Prisoner

"Perseus Jackson!" Zeus boomed from his throne. "You convicted for your crimes against Olympus." I looked up from where I was chained to the floor, tears rolling down my face. "I didn't do it!" I sobbed, trying to make them believe me. "Lies! We know you captured and maimed Markus Knight, the savior of Olympus, and all of your other crimes!"

I slowly looked around the throne room, and looked at all of the reactions of the Gods. Anger. Rage. Hatred. All of these emotions on all faces except for two, those being Hestia, my patron, and Hades.

"As punishment for your-" "Wait," I said looking into Zeus' eyes. "At least tell everyone what I supposedly did, not just everyone in this room, but all of the campers. Roman and Greek, the Hunters, everyone."

They were shocked. Not at my wish, well, maybe a little, but more so at me interupting the King of the Gods. "Fine, Perseus, but only because everyone should know what a traitor you really are. Iris! Make an Iris Message to all who he mentioned."

A big mist screen popped up seperated into three sections, one for each camp and one for the hunters. "Attention Demigods, we apologize for interupting your dinner, but we have an important message." Zeus announced with a tone signifying he wasn't sorry at all.

"We are here to tell you the crimes of Perseus Jackson." The Greeks already knew and all looked toward Markus with pity and then back to me with anger. The hunters were indifferent. But the Romans, knowing I wouldn't do anything so horrible that I would have to be chained down, they were in shock. "Perseus Jackson is convicted of capturing and maiming Markus Knight and helping the enemy in the three wars."

The Romans were in a rage, they knew he had saved the god's butts in the wars. "Percy has single handedly taken down Kronos, fought off Gaea until you arrived and helped destroy her, but most of all, he had gone under cover to the enemy side and take down Oceanus and his whole army because you gods were to lazy to get off your thrones and do something! And Percy would never do that to a fellow camper!" The Romans yelled and screamed.

It made me feel better that at least someone believed in me, along with Hestia and Hades. "SILENCE!" Zeus boomed from his throne, Master bolt in hand. "We have proof of him helping the enemy and maiming Markus." Then the screen changed into a video of someone in a mask carrying a sword that looked like Anaklusmos walking toward Markus. His back was to the masked person and he screamed when the person jumped on him and slashed Markus across the chest. Then it changed once more, this time into a video of me laying on my bed. Then the sound started, "Yes Mistress Gaea, I will attack Markus Knight, just as you have asked.

The screen faded back to the campers and hunters. The Romans were in shock, and The Greeks and hunters staring at me in rage. "Now that you have seen proof, I will decide his punishment." Zeus said, smirking madly. I started to lose hope, now that the Romans didn't know who to believe, only two people believed that I didn't do it. I started to tear up, I looked at the screen and saw Annabeth and all of my friends sitting by Markus and, worst of all, I saw Annabeth and him holding hands. My heart shattered, my girlfriend who had stayed with me through three wars, is cheating on me. She never spoke up, never apologized through the Iris Message, no, she just dumped me like yesterday's trash.

"I have decided your puishment, traitor," Great, Zeus seems to have forgotten my name and is calling me traitor. "You shall be sent to the most savage and horrible creatures in all of existence, the Chitauri." My eyes widened, they may be in another realm, but at camp, we heard stories about people who were sent to the Chitauri for punishment. They came back in peices after an eternity of torture.

"No, please don't , no please." I sobbed, they couln't send me there, they just couldn't. "You will go, and you'll never come back." Zeus started chanting, and if I had looked to my right, I would've saw Hestia and Hades being restrained. Zeus said the final words and then everything went black.

I woke up in a cell, it was dark and I couldn't see anything except for some bars on a door and the outline of a person in the cell across from me. I heard a door slamming open, I jumped into a fighting stance, what can I say, three wars and Tartarus can do that to a guy. The sound of a cart rolling echoed through the cells, and then it came into my view. It was horrible, looking like something straight out of a horror movie. It looked like an alein colored gray, then several more came to. One was holding a lantern, andthen I could see what was on the cart. Knives. Poisins. A bowl of hot coals. A huge tub of what looked to be oil. And so many more horrible things.

"Are you ready to feel pain, scum?" A horrible gravely sounding voice came from one of the creatures. I didn't say anything, so they took that as a go ahead. The Chitauri entered my cell and two of the bigger ones stepped forward with chains in their hands. They wrestled me to the ground and put the chains on my wrists and ankles, then they hooked the chains on the walls and used some magical glue or something to keep it there. The leading one, the thing that spoke, stepped forward with one of the knives. "Your puny Gods don't care about you, when they sent you to us, you had appeared in the third of three sections. Oh but you don't know about the sections, so let me explain." He stabbed me on the right side of my chest, "There is the first section, in which some one will go to the easier torture section with only newbies there."

It stabbed me in the right side of my chest, I winced as the short knife was pulled out and blood started to stream out. "There's the second section, where the torture is more painful, but is relatively weak."

It pulled out a different knife, twisting the other one while doing so. I screamed as the short knife tore through muscle. "Then there's the last section," It stabbed me with the last, longer, and weirdly colored knife. This knife went through my chest and it twisted it a full circle, then I figured out what the coloring was. It was poisin. I screamed as I felt the burning sensation flow through my chest, into my heart, and through my veins. " You got sent to the last section with the most experienced torturers go. Only two people are in this section right now, you and your cell mate across from you. The reason there are only two people here is because you don't die in here, in the other sections, you can die after your sentence of time. But your idiot Gods sent you to section three, and you'll never leave. Now that I've given you the info about here, let's get down to buisness."

It reached for the tongs to pick up a hot coal. My eyes widened, "No, please don't-" "Oh so the maggot speaks, well since you said not to, I'll go ahead and do it any ways. It took the hot coal and hovered it right above the first wound that it made. "Scream, maggot, scream." Then it jabbed it onto the cut. I screamed. I screamed so loud that it woke my cell mate up. The pain was unbearable, this combined with the poison, made me see stars. Then the pain subsided some, but the throbbing of the burn was still there. I looked back at my torturer and he was looking at the cart, looking for something. Then I noticed dazedly that the other Chitauri had left, it was the leader that stayed.

The creature turned around, "I have decided to take pity on you, human. So enjoy the break for now." Then it pushed the cart out of the cell, locked the door, and pushed the cart out. The rattle of the cart haunting me forever. I was left alone with a person I didn't even know, so I figured, 'What the heck, if I'm gonna suffer eternal pain, I'm gonna make a friend.' So I turned to my cell mate, my whole body throbbing, as best as I could. Then I said, "Soooo... What's your name?" He, well I assumed it was a he, turned to me, and in the very little light my eyes had gotten used to, I saw bright green eyes.

He made no noise, no indication what so ever what his name was. So I just made up a name, Green Eyes. "Hey, Green Eyes, can you talk?" Once again he made no noise, but he shifted more towards me. What I saw was disgusting, scars littered his body, I could see his ribs. But only just barely, with what little light I had. Light. Light. Fire... Fire! That's when I remembered, back when it was before the third war, Hestia had blessed me, saying 'You'll need it in the future, just remember that there is light in the darkness.' And boy, did I need it now, so I tried. Focus, Percy, c'mon you can do this... Whoosh!

There was a noise, then light. I had done it, the fire wasn't very big, but it would work. I looked over at Green Eyes and saw him in better light. Even more scars were visible, his bright green eyes were now emerald, he had bruises covering his body, and he had greasy, black, long hair. Green Eyes' eyes were widened, as if shocked by this, and who wouldn't seeing a guy poof fire out of his hand. "So now that I can see you better, what's your name, your story, how did you get here, and why?" He didn't answer for a while just sitting there and looking at me, then the fire. I figured he wasn't gonna answer, so I put out the light. It was a while before I heard something, just a whisper, but in the empty cell, it was as loud as a scream. And I heard it, I knew what it was. A name, for Green Eyes.

Loki.