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CHAPTER 4

Tartarus

Percy POV

3 days later(Tartarus)/ 12 months later(Mortal World)

This is getting ridiculous… First I crash land into the river of pain, Acheron, fought with its nymph, managed to get out, only to be surrounded by 15 hellhounds, 13 cyclops, and 17 centaurs… The irony is real. Those are the only monster that I hate killing, probably because they remind me of Mrs. O' Leary, Tyson, and Chiron. The centaurs shot their arrows into the air, landing inches from me. Still, this was an EXTREMELY easy battle. Well it shouldn't have been, but ever since landing in tartarus, my powers have increased by ten folds. Just 3 days, and I am almost as powerful as 10 Olympian councils. In the blink of an eye, I was standing in a bunch of dust. I just spread my wings and spun around in a circle, so fast, that I managed to cause a mini tornado. The power had already killed the hellhounds, and knocked the cyclops back. The centaurs just fired more arrows at me, which I easily blocked with my metal wings. I then pulled the shadows to me and teleported me behind the centaurs. I dropped down on one knee, and CRACK. That was the sound of shadows dragging me behind the centaurs, and me breaking the centaurs legs. The centaurs instantly disintegrated.

"You guys want to run, or should I come over there and take care of you too?" I taunted the cyclops. To my surprise, they actually did run.

"That was just sad.."

"Oh but dear Jackson, they are not running from you" said a crisp voice. I recognized it immediately.

I didn't have time to turn around, before I got blasted 100 meters back, into a rock, leaving a Percy sized crater in the rock.

"Tartarus…" I said spitefully

"Your friends, the titan and the giant, made a nice addition to my collection" He said with a smirk

This got me triggered. I screamed and teleported behind tartarus, but he saw this coming, and caught me in a choke hold. His eyes had a black fire in it.

"Nobody has ever escaped me, and I can't have you ruining that, can I?" He said that with an evil grin. "I was told that you were stronger than before… you seriously are. If you actually honed your powers you would be able to even defeat me. Alas, you won't get the chance to train for I have some, uh, plans for you."

We teleported to a tower with a head and hand lock. Tartarus threw me into the cell, and started to whip me until I bled. When I did bleed, it was golden Ichor.

"Interesting, you got turned into an immortal. Well, that just makes torturing you a lot easier." He cackled.

He then proceeded to whip me until I was unconscious. What he didn't know was that as a demigod, I had learned to control my dreams, and I used that to hone my skills, after every one of Tartarus's 'Fun Sessions'. This continued for years, until I reached a point in my training that I no longer felt his tortures. I was simply just too strong. That was, until his 'Favorite'

"Jackson, Jackson, Jackson…. I don't know how, but you are getting a lot stronger. Normally, that would be a bad thing for me, but I believe that it just means that I can take our sessions to the next level." He said with a crooked grin.

He then teleported us to the point of intersection of all the rivers. The very same black mess that I saw years ago.

Without saying another word, he threw me into the rivers. I felt pure despair and pain. I felt the torture of the styx and acheron, the misery of the cocytus, and the lethe, instead of erasing my memories, just made me remember the worst ones… When Zoe died, when Selina died, when Beckendorf died, all deaths that I had blamed on myself. That was it. I went crazy. I felt the river swirl around me, with Tartarus staring in shock. My voice turned deep.

"You will no longer hold me back. I will not let you hurt anybody again… I WILL MAKE SURE OF THAT!" I yelled.

With that I launched at tartarus with Riptide in hand, and wings in full stretch. Tartarus tried to match my speed, but as soon as he got near me, I shadow traveled behind him and used my energized hand to touch him, launching him to the ground. Before he reach the ground, I made a hand motion of pushing the ground down, and the ground did, leaving tall spikes for tartarus to fall on. Well, Tartarus just got impaled.

"How?" he mumbled. He then looked into my eyes and gasped. I looked at my reflection on my wings. My eye was the same color as Gaia's. Did I manage to steal her powers when I obliterated her essence?

I decided to end it right there. I made the spikes pull back into the ground, dragging Tartarus with them.

"This will be the end, tartarus."

I felt my eyes change, as I made a hand of water grab him and drown him in the river mixture.

It was then that I realized that my eyes change colour as I use a different power. When I used Gaia's powers, it turned green. I then felt a sharp pain in my head, and dropped to the ground, leaving a crater. I stumbled out to realize that I had just gotten Tartarus's powers. With a smirk I looked straight up, breaking the rock above me. I proceeded to climb up the hole above me until I was finally back in the real world once again. A climb that would normally take a year, took me an hour. Once I reach the top, I collapsed and look at the sky. I had done it, I escaped Tartarus, after so many year… I released my full aura before screaming

"I AM BACK!"

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