Heroes of Olympus Series. Annabeth Chase X Male Reader Story

Finally Falling Into The Abyss

(Y/N)'s POV

Have you ever felt like you were trapped? Not like, my shoes are tied together because the Stoll's think they are hilarious trapped, but truly in a situation where all you can see is the worst option, the worst outcome, with no hope of escaping it. But you had to take it.

(Y/N) thought he knew that feeling, he thought that it was a hard feeling to mistake for another. There were times in his life when he thought he had seen that scenario play out, most recently when he had been buried in rubble, or when he was forced to let Annabeth go on her quest.

The truth was far from that though, in reality, most of the times, if you had been paying attention, you could feel scenarios like that coming long before they arrived. Even before they descended, (Y/N) shuddered.

A chill traced his spine as if an icicle had been trailed down it, he began to feel nausea from the eerie silence before the explosion, the true calm before the storm. He thought it was just nerves at first.

Looking back though, he had only ever felt this true feeling once before. He never truly forgot that feeling, even if he couldn't recognise it at the time. The knot in his stomach was so familiar it hurt, almost pleading with him to remember.

By the time he had, it was too late. Like a fly heading towards a spider's web. He wondered if those little insects realized when they had been caught that there was no escape. Because by the time (Y/N) got caught, it was far too late.

Even as Leo's scans exposed what was below, (Y/N) felt like something was wrong, though he couldn't see it, what was down there made every hair on his body stand on end, and he wasn't just talking about the spider lady.

Before the coach lived the dream and destroyed an entire parking lot, (Y/N) headed below deck, if this were going to go wrong, he would have to make sure that he had a little insurance. So, walking over to his desk, he pulled off a sticky note.

He left behind a message for Annabeth, just in case this was to go wrong, and something was to happen to him, knowing that if it did, someone would still be left behind with what they needed for the battle to come.

It was dramatic and a little morbid of him, but with what he was about to get into, he couldn't help but leave a little safety net for a worst-case scenario. He finished and rushed off to the top deck when an explosion made the ship rock.

Annabeth's POV

Annabeth had seen some strange things before, but she'd never seen it rain cars. As the roof of the cavern collapsed, sunlight blinded her. She got the briefest glimpse of the Argo II hovering above. It must have used its ballistae to blast a hole straight through the ground.

Chunks of asphalt as big as garage doors tumbled down, along with six or seven Italian cars. One would've crushed the Athena Parthenos, but the statue's glowing aura acted like a force field, and the car bounced off. Unfortunately, it fell straight toward Annabeth.

She jumped to one side, twisting her bad foot. A wave of agony almost made her pass out, but she flipped on her back in time to see a bright red Fiat 500 slam into Arachne's silk trap, punching through the cavern floor and disappearing with the Chinese Spidercuffs.

As Arachne fell, she screamed like a freight train on a collision course; but her wailing rapidly faded. All around Annabeth, more chunks of debris slammed through the floor, riddling it with holes.

The Athena Parthenos remained undamaged, though the marble under its pedestal was a starburst of fractures. Annabeth was covered in cobwebs. She trailed strands of leftover spider silk from her arms and legs like the strings of a marionette, but somehow, amazingly, none of the debris had hit her.