Chronos

Silena…

Luke..

Bob…

Ethan…

I silently remembered the names of all those who had died during the two wars as I always did before going too sleep. If only I had tried harder, if only I had known better, been faster, if only-

"Dude! Stop with the mopey thinking, you're giving me a headache."

"What the –"I was up with riptide pointed at the man in a second.

"Relax man! I'm come here in peace" the intruder made a peace sign while grinning. The man in question was tall with silver hair, a tanned body, perfect teeth and golden eyes that glowed with power. He seemed ancient despite his ridiculous grin.

Then I saw his outfit, he wore a cream coloured bodysuit with multicoloured clocks, sundials and sand clocks. His arms were covered in watches. The overall image of the man was very distracting.

"Uh…who are you exactly?"

"I'm Chronos dude" he waved. I uncapped riptide and pushed it towards his Adam's apple

"What?" He did look Titan-y with his Einstein silver hair but it couldn't be Kronos, he would never act so casual. Well that and the tiny fact that he was sheesh kebabed in the first war.

"I am. Just not the psycho Titan one." He winked. I raised an eyebrow.

"Again- who are you exactly?"

"I'm the primordial of time, and I'm here to help you. You see ananke- that's the primordial of fate- and I were just discussing you. Over the years you've become such an amazing source of entertainment."

" that's all I live for entertainment to gods" I grumbled

" the last person as entertaining as you was Heracles" he continued ignoring me " and while we can just reverse time to see him perform his labours , it gets boring after a while . So we have decided to give you a gift- each, just to shuffle things up a bit".

"Ok." I was cautious a gift from a god has got to have a catch.

" from ananke, you get the ability to control the mist, just concentrate a bit and imagine the illusion you want. And from my amazing self" this guy is definitely related to Apollo. " you get to go back in time and fix the wars."

"What!"

"Well you can't completely change the timeline, the wars and quests have got to happen but you can make them easier, you know, less screaming and dying more screaming and winning" he beamed.

"But isn't messing with time, like , bad ju-ju or something?" I asked sceptically.

"Well what's the worst that could happen ? You can always go back again and undo the change can't you? And I've got it thought out, you go to camp half-blood do your quest then each year, I send you back in time to the beginning of summer and you go to camp Jupiter so you are at both camps at the same time . That will quell the distrust when the camps merge, and since the Olympians can't know about this , Hera will do the Switch but when she erases your memory, you will still remember everything. Get your Pegasus to run away with the Hades girl, before hunters show up. Don't let the Hephaestus boy die in the ship, and tell Calypso about about the fire boy who will rescue her and you can tell her how you know just make her keep it a secret. See?" He snapped his fingers," totally thought out, you might wanna take the monster proof phone fire boy made you, it will be a long time before you get another one. Drop everything else including riptide , it will be suspicious if you have two of them."

My head was spinning as I tried to process the information , but I quickly dropped riptide and grabbed Leo's phone.

"Ready?"

"No"

"Well then" he snapped his fingers " have fun"

And everything turned dark