Percy Jackson and the Wrath of Kronos Chapter 5
Hey guys it's me again with another chapter. Holy cheese it's been a while since I updated. One of the reasons why is the review that made my day by Saygeflower and basically gave me the help I needed to get my brain in creative mode again. So with that, on with the story. Here is a bit of a treat for you, 4k+ word chapter! All for you guys. You can all thank me later. Oh wait first, the disclaimer.
I don't own anything to do with Percy Jackson what so ever. Rick Riordan does. There, final. I don't own anything. At all! So leave me alone. *goes off and cries in corner till next chapter needs to be done*
As the five spies walked through the forest, they were talking about how long they thought the journey would take to get back to Camp Half-Blood. Annabeth thought that they were only a few hours away from it as they had been walking for hours, but Thalia and everybody else thought that it was at least another days' walk away. They were still arguing about it when they eventually set up camp for the night.
"I'm telling you I'm right!" shouted Annabeth.
"Well at the moment it seems that you are wrong!" Thalia shouted right back.
"Everybody shut up! This will get us nowhere at all, this is what Kronos wants, he wants us split up so that we fail at the task that we have and this makes it easier for him to manipulate us!" Connor finally shouted.
That shut them up. They all calmed down and Thalia sparked some wood to get a fire going. They sat around the camp fire and just talked until it was time to go to sleep. They all climbed into their tents and collapsed on to their beds and where asleep instantly.
The next morning the five spies were all woken up by a pack of hellhounds howling very near them. They were all up and ready with their weapons drawn, looking around to see if they could spot the pack, when suddenly the pack burst right out of the trees in front of them. They met the pack in full force and absolutely decimated them. There was golden dust lying everywhere, it was all over the ground, the tents and the demigods.
Then all of a sudden 5 silver arrows shot out of the trees and landed next to the demigod's feet. They all jumped back in surprise and raised their weapons in defensive stances. Then they realised who the arrows were fired by and lowered their weapons to their sides.
"The Hunters." Thalia breathed
"You are correct Thalia Grace," a voice said from the trees "that is exactly who we are."
16 girls in silvery uniforms appeared from the trees. They were being led by a 14 year old girl and next to her was a girl with a silver circlet on her head signifying that she was the lieutenant.
The five spies dropped to the ground in a bow as the Hunters approached.
"Lady Artemis." Thalia said to her former mistress.
"Thalia, I am surprised to see you out here." Artemis replied to her former lieutenant.
"I am on a quest with these other half-blood My Lady," Thalia told the goddess "we are trying to get back to Camp Half-Blood so we can escape the monsters and enemy half-bloods that are currently trying to kill us."
"We can help you part of the way there but that is all we can do for you," Artemis told Thalia "although some of my Huntresses might be a bit cold and bitter to some of the company that you are traveling with." Referring to the hunters' hate for the male population.
"We appreciate any help we can get, even if it does involve some of the people in my party getting a little bit hurt." Thalia said
"Hey! That's unfair on us!" The males in the group complained whilst looking at the Hunter's evil grins that were plastered all over their faces.
And with that, they all started the long walk back to Camp Half-Blood.
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When they were about three quarters of the way there Artemis turned to the five and told them that this was as far as the Hunters would go as they still needed to track down a few more groups of monsters roaming the country. They thanked the five for taking out the group of hellhounds they had been chasing before and ran off into the trees, leaving the spies to do their own thing.
The spies looked at each other before going the other way to Camp Half-Blood.
Then suddenly Thalia blurts out "I told you so" with a smug look on her face.
"Shut up." Annabeth replies with gritted teeth
"Nope, I'm never going to let you live this one down," Thalia says gleefully "the great Annabeth Chase has finally got something wrong."
Annabeth flew at Thalia in a rage and tackled her to the ground and then started to tickle her sides.
"No! Stop! I'm-ah- ticklish th-th-there!" Thalia gasped out between breaths.
"Not until you stop gloating about it!" Annabeth replied while still tickling her
"Okay-ay, okay I will, I will, just get off me, please." Thalia pleaded
Annabeth got off of Thalia and held out her hand for Thalia to take which she did gratefully.
"So, now that you two have sorted that one out can we please get going again, you were making so much noise when you were rolling around on the floor, you probably attracted a whole load of monsters to our location, so, can we please get moving." Connor said impatiently as the two girls got off the floor and brushed themselves off.
"Alright, alright, calm down Connor. We're going." Annabeth said with her hands on her hips
After that things went pretty smoothly until we got to the house that was sitting on the border of the forest and the desert that lay beyond.
They walked up to it and looked at the door. There was a snake above the knocker. Annabeth looked at it suspiciously but ignored it as just a decoration.
They knocked on the door and it was opened by an extremely beautiful lady.
"Err, h-hi." Percy stuttered, a little overwhelmed by her beauty.
Annabeth growled at Percy's antics while the rest snickered at the two. While not together they liked each other so much that it was a miracle that neither of them took the hint and accepted that the other liked them back. To be honest it was actually hilarious watching them but they didn't want to offend either of them or anger Annabeth.
"Welcome, please do come inside." The lady said
The five walked inside, completely at ease. The lady gave of an aura of a nice warm fire that was extremely inviting. She took them to a table with six seats and sat them all down sitting in between Percy and Nico and asking them if they wanted anything. They all took their time thinking about it before deciding that they would just like a glass of water for all of them.
"You sure you don't want anything else my darlings?" the lady asked
They all shook their heads as a no. The nice lady walked off to what they presumed was the kitchen.
"You all don't think this is a bit strange how there is a convenient house right in the middle of our route home with a really nice lady offering us anything do you?" Annabeth asked.
"A little, but she is really nice and pretty." Percy and Nico sighed dreamily.
Nico was rewarded with a slap upside the head from Thalia while Percy was punched in the shoulder by a fuming Annabeth.
"Ow! What was that for?!" Both Percy and Nico complained.
"You two still don't know do you?" Connor said exasperated.
Both of the two boys shook their heads.
"Boys" Thalia and Annabeth said while rolling their eyes and sighing
The lady walked back in to the room with a tray of 6 glasses of water and passed them around the five leaving one of them for herself at her seat.
"So where are you headed right now my lovelies?" The woman asked nicely.
"Why don't we introduce ourselves first before we tell you?" Annabeth replied.
"Oh, I am so sorry for not introducing myself earlier, my name is Sudame." Sudame told them.
"Okay well this is Connor, Nico, Percy and Thalia and I am Annabeth." Annabeth introduced the five to Sudame.
"What beautiful eyes you have Annabeth." Sudame commented.
"Why thank you." Annabeth smiled.
Thalia looked suspiciously at Sudame as she commented on Annabeth's eyes. Not many people called them beautiful. Calculating or sometimes cold where some of the names that they were tagged as, but not really beautiful, well, apart from if you're Percy. But half the time he didn't even know that he was doing it.
Percy too was looking at Sudame a little bit strangely for commenting on Annabeth's stormy grey eyes. Not many people did that, but he did remember one person doing it when they were twelve on their first quest in New Jersey, at a store that they passed through, but this lady was too nice to be who he thought she might be so he just ignored it and sipped his drink. Connor and Nico both drained theirs in the first five seconds that they got them and immediately brought their glasses down on the table and said "Another!" in unison. They both burst out laughing while everybody else looked at them strangely and shook their heads.
Sudame went back into the kitchen and came out with an entire tray full of food. The three boys instantly attacked it and started demolishing the pile like a pack of wild tigers that had just taken down a gazelle and were in dire need of food while the two girls picked at the food leisurely as if they had all of the time in the world to eat it.
Sudame walked out of the room to go somewhere. She was gone for about five minutes before her voice rang out over some hidden speakers that were around the room and the house so they couldn't tell where her voice was coming from.
"Your face is very pretty Annabeth, isn't it? It would be a real shame if something bad were to happen to it."
And with that all the lights went out. Something in Percy's mind finally clicked as the last rational part of him finally figured out what had been bothering him. The name. Sudame. It was just Medusa but moved around. He drew Riptide, his trusty ballpoint pen sword thingy and shouted:
"Find the lights, turn them on! It's Medusa!"
Annabeth drew her dagger, Thalia transformed her bracelet into Aegis and pulled out her can of Mace and formed her spear, it crackling with electricity, Nico drew his Stygian Iron sword, Connor flipped out his short swords from his sleeves. The five stood in a circle with their backs to each other.
"Go!" Percy shouted
They all instantly rolled in different directions, trying to find the light switch. They were scrambling for a few seconds before Thalia slapped the switch and the lights flickered back on. They whirled around to find nothing there. They all cautiously walked back to the middle of the room to regroup and decide what they should do next.
"Medusa will still be in this house so we should be careful at all times, watching out if you hear hissing sounds, close your eyes too, it probably means that she is near. If she tries to tempt you then just resist it and whatever you do, don't open your eyes unless you find a mirror or something then use it to kill her and cover her head if you do, we are taking her with us, she could be useful at some point. Everyone got that?" Annabeth took over the decisions.
The others nodded and split up, each moving to a different door in the room, Annabeth went one way, Thalia and Nico another and Conner disappeared through the last door. Percy took out his phone and used the screen as a mirror he thought he heard a faint hissing sound to his left and swirled around but saw nothing. He checked the room that he was in and found nothing.
"This room's clear guys." Percy shouted. There was no reply.
"Guys?" Percy shouted again.
"It's no use Son of Poseidon," Medusa's snake like voice came out over the hidden speakers in the room "they can't hear you. And if they could it wouldn't make a difference. They are all in here with me. Tied up. Unable to move. Helpless."
Percy growled. She was just trying to get him to run to their 'rescue', which was probably a trap. He ran over to one of the four doors that led out of the room and pushed it open, nothing. He tried another of the three doors and was met with the same as the last; Percy came to the last of the three doors and took a deep breath, sword at the ready, before he pushed it open. The door swung open and he looked inside. Once again he was met with the seemingly never ending rooms with three doors.
"I see your having a little bit of trouble there." Medusas voice floated out over the hidden speakers again. Percy yelled out in frustration before he gave up and sat down and thought about his situation. Then it hit him. Use the water.
Using his powers over water he spread out his senses to detect the water around him. Percy detected a source of water to his right but when he looked closer he saw that it was too large for it to be his friends. He searched some more and detected another source and he looked closer at this one too and found that it was actually 4 different sources. He had found his fellow demigods. They all appeared to be suspended spread eagle on the wall. This made him angry. Nobody could hurt his friends while he could stop it.
The room where his friends were being held. That was where he had to go. Then he felt another presence to his left and looked over. The source seemed quite large and was moving rapidly in his direction. It was Medusa.
He took off running towards the door of the direction that his friends were in. he burst through the door and was once again met with the same 3 doors. He could hear Medusa getting closer, if the rather loud banging and crashing of doors was anything to go by. He sprinted towards the next door and burst through it. He noticed the walls in this room were a bit different to the others. They were covered in slime and had mould and damp on the floor and walls. He was getting closer. But then again, so was Medusa.
He quickly closed his eyes and spread out his senses again. He quickly identified Medusa and then zeroed in on his friends. To the left he ran and burst through the door. He noticed that this room was different immediately. In the middle of the room was a large hole that looked as if it went down a long, long way. He recognised it as a pit that lead to Tartarus. He was surprised to see one here, in Medusa's home of all places. The last time he had seen one was last year in his quest in the Labyrinth. He backed away from the huge hole and went back through the door he had come through. Now he was back in the slime room. This time he went straight ahead and he ended up in a worse room than the last.
There were statues everywhere. People screaming silently forever as they were frozen in time by the glaring eyes of Medusa. He shuddered. This was what would happen to him if he didn't reach his friends in time. He continued running in the direction of the other four. He burst through door after door until he was right outside the room his friends were in. The room was so covered in slime that it was difficult to stand anywhere without standing in the slime. He felt the large, fast moving presence about two doors behind him. Percy took a deep breath and pushed open the door carefully.
His friends were chained to the wall with Celestial Bronze chains. They all looked up and saw that it was Percy and not their captor and started to celebrate before Percy stopped them and quietened them. He stretched out his senses and detected Medusa about a door out. He stood there and waited with his back to the door. When he heard the door to the room he and the other four were in start to open, he reached into his pocket and took out his trusty ballpoint pen, uncapped it and threw it all in one swift motion, as if he had been practising for years for this moment. The pen, that was fluidly elongating and broadening into Percy's sword, Riptide, flew through the doorway shining in the light of the harsh industrial lights that illuminated the room. He heard the start of a shriek before he heard a shunck followed by the sound of a thud as a heavy object hit the hard floor of the room. The clattering sound of his sword followed afterwards as it hit the floor also.
Percy covered his eyes with one hand while he walked out of the open door. He felt his foot kick something solid and felt the thick, slimy liquid that was gorgon's blood slowly soaking through his shoe. Percy could feel the tiny snakes that were once Medusa's hair and were now slowly dying grabbing at his shoes and pant leg with their tiny fangs. He kicked them off and took off his jacket after he had closed his eyes properly.
He dropped the jacket over the head and opened his eyes. There was a slowly growing pool of dark green blood at his feet that came from the head of the now dead monster that was Medusa. Percy bundled up the head in his jacket and picked it up off the floor. The green blood was dripping through the jacket and onto the floor of the room.
Percy walked back inside the room that the rest of the spies were in and put the head on the floor. He then went and retrieved his sword from the floor where it lay from when he threw it through the door. Walking back through the door after pocketing Riptide he looked to see his friends wearing looks of shock and amazement on their faces.
"Okay, come on, it wasn't that cool" Percy said
But the others just stayed the same that they had been for the past few minutes with their mouths hanging open, staring at him. Percy smirked and took out a small camera from his other pocket. He took a photo of their faces before pocketing the camera again and mentally smiling about the blackmail he just got. He walked up to them and snapped his fingers in front of their faces.
The other four spies jerked awake and stared at Percy expectantly. Percy realised what they wanted him to do and walked over to them and drew Riptide before swinging it at the first of the chains. It broke like a twig. He continued to do this to the rest of the chains holding his friends to the wall. One by one the spies fell to the cold, slimy ground. The last of the spies to be freed, Thalia, sat up and glared at Percy,
"Do you know how much it bloody hurts ones wrists to be suspended by Celestial Bronze chains on a wall covered in slime and blood. Not fucking nice" Thalia said whilst maintaining her glare at Percy.
"Language Thalia" Annabeth scolded.
"Well that's not my problem now is it?" Percy said back "How did you get captured again anyway?"
"Medusa snuck up on us and knocked us all out" Travis replied
"Well we're free now" Annabeth said quickly, defusing the impending fight between the two cousins "now, how the Hades do we get out of here?"
"Please stop using my father's name" Nico said from where he was on the floor. He hadn't spoken in a while so the other four had almost forgotten that he was still here.
While all this was happening, Percy was using his newly found power to try and detect any water sources that were nearby in the local area that might help them to get out of the house. He found a few but they were either too far away or too small to be useful to them.
He walked over to a door and opened it carefully. The light from the outside world temporarily blinded him as he tried to see what it was causing the light before realisation hit him and he let out a rather loud "What?"
The others all looked at him strangely before he pointed towards the open door. They had all been too busy arguing between themselves that they hadn't noticed the light streaming through the opening.
"Well that's definitely not normal" Connor said with a look of shock on his face.
Thalia was too surprised herself to make a snide remark to that comment.
The five all stood up as their eyes adjusted to the bright light of the outside world. They all walked outside and blinked in amazement. They looked back at the house and all of them gasped in shock at the fact that they were suddenly at the front of the house. They were standing by the front entrance.
"Okay, what the Hades just happened?" Connor said
"Please, stop" Nico replied
"I dunno, but if I were to guess then it would be that the house was enchanted and whoever owned it could basically do whatever they wanted with it," Annabeth stated "Medusa must have killed the previous owner and taken it off them, then when Percy killed Medusa again it must have passed to him."
"Aww yeah!" Percy shouted out loud as he started to dance around like a six year old.
"So I guess it just does whatever Percy wants it to then" Connor said
Suddenly the house started to shake and change. It changed so that it went from a small, one story house that could barely fit one person to a double story house that could fit all of them comfortably.
"Does that answer your question?" Nico said with an amused smile on his face
"Shush now Nico" Connor replied
The five all walked up to the house and opened the front door. Percy waved his hand over the front door and a lock appeared along with 5 keys that appeared in his hand. He gave each of the other four a key and kept one for himself and then stopped at their questioning looks.
"This is so that you guys can have access to the house whenever you need it and are in the area. All the keys work on the lock so you should be able to get in."
"Wow, Percy finally did something smart for once." Thalia said
"Hey, take that back, I can be smart from time to time." Percy replied
"Yeah, if that time to time is an eon." Thalia shot back
The other three were snickering and laughing behind their hands at the two as they continued to fight.
"Yeah well at least I'm not afraid of h-." Percy was stopped abruptly as Thalia slammed into his chest.
"Don't you dare finish that sentence!" Thalia growled whilst holding a lightning encased fist above Percy's head.
"Okay, okay, no need to go that far." Percy replied quickly
The two got up and stood apart from each other before joining the others again. The other three were just staring at the two cousins in shock. They were all wondering how they could be at each other's throats one minute and then be the best of friends the next. Their relationship was rather strange.
"We should probably be getting off now; we still have a long journey ahead of us if we're going to get back to camp in time."
The rest of the group nodded and went around picking up their supplies and equipment before standing in a circle and nodding. They turned around and looked at the house one last time before they all walked around the house and continued through the desert. Every step bringing them closer to their destination.
A/N: Wow. Longest chapter I have ever written. I had to end it there due to the fact that I just couldn't think of anything more to put in there. And it also seemed right to end it there. I hope you have enjoyed the latest chapter of The Wrath of Kronos and I hope to see you all again soon. Well, not see but talk to.
Cheese is Awesome,
Signing out.