Ransom

Chapter 41: Annabeth Jackson

Apollo gave Jason a frustrated look and said "You could have asked nicer."

"Just, help her. Please." Jason begged. This should have worked. Apollo strode forward and said "You won't like it, but it'll heal her."

"Whatever it takes." Percy said. Annabeth knew how much this meant to him. "Everyone back away." Apollo ordered.

He knelt before Allie and whispered to her. Her eyes widened in fear and confusion, but eventually she nodded. Allie started to cough up blood. "I must do it now." Apollo announced.

He pulled out his bow and a single arrow. He aimed it towards her heart. "Stay back." Apollo ordered.

Everyone obliged. Apollo mumbled under his breath and let the arrow fly.

It pierced her heart. She gasped for air, and stopped breathing. "NO!" screamed Castor, Percy, and Jason simultaneously.

Everyone ran forward to watch the arrow sink deeper into her heart, almost as if it were being absorbed by her. Castor turned to the god and yelled "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"

The wind grew stronger and vines flew up that were attached to the walls. They encircled the god and tightened, but he simply touched them with his finger tip and they burned away.

"Wait." He ordered simply. Everyone looked at Allie's dead body, lying still on the stone ground. "Just a little longer..." Apollo mumbled. Suddenly, Allie gasped for air. She took deep, short breaths with her eyes squeezed shut. "Allie!" Castor exclaimed as he engulfed her in a hug. He then released her and kissed her. Annabeth was no child of Aphrodite, but she knew that their kiss was filled with a passion unlike any other. She was tempted to coo, but she didn't.

Once they broke away, Percy and Jason hugged her. Apollo smiled brightly and said "My work here is done." He disappeared in a flash of light.

Allie sat up and leaned against a rock. They all say in a circle and talked. "Is Nyx defeated?" Allie White asked them.

"We don't know." Castor responded. "How do you not know?" Allie asked. Castor proceeded to explain what happened, how Leo shot her with a stream of flames.

Allie sat there, listening, and her face showed that she was deep in thought. "All that that did was keep her in the underworld for a little bit, but unless you destroyed the remote or took it with you, she can easily come back up." She concluded.

"How did that not defeat her?" Leo asked. "Well, for one, a tiny amount of anything wouldn't have killed a primordial, and it would have to have been natural light. The only two types of natural light are sunlight, obviously, and lightning." Allie said. She looked at Jason and his daughter.

"One of us has to strike her with a bolt of electricity that is as powerful as Zeus's bolt." She said. Allie Grace's mouth fell open. "Jason, if you get the chance to do this, then do it. If you don't, then I will. Allie, if you somehow get an opening on her, strike her with all that you've got, but not so much that you hurt yourself. Everyone else, just stray back, I don't want everyone getting electrocuted along with her." Allie said.

"I wish that we brought the stupid remote with us." Percy said in an exasperated tone. "It's okay, she probably would have just come up through the DOA Records entrance  anyways." Allie said.

"So, what do we do?" Allie Grace asked. "We wait for her, and then, we kill her." Allie White responded.

The elevator doors started to creek. "She's coming. We have twelve minutes." Allie said.

"Jason, Allie, and I have to be the only ones here. Everyone else get out of here." Allie White demanded. "But-" Piper started. "It's for the best." Jason said.

Piper pecked him on the lips and gave her daughter a kiss on the cheek and said "Be careful you two."

"We will be." Allie Grace said. Castor went to Allie White and said "You be careful too; you just came back from the dead for the second time."

"I will be." Allie reassured him. "Let's get going." Annabeth said.

"We'll meet you at the entrance." Allie White said. "Okay." Annabeth said. "Come on," she started. "This way." Annabeth concluded.

The group followed her with no further questions or complaints. Percy strode beside her.

"Don't worry, they've got this." Percy said. Annabeth could see that that comment was meant to reassure him more than her.

Like and comment and stuff
~camp_hero