AN: I'm sorry this isn't another chapter, I'm currently working on it however. Until then, I have found a new Beta, Archer1eye, he has been so kind as to help me with my previous chapters. Thus I would to say, chapter 1 has been redone, and there a few new details you might want to look over now. I will alternate between rewrites and actual chapter. That being said this is the last Author's chapter you'll ever.

Best of wishes

-Dark

Summary: Peace never last for long, there's always that one enemy that never gives up. No matter how the Olympians may try to patch things up, another enemy has set his sights on earth and this time, they're going to need some outside help. … That is if they decide to accept it. Reyna\ () OC

Setting: 2 years after the Giant War.

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

{Messages}

'Thought speak'

-Chapter 7-

(Reyna's POV)

You know when Dark allowed the rest of the leaders and I to listen to the scout reports, I really thought I would have been paying more attention. It wasn't that the report was boring, Olympus knows I had my fair share of them in New Rome, but I couldn't stand how the scout was practically straddling Dark the entire time. I was never the jealous type, but it seemed like Dark wasn't going to make this crush any easier on me.

I refrained from shooting another glare at the scout as she recounted the final camps she encountered, but the words flew right over my head. I glanced at Dark again, but like all the other times she showed no sign of discomfort or anything really. She just looked neutrals and deep in thought. I tried, I really did try to pay attention, but every time I could focus the scout would shift and I would dissolve into a jealous fit. A pair of sea green eyes snapped me out of my stupor.

Percy and Jason were looking at me worriedly making various signs for 'Are you ok?' I wanted to laugh at their antics, when in the corner of my eyes the scout shifted again this time leaning a bit too close for comfort into Dark. She didn't even react, she was just staring blankly ahead. I felt a snarl curling up in my chest, and I frowned heavily trying not to glare at the offending scout. Percy and Jason followed my gaze and their eyes narrowed in confusion. I think Dark finally registered the heavy looks she was getting and looked up. Her eyes meet mine as I tried to restrain my anger, before moving to Percy and Jason, they were both giving her slightly confused, but angry glances. Her brows furrowed in confusion for a second.

"And that's all we managed to find." The scout concluded.

Dark's gaze snapped to the girl in her lap, before giving a soft smile.

"Thanks Pandie, send the written report to Shade and she can go over it in detail. Now if you will I've lost all feeling in my legs." The scout, newly dubbed Pandie laughed before getting up.

"Sorry Tene, old habits are hard to break." She giggled and I felt my heart sink slightly. Old habits? I felt my heart ache slightly. Of course, yes because the smoking hot warrior just had to have an equally beautiful assassin of sorts as her girlfriend.

"Too true, and what i have said about the nicknames? Demigods you're dismissed for now. However; I would like to speak with Percy and Jason in a minute. Reyna if you would stay behind for a second." Dark asked. Annabeth and Piper were a bit reluctant to leave, but a grin from Pandie sent them on their way, which was slightly surprising Piper could get really possessive when she wanted to.

I felt my heart break a little more, I just wanted to go and nurse my aching heart and yet now I had to sit through this. I nodded quietly glancing longingly toward the door. I was about to ask why she had me stay behind I was interrupted.

"Oh right Tene just admit it, you love my nicknames. Also Berry says hi." Pandie gave Dark a sheepish look. Dark laughed for a moment before responding in kind. "Are you sure that's all she said. I know better than to make a move on a taken woman." Dark winked. The words took a moment to sink in, and when they did Pandie flashed me quick wink. I felt my cheeks warm up, guess I wasn't as discreet as I had hoped.

With that Pandie took her leave, giving Dark a brief hug, before jumping down through a shadow. My eyes slightly widen at the use of Dark's more complicated 'Shadow travel', I had remembered that Dark once said she was one of the few who was able to travel through the shadow realm, and was the only one that could do it with any sort of ease.

A soft chuckle jolted me out of my thoughts, as Dark gave me a sad smile. "Yeah, I may have forgotten to mention Pandie." Her smile faded a bit, and a dark cloud of emotion settled over her, "She's the closest thing I have to a pupil. Found her years ago, now I can't get rid of her. not even for her own safety."

I had to bite back a few surprised remarks as I took in the sadness in her tone. I tried to open my mouth to say something, anything if only to make sure the look on Dark's fade away, but the pain in her eyes made me freeze. It was as though someone had taken a shotgun and held it up to my heart, in that moment I wanted nothing more than to go back in time and kill the person responsible for her pain.

We sat in silence for a few second, before Dark finally composed herself enough to call in the boys from outside. I couldn't bring myself to speak, and before I could try Jason and Percy strode into the makeshift conference room. With a quick motion Dark sent me into the corner of the room where the shadows were the darkest. The silent message in her eyes bade me to stay quiet, and as she turned to face the boys I noticed that they had yet to realize I was still in the room.

In an instant Dark changed, instead of the woman I was getting used to seeing, instead of the girl I had laughed with and teased, I saw the same woman I first met. The woman so used to dealing with resistance she was able to intimidate some of the most powerful beings in the known universe within days of meeting her. This wasn't the woman I was falling in love with, no this was an all-powerful being, but even then I wasn't afraid, no when I stared at her all I could see was a girl who had gone through so much, who had lost everything, and still think she was the one to be blamed. My heart swelled, and I could only watch as the scene before me unfolded.

"Jason, Percy. I realize that you have your doubts, especially now that I have revealed some information we had been withholding for a while now. My purpose here is not to make enemies at this point, so I will grant you each a few moments to speak your minds."

Percy's face lightened slightly, obviously surprised by the turn of event, while Jason's foul mood worsened.

"You say this now, after you just told you've been withholding important information and expect us to believe you. Who's to know if you're even telling the truth, and this isn't some big plan to get us all killed." Jason all but roared at Dark.

I was so surprised by his outburst, that I almost gave myself away. As it was I could see Dark's ear twitch ever so slightly.

"Hey man, it's fine, at least she told us about it now." Percy tried to reason.

This did nothing to help if anything Jason was even more enraged now. "No, you don't get to pretend everything is fine here Percy. You may not have noticed it, but that doesn't mean I haven't. This woman is fake, nothing more than some harlot who thinks she can order us around. We have no proof that this threat she's talking about is even real. All we have is some girl who thinks she can fight and her little band of circus rejects."

Jason continued to rave and rant, his words becoming nothing more than enraged yells, and I couldn't understand why. He had been so happy, maybe a little distant whenever I talked about Dark, but he never showed any sign of doubt. He was by far the most faithful when this whole thing started. What changed?

"Yo, man calm down. What's wrong with you?" Percy yelled at Jason, fed up of all the ranting. "She made a mistake, now she fixed it. Why are you so angry."

Just as Percy uttered those last words, I could see Jason's eyes narrow, before Jason exploded into a flurry of motion. Jason lunged forward smashing his fist into Percy's gut, before raising his knee to collide with Percy's face, as he doubled over.

The room became deathly still as Jason stood over Percy, while Dark had taken a step forward.

"You're pathetic Percy, you never did notice how Reyna pined over you if you did we could have had such fun with her, stringing her along for years to come," in that moment everything I knew stopped. I didn't notice Percy cradling his face on the floor, nor did I see Dark's angry glare. All I could focus on was the ugly sneer on Jason's face as continued. "She was so desperate for love, but she never had the guts to fight for it. Oh how she pined, it was quite sad. She would have done anything if she thought she had a chance, but that changed. Now she's so in love with this harlot, that she's forgotten all about us. ALL ABOUT ME." He spat.

I felt my heart drop, to me the world ended in that one moment, this wasn't like him. I didn't notice Dark yelling at him, I didn't see Percy stand up and pummeling Jason. Everything faded away into the background. Jason, my oldest friend had been playing me all this time, the pain of his betrayal hit me all at once and I let out a strangled cry. I fell to my knees and the world came barreling down on me in full force.

Dark was kneeling next to me, she was saying something, but I couldn't hear her. Percy was still standing over Jason's broken and bruised body as he yells out various curses at the son of Zeus, but all I could see, all I could hear was Jason's infuriated words and the angry glare he leveled at me.

After a few moments, I started to fade back into myself. I could hear Dark trying to get my attention, and Percy still yelling at Jason.

"That's it, Reyna, focus on me, I don't think you'd like it very much if I ask Percy to splash you into consciousness."

This definitely got my attention, and I glared at Dark before she got another word out. "If you entertain that thought for another second, I will personally make sure you have all your clothes turned pink."

Dark just grinned in relief, "Seems like we don't need the lake water, Percy."

I hit her arm harshly glaring between them. "I refuse to have dirty water thrown at me. No matter the circumstance."

Dark let out a strained laugh as she tried to grin, but it was clear her heart wasn't in it. Her face showed none of the flurry of emotions I knew she had to be feeling, but it was her eyes that betrayed her. It was in her eyes that I saw the overwhelming concern for me, the undercurrent of fear, the fading traces of her rage, and pure unadulterated fear. I could have stared into her eyes forever, but all too soon she looked away.

I grabbed her arm forcing her to look back at me, and this time, I could see shame in her eyes. My heart ached for a moment before she spoke.

"What are we going to do with him," her tone was hard and cold, and I could stop myself from flinching. She noticed, after all, I wasn't that discreet about it, but the horror that flashed across her face. She stood up suddenly, and I never regretted anything more, than I did in that one moment.

"For now just throw him into a holding cell, we can discuss everything else later," Percy replied I don't think he was any better off than I was at the turn of events. After all, Jason was our friend, we knew him better than anyone.

Dark just nodded, before creating some restraints out of a shadow. My jaw dropped for the slightest second, I had no clue she could do that, and I stared for a moment before collecting myself. Dark was very gentle when she bound Jason's arm behind his back, and when he tried to fight she only tighten her grip before forcing his arm to bend the way she wanted it to. Jason himself resorted to yelling himself hoarse, none of what he said made any sense, and I couldn't help but feel there was something off about this whole thing, but before I was able to think more on it Dark summoned a few vaguely humanoid figures out of a shadow.

I wasn't sure she made them or they were just creatures she could use to her will, but they were terrifying, black soulless eyes and claws longer than my forearm. They were the stuff of nightmares, and even Jason paled at the thought of being handled by these monsters. Dark didn't look like she cared, and when Jason tried to protest Dark just leveled a cold glare at him until he fell silent. I couldn't help but shiver once again, this wasn't the Dark I knew. She would have been laughing or taunting him with a smug smile. No, this Dark was still, cold, unfeeling almost and it felt wrong.

The pain that hid behind the edges, the coldness in her actions, even the detached nature she held herself. It was all wrong, this beautiful, amazing, funny, witty, and so many other adjectives was not allowed to be sad. In that moment, I just wanted to take her into my arms and protect her from the horrors and pain of her past.

I must have zoned out because I the next thing I saw was the door being flung open and Dark storming out with Jason being dragged behind her. I glanced at Percy who was standing frozen in the same spot. We both gave each concerned glances before Percy moved to help me up.

"Well, that was a thing."

I just nodded silently, before he continued, "Either way you need to talk with her."

I raised an eyebrow feeling slightly confused. "What do you mean?" Percy only smiled knowingly before leaving me to my thoughts. I sighed slightly, why couldn't anything be easy.