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CHAPTER 5 - Back

Earth

PREVIOUSLY

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!"

Percy POV

I turned to the side, to see the hole leading directly back to Tartarus. A single tear dropped from my eyes. Nobody deserves to suffer as much as I did. With the last of my strength, I managed to close the entrance to tartarus, using my new found powers. I instantly felt a sharp pain in my back. I started to seeing black.

Dam it… I must have used up more power than I expected to close the tunnel…

I felt myself fade to black as a familiar face looked down at me, a frown in their face. Yay. Another person I seemed to have pissed off.

Time Skip

I woke up feeling extremely sore. I tried to heal myself with Hestia's blessing, but I felt a pull in my head again. Dam it… I'm still to weak from my escape.

"You seem to be doing fine… Even after 73 years," said a familiar voice. The one thing I learned in Tartarus, was to never trust anybody. Much faster than Hermes, I uncapped Riptide and hed in to the owner of the voice's throat.

"Don't even tr- Annabeth?" I gasped, looking at the now 80 year old Annabeth. Even at 80, she looked amazing. But of course I never said that because it felt like saying that to a random grandma.

"I look different, don't I?" she asked with a laugh.

"What happened to you?"

"I never accepted immortality"

"But I was only in Tartarus for yea-" I tried to say before she cut me off

"Time travels differently in Tartarus, remember Seaweed brain! The rest of the 7 did though."

"Where are we?" I asked.

"San Francisco. You scared a ton of people but I dragged you to my house. And oh my god you have gained muscle."

"Ya well, Tartarus liked to keep me well fed before he tortured me…"

"He TORTURED you?"

I lifted up my shirt to show my chiseled 8 pack abs and also my 14 and more scars. She gasped.

"Hey Annabeth, how come none of the gods found me with my power surge?" I questioned

"I found you before them and gave you power dampeners. Something that Leo made for me when I denied immortality. It gives you the Aura of a normal/weak demigod." she replied.

"Annabeth, I need to talk to you about something."

"Yes Percy, you can talk to me about anything."

"I think I'm broken"

She sat there silently

"What do you mean?"

"I am at this point easily one of the most powerful beings on the planet, I have suffered torture for 3 years in a row. I have suffered a burden of immortality far worse than any god to have ever existed. I am truly broken. I killed Kronos. Killed and stole the essences of both Gaia and Tartarus." by the end of that speech I was crying.

Annabeth just sat there crying right along with me. She new that I was broken and she wanted to help but just couldn't think of a way.

"Percy, you defeated Tartarus! I just thought you escaped! I need to know. EVERYTHING. Tell me everything that happened down there."

I told here exactly what happened. We sat there for hours. Taking a little bit of time to eat. By the end of the story, Annabeth was patting my head, crying, while I passed out from exhaustion in her lap.

When I woke up, I woke up to the smell of the best thing ever. Blue cookies. Annabeth had just made a fresh batch!

"Your mom taught me how to make them, to get over your death. She passed away peacefully by the way." I smiled, relieved that my mom was peaceful in elysium.

I just grabbed a handful of cookies as Annabeth told me about what happened when I was gone. The 7 plus Nico and Reyna got immortality, but her, Nico and Reyna declined immortality. The camps stayed the same except that Camp Jupiter had a portal connecting to Camp Olympus, the new name of Camp Half-blood. Everybody stayed the same except Nico and Reyna had come together and grown old together. They had passed away a month ago.

"Hey Perce."

"Yeah"

"What are your powers…"

"Well… I have all of the powers of the gods… and then when I killed Gaia, I stole her essence, giving me her powers. Then when I fought Tartarus, I used Gaia's powers to make the finishing blow, which I guess let me take Tartarus's essence too…"

Annabeth just sat there, Listening patiently.

Finally when I finished, Annabeth spoke up.

"I have a plan, a plan worthy of Athena." She said, her old mischievous look returning to her grey eyes.

"You want to see how things are, before you return right? Then how about you go into camp, undercover. You use your bracelet to hide your Aura and travel to Camp Olympus as a normal demigod. Say that you lived in Alaska, but you were going to NYC and that is when you saw a path lead you to camp. Go with a fake Identity and use the mist to make your face look different"

I stood up and told her that I was going to go for it right then. Before I shadow traveled there, she grabbed my hand and looked at me seriously.

"Promise me Seaweed brain. Promise that you will find someone to love and to heal you…" she pleaded.

"Yes wise girl. I swear it on the river Styx." and with that, I let the shadows swallow me and I release me back onto the edge of the border of Camp Olympus. I stared at my childhood home.

I muttered to myself

"Watch out Fates. I'm back to screw you over!"

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