The Quest for the Magic Sword

Part 5: The Tower of Monsters

I'm gonna have to add chapters more slowly now cause of school, sorry guys.

"Thanks for the rides, Blackjack," I waved goodbye to a couple of pegasus. It was sunset already and we were at the entrance to the Underworld. As I stepped in I felt a shiver go down my spine and looked around me. Even more spirits were here than last time.

"Wow…" Thalia said.

"Hey, I know you kids, you're the ones who died in the bathtub!" Charon said as we walked up to the counter.

"What is this guy talking about?!" Thalia whispered to me.

"SHHHHH," I told her. "Can we go in or do we have to pay again?"

"First tell me what the heck you're doing here again," Charon asked us.

"Well… We have to get to the Tower of Monsters… Any idea where that is?" I asked.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you'll never get out of there alive!!! Oh well, you're gonna die anyways. Oh wait! You're already dead!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you're gonna die again HAHAHAH! The Tower of Monsters is right next to the entrance to Tartarus… HAHAHAHA!!!" Charon's laugh shook the whole building.

"Umm… Ok thanks…" I said as we walked to the elevator, and with a ding, the elevator doors slid shut, and we went down into the Underworld once again.

"ROOOF!!!" Cerberus barked at us with one of its three heads.

"Cerberus! Hi!" Annabeth exclaimed as she ran towards the giant dog and tried to hug him. Annabeth took something out of her pocket and gave it to Cerberus, who immediately started chewing it. "Good doggie!" Annabeth said. "Come on, let's go!" She said to us and waved goodbye to Cerberus.

We walked the same path we took before and ended up at the entrance of a long hallway that led into a gigantic room with the entrance of Tartarus and the Tower of Monsters in it.

"Wow no monster attacks yet, that's a record," I said as we cautiously walked toward the end.

"There it is! The Tower of Monsters!" Annabeth pointed to a humongous building right behind the pit. We walked through the doorway, carefully stepping around the pit. I could hear the evil voices coming from Tartarus…

"So this is it," Grover said. This floor of the tower was covered in green slime… Yucky. Suddenly a monster detached itself from the gooey walls and attacked us!

"Woah!" I dodged a blast of goo and drew Riptide. From behind me, Thalia sent a burst of lighting. Annabeth threw her knife- sword thing with deadly accuracy and Grover played a song on his pipes. A moment later, the goo monster burst into flames and I slashed it in half. It tried to regenerate but the flames spread and disintegrated the goo. A ladder appeared out of nowhere and we walked up to the next floor.

"Phew, it's just a plain room, no goo," Thalia said. The ceiling was 100% gold, and the walls were decorated with torches. Carved into the wooden torches were pictures of strange creatures with three eyes instead of two. BOOM! Out of a limestone door I hadn't noticed before a giant stone golem rushed into the room. I tried to stab it with Riptide but the celestial bronze couldn't penetrate the stone skin of the golem. I was sent back flying into the granite walls.

"How do we kill it?" I shouted as the golem punched the area where I just was. The whole room shook and Grover was knocked off his feet. I sent a blast of water at it but that only made it look shinier. From behind me a blast of lighting in the form of a flickering ball bounced off the stone of the monster. It had three eyes, I noticed.

Grover played a little tune and a steel hammer appeared magically in front of me.

"Ah! A hammer!" I exclaimed as I picked up the heavy weapon. I raised it above me head and banged it against the golem's head. A big CRACK told us that I had defeated it.

Just as I suspected, a ladder appeared.

"It's sooo long aaah!!!" Grover sighed after about 5 minutes of climbing the ladder.

He kept on complaining over and over and over… Oh god.

We soon got to the top (after like, what, and hour?) and I stepped through the hole onto what seemed like a mile off the ground if you looked out of a window shaped like a square in the side of the room.

And a skeleton wearing some kind of robe that was green stood in front of us. It took a step forward and I got Riptide ready.

Suddenly, as fast as lighting, the skeleton ran around the room until it was behind me, rushed forward, and grabbed Annabeth by the neck before I could even blink.

Before the other three of us could do anything, the skeleton was at the window. The window gave you a clear view of Tartarus. And so the skeleton did the unthinkable and threw Annabeth through the window, down straight and heading for the pit. I rushed to the window while Thalia gasped and then attacked the skeleton and as for Grover? He farted.

I took a deep breath, gathered all my courage (I didn't really have a lot) and jumped through the window, desperately trying to save Annabeth. She was still falling as I got closer and closer to her.

Tartarus was almost upon us as I got to her and held on to her hands.

"Percy… Why! You should've saved yourself!" she screamed.

I couldn't say anything as I tried to think of a way to get out of this mess. Fear had taken over. Evil drifted from the pit, coming closer and closer.

And with that, Annabeth and I fell into the pit of Tartarus, dreaded prison of the titans, the Tower of Monster looming above us.

Sorry it took so long to write this one guys! I really have no explanation except for… umm writers block?? Heh, sorry anyways.