Sup guys. Here is some good news, The Divine Crisis has reached a thousand views! I know it may not seem like much compared to some other authors, but I'm still proud. Anyways I hope you guys like this chapter. Enjoy.

-Apollo


Hazel's POV

After we walked out the door of Hades' palace, we saw Cerberus pacing near the door.

"Bad boy," I told him, causing him to sulk a little. "Back on guard duty."

Cerberus walked away with his tail between his legs.

"I would almost feel bad if he hadn't tried to maul us," Thalia said. "Oh well, let's head to Elysium.

It wasn't that hard to find, since it is a beautiful, peaceful village that seems out of place in the Underworld.

As we approached the village, we heard a high pitched giggle, definitely from some kind of teenage girl.

Percy's eyes widened.

"Get behind the rock," Percy said to us, referring to a boulder next to us.

The three of us ducked behind the boulder.

"What's going on?" I asked.

Percy and I looked around the rock into the village to see three teenage girls in cheerleader outfits, the one looking like the leader being African-American with curly hair.

"Just as I thought," Percy mumbled. "Kelli."


Percy's POV

"Kelli?" Thalia asked.

"She's the leader of this group and she's an empousa," I told them. "Basically a cross between a siren and a vampire, luring men in and sucking those blood."

"Charming," Thalia said sarcastically.

"They look harmless," Hazel said. "Besides the maniacal grins."

"Yeah," I told her. "They looke harmless until..."

"Is that a familiar voice I here," exclaimed a voice further up ahead.

Oh boy.

We looked around the boulder to see Kelli and the other two girls approaching.

"Oh goodie, it is a familiar voice!" Kelli exclaimed, then she turned to Thalia and Hazel. "And friends."

Suddenly, her eyes glowed red and her hair burst into flames. She grew fangs and one of her legs turned into a donkey leg and the other leg became a cybernetic leg.

The other girls followed in suit.

"What the...!" Thalia exclaimed.

Then they lunged at us.

I quickly grabbed the celestial bronze cylinder on my belt and twisted it. It shifted and extended until it became my shiny new trident called Tidalfury.

I sweeper the trident to the side, causing the empousai to leap back.

I looked past them and saw four other empousai terrorizing the spirits in Elysium.

I turned to Thalia and Hazel.

"You two stop those four over there," I told them. "I'll take care of these three."

They nodded and ran toward the other empousai.

I help Tidalfury in one hand and I took Riptide out of my pocket and wielded it with my other.

I turned toward my opponents.

"Ready for a rematch?"


Thalia's POV

The four empousai were setting a house on fire with their hair when we arrived.

Hazel turned toward me.

"Thalia, put out the fire before it spreads, I'll deal with the empousai," Hazel told me.

"I don't know if you'be realized, but there are four of them and one of you," I told her.

"The Underworld is my domain Thalia," She said. "The empousai should have brought more friends."

Hazel turned toward the group and raised her arms.

Suddenly, a stalagmite rose from the floor and impaled one of the empousai, surprising her friends.

Hazel looked at the remaining three and took out her sword.

"So, who's next."

Seems like she has them covered, I thought.

I looked toward the flaming house and summoned massive winds to blow out the flames.


Hazel's POV

After dispatching of the empousai, I looked toward Percy and saw that he had taken out two more, just leaving Kelli.

"It's over Kelli." Percy said to her.

Kelli backed up, afraid.

Suddenly, a dark figure flew down from the sky and landed behind Kelli and stabbed her with a dark sword he had.

When Kelli turned to monster dust, I got a good look at the figure.

No.

It couldn't be.

"Nico?" I asked.

My only indicator that this was Nico was the skull ring on his finger and his vague appearance to him. Other than that, he looked nothing like Nico.

He looked like a monster.

His skin had taken a grayish color, his irises were bright red, one of his hands was barely a hand, just a giant, three-fingered claw, and he had bat-looking wings.

"Nico is gone," Nico said in a menacing voice. "Nico was weak, I am Necros."


I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I thought it would be fun to add a monster from the Percy Jackson books that we know in the form of Kelli. I hope you guys are enjoying this New Year. Peace.

-Apollo