p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""They won't come off!" I shout, trying to use Riptide to stop the dragging. Grover bleats in a worry-like fashion./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""Percy hurry! slice them off, do something!" Annabeth chases after me. I look down at the shoes. The daughter of Athena was still screaming 'Maia, Maia', trying to get the shoes to turn off. Suddenly, I make a sharp turn... I couldn't tell which way, i was too busy screaming for my life. I try to hook my shield on a rock, but i lost my grip and it clattered off to the side. Annabeth pauses./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""No... no no no no no. Percy!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""What?" I call back./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""Th-that..." She starts sprinting towards me. "PERCY GET THE SHOES OFF YOUR FEET RIGHT NOW!" She screams at me. "OR YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""What?!" I scream back and look behind me at a pit. The shoes were leading me right to it./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""That's Tartarus! Percy, hurry!" I grab onto a rock, trying to hold on for dear life. Dark laughter echos into the air./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"'Perseus Jackson, all heroes must fall eventually.' It was a coarse, blackened like voice, like if the voice was a huge tub of tar. 'Too bad, you had a great future planned for you.'/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""No. No no no i will not die." I stab riptide into the ground, but it just cut trough the solid rock like melted butter, not slowing me down one bit. I take the 3 pearls and throw them at Annabeth. "I'm not going to die!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"'Percy, you father left you. He has no interest in saving you, in loving you like a dad should. But I will. Perseus, I will make you strong, stronger than you ever thought you could be. Strong enough that the gods will listen to you.' the voice rumbles in my head. 'I will make your mother proud of you.'/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"I stopped fighting... I couldn't move. I watched Annabeth scream for me. And then I fell./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""Percy hurry! slice them off, do something!" Annabeth chases after me. I look down at the shoes. The daughter of Athena was still screaming 'Maia, Maia', trying to get the shoes to turn off. Suddenly, I make a sharp turn... I couldn't tell which way, i was too busy screaming for my life. I try to hook my shield on a rock, but i lost my grip and it clattered off to the side. Annabeth pauses./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""No... no no no no no. Percy!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""What?" I call back./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""Th-that..." She starts sprinting towards me. "PERCY GET THE SHOES OFF YOUR FEET RIGHT NOW!" She screams at me. "OR YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""What?!" I scream back and look behind me at a pit. The shoes were leading me right to it./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""That's Tartarus! Percy, hurry!" I grab onto a rock, trying to hold on for dear life. Dark laughter echos into the air./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"'Perseus Jackson, all heroes must fall eventually.' It was a coarse, blackened like voice, like if the voice was a huge tub of tar. 'Too bad, you had a great future planned for you.'/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;""No. No no no i will not die." I stab riptide into the ground, but it just cut trough the solid rock like melted butter, not slowing me down one bit. I take the 3 pearls and throw them at Annabeth. "I'm not going to die!"/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"'Percy, you father left you. He has no interest in saving you, in loving you like a dad should. But I will. Perseus, I will make you strong, stronger than you ever thought you could be. Strong enough that the gods will listen to you.' the voice rumbles in my head. 'I will make your mother proud of you.'/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"I stopped fighting... I couldn't move. I watched Annabeth scream for me. And then I fell./em/p
