Hey guys, what's up? So I sort of got a good response to my last chapter. I got quite a few views, but I can never know your thoughts for sure unless you guys review. Shout out to SheWhoMustNotBeNamed73029375 and TheTrueSonOfPoseidon for being my first reviewers.

Percy felt a cool comfortable sensation as they were transported to their destination. He imagined this was how it felt to turn into water as weird as it sounded. He closed his eyes and let the feeling envelope him.

"We're here, Percy!" He'd been so focused on the feeling that he failed to notice that they'd arrived.

He opened his eyes and blushed when he notice that his dad was staring at him knowingly.

"Where are we?" He said looking away.

As soon as he got a good grasp of his surroundings though he realized how stupid the question was. There was only one place in the world that he believed would be this dark and gloomy.

"You should know. I believe you've visited this place more than most my boy." It was Chiron that answered.

"The Underworld… But why?" He was quite confused.

Where they here to visit Hades? Weren't they trying to teach him magic? Now that he thought about it, why did they even need to leave his father's palace?

"To visit your tutor." Was all the answer he got.

"It's not Hades is it?" he questioned nervously.

There was no answer just grim glances from his father and Chiron to each other. Now if that didn't make a demigod nervous he didn't know what would. Especially given that the last time he'd had a talk with his dear uncle he had his sword to the man's throat.

Then again he hadn't been that angry at the throne room with the gods either. So he just assumed they would call it even for him trying to trap him in the underworld. Still he'd rather not take his chances by walking up to his place and asking the god to teach him.

They continued walking on and slowly but surely he realized they were nearing the place where Hades dwelled.

Crack! There was a loud crack and fiery shadows erupted from beneath them almost engulfing all the light around them.

"Greetings brother I hadn't expected you to come so soon. I have yet to prepare everything yet." Hades greeted calmly.

"Yes we did rush things a bit on our side didn't we? Well I apologize for that. Shall we get going?" His father replied.

"I suppose we should." And with that they were all engulfed by shadow and in a blink of an eye they appeared at what seemed to be a small and elegant dining room.

"Sit brother. We'll speak while we await our meals." Hades informed.

He sat down rather confused. Why did it seem more of an awkward family reunion than a discussion between gods and two of the most powerful gods at that.

"How about we jump straight into things? My son-"

"Yes I've heard. He's one of those 'wizard's' wasn't he. Just get to the part of what you want me to do." Hades cut in impatiently.

"As you know those wizards have a means to teleport to different locations and while it's really useful, that's limited by the fact that it's so easily stopped if the place is warded. Of course you may already know this. What I really want to say is that I need my son to have a different method of transportation, something more reliable-"

"So you want me to give him my blessing? So that he could shadow travel?" Hades concluded.

"Well I was thinking maybe just giving the means to shadow travel with your blessing. You wouldn't need to give him all your other powers." His father explained.

"That's not how my blessing works. The shadows choose themselves what powers they would let him have. That could be anything from raising undead zombies to umbrakinesis or with the lucky few having many of them. Of course only my children will receive all of them to a certain degree." Hades explained.

Percy was still shocked at the revelation that his father was negotiating with Hades to try and give him the gods powers. He honestly expected the other to decline straight away, but it seemed the god was open for negotiation adding to his shock.

"Oh I hadn't known that. Anyway you know what I want. What do you want in return?" his father asked.

"Well I'd think it was obvious. My son will be facing difficulties on his travels so I'd wish the same in return, but since your asking for the favor I think that it should be given to 5 demigod children of mine should I have some in the future." Hades said.

"Five is too many. Two others is enough and should they find themselves in trouble I'll let them escape to my domain." Poseidon said.

"Don't act as if you wouldn't do that anyways, how many of my children escaping from the war did you let go? Even before that you let most of my children sail through the seas with no problems." Hades accused.

"Well it's my belief that as long as my nieces or nephews do me no wrong I shouldn't hinder them when on my domain. There's no use holding a grudge for something their parents did is there?" Poseidon explained.

"Yes, you always believed such things didn't you? How kind of you." Hades said dryly.

"You say that, but how many of mine and Zeus' children have you allowed to Elysium or through rebirth even though with a word you could have delayed them for centuries or even sent them to the fields of punishment if you'd so wanted." Poseidon shot back.

"Our children need not suffer because of our petty differences with each other even after giving their lives for it." Hades said solemnly.

"I understand. Still I stick to my limit of only two of your other children. I also won't limit their power they should be able to practice all powers given to my own children albeit to a lesser extent and they won't be able to be strengthened by the sea as they're not of the sea." Poseidon explained.

"Whatever, you'll have to first convince her if I'm even allowed to go through with it. She was planning of giving the boy her blessing." Hades said.

"Demigods can have more than one blessing without them clashing I believe." Poseidon said.

"Yeah, but she wants everything to be perfect. She might think that my blessing may get in the way of her experiments. You know how she gets with this stuff." Hades replied.

"Anyway let's just ask her, that is if she ever deems it necessary and shows up." Hades said in an annoyed tone.

"Oh I most certainly wouldn't be here for you. In fact if I wasn't so interested in this I definitely wouldn't have showed up." A woman suddenly called. Her tone and body language showed a lot of disrespect to the Lord of the underworld.

He curiously wondered who could face his uncle like this. There were few individuals who could even look the man in the eyes let alone slight him in anyway.

The woman had long curly red that reminded him of his friend Rachel Elizabeth Dare's if not as frizzy. She stood at somewhere around a head shorter than him and her face looked familiar, like someone he'd once known or seen. She stood there with as cold arrogant demeanor as if nothing in the world could phase her.

"Whatever woman, so would me giving the boy my blessing affect your… studies?" Hades said waving of her blatant disrespect.

He briefly wondered if his uncle was being blackmailed. How else could he let this disrespect from a woman, who clearly wasn't his wife, slide? Then he shook the thought away, his uncle seemed more likely to blast the such a person off the face of the earth before bending to their demands.

"No I don't think it will be a big problem, nor do I believe it will get in the way of my work. Just in case though I'd like to have a look at the boy, examine him for a bit." She stated.

"Do with him as you will." Hades said offhandedly.

"Provided no harm comes to his being that is. Right, brother?" Poseidon warned with a hard look.

"Yes that's correct." Hades relented.

"I'm not gonna kill the boy. I need him alive for my research. Now can I…?" she said gesturing for the two to leave.

"We've already said you can woman so hurry up with it!" Hades said ignoring her unasked question.

"How about we go find your son so I can give him my blessing as we wait, brother?" Poseidon suggested with a sigh.

"I guess we can." Hades grumbled out.

The two including Chiron left the room. Leaving Percy surprised that he had forgotten that the centaur was still in the room. Neither him not Chiron really had room to speak with the negotiations between the two gods earlier.

Soon enough he was left in the room sitting with the strange woman, who he suspected was a goddess as just a look from a god as powerful as Hades might cause some mortals to go mad.

"Are you like… a doctor?" he finally blurted out after the silence got to him.

Smooth. Her words of 'examining' him had him thinking of a doctor which led to his genius question.

"No I'm a magician. That's like our pantheon's version of those witches and wizards and I will be trying to figure out how it is you could mix the magic of gods and those of the wizards without blowing up. The goal will be to hopefully replicate that." She said ending with a glint in her eye and some obvious excitement in her voice.

"Is that how you know so much about the wizarding world, because you've been trying to replicate their magic?" Percy asked.

"You're not as dense as you look, Perseus." She commented.

"Percy, call me Percy please." Percy replied.

"Yes, Percy." She said testing how his name sounded when she spoke it.

"Well, Percy, you're correct. My goal is to replicate the magic of those wizards so I needed knowledge of their subjects. I've read countless books on magic in their world, some even lost to themselves. Yet I've never seen a situation like yours."

"The rare few times the gods reproduced with witches or wizards nothing happened so I'm curious as to why your situation is so different. Is it maybe Poseidon himself that's doing this? Are his children the key to mixing the two worlds? Curious indeed." She said ending her rant looking at him as if he were a lab rat in her eyes.

"What do you need me to do?" He said changing the topic.

"Just some minor things. I want to see how your demigod power reacts when your using magic." She said.

"My dad said that my magic was sealed…" he murmured.

"Oh yes, the one Perenelle put up I believe. It's fine. Hold this and concentrate on drawing out your magic." She said pulling out a yellow crystal orb.

He hesitantly reached out and grabbed the orb upon her urging glance. He deeply exhaled and tried to focus as much as possible with his eyes shut.

He wasn't really sure what he was supposed to feel, but he soon got distracted and let his mind wander. Just as he was about to open his eyes and tell the lady that her crystal ball was broken or maybe he wasn't a wizard.

He felt it, it was similar to the soft tug of his gut he got when he used his demigod powers, but closer to his chest near the bottom of his heart. It started of with a soft tug, like the one he felt when he changed the shape of a ball of water, and then it increasing got harder until the point he almost screamed from the pain.

His eyes snapped open and with them there was a flood of power coming out from him. It was like how he felt when he stepped into the ocean, except a hundred times more blissful. Like he was missing a piece of him his whole life and this completed him.

'That's basically it isn't it?' he thought.

"Curious, how very curious." His thoughts were interrupted by the lady scribbling down notes furiously on a notebook while muttering unintelligible words to him.

He shut his eyes again and focused on immersing himself in the feeling of bliss he got from his new found powers. Curiously enough he found that with the new powers he could now see things he hadn't before.

The world was a swirl of different 'colors'. He couldn't see them but he could sort of feel them. Things from the woman sitting across from him all the way to the shadowy feeling He got from where Hades sat earlier to a 'watery' one where his dad had sat.

It was amazing. He wanted the just reach out and touch the lingering magic(?) His father left behind.

It was with that thought that he abruptly stood from where he was seated and went towards in front of where his father was seated earlier to the surprise of the woman in the room as he still had his eyes closed.

He reached out to touch the watery colored magic and to his surprise when he touched it, it was absorbed into his hands. 'Looking' down at his hands in curiosity he watched the watery colored magic swirl throughout his body before settling near his gut where a clump of the same colored magic lay, increasing it ever so slightly.

"Whoa." He whispered before glancing over at the woman who was looking at him curiously.

"What did you just experience?" she asked, curiosity tainting her once cold voice.

"I could sort of feel where you were and where my dad and uncle Hades were sitting earlier." He explained leaving out the fact that He absorbed his father's magic. He had a gut feeling to omit that so he did.

"Hm, I believe what you're experiencing is the highly sought for 'mage sight' or 'aura reading' its nothing too unique, many of my children have it, but it's pretty unique for wizards. I think that due to the fact that you've had your magic sealed for so long your sensitivity to magic unlocked it." She explained after pondering for a moment.

"That son of yours is getting quite good with his usage of his demigod powers." He heard his father's voice.

"Yes. I've trained him in all aspects of being a demigod, not just having him waving his sword around foolishly like yours." He heard his uncle gibe.

"Need I remind you that my son has defeated not one not two it three different titans and that's if we don't include Iapetus, whom he fought with your son and Zeus's daughter." Poseidon shot back.

"Bah, he had help! My son could've easily done the same. Also your son is much older than mine." Hades argued.

"Technically your son is like 70 so…" his father said with a laugh.

"Bah, that still doesn't change the fact that my son has better control of his powers than yours, what excuse will you give once there swordsman ship reaches about the same level huh?" Hades taunted as they walked into the room.

Percy wanted to say that he was rather confident in his swordsmanship, but he didn't want to appear arrogant.

"Whatever." Poseidon grumbled.

"Back already I see. I was about done anyway, I'll come back tomorrow after I've let what I've just experienced soak in. Don't worry about the deadline, I can have him more than prepared in the weeks to come. Of course I do need your permission for the more extreme bits." She said.

"Well as long as you don't kill him it's fine." His father said.

Seeing the way the woman was staring at him he inwardly whimpered. What had his father just allowed. What happened to the Seeing the way the woman was staring at him he inwardly whimpered. What had his father just allowed. What happened to the protectiveness he'd shown earlier? Did his happiness mean less to him than the competition between the two brothers?

"Yes I look forward to helping you in your… studies, Percy." She said with a vicious smile.

'What happened to the cold demeanor you had on earlier? Return to it! This new personality of yours is making me fear for my wellbeing!' He inwardly screamed.

"Well I'm certainly glad you can handle this all by yourself. I'll leave my son in your care." Poseidon said.

"I'll gladly help him." The woman said evilly.

"Are you sure it's wise to leave me in the care of a complete strangers care father? What of my new duties as a Prince of the sea?" He was so scared that he'd even correctly used some of the 'Prince' vocabulary Agathe had explained to him.

"Triton can explain you your new duties as a Prince once you've settled into your new school. As for her being a stranger…" his father said gesturing for the lady to speak.

"Oh how rude of me, I still haven't introduced myself. Nice to meet you Percy, my name is Hecate." The lady, Hecate, introduced herself.