Hi, all time for some unexpected plot twists!
Disclaimer: I don't own PJO though I wish I did.
P.S I know I said tommorow but I've been really bored and I've been working on this for a while since before I published Chapter 5 so...hey
Annabeth's POV-
No. Oh no. This wasn't happening. Percy wasn't…dead. I broke down and cried. It was true, Luke was dead but Percy had passed on too… Percy was dead! I screamed out to the sky, crying out my love for Percy in one single passionate shout. Grover tried to comfort me but I shook him off viciously.
"GET AWAY!" I screamed "GO AWAY!" I slumped against a wall, cradling Percy's head in my arms. I stroked his long hair and looked into his peaceful green eyes. It was true. He was…dead. I didn't know how long I sat there, but soon the sun's light faded from the sky and I was left in the cold. Grover had left earlier, saying he was going to get help from camp and hadn't come back since. But I didn't care. Percy was dead. The sadness crashed down on me. The guilt. I couldn't shake the thought from my mind that it was my fault. If I had just stayed by him… Gods, holding up the sky? I'd rather do it for eternity than bear this guilt. It was just then my grim thoughts were interrupted by the soft fall of feet and soon I saw a ruffled looking Nico round the corner and run up to me. He looked at Percy and his eyes turned sad. Then he unslung his black blade from his back and thrust it into the ground without so much as a look at me.
"Time to fulfil my destiny" he whispered. "Father!" he shouted "Please answer my summons!"
A huge crack split the bridge and a tremendous rumbling erupted in my eardrums. Darkness seeped up through the fissure in the bridge and a black figure solidified in front of us. Hades.
"NICO!" he rumbled "Why have you summoned me here?!?!" again he focused his look on Nico. Had I offended these guys or something?
"I have a proposition to make father!" Nico shouted back. Seriously, these guys were what an inch apart? Couldn't they just, like speak normally? "Take my soul and return that of Perseus Jackson! He was a noble half-blood, and he has recently saved the entire world! Return his soul to his grieving friends and family and take mine, which will pass through the world unnoticed and un-mourned! I beg of you, return Perseus" My heart was pounding. Would he accept the offer? He had to. He just had to return Percy!
"I cannotaccept these terms" he said. My heart sank to my feet. Tears once more sprang to my eyes. "However" continued Hades "If another soul as well as yours my son, is presented to me I will return yuor friend. This soul thoguh must be that of a great, valuable and renowned hero, one who was evaded death one too many times… if you can bring me one such soul I will return your friend" My mind was racing. A hero? A hero who had evaded death? Who? Then a voice boomed from behind me
"I will give my soul for Percy!" it declared. I spun around. Chiron.
"Ah Chiron" Hades said, speaking quietly for the first time since he had appeared "Yes…yes you will do…yes my son I accept your conditions!" Suddenly the bodies of both Nico and Chiron slumped and a small spherical shape coloured black and yellow respectively flew to Hades' hand. Then a sea green sphere flew from his open palm and entered Percy's body. Hades turned to me for the first time. "Enjoy your friend" he said "He is truly one of the noblest heroes to ever pass through my realm" and with that he flickered and disappeared. I turned to Percy and saw his chest heaving. He was alive. He sat up slowly, pushing against the wall for support.
"Hey" he said smiling weakly "What'd I miss?"
Hey you guessed it, R&R! Also, I'm still not done so keep reading…