Thanks for checking this story out... it is a sequel to my first fanfic Burried. I hope you like it.
I do not own POJ...
Annabeth's POV
I stared out over the side of the Argo II watching the waves below us.
Because we no longer had Percy the oceans were not as negotiable as they had been. Air travel was easier now. So instead of being on the water, we were above.
Right now, we were traveling to other sites that may be crevasses to the underworld. Nico had found information on the crevasses during his time in the underworld; before Gae had captured him. His information was what we were going on as a basis. Nico didn't come with us though. He did not want to go, saying he was not a member of the seven, and then went off to do whatever exactly it is that Nico does when he disappears.
Given what had happened, he might very well be in the underworld; despite how unsafe it was now, even for him, because of Gae.
At least he can see him, I thought bitterly.
So far we had closed five crevasses. Our first was the mountain that Percy collapsed, and then we found four others; one in a field, a Dry cleaner's, beside a highway and another at the bottom of a lake. We really could have used Percy for that last one…
Seaweed brain.
No. I can't think of him right now. I have to focus on the quest. Completing this quest will be one step closer to punishing Gae for what she has done. Then there will be time…
When we close the crevasses it becomes harder for spirits and monsters to escape, because there are fewer doors to flee through. Having freed Thantos, thanks to Frank, Hazel and Percy, spirits were having an even tougher time.
But why were only the monsters coming back? The unwanted spirits? I guess, I thought bitterly, the good guys follow the rules… so were just stuck with the monsters.
I continued to gaze out at the ocean…
Percy, he's gone. He didn't make it to the final battle; he didn't make it to the next prophesy. He never even went back to camp half-blood.
After we had arrived at camp Jupiter, the seven of us had started our journey right away. There was a confrontation that others insisted on helping with so they had come for that fateful battle… but now it was back to just the seven, No…six of us.
I gazed out at the ocean, seeing the waves but at the same time, not really seeing them. Instead, I was seeing Percy. And something that would always remind me of him…
Percy, why did you do it? Why? Why did you have to leave?
It has been eighteen days, seven hours, sixteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds. I know where you are this time, and yet I cannot get you back. I can't raise the dead like Nico can. And if you were trying to return, you would have already. And you sounded okay with dying, okay with leaving me. Well, I'm not okay with it. Percy do you understand? I am not okay with it.
Tears ran down my face. I'm not okay with it.
I looked at my watch sadly. Eighteen days, seven hours, sixteen minutes and forty-one seconds.