°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ ENDGAME} act i. . .
. . .the way you betrayed me
CHAPTER SEVEN °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
— 'jump then fall'
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To get to the underworld we had to find a way in, supposedly this store 'Crusty's Waterbeds' has one. You want to know what Crusty is short for? Procrustes.
Grover refused to come in because he didn't want to see anything gross. He probably meant incase someone's limbs got chopped off like in the stories about Procrustes.
On the other hand, Annabeth was invisible then Percy and I had to walk in to try distract him while we tried to trap him.
The room was empty, no sign of anyone here until a voice emerged from a back room.
"Welcome travellers." An older looking man came out towards us. "Would you like to buy a waterbed? They are very comfortable."
"We know who you are, Procrustes." Percy answered him sternly.
"Crusty is fine. You should probably try the waterbed." He looked at me and grabbed my shoulder, trying to throw me onto the waterbed.
"You first." Percy had twisted his arm off of my shoulder and then Annabeth shoved him onto the bed. The bed wrapped around Procrustes, engulfing him slowly.
Grover walked in looking up at the ceiling. "Is it over yet?" He asked us.
"Yeah, you can look." I told him, he slowly brought his head down to look at Procrustes in the bed. "Come on let's get going."
"You're not going to come back out, nobody does." Procrustes laughed.
"You're lucky we are letting you keep your head," I snapped at him.
We all stared into the door leading to the underworld.
"I think it's safer if I'm not holding all of these." Percy took out the pearls and gave us all one each. He had 2 so he could bring his mom back with us as well.
"Nobody makes it out!" Procrustes yelled from the other room.
"Don't make me come out there!" I screamed back at him.
"Alright, let's go." Annabeth lead the way down the stairs into the underworld.
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The underworld had no colour at all. The sky was white with grey and black stormy clouds.
In the distance you could see a large rowing boat, packed with many people. One cloaked person was standing up at the front.
"Is that. . ."
"Charon." I finished Percy's sentence before he could. I glared over at the figure standing at the boat.
"Come on, let's get on the boat, it'll take us where we need to go." Annabeth walked over to the massive rowing boat. I had a bad feeling about this.
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･Percy °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
The queue to get inside of the boat was massive.
"How are we going to get on." Grover groaned, obviously he didn't live in New York for very long. I started shoving throughout the crowd.
"Sorry, excuse me, we are with them up there!" I said as I shoved and pushed past the people.
We made it until we were infront of Charon.
"You're not dead, and you haven't paid the fee." Nobody spoke, we all stood in fear at the hooded man in front of us.
"W-We are dead." I looked back at the others not sure what else to say.
"How did you did?" Charon asked me. I said the first thing that came to mind.
"We drowned in a bath tub." Looking back at the others, they all looked at me like I had just killed their grandmas.
"All of you?" He sounded even more puzzled now. I sheepishly nodded my head. "Wow, big bath tub."
"Yeah. . ." I stared back at the others not sure what to say. They weren't much help since they all just shrugged.
"You still haven't payed the fare." You couldn't see his eyes but I could feel his stare blazing onto my skin.
"We can pay!" Grover stepped forward. He looked over at me and I realised I had all the drachmas.
I scrambled to get the golden drachmas out.
"Uh how many?" Nobody answered me, just awkward glances from both. "You know what, just take them all."
I emptied out all of our drachmas onto his hand. He looked at them and blew his whistle, a loud thud and growl erupted from the distance.
"Oh crap, run!" Rayn took off from the group first, then Annabeth, then Grover and I grabbed each other and ran for our lives.
I looked back to see a massive, three headed dog chasing us. The Cerberus.
I looked back at the dog catching up on Grover until it eventually ate him.
"Grover!" I yelled back at the beast. We ran into a foggy area, Rayn and I stopped and looked back.
"Is that...?" She trailed off, I wasn't sure what she was talking about until the fog cleared to show Annabeth on the dog's collar scratching his neck.
After a few seconds Grover crawled out from the Cerberus's mouth, covered in goo. I would've laughed at him if he didn't almost just die, I was so going to laugh at him later though.
"You're a bad, bad dog!" He yelled at the sleeping dog head he just crawled from.
"Grover, are you able to fly us all up one by one?" Annabeth called over in our direction.
"You can do it." Rayn smiled at him, giving him newfound confidence.
"Take Percy first." Annabeth yelled over, still scratching the dogs neck. "I'm not sure how much longer I can hold this."
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Grover flew up the tall wall with Percy. I was ready to go up next but I saw Annabeth struggling.
"What are you doing?" Annabeth asked me as I climbed up beside her.
"Helping you." I smiled at her. It distracted her a bit, the dog growled and shook its head, throwing Annabeth off.
I realised that I should probably start scratching its neck again so I did and it settled down.
Grover came back down and flew Annabeth up as well.
"Rayn!" I could hear Percy and the others calling my name. I was right behind the dogs ear so yelling back would wake it up.
I knew Grover wasn't going to be able to come back down because the Cerberus would wake up. I thought about what to do before reaching into my pocket to grab the squeaky red ball, squeaky, then threw it up at Percy.
My plan worked, mostly, the dog had jumped up so I leaped off its neck and onto the ledge. Well, not on the ledge, my hands were on the ledge and I was dangling off.
"Uh, a little help here?" Percy was the first the spot me and rushed over. I saw Annabeth throw the ball for the dog.
"Holy shit, you're okay," he grabbed my arm and pulled me up into a tight hug, "don't do that again, please."
He still hadn't let go of me and was giving me a side hug. We looked across the way to see a palace in the distance, the very far distance.
Grover started frantically patting his pockets.
"T-The pearl, I lost it." His eyes widened. "I think, I think it's in the dog."
Annabeth looked back at the Cerberus searching for his ball.
"We have to keep moving forward, no matter what." She answered, sounding not fully sure of herself.
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We were walking in some forest, talking, until Percy walked into someone.
"Sorry," he said, whatever it was didn't look human. It just stood there not moving, pale and dressed in white.
"They can't hear you." Annabeth said looking up at the thing. "I think, I think this is asphodel."
She bent down and lifted up the white fabric to reveal the being was being her there by roots.
"Aspho- what?" Percy asked confused.
"Soups here are bound by regret, of what they did or didn't do in their lives." Annabeth cleared up.
A loud growl erupted in the distance.
"The Cerberus." We all scattered away from where we were. Percy had grabbed my arm and yanked me to the left, Grover ran straight and Annabeth sped off to the right.
The growling quietened down again so we all regrouped, except Annabeth.
"Annabeth!" We all screamed her name. "Annabeth!"
"I'm over here!" Her voice called from the distance.
Percy and I rushed over to see Grover crouched down at her feet. Her feet were bound to the ground like the others.
"I don't get it, you must have something you regret." Grover stood up talk again. "What would you have to regret though?"
I wanted to try rip the roots from her feet but, I looked down at my hand to see Percy's still tightly holding it from when he pulled me away from the Cerberus growling.
I pulled my hand away from his, it looked like that shocked him. Probably forgot he was still holding on.
No matter how much strength I used, the roots wouldn't budge.
"It wont work," she told me. "I have a pearl, I'll use it. It'll be fine."
I was hesitant to leave her, but when a big flash peaked through the tree I knew she was okay.
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Before we made it to Hades's castle, Grover started to fly.
"Grover where are you going?" I asked him.
"I-I don't know," the shoes wings started to drag him across the sand.
I grabbed him hand but I didn't have anything to hold onto, then Percy grabbed my wrist.
"Hold on!" Percy yelled, he took out riptide and slowed us down.
One shoe came off and fell into the hole, then the other after a few thugs.
We all lay on the ground, exhausted.
"What the hell was that?" Percy sat up, confused.
"I'm not sure, but that pit is..." I looked down into the endless hole. "Tartarus."
Percy's bag made a metal clink.
"What was that?" Grover asked him.
"I don't know," he unzipped his bag to reveal, the lightning bolt. "How did-"
"It doesn't matter, let's go get your mother." I told him
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Hades palace was massive, yet empty feeling.
Hades slowly walked over to us, his footsteps echoing across the halls.
"Welcome, I know who you are you probably know who I am so-" he reached us but was cut off.
"Where is my mother." Percy snapped at him.
"Well, right to the point." Hades glanced behind him. "Follow me."
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My mom was golden. She was a golden statue of the last time I saw her. When the Minotaur caught her.
"What did you do to her."
"I saved her for you. Caught her at the last second for ya." Hades joked, then he turned serious. "Now hand it over."
"I'm not giving you the bolt." Hades pulled his extended hand back.
"What bolt?" He questioned us.
"What do you mean what bolt?" Rayn asked him.
"I mean what bolt." He sounded annoyed.
"The bolt, as in the master bolt." She told him, sounding even more annoyed than Hades.
"Oh, I don't want any part in my brother's drama."
"Then what do you want?" This whole conversation was confusing to me.
"I want my helm, it was stolen a few days before the bolt and I want it back now." He reached his hand out to me again.
"We don't have it." Grover said to Hades.
"Alright," the god took a breath, "you give me my helm and I'll give you your mother."
"We don't have it." Rayn snapped at him. "You were working with Ares to help Kronos start the war. That's what tried to pull Grover down into Tartarus!"
A moment of realisation washed over the gods face.
"Right, give me the bolt." He reached his hand out to us again.
"Wait you said you didn't want the bolt." I expected this conversation to go a whole lot differently.
"Yeah, I didn't want it." He glanced around at us. "But there's a war coming and I want to be safe."
I glanced over at the others to signify to get your pearls ready. I'm not sure if that was very clear though.
"We'll go get your helmet back and you will return my mother." I told him, then smashed the pearl onto the floor. "Hold fast mom."
I stared past Hades towards my mom as the smoke from the pearls enclosed over me.
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The pearls brought us to the beach. Annabeth was already there to help us up.
Across from us was Ares, with his sword. He wasn't looking at me though, he was staring at Rayn who looked terrified.
"Getting deja vu, huh?" He scoffed at her. I wasn't sure what he meant. "Do you remember last time you and your friend tried to kill me on this beach?"
Rayn looked up angrily at the god, clenching her fists.
"I guess you do remember." Ares chuckled. "How did he die again? Oh right, I sliced his throat."
•cute little cliffhanger
•idk why but I got such writers block while making this chapter but I will try to write the next one asap.
•IDK WHAT IM GONNA DO WITH MY TUESDAY NIGHTS NOW WITHOUT A NEW EPISODE