Chapter 10: Torture and A Plan
Pain isn't that bad. Sure it is at first, but after a while you stop feeling the pain. You're nerves can't take it anymore and just power down, you can't really die from it when you are in Chaos's army. Trust me, it has happened to one of our warriors before.
The way that Order tortured me... well the 'not feeling the pain' thing happened pretty quickly. I was greatful for that. For the way that he tortured me was not pleasant.
At first it was cuts and beatings and then it got a little more complicated. He heated up the chains that held me, burning my skin, and he increased the temperature of my blood to where it was almost boiling. He did tortures that were worse than what Key did. Not just physical ones, but mental ones as well.
He tortured me with images of my family slaughtered and tortured as I had been. Not only of my baby brother and of Key but my children as well. That's right, I have kids. I'm 600 years old so, of course, I would have kids. Anyways that's beside the point, the point is that he tortured me with these images that nearly broke me a dozen times.
I had to escape. I had to get back to them. I had to help them. I had to defeat Order. I had to, I had to, I had to.
But all of these 'had to's were going to be hard to do. Even if I did manage to free myself from these chains, I would then have to escape the building in which they were keeping me. And then I would have to actually get back to them. With all the monsters, primordials, giants, titans, and Order, it was probably going to be very hard to do that.
But still I had to try. If I didn't, then this war would be lost. Order would win. I would still be one of the heirs to the universe but earth would fall under Order's reign and who knows what planets would be next. I couldn't allow that to happen.
My thoughts shreeched to a halt as Order returned to my cell. I glared at him, but I probably didn't look that intimidating since I was so beaten up. Order grabbed my chin and forced me to look into his hideous dark eyes.
"You are going to do what I say." Order growled.
I managed a weak laugh and said.
"And why would I do that? I am a soldier of Chaos, I do not take orders from you."
"You'll do what I say if you want these three to live." Order said before snapping his fingers. Four guards came in dragging two boys and a girl.
I gasped, tears falling onto my face. They were bound in chains. There were several cuts littering their bodies. I recognized them. My three kids, my only kids, Eric, Julian, and Teresa were being held by Order's guards.
"If you want them to live, you will join me." Order said to me. "You will help me defeat the gods and then take on the rest of the universe. If you don't agree, I will torture them slowly before killing them. And if you rebel, I will still have them as an incentive."
I thought fast. I couldn't let them get hurt, but I couldn't join Order.
Then an idea came to me. What if I just pretended to join him and then later help my children escape and destroy Order's army from within? That would work, wouldn't it?
After I thought about it for a moment, I realized that it would.
"Don't do it, mom!" Teresa was begging.
"Just let us die, we're less important than the war." Julian added.
"Don't give in!" Eric finished.
Order looked at me and asked.
"What is your decision? Are you going to let them die or are you going to join me?"
I took a deep breath and then I asked.
"Does joining you mean that I won't be tortured anymore, and that I will be let out of these chains?"
"Why, of course." Order replied.
"No! Mom, you can't join him!" Eric said frantically.
"Think of what Uncle Percy would say!" Teresa exclaimed just as frantic.
Julian, surprisingly, stayed silent.
I took another breath and looked into Order's eyes again and I said.
"I will join you."
Eric and Teresa both gasped while Julian didn't say anything. I think he had figured out my plan.
"Good. Very good." Order said before saying to the guards. "Chain them up and put them in a cell. Don't torture them though."
The guards nodded and dragged my kids out. Then Order snapped his fingers and my chains disappeared along with my wounds.
"Come with me, Mckenzie." Order said.
"It's Max." I growled.
"Now that is no way to talk to your commanding officer." Order said wagging a finger at me.
'Not in a billion years.' I thought to myself before Order led me away.
Author's note.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
So Max has a plan. Good, that's good. By the way, was anyone surprised that she had children?
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and remember to REVIEW!