Has it been a week already?
Well I had to update my other stories and school came back so that's why I haven't updated. Thalico idea is off.
I do not own PJO or anything else I did not makeup.
Percy's POV
"Percy! What are you doing here?" Grover yelled as they all came over. I grabbed Luke's hand and lifted him to his feet. He wasn't injured, being dead and all, but I still felt the need to break a bone of his.
"I'm sneaking my way on this quest," I said. "Because for some reason somebody didn't choose me to come along." I steered my head to Annabeth.
"I wonder why," she said. She checked up on Luke to make sure he was okay. I wanted to go over there and tell her how I felt, but I don't think the Underworld was the right place to do it. It had to be romantic and no past flames had to be around.
"He's fine Annabeth, he's dead remember?" I said. She gazed down and I think I sound kind of cold. Luke was a good friend of Annabeth's. "I didn't meet it in a bad way."
"Just leave Percy, we don't need you on this quest," she said turning back to Hades's palace. But Thalia grabbed her arm.
"I kind of think we do Annabeth," Thalia said surprisingly.
Annabeth looked at her in shock. "We do?"
"You do?" I said.
"We do," Thalia said turning Annabeth around to face me. "We may need someone invincible to watch our backs. Even if it is Percy."
"My dad still isn't cool with us being in his territory either," Nico supplied. "He is stressed as it is, and he won't appreciate us holding up the line."
Nico pointed to the crowd of spirits filing in. "He doesn't care if I am his son, he will destroy anything that makes his job harder."
Annabeth groaned. "Fine, Percy is in." I grinned. "But I'm keeping an eye on you." I saluted. "Luke you can come along too." My smile faded.
"Cool," he said. We walked over through the lines and more spirits were attracted to us. I kept a healthy distance behind Annabeth and Luke. They started talking and I felt very left out. We used to be so close. We could talk about anything. Now, she never talks to me and when she does, she tries to kill me.
I wish I could like, close the gap between us.
Grover and Nico joined my sides. "Dude, what are you doing here?" Nico asked.
"Doing what you two motivated me to do. I'm going after Annabeth," I kept looking forward. My eyes on Annabeth.
"But don't you think punching Luke was a little, extreme?" Grover said chewing his emergency tin can. He always ate those when he was nervous. You should've seen him when he asked Juniper to the camp dance.
"I don't think so."
"Well Annabeth doesn't think it was a good idea," he pointed to Luke and Annabeth. Annabeth felt the part where i punched him. She was so caring towards some people, mostly me. Thalia made a barfing motion and they laughed.
"See Thalia is making barfing motions, that means they're being mushy," Nico said. "It isn't looking good for you."
"I'm not that worried. I mean Luke has to stay down here," I said. Luke and Annabeth's hands were getting a little too close for my taste. I moved forward and Nico's arm rose as a barrier.
"Yeah, about that," he turned to face me and walked backwards. "You know how we were talking about the ad for raising the dead?"
"Yeah," i said scrunching my eyebrows. I could tell this conversation wouldn't go my way.
"Well..."
"Guys we're here," Thalia said. I looked up and saw the regular terrorizing palace. His guards were still around and glaring at us. Well they had no eyes but their sockets were burning. They must remember me from last time.
"I see you found all of your bones," I said. They went all about face.
We went inside and went through a maze of corridors. We finally made it the throne room of Hades.
Annabeth's POV
I could fell Percy's eyes on my back. Even though we were in the most horrifying room ever, he wanted to look at me. He should just go crawling back to Calypso. I bet she could take care of him. I mean she frickin' took care of him for two weeks!
I squeezed my hand and heard Luke say, "OW!"
I looked down and hadn't realized we were holding hands. "Sorry."
I looked to the center of the room and Hades was pretty busy. His throne room was horrifying and all, but the paperwork was like snow. They were everywhere and looked like they could cause an avalanche of papercuts. It was more like a home office then a menacing throne room.
He was indulged in file. His hands were covered on his head and looked ancient. I couldn't really blame him for looking so dreadful, if I had to do all of this I would kill myself. But then I would just end up back down here.
Nico stepped forward. "Um, dad?"
Hades was still staring at his paper.
"DAD!"
He finally turned back slowly. He stood and his eyes were bloodshot and baggy. He snapped his fingers and he turned back to his normal pale self.
"What are you doing here Nico? You must stay at camp for the summer and Westover Hall during the school year, we discussed this."
We all stared at him. We didn't know he talked about his living conditions in the mortal world. "I know, but I was just wondering if you saw our friend Rachel here?"
"The red-head? Yeah, she was here," Hades said then turning back to his work.
"Do you know where she went?" Nico asked.
Hades groaned and rubbed his eyes. Then an evil smile went to his face. "I'll tell you. But on one condition."
I thought of the possibilities. A god would never need help. They're a god. If the Lord of the Underworld needs help, then it must mean trouble.
"As you can see if I have piles of paperwork," Hades waved on the paperstorm. "I need you to get rid of them."
"Can't you just use a shredder?" Percy said with a dumbfounded look. I held back a laugh at his stupidity.
"That's not what I meant! I mean get rid of the problem causing the paperwork!"
"Can't the you or the Furies take care of it?" I asked. He was god and if he couldn't do something the Furies did his dirty work.
"The Furies are missing when I sent them to the problem," he said sighing. "There is some trouble in the Underworld."
I grew uneasy. "What kind of trouble?"
"It's really a simple task for you to achieve. There are just on, two, maybe a hundred monsters stirring at once," Hades said.
"That's simple?"
"No, it's over a thousand. The ones you defeated in the Titan War are coming back quickly. They are disrupting the spirits and they have been filing complaints and refuse to enter the Fields!"
"So what do you want us to do exactly?" Thalia said.
"The monsters actually regenerate here in the Underworld before coming back to the surface. They are becoming quite angry after their defeat and have stirred. You must defeat them once again, and then all this paperwork will go away!" Hades threw a pile of papers in the air.
"We can't defeat all the monsters again, we had an army to defeat them," I said logically.
"There are only a thousand, much less than the original amount. Just beat them again, you have your Achilles there," he pointed at Percy. "This should be a good workout."
He waved his hand and we were back at the entrance.
Percy's POV
"Well this should be easy," I said smiling at our good fortune. They all looked at me with disgusted faces.
"Easy for you to say, you only have one spot that can kill you. We, on the other hand, can get killed much more easily," Thalia said. I forgot that Thalia could get killed in battle and that Nico, Grover, and Annabeth were still vulnerable. Luke couldn't help since he was dead.
"Oh yeah, sorry," I rubbed the back of my head.
"Not the first time he forgets people," Annabeth said walking toward the pit to Tartarus. It was where the monster's essence goes when they're defeated, so that should be where they reform.
"Wait! Annabeth I need to talk to you!" Luke ran after her.
Nico looked over at Thalia and she said, "I can't. I'm a hunter, my oath remember?"
Nico nodded.
"What about her being a hunter?" I asked.
"Remember the ad for raising the dead?" he said shifting his feet.
"Yeah, you said it was bogus."
"Well not necessarily," he said suddenly interested in his feet.
"What do you mean?" I said stepping closer to him. "What does Annabeth have to do?"
"Orpheus loved his wife and almost got her back in the myths, correct?"
I stepped even closer. "Yeah."
"Well, if a human brings a loved one to the surface without looking back as they run, they come back to life, just like Orpheus tried and failed."
"So what does Annabeth have to do with anything?"
"If Luke can get Annabeth to love her, they can go back to the mortal world together."
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're either shocked, angry, bored, or saw that coming.
I needed a reason for Luke to be back and into Annabeth. Now, Percy has some competition. Still thinking about Luke coming back.
I actually looked up the Orpheus thing. Now, I have updated for the weekend.
Review and I might give you another one tomorrow.
