Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or any of the characters mentioned.
I crept slowly up to The Castle. It was huge, maybe 100 feet? It was very nicely done, mostly. My ADHD was already thinking of ways the architecture was faulty. The growling monster was filling my ears. I was very, very quiet. There were a lot of things that could go wrong. I could die very, very easily. Not that that was a first for me.
I slowly drew my dagger. I calmed myself. Well, actually, the feeling of the dagger in my palm was the thing that really calmed me. I was okay. The monsters wouldn't eat me. I was ready. I knew all the safe places to go. I knew how to kill all the monsters. And I had the plan if I needed it.
I walked up to the side, where the entrance and the monsters were. They were huge dogs, Hellhounds. They all snarled at me, though none of them came forward yet. I suddenly ran at me, in order to startle them, but none of them were the least bit surprised.
This is not going right, I thought. I swiped through the first, no trouble. There were about 7, but it seemed like 70. The second came up behind me, and I just managed to stop it from killing me. But then I felt that it had given me a nasty bite. The bite was on my left arm. It hurt like hell, but wasn't broken, so I guess that was good. I swiped through another and then another. I got a scratch on my armor from one or two, but nothing more done that harmed me.
I swiped through the last few, and entered the castle. I would find the first safe haven, and get ready for the second stage. Or that was my plan, at least.
I opened the giant door. It didn't make a sound. I was expecting it to creak. I shrugged. (A/N: Hit 'em w/ a shrug like... Sorry. Tell me if any of you are Christina Grimmie fans.) The castle was painted brown, and had intricate carvings. It was pretty amazing. I looked at my map and walked to the cave. It was covered in spiderwebs, but no spiders. Even the webs made me shiver though. I quickly got ready for the next floor, and took a little nap (it was about 11 PM). When I woke up, I was rested and ready to go. I went up the stairs, ready to fight my next set of monsters. And that was when I realized that some of the research I had done was faulty.
A/N: Go get this on iTunes. (Not sponsored, just a huge fan :D. And I guess if it was sponsored, I wud say dat, but it's not. So just trust meh. :P) us/album/shrug-single/id1013099473 Sorry for the cliffie. And sorry for the super-short chapter. :P :/ I try to not make them shorter than 500 words. This one is 522. So technically, it's okay.