He sat in a courtyard on an obsidian bench. Even though people were partying all around him on the island, he felt that he didn't deserve to party, yet. A spirit came up to him.
"Hey, DUDE, Why aren't you partying? You're Elysium! Why aren't you happy?" The spirit asked the young man.
The man kicked a pebble across the courtyard and sighed.
"For the hundredth time, I'm waiting for someone." He breathed out warily.
He looked across to where the newly dead came into the underworld. There was a crowd of people, but he knew who he was looking for. The spirit shrugged and turned around to join the party again.
"Alright, your loss." The spirit said. "But you're in Elysium, you're allowed to party Beckendorf."
Beckendorf didn't pay attention, and went back to staring at the continuous lines of the dead. She'll come eventually. Beckendorf thought. It could be tomorrow, or eighty years from now, but he would wait for her, no matter how long it took.
When Beckendorf opened his eyes, he knew that he was dead. There was no way he could've survived that explosion if the fates themselves had intervened. He got up reluctantly, and realized he was in the underworld. It was like being in a really big dark cave. Percy Jackson had come here a few years ago, and he survived, so it probably wasn't as bad as it sounded.
He looked around, and there were other souls walking to a toll booth like entrance. At the entrance there were skeletons handling the entrance to the three places, the fields of Aspholdel, Elysium, and The Isles of Blest. Beckendorf realized that almost all of the souls were being herded into the Asphodel fields. He shuddered. The thought of going to live in a field for eternity wasn't that great. There wasn't anything being accomplished by standing there, so he decided to go to the toll booth.
At the toll booth, Beckendorf waited patiently as he moved up in the seemingly endless line. While he was waiting, he went over his life. His life was divided into three main stages. Before he found out he was a demigod, his life was pretty normal for a demigod. His mother was aware of Hephaestus being his father, and she loved Charlie like a true mother. When he finally went to Camp, he felt like he was finally accepted into a place with kids like him. He developed his skills, and quickly became one of the best craftsmen in the Camp for a hundred years.
Then the most important time of his life was when he found out that Silena loved him back. It was a known fact that Beckendorf was in love with the beautiful daughter of Aphrodite, but Silena was private about her love interests, which drove Beckendorf crazy. People thought it wouldn't work out since Aphrodite and Hephaestus were spouses in real life, and they weren't the most faithful couple in the realm of gods. Silena didn't care about her mother breaking mortal men's hearts, and she fell in love with Beckendorf.
He smiled fondly as he remembered all of the good times with his girlfriend. He thought of her cascading blonde hair that flowed down her back, and her beautiful blue eyes that seemed to penetrate his soul and could tell what he was thinking. In my short hero life, I'm glad that I spent time with Silena more than anything else. Beckendorf decided.
Finally, Beckendorf arrived at the front of the line. The skeleton looked genuinely bored and turned to him after typing something in the computer that held all the names of the dead.
"Name?" The skeleton said in boring tone.
"Charles Beckendorf." Charlie said.
The skeleton typed in the name with agility. Beckendorf smiled to himself. Mr. Skeleton probably got a lot of practice from typing from the endless line of the dead. Suddenly, the skeleton's jaw dropped, and his skull snapped up to look at Beckendorf.
"C-congratulations, Charles Beckendorf, son of Hephaestus. You have been granted permission to enter Elysium." The Skeleton stuttered out in a surprised tone.
Beckendorf's eyes widened. He, Charles Beckendorf, was going to Elysium? This was impossible. The only thing he's ever done was blown up a ship containing Kronos…then again, that could be considered a big help in the war against the Titans.
"Thank you, sir." Beckendorf said in surprised tone.
He walked through the toll, and headed to the sign that said Elysium. Beckendorf was so surprised that he didn't notice the boy that was standing in front of the boat that headed to Elysium.
"Hey, so surprised you didn't notice me?" The boy said. Beckendorf's attention was suddenly brought to the boy.
Standing in front of him and the boat was Nico Di Angelo.
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