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mythlology) wrote2012-05-22 11:03 pm
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seventh skill / day 140 / jabberwock / Water affinity III: Fire resistance
form: raw meat; one use
So Percy can survive having lava thrown at him and the only real consequence is that the hair that isn’t on his head burns off. I… guess I will figure out how to roll with that here.
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twenty-ninth memory / day 142 / three / “We Hitch A Ride With Dead Confederates,” “Clarisse Blows Everything Up” (SOM 10+11 )
form: rice paper; one use
Percy, Tyson, and Annabeth escape from the Princess Andromeda on their lifeboat and go to a hide-out Annabeth, Luke, and Thalia used to have. They end up fighting hydras. Clarisse saves them in a Civil War-era boat staffed by zombies. They pass through Scylla and Charybdis and… the boat explodes and it seems like Tyson is dead…
The point of this memory is Scylla, Charybdis, and THREE YOU’RE GOING HYDRAS WRONG. THREE COME BACK HERE AND LET ME LECTURE YOU; IF I HAVE TO FIGHT HYDRAS I AT LEAST WANT DONUT STORE CHAINS.
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thirtieth memory / day 143 / peter pan / “Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades” (Demigod Files)
form: gold stick; one use
Percy, Thalia, and Nico have a ka-fucking-waii Christmas adventure. Persephone drags them all to the Underworld, because she’s been secretly forging a sword for Hades with one of his keys in it, so it you poke someone with it they’ll die or come back to life… and then it got stolen. The Little Three have to follow a magic flower to catch the thief. They encounter Sisyphus and also monsters, and Melinoe shows up and scares everyone except Percy has no ghosts because he is at peace with all the dead people in his life? Percy gets a Titan Lethe’d, they find the sword, the Kindly Ones fly them back to Hades’s palace and… I forget how the short story ends, should probably reread it before Persephone intros.
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thirty-first memory / day 143 / green knight / “I Open a Coffin”
form: citrine ribbon; five uses
TRAUMA MEMORY.
Percy has some Daedalus-style fake wings on and jumps out a high cliff in the Garden of the Gods with Annabeth, Rachel, and Nico. It is really cool! But they land. Percy wonders if Daedalus is dead; Nico says he’s not because his death sense tells him so. The gang wanders to a gift shop and Rachel gets a chauffeured car that’s there to drive them around, somehow. She’s sad about it. They drive until they see mark of Daedalus (older Citrine’ll recognize it as the sign Percy drew on the cave walls), then go back into the stone walled Labyrinth.
Actually Percy is unsure because Nico is creepy. But then they hit a side-path with the smell of eucalyptus. Rachel says it’s evil, Nico says it smells like death, but Percy borrows Annabeth’s Yankees cap, turns invisible, and goes down the tunnel. The guy Percy saved a while back is at the end of the passage, which is a huge black marble fortress on a mountaintop underneath spooky swirling funnel clouds.
Percy runs into the fortress, which is filled with creepy statues! At the end is a gold sarcophagus covered in creepy pictures and creepy glyphs. It’s Kronos’s nap pod! (“It was carved with elaborate scenes of death and destruction, pictures of the gods being trodden under chariots, temples and famous world landmarks being smashed and burned. The whole coffin gave off an aura of extreme cold, like I was walking into a freezer. My breath began to steam.”) Percy pushes the lid off the sarcophagus but OH FUCK THE BODY INSIDE IS LUKE’S, WHAT THE FUCK also there’s a little hole in him the size of a bullet wound, right at his heart. Percy is SUPER CONFUSED and then some sea demons come in, and he hides because he forgot he was invisible. The sea demons say Kronos needs Ethan!
Running is dicks when you’re running from someone who stops time, though, so Percy gets exactly nowhere until Rachel throws a hairbrush at Kronos. Then Percy grabs his friends, drags them into the tunnel, Nico throws up a wall of rock to block their pursuers, and everyone runs the hell into the Labyrinth because damn Kronos is a scary fucker.
form: raw meat; one use
So Percy can survive having lava thrown at him and the only real consequence is that the hair that isn’t on his head burns off. I… guess I will figure out how to roll with that here.
*
twenty-ninth memory / day 142 / three / “We Hitch A Ride With Dead Confederates,” “Clarisse Blows Everything Up” (SOM 10+11 )
form: rice paper; one use
Percy, Tyson, and Annabeth escape from the Princess Andromeda on their lifeboat and go to a hide-out Annabeth, Luke, and Thalia used to have. They end up fighting hydras. Clarisse saves them in a Civil War-era boat staffed by zombies. They pass through Scylla and Charybdis and… the boat explodes and it seems like Tyson is dead…
The point of this memory is Scylla, Charybdis, and THREE YOU’RE GOING HYDRAS WRONG. THREE COME BACK HERE AND LET ME LECTURE YOU; IF I HAVE TO FIGHT HYDRAS I AT LEAST WANT DONUT STORE CHAINS.
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thirtieth memory / day 143 / peter pan / “Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades” (Demigod Files)
form: gold stick; one use
Percy, Thalia, and Nico have a ka-fucking-waii Christmas adventure. Persephone drags them all to the Underworld, because she’s been secretly forging a sword for Hades with one of his keys in it, so it you poke someone with it they’ll die or come back to life… and then it got stolen. The Little Three have to follow a magic flower to catch the thief. They encounter Sisyphus and also monsters, and Melinoe shows up and scares everyone except Percy has no ghosts because he is at peace with all the dead people in his life? Percy gets a Titan Lethe’d, they find the sword, the Kindly Ones fly them back to Hades’s palace and… I forget how the short story ends, should probably reread it before Persephone intros.
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thirty-first memory / day 143 / green knight / “I Open a Coffin”
form: citrine ribbon; five uses
TRAUMA MEMORY.
Percy has some Daedalus-style fake wings on and jumps out a high cliff in the Garden of the Gods with Annabeth, Rachel, and Nico. It is really cool! But they land. Percy wonders if Daedalus is dead; Nico says he’s not because his death sense tells him so. The gang wanders to a gift shop and Rachel gets a chauffeured car that’s there to drive them around, somehow. She’s sad about it. They drive until they see mark of Daedalus (older Citrine’ll recognize it as the sign Percy drew on the cave walls), then go back into the stone walled Labyrinth.
I hung back and walked next to Nico in uncomfortable silence. “Thanks for coming after us,” I told him at last.
Nico’s eyes narrowed. He didn’t seem as angry as he used to—just suspicious, careful. “I owed you for the ranch, Percy. Plus . . . I wanted to see Daedalus for myself. Minos was right, in a way. Daedalus should die. Nobody should be able to avoid death that long. It’s not natural.”
“That’s what you were after all along,” I said. “Trading Daedalus’s soul for your sister’s.”
Nico walked for another fifty yards before answering. “It hasn’t been easy, you know. Having only the dead for company. Knowing that I’ll never be accepted by the living. Only the dead respect me, and they only do that out of fear.”
“You could be accepted,” I said. “You could have friends at camp.”
He stared at me. “Do you really believe that, Percy?”
Actually Percy is unsure because Nico is creepy. But then they hit a side-path with the smell of eucalyptus. Rachel says it’s evil, Nico says it smells like death, but Percy borrows Annabeth’s Yankees cap, turns invisible, and goes down the tunnel. The guy Percy saved a while back is at the end of the passage, which is a huge black marble fortress on a mountaintop underneath spooky swirling funnel clouds.
Percy runs into the fortress, which is filled with creepy statues! At the end is a gold sarcophagus covered in creepy pictures and creepy glyphs. It’s Kronos’s nap pod! (“It was carved with elaborate scenes of death and destruction, pictures of the gods being trodden under chariots, temples and famous world landmarks being smashed and burned. The whole coffin gave off an aura of extreme cold, like I was walking into a freezer. My breath began to steam.”) Percy pushes the lid off the sarcophagus but OH FUCK THE BODY INSIDE IS LUKE’S, WHAT THE FUCK also there’s a little hole in him the size of a bullet wound, right at his heart. Percy is SUPER CONFUSED and then some sea demons come in, and he hides because he forgot he was invisible. The sea demons say Kronos needs Ethan!
“Don’t be a coward!” the first telekhine hissed. “He does not require your death. Only your allegiance. Pledge him your service. Renounce the gods. That is all.”
“No!” I yelled. It was a stupid thing to do, but I charged into the room and took off the cap. “Ethan, don’t!”
“Trespasser!” The telekhines bared their seal teeth. “The master will deal with you soon enough. Hurry, boy!”
“Ethan,” I pleaded, “don’t listen to them. Help me destroy it.”
Ethan turned toward me, his eye patch blending in with the shadows on his face. His expression was something like pity. “I told you not to spare me, Percy. ‘An eye for an eye.’ You ever hear that saying? I learned what it means the hard way—when I discovered my godly parent. I’m the child of Nemesis, Goddess of Revenge. And this is what I was made to do.” He turned toward the dais. “I renounce the gods! What have they ever done for me? I will see them destroyed. I will serve Kronos.”
The building rumbled. A wisp of blue light rose from the floor at Ethan Nakamura’s feet. It drifted toward the coffin and began to shimmer, like a cloud of pure energy. Then it descended into the sarcophagus.
Luke sat bolt upright. His eyes opened, and they were no longer blue. They were golden, the same color as the coffin. The hole in his chest was gone. He was complete. He leaped out of the coffin with ease, and where his feet touched the floor, the marble froze like craters of ice.
He looked at Ethan and the telekhines with those horrible golden eyes, as if he were a newborn baby, not sure what he was seeing. Then he looked at me, and a smile of recognition crept across his mouth.
“This body has been well prepared.” His voice was like a razor blade running over my skin. It was Luke’s, but not Luke’s. Underneath his voice was another, more horrible sound—an ancient, cold sound like metal scraping against rock. “Don’t you think so, Percy Jackson?”
I couldn’t move. I couldn’t answer.
Kronos threw back his head and laughed. The scar on his face rippled.
“Luke feared you,” the Titan’s voice said. “His jealousy and hatred have been powerful tools. It has kept him obedient. For that I thank you.”
Ethan collapsed in terror. He covered his face with his hands. The telekhines trembled, holding up the scythe.
Finally I found my nerve. I lunged at the thing that used to be Luke, thrusting my blade straight at his chest, but his skin deflected the blow like he was made of pure steel. He looked at me with amusement. Then he flicked his hand, and I flew across the room.
I slammed against a pillar. I struggled to my feet, blinking the stars out of my eyes, but Kronos had already grasped the handle of his scythe.
“Ah . . . much better,” he said. “Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is re-forged completely, it shall indeed bite back.”
“What have you done to Luke?” I groaned. Kronos raised his scythe. “He serves me with his whole being, as I require. The difference is, he feared you, Percy Jackson. I do not.”
That’s when I ran. There wasn’t even any thought to it. No debate in my mind about—gee, should I stand up to him and try to fight again? Nope. I simply ran. But my feet felt like lead. Time slowed down around me, like the world was turning to Jell-O. I’d had this feeling once before, and I knew it was the power of Kronos. His presence was so strong it could bend time itself.
“Run, little hero,” he laughed. “Run!”
Running is dicks when you’re running from someone who stops time, though, so Percy gets exactly nowhere until Rachel throws a hairbrush at Kronos. Then Percy grabs his friends, drags them into the tunnel, Nico throws up a wall of rock to block their pursuers, and everyone runs the hell into the Labyrinth because damn Kronos is a scary fucker.