Liam

I screamed as I hung onto the boat for dear life!

Fuuuuk!

Excuse my language but I'm being chucked down a tall rocky deadly waterfall at the moment!
My stomach felt like it had leaped upwards into my throat and I felt light headed.

"Shiiiiiiiiiiitttttt!!!!!!!! Aaaaargh!!" I yelled loudly, not caring if I sounded like a girl or not, then as fast as it had started there was a stabbing pain in my head as I slammed down into the deadly currents and rocks at the bottem of this towering waterfall.

They say when you almost die you're life flashes through your eyes, you think of family, friends and loved ones, well that didn't happen for me.

Everything was just going so fast I couldn't think, couldn't react, the boat was smashed into pieces of the rocks, everything was a blur suddenly everything slowed down, the rocks disappeared beneath me as the currents swept me away from the turmoils.

I tried to breath but water filled my mouth and lungs and I choked and tried to cry out in despair.
Extreme pain searched through me and my hands found my throat which was hurting the most, along with my chest.

I tried to grab on to something, anything but nothing was their, my arms flailed helplessly, I tried to swim up but my whole body felt like a ton of lead weighing me down.

I slowly sunk down into the water, my vision began to line with dots and get all blurry round the edges. The pain in my chest increased and if I could make a sound I knew I would be screaming. My back hit the bottem with a small thud, it was sand, I felt it stir beneath my body. I could barely think so when the ground moved I just stilled feeling the life drain from my body.

My eyes turned glassy and my vision started to go all strange, before darkness overwhelmed my senses, I swear I saw a women appear out of the sand, and her very being caked in sand and mud, her eyes closed like she was sleeping and her hand reached out for me, then that's all I remember before I fell unconscious. I had the strangest dream....

I dreamt that Zeus was in the wrecks of...Olympus?

It was completely destroyed?

Reduced to rubble.

Zeus was completely alone, he was on the floor looking desperate, he looked...weak? And scared?

Zeus pleaded as If someone could hear him "I'm sorry! I didn't mean for this to happen!"

A deep powerful ancient voice that made Olympus shake answered him "You're fate is not up to me any more Zeus"

There was a rumble of thunder from out side the crumbling halls of Olympus and the heavy ginormous doors where blasted open with a loud crash and the sound vibrated through me coursing me to sit up right, couthing and spluttering.

The ache in my chest was back fall force and I choked hard, feeling like I was going to cough up one of my lungs.

"The little Demigod is awake!'

My eyes snap open and I stared face to face with a wet scaly face of a siren, her hair falling down her face looking slimy, how on earth did I think they were beautiful? I tried back away then realised there was no were to go. I was on a giant rock, surrounded by water, my clothes sopping wet, torn and behind me the gigantic waterfall that I'd fell down, had I really fell down that waterfall? How big was that thing?

I was so surprised that I hadn't died, falling down that terrifying thing I knew would easily kill an ordinary human, at this minute I was so thankful I was a Halfblood.

"H-how did I get here?" I asked my voice dry.

The Siren told me "I dragged you here sir"

I blinked, sir? When did Sirens call me sir then as I looked her up and down my mind suddenly focused, oh god! I was such an idiot!

I spluttered "You're not a Siren!"

The creator said with sarcasm "Well spotted Sir"

My mind felt like some had dunked my brain in a slow blender that was slowly cutting away my brain cells. What was going on?

The creature said "I pulled you out of the river, you want me to take you back to the Sirens? They were hoping you'd died, they seemed to have drawn the short straw of your deal"

I spluttered "What are you?"

The creature said "Me? I'm a water demon"

I stiffened, now why does that name seem not very nice? This is the maze I'm in, all these creatures must of been put in the maze for a purpose, the sirens an obvious one, they could easily kill me, now what would a water demon be put in here for?

The water demon asked "You want me to call the Sirens? I think they're hiding"

I nodded still feeling perplexed.

The demon put its mouth to the water and I heard a shrill sound come out of its mouth. Suddenly 20 pretty women bobbed up to the service smiling charmingly at me, surrounding me and the water demon.

I scowled "That trick will not work on me! You've already tried it, I'm not stupid!"

One siren said giving me a wicked smile "Some demigods are"

I shuddered knowing full well what she was implying.

A siren to my left said looking disappointed "Look he has no cut"!

One said "He has a scar!" She pointed to my left arm.

I snapped "That was from climbing that dam mountain near this maze! I'd like to see you climb it and get nothing"

The demon that was now floating next to me said confused "But they live in the water sir, how would they climb a mountain?"

I said looking at the demon "I didn't mean it"

The water demon said "But why did you say it if you didn't mean it?"

Realising the water demon wouldn't get it and I was feeling a bit of an idiot talking to a water demon that was calling me 'Sir' with Sirens that would love to kill me circling the rock I was sitting on, I sighed "Never mind"

A siren popped up in front of me and said in gravelly deep voice "You have no cuts and are free to go"

Another one next to the demon said suddenly looking evil "Though take it slow, you never know what stirs from underneath"

"Or what will grab you with its teeth" Another Siren hissed close to my head.

They began to disapear under the water then I remembered something "No! Wait! You can't go! The part of deal was you give me information!"

Four Sirens stayed behind looking irritated, their drats-I-hoped-he-would-of-forgetten expressions made sure I knew that they defiantly hadn't forgetting my deal.

One of them asked "What information would you like?"

I sighed deciding to chance it I asked "What do you know about the Creators Horn?"

As soon as I asked this the water demon tensed next to me and the Sirens let out shrill shrieks of shock, they swam closer to each other and started to talk rapidly to each other in a language I couldn't understand.

One of them asked me warily "What do you want to know about it...?"

I said quickly "Anything"

The Siren swam next to my rock and waved her scaly hands in front of her, I was going to ask what she was doing then a reflection of a shape formed in the water, it shimmered slightly as I sucked in breath in pure surprise and shock, the Creators Horn!

I reached out and touched the horn but my fingers went straight through water, grasping at nothing, yet what could be there to cast such a reflection?

The Sirens had turned beautiful again and started to sing, with every line the reflection of the Horn changed.

"Down below where you will look. To see what the Romans took"

The reflection of the Horn changed to a scenery of mountains and I saw shapes of figures climbing up some of the boulders, one of them carried a heavy box with care, the water rippled as the ground in the scene shook and skeletons rose out of the cracked floor, with a jolt I realised these figures where Romans! By the look of their armour. They were running from skeletons? Was Hades after them?

"A treasure which even gods would die for. That we've here'd could start a war"

The scene of the Romans fighting the skeletons changed, I could see the box that the Romans had been carrying was now in Olympus? Zeus, Hades and Poseidon seemed to be arguing big time, I noticed it was Hades that was holding the box.

I could see the box in more detail now, it was silver and gold, a calved picture of an eye was on the front with arrows coming of it, the symbol looked so familiar but for the life of me I could not remember where I'd seen a symbol like this before.

"The maze hides it well. But to get it you must go through all kinds of hell"

The reflection changed again and I was suddenly looking at a dark cave, a part of the Maze. I realised, then suddenly chains suddenly burst through the walls and grasped onto a small figure, wrapping around him and pulling, the figure looked so familiar and his mouth opened in a silent scream, he looked like he was in agony, the chains seemed to burn him and pull, stretching his spine.

"Down, down you go. The Maze is the entrance to a bigger foe"

The scene on the water changed, I was looking at a deep dark tunnel, it was again part of the Maze, then the ground in the reflection shook and suddenly the scene started to move downwards, underground the Maze?

Soon I saw just darkness but a chill spread through me as I looked at the darkness reflected in the water, this wasn't showing me the maze, it was showing me somewhere underneath the maze...somewhere dark and dangerous.

"Down the black pit one of you will go...And to one of you, the Creators Horn they must blow"

Notes