The house Of Hades

6 - Piper

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6 - Piper

Piper couldn't believe what she had seen with her very own eyes, no one could believe the fact Nico had spat out what sounded like a prophecy. What concerned her the most was the line       'Eight work together to seal the doors, through pain they suffer one must die'. Gods please don't be Jason or me, Piper thought to herself. Gods that was selfish. She didn't want to see any of the eight die because they would be lost if they lost another member of the quest. If that happened Piper couldn't possibly imagine how the quest would go on.

They had just tried contacting Chiron, at Camp Half-Blood but no one was at the other end. This was obviously troubling everyone. Even though Piper was worried to she tried her best to ignore that her fears were coming true. She had seen them and they were happening now.

Piper had been examining her dagger Katropas the last few nights. What shocked her the most was what she say in it a few nights ago. She wasn't sure what it meant as she only saw flashes of it. There was Camp Half-Blood, there was also fighting and then she finally heard screaming, lots of screaming. The next thing to appear in the dagger was a giant in a black tuxedo towering over the chaos laughing. As the fight grew worse he grew taller and taller until he was at least 20 ft tall. Piper just couldn't watch any more. She threw the dagger onto the floor of her cabin and tried going to sleep, but just couldn't.

Piper could still here the giant's laugh echoing in her mind. Every night Piper had the same dream. She was in a room with obsidian tiles. This room was pitch black and seemed to suck away any light out of the room. The only source of light were torch brackets which held Greek fire in them. Even the glow of the Greek fire wasn't enough to illuminate the room clearly.

Piper began walking forward slowly, suddenly compelled to go deeper into this room. The hall she had begun walking down started snaking into a rocky cavern. It was pitch black and Piper had only just realized that. She thought to herself how stupid it was not to bring a torch along. However as she walked forward more torches containing Greek fire burst into life around her with every step she took.

Piper began to take one more step but there was nothing below her. She began to wobble as she tried to regain her balance and not fall down the dark chasm below her. The Chasm looked like the one Percy and Annabeth had fallen down, but it couldn't. This place looked nothing like Arachne's cavern.

Piper regained her footing and got her balance back just in time to stop herself from falling down into a never ending oblivion.

Piper looked down and noticed a swirling vortex of earth matter. The vortex was churning around sending bits of debris flying out of the pit, and nearly hit Piper.

Piper grabbed katropas out only to have the dagger show her the same thing it had kept showing her. Camp Half-Blood. There was fighting, lots of it. Someone was very hurt and was screaming. It was absolute chaos. Everyone on the battlefield was dead. They had died violently at war with their enemies, This wasn't what Piper wanted to see. She wished this was only a dream but she knew better than that, because the dreams of Demi-Gods always meant something.

Piper unwillingly turned her head in the opposite direction and there was another pit directly opposite to the one she had been facing previously. As the vision on Katropas began to fade a pale hand stuck out and clawed its way up to the surface. As it began rising out of the pit Piper turned around, and also unwillingly began walking over to the first pit. She raised her left wrist over the side of the pit and grabbed Katropas and slit her wrist and squeezed it so the blood dripped into the pit.

The pit began to churn and it spewed out dirt everywhere. The remaining dirt in the pit began to mould into the shape of a woman with a veil over her face. Gaea. The dirt, which her form was made from was constantly shifting around while her form continued to change appearance. 

From inside the pit Gaea's voice rang out " I can be anyone I want to be, any time any place. How do you know I'm not actually pretending to be one of you? You don't! This is my game, my rules! Nobody wins but me!" Piper than tried charmspeaking her saying "Why don't you just take a nice nap, go back to sleep and don't bother us" in a soothing voice. "You fool, Do you really think you can beat me at my own game?" Gaea cried as she forced a shock wave to rip underneath Piper.

A great giant Chasm opened up underneath piper and she gripped onto the ledge as tight as she could. As soon as Piper tried to climb up Gaea made another shockwave this time knocking the side of the chasm over.

Piper lost her grip and began falling into oblivion.

She was falling through infinite darkness and then suddenly landed on tiles made of Obsidian. This time she was in what looked like the foyer to a house.

There was a chandelier hanging above with Greek fire in it, casting a sinister green glow on everything. In front of her were a giant set of doors that were made of stone that were open. She peered out of them and saw a castle, above a city. She could see the San-Francisco's Golden-Gate Bridge through the windows. All around the mountain was a swirling cloud like vortex. That didn't look like Tartarus, it looked just like San-Francisco, Wait no it was San-Francisco. But how? It must mean that she was in Tartarus looking into the land of the living. How was that even possible, she wasn't dead.

From behind her she heard a deep voice say "No Piper, You aren't dead". She spun around saw the same giant that she had seen growing taller as Camp Half-Blood was fighting Camp Jupiter.

"You!" Piper started saying before she was cut off but the giant. He was wearing a black tuxedo with a white tie and had a clean shaved face. "I wasn't doing that, Piper McLean, that was the two camps fighting. That was making me stronger, I had nothing to do with it. My name is Tityos, yes I am a giant but no I'm not like my mother or my brothers, I do not have anything against half-bloods such as yourself. In fact I actually respect your kind. There doesn't need to be any more bloodshed then what there already has been, do you agree Piper? As I was saying we can put a stop to this, there doesn't need to be any fighting going on. If we work together we can bring peace, Don't you want that?"

"What, so you want me to betray my friends?" piper asked aggressively. "No all I'm asking is if you can be a double agent, I'll give you information on the Earth mother in exchange for information on your friends" Tityos said calmly. "There is no way I'm going to side with you or her highness Gaea, I'd rather die than be a traitor!" Piper yelled and then turned her back on Tityos. "Piper Maclean, Of all the eight of you I thought you would co-operate if it meant that it would save the life of your friends, I'll just go have to pay someone else a visit then. If you change your mind here is my card, Now farewell Piper McLean". Tityos then walked out through the doors of death and into San-Francisco.

Piper woke up shaking with a gasp and turned her bedside light on. Lying there was Tityos's card. So it hadn't been just a dream after all.

Piper opened the porthole and threw the card out and watched it fall. As it vanished below the clouds Piper sighed with relief that it was gone.

What so the doors of Death aren't in Greece??? WTH is going on here?

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