"Mr. D! Mr D!"
"What is it Peter Johnson?" Dionysus demanded, "can't you see that I am very busy?"
"Umm...you're playing Pac Man."
"Exactly! Now what is so important that you had to interrupt my revenge on Blinky?"
"Do you know where Chiron is?"
"Yes, he's at one of those weird meetings with his fellow centaurs in Chicago, now leave me alone!"
"When will he be back?"
Mr. D shrugged, "don't know, don't care."
"But-"
"Aha! Take that, Blinky!"
"Mr. D..."
His face turned purple with rage. "WHAT?!"
"It's Mrs. O'Leary!"
"And do I look like I care what happens to the stupid hellhound?"
"Grover says she says she really likes you..."
"How touching, but unfortunetly that doesn't make a difference to me."
"Do you want me to tell your father Zeus that you were misbehaving again?"
"Now listen here, Patrick-"
"-Percy-"
"-Whatever, you may have done well saving mount Olypious before, but that doesn't make you better than everyone else. You're still just a stuck-up hero."
"Fine, but I'm still telling Zeus."
"Alright," he said, annoyed, he letout an exagerated sigh, "this is me pretending to care: what's wrong?"
"Mrs. O'Leary is hardly eating, and she spends most of the time just lying around!"
"Oh, well that's a shame. Too bad, good luck trying to find out what's wrong. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a game to attend."
Percy sighed heavily. Why did he even try with Mr. D?
Just then, Nico came running up to him. His face was pale. "Percy, it's Mrs. O'Leary! You better come, quick! She just-just come on!"
"Wait, what-" but Nico had grabbed him arm and was dragging him to the sword area.
"Look," he pointed.
Grover, Juniper, Annabeth-even Clarisse were standing near the giant hellhound. Mrs. O'Leary lay on her side nursing six two-headed hellhound pups. They were roughly the size of adult Golden Retrievers.
Everyone just stood there, dumbstruck.
Even for once, Clarisse was at loss for words.
It was Annabeth who spoke first. "P...puppies?" she gasped.
"But how-"
"I saw her in the underworld a few times," Nico admitted, "she...she was with Cerberus."
"...Were they-um....you know....."
Nico shook his head. "I don't know, not that I saw anyway. I only noticed they were playing together."
"That's where she kept dissapearing off too! Bad girl, Mrs. O'Leary!"
The mastiff whimpered.
"What will we do with them?"
"Well, whatever you decide to do," Clarisse said, "keep those demon dogs away from me!" and with that, she stormed off.
"My dad...he's always looking for new hellhounds," Nico said, "once they're mature enough, like a few months old, I bet I can convince him to take take them. And Mrs. O'Leary could visit whenever she wanted. But in the meantime....."
"We're going to need a very large pooper-scooper."