AN: So thank you Angel of Darkness will get you! Some of this will seem OOC, but you have to think of the situation. I'm bad with emotions, so this was difficult. Lucky for you guys my friends Jenna and Ozzie helped me with this chapter. My computer is acting up, so they made sure it was a good read. Do know that there are spoilers, which is a duh, but still warning. Tell me what you think. And I should update once a week. It all depends on what happens and what I'm working on.

Jason was about to be thrown out a window the minute the boat lurched to one side. Instead he slammed into the wall next to Piper. He stumbled off the floor in a daze. He had just found out how much it hurt to hit a wall, and he wasn't pleased with his discovery. His head started to pound within its self, causing pain to flow through Jason's body.

He looked down to see Piper. She was fine, but he helped her up anyway. "What was that?" he asked, looking around the room.

Another lurched caused everyone to jump out-of-the-way as the table crumbled under the weight of their light source. The table crumbled from the center causing the legs to snap in half and collapse. Jason turned to give Leo a look. You didn't get us a secure table? Really Leo?

Leo just stared at him. Jason's guess was that Leo wasn't thinking about his choice of furniture for the Argo. He seemed much more concerned about the giant spider on his head. Jason had seen spiders before, but none as such a size as the one standing over Leo. The spider had to be about seven feet tall and looked like a black widow. It's tiny fangs were noticeably hanging from the inside of its mouth.

He heard Annabeth shriek on the left side of him. Her face was pale and was draining of color. He knew from his time with Annabeth that Athena's children had a fear of spiders. It was a rational fear considering she had just fought Arachne before falling into Tartarus.

Across from him stood Leo. He was shivering as if he was cold as he looked up at the spider standing directly above him. "Please don't bite me. I promise that I don't taste good!" Leo mumbled.

He looked over at Frank to see him thinking. He must have been having a fifth grade flashback to when they studied predators and prey. Everyone besides Frank jumps into action. Piper tried to get Leo out from underneath the beast while the others distracted it.

"I got it!" Frank yells. Jason turns to see where Frank was now a bat.

"How is a bat going to help?" Jason asked.

Franks flew up to the spider and started to circle it. He continued doing this until the spider started to get dizzy. Then he landed under it, as soon as Leo got out, and turned into a human. He took an arrow out of his quiver and stabbed the beast. The spider turned into gold dust before their eyes.

"I'm going to take a good guess and say that it wasn't a normal spider" Leo chattered. He was running his hands through his hair, which seemed to have become a habit for him when he became nervous.

"The only idea I've got is that it was one of Arachne's children. It would be the only reason it would turn to dust like that." Piper said agreeing with Leo.

Annabeth finally spoke up. "Yeah, I'd have to agree with that one. Right Percy?"

Percy, as if the event hadn't had happened, was sitting back down in his chair staring at the broken table. Annabeth slapped him on the back of the head. "Huh?"

"We were just talking about the idea that Arachne might have been the mother to the spider that just attacked us," she said, replaying the conversation to Percy.

"Oh, right! I guess you could be right. I mean, if Annabeth says so, then it's true. Right Wise Girl?" Percy smiled at Annabeth.

Ever since Percy and Annabeth had returned from Tartarus they'd been nothing like themselves. Annabeth had turned into the more calm one out of the couple. Percy had turned into the worried boyfriend who was always watching out for anything that could be harmful. It seemed to Jason that they had switched personalities. Jason didn't know what happened down there, but he did know whatever happened wasn't good.

"I think we need to go back to our shifts again." Piper sighed. "I think Jason, Frank, Annabeth, and I should take the day shift."

"That leaves the night shift to Leo, Percy and I" Hazel continued. Jason turned to look at Percy. He was going pale. He was looking at Annabeth. She had the same expression on her face.

"But..." Percy mumbled.

"It makes sense. We need to balance out the experience and strength." Annabeth explained. Everyone was shocked. Jason wouldn't have thought Annabeth would argue with anything that set her away from Percy. "Logically, this is right."

Percy gave her a look. Jason would say if looks could kill, Annabeth would be dead. "Ok, we've got our teams. Now I'm going to get more shut-eye."

"Awkward!" Leo sang.

At this point, Jason was afraid Percy was going to slap Leo in the face. He just had been told by the love of his life, who he went through Tartarus for, that it was better if they were separate. Jason had to guess that burned more than Leo's fire does. Lucky for Leo, Percy wasn't in a punch-someone mood today.

"Percy you have..." Annabeth started to say, but Percy was already out of the room. "To understand. Great!"

"That was kind of cold Annabeth." Piper said. "You just told the love of your life, who almost died for you, that you'd don't want to be near him. Annabeth, he went to hell with you!"

"Don't you think I know that!" She yelled then stopped. "It's just that he died down there, or at least he was this close." She put her thumb a centimeter away from her pointer.

"What happened?" Jason asked. This whole time he knew they didn't want to talk about their time in Tartarus, but the fact that Percy almost died is kind of important.

"We came across these monsters." Annabeth muttered.

"What were they?" Jason asked.

"Names have power, and I'm not going to risk it. If you kill one you got a curse. People curse you if they die, you leave then, and other things like that. Percy found that out the hard way. Do you know how many curses were placed on him? People who haven't died yet have put curses on him! I stabbed one and I went blind."

"What did you do to earn that?" Hazel inquired.

"I'd rather not talk about it. Percy had to drag me away from them so I wouldn't run off a cliff. He kept killing them, even though he knew what would happen. By the time we got away.." Annabeth stopped. Tears were running down her cheeks.

"We get it Annabeth. You don't have to say anything." Piper soothed her.

"That's not the problem" Annabeth muttered through her tears.

"Then what is?" Frank asked.

"Before we exited the doors, he had to kill one. He told me he received a pain curse." She finished.

"Oh gods!" Hazel gasped. "Does he still have it?'

"It's a curse Hazel, so of course it should still be there." Jason explained. "It's made to do make your life miserable."

Leo froze. "Then how are you guys okay?"

Jason had been wondering the same thing. How could they have been cursed and be fine here? It wasn't possible. "We had a little help from a friendly titan," Annabeth answered the floating question. "Heck, it was Bob who saved us each time, and we had to leave him."

Jason wasn't going to ask any more questions that would make things worse. He didn't know a Bob, but he had to figure he was pretty powerful. That was only one of the questions floating through his mind. One question stuck out to him though. What is this pain curse?