Pjo/Hoo x Reader

Connor x reader "The Quest" (part 5)

(AN)
607 reads! A little more that half a thousand reads!! I'm literally screaming of excitement right know. Thanks a lot a lot a lot guys!!
So I decided to change the way of narrating some of my stories, probably not all of them, but I want to try new ways of writing. So, this is going to be like in a first point of view with 'I' and 'we' except of 'you' like in the previous chapters. Hope you like it!

Connor's  POV (heheh this is new!)

I was sad, I definitely was. My brother was lost, captured by the monsters that could kill him any moment they want, oh and Katie too. Of course I care about her too don't get me wrong, but a brother is a brother, right?
I always try to use jokes and pranks to hide all the pain, but we all know that sometimes it doesn't work, but still I'm going to try, for (Y/N). She needs to have hope, because without hope, well what's left? She was scared, tired, concerned, worried, and all that. Though, she looks cute when se is worried, she always does.
I tried to concentrate. She had asked me a question, right? 'How are we going to find the hideout if we don't have a map?' Mmmm.. that's a good one. The map was lost, lost with our friends. I tried to searched for it on our surroundings. Probably Katie drop it or something, but there was nothing here.
I sat next to (Y/N), she placed her head on my chest and I stroke her hair gently trying to confort her.
"Now what?" She asked. Hearing her voice gave me hope, ah how I love this girl. I stood up and held my hand to help her up. She stood, but I didn't let go of her hand.
"We search for the hideout," I said confidently, she just looked at me with an 'that's impossible' look.
"Come on (Y/N), we can do it." I smiled at her, trying to give her hope.

Your POV

Connor's smile was everything I needed, it gave me the confidence I needed to continue this quest.
"How do we start?" I asked Connor.
"Well, let's look for tracks and hints that will show us where the hideout is."
We stared searching everything. The trees, the plants, under rocks, we even follow animals to see where they were going. Connor always cracked jokes whenever something funny happened, that made me feel hope, hope that we could rescue our friends and finish this quest.
After like three hours of walking all around the forest we decided to rest. We search for a clearing, and we found one under the shade of some trees. The place also happened to be the same place where Katie and Travis were kidnaped. Great.
We sat under a tree and ate granola bars.
"Now what?" I asked.
"Mmm..." Connor seemed to be thinking deeply, he definitely was determinate to find that hideout. Suddenly his eyes stoped in one spot. I followed his gaze and realized that he was looking directly at the exact spot where the monster had opened the hole.
"How do you think she opened that hole?" He asked me.
There were many possibilities. She was half snake, probably she did the hole herself, but no... that would have took to much time, and she disappeared in less than 10 seconds.
"The labyrinth?" I guessed.
"But wasn't it destroyed?"
"Well that's what I thought, but probably a part is still working."
"I don't know" he said insecure "What if we take a look?"
"Good idea" I replied and stood. I started searching that area, there was something strange about it. Connor and I started moving the rocks, trying to search for something below. Sometimes our hands touched accidentally. I could feel my checks heating, Connor being Connor, only smiled his trademark smirk every time that happened, which only made things worse because I will just blush more, and feel a thousand butterflies in my stomach. His smile was hypnotizing that way.
After a while, we found a blue glowing Greek symbol. Deadalu's symbol.
"This is it" I said impressed, then I looked at Connor, my eyes wide.
"Connor, we found an entrance to the labyrinth!" He just looked at me exited, then he smiled and kiss my cheek.
He freaking kissed my cheek.
I just looked at him shocked. My skin felt tingly on the spot he kissed, and I could feel the butterflies in my stomach turning into elephants. Connor blushed, that was a first, and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Sorry. I- I was exited." He said not looking at my eyes. I felt a little disappointed. Exited, just exited. he doesn't like me, he would never do. We are just friends.
"Its okey" I said. "Let's just continue with the quest."
"Okey" he smile, it seem as if he had suddenly forgotten what just  happened. He touched the symbol and the ground opened below us, making us fall into a tunnel, then the hole closed and we were surrounded by darkness. I couldn't see a thing, not even what was a few centimeters away for me. I could feel  panic filling my chest, my breaths becoming sharper, my heart beating faster. I was scared of the dark, I admit it. It terrifies me. Being a daughter of the god of the sun, everything has always been light and smiles. The dark had always been my enemy. I couldn't move, I couldn't think. From all possible places, it had to be a dark cavern.
Suddenly I felt strong arms wrapped around me, Connor's arms. I buried my face on his chest trying not to cry. He rubbed my back slowly trying to confort me. You know why the dark scared me so much? Well, that's how my mom died. In the dark. I don't want to remember how it happened, I just wanted to get out of here.
"I'm here with you (Y/N), don't worry I will protect you." Connor said softly. He being my best friend, knew about my fear to the dark and what happened with my mother. Instead of pranking me about it, like he always does, he always helped me overcome my fear.
"Thanks, Connor" I said.
"Its okey (Y/N), let's just get out of here. Just hold my hand. It will be okey."
"Okey" I answered him, holding his hand.
We started walking and walking and walking, the place seemed immense. It was like an enormous underground cavern. After a while I saw a small light on the distance, I started running towards it.
"(Y/N), wait!" Connor said, we were still holding hands.
"What? There is a light, probably and exit!" I said exited, but I was wrong.
"That is a flashlight, someone is in here."
That someone had heard us. And that someone was walking on our direction. And that someone was an Empousa.
"Why it always has to be an Empousa?" I whispered asked to Connor.
"I don't know, but that probably means we are near the hideout, same plan as before?" He asked.
"Same plan as before." I affirmed.
And we did the sam thing as before, trap the Empousa and make her guide us, because we are so original. Though, it was more difficult this time.
When we finally got her, Connor hold her tight with the rope, and I pressed a knife at her throat.
"Where are our friends?" Was the first thing I asked her.
She just laughed, and start turning into fire. This must be and old one.
I took a water bottle form my backpack and threw the water at her. I worked.
"I think you are more stupid than I thought, let me repeat. Where. Are. Our. Friends?" I asked trying my best not to sound scared, but to sound confident.
"They are gone" she said harshly. I started feeling nervous.
"Gone where?" I asked her.
"Gone." Was all she said. They are not dead, they are not dead, I kept repeating myself.
"Again, where are they?" I pressed harder the dagger into her throat.
"Gone, to the other hideout, where they will be use to make the monster stronger." She laughed, "Kill me if you want, you'll never win, they will be sacrificed, and the strongest creature ever seen by man will be created."
"Not if we stop them" Connor said. "Now (Y/N)!" The Empousa was suddenly a pile of dust.
"Let's follow her tracks." Connor said, grabbed the flashlight that was on the floor and started following the Empousa's footprints. In no time, we were inside the hideout, killing monster and destroying an horrendous creature on a glass.
"Two down, one left to go" I told Connor.
"Let's get out of here" he said disgusted, trying to take off all the monster goo form his clothes.
We started walking away, confident that they were no monsters left. At least from the ones in this section. We walked into a room, which was all the exit, and there on the floor was a piece of paper. I kneeled down and inspected it, then I looked at Connor shocked.
"Connor... the map"
"No way" he said.
"Yes way, and it has a message, look!" There at the back of the map in an awful handwriting, probably because it was made in a hurry, was a message:

Connor and (Y/N):
They will take us far away, on the third day from now they will sacrifice us. Hurry!
-Katie and Travis

"They are alive, and they need our help, let's go!" I told Connor.
"But where?" He asked.
"Don't you remember what the Empousa said, at the last monster hideout!"
He grinned "Mexico?"
"Mexico!" I said exited. "Now let's go save our friends!" I took his hand and dragged him away.

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(AN)
Hey guys! Sorry for the short chapter, and sorry if it is bad and has many mistakes, apart that I'm horrible with grammar and that stuff, I start having an awful headache while writing it so yeah...
I'm already working on the last one which I'm going to publish in a few days because I'll probably don't have internet for the next two days, so hopefully I can update after that. Sorry for that too.
Hope you liked the chapter!

Percabeth song: 'She is love' by Parachute. can you imagine Percy singing this song to Annabeth?
Another demigod song: 'The Call' by Regina Spektor. I like to imagine that demigods sing this song to their friends, partners, siblings, etc. when they go to quests.

Adiós!
~MS