Percy looked panicked as Annabeth started to slide into the large hole in the ground. She was shrieking and crying out at the seven other demigods to save her. Percy ran after her. He grabbed her hand and started to pull her away from the pit she was headed towards, only for some falling debris to push him away from Annabeth and into the very thing Percy was saving his girlfriend from.

"Percy!" many of the half-bloods cried out. Said boy held onto a small ledge on the face of the cliff. He was too far down for the others to reach him. They could only watch as he struggled not to fall. Jason tried to fly to him but a hand held him back. He looked over at Nico, and saw him shaking his head.

"There are two outcomes for this scenario. Either both of you fall, or Percy falls alone, and knowing Percy, he'd rather fall alone than risk anyone else." Nico said. Jason realized that he was right, even if Percy had met him not that long ago, he'd find a way to get him to stay where he was and let Percy fall alone.

Percy started to cough. His arms were shaking and his fingers were starting to slip. He looked up at the crying face of his girlfriend. "Annabeth," he called out. "The other side, Annabeth. Lead them there. Promise me!"

"Percy." Annabeth started to sob. She reached as far as her body would let her. There was still thirteen feet in between the two. "Percy, please don't make me do that. Please-"

"Promise me!" he shouted, interrupting her pleads. He didn't want this to be any more painful than it already was. "I can't. I'm not gonna make it out of this one easily, Wise Girl, but you need to trust me that I will find a way."

The daughter of Athena took a shaky breath."O-okay, Seaweed Brain I trust you. Make it through this." He sighed in relief.

"I lo-" The small ledge he was grabbing crumbled out from beneath his fingers, and the son of Poseidon fell into the inky blackness below him.

"NO!" Annabeth tried to go into the pit after Percy, but was held back by two arms circling around her waist. "Let go of me! Let go!"She was pushing and screaming at the person to let her go. She eventually collapsed in the person's arms, shaking as sobs escaped her.

"Shh. It's okay Annabeth, he'll make it out OK. Don't worry. Just calm down. It'll be fine." The person holding her, Piper, continued to calm her down with soothing words and her charmspeak. "Sleep Annabeth, sleep." The world turned black as Annabeth slowly entered unconsciousness.


Percy fell, and he fell, and he fell. He had lost track of how long he was falling a while ago. It could have been minutes, hours, or even days. He just wasn't sure anymore. All he knew was that he would keep falling until the end.

He closed his eyes ready to embrace his fate when he noticed that it began to get lighter than the inky blackness that had surrounded him.

The son of Poseidon opened his eyes, and looked down to find a river flowing beneath him. He pointed his hand at the river and it rose to engulf him. Not realizing the river ran white.


A boy gasped for air. He opened his eyes to find a vast area shrouded in a red fog. He tried to remember where he was, but soon found he could remember nothing at all.