So, my friend is reading House of Hades rn, and we were talking about that scene where Percy’s controlling the poison. I was talking about how absolutely terrifying that must have been for Annabeth to see, and stared describing what I was picturing. And basically she was like, geez, no that’s scary, never write about that. So, that gave me an idea. i might have grabbed a computer and written it pretty much as soon as I got home.
So, if you wanna read it, here’s the poison scene in HoH, but in Annabeth’s POV.
edit: this was her response, lol - “How..how is that so terrifying and beautiful at the same time”
edit (again): if you read, please leave a comment if you can, I want to know your thoughts on it :)
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Annabeth was terrified. Her vision tunneled; she could only see one thing. The poison surrounding her no longer mattered, the murderous goddess only yards from her, the cliff only a few yards behind her. The intoxicating fumes were no longer pressing on her mind. The hunger she had previously felt had vanished.
The only thing on her mind, the only thing she could see, was Percy. Her caring, kind-hearted, boyfriend. It wasn’t even him standing in front of her, her mind added detachedly, and slightly hysterically.
His skin was pale, not resembling Nico’s completion, because he, at least looked alive. This was somehow worse. A type of pale you just knew was wrong, bloodless, stretched tighter than in should be, dull. In some places it completely gave away to bone—yellow bones, looking slightly cracked, dirt in some of the crevices.
All of his bruises—dark blue, red, purple, yellow, and green—stood out starkly on his gaunt skin, cuts, deep, shallow and in between—littered his body. Claw marks curled around his arms and legs, they dragged down his back, there was a hole in his chest where it looked like an arrow had pierced it, the two fang marks on his neck flared bright red, being one of his only injuries not covered by blood, most of the blisters had gone away by now, but those that still peppered his skin were alarmingly red and angry looking. His chest was bleeding profusely, dark red blood gushing from the deep claw marks Akhlys had left across his chest, stretching from top to bottom.
Newer scars showed up pink and raw. Dirt, grime, golden dust that now looked brown, and dried blooded was caked on his body. His hair was greasy, mostly with blood, the fact that he hadn’t washed it in so long contributed as well, but there was also dirt clinging to it along with glittery dark brown dust she knew to be monster’s remnants.
Percy’s face was ghastly, but the hollow cheeks, bloodless white face, and sunken eyes weren’t what scared her. His face held the inhuman look of insanity and blood lust. A cold grin twisted across his emaciated face, a grin that radiated murder, one that promised death and the pleasure to be the one fulfilling that promise.
His eyes might have been the most terrifying thing about him, though. They were glowing with power, swirling menacingly, fifty shades darker than they normally were. They normally were projecting happiness, looking so carefree, so filled with love—she could stare into them and feel safe, feel like everything was going to be alright.
Now, they were cold, hard, and narrowed in concentration and rage. He stared at Akhlys with the intensity of a snake, one that had already bitten its prey and was enjoying watching it die, watching the light fade from its eyes.
The poison that had surrounded them now turned around, flooding back at the goddess who had sent it. The flowers that had popped up were withering—all the poison they had held being drained out. Dark purples, bright oranges, deep yellows, royal blues, blood reds, acid greens were all succumbing to browns and blacks as they wilted as his command.
Akhlys was on her knees, the fumes of the poison rushing at her wracked her body with coughs, tears simply flowed down her face. Suddenly, they came faster, and all streamed right into her mouth. She was gagging at this point. The goddess of Misery’s face shown with terror, eyes wide and alight with fear. Her face was pale and ghoulish, the places where she clawed at her cheeks were prominent as ever. Her thin frame was shaking, and her hands were at her neck, holding and clawing at it.
The poison reached her feet, and as it met her skin it sizzled, burning her, leaving the skin red and angry. She fell onto the ground and scrambled backwards, Akhlys wailed as she realized she had nowhere to go—the poison had surrounded her. Her eyes grew wider as the poison steadily flowed closer.
Annabeth backed away from him, “Percy!”
As he looked at her, she shivered, his stare was macabre, she wanted to look away, but she couldn’t. “Stop….”
Even to her own ears, she sounded scared, her voice was hoarse, and it didn’t hold any of the confidence or authority it normally didn’t, it wasn’t commanding—just pleading.
He glanced back at the goddess, as did she, the poison had surrounded her. It was approaching sluggishly—slower than before. Almost as if Percy didn’t want to miss what happened to the goddess when it flooded her completely. She stared into his eyes, pleading with all she had, “Percy please….”
Percy turned back to Akhlys, she had stopped choking and the tears streamed down her face more normally. She hadn’t stopped coughing though, blood dribbled down her chin as she continued, a haze of toxic fumes floated around her. He hesitated, then the poison stopped moving. A path appeared, it led right off the cliff.
“Leave!” was all Percy had yelled, and she was sent scrambling back to her feet, stumbling and racing down the path. As she fled the wilted flowers turned to dust and the poison evaporated.
Then she stumbled towards Percy, the horrific look in his eyes had faded somewhat, but it hadn’t left. She gripped his arms, and stared up into his eyes, “Percy please don’t ever….” And suddenly her voice broke into a sob, she didn’t even know what to say, she never wanted to see anything like that again. Not from anyone. And certainly not from Percy.
“Some things aren’t meant to be controlled. Please.”
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CYBERVERSE WATCH: S3 Episode 13, 14, 15, 16
Episode 13
MACCADAM IS MY GRANDPA NOW
Jetfire!!! And Skybite!!! Skybite’s got a great laugh
Oh wow the cloaking still protects them? Nice!
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE FIX PERCY’S EYES, WHERE THE FRICK IS RATCHET
A MULTIVERSE DRIVE???
PLEASE...PLEASE LET US SEE OTHER UNIVERSES??? OTHER UNIVERSES PLEASE????
SPARE SOME MULTIVERSE STUFF FOR A POOR SOUL???
I mean as it stands, the fact that Cyberverse is talking about this stuff is more than satisfying, man I frickin love this show
“We can launch those squiggly things into a whole ‘nother universe!” his delivery of that line was so good and also Wheeljack pls, then it’ll be another version of you’s problem
MEGATRON REALLY *IS* POUTING, MEGATRON YOU BIG BABY
Maccadam fondly but watching them talk about their battle plans makes me feel so bad for him...
AW MAN IS MEGATRON GONNA CHUCK OPTIMUS INTO A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE
About time you showed up you big pouting pansy
Man these two totally were ex boyfriends
LMAO ARCEE AND SHADOW-STRIKER’S EVIL LAUGHS, THAT”S SO DELIGHTFUL
That Titan should just smack them out of the sky tbh
SKULLCRUNCHER THE CROC...NICE
I love that Soundwave and Roddy are manning the controls
“Commanders command. And you forget, we have backup” CUTE...CUTE....CUTE!!!
I’M SO PROUD OF MY BOYS!!!!!!
BEE!!!It’s been so long since I’ve seen you! I love my little yellow boy!!! Please take care of your dad Bee
OH NO IT”S CREEPY TENTACLE DOCTOR
GOTH GIRL AND PREP GIRL!!!
MAN I JUST KNOW SOMETHING’S GOING TO GO HORRIFICALLY WRONG HERE
FRICK NOT THIS DUDE AGAIN
AW MAN NOT A WHOLE BUNCH AT ONCE
YEAAAHHHHH WHEELJACK AND MEGATRON WORKING TOGETHER!!! NICE
Two Decepticons and one Autobot...not a good sign
Oh shoot it’s the DECEPTICONS who wanna universe-jump, MEGATRON COME ON DUDE YOU DIDN’T EVEN TAKE YOUR ARMY WITH YOU DUMMY
OH NO!!!!!!
“It’s time for the commanders to join the battle” MAN YOU’RE SO COOL RODDY (YOU TOO SOUNDWAVE)
OH SHOOT THERE GOES THE TOWER
WELL FRICK
DON”T “WE DID IT” HOT ROD YOUR DAD IS IN THAT WRECKAGE
“Quintessons: Inferior. Cybertronians: Superior” MAN I”LL NEVER GET TIRED OF THAT
HE”S SO COOL!!!!! FIST BUMP BUDDIES!!! Man I’m so over the moon that these two wound up getting along
You know I’m suddenly having a revelation: I wonder if they could somehow re-activate all those other Soundwaves to help them against the (inevitable) final battle I’m sure they’re gonna have
WHAT THE FRICK
ARE YOU FRICKIN KIDDING ME
Starscream: CANCELED, CANCELED, YOU”RE ALL CANCELED
Well, Megatron certainly got the heck out of dodge at the right time lmao
Episode 14
I legit thought they were going to do an ATLA ref for half a second
Oh my gosh is this an Autobot recruitment video???
“The universe. You ever thought about it?” GOSH THIS VIDEO....
I’m frickin cackling, the Quintessons were like “Hmm, what’s the worst thing we could possibly inflict on this planet?” then went “Oh, of course, Starscream”
WHY DIDN”T YOU JUST LET GO STARSCREAM
Wow Starscream really did just sell out his entire planet huh
SOUNDWAVE NO!!!!! JEEZ HE GOT EVERYONE
Jeez and Starscream has to share with two other faces, that sucks
Lmao Starscream is just like “Nah judging people is what I was born for”
UNSPACE??? UH OK
WAIT isn’t that what Wheeljack made a few episodes ago????
LMAO HE’S GONNA WAIT TIL HE CAN GET OPTIMUS AND MEGATRON TOO bless Starscream and his pettiness
“First I must witness their humiliation!” STARSCREAM PLEASE the Quintessons really got the worst Judge
OHHH WHAT’S HE GONNA DO
SOUNDWAVE YOU’RE SO POWERFUL!!!!!
OH NO HE GOT THEM AGAIN....
GOSH I ACTUALLY GASPED WHEN THEY BROKE SOUNDWAVE’S AUDIO THING, NO!!!
“Well, it did for one of us, and it only takes one Autobot to make a difference” Bee? Whirl??? Wheeljack???
WINDBLADE!!! EVEN BETTER!!! The person with the braincell!!!
I love that Rodimus doesn’t even look worried, he just sighs like “aw man not this loser again”
On the one hand: Worried about my boys
On the other: Man I love these two being buds
Also: Not To Be That Guy But it looks like Soundwave’s wearing white thigh-highs with little orange hearts on them and it’s VERY distracting
“You two work so well together!!!” OH NO OH NO OH NO ARE THEY GONNA FUSE THEM TOGETHER OR SOMETHING
THOSE HEAD MASKS ARE SO DISTURBING
uh oh what kind of loop is this
THE PLAGUE OF RUST OH NO
oh my gosh STARSCREAM’S MAKING THEM DO A BUFFING LOOP...THAT’S REALLY THE WORST THING YOU COULD THINK OF STARSCREAM....
“WHERE ARE MEGATRON AND OPTIMUS PRIME” well Optimus is under a pile of concrete, so
Lmao thank you for your peanut-gallery commentary Kup
OH SHOOT THEY DID JUMP THROUGH THE MULTIVERSE BRIDGE
MAN THAT LOOKS SO FRICKIN COOL???? YO SHOUTOUT TO THE BACKGROUND ARTISTS WHO WORKED ON THIS SHOW, YOU ROCK
SERIOUSLY IM IN LOVE WITH THAT I hope whoever did the background art shares their work online sometime, I’ll be ALL over that
AHH I ALWAYS FORGET HOW SHORT THESE EPISODES ARE
Excuse me, Jeremy Levy as WHO???
Episode 15
Kup you are an...interesting commentator choice lmao
MACCADAM..... :(
Windblade please save our favorite Grandpa
wINDBLADE!
HOW’S IT FEEL BEING THE COOLEST KID ON THE BLOCK WINDBLADE
Wait I *JUST* noticed the title calls this “Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures” ???? IS THAT NEW
CALL ME A SUCKER BUT WINDBLADE CRACKING HER NECK AND TELLING THE LITTLE SHARK DUDES TO BRING IT ON WAS QUITE POSSIBLY ONE OF THE BEST MOMENTS OF THE SERIES SO FAR
Windblade: *does anything*
Me: IM GAY
“I don’t do fear” GOSH I LOVE MY TALENTED GIRL
OH NO!!! OH NO!!!! WINDBLADE NO!!!!!
AND HER WINGS TOO??? WHY!!!!
MACCADAM HELP HER OUT COME ON DUDE WHAT HAPPENED TO NO FIGHTING
lmao rip at the dude crushed by the juke box
Wait I thought they already woke up Iaconus??
YEAH!!!!!!!! MACCADAM AND WINDBLADE TEAMING UP
“UNFORGIVABLE CRIMES AGAINST ME!” LMAO I LOVE THAT LITERALLY EVERYONE IS TUNING OUT STARSCREAM get rekt Starscream.
Not to rag on people who like Starscream because I like him too but me @ Starscream stans tbh
You guys just need to hold hands! I mean seriously, come on you guys!
STARSCREAM QUINTESSONS OMG I just noticed they’re all wearing Starscream’s colors pffft
AW.....MACCADAM’S FIRST HIGH-FIVE....:’) I bet Windblade and Maccadam both give the best hugs and best high-fives
They’re so cute MAN I love Cyberverse!!!! I love how sweet these characters are!!!
A psychic trap??? Hoo boy
Windblade: How do I defeat this psychic trap?
Maccadam: Well, it would help if you had any bug or dark-type Pokemon on you.
“Or you could just tell me!” I JUST SAID THAT TOO LMAO gosh I love the writing on this show
OHHH I LOVE THE CONTRAST OF IACONUS’ BRAIN WITH BEE’S BRAIN IN SEASON ONE, THAT”S SO GOOD
OH LMAO HE MEANT HER SWORD I thought he meant like “your inner-strength” or “your wisdom” NO HE MEANT “USE YOUR SWORD WINDBLADE” LOL
OHHH SPOOKY VOICE, I DIG IT
Wow Starscream’s really reading out his 1000 page long call-out post to a captive audience
LMAO THEY”RE JUST LISTING OUT DATE LOCATIONS
CHROMIA IS SO CUTE!!!!!!!! AHHH
OH NO ARCEE!!!!
I LOVE ARCEE, “HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT YOU BASTARD”
OH SHOOT JK I GUESS THEY REALLY DIDN”T TOTALLY WAKE HIM UP LAST TIME I was wondering why he was just an arm
TITAN TIME!!!
Episode 16
To toast the flares off a neutron star....cute....
Wouldn’t it be cute if Kup was telling this story to a bunch of baby Cybertronians
Awh....Maccadam I’m sorry your old Titan had to re-awaken :(
“Too bad I won’t know how it ends” OH NO ARE YOU GUYS GONNA KILL OFF MACCADAM???? NO!!!!
Iaconus looks frickin RAD I’m sure Hasbro will make a killing off his toys
Speaking of I really hope they release Cyberverse on DVD in a bundle-pack
“War Titan, do NOT ignore me!” YEAH USE YOUR MOM VOICE ON HIM WINDBLADE!!!
LOVE THAT ROCK MUSIC
“This has never happened before” now THERE’S an interesting tidbit
OH NO....ITS THE OTHER TITAN....CROATON....
on the one hand, I’m SO glad we’re getting the Titan battle I crave, but on the other, CROATON NO!!!
TRIFORCE BEAM!!!
I love that Windblade is Jaeger-ing this frickin Titan solo
WHOOPS THERE GOES THE STADIUM
“Optimus had a fight of his own...with gravity!” oh how the mighty have fallen Optimus lmao
I wonder how this wonky universe would handle a flier
JUST THROW A BUILDING AT A TITAN, NBD
SOMEONE PLEASE CATCH ARCEE
THANKS GRIMLOCK
THERE’S RATCHET Finally, I was wondering where he was
“Well it’s not my fault this won’t be a fair fight” OH SHOOT THERE IT IS!!! THERE IT IS
I can’t believe Starscream is trying to back-seat drive this fight lmao
SOUNDWAVE NO!!!! Oh thank goodness they’re ok
OH NO OH NO
IS THIS IT IS HE GONNA DIE?? MAC DONT GIVE IN TO FATE!!! NO!!!
MAC NO!!!!!!!!!! MAC YOU DIDN”T HAVE TO DIE NO!!! YOU LITERALLY DID NOT HAVE TO STAND THERE AND GET BLASTED WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!!!!!!
“My last citizen...he is gone” FRICK IM GONNA START CRYING
Quints
> Murdered Croaton's citizens most likely
> Enslave Croaton
> Inadvertently kill Iaconus' last citizen (WHICH HURT BECAUSE WE'RE MADE TO ASSUME IACONUS ONLY CARES ABOUT WAR BUT NO, HE LOVES HIS CITIZENS DEEP DOWN)
> BEHEAD IACONUS
LIKE, WHY YOU GOTTA STAB ME IN THE HEART LIKE THIS
Wheeljack you’re so smart but ALSO IM STILL CRYING OVER MACCADAM
“Hehe, you’re a nasty little fella” NICE JOB COWBOY
OH NO ALL THE SOUNDWAVES DANGIT I KNEW IT
AND HE”S A BIG LIAR HE DID HAVE SOME BLUE SOUNDWAVES
OH NO WHAT ABOUT WINDBLADE
HECK THAT”S SUCH A BAD PLACE TO STOP BUT I CANT WATCH ANY MORE EPISODES RN I GOTTA STAGGER THIS SERIES
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