Percy Jackson Meets the Avengers (Percy Jackson Fanfiction)

22. Hellos and Hugs

An: I don't own any of PJO, HOO or Marvel.

Also time runs faster for Percy so even though Percy has only been unconscious for a couple of hours, that like hundreds years for Percy.

*Percy*

I was trapped inside my own head. It felt like I had been for years. Constantly reliving my worst memories and nightmares, stuck in a never ending cycle.

The only thought that kept me sane was a tiny nagging in the back of my head which I could feel throughout all of the nightmares. That nagging is just 6 words being repeated. 'Tartarus is gone. Everyone is safe.'

*Nightmare*

I was chained to the table. I could barely move. My body was covered in blood. I had slits all over my back and arms.

"Percy, Percy, Percy. Are you ready for the next round?" A voice from behind asked me. I knew the voice instantly. Tartarus.

He threw a bucket of water on me to keep my alive. No one could save me. Not down here.

As I began to lose the last tiny piece of hope that I had held onto, those 6 words popped up again interrupting the nightmare.

"Tartarus is gone. Everyone is safe."

As soon as those words filled my head, I came out of the Nightmare.

*Obviously end of nightmare :D*

I was confused. Normally as soon as one nightmare or flashback finished I would go straight into another one, however, this time, I was just standing in a completely black room. I could tell this wasn't a nightmare, this was real and I once again had a feeling telling me that my life was in grave danger. Yep, I do get that feeling a lot, if you were wondering.

"I always knew you were powerful, m'boy, but never this powerful." That voice. It has felt like hundreds if years since I heard it. It probably has been.

"Chiron?" I asked, my voice sounded weak. I could hardly move. "Is it really you?" I could now see Chiron walking up to me.

"Yes, m'boy. Now, tell me, how long have you been here?" Chiron replied,

"In this black room? About as long as we've been talking and stuck in my head... about 600 years." I mumbled quietly.

Chiron paled dramatically.

"Right, Percy, listen to me. I am going to send you back however when you first awaken you will feel all the pain that has been set upon you in the last 600 years. Don't worry, It should pass quickly."

I interrupted

"What do you mean, should pass quickly?"

He ignored my question.

"When you wake the avengers should be around you, as well as some people from camp, I told them about the pain but we were unaware of how quickly time passes here."

"Why, how much time has past at home?" I asked.

"About 14 hours or so." with that he lent forward and touched my forehead speaking in a language not unlike the one that Tartarus spoke in when he cursed me.

Suddenly, I opened my eyes.

Imagine taking a dip in the Styx... Then that again 20 times, then being sliced by Kronos' scythe and then having every kind of poison running through your body then times all that pain by 3.

Then completely forget that pain because it was only a fraction of the pain I felt.

After what felt like days but in reality was only an hour the pain stopped. Just like that.