Chapter 49: Chiron needs my help for serious matters

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' Percy POV '

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Thalia parked the suncar, sunbus? (What would you call a car, that's originally a chariot, that's actual a sun but also a school bus that is the car?) on the bottom of the canoe lake and Apollo sighted, "Well, guess it needed a wash anyway."

The bus slowly raised to the surface and I could feel that the Naiads in the water were not that happy with having a personal sun inside their lake.

The bus slowly made its way over to the beach and melted a few canoes along the way.

Around the lake a small group of campers were eying the bus with suspicion, Chiron in centaur form stood in front of the car and looked worried, like he thought, who's idea was it to park a sun inside my lake.

We leaped out of the bus and landed on shore, Thalia puked down on the beach while Nyx and Nico grinned.

"That was so cool!" Nico exclaimed.

"Never again." Grover muttered, which I agreed on.

The hunters took out their stuff and walked straight past the campers and Chiron.

Chiron scowled at me.

"The hunters, they are here." I announced which made me feel kind of dumb since everyone could see the hunters arrived.

Apollo got out of the bus and one of the campers, Micheal, leaped forward.

"Dad!"

Apollo waved sheepishly, "Hey Michael. You grew quite a while since I last saw you." then he scratched his head like he tried to remember, or see, something.

"Apollo." Chiron coughed and Apollo looked up, "Hey Chiron, sorry for the mess."

He pointed at the lake, "but don't worry, we had it all under control."

Thalia had stopped puking and nodded.

"Totally." she agreed.

Apollo clapped his hands and the sun bus turned back into a spider, he slammed the door open and took place behind the steer. "Well, I better get going, got a sun to drive."

The car roared and he glanced at me, "And Percy, don't worry about the horrible winter that's coming."

Before I could ask what he was talking about he headed off towards the sky where the car slowly turned into a ray of light and then completely dissolved.

"Horrible winter?" I mumbled.

'Don't worry, it will be fine.' Chaos reassured me, 'You got me.'

"So Percy, how did the mission go? Where is Annabeth?" Chiron asked.

I looked down, suddenly really interested in my shoes, "She's captured by a Manticore."

"But we have a new demigod!" Nyx called out, Thalia glared at her but Nyx didn't notice it. She pulled up Nico's right arm.

"Here we have Nico Di Angelo, the son of Hades." she exclaimed proudly.

One of the campers, Beckendorf, coughed, "Sorry I must have misheard you, did you just say the son of Hades?"

Nico nodded, "Yep! My father is death."

'And so is your mother.' Hemera whispered.

I figured that Hemera, for an unknown reason, hated Nico and decided not to tell Nico what the primordial said.

Nyx came to the same conclusion and she just ignored her daughter.

Then a symbol, the helmet of darkness, appeared above Nico's head.

The campers gasped.

When it faded Chiron bowed and all the other campers followed. I winked at Nico and bowed too.

"Hades," said Chiron "God of the Underworld. Hail, Nico Di Angelo, Son of Hades."

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So this is the new kid? The death breath?" Meg asked unimpressed, the name was catching on.

I was announcing the capture the flag game and was right now visiting the Demeter Cabin. Thalia was trying to convince Dionysus to let her go on a quest, but I already knew Dionysus wouldn't budge. Nyx was explaining Chiron about the hunters and Nico's past at the Lotus Hotel so I decided to take Nico for a tour through camp.

Since it was winter not a lot of campers were at camp, only the ones who had no place to go, or the ones for who the outside world was to dangerous.

In Meg's case it was both.

Nico jumped up, "Yup!"

"We are having a Capture the flag game with the hunters tomorrow." I said.

Meg sighed, "Another one, yay!"

"Come on, you can use your twin blades," I said trying to cheer her up. Meg was having a hard time controlling plants and doing other Demeter stuff which I thought was kind of weird, on the other hand, she still young.

"You have twin blades?" Nico asked with awe.

"It are Siccae blades, you want to fight me?"

"Sure." Nico said.

I sighed, then the Shadows in the doorstep solidified into Nyx.

"Boo!" she yelled.

Meg turned around and punched her in the arm.

Nyx punched back.

Meg punched back.

Before it would become an endless punching game I decided to call out a truce and asked Nyx how the conversation went.

"Well, he can sleep in the Hades cabin if he wants too. By the way, don't try to wake up Thera. It's useless." Nyx said.

I frowned and she explained, "Something about lazy in the winter, I tried an ice bucket but it did not work."

"Where'd you get an ice bucket?" I asked, genuinely confused.

She rolled her eyes, "you don't get the point, besides Percy, we need to train." She added.

"Why?"

"You got your ass kicked by that girl at the Cliff, you really need to step up your game." She said.

"He got his ass kicked?" Meg asked interestedly.

"Yes he did." Nico nodded.

"Hey!" I protested, "I held back!"

"So did she." Nyx laughed, but she had a good point. The fight against Despina proved I still had a lot to learn.

"After I finished announcing the capture the flag game," I said.

"Nico and I'll do that." Meg said and she grabbed Nico by the shoulder, "Come Nico, I'll show you the other cabins." and they headed off towards the Khione cabin.

I silently prayed Clarisse would not give Nico the toilet treatment I received the first time until I realized that she was now on a mission through the labyrinth.

Nyx tapped my shoulder and we shadow traveled to the Training arena where we found Thalia piercing straw dummies with her spear.

"Oh, what did those poor straw dummies do to you?" Nyx teased.

Thalia looked up from her straw dummies, which she sat on with the head between her knees and the spear aimed at its chest. She glared at Nyx with her skyblue eyes.

"Training." she said all though I had the idea she wanted to say something else.

"O." Nyx said then studied the straw dummy, "You know, you should hold the spear, not at the end. It's kind of inefficient."

Thalia got up and stepped closer to Nyx, "So you know how to do it better?"

It was a rhetorical question but Nyx happily shook her head, "yes, although I do not wield a spear myself."

"Then why did you not used that knowledge when we were fighting the Manticore!" she asked angrily and I heard her spear crackling.

"Thalia…" I said but Nyx cut me off, "I did but you would have dodged the Manticore. If you did that Annabeth would not leaped onto its back and fall down a cliff."

Thalia's anger got the better of her, "I'm tired of you your bitch. I'm going to remove that smile from your face!"

Nyx yawned.

More sparks began to sparkle around her spear but the Fates were with us, or better with Thalia, because a voice behind us interrupted.

"Percy, Thalia and Nyx."

We all turned around and saw Chiron

Thalia dropped her spear in embarrassment and Nyx made the daggers, I didn't even see appear in her hand, dissolve into Shadows.

"Hey, Chiron," Thalia muttered, looking down at her feet.

"It's not what it looks like," Nyx said.

Chiron shook his head then turned towards me, "Percy, I need your help."

He said with such dramatic tension in his voice that I half expected that the camp would be overrun by monsters this evening.

"What's it?" I asked.

His expression darkened. "Percy, I need you to win this capture the flag game. The hunters had won to many times and I want Camp Half-blood to win for one time."

I grinned.

"Baked or fried?" I asked.

I spend the entire day hanging around at camp, trying to come up with the perfect strategy, at dinner I was so distracted I didn't even noticed that Nyx had managed permission for Nico to sit on our table.

Not that the rules meant anything to Nyx.

I felt that night terribly tired and went to bed early which was a mistake.

Of course I had demigods dreams, but to be honest this one was the worst one yet.

Still, the entire dream did not take more than 4 seconds.

I was looking from a small distance at the statue of liberty, I was not standing on anything and I could feel the wind rushing past me.

Then I felt a sudden jerk at my guts and I fell down, all the way to the bottom of the ocean but instead of breathing underwater like always I was gasping for air but instead my lungs filled themselves with water. I tried to reach out for the surface but I was to far away.

I could still see the statue of liberty from below the surface but there was something wrong with it.

It was burning.

The face was molten away, the green fire had spread all over the statue and melting it away, till it collapsed in on itself.

With a gasp, I woke up, and I immediately made a small flame in my hand for some light. I was still in my own cabin, in my own bed. But something had changed.

On my blanket lay a letter, the one I had put away in my backpack and not taken out since.

Playtime's over,

Prepare to die.

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A/N Don't we all love cliffies?See you guys whenever I can!

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Powers Percy has.

(Chaos)

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-Mist control, with Chaos's help he can control the mist perfectly.

-Cured from Dyslexia, Chaos's presence inside him cures him from it.

-Immunity to most mind influencing effects, The lotus Casino had no grip on Percy due to Chaos presence.

-Perfect control over all the powers he got or being able to gain full control.

-Being able to learn things that he original couldn't.

-Chaos can take control of Percy and use her power to full extend.

-Perfect language understanding, if Chaos and Percy want it he can understand all the language's

-Creator's speak, The fact that Percy is the champion of Chaos will make monsters/gods instinctively more afraid or helpful towards Percy however, this effect is minimal but strengthened if Chaos takes control or combat avatar is activated.

-Combat avatar, A holographic version of Chaos appears and can attack along with Percy

(more powers are locked by Chaos herself and only unlocked by blessings, Chaos allowing it, or Chaos taking control.

-Fate control, Percy is free from the powers of the Fates

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(Poseidon)

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(Water control)

-Healing, he can heal most wounds and cure most poisons when in contact with water.

-Water breathing, breath underwater.

-Water propulsion, Percy can shoot water, not only from being in water, but he can blast the own water he creates and pour water from the air.

-Water solidification, he can make water so hard it's almost a barrier. Like when he grabbed Luke and threw him in the water.

-Ship control, when on a ship he can immediately control it.

-Calling up storms.

-He can bend any kind of liquid, blood, poison, rivers of the underworld.

-talk to horses, Like blackjack.

-Talk to sea creatures, like monsters or fish.

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(ice)

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-Create weapons, limited to Frostsilver for the moment.

-General creating things of ice, like walls

-Immunity to cold, like in the Jotunheim sea.

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(Hestia)

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-summon food and Cola, yeah cola.

-Bond manipulation, Percy finds it easier to connect with other people and monsters, also part of the Creator's speak.

-Ambrosia, Percy can summon small amounts of ambrosia.

-Pyrokinesis, full control over fire.

-Greek fire, even better,

-soulfire, don't use it at all cost.

-Immune to heat, Fire and Lava don't hurt Percy.

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(Demeter)

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-Chlorokinesis, Percy can generally control plants.

-Plantspeak, Percy can talk to plants and feel their intentions, higher beings like Anna can communicate better then simple plants.

-Camouflage, Percy can hide himself between plants and trees.

-Plant teleportation, Percy can teleport using plants, but not more than a few meters, this power is currently really weak.

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-Mind shadowing, No one can read his mind unless he wants it to. Same for his feelings and future.

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