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I am putting up this part because I had some time and half of it was already done. I don't know when I will be able to put up the next chapter but I hope it soon. I also want to thank you guys for not giving up hope on this story and waiting for the next chapter. I hope you guys like the chapter! Please review guys!

Piper's Pov

I stepped out of the portal and held my breath as I raised my arms and examined them for blisters and scarring; I let out a sigh of relief as there were none. I turned around and watched as Carter, Sadie, Zia, Walt/Anubis, Lillian and a few of the royal guards came out as well. They did the same procedure I did to check if they were okay. As everyone was okay it meant that the healing potions were working fine and we had about 4 hours to finish our task.

Flashback

Percy was lying on his bed recovering from his fight with Kronos, Hel and Fenrir. Sadie, Carter, Zia, Walt, Lillian and I were waiting for him to wake up so that he could explain the details of his plan. It was a very dangerous one and I and Carter both knew it, the others didn't because we hadn't told them of it yet. Percy started to stir and he slowly woke up in some time.

He smiles as he sees me and I return it "Good morning sleep head. You need to tell them your plan and details. Thought it was best for you to say it."

He nods and starts "The simplest way to put it is we will be going offense this one time. We will bring the fight to him instead of him bring it to us. I know it's a lot to ask but you guys need to go and attack his bases, that way his army will be disorganized and will buy us more time. You will need to attack him sometime in the middle of his attacks. From what we have seen there is a gap of a day in between his attacks because he needs to take care of so many of them as he is doing this world wide. You will attack him the day in between the attacks, which I guess is tomorrow unless I slept the whole day after my fight."

Zia speaks "So you want us to attack him at his home territory to delay him. We can't spend too much of our troops on that. We will also have to know where to attack, down there in the land of the monsters or as you people call it Tartarus, I will use up too much of my energy to keep people alive. So I won't be much useful in combat if a really strong opponent shows up."

"We won't be using much of our forces, in fact just the people in this room and maybe a few more. Lillian will be the one who shows you the bases as she knows them best. And as for keeping people alive there is no need for you to waste energy, it's not near the seas of chaos so you don't need to protect them also we will have healing potions that you will take before you enter. Then you will use the river of fire to keep you going if you have any problems." Percy answers Zia's question, after that he goes on to explain the details of his plan.

Flashback over

So here we are in firkin Tartarus cause my husband wanted a delay. I look over to Lillian and nod for her to start. She moves forward and orders us to follow her. We followed her for what seemed like ages. No monster was in sight as Tartarus had them all in his bases I kept looking over to her and couldn't help but notice how tense she was. It must be hard for her to come back here, I wanted to speak to her about it but I decided to keep quite about it. We followed her for some more time, we would take a few seconds to drink from the river of fire time to time and then continue and it looked like everyone was getting tired of this. I was about to speak up when Lillian suddenly turned around with extremely focused eyes. She put her finger to her lips and shushed us, in an extremely soft tone she said "We are here, the base is close by, and if we go right ahead the base for the Greek pantheon will arrive. I will lead my group to the Norse, Japanese and the Chinese pantheons." She looks at me "Piper you will take your group and set the charges over there as well as the Egyptian pantheon." I nod at her and she continues "These are the only ones we will be able to cover. Walt or Anubis whoever it is right now you will set up charges around the entirety of the base to do some damage to the remaining bases. Is everyone clear?"

Everyone nods at her as we separate to our groups; Carter, Zia and three royal guards move towards me; Sadie and four Royal guards go to Lillian and Anubis/Walt had two royal guards with him. We all nod at each other and move. I and my group go directly forward towards the Greek pantheon. I took deep breaths as my heart thumbed rapidly in my chest, I was scared of being caught but I put on a brave face for the sake of the others. Zia had cast a spell of invisibility on us to hide us. As I took another step I could see the base in front of us, I signed for everyone to get low and follow me. Even though we had an invisibility spell on us we decide to be cautious and not risk it.

We sneaked behind a guard and entered the base. I quickly spotted the 1st bombsite and lead the others to it. We had to go past two guards to get there. Carter and Zia got to setting up the bomb as the other four of us kept a look out. In a few moments they were done and Zia cast a spell of invisibility on it and we moved on to the next site. We set up all the bombs on the sites the same way as before and got out as soon as we could. After we were out we all took a deep breath to calm down. I looked at Carter and he nodded for me to take us to the next location. I quickly lead them to the Egyptian base; it wasn't all that different from the Greek except it looked more Egyptian. We did the same thing over here as in the Greek base.

Everything was going perfectly as before, we entered the base unnoticed by anyone and started to plant the bombs. On our way to the third bomb I noticed a person looking in our direction as if he could sense us. I was about to sign the others to be careful as he had started to walk towards us when one of the royal guards knocked over something and it made a small sound. The guard drew his weapon and slowly and cautiously made his wave towards us. Carter sneaked behind him and slit his throat. Blood poured down the guard's throat and onto the floor as let him fall. I summoned an extra t-shirt from the daut to clean up the blood. Te two royal guards stashed the body to some corner and we hurried to the bomb site. We did all the others quickly and got out of the base and headed to our meeting point with Lillian and Anubis' team. As soon as we got out of the base we heard a huge roar or more like a scream. My heart started to race as I though it was Tartarus and he had found out about us. I increased my speed as did the others, we ran out like there was no tomorrow. Sound of footsteps, huge footsteps started to follow us and I was almost certain he was after us but I dared not look back. I told the others to run faster as I increased my pace even more. I noticed the effects of the river of fire were starting to degrade as my hands had started to blister, but I didn't care, I didn't care at all. The only thing important to me right now was getting out of here no matter what.

I had never run this fast in my whole life, but I could see the others at a distance and it brought me hope. I tried to run even faster! Ignoring all the pain I felt I picked up speed and in a matter of moments I was beside Lillian and Anubis' groups. I turned around to see my group not so far behind, but what caught my attention was what was chasing them. It was Tartarus in all his glory, looking at him made me want to give up, it was as if all the hope I had earlier was sucked up. He looked exactly like Percy had described him, huge with a monstrous body, his purple flesh ripped with muscle. His fingers are tipped with razor-sharp black talons. However, his most terrifying and distinguishing feature is his face- in place of a normal face is a swirling whirlpool and inward spiral of darkness. He roared at us and his voice seemed to be drawing back inward rather than outward.

Tartarus seemed to be gaining on them and I could here the ones beside me encourage my group to run faster. But all I could focus on was Tartarus. One of the Royal guards tripped and fell down but Tartarus didn't seem to notice that; he just stepped on him squashing him like a bug. I screamed at him and sent a blast of energy on him using my staff but it didn't even make him flinch. He just went through it like it didn't exist. I turned and looked at Lillian "Open the portal, carter and the others are close enough. We are no match for him, not without Ra and Zia will be using him to keep us safe." I say the last part looking at my hands. I turn to my group and give them words of encouragement. I couldn't be afraid right now; it isn't any time to be afraid. Right now I need to get everyone out.

I look at Anubis and Sadie "Attack him with something using your godly powers, it might slow him down. I can't do much since Hathor isn't the fighting type." They nod at me and channel their gods and simultaneously attack him. It seemed to do the trick and Tartarus started to slow down. I knew Tartarus would be affected by godly beings such as them. Sadie started to channel more godly energy and Anubis started to change into his animal form. The two of them hit Tartarus with one of their strongest spells and make him stumble. He roars at us "You think death magic will work well against me?! I am the pit itself, your weak death magic wont fare well against me." Sadie smirks at him "You seem to have forgotten me." And with that she starts chanting.

I hear Hathor's voice in my head "Use my ribbons on him Piper. They might slow him down if me being along you." My eyes widen when I realise it was true. I channel Hathor's godly energy within me and summon her ribbons. I command them to bind Tartarus, I Knew it wouldn't be that useful but with the right timing they could be the deciding factor. The ribbons dash towards Tartarus without him noticing thought Sadie had and she delayed her spell for a second. A second enough for the ribbons to bind him, he struggled with them for a second but was about to break free when Sadie's spell hit him. He was blown off to the ground and grunted. I look back at Sadie to see her panting hard. At this moment my group makes it over here. Carter directly goes to Sadie's side and picks her up and takes her through the portal. The rest of us follow him as well. I look back up to see Tartarus getting up and dusting himself he looks at me and speaks "It seems his plan has worked. You might have won this particular battle but I will win the war Piper McLean."

I look directly at him and speak "We will win the war just like we won this battle."

"When I take over Olympus I will have more than enough power to defeat the Egyptians. The idiot made it a lot easier when he framed your husband for those crimes. I didn't even have to do anything. I was going to approach him but he did it even before that. After I have conquered the world I will wake Gaia up as well and we will remake it in our own image. There will be no one to stop us." With that he turns around and leaves the bombs set of taking down his bases. What he said struck me deep but I turned around and walked into the portal.

On the other side were our group and Percy standing there. I run towards him and jump in his arms. He warps his arms around me and I feel his warmth spread around me, the feeling of home. He whispers words of comfort in my ears as I relax. "How are you standing so fast, shouldn't you be in bed? Resting?"

He looks at me "Pipes it's been 2 days here. Down there it must have been a few hours. Time does run slower there." And suddenly I feel stupid

"Then we should have a few more days, you would be more then ready by then. That's good news but we should warn the Greek side as well. He told me if he takes down the Greeks he should have more than enough power to take us down as well." Everyone nods to us.

I take out a drachma and toss it in the air as Percy makes a rainbow "Oh Iris please show me the Olympian council" I here a reply "are you sure of it?" I reply that I am and then multiple screens with all the Olympians pop up.

"We are here to warn you about an attack. He is going to make the next one his biggest and final attack. It won't be in some time as we took out some of his basses though. Prepare for it as fast as you can." I tell them

Zeus was going to say something but Athena beat him to it "Thank you for the warning dear. We appreciate it, if you have something else to say please do, all Intel is welcomed."

"Yes there is one more thing. Before leaving He also told me that Percy was framed by someone. He was going to approach that person to do so but didn't need to cause that person did it on his own. It still begs the question though if that person is a spy now. That's all we know." With that I swipe my hands through the mist cutting the connection.