Chaos's Oath

Tortured

Chapter 16: Torture

Percy’s P.O.V

 

If I wasn’t immortal or a god I would be dead right now, I am scaring Kronos out of his titanly shoes and Gaea wants to know why she can’t kill me. If I wasn’t in pain than life would be good, my hair is turning greyer every day and I don’t know how much longer I can hold. You see after numerous attempts at trying to electrocute me she decided to free Atlas and guess what I’m doing! Holding up the sky, it hurts but I won’t black out like I did when we met Bianca and Nico. I refuse, and I will make it through to see them. “Alright, Perseus!” Gaea called, and I flinched at the mention of her name. I have been gone for three months and I learned that whenever she said my full name it was off to a different torture or more pain was coming.

“What do you want?” I growled, I may be in pain but I never show my weakness.

“Still fighting I see!” she laughs, and behind her I see Atlas with a grim look on his face. “You’re lucky Perseus,” she says, and I flinch again. If I ever get saved I don’t know if I will ever be okay with someone calling me by that again. “Atlas failed me so he gets to go back to holding the sky,” she says, pushing Atlas forward. He whipped around and got on his knees.

“Come on Mistress, please don’t make me go back!” he pleads, she shakes her head and points at me. He pushes me aside and all my limbs relax. I was bleeding and I was starving but I was relaxed and happy.

“You need to eat,” she orders, picking me up. I look at her in shock.

“Something to eat?” I ask in astonishment.

“As much as I hate giving it to you, I can’t let you die of starvation. Not when you’re the key piece to the war!” she says, I nod my hand. I knew better than to disobey her, it was better if you just agreed. Plus I was really hungry and I wanted to eat… she would take it away if I had gone against it. She sat me down and gave me plates from the camp, they filled up with my favorite foods and instead of coke I filled it with sea water which I controlled to heal all of my cuts and wounds giving me strength. I wanted to get up and attack Gaea but I knew it wasn’t a smart idea. I finished eating and she yanked me up dragging me off to wherever I would be tortured the best, then I saw a place I swore to never go near again tartarus.

“What are you doing!” I demanded.

“Your next torture, Tartarus!” he laughed and with one push I was plummeting down towards the depths of Tartarus then I thought about my powers. I thought really hard and I teleported to behind Gaea pushing her in, her minions dragged me away and bound me in power proof chains. It was worth pushing Mother into Tartarus, she deserved it anyhow.

“Good for nothing demi-god!” murmured the minion.

“I may be good for nothing, but you still have to go and get her from Tartarus!” I gloat, and they groan. They put me in water with Piranha’s… idiots! They walk away leaving me with the piranha’s for a while.

“Who are you?” The piranha’s demanded.

“Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon!” I tell them, I get happy thoughts racing through my head when I say it.

“Yes! I’m Dan, can you free us from this place that Gaea is keeping us?” Dan asks hopefully.

“When I leave, you leave!” I confirm and a happy chatter starts throughout the tank.

“When are you leaving?” Dan asks

“Soon” I reply confidently, the piranha’s start cheering when Gaea stormed in with an angry look on her face. When she saw me she paled.

“YOU IDIOTS!” she roared at her minions, the flinched and backed away.

“What, he was in there with Piranha’s!” One of the minions complained.

“Yeah and he’s the son of Poseidon! You just dumped him in water!” she cries, pulling me out of the water with no problem. The minions looked down and the ground opened up underneath them sucking them down into Tartarus.

Crystal’s P.O.V

 

Percy has been missing for THREE MONTHS! That just isn’t fair, he didn’t do anything wrong to go through so much pain! If Annabeth knew I just know that Gaea would think twice about ever even getting NEAR Percy ever again, but Percy refuses to reveal his identity and I wasn’t going to just tell people about his secret when he doesn’t want them too. “Crystal,” Chaos asks, walking into my room.

“Yes Chaos?” I reply, standing up.

“I think we know where Percy is,” he says, he explains where Percy is and I put on my rainbow armor and put on my crystal shooting gloves and I walk out the door to where we think  Percy is.