章 17: Chapter 17
Percy pov.
The days leading up until Emma's burning went by quick. We had planned it all out and were ready. The only reason we hadn't been ready before now was because there had been multiple monster attacks but it was just monsters. The day had come. In thirty minutes Emma would be truly gone. Nico isn't around much. My guess is that he's searching the underworld for her. I was sitting on the beach when Hades flashed in. "Oh hello Percy." He said. "Um hi." I answered. He sat down in silence. "Um aren't you a little early." I asked. "No." He stated, simply. He got up and followed the growing crowd to the arena. I sat there for about ten more minutes then made my way to the arena. It took about 20 minutes for everyone to get to the arena and be quiet. A minute later the rest of the gods that were allowed to come flashed in. I looked at each of the gods in turn. Hecate looked miserable. She had blue bags under her eyes and looked about 20 years older than normal. Next I looked at Iris who also looked sad. Then I looked at my dad. He looked moderately sad but he also looked relieved, which i'm guessing is because it wasn't me that died. Then I looked at Hades. He looked like a little kid sitting in front of a pile of wrapped presents but was told he couldn't open them yet. That's weird. Emma died and Nicos miserable. Why is Hades this happy? I looked at Annabeth. "Why is Hades so happy?" I whispered. "Not sure." She whispered back. The gods started talking but I wasn't really listening. While Hades was talking I felt a weird breeze go past me. I tuned in. "She was an amazing girl." Hades was saying. "And she has now died twice. But somehow she just can't stay dead." My head shot up to look at him. He had a wide smile on his face. I turned my head towards Emma's body. She was sitting up. "SHADOW!!" I yelled. Getting up and running over to her. I practically tackled her with my hug. She laughed. "Trident get off of me." She smiled as I backed up. I realized she wasn't looking at me and I turned around to see Nico standing there. "Hey neeks." She said. A smile slowly spread across his face as he ran towards her and hugged her. Next, Emily ran over and hugged her. Then Hazel. Then Annabeth. And so on. Then she looked at Hecate. "Hi mom." Hecate ran over and hugged her so tight I don't think she could breath. When Hecate had let go of her she asked, "How are you alive?" "Well when i died i went to the hall of judgement. I was put in Elysium and met some friends of yours." She said, turning to me and Nico. "I met Bianca, Luke, Zoe, Beckendorf, and Silena. We were hanging out on the beach when Hades flashes in and tells me I'm coming back to the real world. I asked them if I could bring any messages and all of them said yes." She turned back to Nico. "Bianca said to tell you that she loves you and doesn't want to see you down there any time soon." She turned to Thalia and the hunters. "Zoe said to tell Thalia that she is doing an amazing job and to tell the rest of the hunters she said hello." She turned to the camp. "Luke said to tell the whole camp he is sorry." Finally she turned to me. "And all of them said to tell You that their deaths were not your fault and that you need to stop beating yourself up about it." I Felt a tear fall down my face. I didn't trust my voice so I just nodded. I felt Annabeth come up to stand next to me. She rubbed small circles into my back. "Now to quote Bolt What does a girl have to do to get some food around here?" She said. Emily, Nico, and I laughed while the rest of the campers looked confused. "Whose bolt?" Annabeth asked. Emma smacked her forehead. "Right I forgot we don't have to be the feared, famous, killing quadruplet anymore." That made the campers even more confused. "Feared, famous, killing quadruplet?" Hazel asked. "It's nothing. We just killed a lot of monsters while in Tartarus and I forgot we didn't have to use our code names anymore." Emma answered. "Anyways, can a girl get some food please?" "Yeah sure. Come on." Nico said. It was lunch anyways so everyone went to the pavilion. Nico, Emma, Emily, and I all sat at my table. I looked around and saw that a lot of people were sitting at different tables. The rest of the seven were all sitting at a table together. The stoll brothers, Katie gardner and will solace were all sitting together and many other people were scattered around the room. I noticed the seven looking at me and waved them over. "Hey guys." I said when they came over. "Hey Perce." Jason said. " it was so bad down there that you guys needed code names?" hazel asked. "Uh yeah. Emily was the only one who hadn't been down there before and she wasn't well known by the monsters but the rest of us are." Percy answered. "Oh" Hazel mumbled. "Wait, are you saying that Emma's been down there before?" Annabeth asked Me. "Yup and if it hadn't been for her we would all be dead right now." I answered. "How?" She asked again. "Emma do you want to tell them?" I asked looking at Emma. "Sure." she said.
"So this wasn't my first time being in Tartarus or dying in Tartarus. I had another life. I ran away from home when I was 8 and ended up here, at camp half blood. I was claimed by Hecate and trained everyday. When I was 16 or 17 I angered Zeus and we fought. I beat him and he was angry. He claimed that I was too powerful and must die. My mother wouldn't let me die so she convinced Zeus not to kill me. Though what he came up with was much worse. He sent me to Tartarus and at first it was very hard, but as time went by it became home. After 200 Tartarus years or 20 earth years I was killed. I went to the underworld and met some friends who had died in battle. I was looking for them one day and found the doors of death. I walked through and reappeared in a mother womb. I grew up, not knowing about my past life. When I was eight I ran into the forest and was kidnapped by Nyx." She said. "Oh so thats why Nyx said it was good to see you again." Piper realized. "Yes. Anyways she let me go but threatened that if i tell anyone who she is and what had happened she would hunt me down and make me watch as she tortured all of my friends and family to death."
Emma pov
"Even before that weird things would happen kind of like magic." I said. "But after that it got stronger. By the time i was 12 i couldn't control it and was scared i would hurt someone so we closed the gates to our castle. I pushed everyone away including my two best friends." I said, looking at Emily and Percy. "One of them stayed and one of them stopped coming back. Eventually it was about a week till my birthday and I decided to run away. You all know how that worked out. Skipping to the battle where I screamed and blacked out, Ever since Nyx captured me I have had blackouts. That was one but the screaming was new. I had felt like a million knives were being stabbed into my skull. When I woke up three days later, I was only awake for a couple minutes till I had another blackout. When I woke up this time the gods wanted to see me. While there I had another blackout." I said putting emphasis on another. "In this last one I saw flashes. That's when my memory came back and I remembered my old life. The gods threw me into Tartarus but Trident and Reaper latched onto my arms." I continued not even realizing that I had used their code names. "The first time I was chucked into Tartarus I earned the nickname Shadow. I kept it this time and Percy and Nico got nicknames too. We fought monsters all the time. Then about two earth years later we heard fighting and we went to check it out. Emily was fighting a monster and we helped. Once we had killed it she came home with us and explained how she was a daughter of Zeus and she had been recruited as a hunter. She told us about how she had woken up and heard noises so she went and saved Artemis but got dragged into Tartarus. Years later we were informed that Bob and Damasen knew how to get us out of Tartarus." I paused. "They're alive?" Annabeth asked. "Yes and they said hi." Percy answered. "Anyways, they got us to the doors of death and Percy and I were fighting next to each other. I killed the monster I was fighting and turned to see Percy about to be stabbed from behind. I ran over and pushed him out of the way. I got stabbed and I guess I bled out. I woke up and saw Charon. he brought me to the hall of judgement and I was put in Elysium." I paused again to look at all my friends. I realized that the whole pavilion was silent and was listening. "See Carly she went to Elysium." I heard Nico whisper. I turned and saw he was talking to a little girl who looked around age 5 or 6. "I met Bianca, Luke, Zoe, Silena, and Beckendorf. We hung out for a few days and were sitting on the beach when Hades appeared. He brought me back to the real world and here we are." I finished. Everything was silent. "Wow." Leo said.
Just then the horn sounded three times. "Another attack?" Percy yelled. "What do you mean another attack?" I asked as we ran to grab our stuff. "It's the fourth one since we got back," He answered. I grabbed my dragon scale armor and my Tartarus rock blade and ran back outside to help with the monsters. We made it to the top of the hill and looked out at the monsters. There were only about 200. "Campers." I yelled turning around to look at them. "Obviously I have been dead so I need some practice. Me, Percy, Nico, and Emily will take these. STAY inside the border." Nico and Emily walked up to stand beside us. "But there's like 200 monsters!" Someone yelled. "We are aware but we have fought worse." Nico answered. We turned back around to face the monsters. Then we looked at each other. "Lets get some practice shall we." I said with a small smile. "We shall." Emily answered. We sprang into action. Racing at the army of monsters. All four of us took a different section of the army. We were each a blur of color as we ran through the army slashing, and hacking. 15 minutes later we were standing in the middle of an empty battlefield, each of us covered in golden dust. "That was fun." Emily stated. "Yeah it was fun but i need a challenge." Percy said. "Agreed." I answered. "Same here." Nico commented. We looked up the hill at the campers and saw they were all staring at us, jaws dropped and eyes wide. We walked back up to them "What, you never seen four demigods defeat 200 monsters in 15 minutes?" Percy asked with his signature smirk on his face. Annabeth ran up to him and hugged him. Then checked him for injuries. "Wisegirl i'm fine." He said shrugging her off
Percy pov
"Wisegirl i'm fine." I said. "We've fought way worse." "like what?" She asked. I realized,too late, that I had said too much. "Nothing, I'm fine." I replied. "Percy what aren't you telling me?" she asked. "Nothing." I said. "Percy.." She threatened. I looked at my so-called best friends for help. All three were laughing and shrugged when they saw me looking at them. "Fine." They stopped laughing. "It was really bad down there okay. We saw things, hunted things and heard things. You have no idea how many times I heard a monster say they wanted to kill you because you killed them. You have no idea how hard we had to train to catch up to Shadow and even she had to train super hard. You have no idea how many sleepless nights I had. Or how much extra training i did so that i could make sure i stayed alive and could get back to you. You have no idea what we've been through." I said. Emma, Nico, Emily, and I had all found that the ground looked very interesting. When everything stayed quiet I looked up at Annabeth. She looked like she was about to cry. "Wise girl don't cry we're fine now we made it out." I whispered, pulling her into a hug. I looked over her shoulder to see everyone watching us. I motioned to Jason that everyone should go and he understood. "Alright everyone. Shows over. Back to your regular activities." He yelled to the remaining campers. Everyone, reluctantly turned around and left.
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