His Dark Side

Chapter Seven

Annabeth's POV

     "So... Shall we watch Percy?" Dionysus asked, then, without any response from anyone, the video played again.

     Piper squeezed my hand and I squeezed back when everyone saw Percy, whistling a creepy tune and twirling a dagger in each hand while walking through hell. Any person's nightmare come true. And he was my boyfriend.

      He just walked and whistled, twirling the daggers with deadly precision. There were no monsters for a while, which surprised me. That's when I realized what was happening. I spotted a monster cowering behind a large boulder, then one fleeing from the scene. I think Percy started to notice too, because he started to slow down and look around a bit more. It jumped me when he suddenly spun around, a malicious grin on his face. "Come on out!" He sang

       There was a small scatter of noise as the monster fled, running as fast as he could in the opposite direction of Percy, who frowned. "That's no fun. Finally get to be myself and they run." he tutted.

        He continued to walk in the direction he was headed when he stopped. "While I'm down here, why don't I practice some of my new abilities hmm?" He asked himself. "Who's should I work on first? How about..." He grinned slightly. "Nico should be interesting. Let's try that."

       "What does he mean?" I asked, looking over at my mom. She, for one, looked terrified. Actually, all of them did.

       "If he's managed to do that, he's going to be the most powerful demigod in history..." She whispered weakly.

       "What does he mean use my powers?" Nico demanded.

        Hades bit his bottom lip. "There's a legend of a descendent of Chaos that can copy the powers of someone else just by touching them... If he's that person then..."

        "He'd have all the powers of all the gods children...." Piper finished weakly.

        "Exactly." Poseidon muttered. He was playing with his rough, calloused hands nervously. Everyone looked back at the screen, terrified.

       "Hm, how did he do this again?" Percy wondered aloud, looking around. "Shadow travel will probably be easy, step into a shadow, think of the place you want to go and bam, you're there. I think."

         He looked around and found the shadow under a large boulder, jutting out of the ground. Percy grinned and ran over, standing underneath. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and then vanished. Nico looked shocked. "Um, how.... How is it possible to do it that easily for the first time!?"

        No one answered. He appeared underneath a boulder far from where he started and looked around. "Cool!" Then his face turned green and he covered him mouth with his hand. "Oh. Not cool." He muttered. "How the heck does Nico do this all the time!?" He exclaimed through his hands.

        "Practice you idiot." Nico muttered.

         Once Percy's skin had turned back to his natural tan color, he removed his hands from his face. "Well, that didn't go quite as planned. I don't think there are any dead here either, so let's move onto... Ooh, I wonder if I'm able to shapeshift now! That would be cool!" Percy exclaimed, then frowned, looking at his hands. "What am I doing..." He muttered. "What happened to me? Ever since Akhlys... My heads been weird." He shook his head.

        "No, she couldn't have done anything, could she? There were a lot of poisons... What is they mixed and messed with my head?" He asked. "I don't want to be here... I want to be with Annabeth..." He shook his head again.