Hey guys. Thanks for sticking through at least the second chapter. I still don't own PJO and blah blah. You've heard it all before.

1000 years is a very long time, even to somebody who lives forever. Percy has been wandering around Tartarus, defending himself from everything from the ground and air to the inhabitants of the prison, for over a millennium. Days seem to blend together, but every night, the landscape changes. Percy woke in a cave ten feet down the side of a cliff. He carved the 365,256th, 14 days past the millennium mark, day on the wall of his cave to signify the last landscape change as he rose off his "bed". He grabbed riptide as he climbed out of the cave. A man was camping at the top of the cliff. Percy thought back to the day they met.

Flashback

Percy was running away from a pack of hellhounds back toward his cave. He turned through a ravine. He got about halfway when he saw a man blocking his path. Two blades magically appeared in the man's hands, and he threw one into the middle of the pack. A chain attached to the blade came out of his sleeve. The blade tore through three hellhounds before he threw the other. As soon as it left his hand, he pulled back on the other chain. The blades swirled and danced around him, creating a protective barrier around him. He would throw a blade every now and then into the crowd around him. After a few minutes, every hellhound was either dead or running away.

"Well are you gonna say something or just sit there and stare?" the man asked.

"You're the first person I've seen in almost a thousand years."

"Well it's better than nothing. What did you do to get in here?"

"I honestly don't know. I won two wars for the gods and then got sent here. What about you?"

"I've been down here so long that I don't remember much of anything. I don't even know my own name anymore."

"Well, I'm Percy."

"Why don't you use that sword of yours, Percy?"

"It hadn't come back to me yet."

"Well then, here."

The man walked over and grasped Percy's arm. He pulled back his sleeve, and a tattoo of a chain on his arm started glowing. The glow intensified until Percy couldn't see anymore, and then it died down. When he looked back at his arm, the chain tattoo was now there.

"You can't lose this weapon."

Percy started rubbing his arm around the tattoo.

"The itching goes away after a while."

Flashback ends

Percy instinctively rubbed his forearm through the sleeve of his jacket. He walked over to the fire and sat across from the man. They sat there silently for a little while before the man talked.

"A dragon has been flying over us for a few hours now."

"I saw it."

"Detach the blade from your chain."

"What?"

"Just do it."

They both summoned their blade and unhooked it from the chain.

"There is a canister inside the blade filled with water. You can control the water, and the blade will do whatever you want."

"You gave me this thing five years ago and never told me about that?"

"It never came up. By detaching your blade from the chain, the dragon won't notice it as easily. Just rip apart the wing, then we can deal with it down here."

Percy threw the blade right of the dragon and tried to pull the water back around above it, but when he tried to hit the dragon's wing, he missed. The blade stuck itself in the ground at Percy's feet.

"You're gonna have to work on that."

The man threw his own blade straight up in the air. It flew straight for a while then turned at the dragon. It shot like an arrow and ripped through the dragon's wing before turning around and cutting through the other wing. The dragon flapped its wings in a desperate attempt to stay airborne. It crashed into the ground at the base of the cliff under Percy's cave.

"It's going to summon help unless we go down there and kill it fast."

"I know. It's not like I've been down here for a 1000 years or anything."

They ran down the other side of the mountain and around to the dragon.

"Its help is probably already on its way"

"Well, let's finish this first. Then, we can worry about that."

Percy threw his blade, now reattached to the chain, into the base of the dragon's long neck. It roared in pain as the blade cut through a small opening in the dragon's scales. Then, the man pulled a battleaxe from a tattoo on his back. He drove the ax through the opening that Percy created.

"How did you get all those weapons anyway?" Percy asked.

"Gifts from a sorceress."

The man just turned and started walking away.

"Come on. If his call was heard, they'll be here any minute."

They climbed back up to the top of the mountain. By the time they reached the top, Percy was exhausted.

"How does an old man like you climb this mountain without getting tired?"

"Who are you calling old? Last time I checked you have been down here for a millennium."

"Yeah, but how long have you been here?"

A sudden roar got their attention.

"Percy. You've got to go."

"What? Why?"

The man grabbed Percy's arm in the same way he had when they first met.

"Just take this and go. You're ready to break out of Tartarus. I was gonna take you myself, but now I'll by you the time to get there."

"Wait a second. Where am I going?"

"In the center of Tartarus, there is a black tower. A friend lives there that can help you get out of this hell hole."

"Why now? Why do I have to leave so suddenly?"

"The beast that made that sound is one I have only met once. It can't die. The best I can hope to do is buy you enough time to get out of its line of sight."

The man pulled off his shirt revealing multiple tattoos across his arms, chest and back. The laid his hand across one on his chest and summoned the largest bow Percy had ever seen.

"RUN PERCY!"

A dragon the size of a large mountain appeared in the distance. Percy ran down to the base of the mountain as the dragon's tail destroyed the mountain next to them. The man drew back the giant bow, and an arrow appeared ready to fire. He fired over and over into the dragon's underside and wings. Most of the arrows bounced off while some stuck into the dragon's skin looking like splinters. Percy looked back in time to see a stream of fire engulf the entire mountain.

So what did you think? Please review. The next chapter is already on the way. Hopefully it will be out by the end of the week.