A moan echoed through the darkness. "Annabeth, are you there?" Percy whispered, afraid that anything louder would call attention to them.

"Over here." She called.

Percy rushed to her side and helped her up, her broken ankle was almost healed, but their long fall didn't help their bruises and scratches. He knew she was exhausted, but they had to start moving before something found them. Just sitting there, they were easy prey for whatever was lurking in the shadows.

Annabeth winced, but continued stumbling alongside Percy. She could already hear cackling in the distance, it seemed as if they had already been discovered. She could still hear Arachne's chilling voice threatening her, it wouldn't long before she was on her feet and searching for them too.

"Hey, are you ok?" Percy asked. "Your just so quiet." She could barley make out anything in the darkness, but she knew him so well, she knew the concerned look he would have on his face.

"I'm fine," Annabeth said with as much courage as she could muster. "Just thinking."

"We will get through this," Percy replied, "I know we will. The others will meet us on the other side and everything will be normal again. We can even go back to school and take the kind of tests that don't involve almost dying." he joked.

Annabeth almost laughed, but stopped herself when she remembered what a dire situation they were in. She sighed and leaned her head on Percy's shoulder.

"What are we going to do Percy? I don't know how to get us out of this."

"Well, we have to find the doors of death and close them, hopefully Leo can get the others to the other side soon so we can close them at the same time." he said.

Annabeth frowned, "But you know it's not that simple."

"Let's just pretend it is, for now." Percy said.

Annabeth nodded, looking back at the empty darkness behind them. Tartarus really was endless, she could almost feel how vast it was. Though there was no one around for miles, Annabeth shivered imagining the thousands of eyes watching them, waiting for their quest to fail.

All of a sudden, a huge roar erupted from behind them, this time Annabeth knew she wasn't imagining it. To most people, it might have seemed hopeless, but they had been to Hades and back, literally. If we can do that, we can do this, Annabeth thought.

"Run?" She asked

"Run." he said, and they took off.