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Phew. I made it to chapter twelve. So… how do like it so far? Good or bad? Intensifying enough?

Anyways, back to the story. Last we heard, Percy, Annabeth, Luke, Thalia, and Nico have traveled into the underworld and have had a quite scary encounter with Kronos. Kronos and Luke have disappeared to somewhere and Percy is looking for him. Little did he know, Percy's disrupting search for Luke has gotten someone pissed off…

Chapter 12:

The shadowy figure was approaching them closely as Percy slowing turned around meeting Hades' chilling aura tingling at his skin. Although even Hades' dark steaming glow was slowly diminishing as well. Percy could tell Hades was weakening just as rapidly as the other gods.

"Why are you interrupting the peace in my kingdom?" Hades asked bottling his fury.

Percy could see the flames already beginning to spur out of Hades. He meekly said, "I… We… We've come to the Underworld to stop the curse."

Annabeth put a hand over his shoulder asking, "What are you doing, Percy?"

Percy whispered back but still maintaining stern eye contact with Hades, "He's a god too. He wants the same thing."

"What is it here that interests you?" Hades demanded. His body was engulfed in flame.

Percy answered more confidently, "A talisman."

He raised an eyebrow, "A talisman is it? Perhaps I can help you." Hades replied generously, his flames extinguishing.

Percy was staggered at Hades' reply. Being that, that was probably the only time he ever used 'help' in a sentence. But he figured the desperation of losing his powers must bring him to trust anyone in relieving the curse.

"What is this talisman?" Hades continued curiously.

Meanwhile…

Luke had Backbiter still locked in his hand and prepared to use it in case Kronos wasn't 'cooperative'. Kronos had rested wading in the River Styx.

"What is it that you wanted to talk about?" Kronos pressured.

"I regret it. What I did to us on Olympus." Luke softly stated.

Kronos lifted an eyebrow not a bit convinced, "You don't." he flatly stated.

Luke could sense the rage inside Kronos and backed away slowly.

"Why have you brought the son of Poseidon with you?" Kronos stood and challenged him.

Luke stuttered and then began speaking assertively, "So you could kill him with your own hands." He smirked.

Kronos whipped his scythe at Luke. "YOU LIE!" He hissed.

Luke dodged the sharply curved blade, and used Backbiter to deflect Kronos' repeated bolts of flame shooting straight at him.

Then he felt his body getting tremendously heavier and unable to move (Kronos was slowing time) as Kronos had lunged forward to deliver a finishing blow.

In a sudden rush, in a streak of light… or was it darkness had crashed into Kronos all in a blinding fury of attacks. Which gave Luke enough time to escape while feeling the drag of time being released as 'someone' was stopping Kronos.

Next thing he knew, Luke was hiding behind a column of rocks panting trying to gather his thoughts. He looked up to see his miraculous savior, but his jaw dropped in confusion whether he was dreaming or not. Luke found Hades standing in a deadlock, grasping Kronos' chain.

Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Nico were standing at the other end in the distance; Luke had to squint to see them. But he could imagine their expressions.

Hades yanked the chain off almost breaking it with the immense force against Kronos. Kronos fell back, but recovered quickly and retaliating with the same force slashing his scythe at Hades. Hades disappeared in a fog of dark smoke, taking Luke with him as well.

Percy stood there in a blank state overwhelmed by Hades' sudden heroism. Annabeth had to shake him out of it.

"Percy." she said, laughing at his dumb expression.

Right then and there, a hazing cloud of smoke filled the air and solidified into Hades and Luke.

Hades was holding the chain in his hand, and Luke was next to him breathing heavily. Thalia looked worried and quickly ran over to Luke. Hades handed Luke the talisman and took to his terrifying black- flamed form.

He was about to vanish into a thick cloud of dark vapor, but he turned back addressing Luke firmly, "Don't forget. We had a deal." With that said, he disappeared.

Percy could hear Kronos' distant roaring and knew he was approaching. In a panic he asked, "How do we get out of here?"

"Did not think of that…" Thalia commented.

Annabeth looked to Luke, him being the son of Hermes should've had a plan of escape.

Luke reached into his bag and pulled out a couple of gleaming pearls and had a smirk on his face. "Don't ask. Let's just get out of here." He handed each of them a pearl and asked Percy, "Where to?"

Percy mumbled, not knowing where to go next or even what to do with the talisman. He hesitated, "Uhh… I don't know!"

Annabeth cut in, "We're running out of TIME!"

Nico conjured up the dead to hold Kronos back a split second longer. "Hurry up!" he called.

In that moment, despite the panic and the pressure, Percy heard his father's faint voice enter his mind. "Percy… Oregon."

Kronos was within reach of them till Percy yelled out, "Oregon!" as he threw down the pearl and stepped on it. Annabeth, Luke, Nico, and Thalia followed Percy just as he stepped on it and escaped the very close grasp of Kronos…

Sorry, I couldn't find a way to get out of the Underworld other than using pearls which is technically from the movie.

Anyways, tell me how this chapter was! Thanks for reading! (:

I might do a double update with two chapters today so cross your fingers. :D