Chapter 1

Percy was bowed before the council along with the other of the seven who beat Gaia.

"We are here to reward the brave hero's that have helped us fight in this war against Gaia. Firstly, my son Jason, I believe that no-one has an issue with him being granted immortality." No-one had any complaints. "So I will make you an immortal demigod." A bright light surrounded Jason and when it disappeared he walked back to the rest of the group. The same happened for Nico, Hazel, Frank, Leo, Annabeth, and Piper.

When it came to Percy Zeus said, "Does anyone have an issue with Perseus becoming a god." Percy raised his hand.

"I am eternally grateful for this offer for a second time but I would like to use my gift for something else." Everyone looked in shock.

"You dare to deny me to give you a gift for a second time." Zeus strode towards the defiant demigod. Zeus grabbed him. he lifted him up and Percy could feel him start to burn. He was dropped to the floor and Zeus had burnt his mortality away. Percy fell to the ground in a heap. He smiled.

"Dad, don't even think about you and the other Olympians going to war over this. Zeus is just upset. Make sure he gets his medicine to make him better." Percy joked.

Zeus growled in anger and raised his master bolt. Everyone looked in shock at the events unfolding. Percy turned to Annabeth, "I had to try to help the Titans." He winked and was hit by the lightning bolt. And the two time saviour of Olympus was sent to Tartarus.

Percy's POV

I got up aching everywhere. I guess the master bolt does that.

I was in Tartarus again. The last time o managed to get out because I was with Annabeth. This time I think it will be far more difficult. I put my hand down to steady myself and cut it. I looked down and there was golden icor coming from the wound. I could see a castle in the distance. I made my way for it. Any civilisation is better than no civilisation.

As I made my way to the castle I could see dead bodies in different levels of decay all around me. They were bodies of monsters everywhere. I guess here they are mortal just like humans. As I walked further I was surrounded by a group of Telkines. I drew riptide. They charged. I whipped riptide across the stomach of one and spin round beheading another. He then cut down a few more before one hit me on the head. They just kept coming. I collapsed to the floor and was surrounded.

I accepted my fate. I was to die here in Tartarus. There was no-one to save me.

There was a shadow above us. Great more monsters, I thought. Whatever it was dropped to the floor and started to rip apart the Telkines. I looked up to see, Bob destroying them.

When it was over he said, "Your uncle hades sent me to protect you, and to take you to his friend Tartarus himself."

"Can you flash me there?" I asked.

"I could but you would see my true form while doing it."

"I am immortal now so that is okay."

"Fine I shall. Before I do in the week that you have been here…."

"What, but I have just got here."

"Time works differently here. Anyway your father managed to convince Athena to give him the incantation for making someone and god and he made you god of tides."

I smiled, (Probably one of the few times it has ever happened in Tartarus,) and asked, "How did Zeus take it."

"He didn't like it but the whole of the council supported it so he did not have much of a choice."

"Do I call you Bob or…"

"It's okay, Hades told me everything. You call me Iapetes but I am a changed man. I have no problems with not going back to who I was.

"So Iapetes shall we go to the castle?"

"Yes we shall."

When they appeared in the Throne room of the Castle I saw a man with a red suite sitting on a throne. I bowed.

"Rise Perseus, you are a remarkable person, to have garnered the affection of Hades despite your parentage is an impressive feet. To have beaten both Kronos and my sister is another even more impressive feet. To still be humble enough to refuse immortality was very surprising for me. I am sure you know who I am and I wish to offer you a way out of Tartarus. The only way out now is through either being a monster or winning my competition."

"What is the competition, Lord Tartarus." I said.

"I hold a competition every ten years to see who will be the champion of the pit. I have decided that entering the arguably greatest hero of all time into it might make this a tournament to remember. I shall have you trained by one of the previous champions. You shall be taken there. Every day you shall work for as long as it takes in the mines. Then you shall train for the remainder of the day and night. You shall then sleep for however long is left and the routine shall repeat."

I bowed, "Yes Lord Tartarus."

I was escorted to the mines by two giants after Iapetes returned to Hades. When I got there I was given a place to work a pick and four carts to fill with Stygian iron ore.

"You shall work until you finish this and fill the four carts. You shall be done in the twelve hours or else." The creature in charge of the mine had told me. That was about six hours ago. Since then I have collapsed from exhaustion three times. I had only filled one cart.

I had to speed up. If I was to see my friends again I would have to get used to this. If I wanted to see Annabeth again, I would have to work harder.

I sped up gritting my teeth to the pain in my muscles.

Six hours later, I had filled up three carts and was just short on the fourth. When the Giant came round to check on my work I could have sworn he looked in surprise at the amount that I had managed to get. His face then turned to one of anger as he had me beaten for failing to keep up with the standards. When I was escorted out to my living quarters I failed to see Tartarus approaching the giant.

"How did he do?"

"I set him an impossible target as you told me too, and he almost managed it. That kid is something else. When most Cyclopes or giants first come here they manage less than he did. He is the first demigod going into the tournament and he might well have a chance. No matter how I look at it he has the determination and the drive of ten people."

As I followed them to my living quarters I looked around and saw more dead everywhere. As I walked past a Drakon corpse I almost wretched at the stench.

I entered the building that was where most of the competitors lived. I passed a whole range of monsters. As I was thrown into my living quarters I looked to see who I would be sharing with. He was sitting on a bed looking at me. I could tell he was immortal. 'He must be a titan' I thought.

"Who are you?"

He looked at me and I stared straight back, "I am Perses, the titan of Destruction. I will be your trainer."

"Umm, okay. Why you?"

"Because I am the strongest titan and I am the previous champion of the pit."

"Fair enough. How shall we train?"

"I shall train you in your strength and in your powers."

"I am already proficient in my powers with water; I should mainly focus on my strength."

"You don't know?"

"I don't know what?"

"Well the way Titans work is if you beat a titan as an immortal you gain their domain. So therefore since you recently became immortal you gain the powers of the titans that you beat."

I stared in shock. "I your case that means you now possess light and time from the first war from when you beat Hyperion and Kronos. I will need to train you in those powers as well as your now strengthened water powers."

"So if I train hard enough do you think I will have a chance of winning the tournament?"

"No, but if it makes you feel better then yes."