This is the second chapter of my Percy Jackson and the wrath of Kronos story: enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Percy Jackson characters. Rick Riordan does.
They turned round to find Kronos looking at them with a smug smile on his face that they all wanted to wipe off instantly.
"Take them and lock them up." Kronos said to the enemy demigods that had snuck up behind the group and now grabbed them roughly and tied them in complicated knots that they had no hope of undoing. They dragged them down into the dungeons that they had seen on the way to the treasure room. They were all put into different cells so they couldn't combine their powers, the enchantment didn't go to the dungeons, which was lucky.
Annabeth was thinking rapidly to try and get a way out of here. Then she had a brainwave, but it would only work at night. So she waited and she waited. She was only kept awake by constantly telling Percy to shut up when he started to sing the old number one on the demigod charts: 99 dead hellhounds. He would be constantly singing it until she told him to shut up, but it was no use as he would continue singing after five minutes. Eventually they all shouted at him, telling him to shut up, and he stopped. The silence was amazing.
Annabeth wriggled round, trying to reach her shoe where she had hidden a knife just in case she and the others were caught. She was wriggling around until finally her hand got hold of the handle of the knife and she pulled it free being careful not to injure herself with it. She then awkwardly swivelled the knife round until it was resting against the ropes that bound her. She then started to saw at the ropes. It took a good ten minutes to get through the bounds on her hands but she managed it eventually and it was easy sailing to get the ones around her ankles and chest cut open too.
Then getting up quietly she tip-toed over to her door and started to pick the lock on the door. On the other side of the corridor Nico watched her with his eyes wide open with realisation as she broke through the final tumbler in the really complicated lock system. She breathed a sigh of relief. She wandered over to the cell that Conner Stoll was being held in and started on the lock there. The precious ten minutes that followed were the most heart stopping seconds Annabeth had ever felt. With every little tap and click there was Annabeth was scared to Hades, but she held her cool and finally she was done and Conner Stoll, the son of Hermes was free. She gave him her knife and the instructions to get the others free while she thought of how to go about getting out of the fort. Slowly but surely her amazing brain was formulating a plan to get out of there. She turned around to see that Conner had got everybody free. Thalia was standing there with thunder in her eyes, while Percy was just standing there calmly listening to the voices of the other prisoners that were held down in the other cells, they sounded almost sad and mournful. Nico and Connor on the other hand were having a glaring contest as Connor had deliberately got Nico out last just to annoy him. Now all they had to do was just find their weapons. She shushed the others and listened carefully. Down a faraway corridor she could hear the guards talking to themselves very faintly. She directed the others down the corridor that the guards were talking in. She could hear some of the conversation but couldn't make it out clearly yet. They crept down the corridor until they reached the door to the guard's room. She could make out the conversation very clearly now and it make her want to beat the guards to a pulp. She looked at the expressions of the others and could see that they too had very murderous expressions. The guards were enacting out a battle with their weapons. She held up a hand to stop the others from charging in to the room to kill the guards. She counted down on her fingers: three, two, one. They all rushed into the room and caught the guards off guard (A/N: complete pun intended). The surprised guards had little time to react as the five heroes grabbed them and disarmed them, taking their weapons back and then tying the guards up with the ropes that had previously tied up the five of them. "That should teach you to never underestimate some of the greatest heroes of all time." Percy said.
With that they make their way up the stairs that led to the room where the entrance to the dungeons was. They got about halfway when Annabeth stopped suddenly and motioned to the others to stop as well. They halted one after the other and stood still as two dracaena slid past, talking in their weird, raspy voices. "We ssshould probably check on the prisssoners." One said. The five spies' hearts beat insanely faster as they all drew their swords and tried to melt into the shadows but only Nico seemed to be able to do that as he was a son of Hades. The dracaena slithered into the room and spotted Percy with his back to a wall. They simultaneously drew their swords and rushed forward to kill him. They didn't get very far though as two swords suddenly appeared like they had materialised out of thin air, the sword made of Stygian Iron got there first and one of the monsters dissipated into dust, then a millisecond after the black sword got there a Celestial Bronze one cut the other dracaena into dust. Nico and Thalia walked out of the shadows that were on the opposite sides of the room covered in monster dust with huge grins on their faces. They smirked at Percy who had got up from the wall, also covered in monster dust, and started laughing at him. "Hey," Percy complained "I was gonna get there, but you got there first."
They continued on to the entrance of the room and slowly cracked the door open. Connor was the first to look out of the door and motioned that the passage way was clear. They all filed out of the room and into the hallway. One by one they sneaked into the door next to the one they were just in. They all sighed in relief and sank down to the floor, tired out from the running and sneaking that they had to do to get here. They evaluated the room they had just entered and saw that it had the door they had just come from, a door that led to an unknown room and a whole heap of food and drinks. They all stocked up on as much food that they could and stuffed it all in their pockets until Connor 'found' some duffel bags that the guards had carelessly left in the corner of the room, in a safe that was securely locked. So they all started stuffing as many items as they could fit into the duffel bags, there were three so they could get quite a lot in them. Once they had stocked up on food and drinks they wandered into the room that was adjacent to the room that they were in.
It was full of bunks kind of like the ones at camp but more tightly packed and harder to get to. In seven of them there were sleeping guards that had already done their watch and were now asleep.
The five of them realised past they were going to had to sneak past them without waking them up, not as easy as they thought. They had the duffel bags slung over their shoulders and they made a rustling sound every time they took a step and the floor was made of concrete so that with every step they took it made a very faint tap, so faint that you would have to have the ears of a satyr to be able to hear it but it was defiantly there. So in basic, they were going to have to be extremely careful to get through this room. They started to journey through the maze of bunk beds to the door on the far side of the room. They would have to get through all the bunk beds that were occupied by the seven demigods, which was very risky because they could wake up at any moment or even worse, the watch that was currently out there walk in and wake up the other demigods. Either way this could go very wrong at any moment the Fates choose for it to. As they slowly started to move in the direction of the door, their footsteps making soft tapping sounds on the concrete floor as they took each step to go further, their hearts started to beat faster, much faster, so fast they could almost hear each other's heart beats they were so nervous. They made their way to the first sleeping demigods bunk and passed it as quietly as possible, he started to roll over and they all froze in place as he stirred but didn't wake up. They all unfroze with a sigh of relief and continued on their way. As they made it to the second demigod they passed her without that much trouble. They had that for the next four enemy half-bloods until they got to the final one and he started to wake up. They all froze and started to move to knock him out Percy got there first and smashed him on the head with the hilt of his sword. The guard fell back onto the bunk with a grunt that seemed extremely loud in the medium sized room. They all tensed and held their breaths. He fell without a sound and they all silently sighed with happiness. They had made it through the room and across to the other side.
They continued through the arched doorway to the fifth room of the day. It just happened to be the room that they had passed through on their way to the target room. There was only one room to go and it was probably going to be the hardest, but you never know it could be the only one where they didn't have to go through some kind of enemy. They snuck through the doorway and entered the next room. (A/N: I thought about ending it here but I didn't, you can thank me later)
It turned out to be full of celestial bronze weapons. There was every kind of weapon that you could imagine. There were bows and axes and crossbows, swords, shields. Everything. "Wow," Annabeth said "there is more celestial bronze here than at camp!"
"I think that we should take some back don't you think." Conner said.
"Let's stock up on weapons then shall we?" Nico chuckled.
They all went over to pick out some of the weapons that they choose. Percy grabbed a crossbow, (A/N: I know that Percy sucks at archery so why don't we give him a crossbow instead and see how he does shall we) Annabeth chose a sword and shield, Thalia got a new bow, Conner a dagger and a set of lock picks for him and his brother, Travis, and last but not least Nico picked upa miniature hand held catapult that was modified so it could carry Greek fire, which he strapped to his back with a sheath that he found in a pile of junk on the floor.
They all walked silently over to the door to the room that their entrance was in. And found two guards on the entrance. They had already found their entrance. Percy stepped up and took out his brand new crossbow. It only took three seconds to dispatch the monsters on guard as the crossbow was an automatic reloading crossbow. They all walked up to the bit of wall where their entrance was and Nico recited the secret code that opened up the doorway. It finally opened and they stepped through into the torch lit tunnel.
I am so sorry it took me so long to get this up I had like seven different projects to hand in and it was really hard to get this up. I will try and get the next chapter up by Sunday but you never know I might not. But any way along with the questions. What will happen next to the spies? Is Kronos going to find out they are gone? Should I be going to school? Yep I probably should but I'm kind enough to do this for you. Bye cheese is good out. Please read and review. Please.