A/N: Happy Birthday Jason! It's a happy but also sad day because today is the day Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartarus. Remember, I'm a big Percabeth shipper even though my story doesn't have any of it. This chapter was extremely hard to write and I'm not for sure if I like how it turned out. Please give me suggestions about how to improve this in the future!

Setting: not Tartarus

Disclaimer: whatever. I don't own Percy Jackson. I'm gonna go over there and cry.

Chapter 5:

It's been a week since the gods sent Percy to Tartarus. A week since the gods deemed it impossible to save him. During that week, both camps had been informed on what had happened. There had been a riot. Everybody loved Percy. Even the people who hated him had some respect for him. The children of the gods who had betrayed Percy stopped sacrificing their food for their parent and instead offered it to Hestia, Hades, Apollo, Artemis, or Hermes. They stopped honoring their parents and refused to go on quests that they were given unless it was given to them by one of the gods who voted for Percy's innocence or was a matter of life and death. It was a dangerous thing to do and Chiron was worried for the safety of his campers, but nothing bad happened to them. Chiron's worry lessened as the time went on and eventually disappeared entirely.

Thalia and Artemis had both left the throne room and returned to the hunt. They told the hunters what had happened to Percy. The hunters respect Percy for saving Artemis and because he is only decent man left in the world. They were angry at the gods for throwing the only decent man in the world in Tartarus and they immediately asked if they could go on a quest to save Percy. Artemis had explained that the ancient laws of Tartarus forbid them from saving him and that Percy would have to survive and somehow escape on his own. The hunters understood and accepted that they couldn't help. Although, they were careful about killing monsters because the more they killed up here the more Percy would have to deal with down there.

After Jason left the throne room, he had immediately gone to the Olympians library to try and find a way to help Percy. Jason wanted to save Percy and try and make amends with him. He was in the library for days searching through the high book shelves for something helpful and refused to come out until he found a way to help Percy escape from the depths of Tartarus.

Piper was at Jason's side the entire time looking through the books to try and help Percy. She had known that Percy was innocent, but she had chosen to not threaten her relationship with Jason and instead send Percy to Tartarus. Because of her, Percy was suffering in Tartarus and it was her vote that had sent him there. She refused to eat or sleep and hardly left the library along with Jason, trying to find a way around the ancient laws.

Piper and Jason were immortal, so they couldn't die from the lack of sleep and food but you could tell just by looking at them that they were not healthy. Both had dark, crescent moons under their eyes and had sunken faces. Their skin was turning a unhealthy white and they were getting thin from lack of food. The rest of the seven tried to convince them to take a break and take care of themselves but Jason and Piper didn't listen. They would just reply with, "Every minute wasted up here is another minute Percy suffers down there." Even Hestia tried to get them to rest. When nothing worked, the seven gave up and decided to just let Jason and Piper be.

Frank and Hazel had returned to Camp Jupiter. They were the ones who told the camp about Percy and what the gods have done to him. The romans, who still considered Percy a praetor even though Frank now holds that position, were outraged. Reyna and Frank managed to talk them out of doing anything drastic that would anger the gods but every night each demigod would eat a blue food in honor of Percy. Most people just did a blue drink but others would eat blue cookies or even pizza.

After the meeting, Poseidon had left and locked himself in his underwater palace. He just sat on his throne wallowing in his misery. Percy was his only and favorite son and he had sent him to Tartarus. Poseidon should've had known that Percy would never betray them. He should have remembered his fatal flaw. He should have remembered that Percy cared too much about his friends to ever risk hurting them. But instead his pride kept him from seeing the truth and now his only son was in Tartarus because of it. Why, he had even disowned him. Percy wasn't even his son anymore. Storms were devastating cities on the coast, killing thousands of people. Eventually, Tritan had to step in and try to stop the storms. Unfortunately, Tritan could only lessen the storms power not stop them entirely. Poseidon's sadness and despair was just too strong.

Annabeth left the throne room with her mother. She couldn't care less what happened to that son of Poseidon. In her opinion, he deserved it. So, instead of trying to find a way to rescue him she assisted her mother with designing a new section of buildings on Olympus. Campers stopped sacrificing food for her and her once friends hated her guts. Instead of smiles and hellos, she would get glares and insults. Annabeth didn't care though. All she cared about was making her mother proud. She became the most hated person on Olympus.

Eventually, someone had to tell Percy's mother, Sally Jackson, what had happened to him. Thalia had asked Artemis if she could go visit Sally and explain what had happened. Artemis had looked at her sadly, her silver eyes dulled. "Someone has to tell her. I think it best be you."

Artemis teleported Thalia from the forests of Montana to Sally Jackson's front door. After Sally had started writing and married Paul, they had moved to a bigger apartment. Thalia raised her hand to knock, but hesitated. She bit her lip and forced herself to knock. A few moments later, Sally opened the door. The moment she saw Thalia, her eyes lit up and a huge smile broke out on her face. She pulled Thalia into a hug saying how long it's been since she last saw her and how much she had missed her.

Thalia pulled away from the hug and looked down. Sally noticed the sadness on Thalia's face and became worried. "Thalia come inside and have a cookie. I just baked some and the chocolate chips are still melting.

Paul is at work but he should be home later."

Thalia complied and walked inside. She took a seat at the dining room table but didn't touch Sally's famous blue chocolate chip

cookies. Sally sat beside Thalia and frowned. "Thalia, normally your stuffing my cookies down your throat like you haven't eaten in years. What's wrong?"

Thalia looked at Sally with sad eyes. She took a deep breath and said,"Something bad has happened to Percy."

Sally's eyes widened in panic and fear. "What's happened to my little boy? Where is he? Is he ok? He's... he's not dead, is he?" Tears we're starting to leak out of Sally's eyes and fall down her cheeks.

Thalia had tears running down her face as well, but hers were tears of anger and frustration. "The gods sent him to Tartarus." Sally gasped and her eyes became a steely blue and her face twisted in anger. "Zeus said that they had evidence that Percy was a spy in both wars. There was a vote and Jason, Piper, Frank, Hazel, Leo, Annabeth, Nico, and me were allowed to vote as well. Out of the gods only Hestia, Hermes, Hades, Apollo, and Artemis voted for Percy's innocence. Out of the demigods only Frank, Hazel, Leo, Nico, and me voted for his innocence. The rest of the Olympians and Jason, Piper, and Annabeth voted for him to be sent to Tartarus."

Sally looked shocked. "Both Poseidon and Annabeth voted for him to go to Tartarus?"

Thalia nodded and clenched her fists in anger. "Percy was Poseidon's only son. He should have believed in Percy and known that Percy didn't do anything except help the gods. And Annabeth... don't even get me started. I thought she loved Percy as much as he loved her but I guess I was wrong. She isn't worthy of Percy's love."

Sally's eyes held a faraway look. "My baby. Oh my poor, sweet baby." Sally broke down and started crying on Thalia's shoulder. Thalia had tears streaming down her face as well as she thought of all the horrible things that could be happening to Percy right now, at this very moment.

A/N: as I said before. Not for sure how much I like this chapter. I promise the next chapter will be better!