Hey guys! Here's the second chapter, also, thank you to the guest who reviewed! Thoughts are italicized.
Loki and Randolph Chase were watching an unconscious Annabeth. Loki had sent one of his pets to retrieve his daughter. Even though she wasn't technically his, she was still very intriguing to the god of deception. He didn't want to send one of Fenris' children because then she might find out a bit too much too quickly. Loki liked to play, and Annabeth was a perfect candidate for one of his many games.
Annabeth woke up tied to a chair, but as she was waking up she felt eyes on her, malicious eyes. She snapped her head toward the strange eyes. A dark haired man was staring at her with a face-splitting grin on his face. She internally shivered. "Hello, dear. Do you know who I am?" the man asked. She didn't know who or what this man was but she wasn't going to talk. Percy and her friends would know she's missing, more than that… her father would know. She was supposed to visit him and Rebecca for the week, guess that wasn't happening now.
"I'll take that as a no, how about him?" The man pointed over to a corner and in the shadows she saw a man step out just slightly. Her eyes widen and she tenses. Randolph, so that means… the man – god – in front of her was Loki. Shit, this was not good. I need to figure out a way out of here, and fast. If not… She was nervous to come up with ways that the god of manipulation could easily kill her. "Well, let's start easy, shall we? I'm Loki, I was chained to a boulder, slowly being poisoned by a snake. What about you?" He asked casually. The daughter of Athena starred at him like a crazy person, which, essentially he was. She licked her dry lips and opened her mouth, nothing came out so she just looked at her surroundings. "Nothing to say, that's okay. A lot of people have that reaction the first time. Many of my children don't know what to say as well." Her head snapped to meet his twinkling eyes. "Child?" Annabeth asks. He nods but doesn't go into detail.
I am not his child. I can't be, that wouldn't make any sense, why would Athena claim me if I wasn't her daughter, she sneaked a glance at the god. He was humming some song and sorting through something at the worktable on the wall. "Oh! I know how about we play a game. It's called Labyrinth. I create a maze and you try and escape from it." He waved his hand and the demigod felt her restrains fall away. She jumped out of the chair and started running in no particular direction. She didn't care where she was going, all she wanted was to away from this crazy god. Annabeth realized she was going in circles; she forced herself to stop and think of a way out.
This is just like the Labyrinth that Percy, Rachel, Nico and I went through. I can do this. She looked to the walls and then looked up. She couldn't jump up because there were probably traps for her up there. She got through this multiple times, she defeated Arachne for the god's sake! She could out smart a deranged god. She touched the ground, the walls and felt the air in front of her change slightly but she could still feel it. Weird, I didn't know I could do that. She made her hand into the shape of a claw and pushed outward. The space around her shuddered, she did it again, harder. Part of the maze fell away to reveal a small crawlspace. She went down on her hands and knees and got through that section as fast as she could. What she didn't know was that Loki was slowly unlocking her powers. Unfortunately, he couldn't unlock all of them because of the nature of the magic inside of his children. All of them had to accept themselves and find their specific magical style, if not then the magic slowly becomes unstable. He's had to watch as a countless number of his children didn't use their gifts and slowly be consumed. For every child that he had lost he had buried them himself and made sure that they were protected, whether that is from Odin or any other gods.
Annabeth got to an intersection of the maze and felt the air again, she shifted her run toward the odd temperature drop. She was in an icy wonderland, how she'd gotten there was anybody's guess. Annabeth didn't stop running to look around, she just kept going until she was back in the warehouse. She had figured that out pretty quickly once she'd woken up. Loki was waiting for her, clapping and telling her she had gotten out of the maze faster than any of his previous contestants. "You finished that in 8 minutes and 48 seconds, Impressive."
They had played game after game. She didn't see the point in any of this, only to make her annoyed and let something slip. She wouldn't, no way was she letting this psycho control any part of her. "What the hell are you doing, Loki? Seriously, just kill me already. Don't drag this out!" the blond yelled at the mad god. His face morphed into a frown, "Kill you? Why would I do that? I want to get to know you. I want us to become acquainted. To become more than just god and demigod." He told the blond. She just shook her head in annoyance and kept to his stupid rules. She couldn't stop her mind from wandering to her dad and Percy. Would her dad know where she was, who took her? She didn't doubt that Fredrick had already contacted Percy and told him she was missing.
After running and completing about 20 games in the span of what she thought was just a few hours a phone started to ring. She changed her course and had a burst of speed toward the ringing phone. She stopped in front of Loki as he was speaking with a genuine smile on his lips. When she heard him say her cousin's name she took a step back in fear of what he would do to the younger boy. She whispered frantically and shook her head side to side as she once again ran to the big double doors of the warehouse. She pulled with all her strength but it wouldn't open.
"Sweet Annabeth, must you hide? This game is getting tiresome." He changed shape and sprinted at her in the shape of a wolf. She screamed and went silent as terror seeped into her bones as she watched his open maw drip saliva down onto her. It was acid saliva, she grunted in pain as the drops hit her exposed arms.