Percy PoV

I was sitting by the corner right next to our cell door, ready for our escape plan to come into action. I geuss the guards didn't realize that Riptide always comes back to me in life and death. I gave Zoe a nod when I heard the guard coming who was coming to give us our morning torture session with Iapetus.

The guard came, he had his whip out just in case we didn't want to come. He step foreward to Zoe and I came from behind and stabbed him with Riptide until he turned to dust.

"You ready, Zoe?" I asked. She gave me a nod, she had grabbed the sword that hung at the guards side but never was used, from the armor of the fallen monster. We slowly crept in the shadows, I created a mist using the dampness from the air and the moistness from the rocks. We reached a room which had a door the I presumed led outside of the dungeon but the door was guarden by two earthborn in armor.

Zoe looked at me and I held a finger to my mouth motioning for silence. We were at the end of the hall I surprised they didn't see us but I geuss it gets kind of misty in here so no one really cares. I crained my neck to see the other side of the room and I saw four cyclopes by a small forge.

The room only looked a little bit better than our cell but it still had a bad smell and mold growing everywhere. I quickly decided to create a distraction for the cyclopes and then kill the earthborn and get out.

I knew cyclopes weren't the smartest (except for brother Tyson, ok he is a little off but better than most). I used some of the water around me and smuthered the coals in which the cyclopes were using for their forge. They looked at it confused but they walked off into another tunnel, except for the two who stayed behind.

"Damn it." I breathed quietly. I wanted them all to leave but at least some left leaving two earthborn and two cyclopes. " I'll get the earthborn, you get the cyclopes." Zoe nodded in agreement. We both had gotten really close thanks to the tortures down here. We knew each other better and we had a growing respect for each other. I sent her to go kill the cyclopes because it hurt me to kill them, they reminded my of Tyson. I had to be careful with the earthborn because when I entered Tartarus I found out, during the first session of brutal torture with whips and fire, that I had lost my Achilles Curse. I bled when they beat me, I burned when they burned me with greek fire ( I can't be burn with regular fire because I am the son of Poseidon), I felt pain and trust me it did not feel good. Zoe and I had lashes and burns from what they did to us. This is why we must get out of here, they are trying to brain wash us into joining the giants in the second giant war. They think we will break if they torture us enough, but it hasn't.

I held out Riptide, it was time to move. I used the water from the mist as a whip and lashed the earthborn from their post and they flew across the room. I had trained in my cell with Zoe, we had a lot of down time since we didn't really have entertainment except for each other. I learned to control my water abilities better, figuring out ways of getting it besides being near a source of water. I figured out that sweat can also be used as a weapon or somethings that can help the healing process a bit.

Zoe ran towards the cyclopes, they gave her a surprised look and that gave her the advantage and she soon turned one of the cyclopes into dust but the other cyclopes was then ready with his club and they began to clash. Zoe dodged most of the attacks except one that hit her in her thigh which made her stumble back but she kept slashing at the cyclopes and soon it too fell to dust.

While she had been fighting the cyclopes, I had been fighting the earthborn. I wrapped my water wip around their necks and fisted my clenched hand, strangling the earthborn into dust.

"Quick, Zoe, move some dust around so they can't reginerate." I said quickly sliding my feet across the golden dust and kicking it around. We had overheard the monsters talking about the doors of death and how they were opening. That meant death could never exist and Death would die itself and fade, leaving the world as eternal hell. No matter how much pain you felt, no matter how pain you suffered, you could never escape the inferno. It was basically like living in the Fields of Punishment, except with innocent people being tortured and tormented.

When we were done I nodded towards Zoe and we headed out of the doors and what we saw was worse than hell itself or at least my idea of it. Monsters roamed everywhere, a lake filled with an undying fire, and dark catacombs every which way.

"Where do we go?" asked Zoe, nervously.

"Maybe I can help." said a man behind us.

Annabeth PoV

I was walking to the big house to suggest we plan for a war. It had been three months since Percy died, I knew there was going to be a war coming. As the daughter of strategy I knew I had to plan for this, Percy would never forgive me if I let him down and made him suffer in Tartarus due to my stupidty.

At camp, new arrivals would come every day, since the new cabins were built all the new half-bloods would be claimed and sent to there new cabin, thank the gods they started claiming there children because I don't think the Hermes cabin could hold any more people. Most of the new arrivals were children of the minor gods and some of the unclaimed were too but mostly we got a lot of Apollo kids claimed. Why can't that guy keep it in his pants?

I was walking up the steps to the house when Thalia came running at me. She was out of breath and sweaty. I never under stood how hunters could run in the heat with there hunter uniforms on but now it was fall so it was cooler outside so it was just a little bit easier but you know, think about summer, that would gods awful. Maybe Apollo has some deal with Artemis to keep the heat off the hunters as much as possible. Stupid Annabeth, why can't I ever keep my thoughts straight? Stupid ADHD and stupid want for knowledge. Knowledge is a curse, unknowingly, sometimes it is better with ignorance, not knowing what is out side camp borders, not knowing what death looks like, not knowing what love felt like and not know how it felt as it slipped through your fingers. Mortal human beings are so lucky that they don't know what this world looks like. Ugh, damn it, I'm rambling through my thoughts again. Ugh.

"What is it Thals?" I asked.

"The monters," pause, " can't die." she took a deap breath. Didn't they train these hunters to at least breath quieter? They are hunters for Hades sakes! Rambling, I know!

"What do you mean, Thals?" I asked nervously. Monsters in the first place are very dangerous, but ones that don't die are too dangerous.

"When I was fighting," pause, again with the breathing, you'd think they'd at least be fit enough to talk after 30 seconds after sprinting, " After I killed the monster, the dust reginerated and the monster came back."

"What did you do?" Thalia held up a small pouch.

"I put some of the dust in here so it couldn't regenirate as quickly." she said pointing to the pouch. At least she caught her breath but she answered in a breathless tone. I think I'm going to have a talk to Artemis about upgrading some of the hunters training, I mean seriously, just breath normally! You have fought monsters for more than 15 years, Thalia, you should at least be fit enough to breath. Why do I keep rambling on about breathing? Ugh, rambling again.

"Well, I geuss we have more to discuss with Chiron." I said. Thalia raised an eyebrow but she didn't question it, probably knowing that I was going to explain to Chiron what she was questioning in her head at the moment about what I meant.

Chiron was sitting in his office, in the big house when Thalia and I ran to see. He looked up at us when he saw us rush in here.

"Annabeth, Thalia, what is the matter?" he asked. I quickly explained everything Thalia told me about her encounter.

Chiron looked thoughtful for a moment then a grave expression took a dreadful turn to his face. "This is something we need to speak with the oracle about. Will one of you girls go speak with Rachel?" I was still a bit jealous of Rachel's realationship with Percy, something I probably will never have or if I do it won't be until we figure out how to get him out of Tartarus. I soon realized that it could be from the Prophecy the gods told me about during our meeting about Percy's soul being missing in the underworld but I don't know, it just feels ill timed, like the events of the Prophecy won't happen in a few months. I don't know how I knew that, I just knew.

"I'll go, Annabeth was going to tell you something anyways." Thalia said to Chiron. He nodded and she ran out the door.

"Annabeth, what did you need to speak to me about?"

"I know this is not for sure but I have a gut feeling telling me that we need to prepare for the upcoming war." I said. I had been very active because of being the new architect for the gods but I knew since Percy died something big was going to happen and that we need to train for it.

"I see, what do you have in mind?" Chiron asked.

" I think the Hephaestus kids need to build lots of weapons for warfare, not just swords and sheilds but missles and automatons." I paused, " The Athena cabin can help make blue prints and create battle stratagies but in all honesty we need to upgrade the training. We need to train these kids to understand and control their abilities better." he thought about it.

"We have had some problems with the Hepheastus cabin lately when it comes from projects ever since Charles died." he had a sad look on his face," But I will see what we can do." he smiled sadly and thanked him. Now it was time to start making some blue prints.

Thalia

I looked everywhere for Rachael until I found her eventually sitting by the lake the lead to the ocean. It was beautiful but it reminded everyone of Percy and of Percy's sacrifice.

"Rachael!" I called and recieving the motion to procede over to her. I plopped down next to her.

"What do you need?" she asked. She seemed kind of sad and depressed everybody felt that way especially Annabeth but we had to move past it. We lost to many people in the war to give up and grief for the rest of our days. I couldn't betray the hunters we lost during that war just because I wanted to sit around and not do anything.

"Chiron told me to come her and ask you about the monsters reginerating." Rachael's eyes turned green for a second but when back to normal as soon as it appeared.

"Thalia, you will find that in time, your answer will be clear." I didn't understand what she meant except for the fact that I was going to have to wait. I hate waiting, I've never been the patient type.

"Well thanks anyway."

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