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And here is the next chapter! Hope you like it. It's kind of like a dream sequence and its going to prove important for the chapters to come XD.

Percy

I was transported somewhere. I had no idea where. One second I'm in the middle of a battle with hundreds of skeletal soldiers and the next, I'm here standing in the middle of a corn field.

I look around and see Thalia and Nico standing a few ways away from me. They're looking around with bewilderment in their eyes.

I walk over to them through the tall grasses.

"Where the hell are we?" I ask.

"Don't know." Replied Thalia bluntly. I glance over at Nico to see if he had an idea where we were, but he doesn't look so good.

"Hey you all right?" I ask him.

"Yeah…ju-just what the hell happened?" His eyes grew wide. "Oh my god, did I attack you guys? I remember the….the skeletons and the army….oh no. Are the rest okay?"

I placed a hand on his shoulder. "Everyone's fine. You were taken control of by Loki. It's okay."

He shrugs my hand off violently. "No! It's not okay! I knew what I was doing and I didn't have the sense to stop myself."

"Stop it. Just stop Nico. You can't beat yourself up over that. It wasn't your fault." Thalia intervened.

He didn't say anything but I could see a change in his body language. He grew stiff and his eyes steeled menacingly. I knew what was happened. He was forming a grudge. That was his fatal flaw. He held grudges. Sometimes this was a good thing, and other times it was bad. This time however, it could help us defeat Loki and Luke if he were to focus all of his anger towards them.

"So…again…where are we?" Nico asked darkly.

"I don't know. We weren't here before when we were fighting Luke and Loki." Thalia stated.

"Yeah…" I mused as I surveyed the grassy area. There was nothing as far as the eye could see. Just grass, grass, and more grass.

But just as I thought this, something happened that changed the nothingness.

As we stood in the field, the world around us slowly warped and twisted into something totally different.

The colours and shapes more around and around and I was getting dizzy.

"What's happening?" I heard Nico cry from somewhere in the middle of all the colours.

"I don't know!" I hollered back.

As the colours zoomed in and out of my vision, I fell to the ground. It was all too much. I clutched my head in agony and waited for it to end.

Just as I knew I couldn't take any more, the world stopped spinning. Everything around me stood at a stand still and I got up shakily and looked around.

At first, what I was looking at looked like heaven. Or…pretty close to it.

What I saw, was home.

Nico and Thalia got up and came to stand beside me. They looked around with amazement on their faces.

"Is it….?" Thalia asked slowly.

I nodded. "It is."

Around us were all 12 cabins. I could see the Poseidon and Hades cabin on one side and the Zeus cabin on the other.

We truly were home.

Just as I was about to walk over to my cabin, someone from the Athena cabin came out to meet me. It was Annabeth of course. I smiled softly at her and she smiled back.

Slowly, people I knew from all the cabins came out to meet us. We were surrounded by so many people.

I saw Beckondorf, Silena and Chiron among them.

I smile at every one of them and for once, I am completely at peace.

It didn't last for long.

It started with Annabeth.

Just as she was about to wrap me in a big hug, I see the sharp edge of a sword protrude out of her abdomen.

At first, I don't know what's happening. But then, Annabeth collapses into my arms, her eyes glassy. Blood starts to pour out of her body on to my arms. I couldn't move. I couldn't speak.

I sank to my knees with Annabeth still in my arms.

"Annabeth!" I whispered.

She didn't answer. As I feel around for a heartbeat, I can't find one. She was dead and I couldn't do anything about it.

I felt tears well up in my eyes. The love of my life, dead. I lay her limp body on the ground as gently as I could. I run a hand over her face and close her eyes. Then I put my head in my hands and scrunch my eyes shut. Its all I can do from breaking down.

"Oh my god, Percy!" I hear Thalia yell from somewhere far, far away. I remove my head from my hands and as soon as I do that, all around us, people start falling. I see Chiron fall to the ground with a blade poking out of his body.

Then Silena went down, and beckendorf, and Clarrise then Rachel.

The next thing I know, only Thalia, Nico and I were remaining.

We were surrounded by pools of blood with people scattered everywhere. All around us there was nothing but red. I was in a slaughterhouse.

I stand up shakily and back away a couple steps in sheer devastation. I cover my mouth with my hand and Thalia and Nico come to stand beside me.

"No…this can't be real…" Nico mutters.

I feel tears roll down my face. I couldn't speak.

"No…wait a second…this can't be real." Thalia said quietly.

I shoot her a harsh look. "What do you mean this can't be real? Look around us!"

"No, I mean we get here just seconds after Loki and Luke send a shock wave above us? Don't you think thats a bit weird? This has to be them."

My body tensed. It took me a few minutes, but I realized that she was right. This couldn't be real. It was too impossible to be real. Just seconds ago, we had been at the clearing in the forest and now we're at camp? It couldn't be real. I just had to believe that she was right.

Because if I didn't, I would loose it.

"Ok…so what do we do now?" I ask, my voice shaky.

"We can't do anything. I guess we just have to think that this is not true. Then maybe that thought will come true…." Thalia suggested.

I glanced at Nico. He shrugged and said, "It's worth a try."

I look around at the broken mangled bodies and realize that I had absolutely nothing to loose. Then I close my eyes and hope that Thalia and Nico followed my lead.

I repeat one line in my mind over and over again.

Annabeth is with me, not dead.

Annabeth is with me…not dead.

Annabeth is…with me…not dead.

Then there is silence.

…...

As I open my eyes, I'm met with a completely different scene.

We're in the underworld. Thalia and Nico both beside me.

They stood looking as bewildered as I was.

Why?

Because we were in the underworld.

But that's not all. Surrounding us was an entire army of dead people. It was the battle with Luke and Loki all over again.

"No…." Nico mutters from the left of me.

This had to be Nico's memory, or fear or whatever the hell this all was. Something bad was going to happen now for sure.

The dead army started to close on us. We tried to back away, but they formed a circle around us. We were trapped on all sides with no where to go.

"Um, Nico…"I start to say, but I trail off when two of the dead people walk forward from the army.

One looks…oddly familiar. She can't be more than 15 years old. The other was taller, more mature. Obviously in her adulthood.

"Nico?" The girl asks in a sad voice.

"Bianca?"

Of course.

It was Bianca. I recognize her now. I don't know why I didn't right away.

But something was wrong. She didn't seem to notice either Thalia or I. She only looked at Nico. It was the same case with all of the other dead people. They all didn't seem to notice either of us. They didn't acknowledge our presence.

It was like we were the ghosts.

"Nico why'd you let me die?" Bianca spoke again.

Nico winced. "I didn't know!"

"You betrayed me." She said harshly.

I glanced at Nico and saw that he was lost for words. He looked broken and was slightly shaking.

Next the older lady spoke. "Nico, I miss you so much."

"Mom?"

"Yes. Why didn't you come meet me in the underworld? You could have if you tried hard enough."

He took a step back. "But I did try!"

"Not hard enough." she said coldly.

Again Nico winced. Slowly the dead around us started to close in on us closer.

"Nico, this isn't real!" Hissed Thalia. "Remember that!"

Nico ignored her.

"But Bianca, I couldn't have saved you!"

He seemed oblivious to the fact that we were about to be suffocated by the dead.

"Yes you could have. You just didn't try hard enough. You let Percy Jackson kill me."

"Percy…" He muttered.

I saw his body grow rigid. He turned towards me with fire in his eyes. He was being brainwashed by Bianca and his mother. I saw his hands clench into fists.

"Nico, they're not right, don't listen to them!" I said with desperation.

He ignored me and kept walking up to me, looking like he was going to go all Hades on me.

"Nico don't do this!" Thalia shouted and for a second, I saw his eyes clear up. He stopped walking towards me.

"What…?"

"Look, we have to get out of here." Nico looks up at me with bewildered eyes. And at that moment, everything turned horrible.

The dead jumped us.

Literally.

The hundreds that had been surrounding us just pounced on us with no weapons. They clawed at us with their bony hands and pressed us with their skeletal bodies.

I was buffeted by skeletons and once again, the world around me turned black.

…...

Okay, now this was getting annoying.

When I open my eyes again, I am somewhere totally unrecognizable.

Again.

"Where are we now…" I mutter to myself as I survey my surroundings once more.

It was all too familiar this time.

We were in the underworld still, but a different part of the underworld.

Tartarus.

It was one of my first adventures and we were almost sucked in. I didn't think it would be any different now. If we got too close, we would get sucked in.

And what was even worse was that we sitting way too close to the edge for my comfort.

"We're in Tartarus." Nico stated breathlessly.

At that moment, I heard a deep rumbling. Like something big was waking from its slumber.

I take out riptide, un cap it and watch it transform into the celestial bronze sword.

"Guys, we have to leave. Now!" I hiss.

There was a moment's hesitation before we scramble up to our feet and start running away from the deep hole.

But it was too late.

Whatever was inside of the depths of Tartarus was already awake. A powerful wind started blowing us back and we started to loose our grip on the ground we were running on.

My feet start to slip and I almost fall forward. We were already too close to the edge to begin with and now, we're even closer.

At the last second, I dig my sword into the earth and hold on to it with one hand. I reach for Nico with the other and thankfully, he holds on. Then he reaches for Thalia and she's holding on as well.

We form a chain that relied solely on me holding on to my sword. I knew that if I lost my grip, we would all be dead.

I held on for what felt like minutes, hours. The winds buffeted us from all sides and my arms ached from holding on so tightly.

But then the earth around my sword began to break. I could see cracks forming around us. Any second now, the sword would break free.

And of course, I was right.

The earth finally gave way and my sword lost its traction. The winds took us for their own and we sailed back.

My sword was ripped away from my clutches and I saw it tumble into the depths of Tartarus. My eyes widen.

"NO!" I shout as I lose my sword.

"Percy!" I hear Thalia shout as we tumble into Tartarus.

This was it.

We were going to fall into Tartarus and never come out alive.

And riptide was gone.

I close my eyes as I feel myself fall into the dark depths of Tartarus and into the enemies' clutches.

And there you have it.

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