Chapter Eight: I make it to the underworld sort of?

We took a detour out of the carnival, which led to another fight with Mrs. Dodds, the evil math teacher. Grover sure does have some awesome direction skills, eh? Anyway, back to the fight. So Percy whips out riptide, and tries to slice her head off, but he missed, and almost took my head off in the process. "WATCH WHERE YOUR PUTTING RIPTIDE!" I yelled angrily. I know it wasn't my nicest moment, but hey when you almost get your head cut off by a three-foot celestial bronze sword, please do talk to me. So I take out my rainbow enameled knife, turn invisible, and while Percy and Mrs. Dodds were fighting I slashed in the neck, and she turned into yellow dust all over Percy, which was pretty funny in my opinion. I don't think he saw the humor in that, because he splashed me with water as soon as I turned visible. I saw Annabeth deep in thought and then she said "I just realized this; we probably shouldn't be seen in public. You know because everyone thinks we are terrorists and all." "Alright brainiac, then I suggest that we stay in alleys, and sleep in alleys. It's a bad idea to be seen in public right? Then let's take the long complicated way to the entrance of Hades underworld." I said. They mumbled a bit at the idea of sleeping in an alley, but agreed with the plan. "Let's try to get to Hades underworld before the night preferably shall we? I don't want the…..pleasure of meeting Hades at nighttime. I would be seriously creeped out. No offence to him or anything, I'm just not much of a night person." Percy started laughing at this, so then I saw the opportunity to punch him in the shoulder. He stopped laughing after that.

We traveled for a good five hours, getting lost like seven or eight times due to Grover's sucky direction skills. We ended up having to stay the night in an alley, but before we got to sleep, I saw the barrel of a gun being stuck in Grover, Annabeth, Percy and my faces. So naturally, the kids who were trying to mug us said "Give us all your money! NOW!" So I said "FUCK YOU BASTARDS!" I got up, broke all of their guns in half, and beat them all up in one swift motion. I then processed to tie them up, and took their money. They must either be rich, or mugged a lot of people, because they had two hundred dollars on them each. A plan worthy of Athena, if I do say so myself, and I do, and Annabeth said "Holy Zeus Saren, that was a plan worthy of Athena!" I laughed and said "If I ever meet her, I'll ask her if that was a plan of hers, or a plan of Hermes. Anyway, we'd better find a better place to stay than this alley. I suggest we stay in a motel." They all nodded in agreement, so we set off to find a motel. It took us another hour to find a decent motel, again thanks to Grover's wonderful direction skills. We got into the motel, and it had four beds luckily, and while Annabeth, Percy, and Grover were talking about taking rest and guard shifts, I feel asleep. I had no dreams, so it was a deep restful sleep, the kind that I really have needed in a couple days. I guess the demigods understood this, because they didn't wake me up for a good eight or hours or so.

I thought I woke up, but I was having a vision. It was a vision of the underworld, and I have to admit, it looked pretty awesome. If you like that whole scary death thing, but after I looked around a while Hades comes up behind me like a jerk and says "Like my bone throne?" "AH HOLY SHIT!" I yelled. "Would you gods stop sneaking up behind me and scaring the living daylight out of me? " I said. I guess Hades thought that was funny, because he laughed, and then patted my head and said "That would ruin all the fun. So daughter, how's your quest going?" I sighed and said "We're coming to you. That's how it's going Hades. How's Persephone?" Hades smiled at the mention of his pretty wife, and then said "She's good."

"She's happy because it's summer, and flowers are still in bloom, but her mother keeps visiting, which makes the both of us unhappy." I laughed, and rainbow color shifting appeared at my randomly bare feet, and Persephone appeared out of nowhere and collected the rainbow color shifting flowers. "Well that was rather random." I thought aloud. I must really be special, because I made Hades laugh and smile some more. Then Hades and Persephone did the unthinkable, they hugged me. Yeah, it happened, and believes me, I'm just as surprised as you guys. Then the vision was over, and I woke up to the concerned faces of Annabeth, Percy, and Grover. Percy started laughing, and then I realized why. Persephone had jacked my old clothes, and replaced it with a long dress that flows when I move, and had braided my hair, which was quite the feat, considering it was twenty feet long, with the rainbow color shifting flowers in my vision. I looked at my reflection, and my jaw dropped. I had to admit, I looked kind of….pretty….Don't tell anyone I said that or I'll kill you in your sleep *cough any child of Aphrodite cough* *cough this means you silena cough* "If anyone tells Clarisse about this, you will personally be cursed by me, I swear on the river Styx to do this. Everyone ok with that?" They nodded eyes rather wide. "Let's go to the underworld already." I said.

We had to take a ferry wide from this rude guy with the same name as Chiron the centaur! It was pure madness I tell you! He treated us nice because he knew I was a daughter of Lord Hades, but if I hadn't been, I know he wouldn't have been so nice. We finally are at the entrance of Lord Hades palace, and Percy realizes the bolt was in the backpack that Ares gave us. "I can't believe that evil, two timing, stupid, stinky, idiotic, sexist, moron! Why would he have someone steal Zeus's bolt, then place it in our backpack and have it appear in the underworld. He's not that smart, so obviously Luke stole the bolt. I was right Annabeth. I'm really sorry about that." Annabeth teared up at the mention of Luke, and Percy and Annabeth hugged for a little. "We better get in now; see where your mother is, you know the usual. Let's go now." We go inside the palace, and we find Percy's mother, Sally right there and Percy and her hug for a little while, I saw Percy cry a little. Hades came in and said "Well isn't that touching? You can have her back for the small price of Zeus's master lightning bolt." I saw Percy pass a pearl to his mom, Annabeth, Grover and he didn't give one for himself. "NOW!" Percy yelled. They all crushed there pearls and I teleported Percy out of there, and I left myself there to face his wrath.