Hey potential fellow reader! I've decided to rewrite this story. I've taken a break from writing for a year to focus on my studies and also to learn to use better writing techniques to grab your attention! Get ready for some unsuspected twists and turns in the story. In future, I'll make my notes shorter and the actual chapter longer. Now let's get started, shall we?

Prologue

Bianca knew all along that she would be the one who died in this quest. After all, she was supposed to be dead. Becoming immortal made it a hundred times worse. The defective Talos prototype was stomping behind them. Even with Thalia fighting it, she knew that soon, it would catch up to them. They were the size of ants compared to the huge automaton. One line of the prophecy had burned through her mind; ''One shall be lost in the land without rain'. Someone had to stop it, and it had to be her. It was her fault why the Talos prototype had been triggered and activated to kill them in the first place. She had taken a cursed Mythomagic action figurine from one of the towering hills of other cursed junk. It was the only one Nico didn't have. Even though she had told Nico she wasn't interested in the game, she still played with him and secretly watched his progress. In case she died, she wanted to make sure the figurine was given to Nico anyways. She ran faster to catch up with Percy, whom she had trusted the most. "Percy" she said. " Give it to Nico. Please" he began to argue. "Bianca, it's cursed. It's the reason why we're being ch-" he stopped midsentence, and for a second his eyes widened in fear. Then it became more serious and understanding. His eyes were no longer the cheery river green, but now tinged with grey and blue like a stormy sea. He realised my destined line in the prophecy. I handed the Mythomagic figurine to Percy. Bianca didn't care that she would die disabling Talos. It was either she sacrificed herself to save the rest of the team and finish the quest, or let everybody be killed like a coward. The entire world was at stake. If the quest wasn't finished, Kronos could rise and start war and carnage across the world. She ran to the back again, and explained her plan to Thalia quickly, and left before she could protest. She ran towards the huge foot, which Grover had thought to be a hill, and yelled a battle cry. In a matter of seconds, she had wedged herself inside a tiny gap in it's foot.

Inside was an iron spiralling staircase painted in black. Oddly, it wasn't even the shape of the automaton. Probably magic, like Phoebe's enchanted bag. It was a rectangular room with silver walls. Bianca ran up the staircase, almost falling through the gaps between each step. She found herself in a tiny control room filled with wires and several electrical switches. The front was a window shaped like scuba goggles. Through the automaton's sight, she could see tiny ants; Percy, Zoe, Grover and Thalia at the back. She was still fighting, but with no avail. Soon, they would be squashed under a giant foot. She even found an emergency remote control to control him, and turned auto-pilot off. She fiddled with the buttons. She had played a game like this at the Lotus Casino, where she and Nico had stayed for about a year. What she didn't know was that it was a time warping area which could turn a couple of weeks into a couple of years. That explained why she and Nico checked in during 1932 and came out in a much more modern era, and the year was 2010. Bianca had mastered most games, but this was one game she couldn't tackle. She clicked the back button and Talos moved forwards, almost crushing a stunned Zoe. She pressed left but the robot moved right. Bianca knew why Hephaestus had thrown the robot away. The malfunction was that the buttons were wrong. She quickly adjusted to the controls, and soon found herself moving him backwards safely. Bianca had a speck of hope. Minutes ago, she thought that she's die. Now she was safe. Maybe she could escape the prophecy... She accidentally pressed forwards, but this mistake cost dear Bianca her life. The robot lurched backwards, and Talos had tripped on electrical wires, and tumbled backwards onto the junkyard. She bumped her head on a bookcase, and black spots danced across her vision. She held her head, and she saw her hand was bloody. She looked backwards, and saw that a piece of shrapnel was embedded into the surface of the bookcase. It was coated in her blood. She winced at the sight. The whirring sound of his engine stopped. She could hear the screams of her friends and their footsteps above the the surface. They were trying to dig for Talos sunk deep in the sea of junk. Bianca felt the air around her getting hotter and less frequent. She knew that soon, she would run out of oxygen. Her part of the quest was done. She smiled, thinking about her short lived happiness as a Hunter. Then she thought about her adventurous life with Nico. The quest. She slumped down on the floor, savouring the bittersweet memories. She closed her eyes, and a serene smile stretched across her face. Poof. Her body disintegrated into thin air.

Her eyelids fluttered open. She was lying down in a gondola boat. She sighed. Bianca knew that all that demigod stuff couldn't possibly be true. It was all a dream. She sat up, hoping to see the ragged yet regal view of Venice, Instead, what she saw was horrifying. Instead of the clear blue rivers of Venice, she saw a toxic, murky green river full of random things. A lot of torn college diplomas. A couple of engagement rings. Some were odd, like rotten corsages or basketball tanks. She felt hopeless, just looking at it... Where the buildings should have been, she saw nothing. Bianca looked down. She heard the echoes of countless haunting screams, as if someone had trapped souls of the damned in a bottle and released it all at once. Pain seared through her head, like a hot rod of steel were being inserted though one ear and came out the other end. She covered her ears (which only made the weakest of yells distant mumbles; she could only hear the most blood-curdling shrieks.) She concentrated on the tiny figures, and she almost sobbed at the sight. She saw numerous people being tortured. She saw medieval ways, such as being chained or starved. Others were weird like a man being sawed in half or a man pushing a boulder which would never stay in place. She turned around and saw the ferry man. Bianca gave him a tap on the shoulder. He turned around, to give a featureless face. He was wearing the stereotypical Venician gondola outfit. "Your stop." he said in a wispy, high pitched voice. She took a glance at the stop. It was a red, rocky cave with a high ceiling and the occasional spike to fall. In front of her, a huge airport security terminal. The lines were infinite. She got off the boat and started running. She wanted to run away from everything. Tears began to stream down her face. This had to be some cruel, well-plotted joke. Bianca ran until she bumped into a dog. He was a normal black rotweiler. Apart from the fact it was huge, had three heads and had menacing red eyes. The creature inched towards her. She was too shocked to move and was prepared to be eaten, when he gave her a huge lick in the face. It was playfully barking. Suddenly, bat-like female creature soared in the air and landed in front of her. "I've assumed you've met Cerberus." The dog whimpered at the sight of her. "Welcome, child of Hades, to the Underworld."

What will happen to Bianca in the Underworld? Find out in Chapter 2! (Sorry it's a bit different from the book, but at least Uncle Rick can't sue me). Yes, I did re-upload the same thing in a different document so that it has more days. Bye!