Apollo's Lover - The Lost One Found

Chapter 10.

Hello, again guys! Sorry I'm only updating now, I know I promised I would update more frequently, but these are just baby steps towards a goal I hope to achieve someday!

(or something)

So yeah, here goes?

Apollo's POV

We set out early that morning, out for the hell we despised so much. Although so far I think Percy was the one who most despised this idea. He held his head for the whole morning, muttering to himself as Artemis and I packed (or rather Artemis packed, I simply watched).

He had supposedly Iris-Messaged Annabeth sometime during the night, and now it seemed his worse fears were being reignited by the looming reality that he would have to return to the place he probably feared the most. And although my sister and I both tried to calm him, only Iris-Messaging Annabeth again seemed to silence his fears. But I guess I understand why...

So yeah, now we were faced not only with Tartarus but with a panicking Percy. Which in all honesty wasn't good. But we forced on, with the sun just barely peaking out from its hidden cover behind us - I wonder who subbed me - and the dark pits of hell in front of us.

So all this brings us standing in front of a hole. A deep one at that. Deep enough to lead us all the way to Tartar- Oh yeah. How the hole got there you might be wondering about, holes to Tartarus don't just randomly spawn all over the place. 

This hole we made with our powers, seems impossible but we're gods so quiet (Apollo! So rude..), and of course, Percy helped clear all the stuff in the way. So yes, hole. Tartarus. Got that clear?

Now it comes to the worst part. The actual fall. You see, our powers in Tartarus.. well, it's Hell. And even though we're Gods doesn't mean that they won't be weakened by the fact that we will be in the deepest, darkest, worst place on this planet.

But if it's for Aria, then I'll face the darkest pits of Hell to find her. Ah...that sounds pretty cheesy, doesn't it? I guess that's what being in love does to ya. But I'm getting distracted. Hole. Tartarus. And we gotta fall in.

"So.." I looked to Percy, who was still white as a sheet, "Any tips on how to safely land the fall?" I wanted to lift his spirits in any way possible, but his reaction was still only to glare at me half-heartedly, although I couldn't blame him for I too was trying to lighten my spirit however possible.

Yesterday's reveal was still truly dawning upon me, the truth, the horror, I had practically abandoned Aria to such a fate. I let Zeus, my own father, have his way with her as I was too obliviously drunk on my loneliness to notice this all happening beneath my nose. I really am a terrible being.

Suddenly, Artemis tsks. "Let us go, I do not wish to spend my whole day here. We have everything?"

My eyes gazed around the area one last time, it seemed almost impossible, to be back here once again. But that was the sad reality.

I looked back to Artemis, "Seems so."

She nodded, "Then let us go," She stated, before walking off the edge. And down she went.

I looked to Percy, his face - if possible - even more paler than earlier. His eyes met mine and he smiled meekly, "She had better be alive, otherwise I'm murdering all of you gods," Before he too, fell.

Now it was just me. Standing alone on the cursed island. But my thoughts wouldn't waver, I would go down.

And down I went.

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You could ask me how long I was falling. A day, two, or perhaps a week. But not even my godly memory could possibly tell me. To put it plainly, it felt like an eternity but was over in a split second. I fell, and fell, and fell, all around me were the same maroon-colored rocky walls, and only mere moments before the land did I pass through the thickest layer of clouds ever.