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XIV. Percy
Percy flipped Annabeth over so he'd be under her. Splash! Percy was growing stronger by the second. He saw a lot of dust from monsters that disintegrated when the wave came through. Percy also saw a lot of monsters that hadn't disintegrated, like that dumb spider, Arcane. Good thing she was far away, and drowning. But the one's that disintegrated were quickly reforming. Stupid Tartarus and it's magical healing power for monsters.
He propelled Annabeth and himself up. When they reached the surface he saw a bunch of monsters learning to swim. He made a whirlpool around Annabeth and him. Percy was starting to get really tired.
Annabeth's eyes fluttered open. In a second she had a plan. "Percy, can you bring all of the monsters to the surface?" Percy followed her instruction and willed the water to bring all of the monsters to the surface. "Good now, try to drain the water." He concentrated. He willed the water to get absorbed by the ground below it. But the ground didn't like that.
Gaia was having a silent battle with Percy. She tried to turn the ground to all stone, but the water found the cracks in the rocks; nothing was perfect. Then she tried to turn the bottom to sand, so the water couldn't be absorbed. But the water just found it's way to the soil at the bottom. Eventually she just gave up.
With a little help form Percy; the water was gone in seconds. The monsters fell to the ground while the water gently put down Percy and Annebeth. Most of the monsters were in a stupor. Most likely, because in Tartarus random waves don't just appear and disappear. That's the New York way.
"Now run!" Annebeth still had a broken ankle so that slowed them down, then the monsters were starting to recovering from their daze, and to wrap it up the ground was pulling down Percy's and Annebeth's feet, so really, it was slower than walking. An arrow whizzed past Percy's head. There was nothing he could hide behind or any walls or doors. Ahead of him, he saw a bronze glow and … was that a rock? He led Annabeth over to it.
As they got closer, he saw the bronze glow was a knife and the rock was a backpack. They were Annabeth's things: she must have dropped them. As they went by he picked them up. Out of nowhere there was a wall. Percy noticed it too late and ran into it. "Come on, I think I see a door." Annabeth pulled him along the wall and sure enough, there was a door. She pulled him into the door. They closed the door behind them.
Unfortunately, it wasn't the Doors of Death. As soon as it was closed, the door disappeared. Hopefully, that meant that they wouldn't have any pursuers. But with Percy's luck, they probably would.
Percy looked around. There was nothing there but the wall that they had come through. "Why don't we try to sleep?" Annabeth asked, "I'll take first watch." Percy was just about to say the same thing only reversed. "I can if you're tired." He suggested. "No I'm fine." She said quietly. Percy could tell that the conversation she had in her head really unnerved her. He lay down, doubting that sleep could find him. But as soon as his head hit the ground, he was asleep. His dreams though, were restless.
A/N If you're wondering about my description of Tartarus, I couldn't find anything online other than it's a pit where monsters and some evil souls (not in the Percy Jackson world) were banished. So, as always, REVIEW!