Light Birthed Through Pain

Escape Plan

Percy POV (Hope this will answer some questions!)

I started singing random songs, melancholy and such, but one thing? I never sung in public, or somewhere I knew somewhere could hear me. But here, I felt at peace. Weird, huh? Then I remembered my demigod dreams. HOW COULD HAVE I BRUSHED THEM OFF FOR NOTHING! Ugh, if it wasn't for my foolishness, none of us would be in the mess. I learned from Annabitch that the time ratio here is 10:1. That means that even though it's been 20 years here, it's only been 2 years in the real world. The worse thing? They gave me, Thalia, and Nico semi-immortality I could last longer, and could always repair, couldn't age, to torture me to eternity. But, I had a plan to escape. It would be risky, but we had to take the chance. It was our only way out of this hellhole...

Annabeth POV (Surprised you, didn't it?)

Sea scum... I'm so happy that I left that wretched camp. Also using that Zack boy to my advantage. Now I'm pretty sure I've broken Percy. I think my lords and lady Nyx, Tartarus, and Erebus will be very happy with the outcome!

Thinking back to it, how did I fall in love with that sea spawn, anyway? He had those horrible mood swings, those piercing sea green eyes, that, melt- I mean, bore right through you, and made you shiver your spine. Now that I used him to beat Kronos, the Giants, and Gaea, I can stand strong as the champion of 3 primordials, and destroy those wretched gods on their stupid thrones. Oh, the satisfaction. I could probably beat a god without too much effort, even though I'm not a god myself. And Percy here? Oh, I'll have a GREAT time with him! I thank him for his denseness and his unknowing of things around him. Wow, I must be a great actor, because when he still had that stupid Achilles heel curse, he even told me, and showed me his weak spot! Hmm, guess it wasn't just him that didn't notice it, nobody else did, either! It was just an added bonus in getting myself popularity at camp when I got chosen at one of the seven! It was also fun taking down Gaea. Believe it or not, Gaea originally rose to kill me, the 3 Primordials soon-to-be champion. But she got controlled, by the combined will of my patrons, to go destroy the gods. This made my patrons use up practically all their energy, because their older sister was no doubt stronger than one of them, as she was the first Primordial (I don't count Chaos as a Primordial, even if she is supposed to be one, same with gender), but even still, my patrons used most of the remaining energy they had to bless me. They had little left, but from that day, started building more. You have no idea how 3 Primordials are able to come up with ideas to regain their strength. But until then, I am the first in command, and they can trust me because as a children of Athena, we tend to be a little less dense than sea scum sons of Poseidon.

I thought this as I was on my way to go torture Percy, but when I came, he looked very still, dead still, but suspiciously, unchained. Then I tortured him, but it felt weird. When I stabbed him, it didn't make that satisfying shing! Sound, but instead, kind of like a slosh. Hm, I wonder what it was. I then left, still thinking about it...

Percy POV

Hah! She thought I was dense and unknowing? Hah, wow! She couldn't even figure out that i made a replica of myself, using the lava fire here from the Phlegethon river, and diluting it with some other weird substances that I do not know the name of. It was hard, and a tiring task, but I did it. How did I escape my chain? I focused. Even though I was in Tartarus, by focus my energy in some weird way, I melted the chains with the fire water thing. Since I was blessed by Hestia, I was able to control fire, and being blessed by Hades, made my mind more clear in situations like this. My only regret is not replacing the chains. I saw the suspicion on her face, then quickly but quietly left, not wanting to seen, because know her, she would probably think about it, and if I stayed too long, she'd probably find me, which is a big no-no. I then went to where I heard the guards talk about where they were keeping Thalia and Nico. They should learn to talk less, it's for their own good, and that's coming from me, who's a sarcastic genius (see what I did there?)! But honestly, they really should. After I got to the room where Thalia was, she eyed me warily. I realized that I was in the shadows and came out, and when she recognized me, her face showed a series of emotions. First shock, then stoic, then glee, then angry, then more angry. She yelled, "YOU CAN'T BE HIM, HE'S BEING TORTURED, AND FOR ALL I KNOW, ALREADY GONE INSANE-" I shushed her, and whispered, "It's very complicated to explain, but I escaped somehow, and I'm coming here for you and Nico." She then facepalmed for some reason, then I ushered her out.

Thalia POV

... Kelp head. I'm not going to ask how he escaped, but I knew whatever he did, was too COMPLICATED to explain, he just said, "Somehow I escaped," I be like, "seriously?" But anyway, he escaped, and he's going to save us. I know that he will even sacrifice his life the save us, to get us the freakin' gods out of this literal hellhole. His eyes shone with determination, but also with caring and loyalty, no matter how broken they were. That just made me want to protect him more, being the older sis, that's what I do. I guess that's what me and Artemis have in common, eh?

As we carefully walked along the torture chambers, the ground even more littered with broken glass and such which I do not want to talk about. As we went to save Nico, I thought for a moment. I thought very unpleasant thoughts, not the thinking that omg, is this a trap? More like the if we get caught, what will they do to us?!! That kind of thinking. I shivered at the thought. They had done many terrible things to us, things that I do not wish to talk about. We took Nico, him acting similarly to me. Then a horrible thought came to me. WAS I STARTING TO BECOME AN EMO DUDETTE OR SOMETHING? Or maybe, he was just tortured to the same effects as me. Hmm, probably the latter, if I were to guess. I decided that we should go find some shelter, after Percy said as dignintaly as possible that he had no other plan after escaping.

*2 Months Later*

Percy POV

We managed to storm the room which held Thalia's Aegis and spear, Nico's stygian iron sword, and other assorted weapons, which i guess were taken from defeated enemies, or prisoners. I shuddered at the thought, but took some of the weapons anyway, and with my blade experience, I knew what was good and what was not. Certain things looked like they were the best quality, but really, they were pretty bad. I found 2 knives, with a crescent shaped blade, with certain inscriptions on the silver handles. I also found some throw knives, each of them as sharp as a dragon's teeth (Don't ask how I know, but if you do you, you're officially a stalker), Thalia found an enchanted redwood bow, which was equipped with a magically never ending supply of silver and celestial bronze arrows, kind of like a hybrid, like Backbiter... Nico took something very unusual to his taste. He had an imperial gold sword duel wielding with his stygian iron one, and when spun in a tornado or something, I think I would get dizzy. Great tactic, Nico! We had managed to form an escape plan, though highly risky. That's when we started our trek towards, yep, you guessed it, the Doors of Death. Yep. Sounds good. Feels good. Golden, mate. I'm so enthusiastic about going there.

*TIMEZ SKIPZ*

We arrived, finally. I knew we were really close because of the waves of energy coming off of it were the same when I first came down here, with... HER. I groaned as my head hurt, the memories flooding back into my brain, as if they were as fresh as the day they started. I shivered. Thalia and Nico noticed, and comforted me. I let out a small smile. At least I had my family, and that's what's important. We went on a small hill, like a bump, but hid behind large rocks, so unless someone stared very hard at where we were, I doubt anyone could see us. We examined the numbers of monsters that we saw. Let me just say, it's really bad. Like, really bad. I saw TENS of HUNDREDS of monsters in front of me. I don't know why they were here, but apparently, with our luck, they just are. Also, you know how I said that someone would have to stare very hard at our position to see us? Hm, again with our luck. Well let's just say, THAT HAPPENED...

I'm SORRY SORRY SORRY. I know you won't forgive me, but I have a lot of things getting into the way of me writing. But I promise, even if I get a few writer's block or something, I will continue this story to the end. I would also like to thank you guys for getting me to a WHOPPING 591 VIEWS! That's like almost double than I had before! I can't believe how much this story is growing, and I thank you guys for supporting me! Please leave constructive feedback if I've done anything wrong, and also tell me things I should keep doing, thanks!