Chapter 13

                                    

                                          

Hazel POV
-----as soon as they appeared in the throne room-----
I looked around and saw the whole council, Hades on a guest throne, and all the remaining campers staring at us with either amusement, confusion, hate, or no emotion.
"You all look awful," Dionysus drawled, and Ares laughed his butt off. "They look, hahaha, they look, hahaha, they look awful!" he barely managed to say between his laughing fit. "Yes, yes," Zeus said, "Demigods, we require your help."  
Percy stared him down and said, "Do you really think we will help you after you cast us into that hell hole for 100 years?!" "Hades sat forward on his guest throne, "Yes, yes, we do." 
Nico glared at him, "Father, why in the name of all of the gods would we help you?" 
Athena looked at Percy and said, "We need your assistance fighting the giants and titans. When we banished you, the Titans and their allies controlled us; we had no control over our actions. We are sorry."
Annabeth looked at Zeus and said, "We will need you to do something before we help you." Apollo tilted his head and asked, "And what is that?" 
She looked at him and said, "We need you to swear on the Styx not to attack us unless we attack you directly. First, you need to tell us what is happening in depth. We want you to never lie to us again, and we need you to release us from these chains."
Zeus said, "All in favor of accepting their terms?" Poseidon, Dionysus, Apollo, Hera, Demeter, and Hephaestus raised their hands.
 "All opposed?" Aphrodite, Ares, and Zeus raised their hands. The rest abstained. "We, the council, swear on the river Styx to abide by your terms," he said as he waved his hand, and the chains disappeared. 
"We are preparing to fight the Titans, and the giants and the primordials said they want us dead. We have a prophecy, too. Apollo, if you would?" Hera said. 
"Yes, it goes, The fallen and betrayed shall rise again, death and destruction shall begin, furry unleashed the prince shall die, unless saved by the ones who fly, with the help of the fallen and titans, the gods shall be frightened," Apollo said.
Annabeth spoke, "Well, that first part probably means the Titans, and we will rise again. The second part is obvious, with death and destruction and all that but the prince dying. I don't know, but the ones who fly probably refer to Zeus's kids, Thalia and Jason. The fallen probably refers to the primordials. And titans are again obvious for titans, which means when the two combine forces, it will be terrifying." She half speculated, half bluffed.
Poseidon spoke up, his voice shaky, "The prince dying probably refers to my son Triton, but it appears it is too late for him to be saved." "What do you mean, father?" Percy asked, feigning ignorance. Zeus looked at him, "Yes, what do you mean? Do you have information you have been hiding?"
Poseidon choked out, "Atlantis was attacked, and a man and a woman killed everyone, including my wife and son. I believe they were Pontus and his wife. Pontus had a grudge against me for some reason." 
Zeus painedly looked at his brother and said, "It is okay, brother. We will find them and avenge your people and family."
"Did anything else happen?" Thalia asked. "Yes," Artemis said. "Both camps were attacked, as well as the hunt and the amazons. Both the amazons and the hunt were wiped out, and this," she said, gesturing to the campers, "is all that's left of the campers."
Ares said, "Oh? Your man-hating bit-" Hades interrupted, "As much as we'd all like to see you two fight, now really is not the time."
I said, "Lord Zeus, can we freshen up somewhere? We haven't had a real shower in 100 years, and we haven't had real food in the same amount of time." 
Zeus waved dismissively and said, "You will be staying at camp half blood-" Protest erupted from the campers until Zeus glared at them, and they shut up.
"As I was saying, you will be staying at Camp Half-Blood until after the war. After that, you will go wherever," he said vaguely so that he had wiggle room if we tried to argue he lied to us. 
He then waved his hand, flashing us all to camp half-blood. Chiron trotted up to us and said, "Hello, heroes. The Romans are encamped on the west side, and they built you all a temporary shelter on the east side of the camp as the second seven took your places in your cabins."
"The second seven?" Leo asked. "Yes," Chiron said, unimpressed, "there are seven other demigods who, for lack of better words, replaced you all."
 We all gained a look of fury before we regained control of ourselves, and Jason spoke, "We will find our way to the cabin on our own, Chiron; you may go back to your business," Chiron nodded. We all started walking, holding hands with our significant other.
Chiron saw the five couples and immediately recognized it, and he trotted off to teach his archery lessons for the day. Frank led us along, using his power over Earth to know precisely where we needed to go.
 As we entered, I said, "Well, this is pathetic." I looked at Frank and said, "Little help?" and together, we used our powers and magic to link the place to the palace in Tartarus. "Well," Percy said, looking at me and Frank, "Can you go just outside where the barrier should be to open a path from the monster base in the pit to the surface? Nico escort them and bring the dark to them so nobody sees." 
We nodded, and the three of us left to open a path. As we exited, I noticed a lack of a slight chill down my spine, and I asked, "So you got rid of the barrier last time you were here?" Frank nodded and said, "We should work on what we should be doing."
We started to work using our powers to make a magic tunnel straight to the main gate of the monster camp. After we finished, I messaged the leaders, saying, "You attack soon; we will let you know when to." I received a lot of "Yes ma'am"s and "Yes my lady"s. We all headed back to our cabin, and Frank and I went to our room for a little 'exercise,' we went to sleep after.