Well, here's chapter 4! This one is a bit longer than the others I think, but oh well. I hope i haven't lost you guys with the plot line yet..... :P He has to tell Nico and I am still trying to put on to paper how Nico should React.

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-Thunderwolf7

Chapter 4

I woke up that morning in a cold sweat. My body shivered everywhere, either from the cold or of fear and my face beaded with sweat. I sat upright in bed for a long time, running by the events of my dream through my brain. Why me? Why did I get this dream? Shouldn't Nico have gotten the dream? And could this all really be true. I thought back to my previous dreams, so many of them leaving me feeling blank and empty. I didn't feel that way this time, it was like I understood what was happening perfectly well. But maybe i didn't know a thing... Well, I was about to find out for sure.

I slipped out of bed. I slept in my clothes last night and Riptide was still in my side pocket. I tip-toed out of the cabin and closed the creaky door as quietly as it would allow. The sun was just peaking over the hills and the strawberry fields. I had to talk to Chiron, this was serious. But, how? I past the Hades cabin and my thought went to Nico di Angelo. Poor guy, how was he going to react to all this? His life was scarred by so many wounds that would never heal. dark pasts, that the future will never light again. For the age of 13, that kid had it rough. I saw the skull lanterns hanging beside the big black door and my head felt like it weighed 100, 000 pounds, my fingers trembled around Riptide.

Chiron was sitting outside on a picnic table talking with Dionysus, the wine god. We always called him "Mr. D" When Mr. D saw me he raised his hand and called out " Hello Pierre Johnson! Glad to see you back." That dim-witted god was always messing up my name but I was used to it. It had become a well known characteristic of his and the truth was, as annoying as it seems, I liked it.

"Percy. Percy Jackson." I couldn't help but grin. "Hey Mr. D" But I couldn't help but notice something different about the old god. There was dark circles under his bright eyes and he had wine stains all over his Hawaii flower shirt. He noticed my sense of interest in his new appearance.

"I've been wine making, Perry. Tell me, what else is there for an extremely bored god to do around here?" Chiron looked exhausted too. I am sure that's one thing the 3 of us had in common at that moment. He held a cup of coffee in his hands.

"Percy, you're up early." He said as he sipped his coffee. I knew what I had to do, as much as I wished not too.

"I, umm, I had a dream last night." I was starring at Mr. D, He looked so terrible. His usual, Friendly "puppy dog" features now looked so distraught and concerned about something.

"Glad to see you, Petro. I really am, but I have to go make wine now. I am the wine god after all and there's wine to be made." With that he rose from where he stood and walked away. That was odd; Dionysus usually didn't act that way. But something was strange about "him making wine." I mean, yeah, he was the wine god and all but he hasn't actually gone out of his way to make wine since...well, since I met him. Something was bugging him and I knew it.

I took Mr. D's chair and sat across from Chiron. Chiron spoke in a hush voice.

"A dream? Well, whether from you or not, I was expecting something sooner or later." Expecting something sooner or later? Did Chiron know already about Hades? Chiron looked down at his coffee cup. It looked like he was talking to the cup and not me.

"Percy, tell me what happened in your dream." He almost looked like he knew what I was going to say but wanted to be certain he was correct.

"Well, uh," I choked on my own words, "I dreamt I was in the Underworld alone. And then I saw, I saw that Hades throne was burning." I would have said more to Chiron but he interrupted me with a sharp curse in Greek and then looked up. His eyes were dark upon the shadows that were cast around us.

"Percy, the gods have been restless these past few weeks. They know about something no one can explain, something that has never ever happened before." He said.

"Mr. D looked so...tired tonight. And I mean, if he's the god of wine why does he have to make it? He can just summon up as much wine as he wants, why make it?" I drifted a little off topic to what Chiron was telling me but I had a feeling Dionysius's mood was somehow connected to whatever was going on. I had to know for sure.

"Yes, he hasn't slept in weeks, none of the gods have. But Dionysus also senses something wrong. He's been making wine just because he's trying to look like he is the same god so that the other gods don't expect he has changed. A traitor!That's what has the power to change Dionysus, or anybody and that's what he is trying to prove. That he hasn't changed and neither has his powers. But, that's what's gotten the gods so uptight, because they know it is one of them but they have no way of knowing who it is." Well, you could have hit me over the head with a baseball bat and I wouldn't have looked as dazed as I did now.

"A-a-a, TRAITOR!?" I yelled. I knew who that traitor was. Hades? But he wouldn't...would he? I was thinking back to my dream and how the way Hades was treated. If your life was that miserable, living in a miserable place like the underworld, wouldn't you want some kind of revenge too? Bottom line was that the gods knew about a traitor but they just had no idea which one of them to expect. I knew. I held the answer.

"It's Hades!" I blurted out as if it was more of an accusation. "My dream said so and it's the only possible explanation to my dream." Chiron looked surprised, but he always understood.

"So, know we know that the traitor is Hades. Hades, one of the 'big three.' That's bad..."

Come to think of it, Chiron was right. Hades was so out of place as a god, but yet he was one of the 'big three' nevertheless. They are the gods Olympus needs the most. Those gods are like the building blocks to Greek legends...and to the other gods. They are the gods of power. But lets say we go and play 'Jenga' with one of those blocks. What happens? You risk the chance that they all fall down. I somehow couldn't help but invisioning all of Olympus falling because of Hades, he could get pretty darn powerful as a Titan.

"Tell me, Percy, the rest of your dream." How Chiron knew there was more, I did not know. I figured Chiron probably had his reasons.

"Well, I just saw visions in my head. They were of Hades and how he was treated unfairly by the other gods. I mean, he must have a reason to become evil and that's definitely a contributing factor." The sun was almost high in the sky now, but it almost seemed dimmer. I wondered if Apollo was as tired as the other gods were, if he too was being accused of being the traitor. I wanted to shout out to the gods to stop fighting and curse Hade's name.

Chiron was very still and his eyes moved toward the direction of the Hades cabin. They looked darker and more worried than usual. He just starred for a really long time and then his voice finally came, calm and quite.

"For weeks the gods have been arguing back and forth, accusing each other of becoming evil. The last of the gods they would suspect would be Hades. He's doomed to the Underworld, what is Hades supposed to do?" He was right, he continued. "But now, Percy, I believe your dream has led us to the answer. This traitor could only be Hades. You must be sent on a quest to stop him. Yes. You, Annabeth and Nico must be sent on a quest to stop his power from rising as a Titan before it is too late."

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