World without light

by TheUniquist

Princess Annabeth has always lived a sheltered life in the castle. Until She finds a half demon half angel being tortured by her childhood friend, Luke Castelan. Now The throne has been taken by rebels and to top it off Demons are threatening to enslave mankind. Is it a coincidence that that the rebellion started at the same time that demons invaded, or are they somehow connected?

1. Chapter 1

I am the royal princess Annabeth, the only child and heir of the great king Frederick to be precise, and this is the story of my struggle against the rebels trying to take the throne and demons threatening to enslave mankind with the half cat person half god, Percy at my side.

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It was a normal day at the castle with my father in his office doing all that paperwork and me... Well what can a princess do besides walk around and read? So anyway this day I decided I was more in a walkish mood than a bookish mood (which is very rare), so I was just kind of walking around the palace trying to find some secret passage that I hadn't found. I found much more than I bargained for. I hadn't found a new secret passage in quite a while since I'd found all of them -or so I thought-, but that day I found this one that looked like none of the others.

I was looking around the library trying to pull books that could trigger a bookshelf to rotate and reveal a secret door. But just as I'd given, up I accidentally knocked the holy book that was forbidden to touch off its pedestal. The pedestal slowly sunk into the ground and when it disappeared and a floor with no pedestal took its place the wall behind slide silently to the side. There were stairs going downwards into darkness, she was eager to investigate this new tunnel but made sure no one was around. When I was sure that I could go into the tunnel without being seen I hopped down the stairs. Nothing could have ever prepared me for what I saw.

At the bottom of the stairs I found a chamber with a giant table in one corner with a lot of unpleasant looking tools across it. In another corner there was a large cage large enough for someone to jump in and put their arms out full length. There was a figure in the cage... I gasped and ran over to the cage.

"Are you okay? Are you dead? Who did this to you?" I said in a hushed panicky voice.

He looked up at me with hazy eyes and two of my questions were answered just by that look. No he was not dead. No he was definitely not okay. I tried the cage door but it was locked and I started looking around the room for a key. Just then I heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Curse that silent door.

"Hide!" The not ok person whisper/yelled. I did as told and hid behind a bookshelf in one of the other corners. I never expected Luke Castelan to come walking down the steps.