Sorry I didn't update in a while I started to watch dr. Who and now I AM OBSESSED.
Jason's pov
"Things could be worse," Piper ventured.
"Yeah?" Jason didn't see how, but he tried to sound upbeat.
She snuggled up against him. Her hair smelled of smoke, and if he closed his eyes, he could almost imagine they were at the campfire at Camp-Half-Blood.
"We could have fallen into the River Lethe," she said. "Lost all of our memories."
Jason skin crawled just thinking about it. He'd had enough of amnesia for a lifetime. Only last month, Hera had erased his memories to put him along the Greek demigods.
Jason decided not to think about that. He kissed Piper's forehead. "We should keep moving. You want more firewater to drink?
"Ugh. I'll pass"
They struggled to their feet. The rest of the cliff looked impossible to descend---nothing more than a crosshatching of tiny latches---but they kept climbing down.
He wondered if they would die of starvation, or if the firewater would keep them going.
Keep climbing, he told himself
Cheeseburgers, his stomach replied
Shut up, he thought
With fries, his stomach complained.
A billion years later with a dozen new blisters on his feet, Jason reached the bottom. He helped Piper down, and they collapsed on the ground.
Ahead of, them stretched miles of wasteland, bubbling with monstrous larvae and big insect-hair trees. To their right the Phlegethon split into branches that etched the plain, widening into delta of smoke and fire. To the north, along the main route of the river, the ground was riddle with cave entrances. Here and there, spires of rock jutted up like exclamation point.
Under Jason's hand, the soil felt alarmingly warm and smooth. He tried to grab a handful. then realized that under a thin layer of dirt and debris, the ground was a single vast membrane. . . like skin.
He almost threw up, but forced himself not to. There was nothing in his stomach but fire.
He didn't mention it to Piper, but started to feel like something was watching them--something vast malevolent. He couldn't zero in on it, because the presence was all around them. Watching was the wrong word, too. That implied eyes, and this thing was simply aware of them. The ridges above them now looked less like steps and more like rows of massive teeth. The spires of rock looked like broken ribs.If the ground was skin . . .
Jason forced those thoughts aside. This place was just freaking him out. That was all.
Piper stood, wiping soot from her face. She gazed towards the darkness in the horizon. "We're going to be completely exposed, crossing the plain."
About a hundred yards ahead of them, a blister burst on the ground. A monster clawed it's way out . . . a glistering telkhine with slick fur, a seal like body, and stunted human limbs. It managed to crawl a few yards before something shot out from the nearest cave, so fast Jason could only register a dark green reptilian head. The monster snatched the squealing telkhine in its jaws and dragged it into the darkness.
Reborn in Tartarus for two seconds, only to be eaten. Jason wondered if it would pop up some other place in Tartarus, and how long it would take to reform.
He swallowed down the sour taste of firewater. "Oh, yeah. This'll be fun."
Piper helped him to his feet. He took one last look a t the cliffs, but there was no going back. He would've given a thousand drachmas to have Frank zhang with them right now---good old Frank, who always seemed to show up when needed and could turn into a eagle or a dragon and fly them across this stupid wasteland.
They started walking trying to avoid the cave entrances. , sticking close to the bank of the river.
They were just skirting one of the spires when a glint of movement caught Jason's eye---something darting between the rocks to their right.A monster following them? Or maybe it was just a random baddie.
Suddenly he remember why they'd started to follow this route, and he froze in his tracks.
"The empousai and Medea." He grabbed Piper's arm. "Where did they go."
Piper scanned a three sixty her kaleidoscope eyes bright with alarm.
Maybe the demons ladies had been snapped up by that reptile in the cave. If the empousai were still ahead, of them they should've been visible somewhere on the plains.
Unless they were hiding . . .
Too late, Jason drew his sword.
The empousai emerged from the rocks all around them--- five of them forming a ring. A perfect trap.Medea fixed her eyes on Piper and Jason.
"Piper Mclean and Jason Grace," She cooed. "How great I don't even have to return to the mortal world to kill you."
I Hope this makes up for the 9 day wait it toke me like 4 hours and is like 8 chapters.
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