Blood of Olympus

Chapter Four: Piper

When Piper woke, her hands were tied together, so were her ankles. She was in a dark room, in some sort of boat, she knew it wasn't the Argo II, but she could feel the boat rocking on the water. Percy was beside her, completely unconsious. The last thing she remembered was Percy pushing her out of the way of a telekhine that was about to kill her. When she hit the deck she went unconsious.

Now her and Percy were tied up in some random room in a random boat going who knows where. Great. Piper thought. She knew things were going too smoothley. Suddenley Percy started stirring. He yelled in his sleep, "Piper watch out!" Then jolted upwards, most definetly awake now.

"Morning," Piper said, "or whatever part of the day it is." Percy sat up, and leaned against the wall.

"Where are we?" He asked.

"No idea." She replied. Percy looked around the room. Suddenley, Piper heard voices.

"Shhhh," she whispered, "someone's coming." The door swung open and one of the Laistrygonians from the ship walked in, grabbed the two of them by the wrists and dragged them out of the dark room.

He brought them into a large room and slumped them on the floor.

"As requested, master Geryon." The giant announced. Percy's eyes widened at the name Geryon.

"Friend of yours?" Piper whispered to him. Percy sighed.

"Sadly yes, I have come across him." he whispered back. Piper looked up, and when she saw the man, he jaw dropped. He had three bodies, well three chests, all connected to one head and one torso.

"Well, well, well, look what we have-" he stopped mid sentence and looked Piper up and down. "You idiots!" He yelled at the two Laistrygonians. "You brought the wrong girl!" The two giants looked at Piper, probably just now realising that she wasn't blonde with grey eyes. "Oh, eh, oops?" the right one said.

"Ugh, Gaea requested Annabeth Chase, but this will have to do," Geryon muttered, gesturing at Piper.

"Now, look who it is, Percy Jackson, the boy who sent me to Tarturaus for two years," he said angrily.

"I think we were all hoping for longer," Percy replied. Piper was suprised at how Percy just said what he wanted to Geryon, not caring who he was.

"Shut up, ignorant demigod, you killed me, you deserve punishment." he scolded.

"Well, you are planning to kill me and spill my blood to wake the most evil godess there is, but hey, that's nothing." he said sarcastically. Piper tried hard not to laugh.

"You will die too easily, too quickly, you deserve worse, even more pain." Geryon belowed.

"What are you going to do?!" Piper demanded. Using her charmspeak.

"I have seen your worst nightmares, Percy Jackson, I know your worst experiences, now, you and your little friend here will relive them." Geryon announced.

"Wait, stop!" Percy yelled. But it was too late.  Geryon waved his hand and a picture became visible infront of them.

Piper saw percy, except it wasn't the Percy she knew, he was five years younger and staring up at a giant monster. Piper recognised the monster as the Minotaur. She heard back at camp that Percy had defeated the monster twice and it was the first monster he ever defeated. But here he wasn't battling the monster, he was staring helplessley at it, he looked sad, confused, and scared. Piper suddenley realised what was happening; she looked up at the minotaur's gigantic hands and saw a woman, Piper figured that this woman was Percy's mom. She saw the Minotaur roar and clench his fists tighter around Percy's mom's neck, and in that moment she dissolved into gold dust. Piper heard the real-life Percy, screaming at Geryon telling him to stop, but Geryon wouldn't listen. The image shifted and Piper saw Percy- a year older now, swimming after someone. Piper realised that it was Annabeth. She was swimming towards these vulture-like creatures, except the faces on them kept changing. Piper remembered what one of her half-brothers had told her, that once Percy and Annabeth had come across the island of the sirens. Piper then saw what Percy must have seen them as, she saw Percy's mom, Tyson, Grover ,Chiron and Poseidon, Piper guessed that it was Poseidon, she had never seen the sea-god in person. She saw Percy swim forward and grab  Annabeth's ankle. She saw her kicking and hitting Percy trying to get out of his grip, she seemed to be under some spell, Piper remembered what she had heard about the Sirens, that they put passing by sailors into a trance, and lured them to their death. He was dragging her back to the bay. She was screaming and thrashing. Then she saw both of them underwater, Annabeth was sobbing into Percy's shoulder, a sad, heart-breaking sob. Piper felt like a tresspasser. She could still hear Percy yelling in the backround at Geryon, his voice was full of hurt. Piper wanted to help him, to try and stop Geryon using her charmspeak, but her voice wouldn't work, she felt like her mouth was full of cotton. Then the image shifted, and what Piper was was one of the most horrible things she had ever seen.