I) am so sorry it took me so long to post this chapter. I made it extra long. I am having a bad case of writers block so I don't know when chapter 11 will be posted. I just looked at all the stats and it makes me soo happy to see that I have people reading in 7 different country! I want to thank everyone that wrote a review. Even if it is just 2 words I love getting them. As always enjoy this chapter.

We walked all over L.A. It was so different from Farnsworth. It was soooo loud. Even around 7 at night it was so loud. I missed my small town. As we walked we talked about the prophecy.

"So most of the prophecy is clear. Like god of the dead is rising, and taking children of the god king"

"Yeah, we should talk about the prophecy, but I am tired we should get a hotel room. Or somewhere to sleep. We are not going to find the underworld if we pass out first."

"Sure, but what hotel would give a room to 2 little girls?" She asked. I knew she was right but we need to sleep and I didn't feel like sleeping on a park bench.

"We should try. Maybe pay double at one of the cheap motels." I said and pointed at the motel we just passed, Stymphalian Inn, exact I am really dyslexic and my eyes changed the words into Tsmyphala, only later would I realize what the word actually was. This was clue 1 to run fast and run far. "Okay let's try. It can't hurt. Well unless it is infested with rats and e get rabies, but let's look on the bright side." She said as she sighed just looking at the place. "It is so sad. This place could have been a 5 star hotel but then some guy must have bought it and turned it into this. Imagine if some rich person buys this place and fixed it into a 5 star hotel. Instead of this dump."

We walked in and a horrible smell rushed through the air, almost like rotten meat. The place didn't look much better , holes in all the lobby furniture, a vending machine with an out of order sign and a shatter glass window. This place was really bad but worst of all it felt evil. I could just feel that there was a dark evil in the air, like the night my mother died (I had stopped saying the night I killed my mother because I did not.) or in my dreams when I could see bad monsters.(even before I discovered the truth I had vivid nightmares)

"Well hello" The guy at the dust counter said in a hoarse "Welcome to the Stymphalian Inn. Are you dem- girls looking for a room" That was clue 2. It was so subtle but somehow my brain caught it, why didn't I listen to my brain?

"Yes, just for one night we will be out by early morning so can we pay now. You might not be awake by the time we leave." Lyric said like our age would be no problem at all.

"Yes, rooms are $59.72 a night." He smiled real wide. Somehow my brain knew that was the exact price the gold in a golden drachma was worth in mortal terms, although in goldy terms it was worth much more. That was clue 3. I was so stupid not to bolt (Ha ha punny right ,bolt, sorry I love puns).

"Room a89 is open you can go there right now but before we do that we can settle the cost right now" His voice was so raspy it was like nails on a chalk board. It was also the exact same sound a birds scratching their beaks against metal.

We paid the money for 1 night then started to walk out the door, but just before we got out of the door the guy said "Oh and girls please do not feed the birds. Once you feed them they never leave. I learned that the hard way."

I looked at Lyrics face and gave her a questioning look. She just shrugged like she was just as confused as I was. "What birds?" I asked the guy.

"The birds outside. They sit and beg for food. Sometimes I give in and feed them but please do not they get… uh quite uh...nasty."

"Ok, we won't. I promise" I told him. How bad could it be if a few birds ate a couple of hot dogs.

We finally got out of there and into our room. It was on the first floor so made things much easier. Our room was very run down. It had a night stand, lamp, queen sized bed, and old torn up couch. On the bed my eyes zeroed in a of spot of red."Was that weird or what" Lyric asked me.

"Definitely weird. What is so bad about feeding the birds? What could possibly happen" I said to Lyric totally pushing the idea of the red spot to the back of my mind.

"And his voice, it was horrendous. It made me want to chop off my ears. It was soooo awful." Lyric complained

"One night then we are out of here"

"Yeah,I can't stand the creepy old dude for much longer. He is so creepy" Then she tried to mimic him "Don't feed the birds"

I laughed "Very funny, but I am too tired to laugh."

"Yeah your right. We should get some sleep, I'll take the couch and you can have the bed" She told me as she plopped down on the run down couch."

I lay down on the very cheap, small, uncomfortable, ect… bed ever. I watched the shadows dance across the walls as the trees swayed outside. As I looked over at Lyric I saw her breathing steady, and knew she was asleep. Yet I still could not drift off myself. I sat there for half an hour and then decided I needed to get some fresh air. I quietly got up and tip toed across the room to the door, careful not to wake Lyric up.

When I got outside I looked up at the sky. I wanted to see the stars. I remember one night when I was little my mom and me were sitting atop of sand crest hill as we did most summer evenings. She told me that the stars held meaning, and so did the sky. She said that somewhere my dad would be looking at the same stars and that the stars was something to always keep my dad close even if I might never see him. She had told me that I must hold on to the sky and the sky would hold onto me.

All I wanted at that moment was too see the stars but the city lights and air pollution forbid me. I wanted to see Mom and Aunt Cassy. I remembered never checking the reply Aunt Cassy sent to me. I felt bad. What if I didn't come back and those were the last words she heard from me? How could I do that I mean half of them were not ever full words?

I was now angry at myself for not telling her more. I was angry at the dark figure for killing my mom. I was angry at hades for taking my family. And finally, I was angry at Zeus for giving me the impossible quest to save them, because if I fail their deaths are on my shoulders.

I slowly walked back inside, the fresh air was not so fresh. I sat on my bed. I was so exhausted as soon as my head hit the pillow I fell asleep. My mind wandered into a dream.

I was on a dark gloomy cliff and beyond the cliff was pure darkness. I saw the dark figure facing the shadows to my left. I needed to find out who this guy was. As I walked closer to him he became less of a figure and more of a person. I could see the face of a boy about 18 years old. I saw his scarred expression. His fear faced the shadows but when I looked over there I saw nothing but darkness blacker than the midnight sky.

I heard a voice buried deep inside of the the darkness and it spoke to the man. "She is coming. She has taken the bait. That stupid mortal is walking right into our trap. When she get to them take her. Once we have her Zeus will have no choice but to hand over power to me."

"Yes but my lord, what will become of the other two" The man asked as if he were worried about Jason and Thalia. At least I had assumed that's the other two, and I was the stupid mortal falling for their trap.

"They were always just the worm on the hook. We really only needed the Abelle girl. She has power beyond compare of her siblings. The other two are just extra insurance that she follows our commands. After her mother died and she blamed herself she will not let anyone else die because of her and that is her weakness. When Zeus gives me power I will kill all three and send Zeus to tartarus." The darkness echoed to the man.

As I looked in the man's eyes. I could see fear, pain, and guilt. Did he really feel bad that the evil darkness would kill my brother and sister? Well now they would not because I knew their whole plan. I looked at the man's eyes and somehow they looked back at me. Not through me, this guy knew I was here. His eyes told me to go.

"What if the girl does not come to us" He said as if telling me not to come to the underworld.

"She will. It is her quest. And if she does not then you will have to get her and bring her here, but let's avoid that because last time you failed. But by killing her mother you have made her more persistent to save the other Zeus brats. But she will also come to take her mother back from the fields of asphodel."

I had never thought thought about it but if I do get to the underworld I could save her. On my way out I could grab her and then all my family would be safe.

"But she can not bring her mother back. It is impossible, she would be stupid to try."

"Yes but she is grieving and young. When you add those two together you get stupid."

"But the dead are supposed to stay dead." He said to the darkness but I knew he was telling me more than arguing with the darkness.

He looked me in the eye. It made me want to kill him for taking my mom away from me, but he looked me in the eye so deep I thought he was looking into my heart. I'm sorry his voice echoed in my mind Save them then somewhere in the distance birds cawed angrily. Birds I thought, that is not right. There are no birds in the underworld. Something started to pinch my leg.

I sprung forward on the motel bed. Lyric was on the couch swatting at the birds. Blood ran down calf. A bird was pecking at it making it bleed everywhere.I kicked the bird off. A chunk about the size of a quarter what missing from my leg. The bird was eating me.

"Don't feed the birds!" The motel manager yelled angry at un through the doorway. "Your are feeding the birds!"