'Grover? Grover where are you?' Percy asked his best friend through their empathy link. He hadn't heard from best friend in weeks and this was the fastest way to get to the underworld besides Nico, but Percy didn't know where he was either.
'What do need Perce?'
'Help into the underworld…'
'Again? Percy, I know that we can, Hades knows that we can, why do we keep having to show off?'
'Task to help my sister' There was silence after that, nothing going on in his head, and for the first time in a long time he didn't know what was going on in the goat boy's head.
'I'm on my way…'
'Thanks G-man. Where are you anyways?'
'I was on my way back to camp to see you and Annabeth, but I guess that's not happening now.'
'Neither one of us are there anyway. Annabeth is protecting my family and I'm going to the underworld.'
'Why does your family need protecting? What did you do?'
"I might have said that I wouldn't help the gods in the war…'
'What!'
'Yeah, they said that they wouldn't believe me about Andromeda and that they wanted to wage war on her as well so I said that I won't help either way.'
'you really are a loyal idiot aren't you?' he said while chuckling.
'Just please hurry.'
'Whatever. Don't say that I never did anything for you.' With that the connection was broke. I ran to where the boulder was in central park and hid in some trees near by because I didn't really want to deal with the cops asking why a teenager was hanging around this boulder for a while. After about half an hour of waiting Grover finally showed up.
"Took you long enough G-man."
"Yeah well the bus broke down."
"That seems to happen a lot on the way to Manhattan doesn't it." I said with a smirk remembering to when I was twelve and we were on our way in from school.
"Someone should have a word with them about it." He said mirroring my smirk.
"Maybe after the war, I have to go see my uncle and I don't know where Nico is so this is the next best thing. Care to help?"
"Anytime man." he said pulling out his reed pipes. He started to play this crazy tune, being the lord of the wild did not do anything to help with his music skills, but it worked to get the boulder to open to the underworld.
"Thanks G-man. See you on the flip side" With that I descended to the underworld to see my lovely uncle and hopefully couzin as well. This was probably my least favorite way to get to the underworld, it was so dark and damp and in places like this I most understood why grover was so afraid of underground places. I know for a fact that Annabeth would hate it as well because there were spiders everywhere. It was actually kind of gross.
Once getting to the bottom, looking around I almost didn't know where I wa, and that says a lot considering how many times I've been to the underworld, but then I realized that I was at the same cavern that Thalia, Nico, and I ran to when we were looking for Hades sword that was stolen.
"Perseus, how awful to see see you again. I was hoping that you might never have come here again. I thought that you were smarter than that." I whirled around fast with my sword out. Seeing who it was I put my sword away.
"Alecto, I didn't expect to see you here."
"Lord Hades has sensed your presence and sent me to get you and bring you to the throne room."
"Lead the way then."
"Coming so easily Son of Poseidon?"
"I came to see my uncle anyways so this just makes it easier than just trying to sneak around then try and break into a gods palace, so please, lead the way." With that she grabbed me and lept into the sky taking me to Hades palace the fast way.
"Nephew… What can I do for you?"
"I need to know if you'll help us"
"Help who exactly? You'll have to be more specific if you want me to answer you question."
"My sister and I. I know you know who she is, you've been helping her since she was eleven."
"Ah yes her… you know she hates your father. She thinks that he abandoned her. Quite tragic really such a sad tale."
"Dad said that he's been asking you about her for years… Doesn't she know that?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Dad said that he's been asking you about her for years now… hasn't he?"
"Your father hasn't asked me anything about her. Ever."
Sorry I know that it's been a while but with break and everything, also I had a bit of a writers block... it was bad. Here it is though sorry it's short. :)
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