The Broken and the Hunted (Percy Jackson Fanfic)

Chapter 20

Tartarus
XXX years after Percy's death
Third person P.O.V.

Percy ran through the endless twists and turns that have been his home for the past five years. The sounds of the hell hounds that were just behind him pushed his exhausted boned to the limit. 'just three more turns and I will come to that fork I can lose them there' he thought to himself self.

Left, Left, Right the there will was one split went to the left the other bent back to the right almost the same way he came from. Percy made a quick pivot then stomped his foot and yelled down the passageway he exited "Come you cursed puppies, I shall bath in your blood and use your intestines as a lovely scarf!"

'Damn it!! not this right now!!' Percy bellowed in his mind. The first hellhound came around the corner and lunged right at him but Percy lunged forward too. Percy punched the monster right in the head and it exploded. "Ahahahahaha bathe in the meat chunks!" Percy yelled while running down a path and around another corner.
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Thalia P.O.V.

Target: William Hyde

Height: 5"11'

Weight 190Lb

Blood: B-

Allergies: None.

Medical record: N/A

Position. CEO of, Clean Winds, one of the leading eco friendly energy programs in the world.

Special conditions from client: "he is holding a big party to celebrate the opening of the newest wind farm at his estate in Eastern Europe. Exact location XXXX by XXXX. It's like a fortress with hundreds of heavily armed guards, practically inprentrable. I want his head on a bloody spike in his front lawn or something. Honestly as long as he is dead I don't care where he is killed, as long as the whole world knows it. That's what I want."

........

I stared at the folder in my hands before snapping it closed and tossing it to the side. If he thought I was going to play his little games he is dead wrong. I put it out of my mind and went about to do my daily routine.

Three days later I was walking to the supply tent with a load of firewood in my arms when I have heard a yell come from one of the other tents. I dropped the wood and dashed over to the tent with a couple other nearby hunters. I burst into the tent ready for action only to see a hunter laying on the ground.

My eyes swept around the tent as I knelt down beside the fallen hunter but couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. I rolled her over to see it was Stacey, one of the older hunters. "Stacey wake up" I say to her giving her shoulder a shake.

Her eyes fluttered open and looked at me. I could see the surprise in her eyes, and the... Fear? She suddenly scrambled back with a whimper, "W-w-who are you?" She stuttered.

"Stacey what are you talking about? That's Thalia, I'm Alice, and this is Katie. We are your friends." Alice said next to me she was the closest friend of Stacey.

"I've never seen you before where is  my mom, where am I?" She panicked.

She suddenly droped down and fell asleep again. "Take her to the infirmary, I will need to take a closer look.' Artemis said appearing behind me.

As we were picking her up as gently as we could, her arm fell off the stretcher and something fell out of her palm glinting in the sun. Artemis saw it out of the corner of her eye and walked over to it. She bent down and picked up and old looking coin looking at it closely. She surprised me by suddenly dropping it with a hiss. "Milady what is it."

"Don't touch that!" She said in a scared voice. Stopping me as I went over to see what she dropped. "Good news I know what happened to Stacey, bad news is there is nothing we can do to stop it now. She was holding a coin of Mnemosyne. They are ancient cursed coins made by the titan Mnemosyne, she bathed them in the river Lethe, and enchanted them with her own magic they slowly steal the memories of the one who touches them. Several god's faded because of these coins. They were all destroyed though, so how did she get one." She told me.

"They weren't all destroyed, Milady."

Artemis glared behind me at Talon, who showed up out of nowhere. "The gods destroyed all the coins Mnemosyne made.... That were on the surface. In Tartarus there were about 100 that never made out before you won the war." He told her, his usual smirk gone.

"How did she get it then?" I asked Lady Artemis.

"Easy I put it her stuff."

Everything went silent when he said that. Artemis just stared at him as he walked over to the fallen coin. He picked it up and flipped it in the air before taking out a pouch and slipping the coin in. He glanced over at the goddess and with a savage smirk gave the back a soft shake, enough to​ hear the jingle on coins. Artemis suddenly went wide eyed. "How many do you have? How can you cary them around? Why did you give one to my hunter!?" She demanded of him.

He simply pointed to me. Artemis looked over at me confused. "This is her fault. I told her we are playing a game. But she doesn't want to so you all will pay the price. If you continue to be stubborn the more and more hunters shall become empty shells, that forget even how to breathe." He said sharply his words cutting into me.

This is all my fault I sank to the ground and squeezed my fist before lunging up and tackling Talon to the ground slamming my fist into his face. "Give them back! Give her memories back you bastard." I managed to punch him a couple more times before he caught my fist.

I finally looked at him with his now split lip and eye that was getting darker already. He suddenly smiled wide, and he laughed. It sounded.... Happy. The sound triggered something and it felt like I remembered something but all I could see were a couple of flashed of light but that smile a know I've see that smile before.

He suddenly rolled me off of him and pulled me up with the same smile on his face. "Haha of course I will... As soon as our game ends. Lest you lose insensitive again. I will perform the ritual to reverse the curse so chill woman."

Hey guys so I'm going to play a little game with all of y'all too. If anyone can guess how Thalia can with the game Talon is playing send me a PM to keep from spoiling it for the other readers I will let the first person to correctly guess it, either introduce a new OC, help write a chapter, or pick the next arch for the story. Have fun and good luck 😁