Percy's POV ( for a while hopefully)

I woke up and looked around to see that I was tied to a vertical table.

"Well here comes the slow torture till you die part," I dryly chuckled and as if they heard me the door opened and stayed open for a good three seconds before the first person stepped into the room, and surprise, it was Ares. The one that hates me a little more than Zeus; I guessed Zeus was next.

"Okay animal I get the pleasure of hurting you first so don't move" Ares leaned in to my ear smiling as he said the last part and I rolled my eyes and snapped at him hoping to snag his ear or something. I got lucky because I tasted blood, and the side of his cheek had been cut open by a canine.

"You!!" Ares growled and punched my stomach, strangely I didn't feel much of the punch as I feel I should've.

"Look are you going to cut me to ribbons now or are you going to continue looking like a hurt puppy and talk to yourself." I said stoically and Ares scowled bristling a deep red. Then he pulled out a knife and had it at my throat. Strangely enough I saw it in slow motion and was practically sleeping by the time he actually got to my throat.

"Don't you talk to me like that you brat" he said and I smirked. Then the first cut came and though I wasn't ready for it. I didn't give him the pleasure of my screams.

Instead I never let up my grin and string of insults until he got bored and left in defeat grumbling about how much of a waste of time this was. My body as expected, was in ribbons, but it healed quickly and I was amazed at the fact that it left no scars. Then came Zeus, my father, Athena, and the rest. I was given no time to recover as they all tortured me in different ways. I was actually slightly afraid of what Aphrodite might do as she did have a crush on me for a while, but instead of taking advantage of me like I thought she would. She actually got her dress, though red, bloody with a series of weapons. I don't know how long this lasted, and there were a few reoccurring visitors: my late father being the most frequent aside from Zeus, Athena, and Ares.

Artemis seemed to be the last one to come in and I guessed that she had the honors of killing me. I shuddered involuntarily at how she might do it: Would she rip me apart slowly? Would she her silver even work to hurt me like a normal werewolf being blessed by her an all beforehand? Or would she just cut off my—.

My thought process was cut off as an arrow sank into my chest. I looked down at it in confusion and when I looked up I saw that she was gone. Then Poseidon, Hades, and Zeus came in and they grabbed hands with leather gloves on.

"We curse you to forever remain in Tartarus till your fading light," I translated the important parts as they chanted and soon felt my body crumbling to dust, and soon I couldn't feel my arms or legs past the elbows and knees.

"Any last words" they finally asked and I sighed in relief, finally.

"Yeah! I know that you'll regret this in the future. I know that you'll want me back when a new danger comes to destroy you, but I will not help you. I will not come back, I am going to let you all die and love the rest of my life peacefully without you, and I certainly will not forgive you for this!" I let out a savage roar before my vision blacked out.

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All I saw was red: Red up, red down, red to the sides, and red on my skin, but I knew it wouldn't last. I pushed out wanting to get out of this confined space and as soon as my finger felt empty space and the slight scent of the familiar air breached my cocoon. I reached for my powers and noticed that they were a lot stronger now. That helped me bring a medium sized ball of water to encase the thing I was in. Then I did something I didn't think I could do. I froze the water around my prison making it shatter into a thousand pieces of reddish icy flesh pieces.

I stepped out and looked down to see I was in some sort of cocoon or egg and laughed. The last time I saw one of these was when I was down here with—with Annabeth. A tear formed in my eye at the thought of her but it dried up in the hot heat of the Pit not a moment later. I chuckled at the irony of my situation. Percy Jackson, bane of monsters only to die and become the very thing I used to kill for survival.

I walked around getting used my new body and the air. Then I smelled something big, reptilian, and more than likely ugly heading my way. I unconsciously bared my teeth and spread my new claws as a Drakon came over in the distance. How did it know I was here? Did others know too?

"Move puny wolf," It hissed when it appeared before me, not caring to stray from the straight line it was moving in. I was slightly surprised at the fact that I could understand them now but it was replaced with anger at the insult.

I stood my ground growling a loud challenge and it hissed loudly before charging, mouth open wide. I jumped up and onto its back just as it closed those powerful jaws on the spot I had been and dug my claws into its back. I was slightly surprised that I broke through its scales and proceeded to draw blood, but it was quickly replaced by gratitude and pride at how easily my new weapons cut through its armored scales. It must've been surprised too because it hissed in pain and annoyance before shaking me off.

"What are you, Werewolf?" It hissed and I shrugged.

"I don't know," I said and then I attacked.

I used my claws as I slid under it and cut open it's belly spilling, well, its guts. In its pain and anger it didn't notice me on its back, running in between the gashes I caused to its neck. Then, when it finally noticed that I was on its back, it was too late as my claws were already sliding down it's neck cutting it open.

It made a gurgling sound that I guessed was it trying to roar in defiance one last time. I hopped off of it as it fell to the ground twitching and turning to dust. I went to it's head bending down to look it in its eyes and I raised my bloodied claws so that it could see them.

"Next time be more careful who you pick a fight with, even if you think you're stronger than them," I said to it and it's eyes and skin on it's snout dried up. Turning into yellowish dust and caving in like the rest of its body. It didn't even leave any spoils for my victory. I sighed with disappointment and looked around to see if anything else saw what I had done. I utilized my enhanced vision to see further than I ever could before and when I was sure that nothing had noticed I stood and stalked off.

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Let me tell you, walking for hours and hours was extremely boring. I had a few chances to kick a few rocks and some small fry challenged me to a quick fight, of which I have won. Then I passed a tall metal stand with a disk attached to the top. The hope that they might regret their past decisions and send me a note that they were going to try and get me came up for a moment but it didn't last long. I felt a blast of hot, choking air and I smelled what could only be described as a powerful being behind me.

"What do you want Tartarus" I said whirling around defensively. If I was going to die again I was going out fighting.  I looked at his faceless black hole of a mask assessing me before he lifted his arms and reached up to his face, grabbing the sides of something and pulling...

😈 I'm sorry everyone but I had to. This is still going to be one of the shorter chapters of the book just because of this reason and while I changed quite a bit so far I do not plan to change this 😜.

Hope you enjoyed.

-Revised 2-18-22