there must be more than this provincial life.
[ percy jackson x original character ]
[ book three in the belle series ]
[ the mark of athena, the house of hades, & the blood of olympus ]
[ bonus: the lost hero, the hidden oracle, the ship of the dea...
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𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖎𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙-𝖖𝖚𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖊: SOME THINGS SHOULDN'T BE CONTROLLED
★ 。／｜＼。★
THE LONGER BELLE walked, the more she wished that Bob was still with them. Her and Percy were following the Goddess of misery to get Death Mist, and even though Belle didn't like it, it was their only chance of survival. The fog continued to get thicker as they walked along. They were only able to follow Akhlys because poisonous plants grew from the ground wherever she walked. Belle could sense those said plants, which allowed her to follow the exact path Akhlys took. However, that whole thing about plant roots being veins still creeped her out. She didn't know if she still wanted to try and grow plants down here.
Finally, Akhlys stopped. The thick fog dissipated all around them, and Belle found herself on a small peninsula. Every single one of those three sides fell off to a pitch black void. Belle felt a chill run up her spine. Something about that void made her unsettled.
"Here we are," Akhlys announced.
She turned and gazed at them, her sickly and swollen eyes bright with excitement. Blood from her cheeks dripped down onto her dress, staining it red. Belle inched closer to Percy for a second. This Goddess was really making her nervous.
"Uh . . . great," Percy replied. "Where is here?"
"The verge of final death. Where Night meets the void below Tartarus."
Belle turned and peered over the edge of the cliff at the deep black abyss, a cold blast of air immediately hitting her. "Below Tartarus? But . . . Tartarus shouldn't have anything below it. It's literally the bottom."
"Oh, certainly there is something below it . . ." Akhlys coughed for a second. "Even Tartarus had to rise from somewhere. This is the edge of the earliest darkness, which was my mother. Below lies the realm of Chaos, my father. Here, you are closer to nothingness than any mortal has ever been. Can you not feel it?"
Belle suddenly knew what she meant. The void of Chaos seemed to be pulling her, just like the pit of Tartarus had done back in that cavern in Rome. She felt as if the breath in her lungs and oxygen from her blood were leaving her. Belle shivered and took a step back. She glanced up to Percy to see his lips were blue like he had taken another swim in the River Cocytus.
