Piper's POV
I watched, silently, as Percy seemed to fall apart. His time in Tarturus, though it saved the world, took its toll on the son of Poseidon. He was slumped over his legs, head in his hands, and he stared unseeing at Annabeth's still form. After the doors of death, after Percy and Annabeth had tumbled through, they had gone unconscience and every one could see they were quickly slipping away as the dark giants cloud covered them; but something miraculous and frighteningly impossible happened.
He shouldn't have been able to open his eyes, even without the death fog that was rolling over him and his girlfriend, somehow he stood and when I saw his eyes, I knew-I just knew that something in him was broken. His sea green eyes told a story of pain and inner torture, something he couldn't handle on his own. And with that shattered look, he stood, his face and clothes were battered and beaten, torn and shred, there were scratches and bruises all up and down his arms, his expression ashen. He looked insane, and a mad smile stretched over his pearly teeth.
He stuck a finger in his mouth and let out the loudest cab call I'd ever heard. Everyone in the room turned to him, just as surprised to see him conscience as me, but there attention was soon diverted to the speeding blur that raced by. When the shape stopped, it revealed itself to be Arion, Hazels magical mount, and that it had stopped by Annabeth. Percy, his smile not faded one bit, shot the horse a look.
Seeming to understand and be scared of the boy's behavior, Arion grabbed Annabeth's collar in his mouth and raced off again, leaving the cavern-like space. Just when we thought it was over the stead raced in again grabbing demigods one by one and dragging them out o safety. I ran over to a corner hiding myself from view. I needed to stay and see what Percy was doing – there was no way he could destroy the cavern himself, not in his state, not without dying.
Percy, no longer worried about his friends, tilted his head back and raised his arms in a T shape, his palms up. His eyes were closed, but his smile still intact,
"Piper, you might want to leave for this" he yelled into the empty space, his voice echoing across the walls. I started, how did he know I was here? Instead I answered, desperately "What are you doing, Percy?! We have to leave or well die!"
Instead of a response, I stumbled around as the earth started to shake. I glanced at Percy and saw that his crazed smiled had been replaced with a peaceful face, as if he he'd come to terms with something…
No! He wanted to die, that's why he stayed!
"Leave, Piper, theres no reason for you to stay here." Suddenly the earth quake continued, more forceful, this time making me fall to my knees.
"No, Percy! I won't leave without you!" I screamed at him. He opened his eyes, looking straight at me, as I was now in sight and saying with so much intensity, it was hard not to believe him,
"Yes, you will."
The world tilted, cracks forming in the stone and dirt, the whole ground beneath my feet moving and swirling almost like waves.
piper
Piper
"Piper!"
"PIPER!"
My head snapped towards the other side of the room. Jason! He was standing there calling her name. She reached out to him, calling his name as well.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" a gut retching scream tore from where Percy was, then the ground exploded in a dirt and lava eruption.
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Just before a patch of lava had incinerated me, Jason had darted though the debris and flew me out of there. When he jerked me into the air by my waist, the only thing I could think about before passing out was, 'Poseidon: god of the sea; Earth shaker.'
END of CHAPTER ONE