A/N (I recommend reading this): I'm going to MAKE THIS CLEAR. Just like I mention on my bio page about every other fanfiction I done: I DON'T OWN THE PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIAN SERIES OR IT'S CHARACTERS as the rights goes to Rick Rioran. Also I suggest you guys start paying attention to the Author notes and my warnings that I left on EVERY chapter of EVERY story.

Sorry if this chapter is too much like the book.

Due to the limited number of characters posted, I'm forced to post only the names of the characters telling their tales in this story. When I get to the House of Hades and Blood of Olympus, I'll list off the first four characters listed in the order they tell their tales. I'll post the pairings if the two of the four characters listed are a pair. Other than that, the Pairings stay the same for this story.

Jason x Piper
Percy x Annabeth
Frank x Hazel

If you haven't figured it out, each of the members of the Prophecy of Seven practically has a position. Keep in mind in the original series Juno started this when she told Percy he was the glue that holds the group together, so I thought to give the rest a title. But no matter what title they have they still depend on each other. Titles will be added for some as the series continue

Jason: Leader of the Group

Piper: Peacekeeper

Leo: Mechanic and Seventh Wheel (by Nemesis)

Percy: Glue that holds everyone together

Hazel: Youngest (Literally and figuratively as the title refers to the fact that even though she has proven herself as one of the seven, Hazel still has much to learn compared to the rest about what she is capable to do that can help the group. Keep in mind Hazel has not master shadow travel or Mist Manipulation yet).

Frank: Muscles

Annabeth: Battle Strategist and Consultant

Lastly I want to make clear that once 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus' is done I won't start immediately on 'The tales of...' version of the Trials of Apollo until that part of the Percy Jackson series is done. Just as I waited for the end of the Blood of Olympus to start 'The Tales of...' series. By waiting until that series ends, it might help me come up with something to add to it.

Warning: Certain ancient Greek names matches words use of foul language but no foul language was intentionally used. Also I dropped the '& the Olympians' in 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon & the Olympians' as well as replaced the '&' with ':' in the short stories of that part of the series. So if you haven't read them yet read 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Early Adventures' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Lightning Thief' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Sea of Monsters' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Titan's Curse' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Magical Labyrinth' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Stolen Chariot' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Sword of Hades', 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Bronze Dragon' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Last Olympian' 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Staff of Hermes' 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero' 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Quest for Buford' and 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune' before reading this story as stuff that happened in them will be mentioned. Lastly, any one who wants to do a Demigods and Olympian reads story using 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon' is allowed as long as you inform me about it.


Leo's POV Part XIII

I was still in shock.

Everything had happened so quickly. We had secured the grappling lines to the Athena Parthenos just as the floor gave way, and the final columns of webbing snapped. Jason and Frank dove down to save the others, but they'd only found Nico and hazel hanging from the rope ladder. Percy and Annabeth were gone. The pit to Tartarus had been buried under several tons of debris. I pulled the Argo II out of the cavern seconds before the entire place imploded, taking the rest of the parking lot with it.

The Argo II was now parked on a hill overlooking the city. Jason, Hazel, and Frank had returned to the scene of the catastrophe, hoping to dig through the rubble and find a way to save Percy and Annabeth, but they'd come back demoralize. The cavern was simply gone. The scene was swarming with police and rescue workers. No mortal had been hurt, but the Italians would be scratching their heads for months, wondering how a massive sinkhole had opened right in the middle of a parking lot and swallowed a dozen perfectly good cars.

Dazed with grief, the others and me carefully loaded the Athena's Parthenos into the hold, using the ship's hydraulic winches with an assist from Frank Zhang, part-time elephant. The statue just fit, though we had no idea what to do with it.

Coach Hedge was too miserable to help. He kept pacing the deck with tears in his eyes, pulling at his goatee and should have saved them! I should have blown up more stuff!"

Finally, I told him to go below decks and secure everything for departure. He wasn't doing any good beating himself up.

The six of s gathered on the quarterdeck and gazed at the distant column of dust still rising from the site of the implosion.

I rested my hand on the Archimedes sphere, which now sat at the helm with the one I grabbed in the bunker (amazingly still in good piece), both were ready to be installed. I should have been excited. It was the biggest discovery in my life—bigger than when Beckendorf and I discovered Bunker 9. If I cold decipher Archimedes scrolls, I could do amazing things. I hardly dared to hope, but I might even able to build a new control disc for a certain dragon friend of mine.

Still, the price was too high, and caused of it I could almost hear Nemesis laughing.

She was right. I had opened the fortune cookie. I'd gotten the access code for the sphere and saved Frank and Hazel. But the sacrifice had been Percy and Annabeth. I was sure of it.

"It's my fault," I said miserably.

The others stared at me. Only Hazel seemed to understand. She'd been with me at the Great Salt Lake.

"No," she insisted. "No, this is Gaea's fault. It had nothing to do with you."

I wanted to believe that, but I couldn't. Ever since we started in this voyage, I either had part in messing up, if I didn't do it myself.

"Leo, listen to me." Hazel gripped my hand. "I won't allow you to take the blame. I couldn't bear that after—after Sammy…"

She choked up, but I knew what she meant. My bisabuelo had blamed himself for Hazel's disappearance. Sammy had lived a good life, but he'd gone to his grave believing that he'd spent a cursed diamond and doomed the girl he loved.

I didn't want to make Hazel miserable all over again, but this was different. I had chosen to break that cookie knowing the sacrifices. Percy and Annabeth had fallen into Tartarus. That couldn't be a coincidence.

Nico di Angelo shuffled over, leaning on his black sword. "Leo, they're not dead. If they were, I could feel it."

"How can you be sure?" I asked. "If that pit really led to… you know… how could you sense them so far away?"

Nico and Hazel shared a look, maybe comparing notes on their Hades/Pluto death radar. I shivered. Hazel never had never seemed like a child of the underworld to me. But Nico di Angelo—that guy was creepy.

"We can't be one hundred percent sure," Hazel admitted. "But I think Nico is right. Percy and Annabeth are still alive… at least, so far."

Jason pounded his fist against the rail. "I should've been paying attention. I could have flown down and saved them."

"Me, too," Frank moaned. The big dude looked like he was on the verge of tears.

Piper put her hand on Jason's back. It's not your fault, either of you. You were trying to save the statue."

"She's right," Nico said. "Even if the pit hadn't been buried, you couldn't have flown into it without being pulled down. You heard what Percy said about just being at the Underworld entrance into Tartarus, right? He wasn't lying. I'm the only one who has actually been into Tartarus and survived, and It's impossible to describe how powerful that place is. Once you get close, it sucks you in. I never stood a chance."

Frank sniffled. "Then Percy and Annabeth don't stand a chance either?"

Nico twisted his skull ring. "Percy is the most powerful demigod I met. No offense to you guys, but it's true. And he has the knowledge of the book Halcyon gave him. If anybody can survive, he will, especially if he's got Annabeth at his side. They're going to find a way through Tartarus."

Jason turned. "To the Doors of Death, you mean. But you told us it's guarded by Gaea's most powerful forces. How could two demigods possibly—?"

"I don't know," Nico admitted. "But Percy made me swear on the river of styx to lead you guys to Epirus, to the mortal side of the doorway. He's planning on meeting us there. If we can survive the House of Hades, fight our way through Gaea's forces, then maybe we can work together with Percy and Annabeth seal the Doors of Death from both sides."

"And get Percy and Annabeth back safely?" I asked.

"Maybe."

I didn't like the way Nico said that, as if he wasn't sharing all his doubts. Besides, I knew something about locks and doors. If the Doors of Death needed to be sealed from both sides, how could they do that unless someone stayed in the Underworld, trapped?

Nico took a deep breath. "I don't know how they'll manage it, but Percy and Annabeth will find a way. They'll journey through Tartarus and find the Doors of Death. When they do, we have to be ready."

"It won't be easy," Hazel said. "Gaea will throw everything she's got at us to keep us from reaching Epirus. Especially since we have the one thing that could ruin her plans."

"What else is new?" Jason sighed.

Piper nodded. "We've got no choice. We have to seal the Doors of Death before we can stop the giants from raising Gaea. Otherwise her armies will never die. It's our test as the Prophecy of Seven. One of which we need to hurry to complete. The Romans are in New York. Soon, they'll be marching on Camp Half-Blood."

"We've got one month at best," Jason added. "Ephialtes said Gaea plans to be awaken in exactly one month."

I straightened. "We can do it. Especially if I can upgrade the ship with the two Archimedes spheres I collected," I said, hoping I was right. "I'm going to study those ancient scrolls we got. There's got to be all kinds of new weapons I can make. We're going to hit Gaea's armies with a whole new arsenal of hurt."

At the prow of the ship, Festus creaked his jaw and blew fire defiantly.

Jason managed a smile. He clapped on my shoulder.

"Sounds like a plan, Admiral. You want to set the course?"

They kidded me, calling me Admiral, but for once I accepted the title. This was my ship. I hadn't come this far to be stopped.

We would find this House of Hades. We'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if I had to design a grabber arm long enough to snatch Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus then that's what I would do

Nemesis wanted me to wreck vengeance on Gaea? Well, I'm all too happy to oblige. Gaea already killed my mother, and I wasn't about to let her kill two of my best friends.

"Yeah." I took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning blood red in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save."


A/N: I hope all of you enjoyed. I want to thank those of the 7,160 viewers who had been reading the story from beginning to end. I won't be posting the first Chapter of The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: the House of Hades until the day after tomorrow because-as I told you in the last chapter, I'm taking a day off from the series. But when I do, Leo will have one more title to add to his 'Admiral'.

Before I call it for the night, I still have one more thing to do, the summary of the next story...

The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades - (Complete) Separated, Percy and Annabeth must travel through Tartarus against all odds to find the Doors of Death while facing monsters, Titans, and all sorts of enemies of the gods with a help of an amnesiac Titan and Rogue Giant. Meanwhile Argo II must find away to make it to the house of Hades is at while facing all sorts of new trouble and making new allies along the way. This is the stories of The Heroes of Olympus