Author's note: Hello my fellow almost extinct species otherwise known as 'people who actually read… for fun! *gasp!* The horror! We must eliminate this already dying population! *Pew Pew, Pew Pew!*

Okay… maybe it's not exactly like that, but eh; that's pretty much how I think the world thinks about reading. You guys should visit my mind sometime, it's a really fun place *grins evilly*

Now that I have you guys freaked out we may continue on.

I have good news and bad news. I'm going to give the bad news first because I think it makes you appreciate the good news more.

Bad news: I just started high school this week so be prepared for long gaps in updates (not that you're not already used to it .)

Good news: Yes, I said updates. The story lives on! And to get you guys all excited I have a challenge for you!

On my profile I have written a short little teaser. It's quite easy to find, it's in italics and signals the end of all my 'personal' stuff on my profile. Now you're mission is: What is the name of the character who is narrating?

I'll say… the first three to five people (currently undecided) to get it correctly shall win some sort of prize!

Perhaps a shout out on the next chapter or a minor OC of their own in this story or maybe a short little one-shot. Something along those lines.

So if you read this and the teaser you may get something! Hurrah.

Anyways, long author's note. I shall now start the story.

Disclaim: I do own… the books. Sadly the characters on the other hand, are in much different situation.

*Hooray for Filler chapters!*

Percy's POV

After nursing all our injuries, meaning pouring as much nectar on them as we dared to risk, we had a free activity time.

Now usually I would spend this time with Annabeth but seeing as my dad was here, well let's just say I don't think he would have much fun so instead I decided to take him swimming.

We had a small race to see who could get to the lake first (it was a tie, hey! I can't let the kid win at everything!) and quickly jumped in still fully clothed and grinned as we bobbed up and down with the small waves we had created once we resurfaced.

"Whoa!" he said as he started at his hands, "I'm not wet!"

I grinned "Just one of the perks of being related to dad."

He nodded enthusiastically and started to play around a bit.

It was then I noticed he was talking to some of the few fish that were in the lake.

'Oh no, he can't do that they'll call him king!' I quickly swam over to him and dragged him away from the fish. Quickly telling them to scram, they obeyed though looked rather annoyed.

Pulling him on to shore, he shot me a confused (and slightly annoyed) look.

"Why'd you do that?" he asked as he dangled his feet in the water absentmindedly.

Ignoring his question I anxiously asked "What were you and the fish talking about?"

He shrugged "Nothing really. I asked them how I could talk to fish and they responded 'it's just merely one of you powers my king.' I was about to ask them why they'd call me king when you tackled me and hurt the fishes feelings." He glared at me.

Then his glare turned into a look of curiosity "They also referred to you as the prince. Why would I be a king and you a prince? If anyone should be king it should be you!" he said.

"Don't let Triton here you say that." I grumbled under my breath.

A look of realization crossed his face before it was quickly replaced with a confused one. I mentally raised an eyebrow. Was it just my imagination or did he just…

"Who's Triton?" he asked innocently. I knew that look, that was the look I tried to pull when I didn't want to get in trouble. I noted tilting your head to the side maid it a bit more believable.

I rolled my eyes "Okay spill, what did the fish tell you?"

His eyes widened before he seemed to realize something and calm down a bit "Nothing they just mentioned something about him and someone named," he frowned "Amp- Amphi-"

I cut him off "Amphitrite?" I corrected/asked.

He nodded "Yes, her. Who are they and why are they in charge? Shouldn't dad be…?"

I mentally panicked. Good excuse, good excuse. I blurted out "Dad's on vacation!" and then mentally faced palmed. Really, vacation? Nice going Jackson.

"Really! Where to?" he asked.

I shrugged "I dunno, he didn't tell me."

He looked a bit disappointed before his face lit up in a way that only a little kid could manage "Maybe he'll come here! That'd be so cool!" he said excitedly.

I laughed a bit at the irony "Yeah, it would be pretty cool."

He continued to dangle his feet in the water as he watched it anxiously. I could tell he wanted to go back in "Go ahead." I sighed.

He grinned and dove in.

He swam around a bit and liked to dive down a lot. 'As long as he doesn't talk to the fishes…'

It was then I noticed he was talking to something else, or rather someone else. A rather pretty looking nymph was playing with him, making him go deeper and deeper in to the water.

I, being myself, panicked and once again dragged him away. The nymph reached out for my leg only to get a trail of bubbles in the face.

I laid on the shore next to Poseidon and looked him straight in the eyes "Okay, from now on, no more swimming unsupervised."

Nico's POV

"What do you want to do?"

"Sleep."

I groaned. This had been going on for at least ten minutes now with little to none progress.

"Is that it?" I asked with a pleading tone.

He scowled "Well then, what do you wanna do?" he asked annoyed.

I was about to reply 'sleep' but I could already see him smirking so I quickly changed my answer.

"Well, we could play some of my video games." I suggested but then frowned. They weren't exactly 'kid-friendly' but eh, he was only like what, three, four, years-younger than me? He'd be fine… probably.

Hades, who was practically asleep by now, yawned out "Nah, too boring."

I threw my pillow at him "You know you're worse then Hypnos' kids."

He merely groaned in response.

Soon an idea came to mind. "I know! We could play with Mrs. O'Leary." I suggested.

He lifted his head up, and smiled "That's Percy's pet right? A Hell Hound?"

I smirked; I thought that might grab his attention.

"Yep." I said popping the 'p'.

"Then what are we waiting here for let's go!" and before I could react he had grabbed my arm and was pulling me towards the arena.

After thirty-two weird stares later (yes, I counted. Do you have a problem with that?) we were at the arena.

Thankfully there weren't many people and the few that were there quickly left after sensing the aurora the Hades seemed to leave behind whenever his emotions acted up. Whether that kid was overly happy, sad, angry or any other kind of emotion his aurora seemed to scream 'DEATH!'

Yeah, it seemed to prove to effectively make people leave. Well, except for myself and the gods. Even Chiron eventually got to squeamish and had to excuse himself.

It was actually kind of amusing if you weren't affected by it.

Anyways though the second we entered the arena Mrs. O'Leary was on us.

She quickly bounded over and proceeded to tackle me earning a half-smile from dad along with a small chuckle.

I growled in response.

After managing to pry her off me, she curiously walked over to dad and started to sniff at him before declaring him to be somehow related to death and eagerly licked him.

You see, Mrs. O'Leary likes everyone enough but she especially loves Percy and myself. I guess I smell like home to her or something because that dog is in love with me. Like, I've actually had people joke that she might have a crush on me.

Well apparently if she had I was upstaged by Hades because she was practically licking him to death.

At first I was really scared and nervous that he would get really angry (a note to those of you new here: an angry Hades (no matter how old) is not a good thing) but he merely smiled. Yes you heard me correctly, the god of death and the Underworld actually smiled.

One she was content with that she laid down by his feet as if he were her master. He looked at me as if to say 'can I?' I nodded my head and he contently sat down next to her and began to pet her.

It was actually kind of endearing, you know, to anyone except me.

Me being well, myself, quickly got bored and pulled out my sword. I then proceeded to hack away at some dummies.

I saw Hades' eyes widened as he looked at my sword.

I smirked.

He watched me a bit while lying against the Hellhound.

"She's so much like Cerberus." I heard him mutter as he stroked her fur with a sad look on his face. Occasionally he would murmur soft words in Greek.

I stopped and winced; did he really miss him that much? Wait, he remembers him?!

"You know Cerberus?" I asked trying to hide my excitement/suspicion.

The sad look was quickly replaced by a panicked one. "Oh, y-you heard that?" he asked.

"Yeah, how do you know him?"

"Well the furies-"

"Kindly ones." I automatically corrected.

He looked annoyed but continued on "Kindly ones told me some things about the Underworld on the way here. It seems like a pretty cool place if you don't mind death." He shrugged indifferently.

"Oh."

"Yeah, and from what they said it seems like they practically described Mrs. O'Leary with three heads." He explained.

I nodded, that made enough sense, right?

Before I had a chance to further contemplate on it Mrs. O'Leary suddenly shot up, causing a shocked Hades to fall on his back which I couldn't help but snicker at, and grabbed the shield I had been messing with during the conversation.

My eyes widened in surprise "Hey! Get back here! Chiron will kill me if he found out I let you chew up another shield!" I yelled as I chased her.

Now it was Hades' turn to snicker as he chose to not help but rather watch in amusement as I chased the giant dog around the arena.

This continued on for a bit before I finally managed to corral her in a corner of the arena. She got ready in a pounce position, like most dogs do when they play, with the shield now covered in Hellhound slobber still in her mouth.

I was just about to wrestle her for when she suddenly turned around and leapt into the shadows.

I cursed angrily in both Greek and Italian as I stomped back over to where Hades was sitting.

His eyes widened and I suddenly remembered that he could understand everything I was saying.

I quickly told him "If you don't repeat any of that in public and/or tell Annabeth I'll let you say some of it when it's just us, okay?" I bargained.

An evil smirk came on to his face (which by the way look way to creepy on a nine year-old's face) as he nodded.

I sighed knowing that if Annabeth ever found out about this she would make me see dad the hard way.

"I'm going to go chase after Mrs. O'Leary, just hang out at our cabin for a bit." I told him as I started to walk out, looking for a particularly shaded part of camp.

He scowled at being told what to do and was about to respond when I interrupted him "And yes, you can sleep."

He stopped and nodded, smiling a bit, and walked back to our cabin after a quick goodbye.

I sighed, still trying to find the best place to shadow travel after the hound.

Needless to say this was going to be a long day.

Author's note: Aw poor Nico, the gods know he'll be exhausted after he finally manages to track down Mrs. O'Leary and knowing his luck Hades will decide to be as hyper-active as a nine year-old should be. And Seaweed brain, really? Taking Poseidon to somewhere with fishes there that could blow the secret you're obviously not doing to well at keeping? *face-palm*

Ah well, this was kind of just a filler chapter (that and it was the only thing I could come up with at the moment -) these two will probably be the only two I'm going to do for the free period, maybe Thalia and Annabeth as well? I dunno, decisions, decisions.

Well I believe these author note's are long enough so thanks for reading and review please! Tell me how bad it is and grill me on updates! Oh! And don't forget about the little challenge in the first author's note. Well um… Thanks! :)

DFTBA!