A/N: Sorry about that last wait. My summer has been INSANE. AND after that cliffie. Sorry.
This chapter is dedicated to: CrazyPeopleLikeMe
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus characters. They all belong to Mr. Riordan.
I had everything planned out. Until this. I had not expected these monsters to come. This was not good. Not good at all. The monsters I had expected were The Furies. This was Arachne, but 50 of them. You probably all know of my fear of spiders. But ARACHNE? She was my least favorite monster. You know, not just because she was a spider. You all know the Tartarus story. So you can imagine my rage and fear when 50 of her came storming at me. I was not using a sword or wearing the right armor for this. But I had to try anyway.
My heart was racing in my chest, and my adrenaline levels were so much higher than yours have ever been. My eyes were widened, and I just wanted to go home.
My shaking hand raised my sword and slashed through the first Arachne. I couldn't fight any of these monsters by smarts, I had read. None of them could speak. They were just brutal killing things.
49 more to go. I was shaking. I couldn't kill all of these! What was I thinking?
I killed a few more running black horrible things. Not nearly enough to get out of here alive. I was going to die here.
I needed to get my way out of here. But the spiders were blocking the entrance. I backed up, toward the side of the cube shaped room. I fought one that was coming at me, and then another. But there were too many. More were coming, and it was hopeless. I slashed left and right, but they were overpowering me. But then I saw a bright red button on the wall, near my resting place (A/N: Not meant to sound like a grave, remember that place that she changed and slept? That is what I'm talking about).
It read, "This button was made by another adventurer. Press it, and you will survive this stage.
I have never seen anything that looked more like the word TRAP. I mean, you could've written the word trap on it, and I would've been more inclined to press it. I stayed as freaking far away from that button as I possibly could. I had probably only killed about 5 monsters. I was exhausted. Beyond exhausted. I closed my eyes for a second. That was a bad, bad, mistake.
Then one spider hit me. I fell onto the ground, and tried to catch my breath. It pushed me toward the button, and as I drew near, I tried to move away.
Time slowed. And then the button got pushed by my body, and I fell to the ground.
A/N: So there is a decision between two options I need to make. I want you to write either 1 or 2, and then I will choose the respective continuation. So ya. So I know some of you are sitting there thinking, should I review? Should I not? Not asking for a review of how I was doing (though that's great, too), but I'm gonna need either 1 or 2 to reach 10 votes before I write the next chapter. And if some of you don't have an account, and are just reading, that's fine. You don't have to review.