The house Of Hades

2 - Piper

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1- Piper

How could they just be gone? Piper just couldn't get her head around the fact that Annabeth and Percy were gone. They were now stuck in Tartarus. No demi god had ever gone down to Tartarus or at least come back to tell the tale, or at least Nico had.

Nico had been exploring the underworld searching for his sister Bianca to try and bring her back just like he did with Hazel. Somehow Nico ended up in Tartarus, got captured by Gaea's forces, dragged back to our world and stuffed in a jar for 5 days with nothing but 5 pomegranate seeds. On top of that he was held as bait by the twin giants in hopes of luring us into a trap. However to their surprise we did manage to rescue him though.

Nico was still looking absolutely terrible, anyone would. The experience was obviously traumatizing as he refuses to speak about his time stuck in a jar and being in Tartarus. He pretty much went to hell and back so of course he was very shaken up.

His skin was incredibly pale, paler then what it apparently was before. He was skin and bone. Seeing him like this made anorexic top models look obese, it really did.

It was just so awful. The past week, all Piper had managed to do was cry in Jason's arms and the only thing keeping everyone else from crying washer charmspeak. Even that wasn't working as well as it used to. She kept saying to everyone else everything was fine and not to worry, yet everything clearly wasn't and deep down she knew that was the reason her charmspeak wasn't working.

The last thing Percy had said to them was for Nico to lead them to Epirus, Greece and to find the doors of death so they could seal them. As they sailed through the sky to Greece Percy and Annabeth were falling down into Tartarus, possibly already there or even possibly dead. Piper no! they aren't dead, stop thinking the worst!

Why was she trying to charmspeak herself? It was plain stupid and she knew it wasn't possible. If it was she would have already done it by now.

Piper woke up to the wailing of a siren. She was still in her pajamas but she flung herself out of bed and grabbed katropas, and ran out to the deck. It was like 2am in the morning possibly earlier so this could only mean one thing; a monster attack. Piper looked all around her trying to detect any monsters that may have triggered the alarm. from behind her Piper heard one of the floor boards creak. She instantly spun around, Katropas in her hand ready to strike at whatever came her way. Whatever it was, it moved. Piper lunged at it with Katropas and held the dagger to its neck and said "Who are you, and why are you here" while putting as much charmspeak into her voice as she could muster.

Piper then pushed a little and drew some blood. Warm sticky red blood. Wait but since when was monster blood red?

A high pitched squeak came out and said "Piper, It's me! Leo!"

Piper drew the knife from Leos neck and said "Oh my gods, I didn't realize! Oh my gods I'm so sorry. Tears started to pour from her eyes as she realized what she had just done to Leo. "I heard the monster alarm going and I came running, I then saw your silhouette and I thought you were a monster, I was trying to protect us, I'm so sorry."

"Piper, I'm fine, it's just a little cut, Team Leo can handle a tiny cut, Team Leo is tough" Leo began to say full of pride. "Well Team Leo, needs some medical attention" piper shot him and began to pull him in the direction of the sick bay.

Once they were in the sick bay, Piper grabbed out some ambrosia and nectar and began pouring the nectar on the cut. "Piper, I'm fine and don't waste it on me. We may need it for later" but Piper cut him off mid sentence "No!" and opened his mouth and shoved some ambrosia into his mouth and shoved his mouth shut. "No I'm not eating it, We'll need it later and if it all gets wasted on me and someone dies because they couldn't get the treatment they need because it was wasted on me!" Leo said in protest. "Nobody will have that ambrosia now Leo!" "And why wouldn't they want it Piper?" "Well, it's been in your mouth for starters!" Piper said which was effective as it shut Leo up and she wasn't even charmspeaking him. "Now Leo, just chew and swallow" she said with a hint of charmspeak laced in her words. Leo obeyed without question.

Once Leo had finished, Piper asked "Why was the alarm going if there was no monster?" Piper asked. "I was using the Archimedes sphere and was trying to upgrade the monster sensor, because as you know it hasn't been working like it should, so I thought I would just tinker with the sphere and see if it could do anything to help, but as you can see it did work but not the way I hoped" he said with a impish smile. "You realized you could have blown up the ship right?" Piper exclaimed with crossed arms. "Well, I didn't kitty cat" Leo said sarcastically. "What?" Piper asked slightly confused then realized what Leo meant. She looked down and remembered she was wearing 'hello kitty' pajamas. "What's wrong with hello kitty?, Leo" Piper asked giving him a scowl. "Nothing, nothing, just asking. Are you sure your really 15, Piper?" "Yes Leo I am 15, and I happen to like hello kitty, get some rest Leo, I'm to bed! Also please don't set fire to the ship with that dam sphere!

Piper went back to bed and instantly fell back to sleep.

Piper woke up to coach Hedge knocking on the door with his tree branch that he uses as a club shouting "rise and shine cupcake!" Ugh it's only 5am what did she have to do around here to get some sleep? "I'm sleeping!" she groaned. "If you don't get up now I will come in with my club! don't make me do that!" Piper mumbled under her breath "stupid goat" before she got up. "I heard that!" coach Hedge yelled back at Piper.

Piper got dressed and went out for breakfast. Everyone was sitting at the table, hardly eating mostly just fiddling with their breakfast. There were bagels, pancakes, croissants, bacon and potato gems. It was appetizing but now one felt like eating. Annabeth and Percy were down in Tartarus and probably had no food at all and were most likely starving. It just felt so bad to eat knowing that Percy and Annabeth couldn't. Nobody would. Not even Pipers charmspeak was working.

Jason was the first one to speak. "Last night I had a dream. Well it wasn't exactly a dream, it was more like a vision or at least I swear it was. Anyway they were down in Tartarus running from something or someone. Annabeth and Percy were both really hurt and exhausted and didn't seem like they could go any further". "Jason please stop!" Hazel let out now in tears. " I can't bear to here this, not now!"

Nico then spoke up which surprised everyone. "Fine, we'll continue this conversation later but we need a plan of action. They are the strongest and bravest demi gods I have ever known and if anyone can escape Tartarus it's them. I know it and they aren't dead I would have felt it." As Nico finished his sentence his eyes suddenly went darker then obsidian. He started sweating and shaking then his eyes returned to normal. As soon as they were normal they went black again.