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SHATTERED BOND PART II
PERCY (3rd person)
Cold tendrils of dark energy scraping and dragging across his skin. That's how it feels to shadow travel and Percy couldn't love it any more.
"THIS IS AWESOME!" is all Percy could scream over and over until finally they exited the shadow realm. Everyone landing with a sudden.
THUMP!
Percy's stomach was rolling, and his head was dizzy, so naturally he stayed sprawled on the ground. "That was awesome...I'm gonna be sick."
Nico laughed. "If you weren't yelling at the top of your voice then maybe you wouldn't be on the ground!"
"Gods Seaweed brain maybe next time you'll think before acting like such a...Seaweed brain." Annabeth taunted.
Percy frowned,"So mean."
They both laughed. Percy lifted his hand and while still laughing Nico managed to pick him up to his feet.
Percy looked around. "Huh"
They were standing in front of a beautifully cast Stygian iron gate that was connected to similar fencing that went on in both directions.. The gate wrapped around a pitch black palace lined with gold, silver, platinum and gems.
Percy stepped forward, before turning around and looking at his friend and fiancé. "Well lets not keep uncle waiting. Shall we?"
The three of them walked directly up to the gate and it parted ways to allow them to walk on a gaudy black brick pathway with bronzed lettering in every brick. They continued down the path towards the palace doors. They looked over on the right and all of them caught there breath, even underground with an orange soft light that flooded the cavern, screams of pain, and dead walking everywhere, there was such a breathtaking garden just sitting there. All the flowers were unique, not only in shape and size as mortal flowers, but these flowers were almost anything the imagination said possible.
The flowers were golden, pitch black, white, brown, (etc.) and all of them radiated a soft glow that sent shivers of peace down the Demigods backs.
"Well Persephone's been busy." Nico stated.
"It's so beautiful.."Annabeth breathed.
"I didn't think that flowers could grow that well underground." Percy said.
"Well lets go say hi to dad so we can see what we have to do." Nico said with the Again-really? attitude.
As they approached the palace doors they could feel the darkness radiating off of the whole complex at waves that seemed to send one message, fear. The doors where a solid black but inscribed with a silver and bronze display of massacres, war, disease, and all in ancient Greek. The more Percy stared at it he had a sudden urge to cry, he couldn't help but think off all of the displays and think of death.
Percy ripped his focus off of the door and was about to try to push open the doors when they creaked and started opening, creating a small vacuum that tugged on his shirt.
"Well let's get to it." Percy said with mock cheer.
As they entered they found themselves in a giant throne room. The floors and walls were black, but they where a producing a dark light that seemed to light up the room exposing a long silver table that was in the center of the throne room with enough space to fit the full Olympian council. At the head of the table was a 10 ft tall throne that was pitch black, that radiated darkness, and resting on images of death and famine, changing images every time you looked at it. The throne to the left of it was a giant Bronze and gold lined pedal shaped like folded over flowers revealing a very plush and comfortable looking seat for the wife of the king of the underworld.
Nico took a step forward. "Father" 10 seconds "FATHER?" No response.
"That's weird father called for us were in gods name is he?"
Annabeth pondered before stating, "Nico can you sense if he is around us or near here?"
Nico stared at her. "Umm...Well maybe, but I've never tried before." He closed his eyes. After a minute, "I can feel a presence roaming across the fields of Asphodel, but I feel it's dark like dad's but it's also a little different."
"Well lets go, Hades isn't here and the only other lead we have is you, and you say you feel something in the fields do lets go." Percy waved for them to follow.
'Great. A dark presence in the fields what could go wrong?' Percy thought.
As soon as they left the palace Nico ran to a path that was hidden between black stone walls behind the palace compound.
They walked for about ten minutes in silence. They could feel that something was going to happen.
Out of habit Percy kept his hand on rip-tide in his pocket feeling the weight of the pen grow slightly heavy in his pocket.
When they reached the top of a hill they looked over and saw a giant endless field. The continued to walk in the fields full of dead grass a foot tall. The grass was grey, and the air was eerie quiet all of a sudden and they passed soul after soul tied to the poles, faces blank and expressionless. The grass was soft as it brushed past them instead of crumpling underfoot it would lay and and spring up as if nothing happened, completely immovable and forever untouched looking.
Rows and rows of souls just sitting there. All in tattered forms of clothing, and none of them making any motion or noise. Dead silence.
Percy was so focused on the souls that he hadn't noticed that they had stopped and bumped into them.
"Why-" Percy started.
In front of the group stood a dark and terrifying presence. The figure was tall and draped in a dark aura. The humanoid figure was shifting between shapes all similar but distorted by increasing or decreasing body size leaving an after image of darkness.
Like a train it hit Percy what this was, a shade, but it was slightly bigger and had no eyes as well as being...darker than dark?
Percy was ripped from his thoughts when he heard it speak as if there were three of them speaking at the same time and, one was female another was male, and the third was a monster.
"Well, well hello spawn of hades, what do I owe the pleasure?" it's menacing features seemed to sharpen.
"Who are you? And what are you doing here?" Nico asked, raising his sword.
The shade regarded the sword before smiling or rippling his face whatever it looked like they could sense the humour.
"I am king of the shades." he hissed, "I have no name but that title, and none of you are going live long enough to tell anyone."
Around the field there was a sudden drop of temperature, and everything seemed to get darker. "Kill the demigods." he hissed before disappearing.
Percy, Annabeth, and Nico stood in a triangle back to back to realise they were surrounded by shades brandishing...silver chains gleaming in the darkness, inscribed with ancient Greek writing.
"Shit." Percy cursed. How was he going to get out of this with his friends. He scanned them. 20 shades. All having those silver chains. If they ran they would have to worry about them getting chained when they turned their backs...unless.
"Nico!" Percy half yelled. "Can you like control them or stall them for a second?"
"Maybe, I'll try." Nico said as he closed his eyes.
Skeletal warriors cam out of the ground and ran at the shades, only about 10 warriors, but enough of a distraction.
Percy stepped towards the group of shades in front of him, he concentrated until he felt a familiar tug in his gut and he felt water come from inside him. He felt the sea and willed it forward. A small blast of water shot from him and blasted a gap in the crowd in front of him.
"RUN!" Percy shouted to his friends, as he ran with them in tow.
As soon as they breached the outside of the group Percy ran straight for the Styx.
"Percy where are we going?" Annabeth yelled over to him.
"Just follow me!"
As they ran through the fields of Asphodel Percy turned to see the group of shades following right behind them. He and his companions ran even faster at the sight of them gaining.
"Almost there!" Percy yelled.
They breached through the fields and ran up to the gates around the perimeter of the palace and inner underworld.
As they went through the gates they arrived at the shore of the Styx. The Styx had complete pollution of given up vow's, oath's and dreams. Degrees, keys, money, rings, and other objects lost to the river.
"Everyone stay behind me!" Percy instructed.
Percy then raised a stream from the Styx and brought the stream directly onto the black sand in front of the group projecting a wall.
"The Styx should protect us." Percy heaved through the effort.
"That's great, but now what do we do?" Nico asked.
"Well...we fight win and go home." Percy retorted.
"Seaweed brain, not a bad idea, but we still have to worry about those chains...unless the Styx can melt the chains as well?" Annabeth pondered their situation and was going to reply before it darkened.
They were interrupted as the group of shades surrounded the barrier and started swiping their chains against the water shield, melting the chains.
Percy smirked, his idea was working and their weapons were useless. Now all he had to do was find a way to attack them before he ran out of energy, controlling the Styx was draining him and he knew he had only minuted till he collapsed. He looked around looking for anything he could use to his advantage. Nothing.
"Nico! Can you summon more skeletons, or something?"
Nico glanced over at him, "No, I already summoned 10 warriors, and I'm too tired to summon any more and I can't shadow travel, I'm too spent." He sighed.
"Wise girl, please tell me you have some sort of plan or idea?" Percy pleaded. 'She has to have an idea.' Percy thought.
His world crumbled when he looked at Annabeth and saw her staring at him with tears in her eyes.
"Percy," she breathed as a silver chain wrapped her leg, "I love you Percy."
In an instant she was dragged towards the Styx from a shade that was on the other side of the Styx holding a long and gleaming silver chain.
"NO!" Percy screamed as the last sight he saw of her was fear in her eyes, tears lacing her cheeks, and then the was half submerged in the Styx.
What happened next would haunt Percy forever.
Annabeth scream a blood curling scream, her face was contorted into one of pain and misery. She screamed for Percy as he ran over to her on the shore releasing the wall of protection and instantly was at the shore of the Styx trying to grab her hands. She continued to scream until it was muffled and turned into gargling as she shocked on the acidic water of the Styx. Percy sat there and watched until he saw her disappear under the murky water.
She's gone.
Percy couldn't breath, he couldn't think, all he could do was feel his mind and emotions shred into pieces. He was nothing without her, he was nothing without his mortal anchor.
Percy was numb he was completely oblivious to his surroundings. He wasn't aware of the shades approaching him, or that Nico had fallen completely chained by a couple of shades. He was completely lost.
"PERCY!" Nico screamed at his friend to help, tell him to get up or continue fighting, something!
A shade approached Percy and wrapped a chain around his neck, but Percy didn't resist. The chain tightened on his neck and Percy started to pass out from lack of oxygen, and Percy simply closed his eyes.
'Just wait Annabeth I'm coming soon.' Percy thought. He was suddenly filled with happiness. He can see Annabeth soon, and he won't have to run for his life and he can get married to her in Elysium.
The idea was coursing through his mind as he slowly faded into unconsciousness. He sat there waiting for death patiently until he was jerked awake by his shoulders.
Slowly he could hear his name being called to him, far away. "Percy!, Percy!, PERCY!"
He slowly opened his eyes to see he was laying flat on the floor of the throne room. All the gods were crowded around him, Apollo had his hands on his chest and his father and all of the other gods had formed a ring around them.
"Son.." Poseidon exhaled.
Percy looked at all the gods and his surroundings.
Annabeth's dead. I'm all alone...
Percy felt the tears come to his eyes and he didn't stop them.
"ANNABETH!" Percy wailed, sobs racked his body as he screamed her name.
Hestia appeared around Percy in her 21 year old form and grabbed Percy into her shoulder and held him as he cried into her shoulder.
Percy cried for what seemed like hours into her shoulder as Hestia flooded his system with hope, but the hope was squashed by Percy's sadness as why would hope help, she was dead he was alive, and he could only hope for death.
After what seemed like an age Percy stopped and then he felt no more tears possible. He felt empty, cold, and merciless as everything he cared for was ripped out from and destroyed feet in front of him.
"Percy." Hestia whispered.
Percy looked up into her eyes.
Hestia gasped, His eyes. They where no longer a soft sea green, they now where a dark murky green and they held no hope. They scream pain anguish and above all else cold anger.
Percy released himself from Hestia's embrace. He stood up ans saw that everyone's eyes where on him.
Percy stared at his feet and then spoke in a mangled and hoarse voice, "Nyx was not the one who's behind this. It was the Shade king...He...he..killed her-r in front of me. He killed Her in front of me." Percy proclaimed as he collapsed on his knees and kept staring at the ground.
Hestia wrapped her arms around him from behind, and whispered comforting words in his ear.
The council of the Gods were stunned this wasn't as they expected it.
FLASHBACK:(Artemis)
Artemis was in mid hunt when she heard the thunderbolt that shook the sky.
'Time for another meeting on Olympus' She thought.
After hearing the summons she told Thalia to set up camp and that she would return later.
As soon as they were preparing camp she flashed herself into the throne room. When she got there she heard her father yelling. 'Oh great. Another argument.' she thought tiredly pushing herself into her throne.
After another thirty seconds all the Olympians had flashed into the throne room and were sitting on there respective thrones. All the Olympians were pre occupied, seeing as Dionysus was reading a whine magazine, Apollo was listening to an ipod, Aphrodite was filing her nails, Hephaestus was tinkering with a small bird looking machine, Athena was reading a scroll, Demeter was reading a cereal box, and Ares seemed to be cleaning a bloody sword.
"My fellow Olympians we are here today to discuss the quest that was sent to the underworld to help my brother Hades. As I understand he has something to say and therefore has asked for this emergency meeting."
Hades stood from his throne and seemed to be paler than usual as he cleared his throat. "It has come to my attention that the one directing these attacks is not a Primordial, but in fact something that is much closer to home." He closed his eyes, "The king of shades." he breathed.
Everyone was on their feet.
"HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?" Zeus boomed.
Hades looked at the ground, "He seems to have escaped his eternal punishment in Tartarus."
Artemis couldn't believe it. The Shade King. He was a terrifying enemy. He was especially troublesome to demigods, as he would wrap them in darkness, and make use of their souls when they died, and at one time the gods had to sent an army of demigods to destroy himself before his armies rivalled the power of the Olympians.
"I also assume that the demigods will run into him during their quest, and I have come for-" Hades suddenly stopped and tried to talk looking like a fish out of water.
In the next instant Hades morphed into shadows.
The room was silent.
What made hades stop talking, and leave during a meeting.
In the next minute it was quiet before Hades morphed out of the shadows near his throne. He was holding a limp body in his hands.
Hades collapsed to the floor on his knees holding the body close before screaming,"APOLLO, GET OVER HERE!"
Apollo hopped over to Hades where hades set the body on the ground.
Artemis watched closely 'Who is it?' she thought.
Then she saw him. Black hair draped over his eyes and a tall 6'2 height with medium build. Percy.
"Pursues!" She called.
Everyone in the throne room to his side and formed a ring.
FLASHBACK END
(Percy)
Percy stood there after revealing the news about the quest.
Athena started crying in her throne. Demeter and Aphrodite started to try and comfort her.
"Percy." Zeus stated. "We know it was the shade king, and it wasn't Nyx, but we had no idea the Shade king would interfere with your quest. We only were made aware of it by Hades minutes ago."
Percy stood unmoving. It was all The shade kings fault. He wants revenge.
Percy clenched his fists and trembled with no sadness, but a furious fire of hate.
"Percy lifted his eyes to the king of the gods before, kneeling.
"I swear on the river Styx that I will find and kill the king of the shades." Percy retorted.
All the gods in the throne room gasped.
"Percy-" Poseidon began to be cut off.
"Well Percy, I think I like that Darkness in your heart, and since you proved to these stupid Olympians that I'm innocent how about I grant you the power to destroy the shade king?" The voice sounded as dark as hades, but a lot more evil and completely merciless.
"Who are you?" Percy stated to the throne room.
"My dear child I am Nyx, and I have come to ask you if you want to be my instrument of Darkness. Do you accept?" Nyx asked.
The throne room was silent. Percy stared at his hands, he then thought of how powerless he was, and how if he had more power he could have saved her.
"I Pursues Jackson saviour of Olympus accept you offer Nyx."
Percy closed his eyes and waited for his power to kill The shade king to come.
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