Chapter 12- Annabeth
Being trapped by the earth was humiliating, and being forced to watch your boyfriend and friends face three giants that want to torture them to death was enough to make Annabeth's heart start to break into two. The whole time during the final battle, Annabeth's concern for Percy grew because she saw how much pain his sea-green eyes held and she knew that his energy must be dangerously low too.
After Alcyoneus, Porphyrion, and Polybotes crumbled to dust, Annabeth saw in the distance the panicked look on Gaea's and Tartarus' faces at the fact that the demigods had defeated their army yet again. So the evil goddess and spirit fled the scene on the spot, not waiting to see the after effects.
This meant that the two didn't see Thalia, Percy, and Nico collapse from exhaustion and how their life-auras had faded into almost non-existence. Once the two tyrants were gone, all the demigods who had been trapped by the earth, were suddenly released from their chains.
The second her restraints were gone, Annabeth leapt to her feet, which the rest of the demigods did too, and they all rushed to Thalia's, Nico's and Percy's sides, where they lay motionless on the ground.
When Annabeth got to her boyfriend's side, Poseidon was already there holding his son, trying to slap him awake, with no results; even when the god of the Sea tried spraying his son with water, Percy didn't even stir. Out of the corner of her eye, Annabeth saw that Zeus and Hades were just as concerned for their children and desperate for them to wake up, Zeus even attempted to zap Thalia with lightning.
"Lord Hades, you can sense death, right? So are Thalia, Nico, and Percy dead, and if not, are they dying?" demanded Annabeth.
"Hush, child, I am going to try something to save my son, nephew, and niece, but I need complete silence to be able to concentrate and do this properly," scolded the lord of the dead.
With that, Hades knelt by the three unconscious demigods, and placed his hands on them one at a time, each time mumbling a quick but complicated incantation, which sounded a lot like a spell. When the normally cool and harsh god stood up, he looked like he had spontaneously aged 100 years, but he had a look of relief on his pale withdrawn face.
"Nico, Percy, and Thalia should survive this," Hades paused for the cheering that had erupted from his brothers, Hazel, Annabeth, and Jason to subside, which took a good 10 minutes to happen. "Anyway, though it looks like they have a decent chance of living, but they will be very week for the next month or so, so under no circumstances whatsoever, should they engage in any types of battles.
"Also, they will be in this coma-like state because their bodies burned a lot of energy and used too much of their life-auras. But I want to stress the importance that if anything happened to them while they are in this vulnerable state, they will die, so we need to head back to Olympus immediately and make them as comfortable as possible," ordered Hades.
After hearing this, Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades quickly stood and picked their children up in their arms, determined to never let them go. While Annabeth thought that the Big Three looked tired and older from what they went through, they insisted on carrying their children themselves back to Olympus, and flashed out.
Once the Big Three and their children were gone, all the demigods' parents seized their children's hands and did their own way of flashing to Olympus. Annabeth had never traveled with her mom, but it was a weird experience because the whole time, they were surrounded by owls, Athena's sacred animal.
Landing on Olympus was even stranger because one moment Annabeth was surrounded by owls and the next, she was standing in the throne room, looking at some very startled gods and goddesses. Although it took a moment for the other Olympians to gather their wits from the sudden appearance of the rest of the gods and their children, they recovered quickly and rushed forward to greet their fellow Olympians and their heroes.
However, the gods' and goddesses' celebration at the fact that everyone survived and the Big Three had been rescued was short-lived, due to them suddenly seeing the unconscious Thalia, Nico, and Percy.
"Guys, what happened? Thalia, Nico, and Percy, they aren't dead, are they?" nervously asked Apollo, afraid of the answer. Those demigods were their parents' favorite children, and it would crush the Big Three for their kids to go through all that they went through, only to die a tragic death in the end.
"Apollo, it's ok, my daughter and nephews are not dead, they are just in a coma-like state. So if you would be so kind to excuse us, my brothers and I need to take our children to the infirmary, for treatment." Without waiting for a reply, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon strode off with their children still in their arms, and headed toward their world-class first-aid center.
It took a half hour for the Big Three to come back to the throne room again, but once they did, they took control right away, and ordered everyone to be quiet so they could begin. Though normally demigods weren't allowed at the Olympian Council meetings, but this diffidently qualified as an exception, so all the demigods, except Thalia, Nico, and Percy, of course, were able to listen in on the Olympians' discussion.
"Fellow gods and goddesses, listen up because we only want to say this once, but while my brothers and I were trying to find Gaea and Tartarus, they found us and pulled all three of us into the abyss. I was able to control the wind enough to slow our fall and Poseidon and Hades softened the ground so we weren't injured on impact, but the instant we made contact with the ground, we were captured by Porphyrion, Alcyoneus, and Polybotes.
"The moment we were in our banes' clutches, they tied us up and tortured us, we would have died if we weren't immortal. Even then, having our own elements used against us was very painful, for example I was blasted with so much lightning, it would have leveled an entire state if we had been in the mortal world. From what I saw, Hades was chained in the air and pelted with jewels and stabbed by skeletons, and Poseidon was burned severely in acidic water. We wouldn't have lasted another day, immortal or not, if our children hadn't rescued us.
"Once we were freed by our chains by Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus, who had previously been trapped by the earth, we joined our demigod children, who had already joined forces. We defeated the three giants by joining all of our powers together into one wave of destruction, which did destroy Porphyrion, Alcyoneus, and Polybotes.
"However, Thalia, Nico, and Percy collapsed and nearly died from the energy they used in the battle, so we had to take care of them. Because of this, Gaea and Tartarus were able to escape before we could capture and kill them," explained Zeus.
After Zeus finished retelling what happened, and with the nods Poseidon and Hades were contributing, confirming everything Zeus had said, all the gods knew that their powerful and evil grandparents had risen once again, something that scared them greatly.
"So Father, what are we going to do now?" inquired Artemis.
"Athena, what do you suggest we attend to first?" asked Zeus.
"Right now, the first thing we should do is that, once Thalia, Nico, and Percy wake up and are able to travel, everyone needs to deal with the Roman and Greek camps fighting each other, because we need to end the schizophrenia it has caused us. The reason why we need to address this problem first, is because Camp Jupiter has just started their first attack on Camp Half-Blood, the war between the two camps has begun," stated the goddess of wisdom.
Disclaimer:
Annabeth: "Before you start with begging me, I want to point out that the rights to PJO and HoO will always go to Rick Riordan."
Me: "Aw, you're no fun anymore."
Annabeth: "Says the girl who has placed my boyfriend and my two best friends in a coma!"
Me: "Would it make you feel better to know that the next chapter is the FINAL chapter in this FanFiction?"
Annabeth: "Depends, what are you planning on doing to Percy and the rest of us in this last chapter?"
Me: "You will just have to wait and see!"
*Turns and walks away, grinning mysteriously, much to Annabeth's frustration.*