*One year later*

A small team hid in the shadows of London, close to the current entrance of Olympus. They knew that the 'greatest' demigods of the era would be coming out soon.

It was almost too easy.

All they had to do was wait outside a church and capture a few demigods. Three of them to be specific, a son of Zeus, son of Dionysus and a son of Ares.

This was a part of stage one of the plan- kidnap the demigods that would be sent to them.

Simple yet clever.

One god on their side would be able to do it but they had a team of three just in case.

Thanatos, Hecate and Hypnos.

Most of the gods on Olympus wouldn't even think to chose those three for a mission. No matter how simple. Thats why Olympus would fail, they underestimated the 'minor' gods and neglected and undermined the rest who weren't Olympians.

Thanatos would keep them in the shadows. An expert in not being seen and patience. Only striking when necessary. Sick and tired of being pushed aside and ignored, being painted as the 'evil' death god who killed mercilessly.

Hecate would manipulate the mist so that the demigods wouldn't cause a fuss because they wouldn't be any the wiser that they were being attacked. Constantly having to correct what she says as to not offend the oh so great Olympians so she wouldn't be thrown into Tartarus. They would turn on her in a second and tell everyone that she was planning to aid the titans should they try to rise again.

Hypnos would knock out the demigods, make them fall into an instant dreamless sleep. They wouldn't even know what had hit them. He was always known as the sleepy and tired god that you go to if you can't sleep. He was annoyed after being seen as just someone that can make them fall asleep whem they can't even remember his name. If they do pretend to know him its always oh whats your name again, Harold? Homata?

The other two had gladly joined the rebellion. Hecate had even sought them out to request to help.

All they had to do now was wait for the demigods to stop trying to get love from their parents that they would never receive.

This mission was easy, grab the demigods before they can make a fuss and draw attention. The sons of Zeus and Ares would be easy, they were extremely egotistical and believed that none would dare challenge them. They were also extremely sexist which the godly trio would use against them.

The son of Dionysus may pose a problem though, he wasn't as idiotic as the other two. He observed before striking. He had been a part of the Hunters of Artemis before the quest. So he was constantly aware of his surroundings.

The three demigods walked out of the doorway. The son of Zeus in the middle, blabbering away to the other two.

Thanatos looked to Hecate who was in her child form, looking only 16 years old. Close to the age of the three boys that were grinning happily because they were finally acknowledged by their parents.

They nodded at each other and Hecate walked out into the view of the boys. "Hey fellas, don't think I've seen you around here before."

The son of Ares went to open his mouth but was cut off by the Zeus spawn. "We're from the countryside, don't come here often."

"Well if that ain't amazin', I can show you around if you'd like," Hecate said stepping closer to them.

Before the Zeus spawn could answer he was cut off by the ex-hunter. "We know our way around already."

"Hmm but you have to admit it could be fun, I think I'd enjoy hanging around with you lot." By now Hecate's magic had begun to work, they were completely concealed from the outside gaze.

The son of Dionysus wasn't to be swayed, "Sorry but we have to go."

"I'm sure we could stay a little longer," the son of Ares finally said.

The Zeus spawn cast his purple eyed companion a look, "You go on ahead, we'll catch up." He faced Hecate again, oblivious to the magic that was working around him. "I'm Michael, this is Harry and the one that wants to go is Sam."

"Nice to meet you Michael."

Hypnos started walking around to the back of the boys. Thanatos helped out their too, the shadows began pulling Sam back, muffling his shout of surprise. Hypnos made the boy fall asleep without a sound.

The other two had no idea as Hypnos stood behind them. Waiting for Hecate to get her moment out of the way.

Harry smiled at Hecate, "Say we never got your name, what is it?"

Hecate grinned and let the mortal disguise fall. Revealing that her eyes had no pupil. "Hecate."

The boys only had time to widen their eyes before they fell into the clutches of the shadows. Fast asleep.

Thanatos willed for the shadows to tie up the boys, all back to back. The three gods stood around them in a circle (or really a triangle since their was only three). The darkness surrounded them all and they fell through to the Underworld.

When they landed in the throne room, the deities inside all turned to look at them.

Hecate was the only one to bow her head to Nyx. The other two didn't bother because they knew that their mother wouldn't appreciate it.

"How did it go?" asked Amphitrite.

Hecate grinned, "As easily as sowing the seads of grass on a warm cloudy night."

"In non-insane speak, it went good. They suspected nothing and nobody interfered," Thanatos said, seeing the confused faces of the deities.

Hades nodded, satisfied with the explanation.

Nemesis walked over to the boys on the ground and pressed two fingers to each of their necks. Checking each one for a pulse. When she was sure that they were all still alive after the drop.

Persephone clicked her fingers and a flower crown appeared on Thanatos' and Hecate's heads. "Is that all of them?"

Hecate nodded, "The rest of the demigods still in that camp are either too young or have sworn not to attack us."

"This is good," Amphitrite said.

As they had all figured out earlier on, leave it to the goddesses. They were right 98% of the time and were terrifying on the rare occasion that their plan would go wrong.

Thanatos was terrified of Amphitrite. She was nice but he hadn't seen her react personally when a plan went wrong. He hoped he wouldn't see that day because he didn't know if he would survive it.

"I think we should begin stage two as quickly as possible, attack before they have time to prepare. Lower the numbers," the Queen of the Sea continued.

"I agree," Nyx said. "I would personally help but if I was to even step foot on the land that Olympus resides on the coucil would know."

Persephone gave the Primordial a small smile, "All is fine, Lady Nyx. If you can even help from the sidelines by giving us information from the night, it would be greatly appreciated."

"I will speak with Hemera again, to see if she will help us with aid during the daylight hours," Nyx said, smiling back at the goddess. "Aether already sees all the light touches, it would be good for my son to have extra help." She faced Thanatos, "You should rest, you have worn yourself thin."

Moros' snide voice resounded from the corners of the room, "But he still has to get souls, gathering the ones he didn't is exhausting and not good for my complexion."

The Nightmare bunch (excluding Moros and the Keres, who were watching Persephone make more flower crowns) turned to glare at him.

"You don't have a choice," Eris hissed, standing in front of Thanatos.

Over the year they had grown closer. Thanatos was now more of an older brother figure to her and she was more like his little sister. Of course they were already siblings but they had never been close. Now they would both willingly kill for each other, or well Eris would kill for him since he had introduced her to Kymopoleia.

Eris and Kymopoleia. Not a good combination for the sanity. Or the peace of mind.

"Oh and who are you to make me?" Moros said.

Nyx stepped towards the god of violent death, "You will take over. I know you abandoned your duties for centuries for Thanatos to pick up. Now- do your job or else you will face the consequences."

The god of violent death's face was the picture of fear once the realisation of what the consequences would be settled in.

Thanatos wished Tri could see it because he knew that the merman would love it.

Nemesis tapped Thanatos' arm, "Get rest, I'll let you know what happens later."

Thanatos nodded and fell into shadow once more.

* * *

Two love gods and two Sea gods were in a room. It sounds like the setup of a really bad joke but all of them already identify as a disaster so identifing as a joke was a little bit of a stretch.

"I'm bored," Eros whined.

"Then do something," Anteros told the god.

Eros went to stand up but forgot that he was Underwater and just floated there. He didn't bother to move, just putting his arms behind his head and flicking his tails so that he would slowly move around the room. He did it all the time when he was Underwater so there was no chance that he'd hit her head.

The four fell into silence again.

Until Kym broke it, "Do you want to make a storm?"

Eros was immediately in her face, "Aphrodite's bloody roses, yes!"

Triton raised his head, "Eros."

"Yes?"

"Calm down."

"Does that mean you aren't coming?" Kym asked.

"Who do you take me for? Of course I'm going with you."

"I suppose I have to come too then?" Anteros said.

"Oh no we can leave you here," Triton said, smirking at his younger brother. "Feathers," he added.

"I'll make you fall in live with something with feathers," Anteros grumbled.

"Sure you will," Triton said.

Anteros made a move as if to summon his bow. It wouldn't even work Underwater so it was useless to even pretend.

Triton enjoyed tormenting his siblings. There he said it. Its not like they don't annoy him too.

Eros swam between them, "Boys, boys. Stop fighting and lets go."

Anteros quietly said fine and swam off towards the doorway of the room.

Triton (maturely) stuck his tongue out at his brothers back before swimming after him.

The four of the began to swim upwards to the surface. On the way Triton felt a nip at his tail. When he looked down, Andy was swimming up towards him. The merman took the young seal into his arms and swam up to meet the others.

They stopped just under the surface and Kym looked around with a wide grin, "Lets do a competition, see who can make the best one or get the serpents pissed the quickest." She pointed down below them where the famous sea serpents dwelled.

The other three grinned. Readily accepting the challenge.

Kym went first and the others swam backwards to be out of the way. She took out her disk and let it float. She swam around it until she became a blur and the disk was shaking from side to side. The whirlpool forming, winding down.

Triton suddenly understood why she also said until the serpents are pissed. His sister definitely had this planned so that she would win.

She stopped and slapped the bottom on the disk upward causing a bright green light.

Triton had to look away.

When the light died down a hurricane raged above the surface while the water spun rapidly.

Kym swam back over to them with a smug smile. The storm dispersing.

Eros slowly clapped, "I'm impressed Blues." He stopped clapping when they heard another being clapping, the sound echoing through the water.

A mermaid with flowing purple hair swam out of the shadows. Her hair colour matched her tail and the rest of the skin was slightly lighter. Her colourless eyes seemed to glow with mirth.

Don't ask how Triton knew that. Its just by her face that she looked excited. Or maybe angry? It was hard to tell.

But Triton did know that before him was the Primordial Goddess of the Sea, Thalassa.

Instant all four of them bowed their heads, "Lady Thalasa."

"Kymopoleia that was quite the storm, I am most certainly impressed. Those skills will be useful in the coming weeks," the Primordial said.

"What does that mean, my lady?"

"It means that we are now into Stage two of the plan. I trust that you know what to do," Thalassa said, looking at each of them in turn.

"Yes, my lady."

"Good, I will not bother you anymore." She turned to leave, but she turned her head back to them. "Happy hunting."

Also the outside is weird, I'm sitting in my back garden and apparently all the bugs think I'm a tree and something yellow was on my arm a minute ago.

New characters:

Michael- Son of Zeus- he/him

Harry- Son of Area- he/him

Sam- Transgender ftm- Son of Dionysus- ex hunter of Artemis- he/they