His body groaned in protest, and he swallowed dryly. His eyes blinked open and he looked around to find himself in a familiar place. One that was old, and played at a fading memory in his mind.

It was the lobby to DOA Recording Studios. The steel grey interior and black furniture surrounded him and standing on a podium listening to Muzak was the tall and elegant chocolate skinned Charon. He smoothed out the lapels of his Italian suit and his eyes fell to the son of Poseidon.

'Ah, Percy. About time you got here.' He checked his watch, 'well, perhaps slightly late. Come on. Off the ground. Follow me.'

Percy, not knowing what was about to happen to him but smart enough to know it wasn't good, followed the ferryman to the elevator. It was only him and Charon. No other spirits no other souls. He recalled the memory of being squeezed together by spirits when he first encountered the ferryman so many years ago.

They followed the river, littered and polluted by the broken dreams of mortals and demigods alike. Curiously, he reached out a grabbed a ripped photo. Looking at it he gasped, it was him. Except it wasn't. He was in a hospital delivery room with Annabeth in the bed beside him and he was holding a small bundle. 'I told you long ago Percy. The river Styx is a collection of lost hope. You who had hoped to live and start a family, never succeeded.'

Percy let the photo flutter back into the river. 'I should never have let her fight.' He muttered to himself. Charon pulled up to the shore and Percy could instantly here the baying of a monster. In this case, a giant three headed dog. Percy gulped, wringing his hands together. He had not feared death but the three headed dog was something he was scared of either way. He swallowed nervously and dismounted the boat, realising he was dressed in a black robe. He turned back to Charon. Wondering if it was too late to stay in the waiting room for the next thousand years. But the ferryman was already gone. He peered through the gloom and could see the three headed monster.

If he still had a heartbeat it would've come out of his rib cage. He felt stapled to the spot until he heard a bark louder than Cereberus. He looked to the side and there she was, a tank sized hellhound with an artillary bark. 'Mrs. O'Leary!' Percy cried out and ran to his hellhound without thinking. He broke down into tears, crying into her pelt and gripping fistfuls of her fur. Her tail beated fast and she pulled away, Percy was drowned in her slobber as her tongue ran over him.

She whimpered softly and invited him onto her back he wiped away his tears as he climbed onto her back. She made sure he was settled and then started off in a joyful trot. She stepped on spirits in the EZ Death Line and stretched onto her hind legs. The three headed dog looked down. The middle head touching noses with Mrs. O'Leary while the other two heads sniffed Percy curiously. Cereberus stepped away and Mrs. O'Leary made her way passed Erebus. Percy kept his head down but let his eyes travel. Even where he was he could hear the screams from the fields of punishments. He looked around and saw overpasses and underpasses around the fields of asphodel. Daedalus.

He could see Elysium and the Isles of the Blest. He looked forward and saw the judgement pavilion looming over him. Mrs. O'Leary stopped and he climbed off her back. She nuzzled him comfortingly and he scratched her behind the ear. Before stepping into the Judgement pavilion. He stuttered as he looked up, the three judges were to his complete surprise, Annabeth, Clarisse and Lord Hades.

Hades looked straight at him, eyes cold and intelligent as they raked over his demeanour, Clarisse clenched her fist on the bench and glowered at him, pounding him into meat with her hateful stare. Towards the end of her life, Percy and Clarisse has become somewhat friendly but Percy could help but feel as though that friendliness had vanished into thin air like fog in the sun.

Finally, he looked at Annabeth. Her stare was detached but he couldn't help how his body mechanically moved towards her. Two souls tied together in an endless dance of fate. She fiddled with her bead necklace which had miraculously followed her into the afterlife. They held each others stare for a few moments, until Lord Hades cleared his throat.

'So finally, you have joined us.' Hades began softly, voice raspy and low. 'Tell me Perseus. How do you plead. Guilty? Needing rehabilitation in the fields of punishment? Or innocent, worthy of Elysium?'

Percy swallowed nervously. The hood of his cloak heavy and hiding his eyes. 'Guilty...' he murmured without thought. 'I plead guilty, Lord Hades.'

He peered up under his lashes and watched as Hades reclined back in his seat which was throne like. The god looked down on Percy long enough to make his feel uncomfortable. Then he scoffed light-heartedly and smiled.

'Ah, young nephew. It is honorable and true for you to admit to your crimes. But it was unnecessary to do so. You see, we've already decided your eternity. Not just myself and these two lovely ladies. But everyone. Everyone you've ever cared for.' Hades raised his arms in a sweeping gesture and Percy felt presences all around him. He spun around slowly and gasped at what he saw. Filling the pavilion were all of his old friends, his comrades, his family. They smiled welcoming at him, 'my brother may not agree with this choice. But the thing about the lord of the skies, he can't control what's under the earth. That remains my domain and I choose what happens in my domain. And you, Percy. Are perhaps the most anxiously met spirit I've ever encountered.'

He felt a hand slip into his own and stole a glance at Annabeth. Her beauty immeasurable in the gloom of the underworld. She beamed at him, her eyes lighting up. 'Enjoy your eternity, nephew. You deserve it in elysium.'

Heyyyy,

So I'm gonna be doing a spin off of these two oneshots and make a full length fan fiction called 'Rebirth' following our old favourites as reborn mortals who all come together on a multi school exchange program to Greece. (PS Sally and Paul (Renamed: Susan and Parker will still be Peter's (Percy's) parents because I love them ) (PPS Can you see a theme with these names btw?)