3 hours Later...

"Phae! You're late! We were supposed to leave like ever after ago!"

"SORRY,Cerice But you try dragging a tail up to Olympus and back down with a backpack. Don't even get me started with Apollo and Ares! You think a snake tail that takes up half your body would repulse gods.."

"Nevermind that. We're all here now. We should get going. The changlings' powers get stronger as the sun sinks deeper."

"Aric, what in the name of Hades does that mean?"

"Phae, it's obvious. Their power grows with the moon. Like Cerice."

Everyone noticed the sun starting to set and a full moon rising. Cerice's eyes glowed yellow as the moon's rays got brighter. Griffins were flying past the archive to a leery swamp in the far clearing. Changlings were shifting their scales to match the new light across the grasses below the team. Five changlings circled the area below.

Phae's tail shook nervously as a changling aproached the tip of her tail and bared its fangs.

"What are we going to do? Precisely, where are we going? I can't slither around and die while the rest of you run for your lives on foot!"

Phae whistled an winged horses came dashing out of the clouds. A chariot pulled by three white horses with clouds moving on its pelt landed nearly on Phae's tail and bowed as she loaded her tail on. Two other brown pegasi emerged from a brisk wind and allowed two riders on one back. The girls rode together and Kohl and Aric were forced to saddle up together. Though, there was no saddle and wolves were terribly afraid of heights when it involved wings and horses ( it especially freaked out the males, they're too proud to admit it until they actually take off). I know what you might be thinking. How often does a male wolf rideon a pegasus, right? Well, it happens more often than you might think.

Cerice was still uneasy about riding a wild pegasus.

"They're tame. At least, when me or my brother tell them to be."

"How did you-"

"Didn't I mention? I'm also psychic~"

Everyone steadied on the horses and they walked forward for a trial.

Phae started clicking buttons on her chariot and rocket boosters appeared on the sides of her wheels.

"Next stop, Gory Bog, boys!"

1 minute passed. 5 minutes. 10 minutes.

"Hey, what's the problem boys? Feeling lazy, are we? Come on, I know he makes you carry way heavier cargo to buff you up every day! Don't make me tell your dad on you guys!"

The three horses nervously whinnied.

"Speak up! I don't speak horse."

"Ehem! Sorry, had carrot lumps in my throat. It's just that... Gory Bog... The hydra lives there.."

"And? you wan't me to slither there? Me, pulling behind everyone else 'cause of my tail and being eaten by changlings? Now, what would Pegasus do to you if he found out you let his immortal sister be eaten by savory changlings~ I could imagine him making all of you pull around Echidna and her monsterous children... again"

"N-NO please Aunty! Gory Bog and the Hydra are linked! One you step foot on it, Hydra will know exactly where you are as long as you are in her territory! It's a suicide mission."

"Well then, I guess ... We're going to have to fly over it! I can't believe you are the children of my brother! He would never go back on a challenge! Pick up speed and fly us NOW! Make way for Wickery Bridge!"

"Aunty, the bridge crosses over the River of Vengance. It's the new river in Hade's realm. It's filled with supernatural and mortals that couldn't let go of their past hate..."

"I DON"T GIVE A SNAKE'S EYES! Go or you'll be living your next life as a cloud of vapor in the air!"

The horses immediately started picking up a trot to a swift gallop. Three minutes later, they were dodging griffins flying back to home base. A black griffin flew past the group of pegasi, without turning its head.

Cerice tried ducking, but there was nothing to hide behind.

"Why don't they notice us, Phae?"

"Pegasi blend in with the sky. My brother had a little run-in with Daiamos, you know, father of griffins. He had made pegasi invisible to those who choose darkness over the light and stuff."

Down below, a swamp was coming into view. It was pitch dark, despite the fact it being the afternoon. No light reached into the trees. The water was murky and bubbling either with tar or dead animals.

"I can't believe Hydra choose to live there. There are much nicer places in the Amazons."

"Aric! Shut up or she'll here you. When we fly past, don't make a sound and hold your breath. She can track movement to find you!"

The horses neared to the edge of the swamp. you could hear low growling sounds of millions of bears. Though there was one miscalcullation. Bears don't live in swamps. Especially in tar filled swamps.

Out burst a flurry of six hydra heads armed with metallic bronze war helmets - size Roman Numeral MCM. They snapped at the pegasi. Large tuffs broke away from the wings. At any moments, the wings would give in and be ripped off. Aric made the mistake of turning his head, only to be faced by a mouth of rotating blades and rows of chainsaw razors. Kohl saw it and screamed - maybe because he was scared. Or maybe the Hydra has onion-breath.

"Squeee! Uh-I mean AH HA HA! Phae! daughter of the stone-turning Medusa! Can't you like petrify this thing!?"

"Don't think so! Mom said only do it if it gives us leaverage in the biz!"

"Are you for real!? A stone Hydra could be worth millions of drachmas!"

"Oh, okay. Only cause you asked so nicely!"

The horses went faster, led by Phae. She motioned to the horses and they reluctantly slowed until they were falling behind the others.

"Yo, onion breaths! Yeah I'm talking to all of your ugly metal faces! You should be honored I even thought of this!

She glowered and the pendant hanging from her neck - called the "Snake's Eye"- glowed blue. The Hydra slowly hardened itself. Minutes later, it was a large statue posed ready to spew fire. Phae's chariot caught ul with the rest of the group just as the Wickery Bridge was coming into view.

Phae dismissed her kin back home to the clouds. Cerice noticed the water pulling a farmer off the bridge and into the white haze. She shifted nervously. Aric covered her eyes as the farmer turned the white water tinted red.

"C-can't we just have flown over this place?"

Aric pulled Cerice away from the water as Phae got closer to stare into the water.

To her surprise, a ghastly shadow looked back at her. A woman flattened against the current was laying in the water. Phae loomed over and she opened her eyes. Pairs of glowering red eyes and a mouth of rotten teeth rose from the water. Her arms pulled on the end of Phae's tail.

"My dreams.. They're gone! My husband left me for my sister... My daughter killed me out of spite... You look like my daughter. Feel my wrath, Tatiana!"

The woman put on an adrenaline rush and pulled Phae half-way into the river. Other spirits rushing in the river helped pull Phae in.

" Hold on, Phae! We're coming! "

" Davina! Don't! They'll grab you too! They're gonna let me go."

"Tatiana~ Why fight I? This is your fate.. Your father can't save you now!"

Phae's nail were losing grip.

"Hades! I know you're amused while watching this! Get your gloomy butt over here and tell them to release me! I swear on the River Styx that I will NEVER import statues to Persephone ever again if you don't!"

The spirits continued to pull Phae deeper into the water.

"I will owe you one so hurry up!"

A blur of darkness shifted into a person. He had dark black hair and wore a black V neck that showed his abs through. A black sword hung in his hand and satisfaction was written all over his face. A gloomy aura surrounded him but it didn't repell his looks, which was pretty hot- as hot as Lord of the Underworld an be.

"You called, Goddess of - um - Something?"

"Hades~ So nice to see you here~ Now, GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Hades waved his sword over the water and pressed it against the woman's neck.

"Lord Hades... I am honored by your presence."

"Spirit of Vengence, let this lamia go. She is a new goddess on Olympus that I can assure all the Olympian men admire. Unless you want Ares, Apollo, Poseidon, Zeus, Hephaestus, Hermes, Dionysus, and me to deal with, I suggest you carry on down the river to the Underworld."

The spirits slowly retreated into the water below. The woman stayed behind and hissed.

"Goddess, you shall not always have Olympian protection. I shall be there when that happens.."

The water let loose of Phae's tail. The spirits swam around her tail.

"Hades! IF YOU EVER LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN-"

"Yes, yes, your welcome beautiful. Now, I beleive you owe me a debt."

"Grr... What do you want.."

"Oh~ you know what I want."

"Persephone shall be turning my nereid friends into daffodils, Hades. I don't think it's wise."

*cough*"-swore on Styx-*cough*

Phae pulled Hades over and kissed him on the cheek.

" Okay gorgeous, you're debt is fulfilled."

"AND YOU ARE SO DEAD HADES"

Persephone materialized next to Cerice and Aric.

"is that-"

"Cerice, don't look! Her godly form can kill you!"

Persephone grabbed Hades by his collar.

"You kidnap me from my mother and force me to marry you and now you are hooking up with this new goddess?! Who is she?! Another one of Zeus's monsterous children?"

"Dear, she's an Olympian goddess in training. A higher rank than you -to point out- so I wouldn't be talking that way."

"Whatever. You're still in a load of trouble Hades!"

"Before we leave I gotta do something."

Hades leaned over and kissed Phae back.

"See you next solstice, babe!"

Persephone and Hades disappeared.

Davina eyed Phae suspiciously.

"Olympian in training?"

" um yeah?"

"You're immortal! That's so cool!"

"Can we get going now? I don't really wanna talk about it.

END OF CHAPTER

STORY ON PHAE COMING IN AUGUST