Torture

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Before I start this. I just want to remind you guys, I do not own these characters all belongs to uncle Rick except for the things I added. Oh and also. I'm going to fast forward to the part where the elevator door opens in the house of hades and Hazel's shock.

THIRD PERSON POV

Just then the elevator dinged. Rather than pushing the UP button, Clytius stepped back from the controls, keeping their friends trapped inside.

'Leo!' Hazel yelled.

They were thirty feet away – much too far to reach the elevator – but Leo pulled out a screwdriver and chucked it like a throwing knife. An impossible shot. The screwdriver spun straight past Clytius and slammed into the UP button.

The Doors of Death opened with a hiss. Black smoke billowed out, and one bodie spilled face- first onto the floor –  Annabeth, limp as a corpse.

Hazel sobbed. 'Oh, gods ...'

She and Leo started forward, but Clytius raised his hand in an unmistakable gesture – stop. He lifted his massive reptilian foot over annabeths head.

The giant's smoky shroud poured over the floor, covering Annabeth in a pool of dark fog.

'Clytius, you've lost,' Hazel snarled. 'Let the girl go, or you'll end up like Pasiphaë.'

The giant tilted his head. His diamond eyes gleamed. At his feet, Annabeth lurched like she'd hit a power line. She rolled on her back, black smoke coiling from her mouth.

'I am not Pasiphaë.' Annabeth spoke in a voice that wasn't hers – the words as deep as a bass guitar. 'You have won nothing.'

'Stop that!' Even from thirty feet away, Hazel could sense Annabeth's life force waning, her pulse becoming thready. Whatever Clytius was doing, pulling words from her mouth – it was killing her.

Clytius nudged her head with his foot. annabeths face lolled to one side.

'Not quite dead.' The giant's words boomed from her mouth. 'A terrible shock to the mortal body, I would imagine, coming back from Tartarus missing one person. She'll be out for a while.'

He turned his attention back to Annabeth. More smoke poured from between her lips. 'I'll tie her up and take her to Porphyrion in Athens. Just the sacrifice we need. Unfortunately, that means I have no further use for you two.'

HAZEL POV

Oh my gods. Where was Percy? If annabeth was there why wasn't Percy there with her? I know Percy would never leave the love of his life alone (um why is my sister going in circles? Is she possessed or something?)

'Oh, yeah?' Leo growled. 'Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.'

His hands blazed. He shot white-hot columns of flame at the giant, but Clytius's smoky aura absorbed them on impact. Tendrils of black haze travelled back up the lines of fire, snuffing out the light and heat and covering Leo in darkness.

Leo fell to his knees, clutching at his throat.

'No!' I ran towards him, but Gale chattered urgently on her shoulder – a clear warning. 'I would not.' Clytius's voice reverberated from Leo's mouth. 'You do not understand, Hazel Levesque. I devour magic. I destroy the voice and the soul. You cannot oppose me.'

TIME SKIP PROVIDED TO YOU BY ROFL AND IRIS AND THAT PERSON THAT WAS WITH IRIS

In front of me, the air rippled. The Mist thickened, creating a doorway, and four people stepped through.