Chapter 10- Thalia

For Thalia, the pain she was currently feeling was unbearable. With one look at her cousins, Percy and Nico, she knew that the agony that they were also feeling matched, if not beat, hers. It was just plain unfair that as children of the Big Three and as the three most powerful demigods to ever walk the earth, they felt every bit of torture that their godly parents went through.

Thalia was only vaguely aware of their demigod friends who were desperately trying to convince Thalia and her cousins that they were safe and that the torture they were feeling wasn't real. However, it was hard to believe that if you looked at the three demigods' bodies, because they clearly indicated a degree of torture going on.

Nico was surrounded by shadows that were trying to strangle him by wrapping themselves around his throat. He was also covered with bruises that were shaped like all sorts of precious metals, and minor stab wounds that were slowly but steadily oozing blood.

Percy could barely breathe, for he was standing in the middle of his own personal small lake and his whole body was covered in acidic burns. Also he was drenched from the lake water, which was highly unusual because as the son of Poseidon, Percy could normally control whether he got wet or not. Sadly, the water caused Percy's splints and bandages to completely unravel and fall apart, exposing his injuries to the acidic water.

Finally, all of Thalia's hair was standing on edge from the electricity that was coursing through her veins because it felt like she had just gotten hit with 20 volts of lightning all at once. In fact, she even had the electrical burns on her chest, arms, and legs to prove the feeling.

It took a solid 5 minutes for the other demigods and gods to calm Thalia, Nico, and Percy down, and convince them that they truly were not in any danger. Once the three demigods stopped screaming at the top of their lungs, and were reduced to just whimpering and grimacing from the pain, the group told the three that they were close to the location of their fathers and that they should all go rescue them before it was too late.

As soon as the three demigods heard that, they leapt to their feet, though Thalia noticed Percy had a harder time than she or Nico did, and started sprinting in the direction that they heard their fathers' screams.

After a mile so of running, not even stopping to catch their breaths or wait for the others, due to the three knowing that the rest of the group was right behind them anyway. But finally, they arrived at the deepest and most evilest part of Tartarus, the area in front of the Doors of Death.

What the group filled with demigods and gods immediately saw was the most gruesome and terrifying sight that some had ever seen. Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon were all enduring their torture that was being delivered by the giants that had been created to oppose them, and their banes had done, was that they had turned the gods' home territories against them.

Nico's father, Hades, was chained in the air so he couldn't use the energy from the Underworld to heal and strengthen him, and he was being swallowed by the shadows. Also, skeletons were taking turns stabbing him with their swords and spears, making ichor leak out of the multiple wounds. Furthermore, the undead soldiers that weren't stabbing the Lord of the Dead, were pelting him with diamonds and jewels, almost burying the god in the precious metals.

Percy's father, Poseidon, was chained and completely emerged in the Sea of Torture, just like his son had been when he was trapped in the evil abyss. But this ocean wasn't like any normal body of water where Poseidon and Percy would gain strength and power and from it, this sea severely drained their energy and caused their skin to blister and burn, if it ever came in contact with the water. This was because the water in the Sea had been blessed by Polybotes, who could easily turn water and blood to acid and poison.

Then finally, Thalia's father, Zeus, was chained to a rock, so he couldn't manipulate the winds and fly away to safety. The Lord of the Sky was being relentlessly blasted with vast amounts of lightning, something that was painfully ironic because he was also the god of lightning. While Zeus and his children could withstand a lot more electricity than any other demigod could, it didn't mean that an overload of it didn't affect them, like it was now.

Thalia, Nico, and Percy got tears in their eyes at seeing their fathers like this, how they were so vulnerable to attack and they couldn't even defend themselves, it was sick and cruel. But before anyone could do anything or come up with a plan to free the Big Three from their current predicament, Jason suddenly flew in out of nowhere, nearly scaring everyone to death.

As soon as the traitor landed, he stood up straight, like manipulating the air to fly was perfectly normal, and turned to face the group. However, Jason didn't start speaking before everyone had noticed the wicked gleam he had gotten in his eyes when he saw Percy was with them, and how the son of Poseidon was alive but weak and injured. This sick look nearly made Thalia want to strangle her biological brother, and she would have, had he not started his rant before she got the chance.

"Do you think what Hades, Poseidon, and my father are going through is bad? Wait until you experience it yourselves, because this is what is going to happen to every demigod and god who hasn't already sworn their unwaveringly loyalty to Tartarus and Gaea, the new rulers of this earth."

While Jason was ranting about he was going to be rewarded greatly after the Olympians were overthrown once and for all, Thalia heard in the distance, right by the once exploding volcanoes, that were now dormant, courtesy of Percy and his Earthshaker abilities, Gaea and Tartarus laughing with great joy. Though Thalia didn't know this at the time, she was later told that the reason why the earth goddess and the spirit of the abyss were so happy was because their plan of baiting the children of the Big Three had worked flawlessly.

Thalia had been so occupied with trying to figure what on earth could make the evil goddess and her husband be so giddy, she only just caught the reaction of her father and uncles to the fact that the group had knowingly walked into the trap. Once Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon saw their children had come to save them, they started screaming for everyone to run and save themselves, and not to worry about rescuing them from their chains.

However, before anyone could do anything, including escaping, the ground itself suddenly reached up and pinned Leo, Hephaestus, Annabeth, Athena, Piper, Aphrodite, Frank, Mars, and Hazel to various tree, bushes, and boulders, successfully trapping them. This left Thalia, Nico, and Percy to fend for themselves, without help from any of the gods, including their parents because they were still trapped. This sudden fact immensely frightened the children of the Big Three at the thought of fighting all their enemies all alone, with only help from each other, though they tried not to show their fear.

Just then, Porphyrion, Alcyoneus, and Polybotes spun around and joyfully realized that they had guests, who were scheduled to be their new torture victims. Because of this, the giants immediately stopped throwing the elements back at the Big Three and turned their undivided attention to the three most powerful demigods alive.

Thalia was thoroughly disturbed at how Porphyrion was grinning wickedly at her, like he was planning out how he was going to torture her in his mind. The daughter of Zeus could see out of the corners of her eyes that Alcyoneus was doing the same thing to Nico and Polybotes could also be seen showing the alarming look to Percy, maybe even a little bit more evil and sinister, because Percy had already killed him twice.

This thought process lead Thalia thinking on how they were facing Jason, Porphyrion, Alcyoneus, Polybotes, Gaea, and Tartarus. Also, their Olympians fathers and the others gods and their friends were currently trapped and couldn't help Thalia, Nico, and Percy with this current situation they were facing. Oh Styx, Thalia thought to herself, we are so dead.

Disclaimer:

Thalia: "How many chapters are left of this story?"

Me: "Only 3 more!"

Thalia: "Oh thank gods, I wanted to make sure that you didn't end the story with this chapter's cliffhanger that would be awful."

Me: "No, that would just be cruel."

Thalia: "Says the girl who ends every freaking chapter with a cliffhanger that leaves us hanging and wanting to kill you."

Me: "Hey! You know I still could end the story now, right?"

Thalia: "Please don't!"

Me: "Maybe if you let me own the rights to you guys, then I could be up to negotiating my ending."

Thalia: "Well,-"

Rick Riordan: "Thalia, you know those rights exclusively go to me!"

Thalia: " I thoroughly apologize Rick, but she is just evil with her endings and what she puts us characters through is terrible!"

Me: "Sorry, but my FanFiction, my rules, my ideas."