R&R

Song to listen to: Comatose by: Skillet

~GoGreen52

Chapter22- Hope for a Chance to Live

Edward POV-

I was in darkness, nothing was identify-able. I couldn't focus on anything. Read anyone or anything's minds. I felt useless.

Then, all of the sudden, I felt a surge of power go through me, and I felt alive again. And… I felt pain. Usually when you're dead you don't feel any pain. Unless… no, I'm dead. There's no way that I could be alive.

"Edward wake up!" Alice's voice exclaimed, and I felt a slap to the face. Let's just say that woke me up.

"Wha-What?" I asked, looking around, trying to find someone who would tell me what the heck is going on.

"Relax so I can get this out," Carlisle said, and I saw him maneuvering a sword around to get it out of my abdomen. Where's Bella? Kronos? Victoria? Did they all just decide to leave? I saw all of Bella's friends in a huddle around something… or someone, all of them sobbing. It looked like Percy was going to go hysterical.

Nico just looked in pain. He was standing against the wall, looking at whatever the others were surrounding. I caught sight of brown hair, on the ground. Speaking of that, where the heck is Bella?

I felt the sword come out of my body, and screamed in pain. Gods that hurts… I hate that the sword just had to have jagged edges. Carlisle and Alice held my thrashing body down, and I felt a wave of calm. Thank the gods for Jasper.

I heard some of my family's thoughts, but at the time didn't really think anything of them.

Esme: I can't believe she did that… for my son to live.

Carlisle: I have to get this thing away from here… I know the gods will be wondering what the Hades happened around here.

Alice: I should have seen it coming… I could've prevented this from ever happening.

Jasper: Pain. Sorrow. Anger… it has to go away!

Emmet: Oh. My. God. What the f*** just happened?

Rosalie: She's gone. We need her, and she's gone. She died saving our family… but at what cost? Her life? Why would she do that… she's so unselfish, it hurts.

Wait… who's gone? What happened? "How am I alive Carlisle?" I asked, once the pain subsided.

As if answering my question, Bella's friends turned to me, and smiled sadly, as if they were remembering a great memory. Percy's Jaw clenched, and he got up and walked out of the throne room. Annabeth looked after him, but she didn't get up to help him.

But I looked at were Percy once was, I saw a face. Bella. She was pale. Her blood smelled not warm and alive… but rather dead and cold. That's when I realized it. She was dead.

"NO!" I yelled, making everyone's thoughts and voices go silent. I ran over to Bella's side, ignoring what Carlisle was trying to get through to me about. I just ran in an inhumanly speed to Bella. Her cold, dead, body was haunting me.

"No, no, NO!" I yelled, taking her face in my hands. I didn't notice anyone but Bella. "Bella… no."

Her face was still the sickly pale, and I knew that I'd never get her back. No matter how much I want her back… I wouldn't get her back.

The thing that haunts me most is that she didn't even know that I truly love her. She didn't even know.

"What's going to happen now?" I heard Esme ask from behind me. I saw Annabeth, Grover, Nico, and Thalia standing over by my family. Carlisle moved to hug Esme, sensing she needed it. I could tell he needed one too.

All I could think about was how Bella… she would never know. I would never know what she really felt about me. We apparently are destined apart for all eternity.

A few minutes later, the gods flashed in, ready for battle. I guess they were able to get Typhon all chained up again, and I think they were expecting a full out war. You could tell they were ready to beat down some titan butt.

They looked at the charade, seeing Bella's body lying on the floor. Some blood was pooled on the floor from her wounds, but it was obviously not enough to bleed out. I saw Poseidon look on Bella, tears coming on into his eyes.

Percy was God knows where, and we were all broken from the loss. I saw that Hades wasn't there… I hope somehow… he's talking with Bella. It would be good to hear about her in the future from Nico, too.

"What happened?" Zeus asked, looking pointedly at Thalia.

"We're going to need a shroud. For a child of Poseidon." Percy's voice said, and I saw him walking out of the shadows. Where has he been? There was a dead look in his eyes, much like mine were when I had left Bella. I left her thinking I didn't love her. And now… only she knows what she had thought.

Percy walked up to Bella's body, kneeled down to hold her cold hand. Never moving… forever relaxed.

"Perseus, can we have a talk?" Poseidon asked, and Percy let go of Bella's hand, letting it drop to the floor. You could hear the hand hitting the floor in the coolness and quietness in the room. I swear you could cut the tension in the room with a sword. It was thick.

Percy stood up, and walked out of the room to follow his father, not giving a glance to a worried looking Annabeth, or any of his other friends.

I looked down at Bella's body, and stood up. I watched as Tyson, as I heard him to be named, and another nameless Cyclops put a silk sea green shroud over Bella's body. There was a blue trident in the middle, outlined with gold. It looked simple… like Bella's taste. Yet, you could tell this was made for the princess of the sea.

They lifted her up onto a blue marble stone, flat, like a table's top… yet you could tell that this was defiantly supposed to be used in this situation. My jaw clenched when they carried her away. I knew they would put her body in a morgue like room until the ceremony.

I had no idea what to do now. My reason for my life was lost. There was absolutely no reason why I had to carry on seeing the next day. But at the same time, I knew I had to try to live for my family. My newfound mother, and my new friends.

Percy POV-

"Hades had told me what happened. He went off to the underworld to go ahead and solve whatever the problem with the three fates must be. The fates believe that Bella shouldn't be dead, having that the prophecy is not yet finished."

I looked at my father in amazement. My older sister just gave her soul away for her ex boyfriend that she is still obviously crazy for, and now he's telling me that my sister still might be able to come back. Unbelievable.

"How could this happen? I mean, mom doesn't even know that her daughter came back from going under to protect herself. Now… her daughter is dead. Seriously dad… there has to be a better explanation than the Three Fates believing Bella should not be dead."

"I know. That's exactly what I'm thinking. The three fates are going to speak to the council down in the Underworld. Mitas, Shakespeare, and Hades himself. But to be honest… I have no idea what is going to go down."

Poseidon looked down, closing his eyes and mumbled something. It was as if he was praying an ancient prayer… I couldn't blame him. Bella had so much more of a life to live. She needs this, and with the fates on her side… who knows?

"We'll just have to wait then, I guess," I mumbled, and looked around for anyone. This was too awkward of a situation to be in right now.

I saw Nico running down the halls, and I had a feeling he was looking for us. "Lord Poseidon, Percy- I need to tell you something," Nico said, out of breath. He put his hands on his knees and took some deep breaths, trying to get the reassurance back.

"Well what is it boy?" Poseidon asked, taking Nico's shoulder and helping him go back to his full body length.

"The odds are now in Bella's favor. There is a chance of her coming back alive again," Nico said, and my eyes widened like saucers.

"Do you know what this means-" I started, but my dad cut me off.

"We need to keep silent about this. I'm sure your father will get all of this sorted out one way or another. But in the meantime, make sure you tell no one about this. Do you understand?" my father looked so serious and deadly at the moment that you'd be a fool to not really understand… we nodded, and he sighed. "Go now… before this looks anymore suspicious than it already looks."

We ran off to the throne room where according to Nico, everyone was being tended to. As soon as I walked in, I saw Carlisle working with Edward, and his family all over, trying to help out all of the wounded. There were a lot of them too. Apparently after Kronos leaving, and Typhon being chained, the monsters immediately fled. Morpheus re-awakened the city, and I have a feeling my mother will be asking if I was okay sooner or later.

How was I going to tell her about Bella?

I looked around for Annabeth and saw her sitting beside her mother's throne, her mother off tending to some of her children. Annabeth was lost in her own world, her eyes red from crying, and I had a feeling some of it was from my cruel acts towards her.

I did what any good boyfriend would do- I walked over, sat next to her, and put an arm around her. She started to sob in my shirt, all I could really do was rub her back and try to let her calm down. It kills me to see her like this.

But right now, I know that I have to stay strong for those who don't know that Bella still has a chance. I need to stay strong for my friends… and for my hope.

Bella POV- (in the underworld)

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The Three Fates themselves wanted me out of the Underworld, and alive. Apparently I still had to live for something… I had a feeling there was going to be another Prophecy for me to be involved with.

Great.

But to be honest, I would rather be alive than here.

"What do you mean about this?" I asked, looking at the three judges of the Underworld. They streamed the process for me, and wanted me to skip ahead of all the mortals who have not reached Judgment, which I hope they'll be judged sooner or later, but I have to admit I was happy about that.

"The Fates have reasons to believe that you are not to be here. You must be up on earth," King Mitas said, sighing. I have a feeling he wished that he had reason to leave here too.

"So… why can't I leave now?" I asked.

"We need to… go over some things. Until then, you will be staying with Charles and Silena Beckendorf. They heard about you coming, and wanted to help out as soon as they found out. Good people, they are."

I nodded in agreement, remembering Beckendorf and Silena. They were… are great people. And now they get to spend forever with each other. And the only way Edward and I can be together is not here… but up there.

At my home.