A/N: I decided to post another chapter today to explain everything that has happened in the world above since Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartarus. It's mostly a filler chapter.
I thank Aphrodite(Guest) for the review and my reply is that I don't think there will be much humor in this story partly because it's a more serious kind of plot and partly because I'm no good at writing humor. Thanks for the review though. ;)
There's no action and it's in Jason's POV.
Enjoy! :)
JASON POV
I am tired, as tired as I've ever been. It's been more than 3 weeks since we started from Rome to go to Greece to close the Doors of Death and defeat the Giants. I landed on the deck of the Argo II after battling Gryphons who had attacked us out of nowhere around half an hour ago. This was not uncommon. We couldn't go 2 hours in the air without another monster attacking us. We had tried to go by water but decided against it when the Argo II was almost capsized by a giant squid.
Frank landed next to me, changing from the giant eagle to human in mid-air. He collapsed, probably from exhaustion, and Hazel was immediately kneeling next to him with a canteen of nectar in her hands. I barely stopped myself from lying down right there and, instead, went looking for Leo to ask for a damage report. Piper handed me some ambrosia and nectar and told me Leo was in the engine room. I nodded and started walking towards the engine room.
I thought back to roughly 3 weeks ago when Annabeth and Percy had fallen into Tartarus. I still found it hard to believe that the two strongest demigods I knew were in Tartarus. Even with Nico reminding us again and again that he could feel that they were alive, I did not know how they could survive in Tartarus. Even now, after so long, Nico and Hazel both say that they are not dead. The thought that they were still alive and fighting for their lives in Tartarus gave me strength to keep fighting.
We were now nearing Epirus, where we have to close the Doors of Death so that we can defeat Gaea's army and the Giants. The Gods had promised that they would be there at Mount Olympus to fight against the Giants if we were successful in our mission to close the Doors.
When we had lifted off from Rome, the Goddess Athena had appeared on the ship and without a word, taken the Athena Parthenos with her. 1 day later we heard that the fight between the Greeks and Romans had been resolved before war between the two had broken out. Apparently, the Gods themselves had appeared at Camp Half-Blood, the Greek camp, just before the Romans were about to attack and has explained everything to the Romans. I do not know how they did this but now both Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter had joined forces. I don't think Octavian would have been too happy about that. They were now helping each other defend both the camps which had been attacked by 2 different armies of monsters. Surprisingly, there had been no Giants among these armies. It seemed like Gaea wanted all the Giants to attack Mount Olympus in Greece.
Both camps survived these attacks but Camp Jupiter was heavily damaged since most of the legion had gone to Camp Half-Blood to 'attack' them. By the time they got back, the camp was in ruins. Still, the monsters were defeated before they could cause much damage to New Rome. Camp Half-Blood had survived with some casualties and was in an overall better condition as compared to the Roman camp. I was really worried with this news. Camp Jupiter, my home, had been almost destroyed and I had not been there to defend it. Guilt and anger weighed down on me as I thought about this.
I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I didn't notice Leo coming out of the engine room and almost ran into him. "Whoa dude! Watch where you're going, will you?" "Leo, I was coming to talk to you. Can the ship keep going?" "Yeah man, it'll take a lot more than that to take out my baby, especially with the new additions." After leaving Rome, Leo had landed the Argo II in a deserted piece of land and had installed updates from the Archimedes sphere that he had found. Now, the Argo II was much faster and more stable. "Leo, give me an honest answer. Will we be able to make it to Epirus?" The reason why it was taking us so long to get there was because we had to stop twice for Leo to make repairs. Once, after the encounter with the giant squid in the water and once when a 50-foot long dragon had slammed into the Argo II in the air causing it to almost drop into the ocean. Leo looked offended, "Yes, we will probably make it to Epirus by tomorrow." I just nodded and went to my room to get some rest before another monster decided to attack us. I fell asleep as soon my head hit the pillow and I had a strangely dreamless sleep.
A few minutes later, I was being shaken awake by Piper. "Jason, wake up! We've reached Epirus." That woke me up. "How long have I been asleep?" "A whole day." "Why didn't anyone wake me up?" "Nothing major happened and we all figured that you could probably use the rest." I followed her out onto the deck. Everyone was already there and Leo was running around making preparations to land while Nico told him where exactly the House of Hades was. I looked down and was greeted by a peaceful view of the city. There was no sign of the Giants or any other monsters.
We landed in an empty field near the House of Hades and got down with our weapons out. Nobody paid any attention to us as they went on with their days. We cautiously advanced towards the large black gates of the temple for Hades where the Doors of Death were situated. Still, nothing attacked and there was no indication of monsters even being there. As we got closer, we could suddenly hear sounds of a battle going on inside the black gates. I looked towards Nico, confused. He just shrugged and moved towards the gates with his Stygian Iron sword in hand. We all followed. Just then, there was a scream from inside the temple, "PERCY!".
So how was it? Did I miss anything.
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