Hey guys, Corsair here again. Apologies for not posting as of late, as I have been abnormally busy. As per NONAME2002's request, I will try to make my chapters a little bit longer from here on out. Also, just because I keep writing anyway doesn't mean I don't want to hear from you guys. Please leave reviews or pm me with suggestions, criticism, compliments, praise, fandom worship,whatever you want that is at all relevant to the story.
Now I seem to have forgotten the disclaimer on my last chapter so would anybody care to do the honors.
Hermione: Me! Me! Corsair doesn't own any of the stories he bases these wonderful creations off of because that would mean he owns people and slavery is just wrong.
Corsair: Well thanks for the praise but... Hermione, what are you doing here?
Hermione: Did I jump into the wrong story again?
Corsair: Yeah...
Percy: Bye Hermione.
Hermione: Bye everybody. See you later maybe.
*Hermione leaves through random tear in the dimensional plane
Corsair: Or nah, cause I don't do crossovers. Well, I hope this part was at least entertaining and now that I can't stall anymore... ONTO THE STORY!
(Percy POV)
I was running from a pack of angry lizard-chickens. I didn't actually stop to ask them for their proper names, so I took to calling them raptors. They looked like, well like giant lizard-chickens, except they could spit acid and spikes on their wings instead of feathers. The spikes could be shot from their wings if they felt threatened, which happened to be any time that anything got even remotely close. They roamed Tartarus in groups of up to five, and if you could catch them, they were the fastest way to get anywhere. I took a sharp left as a few dozen spikes flew past where I just was. They were quickly catching up to me, but I kept running until I could see a small land bridge. I changed course and headed straight for it. As I passed underneath, I looked up at the man standing on the rock formation. He just winked at me as I ran by then jumped down and spun 180 degrees before landing on the back of one of the raptors. He grabbed its neck and started to steer over toward me. He reached down and pulled me up onto its back.
"Let's go. We have a long travel before us."
We sped off on the raptor toward the edge of a rather large cliff. Even riding the raptor, it took all day to reach it. One of the worst days I have ever had. Another nifty thing about the raptors though, we didn't stop once we reached the cliff. The raptor just ran up the side of it like it was still flat. About halfway up the cliff, we came across a cave. The raptor started to jump around it, but a wolf dove out at us.
I jumped to my feet as I woke up. Once I realized it was a dream, I looked down at the scar on my chest from hitting the cliff. A girl about my age walked in. I flashed to the corner, and she looked around the room before leaving.
"He's gone." I heard her say.
I found my clothes on a table along with a newly repaired jacket.
"They must not know what happened to me." I thought.
I threw them on then checked to see if anybody was still outside the room. I crept behind the one guard and quickly took his gladius and knocked him out with it. It I wasn't inside a tent, I would've thought it was New Rome. Outside were two girls sitting around a fire. I recognized the one them from the day before. The group of kids I saved from the drakon. I tried to sneak around them, but the older one saw me.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"You have no idea who I am, do you? If you did, you wouldn't allow me to stay here for fear of incurring the wrath of Jupiter."
"All we know is that we were given your picture and told to find you in this forest. Now we take you back to New Rome to see Jason."
"I'm flattered that Jason went through all of this trouble to see me, but you actually have no means of keeping me here. As much as I want to see my old friends, I have a millennium of payback I need to start."
With a flash, I was gone. Perks of being a god, just think of a place and you're there. I never thought I would be able to use it though. You can't flash in and out of Tartarus.
I didn't dare approach Olympus already. Instead I went to an unused bunker at Camp Half-Blood. I found Bunker 13 a few years ago. The Hephaestus kids had long since abandoned every bunker above 4, there just aren't enough to maintain all of them. When I got to camp, it was getting late, and I heard the far off sounds of a game of capture-the-flag. I walked around for a while until I came upon a small hatch built into a tree. Back before the war and even before I was born, the Hephaestus kids were clever and very secretive of their work until it was finished. They built bunkers to house the bigger projects, but they also built bunkers 11-15 to do their secret projects. I happened upon bunker 13 during a game of capture-the-flag my second year at camp. Sometimes I would search for the others as well, but even with the magical map, I could never find them. Anyway, inside the tree was a spiral staircase heading deep in the ground. The stairs were made out of the same magical wood as the tree containing them. Along the side ran a celestial bronze hand rail. Somewhere along the way, the wood seamlessly transitioned to stone walls and metal stairs. The stairs led to an equally long hallway that seemed to go nowhere. The first time I walked down the hallway I had just about given up hope that it led anywhere when it opened into a room bigger than my mom's apartment. The floor was a 3-D map of the world. The entire bunker was controlled by a computer on the other side of the room. I walked over and hit a small blue button in the corner of the panel. The wall beside me slid open to reveal a bedroom bigger than Cabin 3. I immediately collapsed on the bed and passed out.
Sorry this chapter is a little boring. I had to get you to his shelter and felt like a long trip that didn't contribute more to the story would be even worse than this. If this were a true book, this journey probably would've been multiple full length chapters, but the Tartarus part would have been it's own book so... Anyway, I hope you enjoyed and bare with me. More soon
So long folks,
Corsair
