Here is another rushed chapter. It took me awhile to break through my Writer's Block, and this was all I got. Any ideas for the next chapter please post in the reviews and I will give you a shout out and preview of what I come up with with or without your ideas. Hopefully there are many different ones to choose from, but I might not be able to use everyone's ideas. Read and review!
Percy
Fear and confusion swept over me. I woke up with a splitting headache. I felt cold, the kind of coldness that came from a ground made of rock, or-
I made the mistake of trying to sit up and I gasped in pain. My head exploded and my eyes blurred, colors swimming through the air. I groaned.
There. I heard an intake of breath, and I knew it wasn't mine. I slowly started to turn, but a hand lightly pushed me back down. I gasped for breath. Just trying to get up was a pain, and with whoever it was pushing me down, it felt impossible.
A face appeared in front of me, a face I knew very well. "Don't move, or else you might hurt something else." There was something wrong with his voice, and the way he spoke was different too. Then, the memories came back.
I pushed him away from me as hard as I could. "You…" My voice barely worked. I struggled to keep my eyes on him and catching my breath. "Liar…" was all I could manage before coughs racked my entire body. The pain felt worse than Tartarus, and I had personal experience there. Sharp as knives, quick as thunder, the needle stabbing pains went from my chest to all over me, my chest to my legs and arms and head.
He looked down at me and kneeled. Then he raised his hands to cover my face, and I didn't have the strength to stop him from sliding his hands above my face. He started chanting under his breath, and my mind cleared in seconds. I sat up as soon as he pulled his hands back to his sides, and I felt no pain tearing at me from the inside out or anything unusual. I stared at him and he nodded. He healed me? How did he heal me was a better question to ask, but I didn't want to voice any of it.
Then came the consequence. Whenever magic is performed, there is always a consequence to what you did. Like at the time. He fell back and writhed in pain, his teeth clenched and his eyes glued shut. I stood there, unmoving. What should I do? I couldn't heal him. I had no healing powers whatsoever. He started mumbling. "Will…" he said in his normal way of speaking when scared for someone he loved. Next was the new voice. It was the same voice used in a different way, a way that seemed older than any human being could be. He screamed. "Selene!" before he stopped writhing, and his body went still.
I just stood there, like an idiot(I am not agreeing with you Annabeth), until I had no other choice but to check if he was still alive. I walked over to him slowly, my hand reaching out to feel his pulse. I felt the faintest of pulses before letting out a deep breath I hadn't noticed I had been holding.
That's when I heard the thud across the room. My head snapped up to look where the thud had come from, and I saw a dark silver lump in the corner. I left Nico's side to check out the figure, and to my surprise it was a man.
He wore a dark silver jacket over a grey T-shirt, dark silver hair covering his closed eyes. He wore regular jeans and dark silver shoes. It seemed strange that people even made solid dark silver shoes, but at that moment he twitched and groaned to life. That was when I saw his eyes. The left one was a silver iris while the other one was black. The whites of his eyes were obvious, making me question if it could be a demon. He shifted uncomfortably in the corner with his head hitting the wall.
I backed away from him, searching in my pocket for Riptide. For some reason, Riptide hadn't reformed in my pocket. Usually when I lost Riptide in battle or I misplaced it, it would just reform in my pocket in pen form, but here in Tartarus inside a titan home, maybe it didn't work as well with so much dark magic around it.
He sat up, wincing as he touched his head gingerly. Strange, that was where I was hit in the head, so why would this creature be feeling the pain, unless….
"Perseus, stop." I look back at him and he shakes his head slightly. "Stop trying to guess who I am. You already know." The way he spoke made me certain on his identity, but I still needed to voice it out.
"Helios?" He nodded the slightest of nods and I asked. "So this is your human form?" I knew it was an obvious question, but my mind wasn't comprehending what had just happened. He sighed and, this time, he let go of his head, his hand running through his dark silver hair. He must've gotten over the pain I had caused him because of his magic.
"It is my only chosen human form. My sister's form is slightly different from mine, since we are bit opposites you could say, but instead her left eye is black while her right is silver. Whoever put us in here must've known of our growing powers, since they put us in opposing rooms, and opposing genders." As soon as he said that I did notice that the only people here were the guys in the group. The girls must have been in a different room together as we were.
"How long was I out?" I asked him, my memories jolting back to me: the meeting in which two titans appeared in two of my friends, them taking us to Tartarus and their plans backfiring because of Hyperion,Jasmin agreeing to be Hyperion's pet toy, letting him do as he wanted to her for an entire day before having break days and spending the opposite days with the other titan, us being led into a seperate corridor than the girls, and before being knocked unconscious, two twin faces looking up at me in fear of the creatures around us, two young faces….-
Helios pushed me out of my thoughts and answered my unasked question. "You were out cold for two days, you getting a worse hit than we did. As for the two twins, they're actually whispering in a huddle in that corner." As soon as he points out the children, I notice them for the first time. Both had identical scratch marks all over their faces, legs, and arms, maybe from scratching at the walls and possibly trying to break down the door. Bruises dotted their bodies, their blond hair covering their identical blue eyes. They wore identical clothing as well:blue striped shirts and blue jeans with red sneakers. I looked back at Helios when he sighed. "The children can only go through so much at their age. If I recall correctly, that was the age your partner had been when she had started her dangerous life on the run." My face turned red when He mentioned Annabeth as my 'partner', but I did remember her telling me that she had run away from her home at the age of 7, the exact age of these two boys.
Nico chose that moment to show life. He groaned before rolling onto his chest, his face to the side. I ran over to him when his eyes opened. They were clouded, the same way Helios' had been. "Percy?" he asked as if he didn't believe what he was seeing. I nodded and he groaned again. "So what I had been seeing hadn't been a crazy dream?" He asked it as he looked around the room.
"Nope." He groaned before I helped him to his feet and put him on one of the beds in the corner opposite the twins. He sat up on the edge of the bed. I went back to Helios and sat next to him. "So what happens now?"
His only response wasn't as hopeful I had expected from a titan. "Now, we wait."
Percy: Oh the drama.
Annabeth: You never told me that the twins were there-
Percy: Shhhh, don't say it so loud or else-
*door slams open*
Jasmin: WHAT ABOUT THE TWINS?!
Percy: Um, nothing
Annabeth: *mouths* oh
Thalia: *turns away from Jasmin*
Jason: Percy said that the twins were with him when they were-
*Percy clamps hand over Jason's mouth*
*Jasmin's eyes widen*
Jasmin:THEY WERE WITH YOU?!AND NEITHER OF YOU TOLD ME?! *yells at both Helios and Percy, Helios wincing before turning away from her*
Selene: Janus, calm down-
Jasmin:DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF IT WERE HELIOS?!
Selene: True. Go on.
Helios: Selene-
*Astraeus appears behind her, sees Jasmin's red face and others in the room*
Percy: *sighs in relief* Astraeus, thank the-
Astraeus: Don't say it, I only came to calm Janus down. Afterwards, you are all mine.
Helios:I agree.
Percy:What-
Helios:He is all yours. *turns into golden dust*
Nico: Oh for crying out loud.
me: Alright everyone!*claps hands together* This time we have to talk about the next pov and the shipping names!
Jasmin:*anger falters* 'shipping names'?
Astraeus: I think this is my cue to exit. *starts to leave*
me:*blocks door* Oh no you don't. This is about you and Janus, so you have to be here when the people start naming them off. Annabeth you start, then in a circle. Helios stop hiding in the corner invisibly and take a seat with Selene.
Helios:*sighs and sits*
Annabeth* shifts in chair* So um, one of the names for Astraeus and Janus is Jastraeus.
me: *claps hands* hooray, next one.
Percy: *reads paper and rubs back of neck* Uh, the one after that with her middle name is Astmin.
Selene: Jantraeus
Helios: Astranus
me: See? its not so hard. Next Thalia.
Thalia:*grumbles* Astraenus.
me:similar to what Helios said, but it counts. The last one said was Janustraeus. But if any of you readers have any other shipping names for the two, with either her middle name or first name, please write it in your review and send it to me. I want to see what else you come up with. Bye! And Thanks for reading!;)