Chapter 3- Percy

When Jason walked through those doors, of his own free will looking very comfortable with the situation, Percy couldn't believe what was happening. He thought that he had saved all of his friends from being captured by Gaea when he sacrificed himself by unleashing his powers to build the pressure under the sinking ship; but apparently, Percy was wrong, Gaea had managed to kidnap Jason too.

"Jason, why aren't you fighting? Together, we can escape, get back to the others, and defeat Gaea and her giants for the gods," demanded Percy.

"Who are you kidding Percy? You know just as well as I do, that the gods and heroes have no chance of winning this war, and Gaea will destroy everyone who didn't support her in the first place, like you. I for one will be ruling this world with Gaea and Tartarus, while you and the gods crumble to nothing!'

"Anyway, what have the gods ever done for us? That is, besides use us over and over again to fight their battles and just toss aside with no regard for our feelings afterwards. We are treated like trash Percy, aren't you tired of it?" cruelly asked Jason.

"Jason, the gods do care for us, they care for every one of their children. Look at our powers, I can control the water, create hurricanes, and make the earth sake and causes volcanoes freaking explode! You can fly and summon lightning at will! So don't tell me the gods don't care when they've blessed us with these abilities!" shouted Percy, outraged at what he was hearing.

Apparently being reminded of his gifts from his dad, angered Jason, because his eyes suddenly shone gold, mixing the color with his normal bright blue irises.

"How dare you remind me of my dad! If you think the gods really do care about us by giving us our powers, why don't we finish what we started in Kansas and let's see if your precious father can help you with no ocean around!" challenged Jason.

With this, Jason lunged at Percy, aiming for his throat.

Luckily, Percy saw the attack coming and dove out of Jason's way before he was tackled and strangled by the son of Jupiter. Quickly, Percy uncapped Riptide and feigned left, trying to throw Jason off balance. Percy's plan worked and he was able to get a graze on Jason's side before the Roman recovered enough to dodge out of the Greek sword's way.

Unfortunately, Percy's body was nowhere near recovered enough to be fighting so soon. That one strike made Percy's previously inured arm, to shatter and dislocate again, causing Percy to drop his sword from the pain.

Jason saw the chance, and went to attack Percy again. Apparently Jason was angry enough to use his powers even though he said he hated them, because the son of Jupiter called down lightning from a very far away sky, and blasted Percy straight into his chest with the electricity.

This one strike charged with an extreme amount of lightning, sent Percy flying and made him smack into a marble pillar behind him and he sank to the floor, barely conscious and his chest burned.

Seeing that his opponent was down and was diffidently not going to be getting up anytime soon, Jason took his time striding to where Percy lay too weak and injured to defend himself properly. Smiling a sick and twisted smirk, Jason lifted his fist and punched Percy's crippled shoulder with all of his strength.

The bones in Percy's shoulder and arm had only started to heal themselves, but when Jason punched them, they shattered into a million pieces again. This caused Percy to sink to his knees, clutching his mangled shoulder, howling in agony.

Apparently Jason was really angry with Percy because rather than doing the honorable Roman thing of calling off the battle and taking victory like a gentlemen, he just hurt Percy even more.

Since Percy was still on the floor, into much pain to really notice what Jason was planning, Jason took advantage of his weakness and did a very powerful roundhouse kick to Percy's chest, breaking his sternum with a sickening crack.

It wasn't enough for Jason to cripple Percy, he had to fatally wound him too. So Jason took out his golden sword that was coated in nasty green poison and plunged the sword all the way into his left thigh, piercing the muscle and bone easily.

At this point in the very unfair duel between the two demigods, Percy only had a few more minutes of consciousness before he would pass out from the pain and poison. Unfortunately, Jason had other things planned.

"I guess now we know who the stronger demigods is, now don't we? Ha, like the son of Poseidon could be stronger than a son of Jupiter! Sweet dreams Percy, or I should say, sweet nightmares!" manically laughed Jason.

With that, Jason picked Percy's head up and with one big push, slammed Percy's head on the stone floor, causing Percy's eyes to roll up into his head and black out.

Percy Jackson came to a day and a half later, his injured head, shoulder, and thigh throbbing with excruciating pain. The pain was so bad, that the world was spinning and twirling so he couldn't see straight, and that is why Percy only realized Tartarus had entered his cell, when the evil spirit spoke.

"I see that you have regained conscious young Sea Spawn. Now I imagine that you are getting hungry, right?" politely asked Tartarus.

Now that the spirit had mentioned it, Percy really was starving. He had barely eaten at all those scarring weeks in the abyss, and his stomach felt like it was eating itself for fuel. Though Percy hated having to rely on someone else, especially someone who wanted to drain him of all of his blood to end the world, but he had no choice if he didn't want to die of starvation. Because of this, Percy just gave a mute nod, but did his killer death glare at the devious spirit of the abyss.

"That's what I thought. Since we can't have you dying just yet, here is some mortal food, a burger I believe it is called, and some ambrosia and nectar. Eat up, Perseus Jackson!" ordered Tartarus.

A part of Percy's mind recognized that something was wrong with this, but his stomach won the battle for the food, because he was just that hungry from being deprived of fuel for so long. So that's why Percy scarfed down his delicious old-fashioned cheeseburger and the god food of ambrosia and nectar, which helped a lot with the dizziness in Percy's head from the agony of his wounds.

However, the minute Percy finished his food, Tartarus grinned evilly, satisfied that Percy had eaten everything, and wasn't about to die of starvation.

"Now Percy, did you honestly think it would be so easy to just get free food so you wouldn't die? If you did, no wonder why you are called a Seaweed Brain! Everything I do with you is to break you and to make you tell me your Achilles Spot. Get ready for pain!"

Before Percy could even raise his very swore arms to block Tartarus's kick, Percy was already flying across the room and fractured his skull on the stone walls, when he collided with them at full speed. All Percy could see was stars in his vision, so again he couldn't defend himself against the next attack.

What Tartarus did, was raise his foot and stomped hard on Percy's left elbow, completely snapping the bone in half, making the arm hang at a nauseating angle. Next, Tartarus's hand shot out and grabbed Percy roughly by his throat, completely cutting off his oxygen, and dragged Percy to his feet so they were nose-to-nose.

"Ready to die and tell me your Achilles Spot?"

Since Percy couldn't breathe, let alone speak, he just fiercely shook his head no, he would never let Tartarus find or know his most vulnerable spot.

Immensely frustrated, Tartarus angrily tossed Percy to the floor and strode out of his cell in anger, signaling that the torture session was over.

The food process and beatings continued for several hours, sometimes even multiple times within an hour, until Percy registered any sight of food as pain. Even when Percy refused to eat, hoping this would let him escape the torture, Tartarus just started beating him anyway, making sure Percy could clearly see the food in the corner the whole time.

That night, Percy lay shivering in his tiny jail, whishing someone would rescue him from the torture chamber, when his cell door opened, revealing Jason with a sick grin on his face.

"Get over here now! If you don't, I'll get my spear and bring a whole world of hurt on you!"

"Alright, alright, I'm coming Sparky!"

This just resulted in a thump on Percy's head, and Jason seizing his arm and dragging him back to Gaea's chamber.

But this time, instead of facing the evil earth goddess, Percy was looking at a rainbow made in fountain of mist that was set up. In this rainbow, Percy could see all 12 Olympians staring at him, concern and anguish clearly written over their faces.

That was when Poseidon shoved his way through the crowd of gods and goddesses, to face his favorite son.

"Percy, hold on son! Your friends are coming to rescue you, and they will help you; don't give up hope. Remember, the sea will always be with you and that no matter what happens, know that I am so proud of you and that you are and always will be, my favorite son," exclaimed Poseidon.

At this comment, the other Olympian roared their approval, all of them stating that Percy should hold on to life, and not let death succumb him. Percy's eyes filled with tears at how many people actually did care for him.

"Jason? Since you have hurt my son severely and kidnapped him, I will find you and whoever is helping you do this, and kill you! Do you understand me, you good-for-nothing, little-" before Poseidon could finish his threat, Jason swiped his hand through the rainbow, cutting the connection.

"You see Jason, I will never give up and the gods will win this war and they will kill you, Tartarus, and Gaea for doing all of this," stated Percy, smugly.

All of this taunting ended with Jason delivering a sharp blow to both Percy's stomach and throat, and chucking him back in his cell.

Since Percy was now all alone and with nothing to do, he tried to get some sleep to escape this living nightmare. However, what he forgot was Tartarus's special gift of mental torture, and the spirit fully delivered his specialty through Percy's dreams.

The first thing Percy saw was the battle of Tartarus, starting right where Typhon was about to crush Annabeth to death and she was oblivious to the impending death threat. Percy knew what was coming next, him unleashing his full power over the sea, storms, and earthquakes, but he wasn't prepared to experience the pain he had felt then, and what he looked like as he unleashing his true power.

It was unnerving to see his own eyes glow emerald green, like he was possessed or something, and to see himself fly in the air, something only Zeus's/Jupiter's kids were known to be able to do.

As Percy watched Typhon and the rest of the monster being defeated single-handily by his past self, he wondered what his friends were thinking during this.

But before Percy could dwell on this too much, he saw the entire group of demigods of the prophecy, including Nico and Thalia but excluding Jason, dead at his feet. He heard Tartarus's voice ring out saying that this would happen if Percy wouldn't willingly give up his Achilles Spot.

Though this image twisted Percy's heart painfully, he was still able to refuse the spirit's evil request. This lead to Percy now being trapped in a box, with the walls made of steel, with no light whatsoever.

Tartarus obviously knew about Percy's claustrophobia, because the minute Percy saw no escape, he began to hyperventilate. If this wasn't terrifying enough, images began to materialize in front of Percy.

The first image was Luke's ghost, looking just like he had before he killed himself to destroy Kronos.

"Percy, how could you let me die? It's because of you, that I felt overshadowed and joined Kronos in the first place, it is your fault that I'm dead and thousands others are too!"

"Luke, what are you saying? You joined Kronos before I even knew I was a demigod; and you chose to kill yourself to stop Kronos!"

"Keep telling yourself that Percy, whatever you need to trick yourself to think that the deaths that you are responsible aren't your fault."

Next, was Bianca's ghost.

"Percy, it was your idea that killed me and left Nico by himself! You should have died in that automan, not me! If you had died like you should have, Nico would have someone and wouldn't have to fend for himself!"

"I'm sorry, I tried to talk you out of it, but you wouldn't hear it! I am so sorry, Bianca!"

Bianca's ghost disappeared only to be replaced by Beckendorf's.

"You could have saved me Percy if you had been faster! What kind of sea expert are you, if you can't even save me on a ship in the middle of the ocean! Instead of saving me, you swam away, like a coward! That is what you are Perseus Jackson, a gutless coward!"

"I know, I know! You don't know how much I wish I could change what happened with every person who died because of me!"

The next person, or people, to appear weren't even dead, but that didn't mean they didn't break Percy's heart anyway. Because the next two people who appeared were his mom and Poseidon, and in unison, they cruelly spoke to him.

"You were a mistake Percy, just a result of a broken oath, nothing else! If you really were selfless and brave, you would give up your life to correct the error, anything else would dishonorable and cowardly."

"Please don't tell me you mean that, I know you don't!"

Finally, the last person was the one who completely shattered Percy's heart, Annabeth.

"I never loved you Seaweed Brain, I only pretended to care for you to prove how stupid you are and how easily you are fooled. My only true love is and will always be, Luke! And you took him away from me!"

As this last word echoed in the cramped box, Percy Jackson began to sob in complete despair. This lasted a full hour, until Percy was pulled from the nightmare and awoke to Tartarus leering over him.

"Since you won't tell me Percy Jackson, where your Achilles Spot is, I see that I will have to find it for myself. Are you prepared to die, little hero? Have you made your peace with the world?"

Before Percy could respond, Tartarus dragged him to his feet and flung him on a metal table in the middle of his cell. There tight straps were immediately tied over him, to restrain him against the torture.

Tartarus then pulled out a pitch-black knife, which had sickly green poison on the tip.

"Do you like it, Perseus? This poison won't be the thing that kills you, it will just bring you extreme pain so you won't even think of escaping or fighting me," stated the spirit.

Percy realized that he was about to be stabbed and cut repeatedly so Tartarus would eventually find his weakest spot, that was located on the small of his back. So before the spirit began, Percy quickly invoked the Blessing of Apollo, which allowed him to be on Death's Door and not die.

Before Percy could think anymore or invoke any other blessings, Tartarus made a deep cut on both of Percy's arms. The pain was so intense Percy wanted to escape into unconsciousness, but something told him that the poison prevented this.

Seeing that his Achilles Spot wasn't located on his arms, Tartarus moved onto cutting his forehead, then chest and rib cage, and next was a stab to both of his legs. Getting really frustrated at the lack of death by Percy, Tartarus furiously plunged the knife into Percy's gut. Percy knew that if this continued, he would die whether or not his weakest spot was discovered.

Refusing to give up, Tartarus flipped Percy onto his back and was about to make the first cut, just a little under where his Achilles Spot was when there was a sudden noise and the cell door burst open to reveal Annabeth and the group staring at him, horrified.

However, before anyone could react, Tartarus yanked Percy under his arms and thrust the poisoned blade on his throat, drawing a thin line of blood already.

One move from anybody, and Tartarus would quickly behead and kill Percy. No one moved; it was a deadly standoff.

Me: "Did you guys like waiting 8 days for this update?"

Percy: "No, you left me with a knife pressed to my throat for a week!"

Me: "You still have a knife pressed to your throat, in this chapter I just described your torture and pain."

Percy: "You are evil! By the way, why didn't you update sooner? Rick Riordan wouldn't do this to us."

Me: "Excuse me, but does Rick Riordan own this FanFiction, no! He owns the series and characters! Also freshman year of high school is hard with the amount of work!"

Percy: "Excuses, excuses. Are you continuing though after today because the actual book comes out TOMORROW!"

Me: "I will write this until I am told to stop or until I end it and read the actual book. But I promise not to leave you guys hanging, if I discontinue this, I will let everyone know. Bye, I have to now write the next chapter so I don't have another angry mob and a furious Percy after me again!"