Disclaimer: Yeah, I know. All characters and stuff rights to Rick Riordan...
Gosh! I HATE Rick's cliffhangers! they just keep driving me crazy and stuff for a whole year! Not fair!
So well... yep, for those who wanna keep reading some more about Percy, I'm writing this fanfic and I hope (I really hope) you guys like it :)
Please review!
Annabeth
Annabeth woke up with a searing sensation in her ankle, the bubble wrap around it was gone. Her head and her throat stung. She could barely breathe. She opened her eyes difficultly. She couldn't tell if she had suddenly become blind, because she saw nothing. She blinked. Again, all she could see was darkness. She tried to think straight but her thoughts were strangely tangled up...
Then the memories hit her. Percy had come for her to Arachne's cave, but the monster had dragged her into the pit, straight into... Tartarus? Percy didn't want to let her go... He— he had fallen into the pit too... with her...
She sat, trying to control the nausea. She felt all around her, but she didn't find Percy. Instead, she felt besides her a cloth bundle. Her hands felt warm... it was her backpack! surely enough, she found the knife Luke had gave her... his face swam very clearly in Annabeth's memories, but since she had Percy at her side, the pain of losing Luke had restrained. But, where was the son of Poseidon?
"P— Percy? Where are you?" She blinked again. On the corner of her eye she catched the glimpse of a blue glow in the floor... Riptide. "Percy?" She crawled thither. "Percy?" She didn't get an answer.
She got to Riptide. Next to it she saw someone lying on the floor. She reached for his hand and recognized that little scar from a pit scorpion sting immediately. She gripped his hand tight
"Percy, please... wake up, Seaweed Brain!" She was desperate with fear. She dragged herself closer and felt for his head. His forehead was covered with sweat and something more thick: blood.
"Oh gods, Percy, what have you done?" She felt for a pulse, and there it was, for her relief. She whispered in his ear: "Seaweed Brain, wake up, please. I'm scared" She patted his cheeks and waited for a few seconds, touching his eyelashes to feel when he opened his eyes. He gasped and his eye lids fluttered open.
"W—what?" he said "Annabeth! were are you?!" He tried to get up but Annabeth held him back "Hey, shhh, I'm okay... what happened?"
Percy sighed and put Riptide between them so that he could see her.
"It's fuzzy... I... I cut Arachnne's web and... I don't recall. But I'm glad you're okay. Well... relatively. You know."
"Yes I know. But we're still together. That's what matters. Where are we?"
Percy stood up "I think it was my roll to do the questions but... well... I think we both know this is Tartarus. Or, well, the outside of the outside of the entrance to it. Something like that."
"Damn it"
"Sure. Here's the place of damnation, I think"
"Shut up, Seaweed Brain."
"Okay. I was just trying to crack a joke or something"
Despite herself, Annabeth smiled.
Percy helped her up. She bit her lip to stop the scream of pain that wanted to come out. Percy's eyebrows went cutely scrunched together.
"You sure you can handle it?"
Her heart felt warm and the pain decreased a bit.
"'Course I can Seaweed Brain. Let's kick some monster's butts"
And they walked, mostly limped, all covered in dust and blood but still with their fingers laced, towards the darkest point of the pit.