Disclaimer: I really don't know why I include these anymore… ME NO OWN!

Ah, 'tis be another chapter arrr! Ok I really can't do pirate speak… so anyway, I'm surprised. Almost no one found all three references to Harry Potter (I think Mrmngrl101 did so congrats). People got one or two, but not all three! Either no hard-core Harry Potter fans read this, or my mind is strange enough to find references in completely random things. So here were the references (in my mind anyway):

1 - 'it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live'. Luke said this was Thalia's favourite saying, and it's what Dumbledore says to Harry when he finds the mirror of Erised.

2 - 'people do say that I look like my father, but I have my mother's eyes'. Percy said this. This is what Harry is always told by anyone who knew his parents.

3 - 'Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure'. Annabeth calming herself down. Luna says this (I think it's the first thing she actually says to Harry) and it's from the Sorting Hat's Song.

These are the things I meant. I know they're not word for word, but the general idea is there.

Ok, the second person Percy blessed: no one has guessed it (I think). It's quite obscure, but there are BIG reasons behind it, which will make sense later on in the story. Pity for you all though, you won't find out for a while (aww).

Menaphite: Yes this is a Percy V The Gods fic. I also used Khaos because she is the extreme powerful being and power corrupts (also way too many include her being a nice person. I mean if you had ultimate power what would you do? You really wouldn't be responsible or adopt a lower life form out of 'the goodness of your heart').

Hmmm… Thanks for all the other reviews. Most of them said how the last chapter was great for a filler chapter, even though I didn't see it… But that made me feel good! So thank you all! *insert blushing face here*

~Nom Nom :3

IMPORTANT:

This chapter reveals the history behind Percy, and I warn you like lots of the Greek Myths, it is not pleasant.

Bane of Khaos

Chapter 7 - The Truth Behind the Myths

The Chimera chased the three for about five miles before it stopped. Annabeth was dying from muscle cramps and lack of oxygen, and even the immortal Hylas and Percy felt the strain from all the exercise. After the adrenaline from the chase faded, it paved the path for hunger and tiredness. Annabth felt like she could eat Hylas (no way could she eat Percy - he looked way too handsome), while both the boys acted the same way, having no actual need for food.

"Oh my GODS!" Annabeth screamed. "There's a fast food store right there" She didn't wait for her two (slightly disturbed) comrades to answer before grabbing their hands and dragging them in a sprint to the shop. Edd's Burgers, apparently, cooked the best burgers around.

Annabeth slammed through the door and was about to rush over to the counter before Hylas spoke up. "You do know we have no money."

That stopped her in her tracks. Groaning in frustration, she turned to the two with practically begging eyes. "You are a son of Gaia-" She said pointing to Percy before pointing at Hylas. "-and you're a fateweaver. You must have something up your sleeves!"

"How about we ask him?" Percy said, pointing behind her. She turned around to see him pointing at a biker man in his early twenties, wearing a leather jacket with a flaming skull on, black jeans and black boots with red specks (blood?) on them. He had short brown hair and blood red eyes, with multiple of scars and piercings all over his face. He watched them with smirk.

"Well, you're smarter than I thought brat." He said in a deep, rough voice that made Annabeth flinch. "Come and sit with me demigods."

It finally clicked for Annabeth. He was Ares, God of War. That didn't bode well for her. The four sat at a table next to the window, Annabeth notably more nervous than the other two.

"So, Lord of pissing contests." Hylas said, making Annabeth squeak and Ares narrow his eyes for a moment before laughing. Annabeth missed the subtle glance at Percy and the slight paling of god of war's face, making Percy question if she was really a daughter of Athena after all.

"I like you kid." Ares smirked. "Not a lot of demigods have the balls to talk to a god like that."

"Lord Ares." Annabeth said meekly. "What do you want?"

For a second, Annabeth could've sworn that Ares shimmered for a moment, looking slightly older, harsher and more fierce yet orderly before she blinked and it was gone.

"Ah, a daughter of Athena…" He muttered disdainfully. "Wonderful."

It was a little known fact that was somewhat forgotten from the history books, but Ares was a third party who tried to become the patron god of Athens. While his uncle Poseidon offered some water and Athena offered a twig or something, he offered shields and spears. Yet Athena won, she never stopped bragging, then Greece fell and the Romans tarred Athena with the aspect of Minerva, which she never stopped crying about. She didn't like how his other aspect, Mars, gained so much respect, so now Mars has an irrational (actually it was fairly rational) hatred of Athena and her children (but not Minerva strangely enough).

"Anyway, I have a quest for you twerps." He said pointing at Annabeth and Hylas. "I wanna speak to the son of Gaia. You two need to go get my shield. I left it when I had a date with Aphrodite."

Ares never understood how the truth became so twisted. He and Aphrodite had never been together. Ever. Aphrodite had never actually cheated on her husband Hephaestus. She was the goddess of love, and she was completely smitten with him and had never even looked in his direction like that. Not even that, he would never cheat on his wife.

Yes, Ares the God of War (and the God of Peace, but that was never recorded either) was married.

It wasn't actually Ares who was married but Mars. His wife was Lupa, mother of Rome (and not a virgin goddess by far if you know what he means), and had been for over two thousand years. She didn't mind his infidelities because he was an Olympian God - meaning his sex drive was much MUCH higher than an average god's, and something he just couldn't help. They had made their peace over that, something which his mother Hera could never do.

"Where was you date?" Hylas asked. He said date in such a way it made Ares smile. Yes, he knew alright… Ares quickly described the location (a waterpark of some kind) and the duo quickly set off, Annabeth sending worried glances back at Percy.

Ares turned back to Percy, who had a smug smile on his face. Ares had been told by his grandfather that Percy (or really Perseus) was perhaps the strongest being in existence, but the twelve year old brat in front of him just made him want to snort at that, but he knew looks could be deceiving.

"So, Perseus…" Ares said. "Why have I never heard of you before?"

Percy just smirked at that, his posture becoming slightly harsher. "Because I never wanted you to." He said simply, in a voice that was deep in a way that made him want to shiver, yet also blush. Kronos told him of his powers, but he didn't expect his mere voice to hold sway (like Hestia's did). Ares relaxed subconsciously, knowing that it was the right person.

"I have the items." He said, lifting a pack up onto the table. When he looked back at Percy, he was slightly shocked to see that he was now around eighteen years old, looking both intimidating and intoxicating. Percy grabbed the back and shifted through it.

"The master bolt… the trident… the helm of darkness. Good." He said, smiling. "Your help will be rewarded."

Ares shook his head and shimmered into his Roman counterpart. "No, I only wish safety for myself and my wife." Mars said.

"And you have it." Percy said. "If you stay and fight with our side, you will be rewarded greatly."

Mars looked at him, giving no answer before shimmering back to his Greek form. "We will see. Now I gotta ask, tell me about yourself. I mean, obviously the things I thought were true are not, so what is the truth?"

Percy thought for a moment before holding out his hand. "I will… If you fight with me."

Mars whispered caution, but the headstrong side of Ares pushed him away and shook the hand. He wanted to be in on the war anyway. "Deal."

As soon as he clasped Percy's hand, a shell of earth wrapped around it and glowed for a moment before dissolving back away into nothing.

"Did… Did you just bless me?" Ares asked, slightly shocked.

Percy shook his head. "No, but domain allows me to… tweak with pre-existing things and facts, if you will. I cannot exploit it right now because my presence is not known to our enemy, but with your godly aura here, she will just look over minor things."

"She?" Ares echoed.

"She. Khaos. Mother of all. The Void. Name her what you will, but she will hunt me down without three beings, 'the home, the prince and the knight' can apparently mask my presence."

"Yeah, I'm no good with all that rhyming crap." Ares shrugged, trying to hide his unease about fighting the creator herself. "So, will you tell me about you?"

"My name is Perseus." Percy said. "I was born around three years after the creation of my parents, Gaia and Tartarus. Khaos did not like her eldest twins together, but she wasn't aware of me. I hid myself as an extinction of my father." He said. "However, even though I did that, I did not get free. She feared my power - or really when she assumed that when my parents had a child - so she imprisoned us Tartarus, my father's domain. However, Khaos did not like how she could not control Gaia and so chained her to the earth, removing one of her domains and moulding a completely new being - Ouranous." Percy spat the name with such venom that it almost made Ares stop his question. Almost.

"Wait, so Khaos created Ouranous?" He asked. "I always thought Gaia created him herself."

Percy just shook his head. "No, that was the 'official' story. The truth is my mother was chained to the earth, on a raised mound - you probably know where, the place where the sky forever wants to reconnect with the earth - and Ouranous was created from the separation of the earth and sky. Then, every night for about ten years he would arrive at that point and rape my mother."

Percy chuckled darkly. "She hated all her children with him, for they joined forces with Khaos too and were sent to Tartarus to guard both myself and my father. The Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes became the guards to our cells, and it looked like it was going to continue like that until the Titans were born."

"Koios, Krios, Kronos, Hyperion, Iapetos, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, Theia and Themis, the Titans. They originally followed the rule of Khaos, but when she became complacent they rebelled. They freed us from the prison inside Tartarus, and rose against Ouranous. I blessed Kronos and gifted him with a scythe, and he castrated Ouranous, throwing his… little man into the ocean, where Oceanus washed them away to the furthest corners of the world."

"We had peace for a while. Kronos became the king of the Titans and created the human race, and Kronos' and Rhea's first child, Hestia was born. Then Khaos realised what had happened to the earth. She was unaware of Hestia, so she cursed Rhea so that all her children born from then on would forever feel hatred towards the Titans."

"They did not believe her at first, until Hera was born. They decided they needed an appropriate jail for all the children thereafter, and Hestia herself suggested the stomach of her father, and even offered to be the jailer. So, after more years Zeus, their sixth child was born. Unknowingly to them, Khaos switched baby Zeus with a stone statue of the baby, and you know the rest."

"So all that stuff about Kronos being fed mustard and him being shopped up is true?" Ares asked.

Percy nodded. "Everything people know is true until near the end where it is almost completely fabricated. When the Giant War was all but lost, I released two of my best creations, Typhon and his consort Echidna as a distraction. They knew that they were, and they almost succeeded, but when we were travelling through the Underworld, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades caught up with us, my mother held them off until Khaos herself came along and put her into a deep sleep."

"Then all thirteen of you came for my father." After seeing Ares' puzzled look, Percy sighed. "Khaos came back and sealed my father deep within his domain, and erased the memory of all twelve gods present."

"Wait, you said thirteen. Who kept their memories?"

"That's simple, Hestia did. Khaos has always been lazy and too overconfident, and she did not realise that Hestia was not a god when she erased all the gods that were present's memories."

"If Hestia isn't a god, what is she?" Ares asked.

"That is simple. She is a Titan. The curse Khaos inflicted upon Rhea and the children was to turn them into being that would forever hate the Titans: the Gods. Hestia was not inflicted by the curse, so she is a Titan. Currently, only eleven of the fourteen major Olympians are Gods. Three are actually Titans."

"Three?" Ares echoed, extremely surprised. "How did my father not notice this?"

"Well, two have been Titans longer than Zeus has been alive, and he is not that smart to figure it out, and another has been a Titan for about…" Percy checked his watch. "Eleven minutes, give or take."

That was when it hit him. Percy didn't bless him when they shook hands (not that he doubted his word), but change him into a Titan. It was quite scary how much power Percy held.

"So myself, Hestia and… Who's the third?" Ares questioned.

"Aphrodite. She was born from the essence that impregnated my mother, and has not been in contact with the curse. It passes down through the gods as the dominant allele in the gene, so to speak."

"Dominant allele?" Ares once again repeated. It was worse than talking with Athena - at least if she said things about battle tactics Mars would help. He was currently drawing blank though, and so was Mars.

"A mortal science thing." Percy waved off. "It basically means if one parent is a god, the child will always be a god. Quite a nifty little curse idea, I remembered borrowing it when creating the Bubonic plague…" Percy sighed wistfully.

"That was you?" Ares laughed. "That was one of the 'few'-" Ares hand quoted. "-things that Athena could never figure out."

"Yeah, her kid - I forgot their name - was the one who cured it." Percy waved him off. "But anyway, we are getting off topic. Aphrodite may be a Titan, but she supports Zeus' reign and is under the thumb of Khaos and hence a threat. Hestia however, is another case. I don't know her allegiance, except that she has named her champion as Zoë Nightshade from The Army, as they call it."

"So?" Ares asked, not really seeing the point why he brought it up. "A few gods have named their champion."

"No you do not understand." Percy said shaking his head. "It is not the fact that she has named her champion, but the fact of who she named as her champion. Zoë Nightshade is - well, was - a Hesperide sister. She was neither the youngest of the nine, nor the oldest of the nine."

"Wait nine?" Ares asked. "There was only eight including Zoë herself."

Percy looked at Ares in shock. "Wait, so you don't know about Pallia?" He asked, his voice dropping a couple of octaves making it become threatening. Ares wanted to cower, but Mars wouldn't allow it.

"Who is Pallia?" Mars asked, taking over from a slightly scared Ares.

Percy growled a deep menacing growl, making Mars' determination crack and caused him to cower before the furious eighteen year old.

"That bitch!" Percy spat. "I thought the knowledge was hidden from the mortals because of her embarrassment, but to hide it from your ears…" He shook his head and calmed himself slightly. His voice returned to his normal, neutral state. "No matter, it appears I will be telling you another story."

"Pallia was the second oldest of the Hesperide sisters. She herself was unique compared to her sisters, as she was not bound to the Garden of Hesperides. She was the only one able to travel freely, and thus became a favourite of her mother, Pleione as she was able to visit. However, when Hera discovered the Hesperides plucking the Golden Apples for themselves, she also discovered Pallia gifting some to her mother and father."

"To show that she would not allow dishonesty, Hera used her husband's weapon, his lightning bolt, to strike her down where it would hurt - her mother. Yet, Hera missed and hit Pallia herself. Pleione pleaded to her parents, and willingly sacrificed her essence to bring her daughter back. Oceanus and Tethys took pity upon their daughter, and shaped her sacrifice so that it created the five rivers of the Underworld: the Styx, the Acheron, the Lethe, the Phlegethon and the Cocytus."

"Her sacrifice brought Pallia back, but at a price. She was no longer an immortal Hesperide sister, but a mere mortal. A mortal who would not be able to traverse the slopes of Atlas Mountains, and thus separated from her family. She was alone in the Ancient Greek world, and you must know what that was like."

Ares nodded, absorbing the information. Mars had retreated back inside, as Perseus was Greek, not Roman, and he wouldn't talk with him longer than necessary. "But why hide it then? What would Hera gain from hiding it?" He refused to call Hera his mother.

"Hera did not hide it, well not from the gods anyway. I believe Khaos hid it to hide the power of a willing sacrifice… But why would she benefit from it?" Percy mused, before shaking his head. "No matter, I will find out soon…"

Ares nodded. When Percy made no move to open his mouth, Ares decided to ask something both his and Mars' mind was pushing. "I've got a question." Percy looked up. "You know how I'm a Titan now?" He nodded. "What about my wife?"

Percy smiled. "Well you are married, so she has also been… 'influenced' by me, and is now a Titan herself." Ares nodded, extremely relieved.

"So, do you have it?" Percy asked after another moment of silence.

"Yeah. But why do you need them?" Ares asked, as he dumped a bag upon the table. Percy looked inside to see the three Big Three weapons inside. He smirked.

"Well…"

"Stupid gods, stupid dates…" Hylas muttered as he climbed the fence of the abandoned amusement park. The water park itself was still in good condition, with less than a year of neglect and decay under its belt.

"Be careful what you say." Annabeth warned as he helped her over the iron gates. He just rolled his eyes and grabbed her legs to study her. "Hey, I mean it!" Hylas just shrugged.

After the small gate, the walked around the park with relative ease. They searched all the inside areas to come up empty, so they moved onto the outer rides.

"I can't imagine any gods doing small." Hlyas said. "I don't think it's in their vocabulary." Annabeth sniggered but didn't comment. They looked over about two more places until they found the right one: a large basin like area with a small bench in the middle, with a shield in one side and a scarf across another.

"I doubt this was made like this." Hylas noted. "I bet divine interference. Hephaestus perhaps?"

Annabeth looked cynical. "What do you know? I'm a daughter of Athena and it looks fine to me."

"Fine." He snorted. "If it's so fine, just go down there and pick up the shield." A slight worried look crossed her face. "That is, unless you don't trust yourself."

Her face hardened and she walked down into the basin without a backwards glance. If she did look back, she would've seen the smug smile on Hylas' face. When she reached the shield she hesitated for a moment before wrapping the pink scarf of Aphrodite around her neck before picking up the shield. It took less than a second to realise it was a trap, but by the time she looked toward Hylas he was standing outside a golden mesh.

Around the rim of the basin, eight cameras rose from points equal in distance to on another, with small golden spiders crawling out from the open hole. Annabeth screamed and stood on the highest point on the bench (which wasn't that high up),

"Live to Olympus in 10… 9… 8… 7…"

Annabeth screamed again as the spiders were almost upon her. They were made to immobilize gods, not demigods. Yup, she was going to die.

"6… 5… 4…"

And she would be embarrassing her mother Athena too. This would just give Poseidon more leverage over her, all because she was blinded by the fact that she couldn't see something another person could.

"3… 2…"

A spider was on top of her and positioned itself to stab her with its teeth (something that looked VERY out of place) and inject her with poison that would most likely kill her. She closed her eyes and waited for her inevitable death. But it never came.

She counted at least five seconds before she opened her eyes. What she saw was a surprise: every single spider and camera had collapsed to the ground, as if they had just stopped working. The golden net was still up, but it had a large gash down the end of it. Hylas stood there, just like he had done before, with the same smug smile on his face.

"I did tell you." He smirked.

When they arrived back at the burger house, Annabeth saw that Ares was grinning madly and even the ever neutral Percy was smiling. Hylas and Annabeth sat down next to the two, and they looked at her before Ares burst out laughing.

"What?" She asked, slightly miffed.

Ares just shook his head. "He will show you in a minute." He clicked his fingers and the shield dissolved from Annabeth's hands and a ring that looked remarkably similar to the shield appeared on Ares' little finger. With that, he disappeared, leaving the bag which Percy took

Annabeth rounded on Percy. "Care to explain?"

He merely smiled and handed her a newspaper clipping that read:

ANNABETH CHASE: THE CRAZY GIRL'S TRAIL OF TERROR

Tah dah! Tis another chapter done!

Ok, I know Ares is so OoC it hurts, but I don't care. Also I added some myths and completely distorted others, but it is all for the master plan! So please bear with me. Anyway, I think the next chapter will be like the second to last chapter on 'The Lightning Thief' plot, so we're almost there!

~Nom Nom :3