Disclaimer:- I own nothing,all characters and recgnized plotlines belongs to Rick Riordan.
Chapter 2.
Piper's POV:-
Piper is in a cavern.A huge misty cavern so so big she can neither see its walls nor see its roof.
A pulse,then another,and Piper turned.There,in the distance,she can see a Hellhound crawl out of the groun...
No.Not the ground,but out of a fleshy membrane that looks disturbingly like a transparent rash.
She watched in horrid fascination as the the newly spawned truck sized monstrosity fully emerged.
She watched as it howled into the glo and bounded off towards something in the distance.
Another howl,and another hellhound emerged, following the first towards whatever is getting their attention.
Another one,and Piper made a split second decision and followed after the hellhound,who is going so fast it took her enganced demigod vision to percept it.
Piper trudged through pits of what seems to be liquid fire, poisonous water,and fleshy ground-which she is starting to believe is the body of some ancient primordial just like the Earth is the body of Gaea.
Even in her dream state,Piper is struggling to kerp from having a panic attack.This place is a literal nightmare of nightmares.
Piper is so caught up in her thoughts she barely registered that she is at the monster's destination.
And OH!
It was a sight to behold!!!
And not necessarily in a good way.
Because there,at the middle of the clearing,a bloodied person is cutting through the endleas stream of monsters as if they are mere dummies.
Cyclops, Dracaenae,Empusai, hellhounds...you name it,they are all there.
Because there,at the middle of the clearing stood Percy Jackson,so bloodied that he looked like a person that is skinned alive.
But even for someone with his prowess,what he is doing is beyond what Piper can comprehend.
He shouldn't be able to control the underworld rivers.
He shouldn't be able to control the river if Fire.
And he definitely shouldn't be able to freeze monsters with a look...
But he is doing all those things and more...
The distinct sound of metal hitting metal drew pipers attention to a far off location by the horizon,where two island sized beings were laying waste to the already irreparable landscape (hellscape)?
A bellow of pain brought her attention to the fight before her.
Apparently, she's not the only one interrupted,as an ogre landed a lucky cut on Percy's shoulder, complete severing his sword arm.
A scream later,and the ogre exploded.
Taking one last look at the fighting figures in the horizon,Percy seems to come to a decision.
Taking Riptide with his other arm,pointed it towards the ground,and brought down with all his might,even as a dozen arrows find purchase in his back.
ONE second...
TWO seconds...
THREE seconds...
A shudder passed through the ground,
A scream filled with rage from the red figure in the distance,
And everything exploded with the power of a billion stars.A supernova worthy of the big bang..
Pain wracked Piper's body,which should have been impossible since it is just a demigod dream.It felt as if she wrre being melted and then reassembled cell by cell.
When Piper woke that day, she's too shaken to even notice that Nico,Coach Hedge and the Titan are gone,along with a giant statue of Athena.
Percy's POV:-
Percy didn't expect death to be so...Empty.
So full of darkness and nothingness.
No,he didn't expect death to be that boring.
He can't see anything.Nor can his senses sense anything.It is just...Nothing.
After what felt like an eternity of nothingness,a slight breeze started pushing him in one direction, going slowly at first before reaching speeds so fast that everything blurred.
When the universe around him settled again,Percy is compressed in what felt and looked like a glass bottle.With a familiar figure looking at him as if she just got a new specimen!
'See what the dog fetched today'.Hecate said.