Chapter 14- Things Will Be All Better Soon
3rd Person (the rest will most likely be this so I'll prob stop saying whose it is)

"Chaos" smiled at the team's retreating figures. Things were going smoothly. So smooth that he chose to take a break.

He teleported himself to the prison where he had been held. His smile grew almost cheshire cat like as he saw the hunched over shaking form of his brother.

"Boohoo. Poor Chaos."

Chaos glanced up at his brother, still very weak.

"You've been here how long? Not even a day. Try millennia after millennia. For the 'All Powerful Chaos' this is quite amusing."

Chaos didn't reply. End wasn't sure if it was because he was too weak or because he simply chose to be silent. Either way End enjoyed it immensely.

"You know-" End paused for a moment. "Oh, I must go. Our Apprentice is calling."

~~~~

"Ugh! Where the **** is she!?" Thalia shouts annoyed.

"How should I know?" Luke asks walking beside her.

"Cause you're the all powerful apprentice?"

"Nah, that's Percy now. Also being the apprentice didn't give me special-prisoner-finding-powers."

"Then what use are they?" Thalia groans. "I'm hungry."

Luke rolls his eyes. "We're at war. Some of our friends and our prisoner are missing and you complain about food."

"I rather not think about what Death Breath is going through. He's an annoying little **** but he's still my cousin."

"How endearing," Luke snorts. "Either way I'm sure he's fine. Plus if he dies we can just bring him-" he stops short at Thalia's glare realizing he shouldn't have spoken.

"I'm disappointed in you you know?" Thalia says suddenly.

Luke pauses before he shakes his head. "I'm sure everyone-"

"You didn't let me be your best woman."

Luke can't help but laugh. "You're still mad about that?"

Thalia shoves him playfully. "Duh."

Luke looses his balance and tries to grab Thalia causing them both to topple over.

Luke lands sprawled on top of Thalia. Luke blinks and blushes and Thalia rolls her eyes.

"You better move before Lady Artemis finds us," she smiles.

Luke quickly sits up letting his best friend up. Thalia smiles enjoying how Luke squirms. "What am I ugly?" She asks toying with him further.

He stands up quickly, "No you're... uh very uh... Pretty?... Not like a question though. You are to some guys.- not like. It's just- uh-"

"Don't worry it can be our secret," Thalia says with a wink.

"Ehhhhh... uhhhh....um-"

Thalia can't help but burst out laughing at his tomato red face. Luke begins to laugh nervously as his face returns to its normal color. Soon he can't help but laugh along doubled over.

Finally, the two stand and begin to walk down the hall again oblivious to the scowling person watching them.

~~~~

Percy paced back and forth in the the throne room. The stress from the day was getting to him. So yup, lets add an escapee to the list.

"Perseus?"

Percy ignores the fact that Chaos called him by his real name rather than his code name to look up to see Chaos standing in front of him waiting.

Percy sighed. "Well I assume you already know, the prisoner is gone..."

Chaos blinks before nodding once.

"Do you know where she has gone? It doesn't make sense. How can someone escape the void. How can someone escape you?"

Chaos doesn't respond at first.

"I don't believe she has escaped the void. More simply she has escaped her cell."

Percy nodded. "So... where'd she go?"

Chaos's eyes widened slightly before he cleared his throat and then spoke quickly. "This place is big and I have other things to worry about. You can handle a simple prisoner on your own cant you? You're the heir after all. Go."

Percy stared at Chaos dumbfounded but nodded slightly before exiting the room. Suddenly a thought struck him. Chaos had said 'you're the heir' not my. The. Percy shook it off. Now was not the time to worry about grammar. Not like he was good at it anyway.

But as he walked he couldn't help but think of Reyna's early remark about how strange Chaos had been acting...

~~~~

"This doesn't make any sense!" Luke shouts annoyed pacing back and forth. The group of Elite had gathered again after finding no trace of the girl.

"We've established that," Zoë muttered.

Luke ignored her and turned to Percy. "Wait what did Chaos say again?"

Percy sighed. "He didn't say anything of value. He said I should be able to handle a simple prisoner. He also said she hadn't left the void- well that was an hour ago now- either way it still doesn't explain how she escaped her cell."

"Maybe it's like Reyna said," Zoë states. "You shouldn't be able to escape the Void."

Luke whirled on her with a glare. "Are you saying Chaos let her go?"

Zoë glared right back. "I'm simply exploring all possibilities."

"He wouldn't just let her go!" Luke protests.

"Not without a good reason," Zoë argues. "Maybe he has one."

"Then why wouldn't he tell us?"

"Everyone has their secrets. Care to share yours?"

"What the Hades are you talking about?"

"Di Immortales! I'm not stupid Luke!"

"Look I-"

"Alright that's enough," Thalia was standing between the couple now. Luke calmed at Thalia's demand but Zoë continued to glare at the girl. "You can argue about Luke being an idiot anytime-"

"Hey!"

"- right now, we have a loose prisoner and a ton of other stuff going on."

"She's right," Percy agrees. "We have priorities. We have a war. Missing teammates and a prisoner. Though our prisoner wasn't all to helpful. We gained some information from her. We know she's a clone. Order is clearly creating an army of them to-"

"When did this become Star Wars?" Connor comments.

"Do you see Luke Skywalker?" Jason says.

"I see Luke Castellan."

Jason facepalms in reply.

"Anyway," Percy says. "The clones gives her a basically limitless army."

"Oh joy," Connor says heading to the kitchen.

"Grab me some popcorn!" Clarisse calls.

"Get it yourself."

"What was that punk!?"

"Heh...heh...I mean- do you want a drink too?"

"Coke."

"Yes sir- ma'am."

"We need to find the space where they create the clones and destroy it," Luke continues. Percy nods.

"If we look at the attack patterns perhaps we can get a general area," Reyna suggests. "Actually, it's probably somewhere near the spot where that monument was. Why else would she destroy it? To keep us away from it."

"We need Chaos or End to bring us there," Zoë says.

"Oh so now you trust him?" Luke mutters.

"Chaos seemed off," Percy says before Zoë can reply. "Let's find End."

"Uhhh, you can find him Perce," Jason says. "You're more uh... Um..."

"Just for that you're coming with me."

~~~~

"I can actually feel my arms," Nico says twisting slightly.

"We're still strapped down," Perseus reminds him.

"We're in a darker room," Nico says waiting for the older boy to catch on. About an hour ago someone had come and moved them here to this cell like room. They're eyes had been covered so they couldn't remember the way out but who needs to walk out when you have a Son of Hades?

"I'm glad you can see."

Nico groans. "You're an idiot. How blunt do I have to be?" At his statement he feels himself melt into the shadows and reappearing next to his teammate. He instantly hit with backlash. He stumbles and nearly falls.

"You can barely stand," Perseus observes.

"Thanks Captain Obvious," Nico says as he begins to undo the other boys restraints.

"You're in no shape to shadow travel us out of here."

Perseus is met with a glare. "Do you want to get out of here or not?"

"You can't leave yet."

Nico whirls around he reaches for his skull ring to find it missing and curses. In the doorway stands a small girl.

"Order," Nico growls.

She smiles and takes a deep breath in. "Please say it again. Names have power you know."

"What do you want with us?" Perseus questions.

"Unfortunately from what I've over heard you're team are smarter than they look. So I will need another diversion. But I only need one of you for it." she snaps once and both boy's weapons materialize at their feet and Perseus's restraints release. "A fight to the death. The winner I will use. The loser dies. Its quite simple really."

"And if we refuse?" Nico asks kicking his sword to the side.

Order smiles. "There is no refusal." She looks both boys over before she walks out.

"Damnit," Nico says kicking the wall."I'm not strong enough to shadow travel us out." Neither mentioned his emphasis on the word 'us'. But it was clear Nico didn't need the other boy.

"Just wait," Perseus advised. "They'll get bored when they realize nothing is happening. And y- neither of us have died."

Both stared at each other for a moment. And later neither would be sure who struck first. And it doesn't really matter in the long run.

Either way one stabbed and soon killed the other.

Order walked in pleased with the carnage. The one living wrenched his sword out of the other's abdomen watching the life slowly drain from his eyes.

"Oh my gods," he said ready to puke realizing what he had done.

"Come now, my young victor," Order smiled placing a hand on his arm. "It was self defense.... wasn't it?"

He shuddered in reply thinking. Was it? Or did he strike first?...

She flashed them both to a spot where her monument had been. She pressed a finger to the back of his neck. "Don't worry child. Things will be all better soon."