Hey guys here's another chapter I hope you guy's enjoy, thank you all for reviewing the story, and following and favoring the story. And I recently got a review saying that the first chapter seemed a little rushed, and it kind of was, my computer was acting up it kept turning off and I didn't save it so the story was a little rushed. So I would like to say sorry, I'll try not to rush the story anymore, please tell me if I do. And this is going to be the longest story so far.
Annabeth
Percy was really weird, not in a bad way though, but he was really weird, even for a demi-god. I mean he was taking all this stuff like it was normal. When he found out that the gods were real, that he was the son of Poseidon, and his mother had just died. Yet when he learned all this he had no expression, no confusion, sadness, or even anger. I had to admit he looked kind of attractive when he was walking up to use, he had a look of determination in his eyes.
"Let's get going." Percy said getting into the back of the van waving us over so we'd hurry up.
So me and Grover gathered our stuff and joined Percy in the back of the van. The drive to New York was pretty uneventful, it was long and boring, every now and then I would look at Percy and he would be staring out the window thinking of something, I new because it was the same expression people said I had when ever I was coming up with strategies for capture the flag, but when I saw him it only made him look more attractive, if he wasn't so scrawny he would look perfect, but that would be a problem for long since he will probably be training even more when he gets back from the quest. Ever since he got to camp he was training more then anyone, he even managed to train more then Clarissa. Even though Percy's mother had just died though Grover said that he hadn't changed much, he said the only difference was that he was a lot quitter and didn't smile or laugh as much. From what Grover told me Percy used to be a lad back and happy person who made friends easily and was loyal, kind and always laughing and joking around with the few friends he had (since most people at the school they went to were stuck up and jerks). From what I could tell the only difference from the old Percy was he was a lot more quite, focused, and serious, but he was still loyal and kind from what I could tell, and he sure could make friends fast. Percy made friends with nearly everyone at camp, even Clarissa, and she was mean to even her own siblings. The weird thing though, was he seemed to get a lot more caution then he usually is when ever Luke was around, which is weird since Luke was one of the nicest and coolest councilors at camp.
Any ways, once we got to NYC Argus, the many eyed giant that was sent to camp by Hera to watch over camp, dropped us off at a train station so we could start our quest, and so he had to get back to camp to watch over campers. So we got on the bus and started heading to the train station. We sat in silence for a few minutes before I decided to start a conversation.
"So, what exactly is the plan." I asked, thinking it would be bad if we just showed up in the Underworld demanding for the bolt, let alone trying to find away into Underworld
"I have a plan." Percy said not taking his eyes off the window. He sat there not explaining anything.
"And?" I said a little annoyed he was keeping me in the dark, on the otherhand Grover was in the seat near the aisle, just munching on a soda can.
"And nothing, I have a plan and you don't need to know it for it to work." Percy said still looking out the window, which was starting to bug me.
Being the daughter of Athena I was the one usually making the plans so this was really starting to get on my nerves. First he figures out the prophecy and now he has already made a plan to get the Master Bolt back. Who does he think he is, he was just a stupid son of Poseidon.
"So how exactly do you expect us to help if we don't know what were doing." I asked still annoyed that he didn't even look at me or change expressions as we talked.
"I'll need your help if we run into any monsters I don't know about, or myths, since you know more then me about the myths and monsters then me, and Grover will be useful with his ability to talk to animals and connection to nature and the wild. That's why I choose you." He said still looking out the window, gods what was he thinking about, how could he keep his calm so easily, this is his first quest and he has only been in the world of the gods for a week, and if I wasn't lying I was a little scared myself. And I've been doing this stuff since I was seven.
After a few minutes of silence, and the bus stopping every now and then to pick up and drop off people, the bus stop to pick some more people up, so I didn't really pay any attention until I looked at Percy, and that's when the first sign of any emotion appeared on Percy's face. It wasn't fear either which was confusing once I say what he was looking at, it was the three furies. All of them disguised as old ladies in flower dresses, all looking exactly the same except for their different colored dresses. And the emotion that Percy showed was annoyance, like these earth goddesses of vengeance were nothing more then a nascence, even though some minor gods feared them. And when I saw Grover he shared my expression of pure fear.
"Guys, its the furies, we need to get off this bus." Grover said in a quite but terrified and shaky voice.
"Ok, Percy there after you so will distract them will you get away, here take my hat, if you put it on it will turn you invisible, it was a gift from my mother." I said handing him my hat.
"Yea, well I also got a present from my godly parent," he said taking a pen out of his pocket," and I'm going to use it to send them back to the underworld. Now I'll distract them, since there after me, and you guy's make a break for the woods and will meet up in a few minutes." He said standing up and yelling, " STOP THE BUS!", before jumping over the sets, over people to the front of the bus so he didn't have to me the furies that were in the aisle. Percy then ran out of the bus screaming, "Come and get me you over grown bats!", at those word the three ladies screeched and started to shift into their natural bat bodies with the same heads of the old ladies. With everything going on the people on the bus didn't react at all, except a few showing mild annoyance, I really wondered what the humans say through the mist some times. I mean for all I know they could just she a teen aged boy running from three angry old ladies.
At this action, me and Grover had no choice but to go with Percy's plan. So me and Grover ran off the bus into the woods. We ran through the woods for a few minutes until we stopped at a river to take a rest and get some water. We sat there for a few minutes waiting for Percy like he told us. We waited there for minutes, every now and then jumping up at the sound of a bird, or the snapping of a twig or rustling bushes. We were there for at lest fifteen minutes before Grover finally spoke up." What's taking him so long?" Grover said pacing, " We need to go find him." Grover said, stopping at the rustling bushes behind him, and out of the bushes jumped out Percy. He was surprisingly fine for just taking on all three furies at once, he had some sweet dripping down his forehead and had some dirt all over him. The only other problem was his tattered clothes.
He started walking to use with a smile on his face, which made him look equally, if not more attractive then when he has his serious stone cold expressionless face. Percy then stopped in front of use before saying with a cocky grin, " Miss me?"
Percy
I ran through the woods for a few minutes making sure no mortals could see my battle with the furies. Once I got to a clearing I turned around to face my bat-women enemies. We stared each other down, sizing each other up and looking for an opening until I got bored.
"So are you going to make a move or not?" I said still spinning in place to keep an eye out on all three of my opponents.
"Are you in that much of a rush to get to your eternal damnation?" The one I remembered as Allecto said while the other two laughed as they imaged my torturing.
"You'll have to kill me first, so lets rumble." I said swinging my sword taunting them.
"You will not be as fortunate as your mother boy!" Allecto said getting angry at my taunting.
"What do you mean?" I said now getting a little curious.
"Oh, that is right you don't know." The fury on the right of Allecto said." We'll before any of us could get our hands on your mother, your father blessed her with Elysium." At those words I was the happiest I've been since my mother has died, she was in Elysium, I new she would make it. At this point the furies were furious at me now smiling at their threats. "KILL HIM!" Allecto screamed gliding over to me at incredible speeds.
I barely managed to dive behind a tree before Allecto swung at my head. Allecto's sisters were now flanking me trying to surround me. They both swung at me thinking that at lest one of them would hit, but nether did. The one closest to me swung for my head but I duked, and the second one was trying for the same thing, but I swiped upward and cut her bat like hand off, causing her to scream in pain. As she was distracted I rolled between her legs and ran to get some space between me and the two goddess. And then Allecto came from behind screaming hitting me in the back sending me flying through tree branches that cut and scrapped me, I landed hard on my shoulder and rolled into a crouch, now holding my shoulder showing an expression of pain, that seemed to make the furies happy. I charged at Allecto fueled with my rage and my ADHD now working over time. I swung downward on Allecto but she dodged it easily, as I new she was, and then one of her sisters charged me with Allecto's second sister right behind her, I new they were going to do this as well. They are the earth goddesses of vengeance, meaning their emotion would get in the way easily, and their anger was making them sloppy. I spun around and kicked the fury that was closest to me into her sister that was charging behind her, the one in front landed on the second one causing them both to fall to the floor, but before they could get up I stabbed my sword through the gut of the fury on top, killing both furies at once. I turned around to a screaming Allecto, now furious seeing both her sister being killed by me. I through one of my throwing knives at her knee cap while she ran at me causing her to fall, as she fell I swung my sword upward meeting her falling body, causing the fury to turn into golden dust. I sat their smiling, both happy at my skills, and the fact I knew my mother was in Elysium.
After a few minutes of standing there smiling at the ground like an idiot, I started to go look for my friends. I walked through the woods, with the same stupid smile on my face, looking for any tracks or sign of them, as well as listening for them. And then I felt the same tug at my stomach I felt when ever there was a water source near. So I decided to go look for them there thinking they would probably be thirsty, and I was also kind of tired and hurting from being thrown through the tree's like a football so I thought I would take a quick dip in the stream. As I got closer I heard some one pacing and the person sounded like he was worried. As soon as I walked through the bush that was hiding me from my friends they were standing expecting a fight but relaxed when they saw me. When Grover saw me his expression changed from worry to relief. When I looked at Annabeth I saw that she was staring right at me and blushing, which confused me, until I remembered I was still smiling like an idiot. I immediately changed my giant grin of relief and happiness into a smaller more casual smile. But on the inside I was jumping with joy knowing that my mother would spend her after life in an eternal paradise.
"Come on, the train station is this way." I said motioning toward the west and starting to walk.
We walked through the woods in for about ten minutes. Along the way me and Grover talked and When I came back Grover was so relived that I was alive that he didn't really comprehended that I just killed all three furies. So me and him just talked about nothing in particular made jokes and just had some fun, while still listening for monsters and any other creatures, every now and then I'd here something in the bushes or and animal and me and Annabeth would tense up getting ready for battle while Grover kept talking happily, but there was never any other sing of a monster I the forest. Annabeth on the other hand new all too well how great of an acomplisment I just did. And stared at me in awe the entire time we walked. We walked another half an hour until we came to a garden store, that I had no idea what it was called because it was bright green neon lights, which seriously messed with my dyslexia.
"We should see what we can get in here, but stay close. And if any one asks our car broke down and we went exploring while our parents went looking for gas and a mechanic." I said getting a confused look from Annabeth for coming up with an excuse so quickly.
"If there's no one her just look around and find anything useful." I said since we had to leave everything on the bus while running from the furies.
As soon as we walked in we were meet by a older aged women that had sun glasses and a middle eastern still cloth rapped around her head, "Hello sweat hearts. Oh come in you must be freezing." The woman said motioning us in,"Oh, you guys must be starving follow me sweeties." she said once again motioning us to follow her towards. Grover and Annabeth both followed quickly, I new both were really hungry and tired, because I was also, but I was still skeptical. I mean she didn't ask once about our parents of even looked slightly worried about use being alone. But I was still hungry and tired from fighting the furies, being thrown through the air, and walking all day. So I followed them to a counter were the women disappeared into a kitchen and we sat down and waited for her to return. As we waited I looked around the place, it was kind of weird, it was as big as a warehouse and looked like a mesh up of a bunch of different places. There was the area we were at, which was part of an old fashion dinner, and I mean part, it only had the counter with the high circular stools. I looked around and I also say shops, the kind you would see in airports, I saw a beauty spa, a couple of thrift shops, clothing shops, their was a place for sports, there was basically something there for every one. And then I saw the last, and largest area, a garden with a bunch of stone statues of people. And they were amazing, they were so life like, there were dozens of them. They were all different ages and genders, different heights, weights, ethnics, and the weird thing part was their poses. Some were normal, they were sitting or standing, but most were looking away, covering their eyes, or in the middle of closing their eyes. But the weirdest part, by far, were their eyes. They all had the same expression. Fear. And it looked like they were alive. Their eyes seemed to be following me around pleading me for help. I don't know if I was just seeing stuff because I was tired and hungry or what. But right then I was on edge. I was ready to protect my friends.
I turned back to my friends not noticing that the women had come back and my friends were now eating food. There was mainly fries and burgers, junk food like that, but there was some chicken and ribs, but my starving and tired friends tended to keep there attention on the junk food and soda that they were downing as fast as they could. I just looked at the woman and tried to play off my worry and tenseness, by trying to look amazed.
"This place is amazing." I said trying to fake amazement, which wasn't that hard, because this place was still pretty amazing.
"Thank you sweat heart." the woman said smiling, I think, I still couldn't see her face or eyes.
"Do you run this place by yourself?" I said trying to find out anything I could about her.
"Yes, I used to run the place with my sisters, before they past." She said getting quite and looking down.
I started to fell bad for her, here I was thinking she was a monster. Then memories of my mom began bombarding my mind, I began to become sad, and depressed. I looked down thinking about her until I was snapped out of my thoughts.
"Are you ok sweaty?" The woman said placing a hand on my shoulder.
"Yea, sorry, it's just I lost some one recently, and I guess I was just reminded of them." I said not knowing why I just said that.
"Oh, I'm so sorry about your mother." She said comforting me.
Wait, I didn't say anything about her specifically. " I'm sorry. Were are my manners, my names Perseus Jackson. What's your name?" I said faking a smile, and trying to act polite and normal, so she didn't see that I noticed what she said.
"My name is Medusa." She said not trying to hide her name at all.
At the sound of her name I stood back getting my sword out at the ready. I looked at my friends for support and to see if they saw what was going on. They were both on their backs sleeping. I knew they weren't that tired.
"What did you do to them?" I said with anger in my voice. "What was in that food?" I said staring at the floor in front of Medusa not wanting to look at her face, even if her face was covered I didn't want to take any chances.
"Oh that, just a little sleeping potion, I was getting a little sick of them always trying to block their faces, so I wanted more... verity in my collection." Medusa said pausing savoring the words that she said it like the statues were some kind of shoes. And that was making me angry. "And I would love to have you in my collection, mmm, you have you fathers eyes." She said trying to move my face to look at her, but I pushed her hand away and put some room in-between us. " O, you can't get away from me that easily, get back her sea spawn." Medusa said as she chased me around the warehouse.
I had to get away, I could hear the snakes slithering. I knew her face was showing now. I had to get away and make a plan. I can't even look at her. The furies were easy to take out, I found their weakness easily, but I don't think Medusa would be so easily defeated. She was mad at my father and Athena, and now she had a child of both of them that just brought themselves to here door step. I ran as fast as I could, knowing that I could out run her easily, when I couldn't hear her behind me I found a place to hide. I caught my breath and started to come up with a plan. I didn't know what to do, I couldn't fight her head on. If I even looked at her I might risk the chance of being froze as a statue forever. I couldn't fight her with my sword, I couldn't look in her direction to throw a knife, and there was no way I was going to get behind her with all those snakes on her head, she also knew this place better then me. 'Think Percy, think!' I thought to myself. I couldn't think of anything. Dam I wish Annabeth was here right now, this I why I chose her. I could come up with pretty good plans quicker then Annabeth, but there was moments when I couldn't think of anything. Now for instance. I tried to remember the myths and how she was defeated by the original Perseus. All I could remember was how he snuck up on her in the cave and killed her in her sleep. That wasn't going to be any help, she was wide awake, determined to kill me and my friends. My friends, Grover and Annabeth were still lying on the floor unconscious, I need to beat Medusa and help my friends. I looked around the room to try and find something to help me win this battle. I looked around the room the room, I was in another garden there was more statues every where, there was a couple an old man, and I even saw a satyr that looked like Grover. I then found a fountain in the middle of a room and almost felt bad for Medusa. There was no way she was going to beat me now, 'Shit!' I thought to myself, I still can't look at her to use the water as a weapon. I was really frustrated now, time was running out, I needed to hurry up and beat her, but I couldn't be sloppy. I stared at the water coming out of the fountain, water always calmed me down, even before I found out about the gods. I stared at the water and noticed how the light refracted in the water and how everything behind the water was blurry. I smirked. O the irony, Medusa was punished for being found being bedded by my father, and now his own domain made her power useless.
I focused on the water and made it surround me like a guarding wall. I was now hunting her down. Once I found Medusa she smiled at me triumphantly and stared right into my distorted eyes through the water. When she noticed that it wasn't working she had a expression of fear, knowing that her cursed gaze was her only defense. It was now my turn to smile. She is one of the most feared and known monsters in Greek mythology, if you asked me she is stronger then the furies, but talk away her cursed gaze and all she was, was a girl with snakes for hair. I hurled the water that surrounded me at her. I focused on the water to cover all of her to restrain her. I moved the water away from her mouth and ears so she could talk to me and hear me but still be restrained.
"So aren't you and your sister supposed to be immortal like the rest of the monsters?" I asked confused why she was so said when see said that her sister were died when.
"Immortals can still die." she said sadden by the fact that her sister were died," When immortals are forgotten about they become weaker and they can fade to the void, it is essentially an after life for the immortals, some can hold onto life but are weaker forms, some even become weaker then humans." she said saddened.
"Do you know were the entrance to the Underworld is?" I asked still needing to know were the actual entrance is
"There is an address book at the casher that has the address to the entrance." she said still afraid.
"Thank you. I'll make this as painless as possible since you helped me." I said with the same expressionless voice and facial fetcher.
And then I cut her head clean off, not wanting to cause her pain since she cooperated with me. I then went to find my friends. It took nearly half an hour trying to find my way through the giant warehouse. By the time I found my friends they were getting up, 'Dam how strong was that potion.'
"Morning sleeping beauties." I said to Grover and Annabeth getting up.
As they regained their bearing Annabeth suddenly flung around finally noticing where she was. When she saw me she became even more panicked, "What happened, where is the old lady?" she said trying to get the words out quickly.
I looked back at her still expressionless, "It's fine Annabeth, you guy's where drugged, there was a sleeping potion in the food you guy's ate," I said as Grover and Annabeth were now standing in front of me," As for the old lady, she was Medusa." At those words she panicked, spewing out words I couldn't understand because of her anxiety and stuttering. Well good to know she would've been no help against Medusa, nether would Grover he wouldn't have been any help he would have panicked and his nature magic was more for tracking, finding, and consoling things. "Don't worry I killed her." At those words they both stared at me in awe once again. This was getting a little old, at lest I understood why this time, if I didn't find that fountain in the warehouse I would have been died.
" Come on we have to get going." I said beckoning them to follow me.
They followed me over to the cash register were I took the mortal money and the few golden drachmas, while being bombarded by Annabeth and Grover by questions and I tried to answer all of them I could. As they asked questions I just did my own thing. I collected the money, both mortal and godly, and searched the address book for anything use full, like any places we could stop by on the way to the Underworld or places to avoid. And obviously I find out where the entrance to the Underworld was, it was some studio in Los Angeles. Which I thought was the weirdest part out of all this god stuff, I mean the entrance to the after life was in some studio in Los Angeles. Weird, right? After I was done raiding the cash register I told them to go look for anything they needed and to meet back her in ten minutes. So we all went our separate ways, the first place I went was the kitchen, see as Medusa put the potion in the food I decided to get some thing to eat since I was starving. After I was done eating I went to get a new pair of clothes since my old ones were all ripped up and dirty. I changed into a gray shirt, black pants, a dark blue hoody, with a pair of combat boots, seeing as we were going all the way from New York to California I thought it would be better to have a pair of boots that was good for hiking, running, and to move around in. After I changed my clothes I got a bag and filled it with water bottles and the ambrosia and nectar that Medusa had. When I was done getting ready I was the first one finished, which I understood since the two people that were changing was a guy with goat legs, and a girl, even though that girl wasn't any where near to a girly-girly I thought she would still take longer getting dressed and more supplies that I didn't think about getting. Since I had time to spare I took a quick bath in the fountain, as soon as I entered I willed the water to make me wet, because it always felt better actually feeling the water, the water immediately gave me back my stamina, which was good since I didn't have time to sleep, it also healed all the wounds I got from fighting the furies. I sat there for a while, in my drenched clothes just looking up at the celling thinking about the quest and what else we meet face.
After I took my little bath Annabeth and Grover showed up in new clothes we some supplies. We left there with our new clothes and supplies and headed for the train. After the encounter with Medusa we didn't see a single monster, we got on the train and went to Ohio, we didn't see any monsters except for the Nemean Lion that ran by the side of the train, it was beautiful, it had golden fur that waved in the air as it matched the speed of the train, its main was the color of the earth, and it was the size of a semi-truck. But over all there was no encounter with any monsters. When we got off at Ohio we found a hotel to sleep at before the next train left.
The next place we stop at was Missouri, and since we were a head of our timeline Annabeth wanted to stop at this giant arc thing, since she was a daughter of Athena I guess they all were interested in architect, but I hated it, for one thing the arc went so high up, and I was terrified of heights so I decided to stay on the ground and wait for them. When I told them I didn't want to go up there with them Annabeth smiled and said,' The mighty slayer of Medusa and the Furies, is afraid of heights', she said in a mocking tone. But I didn't really care, her mother was Athena, who was a daughter of Zeus, I was a son of Poseidon, Zeus's brother, who had a competing domain, and was as powerful as Zeus. So I didn't feel comfortable going that high in the air.
While they were in the arc I was visited by a nymph that gave me pearls and said,' They will take you back to their home,' is all she said after she said her father sent her. It was very rushed, and she was very quite and cut in and out like a computer buffering, she said it was because she was using the river to transmit herself, and since she was a sea nymph she couldn't stay here long with out becoming sick so she had to leave. There was also some thing about Zeus being angry and was going to zap her with a bolt, which at those words I felt fear for the first time since the quest started. I quickly regain myself after I heard Annabeth and Grover coming over to me.
"Glad you guys are back now lets get out of here." I said still a little rattled at the giant arc behind me.
"Your that afraid of heights?" Annabeth asked smirking at me.
"Shut up." I said groaning.
After that comment both of them laughed. We walked back to the train station and waited for the next station and just talked for an hour an a half waiting for the train. When it came we went the rest of the way to California with out any more monster trouble. We toke turns watching taking sifts to stay awake, since the train went straight to California and toke a couple of stops before getting there we used the rest of our money to get a room on the train so we could sleep and eat the food we had on us, but since we were still picking up new people we didn't want to take any chances.
By the time we got to California we were all well rested, me and Annabeth were actually ready to run a marathon thanks to our ADHD. Once we got to California we searched around the city of Los Angeles every where for the address we got from Medusas book, but we couldn't find any street that was any where close to the address we had gotten until finally Grover said something.
"This has taken all day and we've gotten no where." Grover complained with a long exhale.
"We'll we have to find the place some how." Annabeth said, just as annoyed and tired as Grover.
"Grover's right were getting no where, I think we should get a hotel or something and try researching the street and get as much information about we can get." I said also tired and bored out of my mind since we have been walking around all day and found nothing.
They didn't even try to complain as they were also tired and hungry. We found a motel to stay at, we cleaned up ate, and just relaxed. We spent the rest of the day just researching. Anything we could find out on the street address would be useful. I didn't know how I felt, something felt weird, this was to easy. We didn't fight enough monsters, there was barely any one trying to stop us. The only ones that tried to stop us was the furies, and they were pretty easy to beat. We were looking for the Master Bolt, one of the strongest weapons on this planet, it had enough power to make a nuke look like a BB gun. And there was no one trying to stop us, we were almost in the Underworld, and we had over half a week to get back before the next council meeting. And all of this didn't feel right. Why did Hades steal the bolt, I new he had it bad being the god of the of the dead must have not been exiting, the only time he could leave his domain was when he was summoned, since he didn't have a set at the council he didn't go to the regular meetings. I sat there thinking everything through, what would Hades have gained or lost from stealing Zeus's bolt? And why had the furies kept asking for the 'Helm of Darkness'? The only reason I thought Hades would do this was because of his domain as a god, he had to stay in a dark place with screams of the tortured and the darkness of death. But why would he want to start a war, cause more death, what was his reasoning? I sat there in the dark just thinking everything through, I looked at the alarm clock that said 12:00am. Midnight, great. I let out an exhausted and frustrated sigh. I looked over at the two beds, which I let Grover and Annabeth sleep in, and I know what your thinking,' Why would you give them the bed, you did all the work?" Well the truth was that the motel was cheap, and the beds were harder then the floors, and I'm not saying I sleep on the floor, because they were discussing, and I didn't want a cockroach climbing on me. So I decided to sleep in the bath tube, and filled it up all the way with nice warm water. And believe me, this was the most comfortable place to sleep for a child of the sea. It was even better then sleeping on a cloud, because I could feel the water rapping around me, comforting and protecting me. It was amazing.
I laid there just staring at the celling, until I finally drifted to sleep. I had learned very quickly that all demi-gods had weird dreams. Since we had the blood of gods it gave all of us certain things, must of us had deslexia, and almost all of us had ADHD, and the last part was the dreams, we all had weird dreams that usually acted up when we were on quest, the dreams always related to the person dreaming though. It was usually the person dreaming fighting monster or running from monsters or hiding from monsters, you get the point, but when you dreamed during a quest, it was usually related to the quest, from where to go, what to do, or some advise from a god or goddess. The dreams were harmless though, if you don't count the cold sweet and being out of breath. But this dream was different, usually the dreams are like your watching a move of yourself, yet you can feel the terror that your dream self felt. But this time I was standing in a dark cavern with red rocky walls, it was just me, I wasn't watching myself, I was just standing there in the dark cavern, were the only light was a faint reddish light reflecting off the walls. I looked around and noticed that every step I took and every breath I took I felt pain. And then I heard a deep and raspy voice, like the guy hasn't talked in forever, his voice was horrifying, I could feel his power radiating off him and I couldn't even see him. Ever time he spoke the floor shook and demanded respect and attention, his voice alone made you want to do what he said.
"Come closer." the voice in the darkness beckoned." COME CLOSER!" He demanded when I didn't follow his orders." Release me now, and I shall spare you and your friends." The voice said still making me shake at every word in fear. It was so weird, I this was the first monster, person, what ever he was, that actually made me afraid. I was never afraid of any of the monster I encountered, I was always worried about my friends." Release me and become my vessel, help me destroy my ungrateful children." I was breathing heavily now, I was on the verge of a panicky attack now.
"I will never betray my friends and family, I don't care who you are." I said gaining my composer and exchanging my fear for anger.
At my new found courage the being laughed. "I almost forgot your fatal flaw is loyalty." The being said laughing," Very well Jackson, come to me." At those word I woke up in the bath tube soaking wet.
I looked around franticly to see if there was any one there. There was no one there, so I guessed they were still asleep. I jumped out of the tub and willed myself dry. I walked towards the door to leave the bathroom, but before I could reach the door I got a head ach that raddled my brain, I clench my teeth not wanting to alert the others, and when the head ach was over I knew exactly were to go for the entrance into the underworld. And I knew where I was in my dream and what I was talking to. It was Cronus, king of the Titans. And he was awakening, but he couldn't manifest a body yet. So as he put it, he needed a vestal to hold his powers and destroy Olympus. But I wouldn't allow that, I will protect my new friend at camp, and my godly family.
I left the bathroom to find my friends already awake with the supplies ready to go looking for the entrance to the Underworld," I know where the entrance to the Underworld is, and before you ask Annabeth, a god told me in my dream where we could find it." I said cutting off Annabeth, who was a little irritated that I cut her off. I also didn't want to tell them it was Cronus until I was a hundred percent sure. All things pointed to it being Cronus. The place in my dreams looked like Tartarus, or how I guest it would look like, and what other place would cause pain by just moving and breathing. I could also feel the power and age in his voice, he was powerful, and his power had some resemblance to Hestia's.
Once again I was being bombarded by questions by Annabeth, this was starting to get annoying. Every time I knew some thing she didn't she would ask questions and get annoyed. If all children of Athena were like this I was I for some trouble, since I would have to stay at the camp year round with Annabeth. Which wasn't a bad thing, the camp was awesome and so were the people, and Annabeth seemed pretty happy knowing I would be staying year round, since we came to be friends during our many hour of chatting on the train on the way here. And there was also the reason that I brought her along on the quest, which she greatly wanted to do. The only bad thing about this situation is why I was in it. And who I would never be able to see again.
It took us about an hour to get to the small studio that I knew was the Underworld thanks to that magical head ach. Will we went there we came up with a plan on what to do once we got there, since mortals don't usually go to the Underworld. And just talked about what to do when we got he bolt, or if we couldn't get it.
As we walked in silence for the last few minute, I thought about everything that we had done, the previous two days, and what we would do when this was over. I was going to be living at camp for the rest of my life. It wasn't like I would be forced to stay, but, being the son of one of the big three, my demi-god scent was stronger then normal demi-gods, so if I was to leave the camp I would be attacked by monsters every day. What would happen in this prophecy I was in, what's going to happen, I didn't really know what I was asking about. I didn't want to know any specifics, I just wanted to know some thing, would I be happy, would I have a family. would I still have friends, what was going to happen?
We stood there staring into the door of the studio. We had been there before, multiple times, we had past it so many times when we were looking for it. But it wasn't because we didn't look at it, we had looked in the direction of the studio, but it was transparent, if you were looking at it and not thinking of the Underworld it would disappear, look just like a normal wall, and other times it looked like a shoe store and then a coffee shop. It was the mist, changing the perspective so that mortals would not walk into the doors of the Underworld.
We stood there in silence again, just staring into the glass doors," Well I guess it's time to go to hell." I said walking toward the door as I got laughs from Grover and Annabeth.
This is it, We were about to go into the world of the dead, a place that is both heaven and hell, the Underworld.
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