Chapter 7

The rescue mission goes terribly wrong

Well. Here's chapter 7, sorry for the delay, I had more stuff going than I realized.

Thank you again to Zexydemyx66, for being an awesome beta.

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Thank you, here's the last chapter… (Maybe)

Annabeth's POV

Azazel was keeping Jess in an underground cave, in the side of a mountain, as we approached the entrance Percy clutched my hand and I glanced at him, confused.

He smiled, and I returned it. Sam breathed in and glanced back at us, while Nico summoned a shadow portal and his stygian iron sword fell out and landed in his hand. Dean loaded a gun and pointed it at the dark hole. Sam pulled out a rifle and held it, pointing at the cave again. Percy clicked Riptide and I produced my drakon bone sword.

"I don't think that's going to do much," Dean muttered, while gesturing to our various swords.

Nico shook his head, "Stygian iron can send a demon back to hell," he said flatly. "Drakon bone and Celestial bronze can injure it, conflicting an immense amount of pain, but not kill it," he paused, looking around at us. "It's better than a stick," he finished.

We all turned back to the cave, and stared at it for several seconds. Then Sam said two simple words, of course there was nothing more to say.

"Let's go," he said.

The cave was dark, but Percy held up Riptide and that created enough light for us to see about two feet in front of us.

"I thought you'd come," a voice echoed around the cave. Percy spun around but there wasn't anyone there.

"Actually, I'd knew you'd come," the voice said again. Percy tried to find the source, but to no avail.

"I knew you'd come for Jessica." Then, it continued with, "Whatever you are," it muttered as an afterthought. Sam breathed heavily.

"Where is she?" He asked calmly.

"Over there," the voice said.

Percy shone the light from his sword at the spot where the voice was coming from and this time, it was there.

He just looked like a normal guy, wearing a black suit and a blue tie, while having a smug look on his face. He nodded over to the side at the darkness beside him.

"She's right there," he said. Percy moved Riptide to the spot he was gesturing to.

"Sam?" Jessica called. She was peering through bars and it looked like someone had carved into the wall, but left three bars to make a cage.

How Yellow eyes got Jessica in there, we will never know.

"Jess!" Sam yelled and rushed forward. Jess reached through the bars and touched Sam's face, while he reached through the bars and held Jessica's shoulders.

"We'll get you out of here okay? I promise," Sam whispered.

"Sam... I'm so sorry," Jess muttered, a tear dropping from her eye.

"Awww, that's so sweet," Azazel leered.

Turning to the demon, I coolly said, "Let her go."

Yellow eyes stuck out his bottom lip. "Oh, but she only just got here," he said, obviously mocking me.

Sam looked up. "I'll kill you unless you let her go."

Azazel sighed. "No can do, Sam." he muttered. Then, he flicked his hand and Percy went flying across the room, the light from Riptide bouncing off the cave walls.

"Percy!" I yelled as Dean started firing rock salt rounds at Yellow eyes.

"Argh!" Nico yelled as Yellow eyes flung him across the cave too. Percy then stumbled to his feet.

Sam also started firing rock salt rounds as I held my sword and charged at the demon. He didn't even notice me at first and I managed to get a deep cut in his shoulder before I was flung across the room, landing next to Nico.

Percy ran over to Nico and me and helped us up. We looked over at Yellow eyes in time to see him fling Sam across the cave, hitting the wall and slumping on the ground, semiconscious. Azazel seemed to be having lots of fun throwing us around the room like that. All three of us charged as Dean reloaded his gun.

Percy managed a swing across Azazel's thigh, but Nico didn't get close enough to penetrate his skin, and neither did I, unfortunately. Yellow eyes flicked his hand and sent Dean and Percy flying.

Nico and I went to attack him again, but he sent us flying back to the spot where we were only moments ago.

"You guys are pitiful," Azazel cooned.

I stumbled to my feet. "I will kill you," I said through gritted teeth.

He cocked his head, saying, "I'd like to see you try, little human." Sam tried to stand up, but Azazel held out his hand and Sam was pressed against the ground.

Percy and I stood up, while Nico looked semiconscious, which was very bad since he was the only one who could touch the sword that could send Azazel back to hell.

We glanced at Dean, who was standing up, too. The three of us stared down Azazel, who just smiled in return, while Jess had started clinging to the bars of her cage like a lifeline.

"You know, I thought you would've brought better fighters," Azazel said, looking at Sam who was trying to detach himself from the cave wall, to no avail. Azazel held up a hand when all of a sudden, a bright light began to shine.

"CLOSE YOUR EYES!" I screamed as the light echoed around the cave. When it died down, all of us looked up slowly to see that Azazel glaring at us. He was livid.

Percy, Dean and I charged forward, weapons brandished. At first, Azazel threw Percy to the back wall again, but then, he engaged in fistfight with Dean. I slashed at Azazel's back, but he dodged backward and threw Dean across the room to literally land on Percy.

I swung my sword across Azazels chest. He winced and stumbled backwards losing his grip on Sam, so he fell forward.

Azazel gained the upper hand again and he held his hand out towards me and slowly began to close it.

Then, I started choking. Everything started to swim; I could see a blur of Nico out of the corner of my eye. Azazel was laughing hysterically. Nico clutched his sword and with one last effort, he flung it across the room towards the yellow eyed demon.

Azazel stopped laughing when he saw a sword flying towards him, but when Nico's sword slammed into the wall and bounced back off harmlessly, the demon smiled again.

When things started to clear up, I could see Sam, army crawling towards Azazel. He reached out for Nico's sword and I was about to cry out, "No!" But then Sam clutched it and drove the blade into The Yellow eyed Demon's chest.

Everything happened very fast as Azazel let out a horrific howl as smoke poured out of his mouth and melted into the ground, leaving a burning hole. The bars on Jessica's cage melted away. And a scream was torn from Sam as the power of Nico's sword sucked out his soul, but he continued to push the blade into Azazel's chest. Finally, the demons meat suit slumped on the ground, and falling forward, Sam finally let go of the Stygian iron sword.

"NO!" Jess yelled as she ran forward and clutched Sam's lifeless body.

Dean rushed over to hold Sam's head off the ground. Sam's mouth was slightly open, a silver light - like an orb - floated out of his mouth, while Percy and I held hands as we watched the light go out in Sam's eyes.

"What... Is that?" Jessica whispered, looking at the orb that was slowly floating away from Sam's body.

"His soul and life essence," Nico replied glumly.

"No," Dean muttered, he shook Sam's limp body. "No... Sammy, you can't die on me."

Jess looked up. "Is there any way to save him?" She asked hopefully.

Nico shook his head sadly. A tear dropped from Jessica's eye. I walked forward and grabbed Sam's hand, and when I pulled a dranchma from my pocket, I placed it in the palm of his hand. Then, I stepped back and held Percy's hand again. Dean tried to push Sam's soul back into his body but it just passed through his hand. We watched, albeit sadly, as Sam's soul and life essence floated up and hit the top of the cave, disappearing from sight there.

"No," Dean whispered. Jessica broke out in tears and buried her face in Sam's jacket. His eyes stared, unseeing. Dean held Sam's head, and stared at his lifeless body, tears falling from his eyes. I leaned my head against Percy's shoulder as a tear dropped from the corner of my eye. Nico stood beside us, we all stood, and watching as Jess and Dean held Sam's lifeless body.

Third person

Sam appeared in the waiting room of the underworld. He looked around at the other shades, waiting for eternity.

He walked up to Charon. "Excuse me," he said Charon looked up.

"Do you have a dranchma?" He asked.

Sam didn't know what that was at first, but when he felt a mysterious weight in his hand, he opened it and saw a golden coin that he didn't recognize.

When he showed it to Charon, the being accepted it, then said, "Get in." The door closed and then opened again and suddenly, they were on a boat.

Charon guided the boat with a paddle, while shades screamed on the shore line.

Sam looked at them as they passed, unflinching. He looked down at the river, seeing his reflection shimmer there.

His eyes were sunken and his hair was ruffled.

He looked back up at Charon and the being then turned around and looked at him.

His face was skeletal, but Sam still just looked at him. He suddenly knew he was dead, so there wasn't any fear to feel for him.

The End, maybe. It depends if I want to, if I feel like there's more people who like this story. If I do continue this story Sam will probably come back though, I'm not that evil.