Ransom

Chapter 34: Calypso Valdez

Everyone cheered in victory as Allie and Castor walked back to the group, a big smile worn upon their faces.

Allie explained what she talked to the arai about, and the others laughed in response. "Nyx should know better than to pick favorites." Percy smirked.

"Well, it's a good thing that she didn't. We have a new ally that can be deadly to anyone who dares to mess with us." Allie smirked in response.

"You got that right." Leo said while his arm was slung across Calypso's shoulder.

When Calypso and Silena were at Camp Half-Blood, alone while they all went on their quest, they had had a serious conversation.

"Whatever happens while daddy is on this quest, just know that I will always be here, okay?" Calypso said to her daughter. She didn't know what was going to happen to him on this quest, and she didn't want to think of the horrific end that could occur, but she had to warn her daughter that it could be a possibility.

"I know." Silena said to her mother with a small smile. "What a lovey-dovey moment you are having." Nyx mused. "Leave us alone." Calypso demanded.

"No," she said. She paused and then said "Your husband would not be too happy if you both were to be taken to my new palace in the Underworld, would he?"

You could hear the maniacal smile in her voice. "Don't you dare." Calypso growled as she latched her hand to her daughters. Nyx gave them a cackle that roared with amusement as she wrapped bonds of darkness around Caylpso and her daughter.

Silena buried her head into her mother's chest and shook with fear. Calypso held her daughter tightly.

The next thing that she knew, Calypso was laying unnaturally still. She was in a bubble, and next to her laid an unconscious Silena. Calypso tried to move to her daughter, but she was frozen in place. That was when the images started.

Death. Bloodshed. Monsters. Her father. Her sisters. The gods. Nyx. Ogygia. All of the things that she feared flashed before her eyes in the span of an hour.

Her last image before she woke up was of her sisters forcing Leo over to Atlas. Atlas let go of the sky and Leo was forced to carry it. Thank the gods that she didn't get to finish the image, for her father had been holding a whip, and was preparing to strike.

What had her daughter seen? What had Piper seen?

Calypso was shaken out of her thoughts when Leo asked her "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, never better." Calypso smiled. "I just want to get out of here." Calypso finished.

"We're gonna be out soon. Nico and Hazel are just channeling energy from the ghosts here." Leo said. Huh, Calypso didn't know that they had to do that in order to shadow travel. Maybe it was something new?

"Wait, did you say that you were channeling energy from the ghosts in Tartarus?" Luke said. "Yeah," Nico said as he concentrated. "Stop!" Luke screamed.

Hazel and Nico broke their concentration. "What?" Hazel asked. "If you try to channel energy from people that have died in Tartarus, you'll be bringing them back from the dead once you get back to the land of the living. With that comes serious consequences; all of us could die. You'll have do it on your own energy." Luke said.

"How do you know this?" Annabeth asked her son in bewilderment.

"I'm smarter than I look." Luke said as he gave his father a sly smirk. Percy smiled lightly and shook his head.

"But, we don't have enough energy to transport even two of you out at a time. It takes more to travel from Tartarus then anywhere else." Nico said.

"Are we anywhere close to the doors?" Calypso asked.

"Maybe a days walk." Percy said.

Calypso knew that they didn't want to have to do that again, but it seemed like the only option.

"We have to make up our minds soon. Nine demigods, four children of demigods, and a daughter of a Titan attract a lot of monsters. It won't matter that we have an alliance with the arai because there are more monsters than them in Tartarus." Allie White said. She was right. They had to get out of there.

"What are we supposed to do?" Jason asked.

There was a moment of silence. After five minutes of thinking, everyone turned to Annabeth. "Don't look at me. I have no idea." She said.

"Yup, we're screwed." Frank said.

"We've gotten out of bad situations before. We can do this; we just gotta think." Piper said.

Everyone was silent. Calypso could practically see the gears turning in their heads. She had no idea what to do. She had never been here before.

Calypso looked at the children. Luke was whispering with Allie, Silena was holding Calypso's hand, and Sammy was staring into the distance.

Calypso looked at where Sammy was looking and saw that he was looking at the forest.

She shrugged her shoulders and continued to think.

Before she could think of anything though, she heard a snake hiss right next to her ear. "Hello, Calypsso." She said.

"Echidna." Allie White growled. "I thought that I sent you to the deepest pits of hell." She finished.

Everyone backed away and stood around Allie. "That'sss where we are, isssn't it?" Echidna smirked.

"Deeper than this." Allie growled with squinted eyes. She held her sword tightly in her hand.

Echidna giggled and said "Well, I have come back and I want a rematch. You and I, just like old timessss."

"We battled once, when I was nine years old. Now I'm technically twenty-three, I don't think that it'd be a fair match." Allie mused with a slight smirk.

"Don't get cocky. My bite has gotten more deadly, even a drop of my posion can kill you." Echidna said.

Allie's eyebrows creased together and her mouth formed a snarl. "Enough with the chit chat, let's fight." She said.

And with that, Echidna and Allie leapt towards each other with deadly speed.

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OK I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT I WAS GOING TO DO THAT.
So yeah haha sorry :))
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