Please feel free to listen to Save Me by Muse while reading this!
This chapt is from Nico's POV and Annabeth's POV, and its kinda short. Just think of it as an intro to the bad stuff!
Nico's POV:
Staying awake is harder than it seems. We pass the time by me telling her about my story. Her sea green eyes full of concentration. When I am speaking about Bianca she holds my hand though the bar.
"I would tell you about me, but there is not much to tell."
"Tell me anyway.."
"For as long as I remember I have been in this cage. My earliest memory is of my father. I remember him visiting me, he gave me this," she holds her neckless. "He told who I am, and what I might come to be. He told be one day I might see the light, sky and ocean. He told me I would fly but I would fall. I have replayed his words in my head almost day." She pauses. "He told me of a prophecy and of promises. He said I have an important role, but he wasn't sure what that role was." I must of looked shocked as she reaches out and puts her hand on my shoulder then leans against the bars. Her eyes cloud over in thought. I am troubled, I have never felt this way before. I long for the bars to go so she can lean on my shoulder, and stay by my side. Her black hair, I long to hold in my hands. Her purple red lips, I long to kiss. Her pale white skin, I long to touch. Her eyes like the ocean its self, I long to always stare into. I wonder if she feels the same, I promised myself that I would never do this. I promised myself I would never fall. Fall in love.
Annabeth's POV:
I am in the water, my oxygen tank heavy on my back. I feel delirious, I feel like I am watching the world from somebody else's point of view. Jason and I reach the reference point Leo had told us. I looked around, the architecture of this place was amazing. Jason makes a thumbs up symbol and we exchange looks before entering the temple. We swam around looking for clues. Jason beckoned be over, he had found a small room off the main one. It smells of death. There are foot prints in the sand. We follow them to a long dead skeleton and then next to the skeleton is a hole in the floor. But no sign of him. Of Percy.
I try and swim into the hole but I do not fit. Where is he? I look helplessly at Jason, but he hasn't drawn a conclusion either. I check my oxygen supply, it has just enough to get us back to the ship. I make the correct signal to Jason and we head back. I cant see much as my mask is full of my own tears. Percy is going to be the death of me.
Suddenly I am falling. I cant breath. Then blackness.
A hand, I reach out to take it... Its Percy's... He speaks to me but I cannot hear him... I see myself with my dad watching old movies...Then I am falling...falling down... Into darkness...
I feel like Rick the king of cliffhangers right now!