Perseus POV -
This time I found myself in the place that can make even the Gods tremble with just his mere name. The place I jumped in to save Anna. The place that tested my humanity more then other. TARTRUS.
This is the place I felt the worst pain of my life. And the memory I saw is also the worse. It is the worst place of my life. Not because of the pain but the helplessness I felt here. Right now I am standing on the edge of a cliff. Behind me Anna is crouching screaming in pain and a green liquid is going towards her.
Yes we are in front of ACHLYS Greek Goddess of Death Mist, Misery, Pain and Poison. It is the same place where Anna and I met her in tartrus. Right now she is torturing Anna. I can feel my mind being broken. Her scream I heard and I snapped. I stood and control the entire mist and poison. I brought them back. I chocked her on her own tears. She screamed and beg for mercy but I was out of mercy. No one hurts her.
I can feel the more I torture her the more good I felt. Its like her screams are best music to my ears. I wanted to hurt her more. But the more pleasure I took in her screams the more I can also feel a part of me slipping away. But I just can't control myself but suddenly a bright light filled up my view. It was my holy light. My own power .
Anna POV -
After talking to Hades we found out that Percy could take control of Underworld and set everything back to right. But the process will be quite difficult not physically but mentally.
If it was physical I would be less worried because It could be dangerous but Perseus can handle it. My Seaweed brain is capable of doing things that others may consider impossible but he will always succeed.
But the problem here is that the task is mental. Percy is smart. Maybe not bookish smart but he is street smart. He knows peoples, there feelings, he knows how to talk to them, how to convince them or maybe it is just his personality that encourage peoples to follow him.
But the biggest problem is Percy is a emotional person. He is carrying the baggage of many lives. He is affected by the death of those who are closest to him. He felt guilty about those. And because of his fatal flaw he can't move on. Well survivors' guilt is worse for the people like him.
And now he is going to live those memories again all by himself and I will not be there to support him. After the process started percy faints and I caught him. I brought out a construct made of magic and laid him on it.
He started screaming in his dreams like someone is hurting him. I took his hand in my arms. I started wishpering in his ears. Even when I know he can't hear me but I don't know what else to do. Then after some time when the black fog started coming out of him Hades said,'' He is losing the battle with his darkness.''
I replied firmly without any doubt, '' No he won't. Perseus will not be broken by some memories he is stronger then that. ''
And then the fog disappeared as fast as it came. I looked at Hades in question and found him surprised. He said,''He won the first battle. Two more to go.''
I wasn't surprised. I believe in him. His heart is always in the right place. And he follows it. That is the very reason that he is one of the purest person I ever met. But what Hades said next worries me.
Hades said,''Don't be too happy. It is just the first trial. His first memory. His first nightmare. But there are more to come. And each one will be darker then the last. They will try to corner him. They will force him to live the worst memory of his life. And the last one it will not be just a memory but it will force him to live and endure the feeling he felt but in thousand fold.''
If I am right then I know the worst memory of his life. It's not my death because even after that death we met again. We survived and came into this life. It will the memory of that place. The worst hell of monsters. And it will be that particular memory that was the very place I saw him loosing his humanity. But it was also the time when he was strongest.
Because may not be the strongest but ACHLYS was still a primodial but percy defeated her at that time like she is just some other demigod. It will be a torture for him.
All this happened again. The black mist came out of his body again but this time it was stronger and darker. But it was also gone just like the first time. He again won. And my guess was confirmed by Hades himself. He said,'' He passed just one more and if he did not fall for his own darkness then he will prevail. ''
And then it happened. This time it was far darker and even faster then the first or the second time. Soon it passed all over his body and getting darker and darker. Percy started screaming my name. Again and again.
Hades said,''I think he will fail this time. He is getting darker by every minute.''
No I can't let this happened. A darker percy without his character lopside grin and mischievous habit. I have to do something but what. I started thinking. I used my brain to the full capacity. I divided my brain with the help of my Gift and run hundred of scenarios in my mind.
Then I remembered about the percy's weapon his longinus. It was said ti expel every kind of darkness. I tried to summon it. Hades asked, '' What are you doing? ''
I said,'' I am trying to summon his weapon. It is like his divine weapon like Master bolt is for Zeus. That weapon is the biggest enemy of every kind of darkness and being of darkness. Even a scratch is like burning alive.''
Hades said,'' Your thoughts are right. But unfortunately no God can summon other Gods weapon. ''
I smiled and said,''May be other Gods but not Percy. I can take his everything he won't stop me. Because everything that I am and I will be is his. And the other way around. ''
Then I tried to call it and it came immediately. His bright light shine upon him and-