The Dark Prince Returns (Open)

[solo]

The underworld was quiet now...No noise infiltrated his ears as the monsters that he had killed were now reduced to nothing. Blood Seeker held out in front of him in a loose manner the broadsword glinted deadly as he looked out at the nothingness in front of him. They were all dead now, and he was the one that was left standing. His black armor shining darkly around him, giving him an aura of evil as he stood there with the Stygian Iron sword out at his side he knew that he was done training now, and that it was time for him to go back to the place where it had all began. Camp Halfblood.. he snarled mentally at himself. It wasn't the camp itself that he hated, but the people in it. Those liars, and traitors. Williams blue eyes glazed over with ice, and then he was gone.

In the middle of Camp Half-Blood right in front of the Big House everyone was carrying on as usual. Campers walking around, activities being done it was as if nothing was going to bother this peaceful day. Oh how wrong they were. In a perfect circle the ground cracked, and then caved in revealing a very deep, and dark hole. Nothing but shadows could be seen, but there were screams of agony emitting from the hole, and then the familiar dark musical laughter of William. Everyone around stopped, and stared at the hole in the ground. A column of deep blue hellfire erupted from the hole, and from the hole, and hellfire he emerged on a pillar of earth. Bloodied, and beaten by his constant battles in the Underworld, but he was there. One of the strongest people at that camp had returned, and he looked at their faces.

Priceless was the best way to describe their reactions. His fear aura exuded from him more powerful than it previously was he stared at them all his Stygian Iron Broadsword hanging it's scabbard, and he laughed. Most of them knew who he was, and the things he had done, how unhinged he could become when pushed, and a wave of whispers spread throughout the crowd.

"What? Hellhound got your tongue?" he smirked as his eyes glinted with evil.

Stepping on to the solid ground the hole in which he emerged from the Underworld disappeared. His bloodied armor disappeared into a plain black T-Shirt, and he was wearing his usual attire of a black t-shirt, and blue jeans. It was time for them all to remember just who he was. And he would enjoy reminding them.

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey really hated Xenos for the last couple of painful months and the shadow javelin that he used to pierce through her shoulder. And for the sling that she was forced to wear and the surge of pains she felt surge through her arm if she even attempted to move her shoulder one bit. At least it was a clean wound the Apollo kids told her. It was good it completely pierced through her shoulder so it could heal properly. A very long and painful healing process.

She was in the infirmary getting the bandage changed on her shoulder, since it was still oozing a green liquid. Hailey was pretty sure that was more of a sign of infection than it healing properly. However, the Apollo kids apparently knew what they were doing, so she let them do their duties. That is, until she heard the screams.

She jumped off the couch just as the Apollo kid was finishing up the bandage. She got yelled at, but she didn't care as she rushed out of the infirmary and onto the porch of the Big House. There was hellfire and people screaming. She was about to scream for Chiron when someone appeared from the fire. It couldn't be. Her good hand reached down and grabbed her dagger as she approached him.

Was it really William? She didn't personally know him, but she knew that he disappeared after the battle, along with everyone else. She heard whispers that he went with the traitors, but that was obviously not true, especially right now. But it didn't look like him, but that maybe was due to the fact that he looked pretty beaten up. "What are you doing back?" she said to him as she narrowed her eyes slightly. "We thought you completely left camp."

[solo]

It didn't take long for some big tough camper to come at him, and start throwing accusations around. Turning to face her he had a few scars on his face, and his shirt was ripped revealing the deep S shaped scar on his chest that Styx had branded him with. His dark hair was wild, and hung down past his eyes parting slightly in the middle just so you could make out the colors of his irises, and he only grinned that cruel evil grin of his at her.

"I live here thats what I am doing here." he spoke to her very coldly, and he couldn't believe that she had the gall to question his motives for being here. This was his home not hers.

"Well obviously they lied. Otherwise I wouldn't have come back, though I do suppose that since I am vastly superior to everyone here, they would have a hard time keeping me out either way." he spoke, his voice carrying that cold arrogant tone.

In his absence his attitude had only gotten worse, and he blamed the one boy responsible for it all. Zoltan Swyft. He would track down the son of Nyx, and kill him with great pleasure. Looking at the girl though she did look familiar, and he recognized her as a Hunter of Artemis, and he could only laugh more at her. She was holding a dagger out at him, and he swiftly raised Blood Seeker, the pitch black blade gleaming darkly in the sunlight as it reflected the rays. This girl posed no threat to him for many reasons. One she was injured, and without the use of both of her arms she stood little chance of beating him. Even with both of her arms, her chances of beating him weren't all that great.

"Now put that thing away before you make me mad, and I decide to rip your good arm off." his voice containing the cold edge as he threatened her.

Holding his weapon so the tip was pointed at her throat, and then he lowered it, but his blue eyes were still iced over as he glared at the girl before him. Grinning like a madman as he twirled his weapon in a circle as he locked eyes with the Hunter. She posed no threat to him, but the fact that she thought she did amused him. It amused him greatly.

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey only pulled out her dagger in case he was planning to try something on her or the camp. There was no way she was going to be aggressive towards William, especially how he looked. He just looked extremely beaten and wild. Almost feral. There was no way that Hailey was going to try anything on him, but she had a duty that her lady put on her and that was to protect the camp from any and all threats. And she assumed that he would be on.

She narrowed her eyes further at him as he spoke. There was no way that she was liking his words or even the tone of voice he was using with her. She almost scoffed as his ego showed through. A very big one. she thought to herself before lowered her dagger slightly. She never had it up and poised to attack him, but he took it as a threat. She glanced down at the blade at her throat before she sheathed her dagger once more. It was not longer out and being a threat towards him. However, her hand hovered above it slightly in case she needed to draw it again in case of an emergency.

"I wouldn't want you to rip off my good arm," she said coolly as she returned his gaze. She could barely see the humanity behind those blue eyes of his. All she could see is a wild and untamed animal. "Especially when getting a javelin through the shoulder is bad enough. And then someone would have to take pity on me as I healed up."

Her eyes scanned his body as she tried to decide if he was indeed a threat or not. He was bloody and bruised, like he was perpetual battle. Then where in the world was he that required that much fighting in the past several months of his disappearance.

"Then where were you?" she challenged him as her eyes continued narrowing at him. "Everyone thought you skipped out of here to join the Primordials. Where in the world were you when your camp needed you?" She felt herself get mad, furious almost. This was her camp and her home and he was claiming it was supposedly his too. However, one of their best people just left when the camp needed him. Obviously he didn't have a sense of duty like Hailey had. "Where did the great William Lanier go when the camp was trying to recover from the attack?" She scoffed as her eyes narrowed to slits. "You're just as bad as the traitors in my eyes."

[solo]

She asked him where he had been, where he had been driven half mad, and gained more strength than he could have ever gained while sitting here at this camp full of traitors. She filled him in on how everyone thought he had become a traitor, and he looked around at the campers as their faces went white with fear. The dread aura he was giving off only intensified as he stared at the girl in front of him his lips curved in a snarl. She had no right to question his allegiance to this camp seeing as how he had defended it like all the others.

"Well you see this scar on my chest? I was summoned by the one who cursed me with it, however I managed to kill my way out of the depths of the Underworld, but there was more. Always more....The two of them broke me..." his sentences started to break, and make less sense as the fresh surge of anger rushed through his veins. "After they broke me...I went off, and began training harder than I ever could here...I have killed hundreds, maybe even thousands of monsters with my blade...Nonstop I just kept pushing myself..." staring at her for the briefest second his icy blue eyes melted in a liquid state.

Then she said the one thing that no one should have ever said to him, and without even meaning to his powers flared out of control as his upper body began burning with the blue hellfire that was his to control. His tattered black shirt burned away leaving him bare chested with the marred markings of his scar visible. The ground around him, and Hailey began cracking, and the shadows around him, and those of others were sucked around them creating a platform of darkness around him. The beauty of his eyes was gone, and it was lit with a cold fire. His long messy hair only made him look even more beast like as he took a step forward, and the ground around him quaked as he did.

She had called him a traitor, and he wouldn't stand for that raising his sword level off at her legs he roared.

"HOW DARE YOU EVEN CALL ME A TRAITOR! I DEFENDED THIS CAMP BETTER THAN ANY OF YOU! I WAS TOSSED AROUND THAT BATTLEFIELD BY GIANTS, AND GODS KNOW WHAT ELSE. I DEFENDED THE GIRL WHO BROKE MY HEART, MY SISTER, AND MY BROTHER WITHOUT DYING! I EVEN GOT HIT BY A LIGHTNING BOLT FROM A GOD! AND YOU DARE CALL ME A TRAITOR!" if he wasn't in a bad mood before now he definitely was.

The fuse to his anger was short as it was, but now his sanity was in question as the ground around them, and under them began shifting as he took another step towards her closing the distance around them to about five feet. The blue hell fire surrounded his upperbody he was going to have retribution.

[nezuel]

Nezuel was practicing in the arena when he heard the screams. He had recently recovered from the infirmary and wanted to make sure he could still fight. He had been sent to the infirmary when he had shadow traveled himself, his girlfriend Alyvia, and all their luggage half way around the world from Vienna to camp. Generally shadow traveling wasn't that hard but long distances and extra weight can take its toll.

He was thinking of Alyvia as he sliced up the dummies in the arena with his stygian iron bident. He was reliving the moment were he lost her trust and were he had lost his control. One of the things he learned was to never lose your emotion in battle. Yet when giants had stolen his girlfriend Alyvia from him and were going to kill her he had snapped. And what she had seen in him had scared her. The two of them left her dream city of Vienna and he hadn't seen her since he had been to the infirmary, she was probably avoiding him.

The dummies in the area were piles on the ground by the time he finished with them and he had worked up a thin layer of sweat. He turned his head when he heard the scream. He didn't waste any time and quickly shadow traveled towards the source. Less than a second later he arrived by the big house. But it was odd. He had appeared out of a ring of shadows. The first thing he really saw was the chaos. The ground was shaking, blue fire, he recognized it as hellfire, was every were, and there was an aura of fear that made campers run for their lives. He didn't know who the man that was causing this was but he was probably related to him. He sighed knowing that he had to stop whoever that guy was and that it wouldn't' be easy. Before the man noticed him Nezuel focus his power and sent it into the area around him. He mended the earth and made the shadows dissipate. he sent his own aura of fear to clash with the mysterious man's aura. Lastly he stopped the hellfire, all but the blue flames on the man's own body. Sure children of Hades were resistant but not immune to hellfire, he would burn eventually.

"You need to calm down." He said approaching the two figures. He had managed to catch some of their conversation. Apparently the girl thought he was a traitor and the guy didn't agree. "I don't know who you are or whether you are or aren't a traitor. But look around you," he waved his hands at the scared faces of the campers. "you're sure acting like on!" He had to be careful around this man. He was powerful and although he had managed to suppress his powers for now it had taken quite bit out of him. It it came to a confrontation he wasn't sure who would win. Really though he just had to wait for more help.

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Blindness was truly a hell… But it was a hell which Ana had slowly but surely begun to adapt to. While she’d never be entirely used to it, that wasn’t to say that she hadn’t already figured out some tips and tricks to coping with the disability. She had to, if she was to keep of this cracking façade of normalcy.

Perhaps the first and foremost of these tricks was her use of shadow. Probing with it allowed her to identify people, particularly other children of Hades, to shadow travel in an environment which almost made her feel as though she could see, as well as to identify obstacles. Not only that, but it also granted her the ability to fight, no matter how half-assed it felt like. In the past while, the use of this ability alone had strengthened magnitudes, even if her others hadn’t increased with the same speed. For this reason, she sensed it immediately when a child of Hades began pulling shadows from others. Upon sending out a probe… It was almost like she could sense a bomb going off in the distance. She knew of only two of her siblings which could manage something that powerful… And one of them was dead.

Before she really had much time to digest that thought, she was already swinging up and off of her bed, dropping straight through the shadow at the floor beside it. In a span of seconds, her form was whisked to the epicenter of William’s... Whatever it was, and just in time to catch Nezuel’s voice mentioning something of a traitor. Her mind instantly drew a conclusion, which was startlingly accurate.

Sending out a probe of shadow… Her realization of William’s returned presence was authenticated. While her gaze was blank, glazed and unfocused, her voice was strong as she spoke. “Nezuel… Call our brother a traitor one more time…” Faint brushes, sort of like echo location, rebounded to her, confirming another vague thought. “Either of you,” She added, sensing a fourth person nearby, “And let’s see what will happen.” She offered a humorless laugh, tilting her head partially in Will’s direction. “It is unfortunate that your return had to start this way, brother.”

[solo]

Then it happened again. Some boy showed up, and attempted to calm him down by fixing all of his destruction, and then trying to suppress his powers. Anger flared up inside of him again as the boy accused him of being a traitor just like the girl did. Power surged through his veins as he began fighting for control against the boy, to regain his powers back to their full extent, but that is when she showed up. Ana...His little sister showed up to his defense telling them to stop calling him a traitor, and then she called the other boy their brother. Swinging towards the dark haired child of hades his lips curved in a snarl as the hellfire on his body died away, and he allowed his powers to stop affecting the outside world. This boy was supposedly his brother, but he didn't carry himself like William though a Child of Hades should.

"So this is Uriel's replacement? Pathetic...He would be ashamed to be related to you just as I am." his voice held no kindness to it at all.

Right now he was void of any, and all emotions except anger, and rage, and those two were the exact same thing. Staring away from the Hunter he turned his full attention to the boy who was his brother, and he sneered at him.

"Let's get something straight. You EVER get in my way again, I don't care if you are related to me, or not. I will end your miserable existence without a seconds hesitation. Then you can spend the rest of eternity with Father." he spoke with a coldness that would chill even a summer day.

Turning back to Ana he saw something was off about her, and that is when he saw them. Her eyes were an off grayish color. She had become blind in his absence, and he wanted to go on another rampage as the anger rolled off of him in waves.

"Oh no Ana...What has happened to you...Who did this!?" he said the beast that he was now gone, and replaced by the concerned brother.

Ana was the only person at this camp that he could really stand besides Uriel, Silvia, and Selena, but they were all gone now, and she was all he had. Well her, and that pathetic excuse for a sibling called Nezual who he was going to have a long chat with later. All he could do was stare at her eyes, and wish that he could do something to help her.

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Anastasya let the ghost of a smile keep its place on her lips throughout the duration of William’s speaking. Even with his threatening, angry voice… She was glad to hear him again. Seeing would’ve been wonderful, too, but unfortunately, that was out of the question… It was of no matter. Angry or not, he was her brother, and her favorite one, at that. They’d always seemed to have a sort of understanding of one another.

Perhaps that was the reason for his tide of anger suddenly seeming to recede, and morph into something else all together.

With the abruptly concerned tone, she ‘looked’ toward him. Really, the gesture was more of a tilt of her head, her eyes vaguely tracking in the direction of the sound, but unable to focus on anything. Although, she was easily imaging the expression that would’ve been written so clearly on his face, and her smile faded at that thought. Clearing her throat, then sighing, she addressed him in a lower voice, more patient than commanding this time. “It was a Primordial soldier, Will, a while ago. My skull was smashed against some rock… And the damage was enough to take out my eyesight.” The ghost of a smile returned, and another humorless laugh escaped her. “No worries, though, they’re dead now.”

Sending out a pulse of shadow in an effort to ‘see’ him, she moved forward, taking a couple steps in his direction to bring them closer together. She… Really wanted to hug him. Her physical contact, or any sort of real interaction with people at all, had become nearly non-existent in the recent month, and had entirely vanished with this favorite brother for longer.

[Hailey Nichols]

There were only a few times in Hailey's life where she was significantly scared for her life. This was one of those times. Apparently she said the wrong thing or he took it the wrong way, because he was wild again as he yelled at her. She flinched a bit as her hand gripped the handle of her dagger, but she didn't pull it out quite yet. The next thing she needed was for him to decapitate her with his sword or break her good arm off. She knew that she was immortal, but she could fall in battle. However, she wasn't sure if an extremely pissed off demigod was grounds for battle. She had a feeling it was, which made her worry.

However, people quickly started to intervene. First a boy, who said something that made Hailey's traitor statement way worse than it originally was. She tightened her grip on her dagger more, but didn't unsheath it quite yet as another girl joined the pow wow they were having. However, she recognized the girl, as she was one of the ones that she tried to recruit for the Hunters. Tried, as Ana kept refusing and eventually went blind. And then Hailey stopped trying with her, since she didn't know if her lady wanted someone visually impaired with the Hunters.

And it quickly occurred to Hailey that she was in the middle of a family reunion as everyone around her was in the Hades cabin. William turned his attention towards his brother and Hailey looked around. She got a head nod from one of the people watching the scene and she thought to herself that it was now or never. She quickly backed away very slowly from the scene before she made sure that she was a good distance away from the group. Then she turned around and took off towards the safety of her cabin.

[nezuel]

Nezuel felt the man address him with his power. He fought back, suppressing him even further. A battle of wills started between the two of them. It ended soon after it started when Ana showed up. She took the man's side which he first found odd but then he realized why. She had not seen, or in her case, felt the destruction and terror he had been bringing about the camp since he had suppressed it before she had arrived. This man was also his bother, William, as family she would stand by him as default. Yet he sensed that he and Ana would have a bit of a talk later. Supporting your family was one thing, supporting him destroying the camp was another.

Ana arriving seemed to calm the man down and he stopped trying to use his powers against Nezuel. He quickly stopped suppressing them and waited for something to happen. And something did happen, the man, William, started tearing into him. He mention Uriel which, if he remembered correctly, was another brother he had missed, killed in battle. Then he started threatening him. Really the man was delusional and feral. Perhaps a bit ignorant. Nezuel just stood there with a small smile on his face. Soon his rant ended and he turned his attention to Ana.

Then he saw something different. Something that wasn't feral in William. He was concerned for Ana, his sister. Perhaps there was hope for William yet but it was probably only a case by case basis. He'd probably snap right back to it. He noticed the hunter, the girl who had confronted William before him, was snaking away. William couldn't see, to distracted by Ana. Perhaps Ana could sense her leaving but he didn't know. He bent some shadows to hide the girl's escape. She had done enough. She was brave for trying to stop him while she was wounded. When she was gone he turned his attention back on his siblings.

[solo]

Ana explained everything that had happened while he had been gone, and it devastated him that she had lost her sight, and he hugged her close to him. His baby sister had been hurt, and it was all his fault. Had he been there he could have protected her, but because of his own selfish reasons she had lost her sight, and now he was going to track down everyone who had anything to do with the primordials, and kill them. They had struck a cord with him, and now he was going to rip out all of their cords one by one, and with a sigh he hugged her tightly, and didn't let go for a short time.

"So that means that there are still traitors around huh...?" he asked even though he already knew the answer to that question.

They would have been stupid to stay in camp after the war, and now it was going to be left up to him to hunt them all down. All of those ingrates who had betrayed their family, and friends just for some stupid promise. Those people disgusted him, and he was going to go on a crusade, and hunt them all down without a seconds hesitation in his body. The animal in him was clawing against the cage trying to get free once more, but he contained it for now...It wouldn't do him any good to freak out, and cause even more destruction which would wind up with him in a power struggle with that fool who claimed to be a brother to him. William didn't know the man, and he didn't care to get to know him either. He was focused on his own mission, and with Blood Seeker at his side it would be a success.

"Ana take care...I will meet with you later I have something to do...", and with that he shadow traveled away from the small group, and into the forest. Leaning up against the tree where he had first met Silvia he fell asleep. Resting up for his mission to come.

(William Exits)