The New Chaos Army

Lifetime Of Pain

I woke up to the sound of evil laughter in my ear. I opened my eyes and found that we were in the touture room. We, as in me and Annabeth. And of course there was End. Who smiled evilly down at me as if stopping our escape was the best thing he had ever done.

"Congradulations, you captured two half bloods that were in your own house. Woop-dee-doo. What about the other three that escaped?" I said sarcastically. He actually slapped me across the face.

"You will respect me. I Am Your Lord Now." He said. His face was very close to mine. So I collected my saliva and spit at him. He smacked me again. I saw Annabeth behind end, and she was smiling. Almost laughing.

"I said, I am Your LORD." End said. He punched me in the stomach. The punch was hard but I managed to crack a smile. This was all because he lost three. He lost three valuable prisoners. And he wasn't happy.  I was glad they escaped, however with Annabeth here. And as much as I hate her, nobody deserves to be eternally tortured by End. Not even Annabeth.

"Zeus claimed to be my Lord and I didn't care about him." I said. End glared at me.

"Well, maybe we should use his form of punishment." End said.

"You gonna send me to Tartarus? Because he already did that to me and F.Y.I. I killed monsters before they could reform.  There was a whole year that no monsters attacked at all." I said. Annabeth seemed to be deep in thought.

"No, I was thinking somewhere along the lines of, Lightning!" End said putting his hand on my forehead as he said it. He never directly touched me when he did the lightning. He always touched the poles I was connected to. But this time his hand was on my forehead and the lightning came in, more painful than ever. The first few seconds I wanted to hold in my screams but as soon as I saw the images. The twisted images, my memories twisted to torture me, I scream so loud you would be able to hear it in the depts of Tartarus itself or worse. I wouldn't doubt that camp would hear it. I wouldn't doubt that the civilians if chaos planet could hear it. I had never screamed so much in my life. This was pain I hadn't endured. But I knew he wouldn't kill me. He still needed me. He had some plan that required me. But I didn't give in. I took that pain, the suffering, and turned it into hate. I hated End for making me endure this. For making Annabeth watch. For everything he had done to anyone ever. The feeling I had when he tried to change my memories seemed familiar. Like a stab in the back of my brain. I couldn't place when I had felt it before.

When End finished he looked me in the eye.

"I told you before, and I'll tell you now. I will break you." End said. He smiled cruelly.

"Take them back to their cell, do not give them any water." End said. Then he left the room. His guards escorted us to our cell. By escorted I mean they dragged us and threw us in. When I landed I didn't get up. I just curled into a ball.

He was going to break me.

He was going to break me.

I couldn't hold out for another day. He would break me tomorrow. He was actaully right.

I was vaguely aware of Annabeth trying to comfort me. She was stroking my arm. It was slowly making me feel better. She moved my head into her lap and stroked my head as I curled up and went slowly mad.

My vision was starting to blur. I heard several voices in my head all at once. The effects were really starting to hit me. I felt my head throbbing like a thousand knives plunging into my mind. It was like being Tartarus alone all over again. That terrifying moment at the beginning where I didn't know what to do. I realized that End was making me relive an even worse version of that. The only thing anchoring me to the world of sanity was Annabeth. Her soothing words and comforting movements.

"Its ok. Let it out. Let it all out. Your ok." She said in a soothing tone.  I realized I was crying, I was sobbing. Uncontrollably sobbing. I couldn't get us out. Escape was impossible. Our only chance was that waterfall. No doubt End would have destroyed that waterfall. We were stuck here forever.

"Its ok, everything's going to be ok." Annabeth said.

"You don't understand Annabeth. We're stuck here forever. He will make us immortal and torture us forever." I said almost too quietly.
Annabeth stayed silent.

"Maybe if I just give him what he wants. Tell chaos army to retreat. Maybe he'll give me mercy and just kill me. A perfect end to a crappy life." I said.

"You know he wouldn't do that. He would press you for every inch of information you have. Then he would keep you here forever, torture all your friends and family." She said.

"I don't have any friends. Everyone I love had betrayed me and killed the part if me that ever cared about anyone." I said.

"What about the chaos army? Your mom? Scarlett?...me?" She said 'me' in small voice.

"You don't understand. What they did to me was unforgivable. I would have crawled out of Tartarus to destroy them. But I found another way out. And you...you don't even know me, and I don't know you. You can't love or even like someone you've known for a week." I said. Annabeth was silent for a long time.

"Maybe if you tell me your story I can understand you better." She said quietly.

I didn't say anything for a few minutes.

"Ok." I said.

"Twenty thousand years ago, the gods decided that I wasn't trust worthy. They thought I would destroy them with my power." I started.

"I mean, a child of chaos is pretty intimidating." She said. I glared at her. "Sorry." She said quickly.

"So they gathered all my non mortal friends and family together. And they all voted for me to go to Tartarus." I said. Annabeth looked horrified. She thinks that Apokirixye's exile to Tartarus was bad but yet she voted for percy's.

"So I fell. And fell. And landed in the river acheron." I said.

"The river of pain." Annabeth said in horror.

"It seemed to fit. A life full of pain lands in pain. After I crawled out of the Acheron I promised myself I would never love, like, or even be nice to anyone ever again. I spent 1,000 years in that prison. Then..." I tried to remember what happened next but all I saw was the version End made inside of my head.

"Then...I became a slave to Tartarus for a couple hundred years. I eventually gained enough strength to escape. I snuck inside the stomach of a drakon and slept in the stomach acid until it got me away from Tartarus the primordial's grasp. I was still in the pitt. After burning most of my flesh off in the acid I used my remaining strength to climb to out of Tartarus." I said. I didn't look at her.

"Then I found Scarlett and we fought each other. After I defeated her chaos said I was strong enough for his army. I had to spend 20,000 years building my way through his ranks. Eventually I became the commander. I went on countless missions. I am partially blind in my left eye one of my enemies dripped snake venom into my eye. My right leg it solid chaos obsidian. A dragon ripped it off in my first mission.  Chaos replaced it. That's not even all of it." I said. Annabeths face was full of horror. The worst thing was most of it was true. Everything about Tartarus was false and how I got into chaos army but because of end, I couldn't remember the truth.

But the part about my leg, and my eye. It was true.

"I....I-"

"Your sorry!? You understand!?" I said sarcastically.

"You don't! Nobody does! I've spent years believing it will all get better, but karma doesn't seem to favor me. That's why I have no friends. The other members of chaos are teammates but not friends." I said. It seemed like end was really breaking me. I loved the members of chaos army but now. All my memories showed me that they toutured me almost as bad as End himself.

"Kìri. I know that this doesn't help but I'd like to share a story of my own." Annabeth said.

"Don't call me that! And I've heard the story of the famous Percy Jackson. How the gods threw him into Tartarus twice. How he defeated Gaea and Kronos." I spat. She shook her head calmly.

"Not his story. Mine." She said calmly.