Percy works with Tony Stark

18. I Remember

My wishes came true when I woke up with no new visible wounds.

I felt my new Achilles mark and low and behold, it was where Luke's was. The grim connection made me laugh, how did he manage to come back so many times to ruin everything.

I slowly crawled up until a wave of dizziness crashed over me again and I was once again engulphed in my memories.

I was lying in Luke's mansion next to Annabeth's limp body and Loki was fussing over me when Hermes appeared.

"Call Apollo please, please," I begged.

"It's no use," Loki said gently, as he had been trying to heal her for a while now.

A new wave of tears came and Hermes interrupted, "the Gods need you Perseus".

I knew it was serious from their tone, but seriously, couldn't they wait? I couldn't reply when I blacked out again.

The next time I woke up all I remember was Loki carrying me and we were in the elevator. I knew where we were heading and I wasn't ready for it yet so I let the darkness take over again.

I was shaken awake by Loki when we were before the Gods. I rubbed the grogginess out of my eyes and I stared at them tiredly.

I greeted all of them but everyone except Zeus looked grim.

"What's wrong because I need to attend to Annabeth's body," I said, directing it to Athena to see if see would even react. She barely flinched.

"Perseus, we have a serious matter to discuss," Zeus said pretty happily.

My father disagreed, "I thought we agreed to not do that," he said madly.

Long story short, Zeus wanted to throw me into Tartarus as banishment. I was already crazy from Annabeth's death and this just pushed me over the edge. I didn't have the determination to even argue for myself because I knew it would have no effect so I let out a crazy laugh and it truly came from my heart.

Hades was called over to open a door into Tartarus, but he was on my side and demanded to know why.

"He has grown too powerful," Zeus said.

"Can you not feel the ichor growing in his blood?" Hera asked.

This was something new. I looked at her questioningly but she didn't elaborate. Then it got even messier as my friends from camp barged in and argued against it.

I smiled grimly at the rest of the 7 and Nico as they always had my back.

But they had no effect on Zeus. I already knew this would happen and I accepted my fate, It's not like I had anything to live for anymore.

Yea, looking back could I have been stupider? Now I was stuck in this situation and basically fighting for my life to try and find a way out or at least live through this.

I sighed.

wait

wait

 wait

I bolted up and almost tripped over the rocks.

No way. There was no way.

There was no way I would do that. Something had to be affecting me, in my brain. And there was only one thing it could be. Tartarus.

He ended up getting whatever his twisted mind wanted. Me down here again. He knew that killing Annabeth would make me let down my defenses enough to not notice something affecting the way I think, and then the fight with him would push Zeus to do what he had wanted to do for forever. Banish me.

I cursed him. But it's not like I could even curse him to Tartarus like usual, so I sat down in defeat. I wasn't sure what to now with this new information.

"Was death too easy?" I screamed into the void.

I sat down in anger.

Was I still going to try and get of here? Should I just give up now? What do I do?