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"Somebody speaking."
'Somebody thinking.'
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Prologue:
Tartarus.
A true hell of suffering and pain.
Beneath the sky is the earth, beneath the earth is the underworld, beneath the underworld is Tartarus, and beneath Tartarus is chaos, the end of this universe leading to the unknown.
Tartarus is the pit from which monsters are reborn endlessly. The prison that holds the oldest of beings condemned to an eternity of damnation.
A place of pain and suffering for gods and mortals, among others, designed to hurt them. With acid air, rivers of suffering such as the water of sadness (in the case of the River Cocytus), and the ground made of broken glass. Tartarus has a grayish atmosphere, and its clouds are blood red.
The ceiling is so high that it is invisible from the ground, stretching for miles and miles to plunge into darkness in the form of plateaus. Multiple pointed mountains and volcanic chasms adorn the landscape. A few long, thin, black trees grow in the flatter areas, and various monsters emerge like worms from blisters that form on the ground. The cave's main wall is made up of multiple precipices and obsidian cliffs, where the rivers of Hades descend.
The landscape descends to the most dangerous area, where the heart of the god himself is found. As it descends, the terrain loses its composition of black gravel. It begins to have a rather skin-like appearance, with a large membrane covered in a thin layer of earth or dust, smooth and warm, on which multiple cave mouths are made up of piles of stones. A dense black mist covers the lower areas of this region.
Taking the source of the rivers and the obsidian cliffs as the North, in the South direction is a forest with a cold climate and humid by the dark mist, with tall black and round trees, but without branches.
Tartarus is also the true body of the primordial god who fathered the race of giants with Gaia, the primordial goddess of the earth.
And now, that god manifested in physical human form for the first time in millennia, and that was the only reason that anyone could stand a fighting chance.
At the heart of Tartarus, the doors of death stood in the form of an elevator chained to the pit surrounded by hordes of endless monsters. Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, and Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, managed to break those chains and open up a chance at escape from this hell.
Unfortunately, the doors require a sacrifice. Someone must push a button for a full twelve minutes from this side for the elevator like doors to ascend back to the surface world.
And that willing sacrifice came in the form of two beings that these demigods owe their lives to.
Ieapus, the titan of mortal life span, pain, and violent death. A titan who was submerged in the waters of the River Lithe and had his memories swept away by Percy himself. He was befriended by another demigod by the name of Nico and subsequently learned how to be kind and helpful. When asked by Nico, Ieapus, who now goes by the name of Bob, went to help Percy and Annabeth in their journey across Tartarus. During the journey, he managed to recover portions of his memories and, in the end, chose to stick to his newfound friendship with Percy and help him.
The other being was Damasen, the giant born to be the bane of Ares, god of war. As the opposite of Ares, Damasen ended up being the only peaceful giant among his brethren and heavily disliked combat. This did not mean he was weak, for when one of his mortal friends was slain by a Drakon of all things, a beast the predates dragons, he hunted it with a vengeance and took its life.
However, for slaying the beast, which was a war tool for his mother's wars against the Olympians, he was cast down into Tartarus and had a curse placed on him. Every day, the Drakon he slaid would rise and force him into mortal combat. No matter how many times he killed it, the only peace-loving giant would have to endure the hell of Tartarus while having to fight just to live.
Percy met Damasen when he was poisoned during his journey across Tartarus. Bob, unable to heal the poison, took Percy to Damasen, a healer greater than apollo, for help. Within their short stay at Damasen's home, Percy and Annabeth struck up a friendship with the reclusive giant. Unfortunately, he couldn't offer much help other than letting them rest and giving supplies since he couldn't bring the risk of the Drakon upon the busy demigods.
So, it was to Percy's honest shock when Damasen came charging in RIDING on the Drakon, his multiple millennia old foe, to aid Percy and Annabeth in their escape.
Unfortunately, the assistance would only lead to their demise with the entrance of Tartarus himself in a manifested body.
While Damasen held off his father and did everything in his power to drive the primordial god of the abyss away from the doors, the Drakon and Bob's pet saber-tooth cat were the only thing keeping Bob safe from the endless horde of monsters while Bob would press the button for Percy and Annabeth to escape.
In one timeline, Percy would look upon the sight of Damasen fighting off his father, the Drakon and saber-tooth cat fighting off the horde, and Bob smiling at him while Annabeth pulled him inside the elevator despite her pained sobs, shaking hands, and tears falling down her face and not fight it.
But this is not that story.
This is the story of Percy's fatal flaw, his loyalty towards his friends being more important than the fate of the world, and how it drove him to his death.
A death worthy of a hero.
A death full of sacrifice.
And a death, that birthed a legend.
The legend of Perseus, the hunter.