Percy Jackson - Back from Tartarus -Adopted-

Chapter 22

Percy's pov

The time was different down here roughly one day up there and ten days down here. Now, this isn't a science, it's magic. Rules to punish those who have done unspeakable things, that was my job in the worst pits of any Hell Realm. I only dealt with mass murders and people that have killed thousands.

People like Hitler, and Stalin. 

People who deserve all Hell could offer. 

And the time difference was how I could get my rounds in and still deal with the war. 

Ouranos had sent out monsters to the Canadian border and they have been lurking around New York, they were waiting for something. An order.

Right now I was walking to the cells, the personal hells of our yearly residents that have never and will never get out of them. I passed some of the big shots, Vlad Tepes or better known as Dracula. Then the next cell over, centuries apart, but all the same murderers in the end, was Nero, the bastard that let Rome burn. 

I curled my lip on sight, I glanced in the cell and saw the pale, weak, scrawny body in the corner covered in its own filth. I was very tempted to open the door but I wasn't down here for him. I walked another hundred feet and turned to open the rusted gate of a special guest. This one never died. 

This one was the so called Henry Chase, but here's the thing I knew for a fact that Annabeth never had a kid, this is the one thing that I know for sure. I have been keeping updates on the man. And he was what you could call a traitor to Olympus and his mother. He was just another neglected child of Athena that wanted mommies attention never did he imagine he would wind up in a cell in Tartarus on his first attempt to kill me.

He was given a better than average treatment because he was not a mass murderer and he is just misled and we had the time in his sell slowed down so that he wouldn't die on us. He actually had a toliet and bed with two meals a day.

Taken it wasn't good meals but it was food. he should be greatful that we haven't shown him the side of us that means that you will wish you were transferred to Alister's branch. 

My boots echoed off the walls that gave me a badass foreshadow. Today I only had on blood red skinny jeans and a black tank under my jacket that said Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. I was wearing my sunglasses down here in the dim light because this morning I had made a discovery. I was losing my eye color. Before I used to have mixed sea green and black eyes. Now they are morphing into blood red with a little black. 

I don't wanna freak out my family if they see it, because only a few people know about me being the Devil, and they are, Bianca, Blue, Icarus, Luke, Tartarus and Nyx(That took a little explaining). They were bound by the River Styx that they would never tell unless something happens and the only option is that they tell someone.

I lean on the door into Henry's cell, he had aged, he had a few whiskers on his face and sunken eyes.

I guess living in the same cell for ten years has a toll on you.

"Henry, been a while." He looked at me, nothing in his gaze. All his emotions had left him quite awhile ago. "I have a proposition for you."

He sat down on his bed barely giving me a second glance. The springs groaned under his weight. 

"This better not be a shit deal Percy." He gave me a shit eating grin that didn't reach his eyes. 

The use of my name stilled me, it's been awhile since an enemy has used it.

"It won't be if you agree to the terms." I pushed off from the wall and took a step into his cell. 

"Okay, I'll bite what is it you want." He put up his hands in surrender.

"I want you to be a spy for me and if you help us win the war I'll give you twenty million dollars and your freedom." I looked down at him, his messy dirty blond hair was matted on to his head because it hasn't been washed in a very long time.

"Fifty million." The words surprised me.

"Deal." I stook out my hand and he took it. "Conditions, swear on Styx not to betray me and you will go to Ouranos and tell him this story." I pulled out a few sheets of paper and handed it to him. "He'll believe it, I'll give you three days to get ready in a room upstairs and then every two days you will report to me. And if you even think about betraying me." I pulled him close to whisper a few words in his ear that had him paling be the second. I pulled him away. "Now then, Icarus will tell you what to do and where to go."

Right on queue Icarus came out of the shadows scaring the absolute shit outta Henry and Icarus led him away.

I walked out of the cell and turned down the opposite way in which Icarus was going. I had on more stop. A few more levels down and I came to a warded cell. The symbols glowed in the dirty red light that was the only thing that could let you see down here. The sulfuric air ripped at my lungs but they healed instantly. Inbetween the bars you could make out a figure.

"Ouranos, long time no see." I dropped the bag of weapons that I picked up and walked up to the cage. "Well then, lets get started."

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