Sorry last chapter was a bit short. I ran out of time because I was going out, and since it seemed like an acceptable place to end a chapter just finished it off.
Oh and BTW, I am writing this while under the influence of alcohol… If it is a beneath my standards I might re-write it later. If you see any flaws in my grammar please let me know
A spear almost a foot in diameter flew through the night air and impaled Frank through the back. Nailing him to the sphere.
As one the five demigods snapped to attention and turned around so fast Percy's eyes hardly registered, and as one they froze. All had terrified expressions on their faces.
"FRAAAAANK!" Percy shouted, hammering his fists against the sphere.
"Oh damn, we're so screwed." Percy had never heard Leo sounding so panicked before. Not even when the Argo II plummeted from ten thousand feet and just barely avoided crashing into the Greek countryside.
More spears came whistling through the air. This time the demigods were ready and therefore managed to dodge al except one. Despite her best efforts one spear graced Piper's shoulder. She avoided the tip, but since the spear was so wide it still hit her. There was a sickening crunching noise and Piper screamed out in pain before collapsing to the ground. The bones in her upper arm and shoulder were reduced to gravel sized chunks.
Jason rushed over to where Piper was laying and knelt to check on her. He let out a sigh of relief when he realized her injuries were not fatal. He spoke a few words to reassure Piper before turning his attention to the assailants. He rose with a murderous expression on his face. He held out his hand and thunder boomed in the sky. A lightning bolt rivaling Jupiter's Masterbolt dropped from the sky when Jason directed his hand towards the two primordial.
One of the figures simply lifted his hand and absorbed the bolt.
"Not bad son of Jupiter, not bad at all. Your father would be proud, however I can do better!" The voice sounded like the wind itself was talking and the sudden realization sent chills down Percy's back.
"RUN, GET AWAY FROM HERE! YOU CAN'T FIGHT THEM, THEY ARE PRIMORDIALS! THAT WAS URANUS, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"
"Save your breath son of Poseidon, they can't hear you. Oh, here comes the good part!" Nyx sounded almost ecstatic.
Uranus pointed a finger at Jason and a lightning bolt ten times larger than Jason's flew through the air. It was so bright it left an after image on Percy's retina. It struck Jason with unbelievable force and sent him flying. The demigods standing close to Jason was knocked to the ground. Jason flew over 50 feet before landing hard on the ground, his body smoking.
"Jason, no, no, NOOO!" Percy almost broke down into tears. Not even a son of Jupiter could handle that kind of voltage.
Hazel bombarded the other Primordial with fist-sized chunks of metal, but he didn't seem to notice it.
"Are you doing that just to any me Hazel Levesque?" The voice was deep and raspy, like he had not tasted water for several millennia.
"You know, I used to be the God of the Underworld before I gave up that dominion to torture peasants like you full time," the threatening edge to his voice sent chills down the backs of everyone, even Nyx and Erebus.
"Then that idiot father of yours stole it from my nephew, Iapetus. The underworld used to be a terrible place, almost as bad as my Pit, until tour father ruined it. If the Ancient Laws did not punish eternal torture of incidents by fading you would spend eternity with me. That would be fitting punishment to your father for what he did to my kingdom. At least I get to torture you and your friends before you die!" The bloodlust in Tartarus's voice was so terrifying Zeus himself would shiver in fear.
"Have anyone of us done anything to offend you?" Annabeth's voice sounded small and scared.
"This is no punishment for you, we are doing this to punish only one person. Percy Jackson defeated or wife and killed our sons." Uranus was raging, winds threatened to knock the demigods of their feet.
"He also escaped my Pit, no one escapes my Pit!"
"We therefore decided to get our revenge. We are not going to kill him, we are going to kill the people he loves." Percy did not expect Uranus to be bloodthirsty, but the edge to his voice told him otherwise.
"Nyx, Erebus, could you two bring our prisoners?" Tartarus sounded like a kid who had been promised a large bag of candy.
Percy could feel both Nyx and Erebus disappear from behind him, but he was still imprisoned in the sphere of darkness. He uncapped Riptide again and slammed it into the wall with all the power he could muster, but to no effect. He looked back on the scene unfolding before him and his hard stopped. What he saw made him drop the sword and sink to his knees crying.
Nyx and Erebus, now fifty feet tall, had his mother and Paul suspended in the air between them. Judging by the way their heads were hanging and their total lack of fear Percy guessed his parents were unconscious. He hoped they would stay that way until Tartarus was finished with them. Tartarus walked toward them and unsheathed a long thin knife.
"This is going to be so much fun," he sounded cheerful and eager.
He stepped forward and drove the knife through Paul's thigh. Paul woke up with a scream of horror, which doubled in strength when Tartarus pulled the knife back out with enough force to sever the leg from Paul's body.
The four remaining demigods cried in outrage and rushed towards Tartarus, but they did not get far before walls of shadow rose up around them and stopped them in their tracks.
The God of the Pit adjusted his grip on the knife and started carving patterns into Sally's chest. Sally made a muffled scream of pain. When Tartarus stuck his knife straight through Sally's shoulder Percy lost it completely, he let out a scream so load it hurt his own ears. Winds of hurricane speeds were blowing inside the sphere and rain was pouring down so fast it was almost impossible to see through it. Within a minute the sphere was filled all the way up with water. Percy looked like a goldfish in a bowl, however the feeling of water against his skin calmed him a little. It was enough for him to regain control over his emotions.
When Percy again managed to focus on what was happening outside his sphere he saw Paul laying motionless on the ground and Tartarus bringing his knife back before driving it straight through Sally's head. Sally fell to the ground like a marionette getting its strings cut.
"No, no, no, NO!" Percy punched the side of his goldfish bowl with so much force he could feel the bones in his hand and wrist break. He barely noticed the pain, but let his arm drop to his side so the water could heal it.
"What should we do to the others?" Uranus asked
"How about we fry the son of Hephaestus in Hell Fire?" Nyx asked and Leo appeared out of a shadow fifty feet above the ground, but before he could even yelp Nyx snatched him out of the air.
"I want to take care of the daughter of Pluto first, I want to try the only good invention her father has made." Tartarus waved his hand and a cauldron full of oil appeared before him.
He bent down and picked up Hazel in his hand before making small cuts all over her body with his knife. Hazel screamed out in pain for every single cut and the smile on Tartarus's face kept on growing. He snapped his fingers and the campfire the demigods had used appeared under the cauldron. Within seconds the oil boiled and Tartarus dropped Hazel into the oil.
The primordials watched with sickening curiosity as Hazel was boiled alive.
"Oh, let us take that daughter of Aphrodite and put in mine and her boyfriends domain, without help." Uranus snapped his fingers and Piper flew straight up, higher and higher until she was no longer visible from the ground.
"I think that should be high enough," Uranus said and lowered his hand.
After a few seconds Percy could once again see Piper as she picked up speed towards the ground. Her face too distorted by the wind to show any emotions. She hit the ground with enough force to make a crater almost 2 feet deep.
"Now we can roast the son of Hephaestus," Tartarus said before snapping his fingers.
Leo erupted in black flames, licking up his entire body. He fell to the ground screaming and rolling around, trying and failing to put the Hell Fire out. His flesh was slowly consumed until there were only a few charred pieces of bone left.
"What should we do to the last one?" Tartarus sounded like he was out of ideas. Percy hoped he was, because the last person was Annabeth. He prayed they would give her a quick death. He did not think he could handle watching her getting the same treatment his parents got. He would probably go insane.
"Why don't we each take a limb and see how much we can stretch her?" Erebus sounded hopeful.
"I like your style, Brother, can't believe I didn't think of that myself…" Tartarus trailed of, seemingly in deep thought. Then, all of a sudden, his attention snapped back to the daughter of Athena before him.
"I think it would be best if we did this in human form, it's a bit hard to control my strength in this form. We might accidentally rip a limb of prematurely."
"Nyx, for once you actually made sense!" Uranus sounded impressed.
As one the four Primordials shrunk to human size and walked towards Annabeth.
"NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOO! This can't be happening, NO!" Percy was crying. His tone of voice was heart breaking. Like a wounded animal begging for mercy. His face would have been tearstained if not for the fact that he was already submerged in water.
Four primordials were approaching Annabeth's small prison from four different sides. There was no chance of escape so she curled up into a ball and tried to sink into the ground.
The primordial did not even slow down, they walked straight through the shadowy cage like it did not exist. When they reached the daughter of Athena they each bent down and stretched out their hands to grab a lim. She kicked and swung widely with her dagger, but did not find her mark. The primordials barely noticed her struggle as they dragging her in four different directions. Within seconds she stopped struggling and screamed out in pain.
"No, NO, NO, please NO. Mercy, please." Percy sank to the floor, held his hands over his ears and closes his eyes. He could not, would not see or listen to this. He could not bear it. He sobbed silently in his goldfish bowl, unable to do anything. Having watched everyone he cared about die, he could not, would not watch Annabeth die to, nor listen to her screams.
All of a sudden the shadow sphere around him disappeared and the water splashed out across the little forest clearing they had fought monsters on, not even an hour ago.
Percy slowly rose to his feet before starting to walk in the direction of where he had last seen Annabeth. He could barely muster the will to keep put one foot in front of the other, the only think keeping him going was an unfounded hope that Annabeth was alright. He had not seen her die, so she could still be alive, right?
He found her laying in a pool of her own blood. Two limbs were missing. Her right arm was could be found in the grass a couple of feet away, but her left leg was completely gone. The right leg was hanging on by a sliver of skin and flesh. Her left arm seemed somehow intact. Percy made no sense of it.
Percy fell to his knees next to her, crying. He clutched her face in his hands. Refusing to believe it, she could not be dead. Then he felt it a gentle touch on his cheek.
"Hi, Seaweed Brain," her voice was so weak it was barely audible.
"Annabeth!" he let out a chocked sob before bending down and kissing her.
"I… lo…ve…..you…sea…" her face was deadly pale from blood loss
"I know, Wise Girl. Don't talk, I'll get you some help. You'll be fine." He said it with such conviction she almost believed him, almost.
"You… kn..ow…it…'s…too…la..te…I…lo..ve…y..u." she said between shaky breaths
"I love you too….."His voice trailed off when he felt her hand fall from his cheek. His eyes sought hers, but there were no longer anyone looking back at him.
As he let go of her head a scream escaped his mouth. Anyone hearing it would have cowered in fear, it was the cry of a man who had lost everything and had nothing left to live for but revenge.
The next time he cried out in agony the Virginian forest he was in was shook by an earthquake so powerful it flattened everything for a hundred miles got flattened. And then the winds picked up.
Zeus picked himself up from the Throne Room floor and looked around. Olympus had been shaken so badly he had fallen out of this throne.
He was about to can Hermes to summon the council for a meeting when 12 flashes of light told him most of the gods were already present. Hades and Hestia had gotten their thrones back, another one of Percy Jackson's accomplishments. Zeus was still irritated about being told what to do by a demigod, but he had saved Olympus twice. And if he had to be honest it was nice to have Hestia's calming presence at the council.
"Hermes go get Poseidon, we need to figure out what just happened!" Zeus sounded impatient.
"No need, brother. I'm here, and as to what just happened I believe that was my son."
"That is impossible, no demigod possesses that kind of power!"
"Only myself or one of my demigod children can create hurricanes. The one currently raging across the Eastern Seaboard is larger than any hurricane I have ever produced. I would drain all my power and since I am not making it the only other possibility is Percy."
"And if you add the hurricane together with the Earthquake just a few minutes ago it cannot be anyone but Perseus," Athena said.
"Well it that case, Poseidon go and stop him. Figure out why he is destroying half the country!"
"But I do not know where he is!" Poseidon sounded worried
"He is in Virginia, I saw him from the Moon Chariot. I saw the whole thing, but the Ancient Laws prohibited me from interfering. I will tell you everything but first stop him." Artemis said with a sad look on her face.
"OK, OK, I'm off to Virginia then." Poseidon said before disappearing in a flash of light.
AN:
Am I a bit gruesome? Can this still be rated T or do I have to change it to M?
Anyway I think one of my reviewers is a mind reader. Literally 3 seconds before I posted chapter 2 he wrote this (would give a shout out to whoever wrote this, but since it was a Guest I do not know to whom I should give it):
:I LOVE THIS
Instead of all of the seven or six betraying percy can u have the possible primordials kill them or only kill annabeth because I feel like u put out to nice of a setting in the first chapter for him to get betrayed by them
UPDATE ASAP
Ps since it's night the maybe primordials should be Nyx and Erebrus