Hey guys I rushed the last chapter a little bit so that you guys wouldn't have to wait for like a month and think I gave up on the story. There where spelling mistakes but they weren't all my fault I just have to check my words so they don't get autocorrected to send me thing I am not trying to spell. So I've decided to give you guys a bit of a rough schedule for updates on the story. I am going to try to finish a chapter in a week then send it out on Sunday. Anyways now that I've said that. Once again tips and reviews on how I am doing are greatly appreciated and send me some ideas on little plots I can put into the this story in the future. With that let's get into the story. Also I am going to actually start making paragraphs instead of one big strip.
(Kronos' POV)
It had been 100 hundred years since Perseus has been captured by me. He doesn't know that it actually has only been 1 year in the outside world. All of the Olympians and silly demigods don't realize that I have the room located in the normal world and not in the underworld or Tartarus. It's been a fun one hundred years torturing Jackson, however I think that because it's the hundredth year since our fun reunion I should do something special to him. I headed to my "armory" or rather my room where I keep my torture items as well as my weapons. I looked around and grabbed an iron block the size of a arm and started to use my powers to bend it into the word "Useless" and stabbed a stick into the middle of the metal and forged them together. "I'll have fun with this." I laughed manically.
(Percy's POV)
I could barely feel my arms as I was shackled by chains to the roof for, well I've lost track after awhile. All I know is that my body feels like I was burning all over which I basically was since Kronos used his fiery whip to whip me all over. It wasn't a very pleasant feeling when you were getting burned.
"Oh Jackson! I have a special surprise for your hundredth year In this wonderful prison." Kronos walked into the room with an evil grin on his face. One hundred years? Its been that long since my capture? And no one had come for me yet? Kronos walked towards me and snapped his fingers. The walls around me showed a video of my friends at the camp fighting for their lives against an army of monsters. Some of which I had never seen before.
Kronos made my chains turn into a pole that my hands were tied to. He carried a piece of metal with a stick attached and created a blazing fire that was so hot that my skin started to heat up even though it was across the room. "You are currently watching live feed of my platoon of monsters attacking your camp. Do you want to hear what they are saying?" He snapped his fingers and I could hear the war cries of my friends as they fought against the monsters. Kronos refers to that as a platoon. If that's a platoon of monsters I don't want to know what his full army looks like. "I really wished Percy was here. We could have used him right now." I looked around the room and saw who spoke. It was Thalia who was fending off monsters right next to Annabeth. I looked at the ground around them and to my horror found blood splattered everywhere and remnants of monster dust. I could see a few bodies and heard screams of agony. I couldn't take this anymore my friends needed me and I couldn't do a thing to help them. "You see Percy Jackson you are utterly and completely useless. When they need you what do you do? You do nothing. You. Are. Useless." Tears formed at the corners of my eyes and slowly fell as I heard there agony and cries for help.
(3rd POV)
Kronos put the iron into the fire which had the word useless carved into the iron. Kronos snapped his fingers and allowed people to see this special occasion. Of course no one could flash in here without Kronos' permission. Percy was whispering continuously, seemingly to the demigods "I am so sorry." After a few minutes he took The iron out of the fire by its handle and brought the iron right above Percy's arm and whispered "you are a useless person" and then proceeded to push the iron on Percy's arm. Percy screamed from the burning sensation on his arm. After Kronos pulled the iron away a word could be clearly seen on Percy's arm "useless". With that he made the iron and furnace disappear and then brought out his whip of fire and whipped Percy on the back and his arms. Specifically on the arm that Kronos has just branded. After an hour of whipping. Kronos left the room with a cheerful note. "Expect more words to appear to on you every hundred years Jackson." Percy's pole became chains and his feet barely touched the ground. Kronos then left the chamber.
(Annabeth's POV) 2 hours earlier
It was currently lunch and I sat at the Athena table picking at my food thinking of where Percy could be and what all these monster attacks were about, when all of a sudden I heard I heard the horn signaling another monster attack. All of the cabins quickly rushed to the armory and headed to the border of the camp. What I saw was an army of about 1000 monsters. I immediately knew that this wouldn't be an easy battle, but it was a good thing the hunters of Artemis were staying with us for a week. The army of monsters charged with the Minotaur in the front with his large axe that gleamed dangerously in the sun.
The Ares cabin was in the front followed by the Athena cabin and the other cabins right behind them. The hunters were on the flank while the Apollo cabin was in the very back firing as many arrows as possible. The campers held at the border and kept the high ground. I surveyed the battle and realized that we only had around 400 campers vs around 1000 monsters which meant everyone has to kill at least 2 monsters each. This battle would t be to hard but we would sustain losses. Then all hell broke loose. The monsters hit our lines and the bloodbath ensued. Monster claws and weapons were flying every where. I was taking on a hellhound and a monster I've never seen before that was humanoid. Then all of a sudden I turned around and almost in slow motion I could see a hellhound in midair soaring straight towards me. Right as it was about to smash into me 3 arrows protruded from its side and turned the hellhound to dust before it even touched me. I turned to my left and saw Thalia with her bow running towards me. "That was a close one!" I nodded "yeah for sure."
The battle continued with screams, blood, and monster dust all over. "I really wish Percy was here right now!" Thalia yelled to me after stabbing one of he humanoid creatures. "Yeah me to" I responded as I sliced all the monsters within view. After a few more minutes of stabbing and slicing some monsters the battle ended just like how it began, quickly. I surveyed the land once again to see what our losses were. I could see blood splattered on the ground and around 35 bodies but other than that we didn't have any losses other than the 100 that were injured. It still hurt though and I could see many of the bodies were new campers. The monsters planned this but they aren't smart enough to do that. Which means that someone powerful is controlling them.
Everyone gathered around the fire and waited for Wills report on how many died and how many were injured. Then a cloud that sort of looked like a T.V. Screen appeared above the camp fire. I thought it was only me who could see it when a camper from what seemed to be from the Aphrodite cabin said "look above the camp fire. What is that?" Everyone looked up and saw the screen and what was on it made everyone gasp.
To my horror screen showed Percy tied to a pole in the middle of the room with his top off and many scars and burns on him. His face was one of terror and tears. He kept on whispering "I'm sorry" in a cracked voice. In the corner of the room a hooded figure was standing by a flaming furnace with a piece of metal in it. After a while the figure took it out of the fire and walked over to Percy and whispered into his ear and at the same time pushed the hot metal on his arm as if he was branding him. Everyone covered their ears and looked away when they heard Percy's horrifying scream of pain. After a minute the hooded figure made the iron and furnace disappear. On Percy's arm the word "useless" could be made out.
Everyone started looking back at the screen. The figure proceeded to take out a fiery whip. He began whipping Percy's back and the arm he had just branded. Percy's face was of pure agony and he could be seen writhing in pain. He obviously made an effort not to cry out but he grunted every time he was whipped. This lasted for about an hour and all the campers had looks of horror and tears while some had to look away. The whip disappeared into the mans cloak and he started to walk to the doorway and spoke in a cruel voice "expect more words to appear on you every hundred years Jackson" and with that the pole became a pair of chains that shackled themselves around Percy's wrists and made it so that his feet were barely scraping the ground. Then Kronos left the room and closed the door shut. Percy started to cry and said "I'm sorry" one last time before the screen went blank and disappeared.
I started crying into Thalia's shoulder which soon turned into a full sob. One hundred years? It's only been one year since he disappeared which means that time had been manipulated around him to be a hundred times faster. Which means he had had one hundred more years of torture. "Why does it have to be him!" I cried out to Thalia. "It's not fair we know that. Which is why we are going to find him and get him back." She whispered to me. Perseus Jackson was going through torture, my Seaweed Brain.
Hey guys hope you liked that chapter and as I said before I am going to be trying to upload on the weekends. Tips and reviews are appreciated and make sure to send me some ideas on little plots I can do in the story.