Hi! Thanks for those comments! The demigod Gryffindor: Thank you for those tips! And I actually think that is a great idea about Leo and Calypso. I think I will do it:)) Valou-Luna: I'm glad you like it!:) thanks for reviewing!

So this is the actual reading chapter, and I will try and post a chapter at least once a week, maybe a little sooner. Depends when I have time to! Thanks for reading, I hope you like it:)

Disclaimer: I don't own any PJO character or anything from the House of Hades. It all belongs to Rick Riordan.

CHAPTER 2

Frank started to read "ANNABETH. Nine days. As she fell, Annabeth thought about Hesiod, the old Greek poet who'd speculated it would take nine days to fall from earth to Tartarus.

. "Of course she would be thinking about poetry." Piper said, and the others smiled.

She hoped Hesiod was wrong. She'd lost track of how long Percy and she had been falling-hours? A day? It felt like an eternity.

" Oh, man." all five demigods said at the same time.

They'd been holding hands ever since they dropped into the chasm. Now Percy pulled her close, hugging her tight as they tumbled through absolute darkness.

Piper's inner Aphrodite made her want to say " " "AWWWW" but she restrained herself.

Wind wistled in Annabeth's ears. The grew hotter and damper, as if they were plummeting into the throat of a massive dragon. Her recently broken ankle throbbed, though she couldn't tell if it was still wrapped in spider webs. That cursed monster Arachne. Despite having bee trapped in her own webbing, smashed by a car, and plunged into Tartarus, the spider lady had gotten her revenge. Somehow her silk had entangled her leg and dragged over the side of the pit, Percy in tow.

They all had a frown on their face, remembering that day.

Annabeth couldn't imagine that Arachne was still alive, some where below them in the darkness. She didn't want to meet that monster again when they reached the bottom. On the bright side, assuming there was a bottom, Annabeth and Percy would be flattened on impact, so giant spiders were the least of their worries. She wrapped her arms around Percy and tried not to sob. She never expected her life to be easy. Most demigods died young at the hands of terrible monsters. That was the way it had been since ancient times. The Greeks invented tragedy. They knew the greatest heroes didn't get happy endings. Still, this wasn't fair. She's gone through so much to retrieve that statue of Athena.

" It's still so awesome that she did that. All alone, with a broken ankle." Jason said." She is the smartest demigod I know." Frank and Hazel and Piper shook their heads in agreement.

"What am i, chopped liver? Ya know, I did design and build the Argo II and I controll it with WII remotes." Leo said in mock hurt.

"Oh come on repair boy, you know we love you." Piper respnded. They all laughed. Then Hazel said to her boyfriend, "Come on, lets get back to reading."

Just when she thought she had succeeded, when things had been looking up and she'd been reunited with Percy, they plunged to their deaths. Even the gods couldn't devise a fate so twisted. But Gaea wasn't like the other gods. The Earth Mother was older, more vicious, more bloodthirsty. Annabeth could imagine her laughing as they fell into the depths. Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy's ear. "I love you." She wasn't sure if he could hear her- but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words. She tried desparetly to think of a plan to save them. She was the daughter of Athena. She'd proven herself in the tunnels under Rome, beaten a whole series of challenges with only her wits. But she couldn't think of any way to reverse or even slow their fall.

Neither of them had the power to fly-not like Jason,who could control the wind. Or like Frank, who could turn into a winged animal.

"I should have flown down and gotten them. It's all my fault." frowned Jason, as he remembered that day. "Me too" said Frank" I could have changed into a eagle or Pegasus and gotten them. It's my fault too." The others all vehemently shook their heads.

"No Jason and Frank, that's not true! It's not your fault! It was something that was out of our control and plus you guys helped get the Athena statue onto the Argo II, which was something that we sorely needed!" Piper said, adding a little charm speak, to try and ease their guilt.

Leo stayed silent, thinking that he was really to blame. If only i hadn't opened that fortune cookie, He thought. Then they all got back to reading.

If they reached the bottom at terminal velocity... Well, she knew enough science to know it would be terminal.

She was seriously wondering if they could fashion a parachute out of their shirts- That's how desperate she was- when something about the surroundings changed. The darkness took on a grey-red tinge. She realized she could see Perc's hair as she hugged him. The whisteling in her ears turn to more of a roar. The air became intolerably hot, permeated with the smell of rotten eggs. "Nice place." Leo joked.

Suddenly, the chute they'd been falling through opened into a vast cavern. Maybe half a mile below them Annabeth could see the bottom. For a moment she was too stunned to think properly. The entire island of Manhatten could have fit inside this cavern- and she couldn't even see its full extent. "Wow. How did they find the doors?" questioned Hazel.Red clouds hung in the air like vaporized blood. The landscape- at least what she could see of it- was rocky black plains, puntuated by jagged mountains and fiery chasms. To Annabeths left, the ground dropped off in a series of cliffs, like colossal steps leading deeper into the abyss.

The stench of sulfur made it hard to concentrate, but she focused on the ground directly below them and saw a ribbon of glittering black liquid- a river.

The five cheered. "Yay! They won't be crushed to death." said Leo.

"Percy!" she yelled in his ear. "Water!"

She gestured frantically. Percy's face was hard to read in the dim red light. He looked shell-shocked and terrified, but he nodded as if he understood.

Percy could control water- assuming that was water below them.. He might be able to cusion their fall somehow. Of course Annabeth had heard horrible stories about the rivers of the underworld. They could take away your memories, or burn your body and soul to ashes. But she decided not to think about that. This was their only chance. The river hurtled toward them. At the last second, Percy yelled defiantly. The water erupted in a massive geysor and swallowed them whole.

"Wow, that was intense." said Frank, and they all agreed. "Well, who wants to read next?" he questioned. "I will." Said Hazel and he passed her the book and she flipped to the next chapter. "ANNABETH..."

So did you like it?:) I hope that as the story progesses I get better at this.