A/N: I hope you all enjoyed reading from the POV of the Olympians last chapter, and how I threw the Big Three into Tartarus, the abyss that is. In this chapter, we get to see how our favorite heroes will react to their parents being thrown into the evilest pit there is and I may or may not throw in a twist or two. But be warned, this may be more of a filler chapter, but there is a pretty big cliffhanger ending. Once again, I would like to remind everyone, if I am dead, I simply cannot continue writing, so please refrain from killing me. Now, please enjoy reading from another first time POV, Thalia's!
Chapter 8- Thalia
Oh gods, Percy, I am so sorry for what my brother and Tartarus did to you, thought Thalia to herself. She in fact was about to say what she was thinking, but she didn't, because Thalia knew if her role was reversed with Percy, no way would she want pity from others. But that didn't stop her or the others from looking at the son of Poseidon with great sympathy for all he went through.
I wish that everything didn't always happen to him, he has the absolute worst luck in the world, and that is really saying something, considering I was a tree for 6 years. It must have been so hard on Annabeth to have her boyfriend kidnapped and missing for 8 months, it was hard enough and so worrisome for me when my crush was gone for that long, and to find out he was swapped with my long-lost brother, who turned out to be a traitor.
No, Thalia! Stop thinking about your crush on Percy, you have sworn off boys forever to be a Hunter of Artemis; if the goddess ever found out, you would be kicked out of the Hunters forever. Anyway, Dad would never allow it anyway, Poseidon is his greatest rival.
Just as Thalia was shaking herself mentally for thinking these things about one of her best friends and her closest friend's boyfriend, there was a sudden blinding flash of light and Thalia felt herself go weightless and suddenly land on a hard marble floor. Luckily, Thalia landed on her feet and she thought ahead to bend her knees so she didn't twist an ankle, and it sounded like the rest of the demigods aboard the Argo II remembered to do the same thing.
As Thalia regained her wits from her friends and her own sudden arrival on wherever they were, she saw that all the demigods aboard the Argo II were with her. This included Percy, who was magically standing with crutches and a sling, and a look of pure confusion of his face that matched Thalia's and the others'.
In perfect unison, the 8 demigods looked up and saw that they were on Olympus with a bunch of scared and angry gods and goddesses staring down at them from their thrones. This surprising sight was enough to completely stun the demigods into silence for a good 5 minutes, before Leo recovered his wits to speak.
"Why are we here? What is-," but before the son of Hephaestus could finish his question, Thalia, Nico, and Percy all realized something at the exact same time.
"Where is my father?"
"Children, I understand you are confused right now, but I need to address the urgent problem at hand. Thalia, Nico, Percy, I am very sorry to inform you of this but you need to know that-," the children of the Big Three cut Athena off from her explanation, by all growing alarmingly pale and crying out in pain at the same time.
All the demigods and gods looked up and saw a shocking sight that they thought they would never see. Nico suddenly had shadows surrounding him, trying to engulf him in them. Thalia had an aura of electricity and lightning around her, and she started smoldering from electrical burns. But the worst one was Percy, who was soaked in his own personal wave, but he was strangely covered acidic burns and blisters from the water.
This completely bewildered the Olympians and the other demigods, until Nico, Thalia, and Percy managed to stop screaming in agony to explain what was happening to them and their best guess to why.
"It's our fathers; they have had their elements turned against them. We can feel their torture because we get our power from them and since we are the most powerful demigods in history and their only current children, we have a rather strong connection with them. This means that we will literally experience what they are going through at the very moment that it happens to them."
When the three demigods looked up, they saw everyone's faces showed clear concern for both the Big Three and their children. After a moment of stunned silence, Athena took a deep breath and spoke.
"What we need to do right now, is to find Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, wherever they are in Tartarus, and rescue them.
"I'll go!" this was spoken by all the demigods, but the loudest came from Thalia, Nico, and Percy, because it was their fathers that were being tortured.
"No! This task is much too dangerous for children, and especially for you three, when you could collapse at any time. We don't know if your fathers' captors are aware or not of your connection, but if they are, then you can be certain that they'll use this to their advantage to torture you," argued Athena.
"I agree with Owl Head over here, if you three suddenly collapse again, then you are in deep trouble," this surprisingly came from Ares.
"Thank you, Ares! At least someone has common sense, unlike these children here! Wait a minute, Owl Head? You know what, never mind, I'll let it slide, just this once. Anyway, we have heard the latest prophecy and it says that water takes the bait, and water obviously means Percy here. So if we go by the prophecy, then this is indeed a trap laid out for you and your cousins, young Perseus," reasoned the goddess of wisdom.
"Lady Athena, I know you are worried about our safety, but if my cousins and I don't go, then you won't know what is happening to our fathers and what is being done to them. I know though, that whatever has captured my dad, Zeus, and Hades, is doing this to get back at us for escaping Tartarus and his tortures. Also, the prophecy says that I, the water, would take the bait to save the gods from a terrible fate, which is obviously dying or being overthrown at the hands of Tartarus and Gaea," countered Percy.
Thalia saw all the gods and goddesses reluctantly nod their heads, agreeing with Percy's theory that if he didn't take the bait and walk into a trap, then Tartarus and Gaea would destroy them all and take over and rule the world.
"Alright, but if you three are going, then I suppose all of you children are going too. In that case, then I am assigning all the available gods who have a child going, to accompany them on this quest. This means that the people who are going are Percy, Nico, Thalia, Hazel, Piper, Leo, Frank, my daughter, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Ares, and myself. Now we gods are going to use our air travel but we can't help you at the moment, you will have to find a way to get yourselves to Los Angeles," stated Athena.
After Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaestus, and Athena flashed out; the demigods took the hands of the people who they had to transport to Los Angeles through their own means of transportation.
This meant that Nico took Hazel's and Frank's hands, and summoned the shadows to him, and disappeared through shadow-travel. Percy only had Annabeth with him, and while ignoring her protests of that he was too weak to travel because he was still severely injured, he just snapped his fingers, turning Annabeth and himself to mist that disintegrated in the air (water/mist-travel).
With everyone else gone, this left Thalia with Leo and Piper, so she seized their hands and summoned lightning down to her and willed herself and her friends to Los Angeles. While lightning-travel was a strange experience where there was a lot of white light and a burning sensation, it was always a very quick and effective way to travel.
Unfortunately, the downside of lightning-travel, and this also occurred with shadow- and water-travel, it drained a ton of energy. So while everyone, meaning both demigods and gods and goddesses, arrived safely at the Underworld entrance in Los Angeles, Thalia, Nico, and Percy were incredibly tired, close to fainting, and out of it, from using that much of their power.
But before the three demigods could pass out from exhaustion, there was a roar right in front of them, and suddenly they were greeted by an ambush. Who was attacking you might ask? Well, unfortunately, it was Enceladus, Athena's bane, Damasen, Ares' bane, Hyperion, the titan of the sun, light and power, and Krios, titan of the south, stars, and constellations, who was the 2nd most powerful titan, besides Kronos himself.
Disclaimer:
Thalia: "Really? You had to make two giants and two very powerful titans attack us?"
Me: "Yup! I told you there was a big cliffhanger at the end of this chapter."
Thalia: "You are an evil person."
Me: "Hey, at least I didn't end an entire book with throwing our favorite couple in Tartarus. ***cough-Rick Riordan-cough***"
Thalia: "True, true, that's why it's good you don't own the rights to us PJO characters, who knows what you would do if you did. Wait, what did you think of the ending of the latest book, the House of Hades?
Me: "I still haven't read it, I am trying to finish this story before I read the House of Hades, so I'm not writing a completely different story. Also, this way I can write a FanFiction to the next story, and have it be as accurate as possible."
Thalia: "I see, so I'm guessing you would hate it if I spoiled anything for you?"
Me: "Thalia! If you or anyone else for that matter spoils one word for the House of Hades by Rick Riordan, I will kill Percy in my story!"
Thalia: "Jeez, you are so cruel to your characters and your readers."
Me: "Eh, it makes for an interesting story when I'm mean. But remember, no spoilers everyone or else!" walks away, grinning evilly.