again and another gigantic figure stepped out. This one did make people gasp in horror as Alcyoneus stood tall and whole once more. Even Thalia was startled, Percy had told her about this monster, but seeing and knowing were too different thing.

Alcyoneus bowed, "my master."

"We are about to face Kronos in battle, are you ready?" Percy asked.

"Always," Alcyoneus growled as he smirked a bloodthirsty smile.

"Stand with Hyperion, not biting," Percy instructed as the Giant did just that.

"Asshole," Hyperion spat.

"Kiss ass," Alcyoneus spat back.

"Enough," Percy snapped. He turned from the giant and titan to the greater demigod army. He could see their looks of horror and quite fear. He could see it, and he hated it. But he knew it had to be done.

Percy cleared his throat, "I know what you all saw must be afraid right now...afraid of Kronos, afraid of the army he brings to face us and now...afraid of me."

The people were silent, all eyes on him.

"The world we live in right now...it's in danger. The Titans threaten to destroy it, to destroy our world. Our homes...our family. The Olympians, if they were here would tell us to fight for them, to fight so that the Gods may triumph over the Titans once more. And a few hours ago, I would have agreed with them. But not anymore."

There were whispers breaking out as they all spoke in hushed tones to each other. "The world is bigger than just us," Percy continued, "we are but a blip in history. The Gods have been here forever, and will probably outlive us all. So when you ask who we fight for, I respond with this. We don't fight for them, not for the immortals that may or may not understand what it means to be human, nor do we fight for the humans who label us misfits and shun us from their world. We fight...for ourselves. I fight for you, for the only people I ever felt comfortable around. For my family.

"I know it might seem farfetched, after all most of you don't even know me. But just wait, because you shall. My name is Percy Jackson, and I am the son of Poseidon. Ever since I was born I felt alone, it was only when I met you all did I feel complete. It was only when I saw what burdens demigods held on their shoulders did I know a sense of duty and it was only when I watched my friend's fall before me did I know the necessity of action.

"I'm not here fighting for the humans or the gods," Percy turned to Morpheus, "I was wrong Morpheus, humans and demigods are not the same. We are different. But, that does not mean I will abandon them, nor will I fight for them. Kronos is coming after us, he's coming for our heads and I'll be damned if I let him put us down without giving him a fight first!"

"Aye!" the army cheered, their cries loud enough to startle Morpheus himself. They cheered louder and louder forcing Percy to scream louder.

"I won't let those I care about die! I won't stand by as Kronos takes what is mine! I will not die a coward! I am a demigod! I will fight on my feet and die on them! We are demigods! We are a force of nature itself! Olympus will be defended tonight! Humanity will be defended tonight! When Kronos comes he will not face children! He will face warriors! Enough to overpower any army he brings forth! Each of us is worth a hundred of them! And they will learn to fear us! For this day will be the day we fight the monsters that have haunted us all our lives, and spit in the face of the devil himself!"

The crowd cheered so loud near the end Percy couldn't hear himself talk.

Ping!

Your speech has successfully motivated your army!

20% boost in morale!

Ping! Ping! Ping!

Your skill has leveled up three times!

Motivational speaking, Lv- 4/10 (89%)

Motivates other people around you.

45% chance of working provided the person isn't depressed or suffering from any other negative status effects.

Percy opened his perk list and looked through them searching for the one he was looking for;

Wolf pack- + 5% increase in all stats, attacks and skills for every person that fight's by your side.

It was Percy's most powerful perk which he had obtained during his trials for the emotional spectrum. He had rarely had times when he needed to use it, never really had problems fighting off bigger and badder enemies. If anything his problem had always been the exact opposite.

But now, now it was time.

Percy clicked on the perk activating it, he closed his eyes and slowly an aura of blue energy flowed through his body. It feed on the very air around him, feeding of the raw emotions that the demigod's in front of him gave off. His eyes glowed pure cobalt blue as the perk activated;

Ping!

You have currently 590 people fighting by your side!

Bonus of 2,950% boost in all stats, skills and attacks!

Percy's eyes widened at the boost in power, and suddenly the emotions he absorbed flew into him, feeding into his core. He flinched repeatedly as the power flew into his body.

Rob looked worried, but stayed his ground as slowly Percy recovered. He turned away from the army and raised his gauntlet high into the air yelling, out, "tsunami!"

The gauntlet burst into motion surrounding him with his now iconic black armour with his cape fluttering out behind him.

Ping!

+20% MP

+10% HP

+70% Elvish magic

+5 Dex

+2 Str

+3 Vit

+2 levels for water, ice, shadow and earthquake control

Percy reached into his pocket and drew out waverider transforming it into its sword form while he held the pegasus staff with his left hand.

BOOM!

The tunnel shock. Percy turned to Morpheus who nodded, "they are coming. 10,000 strong. And Hypnos and Morpheus."

"Alright then," Percy raised his blade, "get ready!"

"Legion! At arms!" Rob cried out causing every legion to lock their shields and lower their center of gravity.

"Camp half-blood get ready!" Thalia cried out, the squads obeyed, looking ready to move at any second.

The army turned as one to face the end of the tunnel. The shakes kept coming and coming, increasing in frequency. Percy could see cracks in the walls of the tunnel around a 100 feet away. He narrowed his eyes, so that's where they were coming from.

"The army will appear there!" Percy yelled pointing at the cracks, "archers will send the first volley of arrows! Michael, remember the plan! Do not engage until they come within 40 feet of you! Romans you have your orders! Greeks! Don't die!"

"Sir yes sir!" they yelled back.

BOOM! BOOM!

The walls broke off piece by piece. Percy turned to Morpheus, the god was holding his shoulder, ichor was dripping down his sides, after all this realm was a part of his body.

"Ready!" Percy called out.

CRACK!

The wall broke open revealing a dark train tunnel like passage. Percy used his 8.0 vision and focused his vision. He saw something shimmering in the darkness, silhouettes of figures wearing metal armour charging towards them.

"Draw!" Percy called out, the archers knocked their arrows.

"GRAA!" the first few animals came charging out of the tunnel in droves, a disorganized mess as they charged in a swarm rather than in lines.

"Aim!"

They were slowly gaining ground, a few of the faster ones, like cheetahs, were really coming up fast.

"Fire at will!" Percy cried out as he charged forward meeting the lead of the titan army, the charging cheetah. The cheetah had a dagger held between it's teeth and a sword on each paw. It tried to cut at Percy's face, but the demigod moved faster, faster than he had ever gone before. His movements felt effortless as he swung his blade cleaving the cheetah's head right off.

The twinge of a hundred bowstrings was heard as the archers let their arrows loose. The titan army were covered with the shadows of arrows coming down on top of them. They didn't even have time to hide when the arrows pierced their bodies turning them into corpses.

More and more monsters came running through the gate, but were just as quickly pulled down by arrows.

Percy stood at the 50 feet mark and raised the pegasus staff, "you shall not pass!" he slammed it down summoning forth a tsunami of water that he directed with his powers to pour directly into the tunnel the came out off.

Percy held the staff tightly creating more and more water to manipulate. Percy kept the blast of water going, blocking the entrance, not allowing a single enemy to come forward.

But just as it looked like that would be a problem, there was another crack opening, and this one opened up in the middle of the air growing larger and larger.

"Their coming!" Morpheus yelled out as he held his bleeding arm in pain.

"Who?!" Percy asked.

"The monsters," the god growled in pain.

"GRAAA!" it sounded horrifying. Like nails on a chalkboard as out of the shadowy portal a long serpent like figure flew out, wings popped out of it's back, shadows covered its body. Nothing of it could be seen, except it's cold yellow eyes.

And riding on it's back was Hypnos. He looked down at Percy, "prepare to die Jackson!"

Percy scoffed, "why do they always say that? Charles! Fire!"

"Hah! It's no use! No arrow can-"

BOOM!

A shell came flying out of their tank hitting the shadow dragon right in the head causing it to burst into flesh and bones. Hypnos hanged on to dear life as the dragon came flying down, crashing into the ground as it rolled over trapping Hypnos under it.

The God tried to move the dragon away, but it's body proved to be to heavy. Percy stepped over its corpse and looked down at Hypnos with a smile, "yeah, that's right. We have a tank."

"That won't save you Jackson!" Hypnos yelled.

"Yeah, sure it won't," Percy readied his blade to cut off the god's head when suddenly the world shock once more. And this time, the entire world shook. It was strong enough to get everyone off balance for a second as Percy missed his strike.

"If I was you, I would worry more about him than me," Hypnos growled looking down the hall.

The two holes created before were gone. Sealed up. But a new one was taking it's place, and it was bigger than before. The cracks spread to both corners of the tunnel and a pval rift opened itself up.

"Behold Jackson, the monsters you so feared," Hypnos spat out as slowly more and more of those shadow beasts came out.

Some were in the form of monstrous animals. Some in the form of people, doctors with knives, clowns with big teeth and one shadow in the form of an old woman.

Percy groaned, "god dammit, not this again. Fucking nightmare monsters."

"Centurions! Ready!" Rob called out, the romans locked their shields as the oncoming swarm of monsters got closer. A few of the shadows attacked the titan soldiers instead, eating them up for dinner, but a majority of them focused on the larger meal before them instead.

"Don't let them touch you!" Percy yelled out as he walked to stand besides Rob, "they can bypass your armours! Cut them down before they get the chance to touch you!"

"Yes sir!"

Percy turned to Rob, "I'm drench them, you fry them."

"Got it," Rob nodded.

Percy slammed the Pegasus staff down hard summoning another tsunami wave of water pushing the front line of monsters away. The ones behind them fell down, while the others simply walked over them, crushing them to death in the stamped. The entire battleground was wet, their charging splashing the water everywhere.

Percy turned to Rob, "now."

"Twelfth legion fulminata!" Rob cried out, the eagle glowed golden yellow as sparks started exploding out lashing before full blown lighting bolts came flying out and into the enemy's ranks. Several monsters got destroyed instantly, the shadow's particularly looked weak against lightning. And those who survived or dodged the lightning was instantly shocked thanks to a little something called conductivity.

The shadows cried in horror as they were electrocuted. The animals died instantly, their bodies being used as stepping stones as the rest of them charged forward regardless.

"All right here they come!" Percy cried back to the army, who are no doubt ready for the monsters.

They roared as they charged, a giant Gorilla at their head. Percy ran forward first, the gorilla jumped up to attack from above while Percy simply used his mind to grab hold of his form and use him to beat a rather bored looking sloth to death.

The demigod continued his charge into the middle of the approaching army, grinning. This was the heat of battle, and this was where he felt most alive.

He dived right into the middle of the battle, monster fell to each swing of his blade. He even used the staff as a baton using it to beat the living shit out of them, one time even knocking the monster across the tunnel and back into the black crack in space.

The demigod army engaged with the army, crushing them with their co-ordinated attack. The monsters were united, barely better than a swarm of people on black friday. They were slain down the moment they got too close.

The archers kept firing their arrows, each finding their mark putting a monster down.

Rob drew his flaming blade and struck fast and hard. He was surrounded with his own protection detail, each backing him up at every turn.

Hyperion and Alcyoneus however had no co-ordination, they didn't plan anything out, they just attacked. They tore through the monsters quickly, though the swarm was many the combined strength of a titan and a giant was no match for them at all.

Percy grinned, it looked like they were going to win this with next to no effort at all. But just as he thought that the battle field changed.

Out of the crack in space came a being everyone in that realm feared to some extent. His full body was now on display having successfully crossed over into this realm.

He stood at ten feet tall with skin like bronze. His body was tightly packed with muscles powerful enough to damage steel. The only insult to his beautiful physique was his right arm and left leg that were horrible grey limbs reminiscent of Polyphemus, the cyclops.

Kronos wore a toga around his hips, died blood red and his half of the golden fleece around his neck as a cape ending at his shoulders. His right arm was covered with armor with plaits wrapped around his shin as well.

Strapped to his chest was a great sword, big as him and as wide as his torso. Kronos reached around and grabbed onto the handle, drawing it out of its sheath, the metal sliding through the leather of the sheath rang through the battlefield, making everyone stop and turn. Watching Kronos release his mighty sword.

The sword itself was unique, half metal and half celestial bronze, an unholy mix of the two metals. He raised the blade and spoke, "and now, it ends."

His brought it down like a club.

KABOOM!

The ground shattered, the entire tunnel floor came flying up, everyone was thrown up in the air, the tank was itself jumped a feet off the ground. And the dream world itself shook in fear, the Titan of evil had arrived on the battlefield.

Alright, there it is, another chapter. Enjoy. Next time will feature the actual battle, all fighting so don't worry, this is a set up for that. In fact it's a set up for a lot of things to come. People will die, because honestly there are too many characters for me to remember.