Percy Jackson Series. Annabeth Chase X Male Reader Story

We Meet the Holy Cows

Percy's POV

We stopped in a room with waterfalls pouring down the walls, all of them leading to a pit that was too deep to see down, Tyson carried (Y/N) on his back like luggage, it didn't seem to slow him down at all as we ran from Kampe.

Briares slumped against the wall. He scooped up water in a dozen hands and washed his face. "This pit goes straight to Tartarus," he murmured. "I should jump in and save you trouble." "Don't talk that way," Annabeth told him.

"You can come back to camp with us. You can help us prepare. You know more about fighting Titans than anybody." "I have nothing to offer," Briares said. "I have lost everything." "What about your brothers?" Tyson asked.

"The other two must still stand tall as mountains! We can take you to them." Briares's expression morphed to something even sadder: his grieving face. "They are no more. They faded." The waterfalls thundered.

Tyson stared into the pit and blinked tears out of his eye. "What exactly do you mean, they faded?" I asked. "I thought monsters were immortal, like the gods." "Percy," Grover said weakly, "even immortality has limits. Sometimes . . . sometimes monsters get forgotten and they lose their will to stay immortal."

Looking at Grover's face, I wondered if he was thinking of Pan. I remembered something Medusa had told us once: how her sisters, the other two gorgons, had passed on and left her alone. Then last year Apollo said something about the old god Helios disappearing and leaving him with the duties of the sun god.

I'd never thought about it too much, but now, looking at Briares, I realized how terrible it would be to be so old—thousands and thousands of years old— and totally alone. "I must go," Briares said. "Kronos's army will invade camp," Tyson said.

"We need help." Briares hung his head. "I cannot, Cyclops." "You are strong." "Not anymore." Briares rose. "Hey." I grabbed one of his arms and pulled him aside, where the roar of the water would hide our words.

"Briares, we need you. In case you haven't noticed, Tyson believes in you. He risked his life for you." I told him about everything—Luke's invasion plan, the Labyrinth entrance at camp, Daedalus's workshop, Kronos's golden coffin. Briares just shook his head.

"I cannot, demigod. I do not have a finger gun to win this game." To prove his point, he made one hundred finger guns. "Maybe that's why monsters fade," I said. "Maybe it's not about what the mortals believe. Maybe it's because you give up on yourself."

His pure brown eyes regarded me. His face morphed into an expression I recognized—shame. Then he turned and trudged off down the corridor until he was lost in the shadows. Tyson sobbed. "It's okay."

Grover hesitantly patted his shoulder, which must've taken all his courage. Tyson sneezed. "It is not okay, goat boy. He was my hero." I wanted to make him feel better, but I wasn't sure what to say. Finally, Annabeth stood and shouldered her backpack.

"Come on, guys. This pit is making me nervous. Let's find a better place to camp for the night." Grover said "Wait." And pulled out his reed pipes, looking at (Y/N), who Annabeth had laid down at one edge of the room.

(Y/N)'s POV

I woke up with my head resting on a bed, one that I barely recognised, there was no wind blowing at my hair, and no roars of an angered jailer in the background, it was a quiet moment, before I was worried about any of that stuff.

A familiar nostalgic feeling took over. It was surreal, so much so I was nearly brought to tears. Especially when I looked up from the foot of the bed to the person lying in it. "...M...Mom?" I asked, my voice catching.

She smiled at me and my heart must have burst, because I could feel it, thumping in my chest like I had just sprinted a marathon. I wanted nothing more then for this to be reality, but I knew my reality wasn't this kind.