Chapter 24

[Third Person's PoV]

Ever since Annabeth has started training with Lucian she has gained a bit more confidence in herself, so she was the first one to step up and introduce her.

"I'm Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena, nice to meet you all" Annabeth said, proud of her heritage.

"So we're mentioning that as well huh" Luke said with a weary smile and a sigh.

"Well I'm Luke Castellan, son of Hermes" Luke said in a somewhat bitter tone before nodding his head at Lucian and Annabeth as a greeting.

Thalia and Lucian, Looked at each other waiting for the other to introduce themselves first. But they didn't and waited for the other one to do it.

"You go first." Thalia said, insisting.

"No, no, no, how could I? Ladies first after all" Lucian said with a smile.

They both narrowed their eyes at each other waiting for each other to start speaking first.

But all it ended up doing was annoying Annabeth, "Why don't Luke and I introduce you guys since you guys want to act out"

Both Lucian and Thalia ended up nodding their head at the same time,

"Fine, I'm okay with that" They said in sync causing both Luke and Annabeth to sigh at their friends' antics.

Luke started by motioning to Thalia and said, "Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus"

While Annabeth motioned to Lucian, "Lucian Blackheart, Son of Hades"

Which causes both Thalia's and Luke's eyes to widen in shock.

When suddenly, the sky started turning dark and started thundering as if it was angered.

Meanwhile the earth responded in kind, it started to shake and wake as if responding to the sky.

Wind started to pick up traction causing all of their hair and clothes to ruffle.

And the shaking of the ground got so large that it caused all of them to be thrown to the ground, landing on their butts.

"HADES!!!" They heard the sky rumble.

The ground split open as they heard a shout responding in kind from in-between the cracks.

"ZEUS!!!"

(Zeus pic)

Lucian hearing this sigh, everyone else started shaking in fear.

"YOU HAVE BROKEN THE OATH WE HAVE SET DOWN" The sky rumbled.

"DON'T ACT INNOCENT BROTHER. THAT BRAT OF YOURS IS CLEARLY OLDER THAN MINE. YOU HAVE BROKEN THE OATH FIRST" The voice from underneath the ground roared.

The sky once again rumbled in discontent but didn't say anything.

"DON'T YOU DARE DO ANYTHING TO MY CHILD ZEUS, YOU ALREADY HAVE TAKEN MARIA FROM ME, I WON'T HAVE YOU TAKE MY SON AS WELL.

AND IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO MY BOY CAUSE OF YOU, I WILL HUNT THAT BRAT OF YOURS TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE"

Lucian, hearing all this just lowered his head and put his arms resting on his knees so the others would realize he was smiling with a bit of tears in his eyes.

Being an orphan for so long, Lucian forgot what it's like to have a family that cares for him, so hearing his father go so far just to defend and calling him his son and boy really got Lucian emotional.

A tear fell unwillingly from his eyes.

Lucian quietly wiped his tears as the sky rumbled once again.

"ARE YOU THREATENING ME!, ME!, THE KING, FOR DISOBEYING THE SAME OATH YOU SWORE TO!!!

FINE BROTHER IF THAT'S HOW YOU WANT TO PLAY, LET'S DO IT. I WON'T PERSONALLY KILL THAT BRAT OF YOURS BUT I CAN'T SAY THE SAME FOR THE MONSTERS THAT PICK UP ON HIS SCENT"

The ground shook so hard at those words, lava started surfacing.

"VERY WELL, BROTHER!. OOPS IT LOOKS LIKE SOME UNDERWORLD MONSTERS HAS ESCAPE AND HAS PICK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS SCENT. WHATEVER AM I GOING TO DO, I HOPE THEY DON'T END UP KILLING HER"

The sound of thunder reverberated and the sound of thunder hitting the ground was heard almost everywhere.

"THAT MISTAKE OF YOURS HAS UNTIL HE REACHES THE CAMP TO LIVE AND YOU WILL DO THE SAME FOR MINE, DO WE HAVE OURSELVES A DEAL"

Zeus roared trying to at least give his daughter a way to survive this ordeal they found themselves in.

"VERY WELL BROTHER, UNTIL THEY CROSS THE BORDER OF THE CAMP"

Hades roared back as this was the only way for Lucian to survive Zeus' wrath, he has seen how Lucian fights so he's sure his son would be able to survive.

The clouds in the sky scoffed before they started turning back to white and dispersing.

While the ground rumbled and the lava started flowing back into the cracks before they closed themselves off.

There was a long silence between all of them as the other three started shaking in fear that even Annabeth had tears following down her eyes.

They all slowly stood up but they were too stunned to speak.

"So I'm Lucian, nice to meet you" Lucian said as he stretched his hands towards Thalia to shake her hand but Thalia was too afraid to move.

Lucian just sighed and plopped himself back onto the ground and sat cross legged. He summoned his bag before searching through it and found a piece of candy he picked up when Annabeth wanted to try some.

He summoned a ball of fire and made it float in front of him, which brought the attention of the other three on him wondering how he could be so calm and composed and what he was doing.

He threw the piece of candy into the flames and put his hands together….

"Hey teacher~ It looks like I won our little bet, when can I start expecting lessons from you?" Lucian said in a happy singing tone.

The voice of Hecate roared in his head, "ARE YOU SERIOUS YOU BRAT? AFTER EVERYTHING THAT JUST WENT DOWN THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS PRAY TO ME TO JUST SAY I TOLD YOU SO."

Lucian just continued smiling as he nodded his head, "Yup" he answered in the same tone.

"So you saw what happened?" Lucian said.

"Every God in Olympus saw what happened! I had to personally be close by to control the mist so their tantrum would be covered up from the mortal world!"

"I see" Lucian said nodded his head, "well anyways talk to you later, I have some people looking at me weirdly at the moment"

Lucian undid his fireball and sat up, "So how are you guys feeling?" Lucian said as they looked at him with their mouths open.

"What were you just doing?" Luke asked, still shocked.

"Oh nothing serious, I was just claiming a bet that I won" Lucian said waving his hands like what he just did wasn't anything important.

Before they could ask anything else Lucian sighed and approached Annabeth, he grabbed her face and started wiping her tears with his thumb.

"Don't cry, you look ugly when you cry" Lucian said looking at her teasingly.

"But… But…" Annabeth stuttered trying to say something between her tears.

Lucian just scoffed at her, "Oh please you seen how strong I am do you truly believe I would be killed, your underestimation of me wounds my little black heart… get it" Lucian said with a teasing smirk, trying to cheer her up.

Which kinda worked as she started laughing through her tears.

"JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!" Thalia yelled, still looking frightened and scared…