Back again :D And here is chapter two! I'm not really sure how I did this chapter so please review, follow, et cetera… The story only gets better from here! I hope you like it, here it is...

II

Percy

Nothing... That's exactly what Percy felt. Nothing! So this is how you die, thought Percy. However, he realized he was still with Annabeth. And he could feel the heat echoing from the ground. Very slowly, he lifted one eyelid open and saw the inexplicable. Just a meter away from the ground, he and Annabeth were hovering over the ground, as if he and the ground were both magnets repelling each other.

"Percy, how are you doing that?" said Annabeth, "I'm not doing—", he began. But at the edge of the crater, near where they were hovering, was a dim glow with a serpent's figure above it, but inside that glow was, well, their good old friend Gaea. "Great" Percy Muttered, "Now she controls Tartarus too". He tried to point towards to light but found it hard to move. "Percy who are you talking about?" She squeezed his hand gently, as if thinking he had gone crazy.

"Only you can see me, Son of Poseidon" said Gaea, however ho lips were not moving. Oh gods, Thought Percy That voice is going to kill me before any monster does. A good way to describe her voice would be as if 100 nails where scratching a chalkboard. It was a good sound, according to chalkboards. "My young pawn, how could I have let you die?" she spoke. Her voice seemed to echo inside his head. "You are only my chess piece in this game" she said. "It seems that you have been following my plan quite well"

"Soon", she spoke "Blood will be spilt, and I shall awake. The deeper you go into the Earth; you will find my powers even more powerful". With dread, he realized she was right. During their first quest, he and Annabeth had gone to the underworld, and had found out that the entrance was in fact in Los Angeles. While journeying to the underworld, he had felt a sense of trepidation, as if something was watching them. "Goddess of the Earth, AND a stalker" he muttered, "People must love you!"

"Percy a-are you feeling alright? What are you doing?" said Annabeth.

"Soon" she said again, "You will set me free, and I will recreate the world. But for now, why don't you pay my friend Typhon a visit. After all, he has been waiting quite a while to meet you" Her laughter filled the room, which sounded like the chalkboard was crying. The glow disappeared and he they dropped to the ground, which made him relieved that she was gone. He quickly checked his pockets and found that Riptide had reappeared.

Just then, Percy heard a faint shout in his head "Perrrrcy? Is that you-?" The rest got cut off but just at that moment Percy knew who that was. It was his best friend Grover. Percy winced, how could he have been so selfish. When he had fallen into Tartarus with Annabeth, not only had he endangered his life but also Grover's through the empathy link. He cursed silently to himself.

Percy tried not to think about it too much. Just another reason on why I should survive, he thought. However he had to wonder how he could hear Grover in Tartarus. Unless he was nearby…

"It's Gaea, I just saw her, s-she said that we had fallen into her trap, she said we would free her" he rambled when he saw Annabeth giving him a crazed look. He didn't tell her about Grover. It would only worry her more. "Oh gods" said Annabeth, "It makes sense now. Arachne was following Gaea's orders to bring us into Tartarus"

"She either wants to split us up with the group, and bring us where her powers are stronger" said Percy, "Or something about spilling blood, maybe we have to do it here, but it doesn't make sense, how can Gaea have powers in Tartarus?"

"Percy, I…don't know" she said sounded agitated. She hated not knowing things and Percy knew that.

"Well, at least we're together" he said, trying to sound a little more upbeat than he intended. "That's all that matters right?"

"I guess your right" said Annabeth. She kissed him. Percy could have stayed like that forever but they began to hear loud footsteps coming from the opposite edge of the pit. He hadn't taken that much time to take a view of the place itself. The ground was all sand, and well, bones. The pit had gotten vastly large and seemed as if it were expanding. They couldn't see too much through the thick fog, but he had a good idea of what was coming.

"Annabeth, Gaea said that we would, 'pay' Typhon a visit. Oh gods. Can it be true?" said Percy, sounded more tense.

"I-I'm not sure but some legends do say that Typhon's father was the spirit of Tartarus, and if that legend is true, well…" said Annabeth. He noticed that her broken ankle was trembling. Either from fear or from pain, he couldn't tell, but they had to get out.

However, fighting a monster that's taller than a skyscraper isn't exactly easy when you're in a pit with no places to hide. Just then, to their left a branch of stairs opened up leading even deeper into Tartarus. And above that was an emblem of a serpent.

"That's Gaea's sacred animal: the snake" said Annabeth. Well that's great; they were trapped in traps, if that made any sense.

"Well I guess we have no other choice right?" said Percy, "And besides, what can go wrong?" and he led the way down the stairs to a door.

Mysteriously, the door wasn't locked; it was as if someone wanted them to go there. But where was "there" exactly? It might have been another world! Was going into these stairs their only choice? If they even managed to kill Typhon, he would just reappear, angrier than ever. Her hand slipped into his and together. Slowly, silently, they opened to door. Ready for what was to come. They took a look through the door hoping nothing would cut their heads off.

Annabeth grasped Percy's hand even tighter. "Oh gods!" she shrieked.

So that's it O.o Chapter 2. The next chapter will be uploaded tomorrow or sooner if I can get it done. Thanks to all of you who read, reviewed, etc. So what did they see? Hmmmm… Anyway the next POV will be Leo. PM me if you have any questions.

Will Nico lead the rest to the Doors of Death? Where IS Grover? Gaea is also known for possessing people, and well since she is the "mother" to all the gods, well things are about to get... I CAN'T SAY TOO MUCH. For now, GOOOOOODBYE :P