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PERCY:
Tarturus came back with someone, I couldn't tell who yet because there was a black aura around them. Obviously, it wasn't someone who would help us. Uh, since when did I have a battle tactic mind? Whatever, I'll think about that later.

Anyway, the others looked tired and breathless, much like I did right now, but I'm used to it. I glanced back at Tarturus whose weird black aura was fading quickly, and saw that the person/god/monster/whichever was a girl. It was probably Gaea, seeing as Tarturus is her husband, so I really don't know how we're going to defeat them.

This would be especially hard since Piper had been possessed by Gaea, and could possibly be influenced by her, and then Gaea would have Piper's charmspeak on her side.

By now, the black aura had faded completely so the two gods were now visible. I caught Annabeth's eye, and once again I asked her the same silent question. What's the plan? We knew each other so well; we could have a silent conversation just by glancing at the other. Right, back to the plan, Annabeth looked like she was concentrating hard on the plan, which, again, is not a good sign.

Finally Annabeth snapped out of her trance and looked over at me. I knew that look. It meant: I don't know what the hell to do. Wonderful.

I looked back to the others and the enemies, and suddenly, Gaea spoke in a cold, harsh, voice. It was cruel, but also persuasive.

"Empousai, attack!"

Shit. Not them.

Suddenly, the empousai leaped out of the magical vent/hole/thing. They were beautiful (not really), but I had seen their true forms before, and they were most definitely not beautiful.

Anyway, through all of this chaos, Gaea had been secretly whispering to Tarturus, probably telling him to attack Annabeth and me.

I had been anticipating it, though. Annabeth sprinted over to me, and whispered in my ear: "Tarturus is going to attack us; I used my curse to listen in on their conversation. So, just barge into battle like you always do, and hope we win."

I nodded assent. By now, Tarturus had already snuck over to us and was about to stab us from behind.

"I love you, Annabeth," I muttered quickly.

"Ditto," She murmured.

I uncapped Riptide, and caught Tarturus' strike just in time. Thank the gods.

I thrust Riptide toward Tarturus' only weakness visible to me right now, his face.

Golden ichor flowed out of the fresh wound on his face; it was spewing everywhere, and apparently, my waterproof powers don't extend to godly blood. It was blinding me, slowing my strikes toward Tarturus.

Annabeth was to my right, and she had her eyes closed, and was concentrating hard on creating a shield/force field to keep out Tarturus' ichor from blinding us. The air in front of us thickened, and when Tarturus slammed (or tried to) into us, the force field, threw him further down into the abyss. I turned toward Annabeth, and hugged her fiercely. I was about call this battle a victory, until I saw Jason, drowning in a pool of blood. Hazel and Frank were still fighting the empousai, and looked about ready to drop.

Annabeth yelled, "Piper!" I didn't pay attention to what she was saying, since I was looking for Leo, when I spotted him by Hazel and Frank.

Leo was running around looking for Piper- Piper! Where was she? He looked frantic, I mean who wouldn't be, one of his best friends is drowning in his pool of blood, and the other is probably kidnapped by Gaea.

I wished demigod lives weren't so freaking hard.

PIPER:

I stared at the bite in Jason's neck, I felt like I was going to faint. My mouth went dry, I tried calling out to him but I couldn't. I felt guilty, I felt like killing myself. I was the one who had been possessed by Gaea, and she had inherited my charmspeaking ability even though I wasn't hosting her anymore. 'How could I do this?' I thought to myself.

"Jason!" I said.

Now I was on the verge of tears, I began to run to him, but was pulled back by Gaea.

"Let me go!" I shouted frantically.

As I shouted this, warm tears started spilling out quickly.

"Help him please!" I screamed, "I'll do anything." I begged Gaea.

"I'm afraid I can't do that." Gaea said while sneering.

Gaea pulled on my wrist, I screamed in frustration.

"PIPER!" I heard Annabeth shout in despair.

"Take care of Jason, Mom." I prayed, "Please take care of him."

Gaea transported us to the doors of death, I panted heavily, though I was terrified of what was going to happen to Jason. "Where are you taking me?" I asked Gaea.

"That's for me to know, and for you to find out." Gaea said in a mischievous voice.

There was two things going through my head at the time, one was: Apollo, help Jason, please don't make him die. The other was: How will I get out of here?

Gaea threw me into a dark prison cell, "Please let me out!" I exclaimed, shaking the bars helplessly.

I knew the only thing that was left to do was beg. "I need to be with Jason!" I begged to Gaea, who scoffed and turned to leave.

"I'm nothing without him!" I said while crying. Gaea turned before closing the door.

"Even if you were with Jason, you'd still be nothing but my dummy. That's all you'll ever be, keep that in mind." Gaea said as she smiled and walked out of the prison cell.

I leaned my forehead on the bars; I couldn't help agreeing with her, I was just a dummy pretending to be a hero when I wasn't really a hero at all.

LEO:

I felt crushed inside. My two best friends were either almost dead, or kidnapped by that bitch Gaea. I'm so stupid, I couldn't even save them. I can't help but wonder if I really was meant to be on this quest. I'm not a hero; I couldn't even help my friends when they're in danger. I'm such a loser.

Leo, you are meant to be on this quest. My blasted mother Hera chose you, and the Fates predicted you to be one of the greatest heroes of the age. Just believe in yourself, my dad whispered to me.

I sighed and silently thanked my dad for the pep talk. Being a demigod is practically impossible, but not if you're one of the greatest heroes of the age like my dad had called me. The Seven were meant to do impossible things. It's our job.