Tartarus- Jercy Style

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Summary: What if Jason saved Annabeth when she was beginning to fall in Tartarus? What if Percy and Jason closed the Door's of Death together? Follow Jason and Percy as they conquer Tartarus together. Slight Pairing (JasonXPercy). Spoilers for MoA and HoH. Rated T.

Warning: Violence.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HoO

In the last chapter

Did you forget that the Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!"

"Awesome!" Percy exclaimed. "Could we get two orders to go?"

I resisted the urge to face-palm.

"Umm, Percy," Tartarus began.

Akhlys hissed. "Ask me for a more sensible gift. I am also the goddess of poisons."

"That's very nice of you," Percy began. "But I've had enough poison for one trip. Now, can you hide us in your Death Mist or not?"

"Yeah, it'll be fun," Jason said.

The goddess's eyes narrowed. "Fun?"

"Sure," Jason promised. "If we fail, think how great it will be for you, gloating over our spirits when we die in agony."

"Or, if we succeed," Percy added, "think of all the suffering you'll bring to the monsters down here. We intend to seal the Doors of Death. That's going to cause a lot of wailing and moaning."

"I enjoy suffering, and people dying in agony. Wailing is also good," Akhlys considered.

"Make us invisible, it's already settled," Percy said.

"If you survive the process, you will be able to pass unnoticed among the armies of Tartarus. It is hopeless, of course, but if you are determined, then come. I will show you the way. Also, the Death Mist comes at the moment you are closest to your end. Your eyes will only be clouded then. The world will fade."

"Sounds good to me, but where are we going?" Percy asked.

That was the last thing I heard from them before they disappeared.

"They are still in the pit, I can sense them walking across my actual body," Tartarus said.

- Line Break and different PoV

The goddess was already shuffling into the gloom.

I turned to look at Bob, but the Titan was gone. How does a ten-foot-tall silver dude with a very loud kitten disappear?

"Hey!" I yelled at Akhlys. "Where's our friends?"

"He cannot take this path," the goddess called back. "He is not mortal. Come, little fools. Come experience the Death Mist."

Jason exhaled. "Well... how bad can it be?"

Jason

Have you ever regretted something? I have, like right now... I regret my question now. Bad wasn't the word to describe what happened a little while after.

I missed Bob...

I'd gotten used to his over-welming company. He was a great ally. He lighted our way with his silvery hair, along with his fearsome war broom. He was so nice.

We struggled across the dusty plain, the thick fog became thicker, and our feet made loud sounds as we crossed the plain. I would've lost Akhlys, but everywhere she stepped, long, poisonous plants sprouted and grew, filling up the empty pit. They grew bigger as if they were noodles soaking in water, absorbing the water as every second passed.

Our guide, an emaciated corpse lady with self-esteem issues was, how do you say it... different? Not quite the right word.

Anyways, as the poisonous, disgusting plant life grew, we followed her. I figured we were on Tartarus's big toe because a giant peninsula jutted out into a void of darkness, Chaos, or was it something else? Who knows...

Back to the present... "Here we are." Akhlys turned and leered at us. Blood from her scraped, wounded cheeks dripped onto her raggedy dress. Her sickly eyes looked moist and swollen, yet excited too. Can Misery look excited? Who knows... Stupid ADHD getting me off track.

"Uh... great?" Percy asked. "Where is here?"

"The verge of final death," Akhlys said. "Where Night meets the void below Tartarus."

I inched forward and peered over the cliff. "I thought there was nothing below Tartarus."

"Oh, certainly there is..." Akhlys coughed. "Even Tartarus has to rise somewhere. This is the edge of the earliest darkness, which was my mother. Below lies the realm of Chaos, my father. Here you are closer to nothingness than any mortal has ever been. Can you not feel it?"

I knew what she meant. The void seemed to be pulling at me, leaching the breath out of my lungs and the oxygen from my blood. I looked at Percy's face, and noticed that his lips had turned blue.

"We can't stay here," he said.

"No, indeed!" Akhlys said. "Don't you feel the Death Mist? Even now, you pass between. Look!"

White smoke gathered at my feet. It coiled up my legs. I them realized that the smoke wasn't coming from around me, it was coming from me. I almost screamed, but I held myself back. My entire body was dissolving. I held up my hands and found they were fuzzy and indistinct. I couldn't even tell how many fingers I had! Hopefully, I still had all ten.

I turned to Percy and almost yelped. "You're-uh-"

I couldn't say it to my best friend, but he looked dead. (A/N~ Percy is his second best friend).

His skin was sallow, his eye sockets dark and sunken. His hair was dried into a skein of cobwebs. I looked like I'd been stuck in a cool, dark mausoleum for decades, slowly withering into a desiccated husk. When Percy turned to look at me, his features blurred into mist for a moment.

My blood snapped like veins.

"Oh, gods," Percy said to me. "Jason, the way you look..."

I studied my misty arms. I saw blobs of white mist, and that's the only thing I saw. I guess to Percy, I looked like a decaying, misty corpse. I took a few steps, but it felt like I was made up of helium and cotton candy, my body felt in substantial.

"I know, I've looked better... no offense, but you have too." I said. "I can't move very well. But I'm all right."

"Oh, you are definitely not all right," Akhlys clucked.

I frowned. "We will be able to pass unseen now, right? We can get to the Doors of Death?"

"Well, perhaps you could," the goddess said, "if you lived that long, which you won't."

Akhlys spread her gnarled fingers. More poisonous plants began to bloom, nightshade, hemlock, and oleander, you name it. They spread towards us like a deadly carpet. "The Death Mist is not simply dangerous, you see. It is a state of being. I could not bring you this gift without death following closely behind- true death, that is."

"It's a trap!" Percy shouted.

"Didn't you expect me to betray you?" The goddess of misery cackled.

"Yes," Percy and I said in unison.

"Well, then, it's hardly a trap! More of an inevitability. You see, Misery is inevitable. Pain is-"

"Yeah, Yeah," Percy growled. "Let's get to the fighting."

Percy drew Riptide, but the precious, celestial bronze, blade was just smoke. When he tried to slash Akhlys, all it did was pass through her.

The goddess's ruined mouth split into a grin. Did I forget to mention? You are only mist now- a shadow before death. Perhaps if you had time, you could learn to control your powers; however, you do not have any time. Since you cannot touch me, I fear any fight with Misery will be quite one-sided."

Her fingernails grew into long, sharp claws. Her jaw began to unhinge, as her yellow teeth began to elongate into fangs. Her toenails sharpened into black talons that could pierce even the thickest things.

Then, she lunged.

Percy

Akhlys lunged at me. For a split second I thought as the Seaweed Brain I am: Well, hey, I'm just smoke. She can't touch me, right?

I imaged the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at my wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

The goddess's class raked across my chest, inflicting indescribable pain on me.

I stumbled backward, I wasn't used to being smoky, though. My legs moved slowly. My arms felt like tissue paper. In desperation, I threw my backpack at Akhlys, thinking it would still be solid, but as it left my hand, it fell to the floor with a loud Thump!

Akhlys snarled, crouching, ready to spring. She wouldn've bitten off my face, if Jason had not yelled in her face as he charged.

Akhlys flinched, turning toward the sound.

She lashed out at Jason, but Jason was better at moving than me. Somehow, Jason wasn't feeling as smoky. Or he had more combat training, which he had.

As the goddess was distracted, I dove, somehow slowly, at the goddess and somersaulted to her feet. She turned and attacked, but Jason started to attack her.

I began to attack at the same time, trying to hack her to pieces, but no such luck. All I hit was wispy mist.

I began to think over my strategy, who am I fooling, I didn't even have one in the first place.

"Hey! Happy!" Jason called.

Akhlys spun, "Happy?" she demanded.

"Yeah! You're downright cheerful!" Jason agreed. He ducked a swipe from Akhlys.

"Arrrrggghh!" She lunged again, but was off balance. Jason side-stepped and backed away, leading the goddess farther away from me.

"Pleasant! Delightful! he called.

The goddess snarled and winced. She stumbled after Jason, you could see the pain in her eyes. Each compliment seemed to hit her like a full-force tornado.

"I will kill you slowly! I will make you suffer! You will die and be sacrificed to Lady Night!" she growled, eyes and nose watering, even more blood dropped from her torn cheeks.

"Cuddly! Fuzzy! Warm! Huggable!" I heard Jason call.

A gurgling, growling, choking noise came from her throat, that sounded suspiciously like a cat having a seizure.

"A slow, long, and painful death. A death from a thousand poisons!" she screamed.

All around her, poisonous plants erupted and bursts out of the ground like lava in a volcano. Green-and-white sap trickled out, collecting into pools and puddles, and began flowing across the ground to me.

I began to think. What if I could control the poison? Poseidon is the God of seas, not liquids. Tartarus could be different, considering how fire is drinkable,and the land is a god's body, the air was acid, and demigods could be turned into smoky corpses.

So why not try? I had nothing left to lose.

I glared at the poison flood encroaching from all sides. I concentrated so hard that something inside of me cracked- as if a crystal ball had shattered in my stomach.

Warmth flowed through me, and the poison tide stopped. The fumes blew away from me- back toward the goddess. The poison lake rolled around her in tiny waves and rivulets.

Akhlys shrieked. "What is this?"

"Poison," I said. "That's yoir speciality, right?"

I stood there, my anger growing hotter and hotter in my gut. As a flood of venom rolled toward the goddess, the fumes began to make her cough. Her eyes watered more.

Oh, good, I thought. More water.

I imagined her nose and throat filling with her own tears.

Akhlys gagged. "I-" The tide of venom reached my feet, sizzling like droplets of hot iron. She wailed and stumbled back.

"Percy!" Jason called.

Jason had retreated to the edge of the cliff. A terrified expression on his face, even though the poison wasn't after him. I realized that Jason was scared of me.

I inwardly chuckled. Jason. Scared of me?

I didn't want to stop. I wanted to choke the goddess (A/N~That's kinky wtf). I wanted her to drown her in her own poison. I wanted to see how much misery Misery could take.

"Percy, please..." Jason begged.

Seeing my friend like this made my anger wash away like the sand on a beach.

I turned to the goddess. I willed the poison to recede, creating a small path of retreat along the edge of the cliff.

"Leave!" I bellowed.

For an emaciated ghoul, Akhlys could run pretty fast when she wanted to. She scrambled along the path, fell on her face, got up again, wailing as she sped into the darkness. The pools of poison began to evaporate, along with the plants that withered to dust and blew away.

"We have to get away from here. Akhlys brought us here as sacrifices to night. What was that about?" Jason wondered.

We backed away as a presence emerged from the void- a shadowy and vast form.

"I imagine," said the darkness, I'm a feminine voice as soft as coffin lining, "that she meant Night, with a capital N. After all, I am the only one."

So I started this chapter on 1/28/17

A.K.A Chinese New Year...

but then I fell asleep after saving the document

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Updated~ 1/29/17