Percy woke up surprised to be in his cabin and even more surprised to see Annabeth sitting asleep right next to him.
She had pained expression, beads of sweat all over her. She was on a chair not very far from him. Percy just sat there observing her. Annabeth jerk while she was sleeping.
"Percy." She whispered. Percy took time to understand that she was still asleep.
"Percy don't do this. Why are you doing this?" She said with her eyes closed. Tears silently fell down her cheeks.
He abruptly went up to her to whip her tears but he couldn't touch her his hand passed right through her.
"Annabeth I am right here." Said Percy frightened.
That's when his surroundings changed he was on the beach standing at the same unfateful place. Looking at Annabeth.
"Percy, I loved you. And I know somewhere inside you still love me."
That's when a small cut on her cheeck appeared as if someone had made a knife cut and it was bleeding.
He tried to wake her up he shook her. But nothing happened she was still asleep.
Percy stepped forward to her but she appeared as if she was looking right past him. He turned around to see the culprit. It was him. Standing with Riptide in his hand. Percy was baffled to see his other self smiling sadistically at Annabeth. He again moved forward and striked Annabeth with Riptide making a long gash on her forearm. Annabeth screamed at this. Percy cried. The other-Percy gave a satisfied smile. He raised Riptide again at Annabeth.
"Annabeth fight!" Ordered the other Percy.
Annabeth still had her dagger strapped to her waist belt. She looked down at her dagger the cursed blade. And then back at Percy.
"Percy I know you love me. Percy, you can't hold a weapon against that person for whom you are ready to die for." She replied.
"Take that dagger and kill me Annabeth. This is not me. I can't... I won't... I would never hurt you." Cried Percy, begging her to kill the other him.
"Unsheath the dagger." Ordered the other Percy mechanically.
Annabeth did as she was told. She removed her dagger and held it in her hand. She looked at it and then at Percy.
Annabeth threw the dagger away.
"I can't kill you Percy."
"At least I gave you a choice." He said with a sly smile.
"No, No don't do this please kill me..." begged Percy to the other Percy fearing what would happen next.
The other Percy charged and Riptide went right through Percy and finally through Annabeth.
Percy clutched his stomach but no blood came out. He looked behind him to see Annabeth impaled by Riptide. Blood sprouted out. She gasped for air as riptide was taken out of her abdomen. She shouted tremors ran through Percy's body. She fell to the dry ground.
"Seaweed brain. I have always loved you." Said Annabeth as she watched him stare down at her. She gasped for air as blood chocked her. Percy fell to his knees he saw her take her last breath. He craddleing the lifeless body Annabeth to his lap.
Percy looked at the sky and shouted
"ANNABETH!"
Tears trailed down his cheeks and his shirt had turned red with blood, her blood. He fell to the ground. He cried on the nape of her neck.
A small hand rested on his shoulder. At first he ignored it but then a voice shook him to consciousness.
"Seaweed brain. How did you walk up here? I have been searching for you since breakfast."
Percy looked up to see Grey orbs looking at him expectantly. Oh he missed the warmth in those grey orbs.
He looked down to see he was holding nothing. He looked back at Annabeth she still stood there smiling at her Percy.
"Come with me." She asked Percy. He obliged. He walked after her. She took him to the arena.
"Anywhere but here. Annabeth please." Begged Percy.
"NO, come on it will be fun." She talked normally that it gave Percy an eerie feel.
The arena was surprisingly empty. He walked in to Annabeth who was standing at the center.
"FIGHT me Percy!" She asked him. He walked in after a lot of persuasion.
She attacked. Percy decided to go easy on her and simply blocked all of her attacks. Then slowly the attacks became forceful and Annabeth became fiercer. Rather than the warmth that Percy had seen before it was now colder.
"Percy come on attack!"
"I'll just Polish my defending skills." Answered Percy. He was too scared he couldn't let Annabeth change. He couldn't hurt her. He couldn't watch her die like the days before.
"Come on I know you are holding back." She chided.
Yet Percy didn't attack.
"PERCY JACKSON FIGHT LIKE A MAN!" Snapped Annabeth. She changed. There was no signs of warmth rather everything was ice cold.
Percy let Riptide fall. Accepting death from Annabeth. He could be free.
He saw her approaching him. He stood there anticipating the pain but it never came. Rather Annabeth shrieked. Percy's eyes snapped open, he saw a big wound on Annabeth's chest running from her right shoulder blade to her the left side of her waist.
She was bleeding. Instinctively he reached out to her, to help her. But being a warrior Annabeth striked Percy again this time aiming for his torso.
Percy wasn't afraid of her, rather worried for her. She attacked Percy but neither did the wound appear nor did the pain erupt in his body.
It was Annabeth on the ground clutching her torso were the wound had appeared. All Percy felt was energy being drained from him.
Percy stood there looking at the damage he had caused.
Annabeth never gave up. She attacked again and this time Percy went back to defend himself or rather herself. The force increased emensely. And Percy found it difficult to cope.
Annabeth attacked again and again and again. Blood oozed out. Percy saw her struggling against her own weight she had already lost blood and now.
With every cut running on her body he lost a battle physically emotionally and mentally.
With alot of trouble she stood up and Percy was able to disarm her. He went and hugged her.
"Calm down Annabeth. You will die like this."
"GIVE UP!" she replied. And after a pause she continued.
"NEVER PERCY NEVER."
She removed another dagger from her back pocket and attacked Percy cutting from the right side of his forehead head diagonally reaching the other side of his cheek. Annabeth cried in pain standing close to him she shouted in his ears. The pain made her loose the dagger.
She reached out for his face and pressed her thumbs into the eye sockets using the support of her finger.
This time Percy felt the pain surging through his body with Annabeth screaming in his ears he knew she was killing herself too.
The pain reached its peak as his Fingernails dug into her areadly blood baked back.
The two fell down.
Percy woke up with throbbing pain all over his body. He was on the cold hard ground. Like he had seen and felt in Tautarus. The blackness blinding his sight. He saw her was bonded like he was in Tautarus. If this wasn't enough he saw her. She was there tied to the wall. Then all the monsters he had killed, crowding all around her. They took out knives and passed them through her.
"PERCY!" she called out to him.
"PERCY PLEASE HELP!" She shouted at the top her lungs.
Percy tried to move but he couldn't move his legs. He couldn't feel his legs. As if his lower part was paralysed. He tried to crawl but even when he tried with all his might he couldn't move. He looked at his legs to find that his feet were nailed to the ground. The realisation struck him with a volcano of pain.
Pain now seemed as an as if it was just a word rather than an emotion.
Annabeth deafening scream erupted making him numb to any other feeling. Painfully he tried to lift his feet along with the nail.
He was in no state to walk. Painfully he crawled up to her. Fighting any monster that stood in the way.
"PEEERRCCYYY" She shouted as red hot lava tricked down her head.
"Percy it really was a mistake to love you. Percy you can only cause pain. You can only hurt people. You built me. You held me when I was broken. You fixed me. And then you broke me. Your not worth being loved. It's all you fault that i am suffering. So does everyone who ever came close to you. You are a disgrace. I hate you Percy."
"No, you are lying." Stated Percy stopping dead at his tracks when he saw her and heard her.
Then lava poured all over her. She cried withered in pain.
"ITS ALL YOUR FAULT. I HATE YOU!"
Percy sat there numb. Watching Annabeth burn under his deeds. Then the lava stopped flowing. He watched in horror as Annabeth rose breaking the shackles.
Her Blonde hair burned to black. Lava had burned the half of her skull most of her hands and almost her stomach and her legs. The gashes that she had made while fighting with Percy grew deeper, wider. She looked more dead than Alive. She crawled slowly towards him. He backed up. A smile cracked open on her half burnt lips.
Scared of her Percy moved back.
"See Percy this what I get for loving you. Percy you can only cause pain. You can only hurt people. You broke me. You are not worth being loved. It's all you fault that i am suffering. So does everyone who ever came close to you. You are a disgrace. I hate you Percy."
With that her image started to dissappear and he woke up to large BANG! Annabeth's last words rung in his brain as a mantra.
He then looked around to see the damage everything his cabin ever held reduced to nothing but ash. The black smoke thinned to reveal six silhouettes. All of them blacked by the boom. He saw Piper first her glow vanished it was replaced by grim expressions. Leo sitting down on his knees exhausted. Nico and Hazel supporting each other. Frank and Jason lying on the ground. Every single one of them was tired and exhausted beyond their limits.
Percy choose the only option that seemed valid.
Running away.
He sprinted away outside the boundary.
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Krystaltheelemental thank you for the review hope you like this one too and the ones coming after it.
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I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.
What she told him is correct but she standing up to him to tell him isn't. She was too harsh but you cant blame her as it is in her genes, she is the daughter of the war god Ares himself. She was angry, in anger people tend to do stuff that they wouldn't normally.
I liked her charecter as i have portrayed in Normal.
1 she protected him when he was standing there in the battle field armed but not armed.
2 she shouted at Percy because none of the seven could do that and have the same impact. Plus Percy needs to realize that his Wise-girl is dead. the faster he does that the better it is for his own health and thus the ones near and dear to him.
3 She did take him to the infirmary when she knocked him unconscious. and she even took him to his cabin and didn't leave him in the infirmary.
Lets get practical here what would have you done when you are in a life and death situation and are saving someone else's life and they cut you?
obviously your first reaction would be to shout. and in very rare conditions you will refrain yourself.
What would have you done?
LOADS OF LOVE AND VIRTUAL COOKIES TO ALL OF YOU.
8 days more! how do you want the next part? i have decided to add another OC so choose a name from the ones down below
1 Kaira
2 Samantha
3 Amanda
4 Noor
5 your choice!
Kohinoor~