Corsair: I am getting to the part of the story that I didn't write a few years ago and school is about to start again, so the chapters will take a little time to come out. I will try to post weekly though. Now, who wants to do the disclaimer this time?

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Clarisse: I guess I will. This punk doesn't own Percy Jackson or anything associated with it. All he owns is this plot and OCs.

Corsair: Thanks... anyway on to the story

Demigod dreams suck. They're never just dreams; they have to be omens or some other mumbo jumbo that I still don't understand. In this dream I was wondering on the beach. I was walking somewhere but couldn't see my destination. I walked for what seemed like hours until I came upon a group of people. They were huddled around something that I couldn't see. I moved closer to them.

"Again? You want me to do it again?" a girl said from the middle of the circle.

A massive bolt of lightning struck the center of the circle. I heard a familiar voice scream.

"Thalia!" I cried out.

"She can't hear you." A girl next to me said. "You're dreaming."

"Then how can you?" I asked.

"My mother is the Norse god of dreams. I brought you here to show you how pointless it is to fight us. Her lightning is no match for the daughter of Thor." The girl pointed toward where the lightning hit.

We moved through the people into the middle of the circle. I saw Thalia tied between two metal poles, an arm and leg tied to each one. Her shirt was lying on the ground and what remained of her pants were charred. Her hair was singed and she was barely conscious. No, she was barely alive. Percy moved so the girl was between him and Thalia.

"This has been going on since we captured her. She is stubborn and won't tell us anything."

"And you think I will because you torture Thalia? If she hasn't said anything yet, you won't get anything." I replied.

"You can end this. All you have to do is tell me where your camp is." The daughter of Thor said to Thalia.

Thalia raised her head to look her in the eye. Then, she did something that surprised even me. Despite the burns and drain of weeks' worth of torture, she spit in the girl's face.

"My answer won't change." Thalia said.

An even bigger bolt of lightning than the first struck Thalia. She screamed in pain before passing out.

"You can make this stop." The girl told me. "Just tell me what she wants to know."

"I'll tell you this; my name is Perseus Jackson, savior of Olympus and defeater of Kronos. You will stop now or I will kill you."

"With the four people you have on your ship? Yes, Perseus, we know that you are coming, and we know what you can do. Though, I am surprised you beat Xavier. I guess you are stronger than we give you credit for."

"Are you done already?" the girl asked Thalia. "Time to get up."

I watched on as Thalia was shocked by another bolt of lightning. Her eyes snapped open and she screamed again.

"Why are you making me watch this? Just send me back already because I won't tell you anything."

"I want you watch this. Watch how your friend writhes in pain, hear her screams, and know that you had the chance to stop it."

"I won't be helping Thalia by telling you what you want to know. It would just mean you wouldn't need her anymore. Her silence is the only thing stopping you from killing her."

"They told me you were stupid, that you would do anything to save your friends."

"And me talking with you will only get her killed. I can say no and watch you torture her because I believe she will be killed otherwise."

"It doesn't matter. She will talk eventually and then you will all die anyway."

"I have a question for you now. Why do you want to kill us?"

"You're the foot soldiers. It is necessary for you to die before we can march on Olympus."

"Why do you even care about Olympus? You aren't even Greek; your gods live on a different world."

"Why do you? We were told you made them leave you alone, yet here you are. You fight for them like the pawn you didn't want to be."

"Somebody else tried to do this once, tried to destroy Olympus. He too found me blocking his path. He tried this same trick to turn me against the gods. It didn't work last time and it sure as hell won't work this time."

"It isn't a trick. I am simply curious about why you fight for the gods you tried to get away from. You lived the dream of most demigods, a normal life, but you return only a few years later to fight a new battle."

"If you know so much about me you should know this already. One thing I will never do is turn my back on a friend. My friends needed me so here I am. This has nothing to do with the gods. I really couldn't care less about that. My friends, on the other hand, put themselves between you and Olympus so that is where I have to be."

Thalia's scream interrupted our conversation. I never thought I would see such a strong person broken as much as Thalia was. Her face was drained of most color and the energy that was normally in her eyes was gone.

"What was that about helping your friends? You don't seem to be helping Thalia. If you really wanted to help her, you would tell me want we want to know."

"No matter how long you keep me here or how many times you ask that question; my answer will be the same. Mine and Thalia's silence are the only things keeping her alive. You could save yourself time and energy by sending me back."

"Just keep watching; maybe you will change your mind."

I turned back, just in time to see the girl put a knife into Thalia's exposed abdomen. She screamed a little quieter than when the lightning hit but not much. The girl started twisting it around.

"Answer the question and this will all be over." She said.

Thalia just continued to scream. After a while, the knife was moved to the other side of her abdomen.

"Are you trying to kill her?" I asked.

"No, the torture follows the same pattern every day. First, they whip, then, they use lightning, and to finish it they do this. At the end of the day, somebody puts her shirt back on her unconscious body and they heal her over night with magic. Then it all starts over the next day."

"She has put up with this for the last two weeks." I mumbled to myself.

I was amazed at her loyalty to camp and her friends. Mortals would have died and most demigods would have spilled their guts on the first day, let alone last two weeks. Thalia just kept pushing through. Before long the screaming died down again. All the pain had knocked her out for the third time since I had been here. Just like the girl said, they put her shirt back on and carried her off.

"I will give you one last chance to tell me what I want to know. Answer the question and she won't have to go through all that again tomorrow."

"But she'll be dead. I don't think that's what she wants or she would have died a long time ago. I'll give you this warning; if I get here and she's been harmed again or she's dead, you all will die. If she hasn't, maybe, just maybe, some of you will live through our fight."

"What you see here isn't even half of our numbers Perseus Jackson. What hope do you stand against us?"

"Apparently you didn't get the memo; you just pissed off the one person who turned down immortality. I didn't need it then and I definitely won't need it to kick your sorry asses."

"I look forward to our encounter then, Perseus. Sleep well, you'll need it."

My surroundings disappeared until I was standing alone in a dark tunnel. I could hear Annabeth calling my name. I spun around and ran towards her voice. My eyes snapped open and I saw Annabeth and Nico standing over me. Clarisse was sitting down with her arm and chest bandaged. I could see they had rewrapped it multiple times, but I could still see blood through it.

"Percy, thank the gods your all right." Nico said.

Annabeth moved to give me a hug, but I dodged it and ran over to the kid I grabbed. Annabeth stared at me with a hurt expression, but I ignored it. I grabbed the kid by the collar and lifted him off the ground. They had untied him from the side of the ship but his hands and feet were tied together.

"Where are you holding Thalia?" I commanded.

"Who?"

"The daughter of Zeus you kidnapped when you killed the Hunter's. Where is she?"

"Oh… the annoying black haired one. I don't know for sure."

I threw him against the side of the boat. He hit the wall with a sickening crunch. When I picked him up again he was bleeding and his arm was bending the wrong way.

"Does that refresh your memory?"

"All I know is we took her to some place in Florida. It was on the coast I think. That's all I know, swear."

I set him down and punched him in the stomach.

"Your memory better improve by the time we get there."

My friends just stared at me, expressions of confusion and fear decorated their faces. I moved to the back of the boat and sat down. Annabeth came over and sat beside me.

"What's up, Percy?"

"They are torturing Thalia, and some chick brought me along to watch. I don't think she'll be able to survive much longer."

Will they get to Thalia in time? What do you guys think? As always, send ideas and suggestions in reviews or PM.

-Corsair