hi! Here I am with a new chapter. I am so sorry that y'all didn't get a post last week. :( But I had a fun time, and I worked really hard to get this chapter for you.

I found something out about the Sea of Monsters movie that's being made. Dionysus is in it! For some reason this makes me deliriously happy . . .

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Disclaimer: No matter how many times I am able to randomly quote Percy Jackson, or how many times I read it, I do not own it. Yes this is sad, but I am very happy with the person who DOES own it. 3

Percy

Traveling was almost surreal. It was so quiet, even though they were talking, and moving, that Percy wondered if there was some sort of spell, or even if they were about to be attacked.

It wasn't unbelievable. In fact, it was one of the more possible things that he'd thought of. The idea that he was the only one who noticed it had been the other one, but Annabeth had said she was worried about the silence, so he assumed the others were noticing it as well.

"Percy?" Annabeth sounded worried.

"Yeah wise girl?" He turned to see her standing next to him. She was looking in front of them, her eyes wide with horror.

Percy turned, and shuddered at the sight. The grass gave way to a barren empty land that stretched as far as he could see, covered with scrawny dead black trees. He could see the glimmer of what looked like a river in the distance.

Percy frowned. The river looked familiar. He looked up into the gloom. He remembered Annabeth telling him once that Tartarus was rumored to be a nine day fall from the other areas of the Underworld. But he and Annabeth hadn't fallen for nine days, had they?

Maybe the time had been messed up, but they were definitely in Tartarus.

Percy squinted as he looked upwards, trying to see anything. He'd looked before, hoping to see any sign of the world above, but there had been absolutely nothing.

This time he could see faint red glow. Nothing that told him where they were, or if they could get out, and nothing at all like the sky, but for some reason it was reassuring.

Maybe if only because he wanted to see anything at all that resembled a ceiling, or the sky.

And maybe because he was wondering how in the name of the gods the River Styx had sunk down into Tartarus.

"Annabeth," Percy said slowly, feeling something cold start to grow in his mind. "Somethings wrong here." He looked closer. It still looked like the River Styx.

His girlfriend frowned. "I know it looks awful Percy, but we have to get across that. It doesn't look impossible."

Percy cleared his throat. "Annabeth, have you looked at the river very . . . closely? At all? Do you know what it looks like?" She rolled her eyes and looked closer, as though she didn't expect to see anything big.

"Oh my gods." She muttered, becoming pale. Percy muttered in agreement.

The other three Demigods looked at them like they were crazy. "Is it just me, or are they being a little weird?" Cam said softly to Miley. The daughter of Athena nodded nervously as she looked at the two older Demigods.

"Percy, I think Daedalus mentioned something about this in his research." Annabeth said, pulling her laptop out of her backpack and opening it. "He said that part of his Labyrinth seemed to mirror the world above, and that it was possible that the Underworld and Tartarus did the same."

Percy peered over her shoulder as she showed him pictures of old parts of the Labyrinth, including some that he and Annabeth had been in.

"What are you two talking about?" Alabaster said, sounding annoyed. "There's nothing down here that would possibly mirror anything up there."

Percy closed his eyes. "Well Alabaster, maybe I'm wrong, and I really hope that I'm wrong, but that river looks a whole lot like the River Styx. I've seen the River Styx several times, I've even been in the River Styx. I think I can say I know what it's like."

Alabaster, Cam, and Miley looked at him in shock and horror.

Annabeth was taking deep breaths. "Ok, we need to keep going. Even if that is the River, then we need to get there. Maybe there's a way out or something." Percy looked at her, hearing the faint sound of fear in her voice.

He didn't say anything, but he definitely felt nervous. After having the curse of Achilles, having bathed in the River Styx itself, he couldn't help but want to avoid it at all costs.

It was only a natural desire.

"Yeah, lets get out of here." Percy muttered. He ignored Annabeth's worried glance as she stowed her laptop away, and they began to move forward again.

After losing the curse of Achilles, Percy had hoped to be done with the River of the Underworld. But now it seemed that it would be impossible. Of course, it was always doubtful, especially since he was a Demigod.

Percy realized that he'd fallen a little bit behind the others. Cam and Miley were asking Annabeth something, and as he watched, she pushed a strand of her wavy blonde hair behind her ear, probably explaining about the curse, or some other fact that she knew. Alabaster was walking a few feet away, but it was obvious he was listening.

Percy smiled slightly as Annabeth described how he had left with Nico, not telling anyone where he was going or what he was doing and then returned with the curse of Achilles.

"Sorry. We were in a hurry." Percy said, catching up as quickly as possible. "I didn't even think of telling anyone until I was sitting in one of Hades' cells and feeling really stupid."

Annabeth glared at him. "That part certainly didn't reassure me Percy. How could you even think about going there when you knew that Hades would never allow it?"

"You know that's not how it happened! Nico made a deal with Hades, and Hades only kept part of the deal, and put me in a cell so that Nico would be the prophecy child." Percy argued, eyes twinkling cheerfully. He and Annabeth always argued over what had happened when he went and got the curse.

"But none of it was Nico's fault! He got you out, remember that!" Annabeth snapped.

Percy began to laugh. "I already know that Annabeth. Nico was as angry at his Father as I was, and he was pretty quick in getting me out, though I admit that at first I almost killed him."

Annabeth smiled faintly, but Percy could see a hint of sadness in her eyes. He knew exactly what she was thinking about. And he thought about it too, all the time in fact.

And he missed his friends too.

I like this chapter, and I hope everyone else does. I am leading up to something, but none of y'all want to know what it is, trust me.

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