The Torture Ends

Well, I'd say the poll is going pretty well. Right now Annabeth, Thalia, Artemis, and Hestia, are all tied for first, and the votes for the harem are all over the place. Like honestly, I've got people voting from 1 person, all the way to 7 people. Make sure to keep on voting you guys.

Bold- Regular Percy

Italic- Psychotic Percy

Percy P.O.V

It's been a rough couple centuries. You could say that again. Why are we even here? Just to suffer! Why are you here? To make sure you're never alone. Why haven't you left me like all the others? Cuz, insanity and pain never go away. Are you my friend? Ya, the only one you still have.

Flashback

"Well young demigod, I welcome you to my home," said a huge red man, with a face that looked like a mini vortex. "My name is Tartarus, and I will be your host for the next 800 years."

Tartarus ordered some cyclops to drag me to the dungeon, and put me in some water.

-Time Skip- 3 days later

I began to feel my legs again.

"How?" I asked nobody. I broke my spine, no amount of water should ever be able to fix that. "What is this stuff?"

"That is Katharos water," a cyclops said, while stepping into the cell. "It is some of the purest water on the planet, so that, and your improved healing abilities, were enough to heal you for torture."

He brought over a needle and injected something in my arm.

"Oh gods, what is that?"

"Stuff to make your torture more painful, good luck!" he said walking out of the room.

Third Person P.O.V

Two giants entered through a huge gate.

"Well are you ready?" one asked.

Percy just shook his head.

"I thought not," the second one said, while chuckling to himself. "Lets begin."

He took out a knife and began carving a picture into Percy's back. Percy let forth a harsh scream. The stuff the cyclops injected into Percy made the cuts feel like hot knives stabbing him over, and over, and over. Percy continued to scream, as the giants just laughed and continued to carve words and pictures onto Percy.

-Time Skip- 8 hours later

By this time Percy was so covered full of cuts, his skin looked uneven, almost like it was glued onto him in pieces. The giants dragged Percy over to the container of water, and ordered a cyclops to come over and keep watch.

"He should be ready by morning, my lords," the cyclops said, while bowing.

"Hmm, then we will return in the morning for another session. Remember, no one enters this room, but me, my brothers, and father."

-Time skip- 600 years later

"Are you ready, our little test subject?"

"Hmph"

"Perfect," the giant replied, not even bothering to ask what Percy said.

Percy P.O.V

The torture isn't as terrible as it 600 years ago. I mean sure it still hurts because they use new stuff like every year, but the pain has dulled. I don't know what I did to deserve this. Was it punishment from the gods, for me insulting them? Was it that Athena didn't think I was good enough for Annabeth, and thought casting me down here would make me forget her? Was it that the fates just hate me, and wish to condemn me to a miserable life? I don't know. By now the only thing keeping me from insanity is Annabeth, my friends, and my family.

Even with them in my mind, I can feel myself slipping away. I'm not going to hold out for much longer. Polybotes and Enceladus were here today. Polybotes is easily the harshest of all of the giants, however I seem to be missing one. I've counted all the giants and one seems to be missing, maybe he faded? I don't know, and I don't really care. The less giants the better.

"Today, we have a special torture for you. Don't worry it is painless, well to your body at least. This time your mind will BURN!" the giant roared.

He took a needle and injected a new liquid into my arm. Hmmm, it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Wait what's that? I looked around the room to find the source of the noise.

"Perfect it's working," Polybotes commented.

"What… What is this stuff?!" I yelped.

"It's a special potion that brings out your worst nightmares."

Oh gods, this is it. This is where I go insane. I heard grunting coming from down the hallway. It sounded like it was getting closer. I continued to stare at the door when I finally saw Annabeth…

"No," I whispered. She was battered and bruised, full of cuts, and looked like she had been tossed around in a blender. "Annabeth!"

She didn't say anything, and upon closer inspection, I found that her lips had actually been sewn shut. She just looked at me with pleading eyes, while tears ran down her face. Then all of a sudden, a black arrow shot through her chest, the point visibly sticking out of her right lung. The action was repeated, but this time the arrow was ticking out of her left lung. She crumpled to the floor, while blood began to pool around her, and her face was now as pale as Hades'.

"NOOOOO," I screamed, and tore through one of my chains.

"SHIT! Grab him! Hurry!" I heard the giants yell, but I didn't care. They killed Annabeth. Something inside me snapped, but it wasn't like when I gained those blood powers. (In fact, I've tried to use them, but I found out the hard way this room prevents me from using any powers. I still have my increased strength and speed, but I'd die anyway from fighting two giants.) This was different, this was like something emotional. I could feel myself becoming angrier.

I heard a voice pop inside my head, so they killed Annabeth huh? What, where are you? Inside you retard! I am you, well they psychotic version I guess. The psychotic version of me? Yup. Why are you here? Well you see, when they killed Annabeth you broke, ok? When they killed Annabeth, I was created. I'm the broken version of you Percy! You're happy about this? You're happy they killed Annabeth?! Hey, it created me, soooo ya. You little bastard! Bro chiiiiillllllll. You'll eventually become accustomed to me, don't worry. I get the feeling we'll be best of friends.

I was snapped out of my conversation when I felt a sharp pain in my hand. I looked over and found that they were hammering knives into my feet and hands.

"Now we will continue," Enceladus said, while he finished hammering the knife in.

End of Flashback

Every since that day, the torture has been the same, physical torture one week, mental torture the next. Physical torture consists of using hot irons, knives, and poisons and acids. Mental torture consists of images of my family and friends dying, and no matter how many times I see them die or tortured, it hurts the same every time. Only this time is going to be different. Me and my psychotic counterpart have been creating a plan to escape, and today is the lucky day for the giants who come to torture us.

Ready? Fuck ya! The previous night, I had painfully removed the knives from my libs and killed the cyclops that always keeps watch over me. Today I plan on sneaking out of the cell as the giants enter, then summoning my sword to me.

I hid behind the wall nearest to the gate, and waited for the giants to enter. The moment the giants stepped inside, I slipped underneath their feet and out the door. Now that I was out of the room, I was able to use my powers. I immediately summoned my sword to me. It barreled towards me like a rocket, smashing through anything in its path. The giants swung around and saw me with the sword in my hand.

"PUNY DEMIGOD! I WILL CRUSH YOU!" a giant bellowed.

"Nope," I said and turned my sword into a huge war hammer. I used my earthquake powers and began vibrating the hammer, then smashed the hammer into the ground, bringing down the entire cell on their heads. I decided to try out my new hellhound powers, and attempted to shadow travel out of the castle. I almost made it, but was stopped at the front gate by an invisible force.

I was greeted by 3 titans: Hyperion, Koios, and BOB?! "Well, well, well, it seems my wish has come true, I will be the one to finish the great Percy Jackson," Hyperion said.

I ignored him and asked, "Bob, why are you here?"

"How dare you call me by that stupid name BOY!" Bob roared. "You called my name, and then just left me to wander Tartarus! I was lost, cast out, but most of all betrayed! My true family took me in and healed me, and as you said family always protects FAMILY!"

He and the other titans charged. I uncapped my pen, and changed the blade back to celestial bronze.

"Bob, don't do this," I warned. I couldn't bring myself to make him fade, he was still my friend. He just ignored my comment and thrust his spear at my chest. I stepped back, grabbed hold of the spear tip, and ripped it from his hands. He and the others immediately stopped their attack.

"I may not be as strong as you, but I am strong enough to get your attention," I told him. "If you attack, I will kill you."

I forced my face to be expressionless, like that of a killer. He just stared at me, then said, "I will kill you!"

"Fine then!" I yelled, and broke his spear over my knee. I took my sword, and drove it through his stomach, turning him to dust. I used my cyclops strength, and threw the pointed end of the half spear, at Koios. He dodged it as it sailed past him, but gave me enough time to turn my sword into a spiked war hammer, and smash it into his forehead, causing him to turn into dust as well. I turned, and immediately ducked under a huge gold sword. Hyperion continued to press his attack, and eventually waved his hand and sent me flying back.

"Shit," I cursed.

"You see demigod, it is hopeless," he replied. "You may have escaped those giants, but none will evade ME!"

I rolled out of the way, as he jumped and slashed at the ground, a couple of feet away from me. I transformed my celestial bronze sword back into the dark grey metal.

He just laughed and said, "Your new sword does not scare me!"

"Well it should," I muttered under my breath.

He began his attack again. We were a flurry of stabs and slashes, but I finally saw an opening in Hyperions defense, and took advantage of it. I pretended to slash at his left side, but at the last second, willed my sword into a spear, and stabbed at his stomach. He hastily went to deflect as expected, so when I turned my spear back into a short sword, he was caught off guard. I slashed at his stomach and managed to cut him.

"YES!" I yelled in triumph.

He looked down and saw red blood.

"WHAT IS THIS?!" he roared. "HOW DARE YOU! I WILL DESTROY YOU FOR THIS!"

He swung his sword in a huge arc, but was too angry to be coordinated about it. I easily dodged his attack, and stabbed my sword into his gut. I took his arm, and dragged him over to the castle wall, and began searching for anything sharp. After a few minutes of searching, I found 5 suitable pieces of metal. With my new titan strength, I dragged Hyperions body up against the wall, and began hammering the pieces of metal into his skin.

"You Titans are very stubborn, I'll give you that. You know everything has a purpose in life, and in my opinion, you guys exist just to be the retards who live on this giant floating piece of rock. You know most of the time, I can't tell you apart because I don't go by looks or anything, I go by the amount of PAIN IN MY ASS! You know, everything has a way to survive but yours is just pitiful. You survive because your slight superiority over other beings gives you the upper hand, allowing you to manipulate them. That was pretty much the only way you ever gained power in the recent war. Also, the reason I say your slight superiority, is because me and a couple of satyrs managed to defeat you, the oh great Titan lord. Monsters survive because young demigods wander off in the middle of the night, trees survive because they are superior to all the pathetic plant life around them, and I survive because I can kill everything. As far as I'm concerned, your species is a sick plague, you know that? But don't worry, I WILL CURE IT!" I said, hammering the last piece of metal into his palm, and brought the hammer down on his forehead, instantly caving his head into the rest of his body. Gold blood splattered everywhere, and he crumpled to the floor. "Goddammit, I love myself."

Fuck ya! We are pretty awesome huh? You can bet your invisible ass we are! I jogged through the gates, and went to find a way to the Doors of Death.