Sorry for my lateness, I've been struggling with this chapter a lot and I still don't think it is very exciting (sorry). But I had to tell the story a bit and this is the best I could do it. I've been trying to improve it for eight hours now and this is the best it is going to get. Hopefully I can get another chapter done soon, as it is my school holiday so I can get on to the next – hopefully more exciting – chapter. Ok this one is back to Percy and is happening at the same time as the last chapter so there is a little previous part to remind you of when we last saw him because it follows straight on.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Heroes of Olympus all rights go to Rick Riordan

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Previously –

I could see her. She wasn't crying, obviously, she knew what she was doing. But she looked upset, clearly she was under the impression I wouldn't leave her, that I would understand her giving me away to be tortured but no. I would not. I couldn't cope seeing her again, seeing the one responsible for all this, it broke me all over again. "No I didn't!" I screamed back at her, tears streaming down my face. "You gave me away. Y-you gave me to Lord Kronos!" I couldn't deal with it anymore; she was the reason I was like this. Broken. The enemy. Unable to be free. All because of her, I looked away. Sobbing. "No, no. You've got it wrong." She tried again. "Seaweed Brain." At the old nickname my knees gave out and I fell to the floor. Not even registering the pain.

"Annabeth" it was Apollo. "he won't listen to you. I couldn't detect a lie. Even if it's not true, Percy thinks he is telling the truth." There was a great sadness in his voice, I could tell even through my own pain. An evil chuckle cut through my thoughts like a knife, I could feel Kronos move closer to me. "Of course he is telling the truth, he wouldn't dare lie. And he knows that she left him. Gave him to me." He laughed again, placing a hand in my hair. "Now if you'll excuse us, I've got an army to prepare. Goodbye." The hand tightened in my hair, I knew I was leaving and part of me was happy. The smaller part wanted to stay, to be away from Kronos. But these were not the people I could be near, not after all they'd done. I could hear feet pounding the marble, but it would be too late. Gold filled my vision and we flashed away.


Percy POV

The gold faded from my vision and the hand released me. But it was too late it didn't matter anymore, we were gone. No one was here to save me. The pounding feet I heard, gone. Long gone. Thousands of miles away. I was alone once again with Kronos. These thoughts all rushed through my head in the time it took for my head to fall to the floor. Unable to support myself I laid my head against the cool obsidian stone and curled in on myself. Then I cried. It was over, no more pretence that I was still with the gods. They knew, they knew I couldn't help them. They knew I was the enemy. And it wouldn't be long now till we were at war. If Kronos had decided to let them see me it was happening, and soon. He knew he didn't need me as a secret weapon. He had been gloating, showing his strength, when he took me there – making them afraid.

At the same time a million other thoughts swam through my head, all kicking and fighting to be heard. Annabeth. She was at the front of my thoughts; I hated her now more than ever. How could she sit there and argue with me? I knew the truth and she did too, what good would it do her anyway? And then there was Nico, why had he tried to help me? Why? It made no sense they all knew what she had done. They had all known of the betrayal from the girl I loved. 'But what if he didn't?' Another part of me asked. Maybe she didn't tell them all and he actually didn't know. What if he really wanted to help? No, no. No. I couldn't let myself think that way it would only cause me pain when the time came for them to tell me. They knew. And even if they didn't tell me, I had to kill them anyway. No point making a tough job harder.

After what felt like years a cruel mocking laughter broke through my thoughts. "You are pathetic." It spat. "I knew seeing them would affect you. But this? Its pitiful." Kronos. Always Lord Kronos there again and again. Each word he spoke a crushing blow. Carefully I uncurled my arms and raised my head to look at him with glistening eyes, tears staining my wet cheeks. Now that I had finally looked up I noticed the monsters that had travelled with us were gone, but I noticed something else too… I didn't recognise the room. It's pitch black walls were different from the stone grey of the fortress I had become used to seeing in Tartarus. A cold breeze danced through the room, wailing her mournful tune. 'But there is no wind in the underworld.' I thought 'So where are we?'. "Very clever," the titan drawled "maybe you aren't as stupid as you look."

I looked up at him confused as water droplets continued the rolled quietly down my cheeks. "Oh stop crying brat, or I'll give you something to cry about." The king yelled stepping forwards menacingly and dragging me off my feet, holding me up till our eyes were level. I may be tall for a mortal but the titan still lifted me six inches off the ground to meet his eyes. And I just hung there, limply, quivering like a leaf. "Pathetic." He spat again before dropping me onto my feet. I hurried back into a corner to get away from Kronos hurriedly wiping my eyes, in the hope that he wouldn't carry out his threat. Luckily he didn't. Already too busy telling me his marvellous plan. 'It's a good job for him I could never get away' I thought 'he can't keep his mouth shut.' "This is our new fortress." He declared. "You see taking you to see the Gods, as funny as it was, did actually have a purpose."

Kronos paced the room with long strides gesturing dramatically as he went, clearly proud of his brilliant plan. "All the Gods were together, in one room. And all of them were far too preoccupied with you reappearing, to noticed a little thing like oh I don't know. My full army moving in to Mount Othrys." Suddenly I began to recognise the place, it was the same – exactly the same as before. The shining black walls of marble, the greek fire brazier fixed to one wall. And I knew if I left here, I would go out into a room filled with row upon row of columns where a black throne sat. His throne, Kronos's. "It was a brilliant plan, and now it's too late. They think we are still in Tartarus and that my mighty palace is in ruins, but Othrys stands. Covered in layer upon layer of mist, but we are here - just hidden. This was bad. Really, really bad. If we were on Mount Othrys and the gods didn't know, the titans could attack at a moment's notice. And what if they sent people into Tartarus? With the help of a god they could get out, but the titans wouldn't be there. The gods needed to know where we were, but what could I do? I couldn't help. I was useless.

"Look at you." Kronos laughed finally stopping to stare at me. I tried to back away but I was already pressed into the wall. I had nowhere to go, the only thing I could do was wait as the titan got closer and closer. "They don't care about you, yet you still want to help." I opened my mouth to speak. "Do not argue with me!" he cut me off "I can see it on your face, I think I'll have to teach you later what happens for helping." He ginned wickedly his golden eyes glowing with menace. "But for now we must talk to the troops, the war begins today." He cackled. At first I had been relieved to know my punishment was for a later time, but now I worried for the people I would have to fight and those who would die in the battle. Suddenly a collar and chain appeared with a flash in Kronos's hand. I scrambled back, terrified. But I was against the wall with nowhere to go, instead I slid down to the floor. upon contact I turned my head away and closed my eyes tightly. I was powerless to stop him. Helpless.

Cold metal touched my skin causing me to flinch violently, next came the loud echoing click of the magical lock. Without wasting a second I was dragged to my feet, I stumbled blindly before I pried my eyes open. Kronos was smirking cruelly but turned away and left the room, tugging me behind him without a word. The only sound the cold clinking of the metal chain connecting us.

I had been right before, when we left the small room we entered a large room, lined by rows of solid black pillars between them stood statues of the titans in their ten-foot form. The room was at least the size of a football pitch if not more. We had entered on to a second story walk away that circled the room, with a large stair case at each end. From up there I could see everything, and it did not look good at all. The room was filled with boisterous monsters shifting endlessly to try and get to the front, there must have been thousands – tens of thousands. For not an inch of floor could be seen they were packed in that tightly. Kronos carried on walking at a leisurely pace towards the steps that lead to a raised dais. As we walked more and more monsters seemed to notice us, until each and every one of them was staring and laughing at me. Still finding it funny that a once great hero could be reduced to this. To me.

I hated them. I hated them all and once long ago I would've fought my way out and attacked with my friends by my side. Now I was too afraid, bound by oaths and my friends hated me. they would never fight by my side again, only against me. We rounded the final corner and began our decent down the stairs, that's when I saw it. The black throne. Not the temporary throne in Tartarus, the real thing. It was whole once again, rebuilt after Jason and the romans destroyed it. The black throne was correctly named, it was made of solid black obsidian and was tall enough to hold Kronos when he was at his 10-foot height. The throne was laced with tiny streaks of gold the same shade as the king's eyes and had diamonds pressed into the arms. Just looking at it sent a shiver down my spine. Soon we reached the bottom of the steps and with one last evil smirk Kronos handed the chain off to Queen Sess of the Dracaena, his guard. The queen's smile was nearly as bad as my masters as she led me to the front of the dais and connected the chain to a ring on the floor. "Hero." She chuckled as she spat at me and walked off back to her post. As soon as her back was turned I had to quickly scramble back away from the edge of the platform as the nearest monsters reached out to me. Cutting with their claws and trying to drag me into the crowd.

Luckily Kronos's speech started quickly and the monsters instantly stilled to listen to our leader. "Today I took Perseus Jackson up to Olympus." A small laugh rippled through the crowd and I lowered my head in shame. It was clear the monsters who came with us had told them all what happened. "As expected when they saw him they were shocked and thought they may be able to get him back, to use him as they always have." The last part was aimed at me, the titan king meeting my eyes for a few seconds before turning back to the adoring crowd. 'He didn't have to tell me again' I thought 'I know they only used me before.' "But then they heard about his oath, and now they hate him!" he yelled while the army cheered. 'Today is getting worse and worse' I thought miserably, hoping the earth would just swallow me up. Kronos carried on to give a brief overview of his plan for the war and detail the lay out for the upcoming battle, all while sending brief snide comments at me. Eventually he finished and sent the monsters away. We would all be leaving the make camp a few miles away from Camp Half-Blood in 4 hours.

Once all the monsters had filtered out of the room to go prepare for the battle Kronos made his way over to me. However, for once he did not shrink back down to his normal height of 6 foot 7. Instead he stayed at 10 foot tall, looming over me while I trembled slightly on the floor. The titan crouched down slowly next to me and slipped a finger under my chin, forcing me to look at him. "You will be coming with us, but you're not fighting just yet." I breathed out a short sigh of relief before he began talking again. "You see that's what they are expecting, and we need a surprise for them. An ace up the sleeve as the mortals say. A dirty trick." He seemed to notice my relief at that moment. "But don't worry you can get some blood on your hands soon. For now it's my turn though." Kronos cackled gleefully. In one flowing movement he stood and whipped his scythe across my exposed chest. Pain blossomed, even just a little cut making me want to scream from the feeling of my soul being cut by the blade. "I think we have time for one last lesson." The king chuckled, raising the scythe again.


Ok really sorry for the short chapter but it was really difficult to write for me, so hopefully the next one will be more exciting and longer for you. If you enjoyed this please let me know in the comments you all inspire me to keep writing and follow or favourite if you want to get the updates as soon as they arrive. If you have any tips how to make this better please let me know and I might do an edit at some point. Who knows? For now though, see ya.