AN:Hey guy before you start reading I wanted to tell u that I had a hard time writing this chapter so dont judge me to hard

I DONT OWN PJAO

A Lost Soul

Florida

The hunters sat around the campfire talking about the hunt they were on. Mostly bad things of course. They felt that the amount of time it was taking just to get a lead was not worth it, especially if it was for a boy. Not to mention he was more then likely dead. Plus, he was a son of Poseidon, which some of the older hunters had a bad experience with. So yea they were pretty pissed. But all of their rants stopped when they saw a girl with blond hair skid to a halt right in front of them. They all raised their eyebrows at their temporary sister.

"I...need...Artemis" She said in between breaths. As the words left her lips Artemis walked out of the largest tent in the camp.

"What is it you need Annabeth" Her eyebrows were scrunched up in a curious fashion.

"I finally got something" Everyone's eyebrows shot up as they immediately surrounded the girl.

"Tell me what you have found Annabeth" She said in an urgent and slightly excited tone.

"Well I was on first watch when I saw two empousai setting up camp, I thought I would take care of them by myself, but when I got close enough I heard them mention something about going north at sunrise to see the "Sea Scum" again. It may or may not be a coincidence, but after two and half years years of random searching, I think we should take anything we can get" Artemis thought on what the girl in front of her had said. If she knew where exactly north she could just flash them there immediatly but she didn't. So there were two choices. Choice A. They could keep on flashing around and hoping for the best, or Choice B. They could follow these monsters up north without wasting anytime of useless searching. Artemis nodded when she had decided.

"Get some rest, we break camp an hour before sunrise. We will follow these empousai up north"

The Cavern

Hope. That's what Percy had lost over the past two months. He had no reason to have any in the first place. No one had come for him or even looked for him (According to Kronos). He had suffered more pain then should be humanly possible (especially for a fourteen year old) every day of his life. And he had no idea why. 'Do I deserve it? Is this how I'm going to live the rest of my pitiful life?' were only a few of the questions that he asked everyday. But when they went unanswered he decided to answer them himself. And the answers he concocted in his head turned the slightly hopeful fourteen year old in to a shell of a boy that had all of his emotions drained from him through pain. And another day full of this pain just started.

"Oh do I have a surprise for you today Perseus" said Kronos as he pulled out a small chrome rectangular box with a word on one side."Do you know what this is?" He held the box up to the teenagers blank face and laughed a little."No? Well then I'll tell you. It's called a lighter, and we are going to use is to play our games today" Kronos snapped his fingers and a red plastic container with a black nozzle on top materialized in his hand. And without a word he started to pour the strange smelling liquid all over Percy's body. And with a flick of his wrist the top of the lighter flipped open as he quickly lit the lighter with something that Percy had only seen on torches before."This may sting a little" He dropped the lighter to Percy's feet and watched the young boy go up in flames. He knew that son's of Poseidon were resistant to fire but he still expected the boy to scream in pain. But he did not. Oh he felt it all right but he did not care enough about anything to really care about the pain."What in the Hades is going on!?" Kronos screamed in confusion."Why aren't you writhing and screaming in pain?" After a minute of silence Kronos screamed again."Answer me!" Percy continued to stare straight through the orange and yellow flames trying to burn his flesh off but only causing some second degree burns on his back, chest and limbs. Kronos sighed to try and calm himself before focusing on the lighter that was still at Percy's feet. After a second or two the fire began to retreat back into the silver zippo lighter, then the lighter reversed back into Kronos' hand. A minuscule display of Kronos's power over time.

"You know I only like to save this spot for special occasions but I think this qualifies" Suddenly Kronos unsheathed a bronze knife at his hip with one hand and the boys chin with the other. The tip of the knife slowly pointed towards different parts of Percy's face, he seemed to contemplating on where to add another scar to his face. When he finally decided he smirked."This should make you scream" With a flick of the wrist, the blade had sliced a large gash on Percy's face. It stretched from his forehead to the bottom of his left eye. Instantly making him half blind. But if it caused him pain Percy did not show it. Which of course did not please Kronos. He let loose a frustrated sigh before throwing the dagger on the ground with a clang.

"I do not have time for this right now" He waved his hand towards the darkness and two empousai came out."You remember these two don't you? What was it, two years ago that you last saw them?"

The Hunters

Artemis and her hunters had indeed followed the two monsters north, but at a leisurely rate that they were not used to. After one month of following many hunters thought it'd be best if they just found the boy a different way. But Artemis would not have it. This was the first and probably only lead they were ever going to get and she was not about to waste it. But after one more month of following the careless creatures they finaly found their destination. A large cavern that was carved into a cliff side in upstate New York. Artemis knew that if she took all her hunters in their it would be to easy to spot them if their was any one else in the cave.

"Zoe Annabeth you will follow come with me into the cave, the rest of you check the surrounding area for any trouble" All of the girls nodded silently. Artemis walked to the foot of the cliff side with the two girls close behind her. With out needing to say a word Artemis and the two girls started to ascend the cliff as fast as they could. Once they reached the top without much trouble, she heard someone talking seemingly to himself. But when Artemis peeked inside the cave entrance she saw there was someone talking but he wasn't talking to himself. He was talking to what looked slightly like a boy that was chained up to the furthest cave wall. Her eyes widened as did Annabeth's and Zoe's when they peaked in. Before they could do anything, something unimaginable happened. The boy suddenly burst into flames for a few minutes before the fire retreated into something at the boys feet. Then they witnessed the tall man slice at the boys face with a dagger before throwing it on the ground in frustration and disappearing with a flash of gold.'What the Hades just happened?' Annabeth thought. As the man flashed away Zoe saw the two monsters they had followed here. She looked to Artemis who just nodded at her. That was all she needed. The oldest huntress quickly withdrew her bow and fired two arrow with expert precision towards the empousai.'I've been waiting to do that for so long' Zoe thought to herself. But she was quickly pulled out of her thoughts when Artemis and Annabeth started to jog towards the boy. She caught up with them right as they reached the front of the boy. Once they got a full glance at him the gasped and took a step back. There was no skin visible through the amount of dried blood on his body, deep gashes litters different parts of his bony limbs, chest, and back, his hair was matted down with dry blood so they weren't able to see his eyes when he looked up at them and spoke in a raspy voice.

"Who are you?"

AN:I hope you liked it even though I barely got through it. Oh and I will start tallying up the pairing votes today and so if u want some input on it make sure to review who u want to get with percy eventualy