Battle For Control of the Doors of Death

The Battle For Control of the Doors of Death. The Battle For Control of the Doors of Death was fought on two fronts. The first and most difficult was in Tartarus who had to set out on foot to make it to the doors.

The first major danger that occurred before even reaching Tartarus. Annabeth and Percy were in a free fall. They were going to land in Cocytus (the river of lamentation and misery). Under normal circumstances the combined distance and speed would have caused the two to sink to the bottom of the river and drown. Percy however was able to summon some of the water to form a geyser slowing down their fall. Percy and Annabeth landed in the river which was not only freezing cold but made her hear voices telling her to give up and just let herself drown. When they made it out of the river they realized there was a field of jagged black glass shards. The air in Tartarus itself was making the wounds already sustained worse rather than starting to heal as well as causing blisters to form. Annabeth remembered that the Phlegethon (the river of fire and blood) while it burned, it also had healing properties. This led them to having to walk down a cliff. The water burned to the point she threw up and shed tears, but it healed her. Percy did the same.