"Earth to Percy?" I heard someone call out. I tried to answer back but everything felt all fuzzy and dizzy.
"Perrrrrrcccccyyyyy." I moaned in answer but didn't really do anything.
"PERCY!" someone yelled right in my ear.
"AH!" I bolted up right and made a grab for my pocket (for Riptide) but guess what? My nice prison suit has none!
"Well it's about time; I've been trying to wake you up for the past half an hour." I looked over and saw Nico sitting his knees looking at me relived. I rubbed my eyes and found that I felt no stiffness what so ever.
I looked at Nico. "How long have I been out?" I asked.
"Well I'm not exactly sure but I would guess about an hour and a half, that's when your heartbeat slowed a bit." What?
"My heartbeat?"
"Yeah, remember I can sense life forces? Well if I concentrate enough I can feel heartbeats too, yours didn't slow a whole lot but..." I got his point and nodded. I raised my hand to my neck and rubbed where Kelli had bit me...again. Once again, my neck was Be-Dazzled with two small holes and blood. This was just getting tiring.
"You looked horrible. When those two giant zits dragged from the bowels-
"Did you seriously just say bowels?" Nico gave me the why-don't-you-just-shaddyup? Look and continued talking.
"When they dragged you out you had blood all over you, one of the younger kids started crying because he thought you were dead." I was wide-eyed with shock. I mean yeah a lot of the younger kids had heard campfire stories about me at Camp but crying because they thought I was dead? I don't know if I should feel creeped out or flattered.
"Huh, well that's interesting..."
"You should've seen the empousa, she came out covered in your blood, she was practically skipping and I wish she would've then she would have tripped in those stupid heels."
"Me too Nico, me too." We looked at each other and suddenly burst out laughing.
"H-have we g-g-g-gone crazy?" Nico said twirling a finger around his ear while laughing.
"I think it's my b-b-blood loss!" we were rolling on the ground laughing but this didn't make sense. What we said wasn't that funny.
"I-I think something's wrong!" I said.
"No d-d-dip Sherlock!" Nico said. While laughing I looked over at the cell door and saw Lu-Kronos standing there arms crossed looking very pleased with himself.
"Wha-what did you d-d-d-do?" I asked trying not to snort while I said it. Kronos smirked at me and shook his head.
"And why would I ever tell you this? Telling you might ruin the fun."
I just glared as hard as I could but considering I was laughing so hard I could cough my guts up it didn't work very well.
What the Hades was happening?
Somewhere in the middle of the Ocean!
"I am sorry my lord, even our best can't find any information on Perseus Jackson. It is as if he has just disappeared."
I smashed my trident on the abalone floor so hard it cracked and made the walls shake. The merman in front of me flinched and put his head down.
"I am truly sorry my lord." He said again. I sighed and waved my hand, dismissing him. I put my face in my hand. It had been first believed that Percy was dead, but then that Annabeth girl had that dream. Everyone was elated but when we had no leads it everyone was back to being depressed. Everyone was working as hard as they could to find him but nothing was coming up. We had checked and double checked and triple checked all the all old Titan camps and other places they had used. You know what we got? Zilch. Nada. NOTHING.
And then to make it worse we found that Hades' child, Nico, was also missing. I really could not care less about him but this was no coincidence. Two of the Big Three children missing? Something is up. However, nobody knows what to do and we do not even know how long Percy and Hades child will be kept alive. If they even are still alive right now.
Yeah I know I'm sorry. I haven't updated in *checks website* holy Hades, like, a month or so. Ok now I'm really, really, REALLY sorry! And I know this is short but the plot bunnies are not being helpful. They keep giving me new ideas for new stories. One that's not even fanfiction!
About the whole stiffness thing, the empousa venom paralyzes you right? Well after being paralyzed and not moving a muscle for however long (I think it would last about two hours to 3 hours) it last you would be very stiff. Percy didn't feel stiff at all. This might have something to do with later?
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