SeaweedGirl1/Sam…I think ~ I did? O well I can't really lose in this.
. Logan._123 ~ I'll do it between every chapters, during the fighting would be…tough… Next chap will be one, I promise. (But what exactly on?)
Shark tooth's P.O.V
The kid Jake caught us when we were leaving the caverns. I glared at him, and he looked down sheepishly. Nico and Annabeth lead the way since they had been to the underworld before. We ran across the rooftops, darted through alleys before Nico stopped at some old building.
"This is it, DOA recording studios." He said sadly, we pushed through, the river boat was waiting.
"Does anyone else feel like this is a trap?" Chris said receiving a punch from Clarisse. We loaded into the boat; the underworld was to quiet…nobody wanted to row. I grunted and started rowing at the front. The water was black and…things drifted in an unseen current. A pocket watch not ticking, a diploma, a picture of a man with two little girls. I shivered as we got closer to the gates. We squatted down and hid as a hellhound looked at the boat. It sniffled and went away.
"Okay, we sneak over to the fields of Asphodel, than sneak into Tartarus. Annabeth you scout."
Nico explained, Annabeth nodded and disappeared, cursed invisible hat. We waited and she came back nodding. I heard the screams of the Pegasus, and people gasped, I forced myself not to look. The fields were gone…The wheat all dead and crumbled. I saw a few dragons practiced their fire aim on sobbing souls. Bianca shivered at the sight, "Now I know why father sent me back to life." She murmured, Annabeth shivered, I spotted this, and handed her my jacket, and she smiled and took it happily. It was freezing down here.
"Aren't you cold?" Thalia, who was bundled up, asked Bianca, who was wearing a T-shirt. We both snorted, Thalia looked puzzled.
"Torture number 48, he froze us…well froze Bianca and accidently killed me, than resurrected me again. We both have thicker warmer blood so we don't get cold now."
They were silent after that. We sneaked past packs and herds of monsters, successfully making it to Tartarus. I looked down and chuckled darkly, Travis and Conner looked at me like I was insane.
"This place is supposed to hold evil, not good." I explained, they smiled getting it. I looked at the stairs...it could take hours getting down them.
"Well…I'm not sure about you guys, but I'm okay for a free fall." I said stretching, they dropped their jaws, I rolled my eyes, and even Bianca looked at me like I was crazy.
"Bianca, torture 26?" I asked, she smiled and ran off the edge, I followed looking like I was diving, I fell for a few minutes, and then saw the bottom, I twisted grabbing the stairs, and sliding down making my drop only ten feet. I landed silently just behind Bianca. I waited and slowly, they all came down the stairs. Jake looking annoyed. I chuckled lightly, than heard the high pitch screams, I clamped my hands over my ears and the screams turned to sobs and they quieted. I heard moans and groans of agony… I took Annabeth's hat and peaked around the corner, nope, no monsters. Probably keeping watch up above the pit. I took off the hat and walked out, my eyes taking everything in. I walked forward, and for a second, the Falcons by Artemis screeched and vanished in fear. The Opera music by Apollo stopped playing, the hot metal by Athena turned cool, the Boar goring Ares squealed and ran, and everything stopped in fear of me. I walked forward and the gods looked at me scared, and…almost begging to let them go. I walked up to Athena, she was calm.
"Hello Lady Athena," I said unusually calm. She nodded in return.
"Who are you?" Ares Demanded, what no 'thanks for stopping those boars from gutting me!' I rolled my eyes .
"I am Shark tooth, leader of the prisoners for four years." I replied coolly. I heard a whimper from the corner, I saw Aphrodite thrashing to get away from me, I twisted to look at her. I raised a eyebrow at her scared face.
"I heard that you kill the rebels!" She squeaked thrashing again. I snarled in anger and Ares eyed me hatefully.
"Why does everybody think that?" I grabbed my dagger and chucked it into the rock, it went deep.
"I heard that you were a dangerous loner." Artemis said through narrowed eyes, I chuckled.
"Depends which side your on, to the Titans, I'm there number one threat. To you, I'm your best ally."
With my words, I grabbed my dagger and with precise aim, hit a Falcon coming to close to Artemis, it exploded into dust. Ares was quiet for a moment.
"Wait, if you kill the rebels do you eat them too?" He blurted, I growled in annoyance.
"Clarisse, your dad is bugging me!" I called annoyed, Ares's eyes lit up in joy at his daughters name, not the fact he was annoying me. Quickly, all the others ran out to their parents. Artemis looked at me with narrow eyes.
"Lady Artemis, will you like me if I get one of your hunters for you?" I said she said nothing. I called the eagle, Thalia's note and the low cue of a Ptarmigans, Bianca's.
"What is it Shark tooth?" Thalia said coming around the bend, she smiled and broke into a run with Bianca.
"My Lady!" Bianca squeaked kneeling, she cut down Artemis and grabbed her in a huge hug. I chuckled.
"Save your strength kids, you're going to need it. Come on people! Free your parents and anyone else! Let's get these gods moving!" I called clamping my hands. People grabbed swords and sliced the locks, the gods were people size, so that helped. We soon all freed everyone, Hermes was the hardest, he was dangling above fourteen mad hellhounds by a chain attached to his ankle…I freed it by breaking the hellhounds tooth and slicing the chain. We were walking back up the stairs, I in the lead, Athena asking Annabeth every question quietly.
"Who is the leader?"
"I am…but we have many semi leaders, everyone here except Connor, Jake, and Shark tooth has been a leader for many fights."
"Shark tooth isn't a leader? He looks like he leads the resistance."
"Its…he's been through so much, he's seen everything. He was the leader of all the prison inmates…I'm not sure what he did, you'll have to ask Thalia" Athena nodded and walked to Thalia, I could hear her slightly better.
"Lady Athena, how may I help you?" Thalia said bowing respectfully. Athena smiled.
"I was curious to hear about what Shark tooth did when he was in the jail." Athena said, she always wanted knowledge. Thalia shifted nervously.
"He was…Confined to his cell…" Thalia started unsure. "Weren't you also?" Annabeth interrupted. Athena nodded wanting to know the answer.
"No…Kronos wanted to…spoil us in hopes we would leak…but with Shark tooth…he already had nothing to give…" Thalia said sadly, was it just me or did I see tears in Annabeth's eyes?
"Like, we got the enjoyment of a bath, and he got nothing." Athena looked puzzled. "How did you know?" Thalia laughed coldly. "You could tell. The air pumped in was dry, but his cell was cold and wet. Our floor was slick from blood. He was the leader because he was there longer and wiser. He went through every torture Kronos threw at him. Broken bones, ruptured organs, arrow wounds, everything. I remember when he knocked a kid out behind bars." She started laughing, I chuckled at that also.
"Doubt he went through all those." Ares snickered, I stopped moving, What did he say? I glared at him, he took a step back.
"Name the tortures; I'll point to the scar. Bianca was there, Thalia was for a little, she'll confirm it." I growled, he snickered.
"Dipped in acid,"
I pointed to a burn scar on the heel of my foot, Bianca nodded.
"Bit by a hellhound." He said, still confident. I rolled my eyes.
"That one hurt like crazy." I said pointing to a thin line going all the way around my elbow, he scrunched his eyes.
"That's not a scar." He protested, I laughed.
"Bianca," I pointed to her, she was thinking. "That was your…fourth death right? The hellhound ripped your arm off by accident and Kronos had a fit because he didn't want you to die and resurrected you. Right?"
Was it just me or did Athena flinch? I nodded and we jumped back in.
" Arrow wound."
I turned and lifted my shirt, about thirty small white arrow dots on my back.
"Gored by a bul."
Pointed to my gut.
"Attacked by Falcons."
Pointed to my liver, he was getting frustrated. He thought for a moment.
"I got it, Sliced by Kronos. Only Zeus could get that!" He said smirking, the demigods covered there gasps with their hands.
"Define, the term 'slice' any particular weapon?" I asked waiting. He snickered.
"His Scythe, face it kid, you didn't get sliced. You're not important enough." He laughed. I glared.
"Wrong on both accounts. I got a shoulder scar when Kronos threw a dagger at me when Ethan missed his." I hissed, Ares only laughed harder.
"No way punk, you're a weak demigod." He said. I growled and ripped a chunk of my blue shirt off.
"Shark tooth…what are you doing?" Bianca asked slightly worried.
"Proving this arrogant god wrong." I growled. I held the cloth to my leg cut, and at once it burst into black flames. Ares backed up.
"Happy?" I asked, he snorted and shook his head no. "You could have rigged that." I pressed I to my wrist, it burst into black flames, he shook his head, confidence still there. Jake stare at me fascinated.
"Fine Ares, I couldn't have rigged this." I said calm, I pressed it to my scar on my face, and the entire cloth burst into fits of gold flame. Like the fire he shot at me. Ares yelped and jumped back, I shuddered as the flame rearranged into a golden fire shaped Scythe. I dropped the cloth and waited.
"f-Fine, you win punk, but what you did to deserve that, I don't know." His voice shook; I ignored it and continued up the stairs. Only one more flight and I froze. Something wasn't right. Normally there was a small breeze, it was too small and a sour odor with it. I listened and heard a small scuffling noise, so faint you could barely hear it. I backed up and looked up, a faint shape in the blackness above us. I held my fingers to my mouth signaling silence. What is it? Demeter mouthed at me, A Hydra, around thirteen heads. She stared at me in disbelief. How do you know that! I grinned. Being trapped in a jail for four years, you learn a few things. I ditched the stairs and started rock climbing the wall, I got to the top, yup thirteen headed hydra waiting for us, also a Chimera, crap. The hydra was worse. I leapt to the shadows and moved close to the wall, I got right behind it…a little more. I was a foot behind the body, I pulled out Riptide. And moved closer, I leapt and stabbed the Hydra in the heart, it roared in agony and exploded. The Chimera hissed blowing fire; I leapt out of the way as everybody else came up. The gods looked for weapons, but Annabeth held them back with a smile. The chimera hissed and lunged, the goat head clipped my armor and I easily sliced it off. It lay on the ground twitching. It pawed the ground like a giant bull and charged. I waited and sprung into the air, I landed softly on its back and it reared. I positioned myself, ready to stab its brain with my extra dagger when I felt razor sharp teeth dig into my arm. I felt venom pump into my arm and grinned mentally. Kronos often found it 'fun' to find poisons and antidotes. He ejected so much poison in me, than when I was on the brink of death heal me. He did this hundreds of times. Chimera venom was his favorite, I was used to it and somehow became immune to it, the monster didn't know that. I fake screamed, the lion part reared and through me off. Dang, the snake tail really bit hard, I acted the part, clutching the wound and painting heavily. It roared in happiness and watched me, o well, but Annabeth is going to give me Hades…I forced my eyes to roll into my head, and collapsed. I took a really quick breath and stopped breathing. I peeked out from under my eyelashes. It roared in victory and walked to its prize, the others were shooting arrows but it avoided them. It went over to me and stood over its prize daring anyone to come closer. A little more… I saw Annabeth crying…..wow. Athena and Artemis were pulling her back, she had her dagger out…wow she really wanted to avenge my 'death'. I almost smiled, but I was confused, Thalia didn't look this mad…a little closer…here giant lion thingy! Here boy! And…now! I grabbed my dagger and stabbed it upright. Before the Chimera could realize what happened it was dust. I grinned at everybody's face, Bianca lifted an eyebrow.
"Chimera venom? It seems Kronos has a few more toys. You didn't need to show off though." She said rolling her eyes. Athena was smiling, she liked my strategy, and Ares huffed because he wasn't part of the fight. We took off running, but we didn't get very far. I sensed more coming.
"Guys go, there's a pack of hellhounds, I got them though."
Annabeth glared at me….yep here comes the Hades.
"Just…be careful alright?" Her voice tried to hide her pain, I blinked in surprise, and no I gave her Hades. Her eyes seemed to have a fight in them, she sighed and raced after her mother choosing. They all ran to the exit, when I saw Hestia disappear, I turned to the pack. They were all around me, circling. Drool and spit dripped from their battle scar coated muzzles. I pulled out my long sword and held my dagger in my other arm. The hellhound's bloodthirsty red eyes met mine…and I smiled.
Tell me, what do you think Annabeth was thinking about when she raced after her mom? the next chap WILL have a Sharkabeth (Thanks for whoever came up with it...you know who you are)