So has anyone on Tumblr seen those Dark!Percy headcanons? I actually really like those. I was looking at them last night on my tumblr page (I have multiple blogs: wisegirl502 is my main one and demigoddiaries502 is the main PJO one, and then the unknowntrilogy is the blog for this series!).

Chapter Quote:
"Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!"
~Leo Valdez
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Chapter 31: Ghost King and Repair Boy

Bryn

The four demigods stood back to back with each other, swords elongated although Bryn knew they couldn't kill the arai. Whatever curse the arai carried would be placed on whoever killed that particular arai. They were nasty suckers that were almost impossible to kill.

"Why are there so many?" Derek questioned, jabbing his sword when one of the old hags came too close to him. It leapt out of reach.

"A lot of curses have been placed upon us. I can imagine Hannah and Ryan had a few choice ones for me," Bryn said.

"How exactly do we kill them?" Luke queried.

"We can't. They have to kill each other," Silena replied. "I mean unless you don't mind have another curse placed on you, then go ahead a kill them. But it's a stupid idea."

"You're talking to the guy who tried to charge the daughter of Tartarus," Derek pointed out. "Do not encourage him."

"Hey!" Luke protested.

"The curses, they only hurt demigods. Any immortal that has the curse placed on them is almost immediately relieved of it because their body and power counteracts it. If only we had an immortal..." Bryn muttered. None of them knew any down in Tartarus that could help them, only ones who wanted to kill them. "Our best chance is to run."

Taking a chance, the demigods ran at the arai, sliding underneath them at the last minute. Amazed that'd worked, Bryn couldn't help but smile. She heard the hags screaming in rage behind them but didn't dare look back. Not until Silena gave a yelp. One of the arai had wrapped its leathery tail around the Jackson girl's leg, causing to slam into the ground.

"Get away from her!" Derek shouted, nocking an arrow and firing. The monster exploded into dust.

"Wonder what the curse-" Derek sneezed. "I wonder what the curse-"

Derek sneezed again. "It better not be-"

He sneezed. "What monster-"

Sneeze.

"-Would wish eternal-"

Sneeze.

"-Sneezing on someone?" Derek finished before sneezing again.

"On the bright side, you'll have some killer abs," Luke said. The son of Hades glared at him.

"Incoming!" Silena shouted. Multiple arai dove at the demigods. Silena pulled out her sword and swung at one of them, killing it instantly. She stood up, only to fall back down again. "Guys?! Where are you?! I can't- I can't see!"

"Ooh the blind curse. Let's see, that was placed by a Cyclops you fought down in Mexico. There's a lot of their curses among us," one of the arai said. "Miss Jackson always had to see things to believe it so if she can't see anything, how can she believe it?"

Derek was kneeling down next to his girlfriend, sneezing out comforting words. Bryn had no time to focus on them though because one of the arai went straight for Luke. She shoved him out of the way and shot an arrow straight into the arai's heart. It exploded with a scream. Bryn tried to say something but nothing came out. She tried again, but nothing.

"Bryn?" Luke asked, stepping towards her.

"The silent curse. Placed by Ryan London so she couldn't lie her way out of anything anymore or Charmspeak people into doing what she wanted. Something that has been so crucial in her survival her whole life," an arai mused.

"Stay away from my friends!" Luke ordered, thrusting his sword at the closest hag. She vaporized into yellow dust. Immediately Luke began hiccupping. Rolling his eyes, he said, "Really?"

"Whdioosa?" Derek asked.

"What?"

Whdioosa?" he repeated.

"The curse of no hearing! Playing off his insecurity of feeling like he never belonged in your group because he felt unworthy. Only your words convinced him otherwise. Now when he gets those feelings, he can't hear you contradict them! That was one of Hannah's I believe," an arai explained.

"Leave. Them. Alone," Luke growled, hiccupping at the end of his sentence.

"No, no, I think we'll have the two boys for dinner and the girls for dessert. Ladies, attack!" The arai dove at the demigods. Silena screamed as a tail whipped her back, cutting open her shirt and creating a nasty gash on her back. Bryn fired an arrow at that one, impaling it in the head. She jumped back and back, avoiding be hit by the leathery tail herself. She ended up far away from her friends, but she'd had quite a few arai follow her over. Bryn hit one arai with her sword before switching to her bow and firing an arrow at another one. Bryn's stomach growled, her throat became parched. Eternal hunger and thirst must've been one of them curses. But that wasn't the worst part of it. Bryn's legs gave out beneath her. She collapsed to the ground. Any attempt to get up was futile. The curse had caused her to become completely paralyzed. Only her face muscles worked. She couldn't scream out for help. She couldn't warn Derek about the arai that was about to sink her teeth into his shoulder. She couldn't yell directions at Silena on how to avoid the arai. Bryn was completely helpless and useless.

"The curse of Hannah, daughter of Tartarus," an arai said. "Now you cannot betray anyone, you cannot stab people in the back, you cannot do a single thing. You must watch your friends die in front of you."

Bryn started sobbing, but no sound came out. The paralysis was a curse Hannah had placed on her before she'd died, but the sight of watching her friends die was the result of Bryn breaking her promise to Hannah. It had to be.

For once in her life, Bryn had no idea what to do. For the first time in her life, she was truly, completely, helpless and useless. All she could do was watch as her friends started to become overwhelmed by the arai.
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Hallie

Mr. and Mrs. Jackson hadn't taken the news well. Annabeth had passed out. Percy had caught her but fell to the ground in shock himself. Mrs. Winchester and Mr. Drew collapsed onto the sofa. Mr. and Mrs. Michaels stood stock still.

"Tar-Tartarus?" Mr. Drew stammered.

"Oh my poor baby girl," Mrs. Winchester whispered, tears rolling down her cheeks.

Annabeth woke up. "Percy, our kids... both our kids... they're gone! They're down in- no! It's not right!"

"I know, I know," Percy said, his voice cracking. Hallie turned her head away from the Jacksons and Winchesters, unable to watch their pain. But even then, the Michaels were in her view. Derek's mother kept muttering his name. Mr. Michaels was hugging her, tears welling in his eyes, his face turning beet red.

"I'm sorry, mum, we tried to save her," Bradley whispered.

"We reached her too late. The hole closed up right when we were within reach," Brady said.

"It was Tartarus. It would've pulled you down too. Then you'd all be down there," Hallie said gently.

"No, don't be sorry boys. Hallie's right. If you two had tried to help them, you would've been dragged down into that hell too," Mrs. Winchester remarked. "She just- she never knew I was alive, did she?"

"Um, she knew for a year or so. She just... Bryn made a deal with Hannah, pretending to serve her and building an elite army for her, but her intentions all along were to fight for the gods and ambush Hannah. Bryn had sworn an oath on the Styx, so since she broke that, the penalty for that was death. We never told her you knew she was alive because she didn't want to meet you again and then die on you a little while later," Hallie explained. "She wanted to protect you. It took a lot of prodding just from the three of us to get her to tell us about what she'd done."

"Even as a little girl, she was always looking out for the welfare of others," Mr. Drew said with a sad smile.

"Bryn gave us instructions before they fell," Brady said.

"She told us to kick Hannah's forces' asses and then find the other entrance of where they're supposed to come out," Bradley added.

"The Doors of Death, that's where they'll come out," Percy declared.

"Where are they?" Hallie asked.

"No idea. It moves around. Last time it was in Italy. For all we know, they could end up in the middle of the Gobi Desert."

"The gods must know, right?" Brady queried.

"How exactly are you planning to get the gods to listen to you? They don't like helping demigods whenever they can help it," Mr. Drew pointed out.

"Because the gods owe us, Bryn especially. She protected their children from harm and became a double agent for them. They'll tell us," Bradley replied. He took out his cellphone and hit Zeus's number before leaving the room entirely. Hallie hurriedly told the adults that the gods had gotten with the times and had gotten cellphones, giving their children their number, but reminded them it was only to be used for emergencies.

Bradley came back a few minutes later. He looked ticked but said, "The gods will be here in a few seconds."

Sure enough, in less than five seconds, thirteen gods walked into their hotel room. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hera led them in, followed by Ares and Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Aphrodite and Hephaestus, Demeter and Hermes, Dionysus, and lastly Hallie's father: Hades.

"What has happened?" Zeus demanded.

"Bryn, Luke, Silena, and Derek have fallen into Tartarus. We need you to tell us where the Doors of Death are," Brady declared.

"How did they fall into Tartarus?" Hera asked. "The fools! Don't they know how deadly it is to demigods?!"

Annabeth spat, "They were saving your thrones, your asses."

"The only way for them to defeat Hannah was to open a portal to Tartarus and push her in it. A vine grabbed one of them and one by one, trying to save each other, they all went down," Hallie explained hurriedly before Hera zapped Annabeth into nothingness.

"Can't one of you go down and get them? You're gods for goodness sake!" Mrs. Winchester exclaimed. Zeus looked at her with sympathetic eyes.

"No, I cannot. Hades has control over that dominion but there are too many giants and titans and worse things that would be able to kill us down there," Zeus said.

"And you wouldn't risk your life for the people who saved yours?" Mr. Drew snarled. The air became electric as Zeus stared angrily at the son of Hephaestus.

"Watch your mouth, boy. My daughter is down there so don't think I don't care about this. I cannot do anything. However, I can tell you where the Doors of Death are."

"Where are they?" Brady questioned anxiously.

"The Gobi Desert."

"Wow, I was just guessing on that," Percy commented. The gods stared at him with annoyed looks, with the exception of Poseidon who was smiling and winked at his son.

"I'll give you the exact coordinates," Zeus said, writing something down on a piece of paper. He handed it to Bradley who opened it.

"This is in the middle of nowhere. How are we going to get there?" the twin pointed out.

"Ask Mr. Valdez, he should get you there. We must be going. There is still much to fight out there even though Hannah may be gone."

"What my brother means is thank you for saving our thrones and our existence," Poseidon said. "We are eternally grateful and when this war is truly over, we will call you up to Olympus to give you whatever it is that you want."

"Yes, yes, what he said," Zeus agreed. All the demigods closed their eyes so the gods could flash out of there.

"I forgot how annoying they were," Percy said once the gods had left. "Well, my dad is pretty cool."

"Who's Valdez?" Hallie inquired.

"Leo Valdez, also known as the son of Hephaestus and 'bad boy supreme'. Don't ask. We should go find him though. Despite my dislike for Zeus, I think he's telling the truth about Leo. Let's go find him." Percy helped Annabeth up before the nine of them went downstairs. They were greeted by a horde of wolves. Lupa stood regally in the middle.

I sense great distress. What has happened? Where is Bryn? Lupa queried. She said she'd meet us here. I apologize for the time it took us to get here. We encountered quite a few enemies along the way.

Hallie answered. "She fell into Tartarus with Luke, Silena, and Derek. We're on our way to meet them now, on the other side of the Doors of Death."

My apologies. I pray they make it back. For the Jacksons, returning from Tartarus runs in their blood. They will most definitely survive.

"What do you mean?"

"She means when Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Leo, Hazel, Frank, and I were fighting Gaia, Annabeth and I fell into Tartarus. We've tried to suppress those memories as best we can. They're not exactly cheerful," Percy said quietly. "Silena and Luke knew, but not much. We told them about the River Phlegethon and about our friend Bob and the giant Damasen, but nothing in detail. We never thought-"

"-they'd end up in Tartarus," Hallie finished. "It's okay, Mr. Jackson. None of us thought it would happen."

What is going to happen now? Lupa asked.

"Brady, Bradley, and I are going to head to the Gobi Desert where the Doors of Death are to open next. We're to find Leo Valdez so he can help us."

What would you like us to do?

"There's still battles being fought and while the enemy ranks are disappearing, our troops are tired and they're weakening. They could use some fresh fighters. Split your troops up and go help the demigods out. Prerana, Ana, Vanessa, Scott, and Ty will be staying here, although they don't know that yet. They will be in charge until we get back."

Lupa nodded her head and left with her wolves behind her. The demigods stepped outside, calling for Leo. He appeared a few seconds later with Calypso by his side.

"Hey guys, what's up? What's the long faces for? You okay Aquaman? Wisegirl?" Leo prodded.

"No, Luke and Silena fell into Tartarus along with Bryn and Derek. Zeus told us you could help these three get over to the Gobi Desert," Annabeth said.

Leo paled. "Oh my gods, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I have something that will help. It's back at my house. Calypso dear, would you teleport us there?"

Calypso nodded. She snapped her fingers. Suddenly Hallie, the twins, Leo, and Calypso were all inside a massive warehouse with a gigantic ship inside it.

"You expect us to sail all the way to the Gobi Desert?" Brady stated.

"We're sons of Zeus and she's a daughter of Hades. The last place we should be is on the bloody ocean," Bradley said.

"Oh it doesn't sail on water, it sails in the air too. Calypso and I will go with you since I'm best at steering and controlling it and she goes because it's always nice to have an immortal on your side, am I right?"

"We're coming too," a gravelly voice said from the shadows. Everyone looked in the direction of its owner. A tall, lean, pale, dark-haired man stepped out. He wore an entire outfit of all black, from the jacket to the shoes. His eyes were dark brown. The man that stepped up behind him was the complete opposite with his blonde hair, bright blue eyes, tanned skin, white shirt, and khaki shorts.

"Who exactly are you?" Brady queried.

"Hey, Ghost King! Long time no see buddy!" Leo exclaimed.

The Ghost King rolled his eyes. "Yeah, you too Mr. Spock. My name is Nico Di Angelo. This is my husband Will. We've been sent to help you."
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I'm so happy to be bringing Nico and Will into the story! I hope you enjoyed it!