Living Hell

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This was not happening. We were not falling in tartarus. Annabeth had never went on the solo quest. I opened my eyes. Nope. All the stuff I had hoped for wasn't true. I was standing in the deepest part of the under world. I saw cheerleaders walking around. Cheerleaders? I dove behind a jagged rock to get a better look.
This was crazy. I had to find Annabeth and Percy. The cheerleaders had me trapped for about an hour, but they went on through. I went limping behind the rocks. I was starving and dying from thirst. A river. There-there's a river. I limped over. Some thing was bent over the river, so I stayed by my rocks. I heard it mutter something about the color green, then started walking towards the rock. My eyes. They were green. And I was wearing a green shirt. Crap. It walked over to me, and I pulled out my dagger. Jumping into a battle stance, I looked up.
"I'm not scared of you." I muttered. It pulled out a sword. I sliced.
"Hey!" It shouted. Percy and Annabeth emerged.
"Percy!" I yelled. We pretty much tackled each other, dragging Annabeth with us. We started laughing, it was amazing to know they were alive.
"I think this is the first time anyone has laughed in Tartarus." Percy said, inhaling around his laughs. I stopped laughing.
"Ah!" I screamed. My head felt like it was about to explode. "Percy!" I screamed.
"What?! Callie, are you ok?! No you're not ok! Annabeth, what's happening to her?! Do you know? please tell me! Tell me you know!" He was panicking, and I'd realized why. I had screamed his name, and then fell. He fell down and caught me, my head in his arms.
"I don't know Percy! Callie, can you still hear me?!" Tears were falling down her face. I had to get her to know I wasn't dead... Or I wasn't dead yet anyways.
"A...Annabe...huh." Then the world went white.

I saw pictures... Or videos. It was a woman who had blonde hair and grey eyes. Athena. And a man with salt and pepper hair and sea green eyes... Like Percy and me. This must be Poseidon. But Poseidon and Athena talking? I stopped thinking so I could hear them.

"You! You did this! You created Arachne and she drug your daughter into Tartarus and my heroic son jumped in to save her!" Father shouted.
"It wasn't my fault your dim-witted, love struck son jumped in to save her! It was his choice to let go of that ledge!" Athena shouted back.
"Fellow Olympians," a blonde woman calmly stated, "it was for true love! Poseidon, the seas are raging because of your anger, please calm down. You have caused a tsunami in Japan already." I jumped to conclusions because of the "true love." Thing, it must be Aphrodite. Then they vanished.
It showed the big house from Camp. Then the infirmary. There was a satyr in a bed, asleep. I assumed it was Grover, Percy's friend. He sat straight up, grabbed his head, and started screaming like a 3 year old.
"Will what is wrong with him?!" Chiron demanded.
"It's... It's an empathy link with Percy." Will breathed. He had bags under his eyes, it looked like he hadn't slept in days.
"With Callie too," Grover said. "She has a link with the ocean, like her father. She can control it too. The seas are raging, Chiron. Raging. They're about to die Chiron. They're being tortured." Then Noah walked in soaking wet.
"Well you were right about the seas. I'm worried about Callie." Then they disappeared.

When I finally came to, I was on Percy's back.
  "Sorry. We heard monsters so we had to get moving," Percy said. "Let's look at your head." He parted my hair where there was blood.
"Look down." He's said. "There it is. You have a huge gash on the back of your head Callie. You'll need stitches when we get out of here." He took some of the bottom of his shirt and tied it around the back of my head, like headband.
  "If we get out of here." I said. I wanted to scream because my head hurt so bad, but I kept it in. I got off my knees, and Percy put me on his back. I heard a little whimper. "Percy, what was that?"
"Idk Callie. Let's find out." He said. We walked over. A ten foot tall man was balled up and talking to a cat. "Bob!" Percy exclaimed.
"Percy!" The huge man bellowed. I jumped off Percy's back.
"Who's that?" I whispered to Annabeth.
"Before this war, Percy fought Kronos. Well before that, Percy was in the underworld, and he ran across a Titan. They fought, and the Titan ended up in the river Styx, and the Titan lost his memory. Percy renamed the Titan Bob. So, Callie, meet Bob the Titan."
  "Hi, Bob." I managed to get out.
"Bob, can you do me a favor? Let Callie ride on your back. She's hurt." Percy said.
"I'll ride her!" He said happily. Percy picked me up, and gently sat me on his back. His cat walked under my chin and purred I felt like crap, but the cat calmed me down. I fell asleep petting the cat.

Thank you for reading! I never thought I'd get one read and now I have fifty! Even thought that's not a lot, it means the world to me. I'm really happy about this!

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