Hey guys,
Sorry for not posting, I was just caught up in a few things. Now that their sorted, I don't have an excuse really. Anyway, hope you enjoy!
Carter POV
What we saw was very different from what we have seen from her before. She was sitting neatly on the edge of her bed, and looked at all of us dead in the eye, and said, "I am ready to talk about what he has shown me. But one warning: It's not pleasant".
Sadie sat up and gestured for us to sit down on the chairs in her room. She moved herself to face us and started to speak. "What I saw, was a memory, as you probably guessed. But what you probably didn't think, was a memory of torture. It started with him and Annabeth, who was a demigod. You see, I and Carter came across Percy and Annabeth when Setne escaped, and we found out they were greek demigods, or half-bloods, half human, half god half human-". Before She could continue, Zia asked, "How come you never told us? Do you not trust us?"
"No, Zia, we do, but he made us swear not to tell you unless it is utmost important. If we broke it, we would face some pretty harsh consequences." I replied before Sadie.
Sadie nodded her head at me and continued on, "Annabeth was about to fall into some dark crevice and was holding on to a ledge that was connected to some airship. Percy jumped down, saved her, and flung her up so she was on the deck of the airship. But, to compromise, he fell down the whole. Percy was falling down an endless, dark hole, and after an incredibly long time, he seemed to reach the end. From here, the vision blurred and it reappeared with Percy chained up. I cannot tell you how horrific it was. The scent alone was so bad to make you crumble. He was tortured by some person who went by Kronos. You could fell his power rolling off him."
This time, Jaz interrupted, "Isn't Kronos the Greek Titan of Time and the ruler of Titans?". We all looked at her and raised her hands defensively, "I have my hobbies, you have yours." Sadie seemed to be in thought, another strange thing and nodded. "That makes sense, in some of the torture methods he was controlling time"
After a minute of an awkward minute of silence, she continued, "Some things Kronos did to him were horrific. He used him as a body bag, and cut him with something that looked similar to a Kopesh. He drowned him, electrocuted him, boiled him, froze him and a bunch more that are just unthinkable. During this whole time, he was starved and left for an hour to heal, which seemed to be an hour for me but who knows how long for him. The torture then started again, and again, and again. There were a few other people who came in to torture him as well."
Sadie paused for a bit and left us to think to ourselves for a bit. She continued, "I don't know how long he was tortured for, but I do know that he was there for more than a hundred years. He probably aged differently there. The image faded once again, and that was when you freed me. And from what Percy was showing me, I had a feeling this wasn't the worst he's felt"
There was another silence, before Walt spoke, "How do we act around him now that we know this?"
"We don't, we don't want him to feel left out or different. I experienced this first hand once" Zia quickly answered. Then to clarify, she said, "The left out bit, not the torture bit". Walt then spoke, "Anubis is saying to me that only three humans have survived Tartarus, and all are from this generation. He says that both Greek and Egyptian gods fear Tartarus."
After hearing this, the situation just got a whole lot worse. I heard a knock come from the door, and I went up to open it, to reveal a sweaty and tired magician. "I've been trying to find you guys for ages. Perseus is back" After he said this, I looked over to everyone and they all nodded. We went straight for where his body would end up, the infirmary. I just hope he's back, and not Lucifer.
Percy POV:
When I opened my eyes, I was strapped to a wall, some kind of ribbon, string hybrid holding me back. I looked up and saw a few magicians looking very aggressive towards me as if I killed one of them. I looked at them and cocked my head. I tried freeing myself from the restraints. They budged slightly. The magicians seemed to be surprised, and I saw beads of sweat drip from their heads. One magician looked at a young one at the back and nodded his head. The person he just looked and seemed to have understood and ran off down the hallway.
After a while of doing nothing, I tried escaping, 'cause I'm bored'. I called my fire powers to try and heat the air around the ribbon, to try and expand it. It seemed to work, so I used my water powers to get me loose. The magicians saw me escape and shouted at each other. A few started to advance on me, while some fell back, seemingly like a defence.
I was forced to fight a few, trying minimal damage. I saw Carter, Sadie, Walt and Zia come in. They looked around. Then, Carter shouted, "STOP"
