Percy
Now you may be asking yourself, Percy, you've been through Tartarus, aka literal Hell, how could something as simple and boring as the Tardis leave you speechless? And that is a very good question, and the answer is that it's the freaking Tardis. Picture yourself getting ready for school or whatever it is you do in the morning and you go to your closest to get something to wear for the day. Nothing special, business as usual, but then you open the door and what would normally be a small dark corner where the monsters hide is suddenly transformed into the lobby of a train station.
Now I don't know about you, but seeing some Harry Potter type crap like that would not go unnoticed. I would stare there dumbfounded, trying to piece together how my closet could defy the laws of physics. That was exactly what was happening to me. I was staring at this blue freaking London police box in the middle of the Argo II, (which was by the way enough to make me question some things), sitting on the deck that I have seen day after day for the past few months. I don't care how many times you've been through Tartarus, when something that isn't physically possible just pops on your front doorstep, you would do the exact same thing I did.
What I did besides stare dumbfounded at the thing, in case you were wondering, was take the "Doctor" and slam him into the closest wall.
"What is that thing?!" I shouted about two inches away from his face. I had him pinned against the wall so he could barely move, his cocky grin gone and replaced with a more serious look.
"She would never harm you, I can promise you that Percy." He answered.
I leaned in closer, tightening my grip around his wrists.
"That didn't answer my question."
"Percy, this is all a bit ridiculous, just let me go and talk about this like civilized men shall we?" He told me with a certain parental tone that reminded me of my mom for a split second.
I pushed myself off of him, stepping back into the middle of the deck.
"Percy, are you okay?"
I turned my head to see Hazel, and just about everyone else on the deck looking at me like I had just lost my mind, which I pretty much had.
"Yeah I'm fine it's just…I don't…" I sighed, biting my lip and trying to get some words out to make sense of what I just saw.
Annabeth and I locked eyes for a second, and I nodded my head to tell her that I was okay. She glanced over at the Doctor, Amy and Rory for a second, all of whom were standing a good distance away from us, and then looked back at me. She gave me a nod back and turned back towards them.
"The one thing about Percy is that he doesn't scare easy, him along with the rest of us have seen and done more things than you guys will ever do in your entire lives-"
"I seriously doubt that." Amy muttered to herself loud enough so we could hear it. As soon as the words left her mouth, Rory grabbed her hand and muttered an incoherent phrase. All she did was give Rory a look than gave her attention to Annabeth again.
Annabeth, to my surprise, chose to ignore Amy's comment. "What I'm trying to say is that we aren't one to freak out over something small. So when my boyfriend is so dumbfounded by what he's seen to the point where he can't formulate coherent sentences, then you must have some serious shit in that phone booth of yours." She finished by crossing her arms and stepping towards them threateningly, as if daring them to try and argue with her.
There was a slight pause. "What's your name?" The Doctor asked.
"Excuse me?"
"Your name darling, what's your name?" He asked her again.
"Okay let's get one thing straight, I am no one's darling…and it's Annabeth."
He stared looked over to me and for a second, then switched his gaze back over to her.
"Percy and Annabeth, has a nice little ring to it doesn't it?" He muttered turning back towards me.
"Your girlfriend, I like her." The Doctor said, letting that childish grin spread back on his face.
"Why are you here?" Frank asked without skipping a beat.
"Why am I here?" The Doctor asked, like the answer was obvious.
"Yes Doctor, why are you here?" I asked a bit louder, stepping closer to the three of them.
"Don't you and your friends trust me Percy?" He questioned,
No one answered him.
The Doctor shoved his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels, laughing to himself. "Well then again I guess you have no reason to, having just met me and all. But even though you don't trust me doesn't mean that I don't trust you. You are quite the legend Percy, defeating one of the most well know creatures in Greek Mythology at the age if twelve with no prior training, all to save your mother. Most twelve years olds would have stood there while there mother was ripped to pieces but not you, you managed to act and save someone you love. It takes a special kind of brave to do that, the kind that could easily be mistaken for stupidity, and that's the kind of bravery that I like. Where you throw common sense out the door because common sense doesn't matter if they don't make it out. You have shown this bravery time and time again throughout the stories I've heard of you, and it shows me one thing. It shows me that even after everything you've been through and through every accomplishment and loss you've ever faced, you never lost that heart that you had as a child. You still care about people, you want to survive but more importantly you want your friends to survive before you. That is the sign of a true hero Percy, someone I would entrust with my life."
"Uhhh…Thank you?" I told him after a few seconds, not really knowing what else to say in response to that. I didn't really question how he knew so much about me, I knew a lot of halfbloods knew about me, so it didn't faze me as much as it should have.
I looked back over my shoulder to where all of my friends looked on, and all of them looked as confused as I felt about the whole situation. We ran up her fully expecting to be attacked, and here I was being praised for having a good heart of all things.
And even though I must say I was a little flattered by the whole speech, I didn't let my guard down.
"Listen, Mr. Doctor or whatever, just because you waltz in here praising Percy for being a decent person doesn't me were gonna trust you." Leo blurted out, taking a step up and putting his hand on his tool belt, I could tell just by looking at him he was ready to jump in and attack if he needed to.
"What if I can make Percy trust me?" The Doctor said simply.
"What do you mean make him trust you?" Hazel proclaimed right after the words left his mouth, and I could feel the entire group tense, taking the suggestion as a threat.
The Doctor obviously noticed this, since he put his hands up in a surrender position as soon as we raised our swords.
"I don't mean to hurt him, really I meant what I said."
"Well you could have worded it better." The man, Rory, muttered just loud enough for us to hear. It was the first time I had heard him speak since he got on the ship, and I might have even found it funny if I wasn't calculating every one of the Doctor's moves, waiting for him to make even the slightest slip up.
"Percy, I have a proposition for you." He told me, looking me dead in the eyes, and I could tell by his stare that he was serious.
"If this 'proposition' involves death or injury in any way, find another stupidly brave kid to do it." I replied, shooting him a death glare, but it didn't seem to faze him at all.
"Give me ten seconds to earn your trust." He said.
"…Ten seconds?" I asked, making sure I heard it correctly.
"I'm asking you to give me ten seconds, no more no less, to earn your trust." He repeated, lowering his hands for the surrender position. None of us made a move.
"You think you can earn my trust in a matter of seconds." I asked him again, unsure of whether he was being serious or not.
"I hope that I can, you just have to let me try." He told me, taking a step closer to me. I didn't lower my sword, but I didn't raise it.
"Fine, you have ten seconds." I answered, looking him dead in the eye with my best come at me I could muster up.
"Okay you just have to come with me into the Tardis." He told me simply, but I could see behind his calm stare that he was expecting the reaction that it got.
Everyone in the seven said something at once. I didn't pick up most of it, but you all probably assumed it was something along the lines of "No way!" and "You funny!" So you get the idea.
"Wait!" I shouted over all the protests, everyone promptly shutting up. I looked back over to the group, and their eyes widening, telling me what a stupid idea this was going to be.
I ignored them.
I walked over to the doctor, not breaking eye contact with him. I squared my shoulders and pointed riptide to the middle of his abdomen.
"You're asking me to trust you, so I expect to walk on there and not to be blown up. And I can assure you that if anything happened to me in those ten seconds my friends will not hesitate to cut your head off along with your pretty little sidekicks over here." I threatened, pushing the sword closer so it just poked his stomach.
Amy protested in response, but we ignored her. He gave me a slight nod, "You have my word Percy, nothing bad will happen to you."
We stared at each other for a good few seconds before I pushed him away. And I turned around to a very angry Annabeth.
"You're not actually going to go back on the thing are you?!" She practically yelled, her grey eyes burning into me, the same look she gives me whenever I am about to do something stupid, which I guess I was.
"It's only ten seconds."
"Yeah, and when you went on it last you nearly shit yourself!" She yelled, pointing to the box.
"I'll be okay Annabeth, I'm not stupid." I told her, gripping her shoulders. She shook her head slightly as she sighed, knowing she wasn't going to talk me out of this one.
"I swear to the gods Percy if you get killed-"
"You're going to bring me back to life and kill me again." I finished, a smile playing on my lips.
"You better believe it." She told me before pulling me into a quick kiss. I pulled away, feeling a little bit better about everything, and turned around.
The truth is I knew going in there again was practically suicide. I was aware that it was most likely a trap, but I couldn't help myself. I wasn't going back on because I wanted to trust him, I was going back on because I was curious. It defied the laws of physics, even past what the Mist could do, and I wanted to see what that purpose was.
Without wasting a beat, I walked over to the tall redhead and grabbed her by the arm, pushing her to walk in front of me.
"What are you doing?" She yelled in her thick accent, trying to shrug my hand off.
"Making sure that I'm not walking into a bomb." I answered. If I was gonna get blown up, I wanted to make damn sure that they wouldn't walk away unscathed as well.
The Doctor snapped his fingers and the door open and the one of the doors flung open, he stood by the entrance, motioning me inside.
"Percy!" Piper yelled from behind me.
"I'll be okay." I reassured her, but it was more of a reinsurance for me than anyone else.
"How do we know when the ten seconds start?" Leo yelled, his hammer still in hand.
"Oh you'll know, and if I take longer than ten seconds, you all have permission to rip me up into pieces." The Doctor told them, half joking, even though that's probably what would have happened.
I pushed Amy inside, and we walked in without an incident. Now that the original shock wore off from me first entering the Tardis, I could really see what was on the inside. Somehow it looked even bigger than the first time, and I could see much more little details that almost made it look like an evil villain's lab from an old cartoon.
The doctor strode in and closed the door behind him, and he turned to me smiling. It wasn't an evil I got you now smile, it was almost a prideful one.
"You like it?" He asked, the smile now forming into a smirk.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked him, figuring trust could start with his motive behind why he wanted me to trust him.
"Isn't it obvious?" He asked innocently
His smile grew bigger before he answered.
"Fun."
Dread filled my stomach, great, I thought, he's batshit insane.
He motioned me to follow him over to the main console in the middle of the huge room which was decorated with such a large number of switches and buttons in was almost comical. Not to mention the huge oddly-shape thing bobbing up and down in the middle of the entire thing did not help.
"Are you ready?" He asked me grinning like a child in a candy store. I nodded.
"Then hold on to something." He told me. And before I could ask what he meant by that, he flipped a lever and I was thrown to the side.
I barely managed to grab onto a railing before I was thrown onto the floor. The entire room was now moving back and forth like we were on a roller coaster, and all I could think were some very choice words and how I stupid I was for agreeing to this. But the others didn't seem like it bothered them at all, in fact the doctor was running around the console, practically giggling from joy.
He flipped another switch and the room came to a halt, nearly throwing me down for the tenth time.
I stood up slowly, and I saw the doctor was looking towards me with childlike amusement.
"What the hell was that?!" I yelled trying to find my balance.
"Oh you'll see in just a minute." He said. I was starting to get fed up by the not-so-straightforward answers.
"Where are we?" Amy asked, and I nearly shot into the air when I heard her say that.
"What do you mean where are we?!" I yelled, half terrified of the answer.
"Why don't you look outside yourself Percy?" The Doctor said, the same annoying smile on his lips. I had to stop myself from smacking it off.
"Your ten seconds are up!" I yelled.
The smile faded. "Don't be mad Percy."
"Oh I am way past that!" I shot back.
"Let me explain. The Tardis is one of the rarest machines in the world, last of its kind even. Tardis stands for Time and Relevant Dimensions in Space." He started.
"And that means?" I asked, fed up with all the riddles he was giving me.
"This is a time machine Percy."
I didn't even say anything, I just laughed, because why not? If the box could break the laws of physics, then why couldn't it travel through time as well, it might as well be a living breathing creature while we're at it.
"So when I said ten seconds…" He started as my laughter died down and realization struck me.
"Ten seconds could be as long as you want them to be." I finished.
No one said anything for a few seconds before Rory chimed in.
"Are you okay mate? You seem to be taking this rather well."
"I've seen weirder." I told them flopping down in a seat. The sad part is it was true, I have seen weirder. Oh the wonderful life of a demigod.
'Why don't you take a look outside Percy?" The Doctor said after a minute of me just sitting in a chair, trying to take it all in. He could be pulling my leg for all I know, he could open the door and we could still be on the Argo II, but something told me that that wasn't the case.
I got up from my seat and made my way over to the door, where the Doctor waited. I stopped in front of it, and he motioned me to open it. And let me tell you, I almost passed out right there because of what I saw.
The Argo II was gone, along with the ground, kind of. I stood there in shock, looking down at what I had seen in pictures a thousand times over, although now I know that no picture could compare to the real thing.
We were floating thousands of miles above the Earth, because my life couldn't get any weirder right?
Woah an actual update? Yep that's right I'm alive and still kicking. Life has been crazy lately, with my senior year of high school and practices lasting until 11 at night, I barely have time to sit down, let alone write. But the creative writing class that I'm taking made me realize how much I missed this, so I'm back! So sorry if this chapter is absolute shit, it's late and I really don't want to proof read, so sorry for any mistakes! And remember; a review a day keeps the doctor away! (I know, I'm lame)