Chapter 31 (2nd to last chapter)

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I'm sorry to say this story is coming to an end.There will only be about  2 chapters left before I complete the book. 

Piper gazed at the shrine as Bob explained to Jason how they would leave Tartarus through the shrine. To Piper, Hermes shrine looked to be a sheltered depression shaped like a moon crater. It is a ring of broken, black marble columns surrounding a dark stone altar.

Piper quickly snapped out of her trance as Jason started to walk over to her. 

"Piper, are you alright?" Jason asks her his face plastered with concern.

"Not really, I just want to go home." Piper muttered to Jason as she turned to look at Bob. Jason grabbed her hand quickly and Piper looked into his eyes. 

"We'll get out of here, I promise." Jason swore to Piper. 

"Trust me."

Piper looked up at Jason and in these moments he had never looked as handsome as now  with electric blue eyes, tidy, military cropped blond hair which grew out during his time at Camp Half-blood, and a small scar on the corner of his lip from trying to eat a stapler when he was two years old. 

Piper blushed as Jason made eye contact with her and she quickly looked away.

"How are we going to use Hermes Shrine to escape?" Piper questioned Jason.

 "Wel-" Jason began but was cut off by Bob who had wandered over.

"Walk through fire, Jason and Piper will be back home."

"Wait. What? If we walk through the fire we will die- " Piper told Bob starting to doubt the trust she had in him. 

"What about you are you coming?" Jason cut off Piper. Bob turned to Jason and made eye contact.

"No, for Jason and Piper to get back home through fire without getting hurt Hermes needs a life sacrifice, which is my life."  

"NO" Both Piper and Jason yelled.

"Yes." Bob replied sadly. 

" Bob don't sacrifice yourself sacrifice me so you and Piper can get back safely." 

" No, it must be me." Bob whispers. "You all are very special and have so much potential you have yet to live up to. I have nothing but a broom and a mop. " 

"It doesn't have-" Piper tries to charmspeak Bob but Jason interrupts her. Yet again.

"Does the sacrifice have to be made before or after we go into the fire?" Jason questions Bob.

 "After, once someone enters the fire you have to wait exactly 20 seconds to sacrifice someone before the people in the fire burn. " 

 "Alright." Jason mutters. 

 Jason turns towards Bob and ass for Bob's broom. 

Bob hands Jason the broom not thinking anything of it.

"I'm sorry." Jason says as he grabs the broom holding the pointy edge towards Bob. 

"It has to be done." Jason says louder this time. 

With Piper standing to the side Jason with all of his strength hits Bob in the legs with the broom. Bob trips and falls backwards into the fire. Bob's body starts to turn into mist as he fades into the fire.

"18." Jason starts to count down.

"No you can't do this." Piper tries to charmspeak him but to no avail.

"17." Jason was to determined and the charmspeak was not powerful enough to break true love. 

 "16. I love you Piper now go. "

"I'm not leaving you!" Piper screams.

"15. I'm sorry. 14." Jason runs towards Piper and shoves her into the flames.

"13" Jason mutters as Piper starts to turn to mist inside the fire.

 Piper was fully inside the flames now and if she looked straight ahead she could see Jason still counting down. Piper tried to walked out of the flames but she was stuck inside. Like glue. 

 Jason was now at 10. As Piper shouted to him. 

 "No JASON NO PLEASE!" Piper sobbed as Jason reached down and picked up one of the many weapons on the ground. 

"7" Jason looked at Piper and mouthed I love you before he slowly started to raise the sword to his chest. 

 Upon seeing this Piper sobbed harder and struggled to break free from her fiery prison. 

 "5"

Piper cried and cried, struggling to break free.

"4"

"NOOOO!"

Before Jason could say 3, Piper noticed  a blur in the distance running to Jason at full speed.

As the blur got closer (really quickly) Piper's vision focused and with a startling cry Piper realized it was Medea.

"3"

"JASON WATCH OUT" Piper cried as Jason turned around upon saying 2.

Before Jason could react Medea was standing nose to nose to Jason.

Medea quickly raised the sword in her hand and plunged it into Jason. With a final gasped Jason sunk to the ground. 

"1" Medea laughed as she watched Jason body fall to the ground. 

 "1 down 1 to go." Medea laughed as she looked up at Piper. 

 Piper yelped as Medea lunged but it was to late Piper had already turned to mist in the flames just like Bob and she floated up to the sky all the way out of Tartarus. 

 Light was the last thing Piper saw before everything went black.

 I was gonna end here but let's leave on a huge cliffhanger. 

 Then everything that was once black turned to color again as Piper woke up from her horrid nightmare. 



Last chapter of the ENTIRE BOOK  coming some time tomorrow and it will be the epilogue. 

I just have to say thank you for all my readers who have been supportive of me form the beginning and even though my chapters were short and I never updated you stayed with me and now the book is almost complete. 

 This is my first completed book and this book was first uploaded  exactly 1 year, 5 months, 19 days. 

 So thank you all for sticking with me. You are all the best readers I could ever ask for.

 This is my favorite chapter out of every single book I have ever written. 

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 Bye peeps, 

    Until tomorrow when I finish this book

       ~Percabethsdaughter61

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