Void's Palace.
"What if they don't accept us?" Alex logically questioned. "I mean come on, Delia! We are Voids commander's."
Aliana bit her lip as she looked at the rest of Voids commander's who sat around her in her room which they were in.
Delia and Alex have been having this conversation for the last half an hour. But none of commanders were sure about their decisions. Especially not the arguing two.
Delia shook her head. "Alex, you do have a point, but we met the commanders. Well most of them," she said. "They seemed okay with us once they got to know our names."
Aliana kept quiet. She knew that Alex and Delia were really worried about this, as the two of them barely argued against each other.
Kira sighed. "Okay, you two, stop it." She looked at everyone around her. "We need to answer the main question. Which is; should we, or should we not?"
Aliana spoke for the first time since the start of the conversation, "Well as you guys all know, I know Cedmi."
They all looked at her and waited for her to continue. They had to make a decision.
Aliana shook her head. "If Cedmi thinks we are all worthy of becoming Chaos's commanders, then Chaos will definitely let us."
The others all looked between each other with furrowed eyebrows and confused frowns on their faces. They were all extremely confused and wary.
"How are you so sure?" Sten Warl asked, Voids seventh commander. "I mean, Aliana, I don't understand."
Aliana sighed. "If there is one thing I know is that Chaos trusts Cedmi. If Cedmi agrees on something then Chaos will probably agree as well. Unless it puts Cedmi in danger."
Kira frowned. "Why does Chaos trust him so much?" she asked. "I don't mean to be rude, but I'm confused."
Aliana shook her head. "Chaos trusts Cedmi, because he knows that Cedmi will not let him down and at the end of the day Cedmi will make the right decision."
Ruby instantly raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure, Aliana?" she questioned.
Aliana nodded at that. "I know Cedmi. And once you get to know him you will understand what I mean."
Alex sighed after a second. "Well, there is only one way for us to do that." They all looked at him. "We talk to him."
"Yes, Alex," Kira praised him sarcastically. "All we have to do is walk into the camp they're staying at and get caught. Brilliant plan."
Alex immediately frowned at her in slight annoyance on his face. He opened his mouth to say something but was caught off.
"That's exactly what we're going to do." They all looked at Aliana who spoke with wide eyes. "But, without the getting caught part."
"Are you crazy, Aliana?" Trent asked, the fourth commander. "This is suicide."
Aliana shook her head. "Trust me," she told them all. "Cedmi will talk to us." At least she majorly hoped so.
Delia sighed. "Aliana we trust you, but how exactly are you so sure he will talk to us?"
Aliana smiled slightly at that. "Because, I'll ask him to," she said.
* * *
Camp Half-Blood. - a couple of hours later...
"Do you guys really think that the primordials will get involved?" Bianca asked with a wary expression of her face.
The Chaos commanders all sat in the living room of their cabin as they discussed how badly the war could really turn out to be.
Percy nodded. "I'm sure of it." He sighed. "At least we know partly which primordials are on our side."
They all nodded and peaceful silence filled the room as they all kind of relaxed.
Adrien raised an eyebrow. "Did you really though slam you hand on the ping-pong table twice in order for the Olympians to be quiet?"
Percy groaned at the memory of the meeting and slumped back in his space on the couch while his friends chuckled.
That's when the conch horn was blown three times and Percy sighed. "Well, we better go and see what it is this time or who it is," he said.
The rest all nodded and quickly put their cloaks on and the hoods up. They walked out of the cabin, and up the Camp Half-Blood hill to see their problem.
When they walked in front of all of the campers and the Olympians, they were met with a sight they didn't really expect.
Aliana stood in front of the commanders, the demigods and the Olympians with her cloak on and the hood up as she steeled her nerves.
Cedmi quietly sighed as he knew something was up. He stepped forward while everyone behind him watched him.
"Aliana, what brings you here?" he asked. His voice was calm, just like he was. He admitted that this was a shock though.
Aliana swallowed and spoke, "I was hoping we could talk."
The Olympians all looked between each other with shocked looks. They all then turned towards Voids first commander.
"Are you here about the war business?" Athena questioned almost instantly as she looked at the girl sceptically.
Aliana looked at Cedmi and nodded. "Kind of," she said. "And I want to talk to you about it." She kept looking at Cedmi as she nodded to him. "Alone if possible?"
Cedmi was majorly confused. He had no idea why Aliana would want to speak to him alone about this.
Koster walked up to him and grabbed his arm. "Cedmi, you can't agree to this, it could be a trap," he whispered.
Aliana looked at Koster as he whispered something to Cedmi and she steeled her nerves once again. She really hoped that Cedmi would talk to her.
Cedmi shook his head. "It doesn't feel like it." He looked at Koster. "I trust my gut. You're in charge while I'm gone. I'll be back before the campfire."
Koster sighed and nodded. He looked back at Alicia who shook her head signalling that she doesn't agree with this.
Cedmi nodded to Aliana. "Alright, I'll talk with you," he told her and Aliana instantly nodded in thanks and relief.
Poseidon came forward and stood next to Cedmi. "With all due respect commander, but are you sure?" he whispered.
Cedmi nodded, not even looking up at his ex-father. "I'll be fine. I know Aliana. If something goes wrong I'll deal with it."
Poseidon nodded after a few seconds in understanding and also worry. He had come quite like the commander.
Cedmi nodded to Koster one last time and then to Alicia who sighed and nodded back before he went up to Aliana. He quickly put his hand on her shoulder and the two of them dissolved into mist.
Koster looked at the place Cedmi disappeared at with concern and anxiety.
He once again was left in charge. He had no idea how Cedmi can do this all of the time and he actually admired him for it.
Poseidon on the other hand looked at the place where Cedmi had disappeared with a bit of shock. He doesn't know many people who can mist travel. And his children can do it if they are powerful enough...
Poseidon walked away unnoticed by anyone towards the beach, lost in his own thoughts.
Koster turned, looking at everyone. "Alright, we should all start to train, so can we have all of the campers above the age of fifteen in the fighting arena right now?"
Everyone there nodded and they quickly all scattered away
Luke turned towards the rest of the commanders. "Cedmi told me before this that we should all train the campers."
They all nodded as they knew that now that Luke was well that it was a good time to start training the campers.
Silena looked at to where the arena is located. "And that's what we'll do," she sighed.
* * *
Cedmi and Aliana appeared in Central park in New York. Cedmi then took his hand off of Aliana's shoulder and took down his hood.
Aliana took down her hood as well and she bit her lip as she thought about her choice of words that she wanted to say.
"Alright," Percy said as he ran his hand through his messy jet black hair noticing that the park had changed drastically. "What is it you want to talk about?"
Aliana opened her mouth to speak, but no words seemed to come out. She closed her mouth and she bit her lip again.
Percy frowned. "Ali, what is it?" he asked with a bit of concern, letting the nickname slip past his lips without even noticing.
Aliana smiled secretly as Percy used the nickname he gave to her so long ago. Long before she betrayed him.
She sighed. "I... I want to ask you something. And I'll totally understand if you say no instantly and you be angry and—" Percy took her hands to stop her from rambling on.
"In order for me to say no to whatever you ask me, Aliana is if I know what it is first," he told her with a raised eyebrow.
She looked into his mesmerising eyes and sighed once again. "Alright."
Percy smiled slightly and let go of her hands. He then crossed his arms over his chest and looked at her.
Aliana licked her dry lips. "First of all, promise me you won't say no right away."
Percy frowned slightly but after s few seconds of thought he nodded. "I promise."
Aliana played with her fingers. "The other Void commanders and I have been meaning to ask you something. Is it okay if they're here in order to do so?"
Percy thought about it. "It seems like it's a serious thing to you..." He let his hands fall to his side as he put them in his cloak pockets. "So be it, then. I'll talk to all of you."
Aliana sighed in relief and without much thinking she launched herself at Percy giving him a bear hug.
After a second of shock Percy hugged back. Aliana realised what she hand done and quickly let go of him and stepped back.
She was a bit red in the face, and she smiled. "Thank you," she said.
Percy smiled a ghost of a smile and then shook his head. "It's fine, this seems important."
Aliana nodded. "Alright, please wait here, okay?" Percy nodded at that and looked around a bit. "I'll be back in a minute."
Aliana shadow traveled - which was an ability she go from being Void commander - back to the living room between the apartments in the Void palace where the other commanders were waiting for her.
Delia was instantly up on her feet as she sat up from a sofa chair she was sitting on and walked over to Aliana. "How did it go?"
Aliana smiled slightly, happy that her plan kind of worked as they really needed to talk to Percy urgently. "He's waiting for us, all of you come with me," she told them.
Ruby stared at Aliana with a bit of shock on her face, not being able to believe this. "He's actually going to talk to us? The universe famous assassin?"
Aliana chuckled . "Yeah, he is. Oh, and just before you meet him, all of you have to know that he's... well too kind and too modest for his own good."
Melina, the ninth commander raised her eyebrow. "It that the reason you fell for him?" she teased as she smirked.
Aliana instantly blushed a deep red and she glared at Melina. She thought about a way to kill her friend after this for teasing and embarrassing her like this.
Alex's eyes widened at that and then narrowed at the red faced Aliana. "What?" he exclaimed going all protective brother mode.
Aliana sighed. "This is not the time for this." She shot Alex a glare when he was about to protest. "Cedmi is waiting for us in Central Park, New York, you'll find us easily." She then shadow traveled away.
Alex narrowed his eyes at the space where Aliana disappeared. "Oh, I am not leaving those two alone." He shadow traveled to Central Park as well.
Delia shook her head slowly and rolled her eyes. She turned to the rest of the commanders and then sighed. "Alright, lets go."
All of them nodded to her and they all teleported to Central Park in New York, where the famous assassin was awaiting for them.
* * *
Alex walked through Central Park heading to a certain place where Aliana always came to when she was there as he guessed that that's where her and Cedmi were.
"What do you think his answer is going to be?" Delia asked. She walked beside him, with the other commanders followed behind them. All of them had their hoods down since they were in public so there was no need for them.
Alex shrugged his shoulder. "I don't know, but I hope he at least knows that we don't want to have anything to do with Void anymore."
Delia nodded her head at that just as they reached a certain area of the park and they saw Aliana talking with some raven haired guy.
Seeing the guy, Alex stopped in his tracks just as Aliana and Cedmi both turned and looked at them, which made Ruby who was walking behind Alex to walk into him.
"Alex!" she hissed, backing away from him a bit, and blinking at the back of his unmoving figure. "Why did you stop?"
Alex stared at the hoodless commander in shock, feeling like time had turned back many years ago. "Percy?" he uttered.
Percy's eyebrow furrowed, his brain trying to place Alex's face with a number of memories of his life and the people he's seen before his eyes widened in shock and realisation. "Hold on a freaking minute, Alex?"
Alex instantly laughed as ran up to him before hugging one of his oldest friends. Percy laughed as well. The rest of the commanders looked at the two in surprise.
"Hold on," Aliana said slowly, holding up a hand in confusion. "You two know each other?" She pointed between them in shock. .
Percy smiled brightly. "Yeah, believe it or not, Aliana, I've known Alex for far longer than I've known you," he said.
Aliana blinked twice at that and huffed in fake hurt making both Alex and Percy laugh. The two of them had not seen each other in so long.
Alex looked at Percy with a smile then, the memories of the last time he's seen him resurfacing now. "So you're the famous assassin, huh? I should have known."
Percy chuckled awkwardly and almost with some guilt and he scratched the back of his head. "Yeah.." he trailed off.
Alex shook his head at that. "Of course you are," he muttered. "I should have know that so long ago when you rescued me."
Melina stepped forwards, as she perked up at what Alex had said. "You rescued Alex?" she asked the assassin. "From what?"
Percy shook his head. "Sorry, not exactly my tale to tell," he said. Alex shot him a thankful glance and Melina sighed in frustration.
Alex then shook his head again. "Well, lets just say that Percy over here rescued me from something, but not in his assassin identity."
Aliana raised an eyebrow at Percy. "What the heck were you doing at the same place as Alex?" she asked curiously.
Percy put his hands up in surrender. "I was assassinating bad people of course, and it just happened to be on Alex's home planet. I had my hood down though when I first met Alex so decided to introduce myself as well, myself."
"You mean you were on the planet Herat?" Delia asked, tilting her head to the side slightly at the news she just heard.
Both Alex and Percy nodded at that.
Both of them were really different in looks, especially considering that Percy had tanned skin and Alex was more pale. Alex also had curly, navy blue hair and violet eyes where as Percy had messy jet black hair and deep sea green, black and orange eyes.
"Yeah," Percy replied. "And I never told Alex that I was the assassin since... well, I don't actually know to be honest."
Alex put a hand on his shoulder. "It's alright, Percy. You rescued me and when you left, at least you left me with a family that loved me and I had a good childhood there."
Percy smiled at him, happy that he had helped a bit and nodded. He thought back though to the lonely and homeless boy he had found on the streets of Herat when the planet was in the middle of a royalty tyrant crisis.
Alex was starving, a child no older than nine years old who had lost his family only mere months ago due to the horrible king who ruled back them. Percy was glad that Alex hadn't spent his whole life on the streets.
Alex after a second became serious and slightly stepped back, to stand next to Delia. "We've got to ask you something though," he told Percy a bit nervously. "Just listen to us first."
Aliana nodded, realising that this was serious now. She stood next Percy and all of the commanders now looked kind of nervous. .
"Well then," Rex said, after a few more seconds. "He doesn't know all of us, so," he out stretched out his hand towards Percy, "I'm Rex Galten, the eighth commander."
Percy shook his hand slowly and smiled slightly at the guy. "Nice to meet you," he said before letting go of his hand.
Melina sighed next and shook hand with the famous assassin as well. "I'm Melina Havord, the ninth commander."
"Kira Forster, the sixth commander." Another round of handshaking, before the next person stepped forward.
"Trent Jonet, the fourth commander," said the said commander of Void, giving the assassin a small smile.
"Ruby Lest, the fifth commander." She then shook Percy's hand just like the other commanders have done.
"I'm Sten Warl, the seventh commander." He smiled at Percy, letting go of his hand that he had just shook and stepping back.
Delia sighed. "And I'm Delia Arquette." She shook Percy's hand last. "And hold on, not to be rude, but do you have a full name?"
Aliana bit her lip slightly as she had to stop a chuckle. She knew this question was going to come up and she knew what was going to happen. Alex just grinned.
Percy didn't notice any of those signs as he just nodded. "Yeah, I'm Percy Jackson." He smiled warmly at all of them.
All of the seven commander who didn't know this already froze before some of them stepped back in a bit of shock after a few seconds. They really couldn't believe that.
"No way, stop right there!" Trent said, blinking twice in shock at that before pointing his finger at him. "You're the Percy Jackson?"
Percy sighed. "Here it goes again," he muttered under his breath and Aliana quietly snorted in laughter at him, making him shoot her a glare.
Melina spoke next, her voice calmer than Trent's though, "You're the famous son of Poseidon who defeated Kronos and Gaia?"
Percy tilted his head to the left side as he squinted his left eye slightly. "I didn't actually defeat Kronos, Luke did that."
Delia snapped her fingers. "Luke Castellan!" she exclaimed in realisation. "I knew I recognised that name somewhere when I heard your friend introduce himself."
Aliana and Percy did a double take on that as they both snapped their attention to her at the same time. "What?" they both asked.
The other commanders froze slightly knowing they were in trouble that they hadn't told Aliana that they met up with the other commanders when she was kidnapped.
"You met my friends?" Percy asked a second later, frowning slight in confusion at that as he knew nothing of it. "And talked to them?"
Kira raised an eyebrow. "I'm guessing they didn't tell you about it," she stated. "We met them during the time both you and Aliana were missing/ kidnapped. You were kidnapped as well right?"
Percy nodded making Kira nod as well at the confirmation as she knew it was true. There was just one thing off about it. Why were they kidnapped at the same time? She shook her head, this wasn't the time for this.
"Crazy Fates always messing with my life," Percy muttered. He looked at his watch and sighed. "I don't have much time, it's quite late and the campfire will start soon," he said. "I have to be back by then."
Ruby nodded, clearing her throat slightly as she prepared herself for this whole thing. "Alright then, just hear us out."
Aliana sighed in defeat as the commanders looked at her to start off. "We... we don't really want to be Void commander's anymore."
Percy blinked in surprise at that and a lot of thoughts ran through his head. He raised an eyebrow and waited for them to continue.
Alex sighed. "Percy... we can't escape Void even when we leave his army. He will hunt us down and kill us for leaving in the first place."
Delia spoke up next, "There is only one way for us to actually escape from him, and that's if we... if we join the Chaos army."
Percy nodded in understating at their words, his expression neutral as he stared at them one by one. "Why are you talking to me then?"
Kira played with her fingers. "You're here because we want to know if there is a chance we might be able to join in the first place."
Percy sighed. "I get it now," he said. "You're asking me because Chaos trusts me and you want me to make a choice."
Trant furrowed his eyebrows. "We really don't want to cause any trouble though, so don't take this the wrong way," he said hastily. "We will understand if you say no."
Percy shook his head. "Who would I be if I said no?" he said. "You're asking for my help and even though I don't know most of you," he sighed again and put his hands in his cloak pockets. "Of course I'll ask Chaos if there are spaces in the army for you all to join."
All of them perked up at that, having half expected for him to straight say no. They all looked at Percy with wide and grateful eyes.
"Really?" Aliana asked, not being able to hide away the shock she felt. "You're... you're really going to do that?"
Percy nodded his head. "You all deserve a second chance." He then looked at his watch again. "I should probably go."
Delia nodded, looking over at the commander with thanks. "We actually don't know how to thank you... we just don't want to fight for someone so... vile."
Percy nodded. "It's okay, I get it. You just want a fresh start," he stated. He knew how that was like. "Oh, and we should probably keep this between us until I ask Chaos."
"I agree, Void wouldn't be so happy," Sten said.
Percy put his hood up. "Alright, I'll see you all in a while. Sorry to leave so soon, but I've got a certain second commander of the army to murder for keeping information from me."
Aliana nodded her head, raising an eyebrow slightly. "I was just thinking about the same thing." She gave Delia a certain look.
Delia gulped in fake fear, before smirking as Aliana shook her head and they all laughed at that, the nine commanders feeling like weight had been listed off of their shoulders.
"Alright, we'll you soon, Percy," Aliana told him, her eyes shining with gratitude. "Don't get yourself killed."
Percy fake saluted. "Aye, aye captain!" He then disappeared into mist leaving the commanders all to themselves.
Alex sighed. "It was so good to see him again."
Melina smiled slightly. "He indeed is too kind for his own good," she summed up. "I feel like I can already trust him, is that weird?"
Aliana shook her head. "No, that's just Percy or Cedmi for you. Alright, lets get back to the Void palace before Void notices we're gone."
* * *
Percy appeared in the Chaos cabin to find it empty, making him curse quietly as he realised that he was late for the campfire. His friends might be slightly worried.
He quickly walked out of the cabin and jogged up to the amphitheatre. He slowed down to a walk when he reached it and he saw that everyone was already there, and so was Chaos.
Cedmi sighed quietly, preparing himself to face Chaos after the whole fight and walked into the amphitheater making everyone quieten down as soon as they saw him. .
Chaos looked at his first commander in relief as he had not seen him since Cedmi had disappeared after their little argument.
Cedmi walked over to where the commanders sat and sat down next to Koster, who smiled as he saw him. "You're late," Koster whispered.
Cedmi sighed quietly. "The char took longer than I expected." He looked at Koster, "Plus, you and I need to have a talk." Koster nodded his head, but gulped at Cedmi's undertone.
Alicia moved over quickly so that she was siting next to Cedmi. "We really thought something happened to you for a minute."
Cedmi smiled at her. "I'm fine, Alicia. I swear."
Zeus stood in front of everyone next to the campfire and cleared his throat. "First of all, Commander Cedmi." The said person looked up. "How did the conversation with the Void's first commander go?"
Cedmi licked his dry lips as many eyes turned at him. He stood up. "Unfortunately, that's a matter only Chaos and I can discuss until it is solved," he stated.
Annabeth instantly stood up as well from her seat when whispering filled the amphitheater. "Why does it have to be solved?" she asked.
Cedmi looked over at her, before after a second answering. "In order for us to make a decision, we need to think about it for a while." He sat then down again.
Muttering spread louder across that entire amphitheater after Annabeth sat down again, the demigod's wondering what exactly the matter was about.
Zeus cleared his throat again. "Until this matter is discussed between Cedmi and Lord Chaos then we will have to worry about other pressing matters..."
* * *
Chaos sat on the couch with Percy next to him in the Chaos cabin. The other commanders were all upstairs either fast asleep, reading a book or watching tv.
Those two had to talk about a certain matter though as Percy had put it earlier in front of everyone during the campfire.
"What were you talking about earlier at the campfire?" Chaos asked, finally not able to bear the silence any longer.
Percy sighed. "Aliana talked to me today, but so did the other commanders." Chaos leaned forward a bit in his place on the couch.
"What was it about?" asked the creator of the universe. He looked at his first commander, waiting for him to speak.
Percy did speak, "They're sick of being Void's commanders and were hoping they could join your army. They thought that I was the best person talk about this with."
Chaos put a hand on his shoulder. "You are the best person they could have gone to. And do you think I should let them join?"
Percy nodded. "Yeah. I heard nothing but honesty in their words. We should give them a chance, can you do that?"
Chaos nodded. "I trust you, Percy. You think this is the right decision, then it is. All they have to do to join is just to swear loyalty to me, and to swear to never betray or hurt our own."
Percy nodded. "And to never leave others behind." He stood up, looking over at Chaos, wondering if this conversation was over.
Chaos chuckled softly. "I couldn't agree more." He stood up as well and gave Percy a hug who hugged back after a few seconds.
Chaos pulled away and put his hands on Percy's shoulders. "I'm sorry about earlier. I know what we all mean to you. We're family."
Percy nodded. "I know," he mumbled, feeling like child. "That's why I couldn't let you do this, Chaos, and I won't."
Chaos slowly let go of his shoulder and he sighed. "I am still going and I hope that you will accept that."
After a minute or so of awkward silence between them as they both thought of this, Percy sighed in defeat and instantly smiled slightly. "Alright."
Chaos blinked twice in shock. "Really?" he asked, surprised. "No protest?"
Percy shook his head. "No, because I believe in you. And faith and hope are powerful."
Chaos nodded with a smile on his face. "I couldn't agree more."