Please bear with the extremely short chapters! I promise that there will be a long one in a couple of chapters when the other demigods finally hit Troy blablabla.

And so I got alot of hate, "WHY DO YOU DO THIS!" Read this chapter. And since I posted this one VERY early, 16 won't be up until I finish writing chapter 20, sometime around next week? Next Friday, maybe,

Disclaimer- Annabeth- Ouch

Me: Don't worry, Rick owns you. Anything I do doesn't really happen.

Annabeth- Good :D

And I just discovered Word's "approximate word value" isn't very accurate. The thing said this had 4000 words.

XV

Annabeth

Fast forward to the roof blowing up. Ignore everything else that happened. Ignore the fact that she watched Percy getting tortured (A/N O_O not an error :D)

Light streamed in from the ceiling hole, and 3 creepily familiar shapes flew in. Before Annabeth could recognize who they were, one of them swooped down and air-tackled Gaea. The Earth Goddess in all her might instantly vaporized, teleporting to a safer place.

The creature looked up. Oh joy. Them. AGAIN. "Alecto," Annabeth muttered. "What do you want?"

Percy jumped, looking pretty surprised that she could talk. Really, it wasn't that painful. OK, that was a lie. It hurt worse than anything she ever experienced, but it was very short term and faded quickly if not kept up.

The other 2 Furies landed. One of them said, "Lord Hades sends his regards."

Percy muttered, "And to think that he would ever help us."

Alecto frowned. "I hope that was a joke, Jackson."

"Of course it was."

Apparently Furies weren't very intelligent, because Alecto bought it. She dropped 2 backpacks. "The gods are doing their best to help your friends above. Lord Hades does not wish for you 2 to die just yet." And she flew off.

OK, that was pretty random and quickly. Before Annabeth knew it, she and Percy were alone again with 2 backpacks. "You don't seem very hurt," Percy noted.

"What? You were the one getting pummeled," I said confused.

"What? No, it was you! I saw it with my own eyes."

"So now you think I'm blind?" I asked.

"Whatever, let's worry about that later. Check the packs," he said.

The inside was absolute Elysium. Everything they needed- weapons, nectar, ambrosia and some other demigod necessities was crammed inside.

"Wow. Who knew gods could be this generous." Annabeth stuffed some godly food into her mouth. It tasted like warm, chocolate chip cookies. The throbbing pain instantly numbed, and her vision cleared.

For a few moments, she just sat there. Then Percy stood up and said, "We have to leave. Something could attack us at any second."

They left, Percy seeming to know where they were going through the maze of walls. Soon enough, they were back in the familiar Tartarus- the sort of desert you see in movies with the dust balls rolling around, except everything was tinged red.

Annabeth could tell they were getting near the Doors. She felt an evil power slightly to her left. Percy seemed to feel it too. "There's our place. Let's go." And they left.

*linebreak like a boss*

It wasn't very long before another obstacle met them. Skip past another attempt from the spirit of the Abyss to try to drive them insane. The open desert stopped abruptly. Sheer cliffs rose up high, much too high to climb. The only way through them, it seemed, was through a rickety old wooden door that seemed about to collapse any second.

"So, I guess we go in there and get attacked by a monster?" Percy asked.

"Probably," answered Annabeth.

"OK then." They went in. Surprisingly, no monsters attacked them. Annabeth was in a barren room, about 20 feet squared with mud walls and absolutely nothing in it, except another door ahead. Cue awkward silence.

"Um, so I guess the monsters are in the next room?"

There was nothing in the next room either. But there was something of interest. At the other end, there was a more solid, newer looking wooden door. Next to it, hanging on the wall, was a sign that said, "Welcome to the portal to the next level of Tartarus! There, you can find the place where monsters reform and the dwelling of Tantalus! Please be careful, mortals and monsters. Tartarus does not claim responsibility for lost items including Ipods, Phones, cars, pizza, and souls. Thank you, and have a nice life as you wait for your turn to regenerate."

"Weird," Annabeth muttered. They stepped through the door. Level 2 didn't look too different from level 1.

A monster attacked them every once in a while, but they were alone and didn't put up much of a fight. Believe it or not, Annabeth was actually starting to get BORED of Tartarus. "Can't they throw something more at us?" She asked. Unfortunately, Annabeth spoke too soon.

She sensed something behind her and instinctively ducked. Milliseconds later, an arrow whizzed over her head. Percy took out Riptide and they both grabbed a shield from the weapon supply. "Stay together," Percy muttered.

That didn't really matter. At least 2 dozen dracaena archers were surrounding them, all of them with arrows nocked on their crossbows and hissing. A figure stepped out from between 2 of them. "Now, if you know what's good for you, drop your weapons." The voice was deep and heavy.

"Who are you?" Percy asked, his shield still up.

The figure took off his hood that had been covering his face.

"Why, it's me of course! Everyone knows me!"

"Uh, not getting any names." Percy frowned at the figure.

"Oh, come on! I'm the shizzle fahizzle! The awesome of awesome! I am….. Erebus!"

"Who's that?" Percy blurted before Annabeth could smash her shield against his thick head.

Fortunately, Erebus didn't seem offended. "You must be joking. I am the god of shadows and darkness! And now I am going to make you very comfortable before you die!" He flashed a smile, and the archers released their arrows.

No comment. Next chapter is Jason.

Music of the chapter- Some Nights by Fun ( I think)

Quote of the chapter- War does not determine who is right. Only who is left.

That is one of my favorite quotes ever :D.

Entertainment of the chapter- FarCry 2.