Along the trail we went. Hours and hours of walking. My feet began to ache, but if I even tried to stop Kronos would make me walk faster.
My throat was dry from the lack of water. But the thing that kept me moving along was the fact that in only two days we will throw over Olympus.
Finally after what seemed like decades Kronos allowed us to stop and make camp. We found a lake nearby and let me tell you I never was happier to see water in my life, and that's a lot coming from a son of HIM.
After a long nights rest we started up again in the early morning. The monsters all trailed behind some dieing in the middle of the group from dehydration.
And yet we continued. We couldn't stop we had to make it to camp Half blood before they caught wind of what we where doing.
We where already behind schedule and let me tell you Kronos does NOT like to be behind. So he thought it would work if we sprinted a little while, well it didn't.
Instead we lost a lot more monsters. By now we where running way behind and we had only half the army we started with. And that is NOT good.
Kronos began to steam in furry. Yelling orders to monsters who looked like they would drop. He swore to never let any of them rise again if they DARED to die.
That kept them going a little longer but you can't stop yourself from dehydration unless there is water around, which there wasn't.
( Kronos is in bold. Percy regular.)
" We have to make an unplanned stop." Kronos told me inside of my head.
"We need more recruits. We will never be able to do this with an army this size.'
" We have to go to the underworld. There are tons of monsters there. But Hades can't see us."
" It will have to be just me and you then."
"Sounds good lets go"
" Well we cant just barge into the underworld we need a plan."
" Why?"
" Ok whatever just don't get us killed. Ok?"
" Deal lets go."
" My dear army. We are going to have to make a small side trip into the underworld. But you guys can not come with us. It will be just I.
We will find a place with water and you guys will stay there and you will be there when I get back." Kronos said the last part almost as a threat.
Although he didn't say or else, everyone knew he meant you would be there when he got back or you would be killed.
And so we started off to find an entrance to the underworld. When we finally got in I spotted Nico.
He was over by the Styx talking to a dead man. I tried to hide but Nico spotted me a second to soon.
He came walking over obviously not realizing I was Kronos.
" Hey Percy what's u- HOLY CRAP YOU ARE KRONOS!"
He screamed taking a step back.
" Nico…."
" Dude I understand. Uh hey could I- um you know….Join?"
I was shocked I knew Nico had a lot of anger and hatred boiling up inside of him but I never thought it would be enough for him to join kronos.
You see I had basically forgotten all about Nico. He was probably one of the only people from my past life that I didn't hate or want to kill.
" Sure. We are going to need lots of recruits. Can you help us gather all the monsters and demi gods you can find."
" We need to get out of this hell hole as soon as possible.
ANNABETH"S POV
We have been training non stop. Practicing for the big game of capture the flag. Peters 16 birthday wa sin two days. Something was supposed to happen.
But so far NOTHING at all happened. Not even any monsters had come to camp in the past couple of weeks. Everything has been so quite that some people think the Oracle made a mistake when she told the prophesy.
My life pretty much sucks right now. I officially have NO friends the counselors hate me the tree nymphs run when they see me. And Grover hasn't talked to me in months.
I was deeply depressed but no one cared. Even my half siblings in the Athena cabin have been treating me differently. Malcome no longer talked to me.
And my favorite sister Emily moved her bunk so it was no longer on top of mine. Now she just gives me a dirty look whenever she sees me.
It hurt me a lot all I did at night was sit and cry. I haven't been eating but of course no one noticed.
CHIRON'S POV
It had been a long time since I have seen Percy Jackson. He was always my favorite camper. His bravery was unbelievable and his loyalty was crazy.
He had such a big heart and he was so easy going Chiron admired him. Chiron always thought of his students as his children.
But this son of Poseidon stood out. Everyone noticed how Percy would get a little more attention then everyone else. But they didn't care. Everyone thought it was just because Percy was destined to die at the age of 16.
But I had different reasons. When he saw Percy so weak and vulnerable unconscious at the top of half blood hill I knew it was the child of the great Prophesy.
And right from that moment I made a deep bond with Percy. Now when Percy left it broke me. Even though I would never admit it I spent many nights crying alone in my room.
I hated Annabeth for making him leave. For breaking my sons heart. And I hated Peter for stealing Percy's thunder.
I even had a little bit of hatred towards the gods. They used Percy and everyone knew it. And I knew it was wrong. But there was nothing I could do about it.
