The walls were soaked in blood, mocking him, reminding him what kind of place he was sitting in. The entire room was soaked in blood, the table he lied on soaked in blood, you'd think that because of all he had been through he would have been surprised and disgusted with the amount of blood everywhere and you'd might have been right. In any other situation he would have been surprised but now, now he was terrified. He didn't know where annabeth was and he wished she could save him somehow.
The door in front of him opened to show a man with scars on this body some looked deep and other you could barely see, he was holding a wooden box that he placed next to the table. He looked at me and smiled, "Hello there, I know you have been waiting for quite a while and for that I am sorry. Your accommodations are less then stellar I know but with the war right now we are almost jam packed, now I am also sorry for the blood everywhere, you were kind of rushed in here so we didn't get a chance to clean up." he glanced away briefly looking into the box. The man contemplated on which tool to start with. Finally he chose, looking back he smiled again, only this time a more creepy smile.
"Now call this place what you want call it a room, call it a torture chamber, it doesn't matter. What matters now is what I call it, and I like to call it my laboratory. Now I know its not much of a laboratory but it is a work in progress. You are lucky enough or rather unlucky from your prospective to have been chosen to be my new experiment. You will experience pain but that is all apart of the process. My mother has told me that you are vital in the olympians plans, or heras plans or whatever to defeat her. Now she isn't the best but she's mom and I have to obey her and she wants you on her side."
He seemed to give me a moment to make sense of this. He looked troubled for a minute, he looked at me and sighed. "Okay listen kid now I don't like the olympians and certainly want to kill them but what mother wants me to do troubles me, its against my honor to disgrace an enemy by turning their kid into a monster without his permission. If you were willing to do this then well that wouldn't be a problem, but you're not." He seemed to think for a few more moments, quickly his troubled expression disappeared "Now lets begin this experiment shall we." After the first pain I felt I only wished for it to end.
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Chiron glanced at the campers sitting at their tables eating dinner at the usual time. He made quick work of the attendance, seeing if everyone was there and of course everyone was except for percy. He sighed and closed his eyes, the boy had been having so much trouble since returning from the war, everyone has. Most tried to keep a strong face for their friends and family but chiron had been around enough wars to know a mask. He opened his eyes and looked at the ares table to find clarisse. She had been a big help amongst the campers as much as some might think that was a surprise. She had seen her brothers and sisters die in front of her, and not just ares kids, She has always been considered one of the leaders in the camp but now most people look to her for help. She leads the camps defensive teams and helps chiron teach sword fighting in place of percy who hadn't left his cabin since he first walked in there after the war.
Clarisse had been putting on a strong face and had tried to put hope into the campers hearts while their hero was unavailable. Most hadn't been told the story but the cabin leaders, the rest of the seven and nico know what happened to percy, and from clarisse's face he knew she was thinking about it. Chiron stood and stomped onto the ground to silence everyone and gather their attention. When he was sure he had their attention he started to speak, "Attention, classes for the rest of the day are canceled, can I please have the cabin councilors come to the big house for a meeting please, that is all enjoy the rest of your night, the campfire tonight is still on, that is all."
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Do it. Pick up the sword and kill her. Prove to them that you are loyal.
No no I would never kill her, unless I have to. No stop please, I cant hurt her.
But you want to right, come on you know it, you know she brings you dinner every night. You could do it. When she shows up just gut her nice and quick, taste the pleasure of the kill. DO IT.
Please stop it, I dont want to. I love her. I need her.
I jumped at the sound of knocking on the door and a voice after. "Percy I have dinner for you can I come in." I don't answer, I want the food. I'm hungry, but if she comes in then I could lose myself and accidentally hurt her. I don't want that. Eventually she opens the door anyway. When she walks in she sees me huddled in the corner as always. I have my pen in my hand I noticed, I had to have picked it up when she walked in. She walked slowly me watching her. I start to calm down, I know she wont hurt me.
Yes she will, she could have poisoned the food, she wants to kill you, you're a son of Poseidon, shes the daughter of athena, her mother wants you dead. She's doing her dirty work.
I quickly tense up, she notices and stops taking a step back.
"kill her, now while she is unarmed, do it, now KILL HER."
I stand up quickly acting on unwanted instincts. She steps back more shocked. I was usually still when she brings my food but know this happens. "Percy please, remember what mr. d said." I shook my head. Remembering what I was told but now it wasn't working. I could my eyes focus on my hand. I still had my sword. I went to drop it when it started talking again.
NO Dont drop it, then you would be unarmed and it would be easier for her to kill you. Do it now, KILL HER.
I looked up at her and started to walk to her slowly. "You poisoned my food didn't you, you're just doing your mothers dirty work for her. I should kill yo.." I stopped talking, slapping my hand to my head to stop the thoughts.
NO you were close, finish it NOW. KILL HER NOW.
Everything stopped making sense. Wait, who is this woman in front of me. I recognize her. No I don't shes a threat. She is a threat, she wants to kill you for disgracing her mother. Quickly I took out riptide and tried to attack when the door broke open.
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The cabin councilors were sitting around the ping pong table, quietly talking amongst themselves when I walked in and sat next to Dionysus, who was reading a wine magazine so I started the meeting as usual. "Okay everyone I will try and make this quick, Travis would you please tell us the report of our scouts in the area." He looked up from something that his brother was holding, "Scouts say that the number of monsters in the area hasn't changed since last week. Besides that, nothing unusual out there."
I thanked him and turned to clarisse, "How are the campers clarisse, anybody in need of extra training or anything." She cleared her throat before responding. "Some campers from the aphrodite cabin refusing to train again but that isn't unusual. Some campers from the hephaestus cabin were injured in some accident in bunker 9 and cant train for a day or two but besides that nothing worth noting.
I nodded and looked to malcolm for the defense status when Dionysus droped his magazine on the table. Everybody jumped and looked at him, he had a confused look on his face. "Whats wrong dionysus you look tense." he looked as if he didn't hear me when realization came to his face."
"Chiron Annabelle is in danger. Get to her quickly." I looked shocked. The room was shocked. "What do you mean Dionysus, Annabeth is with Percy giving him his dinner, what danger is she in."
He looked at me quickly. "Chiron something is wrong with Percy, I have been watching his mental state since he got back and now suddenly he completely lost it. Get there now bring him here so I can restrain him."
I was so shocked I didn't recognize the fact he remembered percy's name. I remembered what he said and turned to the campers, "Clarisse take leo and will to the percy's cabin the rest of us will be right behind you." She nodded and they left in a rush.
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When me, leo and will got to the cabin I stopped to try and hear any noises. Nothing, wait was that jackson's sword? I stepped in front of the door, readying myself I kicked the door down. When we got inside I saw jackson running toward annabeth. I took out my spear and stood in front of hm blocking his slash. I continued to hold him there and looked into his eyes. His pupils were extremely dilated. He looked like a caged wild animal. I tried to talk him down but nothing was working. "Jackson come on talk to me, whats wrong with you. Why are you attacking annabeth, she is your girlfriend remember."
Nothing was working, I looked into his eyes and I saw confusion, and anger. Almost like he was fighting himself for control. As much as I don't want to admit it jackson has always been a better fighter then I have, but right now I am pretty much holding my own. He pulled back slashing at my head I blocked and countered with a blow to his head with the side of my spear trying to get him to get knocked unconscious but it didn't work, we exchanged a few blows while will occasionally tried to hit him with an arrow which he blocked with his sword. After a few minutes I got close to jackson, I grabbed him and threw him out the door outside trying to get more space to try and fight him and stall waiting for Dionysus to get here.
Soon enough I saw dionysus make his way over to us. At this point me and jackson both lost our weapons and were engaging in hand to hand combat. I thought I saw Dionysus summon his staff when he began to talk. "Well well what is going on here." When he started talking jackson whipped around and starred at him, conflict fighting in his head. "Listen Perry if you don't calm down now I am going to have to subdue you.
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I saw madness in his eyes, madness that only tartarus can do to you. I saw a broken human in place of percy. I saw him split in two, I heard his thoughts, and im afraid that nothing I could do would fix him. For now I needed to stop him and restrain him which is what I tried to do when he tried to attack me.
He ran at me and swung his fists at me which I blocked, only when i hit him in the head with the top of my staff did he finally pass out. Chiron walked up to where percy was laying and sighed. He looked to that clarisse girl and spoke. "Clarisse please take percy to the big house and put him in a room. Leo, will please go with her and help restrain him. I will gather the cabin leaders again and we will have another metting on this matter.
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