Chapter 3- I Want to Die.

Percy P.O.V

I chuckled at the memory of destroying camp amused, and yet also saddened at the cold farewell.

I felt like a monster, a super-powerful, giant, vicious, monster, but it felt good as well. It had been two days since the incident. It's the only memory that keeps me from depression but it can't keep the pain away. The pain of everyone that I love and protect betraying me because of their fear. They didn't trust me even though I trusted them.

*Sigh* I missed my friends...or ex friends, whatever.

I wished blackjack and Mrs. O'leary were with me, but Blackjack was needed at camp and my dog was in the underworld, probably playing with Cerberus. I wished they were here...

But I couldn't dwell on that...

I wondered what they were doing...

Blackjack P.O.V (didn't expected that didn't you?)

I missed boss. He was too young to die.

Screw those half-bloods! After he saved us all, they just betrayed him! If only we were out of these stables, their faces would have horseshoe-shaped bruises!

Every Pegasus is now on protest. Were on a roll baby! Ha! Those puny half-bloods can't ride us! Let them try and we'll trample to pieces!

Those ungrateful, cowardly, betraying b$! hs! One day we will get revenge from those...things, yeah...things.

I miss boss! Why did that dragon monster something eat him? Why him!? Of all the campers, why him? Is it because it liked seafood?

Annabeth P.O.V

It's been two days now since I became a goddess.

I became the goddess of architecture and an heiress of Athena.

Jason became a minor god of thunder. Leo became a minor god of fire. Piper became a minor goddess of love. Frank is now a minor god of animals. And Hazel is now a minor goddess of jewels and rocks.

It's been two days now, after I left him...

I started to sob, I miss Percy! Why, did I chose to leave him!?

He was now dead...I don't really know, but no one has asked Hades yet, and Nico is mad at me for leaving him.

Why am I so stupid?

Why...

I feel terrible. The one, who loves me most, is betrayed, by me...

I thought that if I became a goddess, my life would be complete. I could do whatever I wanted, I could design whatever designs I wanted to.

But now, I feel, empty.

My ideas left me after I saw Percy's face on that Isis Message. His face was full of pain, confusion, and more pain.

I expected him to be mad, maybe if that was all then I could still move on.

But...

No.

I never saw any anger.

I saw my lover's heart break into billions of pieces.

I wanted to tell him I was sorry and make the gods turn him into a god, but they refused. I looked at Poseidon but I couldn't tell what he was thinking. I can't tell why he doesn't want Percy to be one of us. I only saw his eyes full of sadness. I wanted to know.

After the solstice, we came back to camp. I came to create more cabins for the minor gods, though, I really just wanted to go to him and be held in his arms.

When we came back, however, all we saw were ruins. Like some storm came to destroy the camp.

I saw many campers crying, shivering, and starring in shock. I thought that maybe some of them had died.

I asked a Hebe camper what had happened and how many casualties there were, but to my shock, she said there were no dead campers or nature spirits, just a few were injured because of the panic and tripped. She then said that a giant gray beast appeared and destroyed the camp. I asked several others too, but their answers were still the same.

They said that the beast was three times larger than the big house. Weapons and magic couldn't affect it. They were all scared of it because of its ear shattering roar and piercing gray eyes that were full of sorrow and pain.

I counted and checked them all just to be sure and I found out that only one was missing. A wave of worry came over me.

It was Percy.

I ran as fast as I could to his cabin.

My body felt numb when I saw the ruble and all of Percy's things covered in blood. I called the Apollo cabin to check whose blood it was.

While they were checking it, I looked at the things to find any clues as to where Percy was.

I found a gray note book and read the front cover:

Plans for my wedding

My eyes stung as I opened it. I saw the most beautiful ring designs with one big one in the middle. It had a caption that read:

"This ring will be the one that my wise girl will wear on our wedding. Made with a combination of Celestial bronze, Imperial Gold, and some of the hunter's metal, lunar silver"

Project is to be finished by December 24, 2011 by the Cyclopes under dad's home.

I couldn't stop my tears anymore. Percy was planning for our wedding, and... and I ruined it.

I looked at the other pages and saw pictures of us.

Our pictures that we took each year,

He looked happy.

We looked happy.

I studied our blood stained photos, I knew that the first one was taken after our first quest. He was in the middle between Grover and I, grinning like crazy as if he saved the world, which he did.

Memories rushed back to me.

Saving the world became our yearly tradition.

The next page was dedicated to our second year.

I saw my picture that was full of staplers, the caption said,

"Torn and chewed by the Canadians"

Then the other pictures showed me, Percy, Grover, and a scowling Clarisse under Thalia's tree pointing at the golden fleece and the then two foot long Peleus.

My tears rushed to my cheeks as I hugged the blood stained book.

The world went blank when the Apollo campers confirmed that it was Percy's blood.

Nico's P.O.V

Damn them all! Those blasted fools.

I just came to camp back from a mission for my father I found out. My cabin was destroyed and the worst of it all, I found out that Annabeth dumped Percy and he's now missing.

I have been worried sick since I saw his blood splattered cabin. I knew he wasn't dead, but it worried me to see just how much blood he lost; off on his own, heartbroken.

Those fools don't even care for him. When I ask them to help me find him, they say that he's better off , fools.

He's the only one who really cares for me, the only one who came to see me when I needed help. He's the only one who looked out me and now he's missing. I swear I'll find him... wherever he is.

Percy's P.O.V

I want to die...

That's all I want now.

All of my loved ones don't want me anymore.

I never needed glory. Who needs that **?

Their all okay, that's enough for me...

Now I only want to die.

But I can't.

I wonder why?

I'll just give you another flashback of after my transformation.

Flashback

I woke up on an unknown street.

Still dazed from what had transpired.

But what happened?

Hmm...

Oh, I remember now. I destroyed Camp Half-blood

A small smile formed on my face, but as soon as it came, it disappeared.

Why did they betray me?

Why did Annabeth leave me?

Why?

The shadows around me started to move and a moment later I was surrounded by five Cyclopes, five big, heavily armed, fierce monsters.

The ghost of that humorless smile appeared again.

Maybe they could kill me, I thought.

I didn't even bother to uncap riptide. As they ran towards me, I was reminded of Tyson. How was he?. I hoped he was okay.

The first monster shouted at me "Die murderer!"

I think I saw a tear run from his lone eye.

I didn't move.

I closed my eyes waiting for my imminent death.

I waited and waited...until, CLANG! I opened my eyes to see that the axe of my attacker broken into two pieces. The blade lay on the ground, dented, as if swung at a titanium pole the size of my neck.

"What the Hades?" I muttered. I found the Cyclops and the other four gaping at me.

"What happened?" I asked.

The monster looked into my eyes and visibly stiffened. The other four also froze and then they all started to curl up and shiver in my presence.

"P-please d-don't hurt us l-lord...!" they begged. "W-we just wanted t-to live in peace b-but y-you ha-half-bloods always s-s-seeks us out and kill us, p-please don't kill us!" They continued.

After I got over my confusion, I asked "Why do they seek you?"

"B-because they say that we are m-monsters, b-because o-of our a-appearance, but they are the m-monsters! They killed our family. Please d-don't k-kill us!"

I sensed great emotional pain coming from them.

They just wanted to live in peace but couldn't because people feared them, so they tried to kill them. I felt sympathy for the Cyclopes. I guessed I felt that way because their story was somewhat similar to mine.

"Okay..." I said,

"I won't kill you..."

"R-really?"

"Yes, but only if you swear to the river Styx that you will never eat or hurt another half-blood, unless they attack you first."

"We swear!"

*Thunder boomed*

"Good now, what happened? Why didn't your axe hurt me?

"We don't know. It just snapped when it hit your neck, lord."

That surprised me. My curse disappeared when I crossed the Little Tiber outside New Rome. I reached for the small of my back and found nothing. No painful sensation flowed throughout my body like when I still had the curse.

"Would you attack me again? On the small of my back?" I asked

"A-are you s-sure m-master?"

"Yes."

Then one of them swung their other axes at me, but still nothing happened other than his axe shattering.

"P-please don't k-kill us!" He shouted.

"It's okay" I said to in a soothing voice.

"I'll leave now. Thank you and goodbye."

"Wait! Please accept this bag. We stole it from a camping site...But we didn't kill them!" He said nervously.

"Thanks... What are your names?

"I-I'm Jayson, these a-are my brothers: M-Melvin, Gail, Tyron, a-and J-Jerome."

"How about you my lord?"

I didn't want to say because my name brought back bad memories, so I said a little awkwardly,

"Nobody..."

"My name is Nobody."

Their smiles widened and they said "Nobody is our friend! Nobody is our lord!"

I smiled at them. Their innocence somewhat resembled my brother.

I looked through the bag that they had given me, a couple of jeans, three t-shirts, a pair of sun glasses, a gray hoodie and a black motorcycle mask and some others necessities.

"Thank you again" I said "This will help me a lot."

"You're welcome lord" They smiled at me.

After I said good bye to my new friends, I tried to use my vapor travel. I learned how to do it before I fought Gaea. It was really simple and it didn't drown or wet your companions, a bubble formed around you and made it appear as if your body was disintegrating into water molecules. That illusion made it look cooler.

It was easy, but it consumes much of my energy so I don't use it frequently, but after my transformation, I felt as if it would be easier.

I relaxed my state and thought of a place that I wanted to go to. There was only one place I wanted to go at the moment and that was the Underworld.

So faster than a blink of an eye, I willed the vapor to surround me and bring me to the dreaded underworld.

And with my luck, I landed on top of Alecto and her sisters.

"What the...?!" she screeched

"Perseus Jackson?"

I cringed a little at my full name.

"Damn you! I'll have my revenge you worthless brat! Don't tell me you saved the world too many times for that! I'll still kill you for your lack of manners!"

Then she and her sisters looked directly into my eyes...

I was just casually looking at them, wishing that they would get to the killing Percy part,

But instead, they cringed and bowed to me, begging for me spare their lives. Their faces crumpled in fear. I didn't know that furies sweat, but they were soaked in it. That confused me, maybe it was the heat? I shrugged it off.

"So, ummm... can you bring me to Hades?" I asked them awkwardly.

"O-of course my lord..."

Alarmed I quickly looked for Hades or Nico behind me but I found no one.

Huh? Why do creatures that look into my eyes act like that?

I'm not scary... Am I?

Oh well.

They gently grabbed my shoulders and flew to the palace of the underworld.

As we arrived at the entrance of the palace, hellhounds started to bark at me. Maybe they were wondering if the furies brought me here as their new snack. When I got closer, they started to growl but when they looked into my eyes, they whimpered and tucked their tails in between the legs giving a gesture like they were bowing to their master.

Then, the biggest hellhound, three times larger than Mrs. O'leary, neared his snout as if waiting to be petted. I petted him of course and he wagged his tail indicating that he was very happy.

I entered the hall. This was not my first time here, but it was my first time coming without the fear of dying looming over my head because now, it was my wish to die.

The furies stopped me in front of a big door. They knocked three times and the voice of Hades answered.

"Come in!" he sounded annoyed.

As I entered, I saw the lord of the underworld sitting comfortably, reading a black book that I could read the title of.

"Who is it?" he said, still not looking up from his book to notice that who I was.

After a while, he finally looked up recognized me. He tensed.

We locked eyes and I could see that he almost fell off his seat in his shock.

"W-where have you been?

"W-why are you here?

"W-what happened to you?"

"Your cabin was destroyed and covered in your blood and here you are... alive." he stated looking everywhere besides my eyes.

"I don't know" I lied.

"Everything was blurry when I woke up.

"Uncle I have a request for you." I said with no emotion.

"What is this request you ask of me?" he was nervous.

I sighed and said...

"I want to die."