[Dex is severely underrated. Just saying]

"Percy!" I heard Annabeth cry. Uh oh. That doesn't sound good. I gave the remaining troll a good sucker punch and hurried over to Annabeth.

"What? What's wrong?" Biana asked hurriedly.

"Out of the way, doctor coming through!" Will pushed his way through and saw Percy lying motionless on the ground.

"Almost dying three times in a week?" Keefe whistled. "That's gotta beat Foster's record." Sophie punched him in the shoulder.

"Get him to Elwin!" Wonderboy yelled.

"I have some spare elixirs in my pocket." I pulled out a bottle of Youth and some Achey-Break and handed it to Will, who expertly pried open Percy's mouth and dribbled some into his mouth. Then he got out the thing they call ambrosia and stuffed some into his mouth.

Linh bent down and made a cooling patch out of water like she did to Wylie before. Annabeth whispered to him something about strangling him and Seaweed Brains. Weird. His eyes fluttered open.

"Don't waste your...energy on—" He paused to cough. "—on me." 

"What happened, Kelp face?" Nico growled. Percy paused to cough again.

"P-poison." He pointed to his shoulder, scowling. "They should really...get better killing ideas..." 

"Linh, put the water on his shoulder!" Will took the dart out and Linh put the water over his shoulder.

"It's not working!" She cried after several seconds. Annabeth made a sort of strangled sound. 

"I think...it's pit scorpion..." Percy managed to croak. Annabeth and Will paled significantly.

"Pit scorpion?" I asked, not needing elaboration to know that it was deadly.

"The poison is fatal and would kill a normal person within 60 seconds." Frank explained. "The dart was coated in it. I think Percy would last a bit longer since he has limited control over it, but he won't last long."

"We need to get him to Elwin." Keefe said, all silliness gone. Tam and Linh lifted Percy up with telekinesis.

"I'll take him." Nico volunteered. "I can shadow-travel. There's no light here for your guys to light-leap." Will opened his mouth to protest but Nico already disappeared before he could say anything.

"I can teleport us there." Sophie said. "Grab hands, everybody. Fitz, Tam, Linh, can you levitate the others who can't?"

"I can fly." Jason added. "I can help, too." Sophie nodded and we pushed against the ground. Since the ceiling was so high, we could easily teleport. Hazel shifted the cave to make it higher, until Sophie said to stop. We all plummeted towards the bloodstained floor, a crack echoed through the room, and we fell into the void.

Line break caused by teleportation

"Oof!" Keefe groaned as Sophie, Tam, Fitz, and I landed on him. Frank wheezed as Hazel and Annabeth fell on top of him, and Jason somehow managed to heroically catch Piper, along with Wylie, Marella, and Linh.

"Get off me, Tammy boy." Keefe grumbled. "You too, Fitzy." Sophie blushed and got off of Keefe immediately.

"Not you, Foster." Keefe grinned. "I'm fine with you, it's just that Fitzy and Bangs boy are a tad bit heavier than you."

"Shut the fuck up, guys. Percy is dying here and you're joking around?" Piper's voice was raised a couple octaves higher than it usually was.

"Language." Elwin muttered as Bullhorn started screaming. 

"Yeah, innocent ears here." Frank pointed to Hazel, who had her ears covered by Leo.

"I know plenty of cuss words." Hazel huffed indignantly.

"Yeah, sure y-you do." Percy snorted from his bed, and promptly started a coughing bout.

"Don't you dare die on us, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth's voice shook as she ran a hand through Percy's hair.

"Aww Annie, this happens all the time. Can't you not worry for once? I always survive." He smiled weakly. "Also, I'm fine. Last time I got stung by a pit scorpion—"

"Stop acting like it's not a big deal!" Nico shouted. Percy huffed.

"It's not a big deal, Death Breath. New flash: I'll survive. Remember the prophecy?" He coughed again into his hand, and when he withdrew it, it was covered in blood. All the elves looked at him in horror, and I couldn't help but get a little queasy myself.

"What?" He asked incredulously. "Do you elves seriously never see blood?"

"Well, that changed when Foster here arrived." Keefe flashed a smirk at Sophie, and she blushed. "Foster here always got us into Fostering it."

"That happened with just my existence." Percy grumbled, and then said something incoherently under his breath.

"Drink these." Elwin handed him several bottles of colorful liquid. Percy suddenly gasped and held his head.

"The venom's taking its toll!" Annabeth practically screamed. "What are we going to do?!" 

"Relax...Wise Girl..." Percy managed to gasp out before he lost consciousness.

"Will, do something!" Jason begged.

"Uhm, I can try doing a poem?" He cleared his throat and placed his hands on Percy's forehead.

"My dad is so great,

Dad, please heal Percy.

It would be awesome." A light burst from his hands and made everyone squint.

"That was awesome, Will!" Apollo grinned madly. "I've never been so proud." Will blushed furiously. "Also, he'll be fine." He pointed to Percy. "Woah, three times a brush with death in two weeks? New title: Percy Jackson, one who almost died thrice in a fortnight."

"That's not something to be proud of." Nico sighed, putting his face in his hands. Wow. I still can't believe gods are real, but I guess they are. They're pretty cool. Leo's now one of my best buds, being the son of Hephaestus and all. Dang it. Getting off track. I wonder if this is what it's like to have ADHD.

"He almost died three times his first summer in camp." Hazel added, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"And he almost died twice on our quest." Frank grinned, wrapping an arm around Hazel.

"He almost died twice on the voyage to Polyphemus to save Grover—" Leo grinned impishly, knowing what was coming next.

"—and almost died in the Battle of the Labyrinth—" Piper chimed in.

"—and in the Great Titan war—" I remembered the stories Percy told me.

"We get it! We get it! He almost died a lot of times." Nico threw his hands up in the air, exasperated.

"Don't forget Tartarus." A shaky voice added from the corner. "And Gaea."

"What the Hades, Seaweed Brain?!" Annabeth leaped up and tackled him in a hug.

"Oof, Annie, you're strangling me—"

"You idiot!" She screamed. "You almost died again; do you know how much stress that causes me? AND DON'T CALL ME ANNIE! Do you know—"

"Is she always like this?" Elwin asked as we left Percy to be chewed out by his VAG—Very Angry Girlfriend.

"Yes." Nico, Will, Apollo, and the rest of the Seven said immediately.

"My mom chewed me out like that when I got kidnapped with Sophie." I cringed, thinking of the 4-hour lecture I had gotten once I was safely deposited home.

"So did Edaline and Grady." Sophie laughed, but a trace of pain lingered in her eyes.

"Did we tell you about how Percy got kidnapped by his aunt?" Leo's nose erupted into flames. "Man, I hate that woman—" Thunder rumbled in the sky.

"You didn't need to take him away for eight months, you know!" Leo yelled back. Apollo laughed.

"I'll be reminding mom about that." Apollo joked, flashing a smile at Will and Nico and then flashing away.

[yay, i decided percy should almost die again! because no fanfic is complete without percy almost dying, am i right? but i really should give him a break...

Vote time—

Dark!Percy Jackson betrayed fanfic (not cliche)

OR

Harry Potter and Percy Jackson crossover (also not cliche)

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