Hey, Everyone!

So, it's 7:20 on Sunday night, and I look at the clock and I realize, "I still haven't posted to FanFiction!"

Worse yet, I only had half a chapter written...

So, I really tried to finish it and stuff yesterday, but as you can see, it didn't work out quite so well, so I hope you can forgive me!

Sorry for any typos, I was typing really fast because I really wanted to post this (don't know why, it's one of my Tartarus chapters...XP)

Enjoy!

Chapter 35

Annabeth

Annabeth grabbed her cane as quickly as possible.

Percy drew Riptide and sliced the first worm in half.

But it didn't die, or stop eating.

The two halves kept eating.

"Percy, you're only making more!" Annabeth warned.

"Then how do we get rid of them?!" Percy asked, exasperated.

Annabeth took her cane and poked the worm closest to her until it fell off the ship and into the water.

"Just bump them off with the butt of Riptdie!" Annabeth instructed as she hit off a couple more.

She looked back and saw Percy smacking them off with the butt of his sword, as she instructed.

But there were so many, they couldn't get them off fast enough.

The ship was disappearing quicker than they could knock the worms off and Annabeth was beginning to panic.

"Percy, what are we going to do?" Annabeth asked.

"We have to get off this raft, now!"

"To where, Percy?"

"Um, the water!"

"Percy, where do you think the worms came from?"

Percy grabbed her hand and said, "What choice do we have?"

Annabeth looked around. She couldn't see any land anywhere close by, just the dark water of the worms.

Annabeth sighed. She closed her eyes tight and nodded.

Percy pulled her forward into their quickly depleting wooden raft.

They plunged into the surprisingly warm waters and Percy dragged her down toward the bottom.

Annabeth held her breath and tried her best to ignore the small little teeth that seemed to be nibbling at her legs.

But it was getting to be too much; she could basically feel them biting at the flesh on her cheeks and she almost screamed before she remembered she was underwater.

After a couple seconds of kicking toward the bottom of the ocean, Annabeth's lungs felt like they were about to burst.

Suddenly, it almost felt like she was ripping through a bubble, but she was pulled through an area with pressure against her, and then she didn't feel like the worms were around her anymore.

She risked it and opened her eyes.

She could see Percy stroking below her, now leveling out, through the clear blue water.

Annabeth started to see stars.

She tried to open her mouth to warn him, but that would only kill her faster.

She pulled on Percy's arm to get his attention, and when she felt the black was overcoming her vision and her lungs were on fire, she took a sudden breath in from force of habit.

Clean air filled her lungs, and she gasped and continued to breathe.

Percy looked over at her and smiled. "You almost turned blue for a second. I was wondering what you were doing."

Annabeth laughed. "You could have told me, you know."

"About the bubble?"

Annabeth nodded.

"Sorry. I think we're out of the water worms' territory," Percy explained as he looked around. "But I'm not too sure. There might be a few stragglers floating around."

They swam, holding hands, no where near the ocean floor or the sky, through the crystal clear water, sometimes making small talk, sometimes just being quiet together.

Percy started to lead downward again, and Annabeth followed, afraid of breaking the bubble.

They pasted something that made Annabeth very suspicious.

It looked like the part of the pirate ship that the pirate would stand in the little basket-like thing with a telescope and look out at the water way up high. Annabeth was too focused on breathing in a bubble to remember the name.

Where's the rest of the ship?

"Percy, did you see-" Annabeth started but, Percy cut her off with a slow, drawn out, panicked, "Annabeth!"

She looked to where he was pointed and gasped.

The rest of the pirate ship, old and decaying and broken, covered in muscles and sea decay. Annabeth saw a small crab run around the rotting wooded outside before disappearing through a huge hole in the hull.

"That would make Leo cry, wouldn't it?" Percy asked playfully.

The thought of their friends made Annabeth almost cry, but she sucked up her heartache and remembered they were doing this for them, and for the world.

"But what happened to it?" Annabeth asked. "How did it even get here, in Tartarus?"

They continued to swim.

Annabeth kept glancing around now, looking for anything out of the ordinary, anything that wasn't supposed to be in a place like Tartarus.

"Maybe this place is the exit point for the Sea of Monsters?" Percy offered. "It would make some sense."

At that moment, they pasted a broken, beaten up, really old type of plane. The engraving on the side was old and chipping, but Annabeth could basically make out what it used to say: The Lockeed Model L0-E Electra.

"I don't think it's just that, Percy," Annabeth whispered.

"What?" Percy asked, looking down at it.

"The Flying Laboratory," Annabeth whispered.

"Still not getting anything out of that," Percy said, slightly annoyed.

"Amelia Earhart's last plane before she disappeared," Annabeth said.

"So, anything lost at sea ends up sinking at the bottom of Tartarus?" Percy asked. "That means a huge bunch of nasty stuff could be down here."

Annabeth nodded, unable to speak, too many possibilities running through her head.

They continued swimming.

Percy stopped abruptly and Annabeth almost swam into him.

"I think Chiron miscalculated," Percy said in an ominous voice.

Annabeth looked around and her eyes grew wide.

In front of them, thousands, at least, of monsters, swam the water.

"This is the Sea of Monsters."

OH MY GOODNESS!

Kimmie, why do you always write such freaking sucky Tartarus chapters? I mean, for the gods' sake, this is the Percy Jackson readers' favorite couple, and you make absolutely NOTHING interesting happen! What the nuggets?

I'm sorry guys, I really tried! Please forgive it's just that they...well...I don't know, I guess I can't think of any good ideas! I'm sorry! This will lead ot something though, promise!

Okay, one more thing before I go...I got this review the other day, and it said...

Random demigod: I like it. Personally, I like the chapters outside of Tartarus better.

I couldn't agree more, Random demigod! So, I'm sorry about having to burden you guys with these chapters sometimes, but I know you want to read about them, plus they are extremely important characters in the series, so I try to write good ones, but they always end up falling flat on their face...XP.

Sorry, again.

Thanks for Reading!