As soon as the last person, Lou Ellen, landed, Cecil glared at them (his expression was too filled with humor to be taken seriously, though.)

"Gee, thanks guys. Good to know you really care about me."

"No problem," Nico said while helping Will up.

Lou Ellen, clutching her stomach, choked out, "You guys are so stupid." When she finally regained her composure she scolded them, "DO YOU KNOW HOW STUPID AND UNSAFE THAT WAS?!"

Cecil snorted, "Well you did it too."

Lou Ellen glared at him, "What choice did I have?! You idiots jumped off and what was I supposed to do?! Just wait to hear whether you died or not?!"

Will, starting to sense how shaken she really was, calmed her down, "Lou, hey, come on. We're demigods. We've done much more dangerous things."

Cecil added, "Exactly. We're demigods, we're impulsive."

"Guess I'm not a demigod then," Lou glared again.

"Aw come on, you know if we hadn't jumped first, you'd have."

"No! I would not have!" Lou Ellen said, indignantly.

"Okay calm down. You're starting to argue more than Will and I," Nico said.

"Sweetie, we've been arguing way before you too, if anything you've been sounding like us," Cecil said.

"What did you call me?"

"GUYS!" Will yelled at them. Oh god, he was going into his mother hen mode. "Let's calm down. Lou, it's fine. We're fine. You're right, it was impulsive. We should have thought it through, but no point in arguing. Next time we'll try to be more levelheaded. Cecil, stop pestering Nico."

"Hmph. You didn't say anything about Nico." Cecil crosses his arms.

"Well just appreciate the fact that I have nothing to scold him about for once."

"Hey!" Nico protested indignantly.

"So," Will continued, "What now?"

After they had jumped they were falling straight down but then all of a sudden a sort of ramp formed under them and dumped them off in yet another tunnel.

"Well I suppose-" Lou stopped speaking when the ground on which they were walking began to shake.

"Maybe the tunnels are gonna change again?" Cecil asked more than said, fully aware his voice was up an octave.

That's when they heard the loud grunt of a bull.

"Maybe not," Cecil gulped.

I guess Lou was right about the left door, Cecil thought as he turned into another tunnel.

They saw a large figure barreling down the tunnel and so, naturally, they took off running. They simply continued running, following the man in the lead, obviously Nico, not bothering to look back at the huge creature behind them. The only sound coming from them was the loud panting of their breath and their foot steps as they ran to get away from the loud, thundering sound of hooves.

Suddenly, Nico yelled to them, "There's a door here!" And he went through.

Damn, Lou was right... again... We are impulsive. And so they followed and ducked into the room.

Lou locked the door behind them, and they were about to give a sigh of relief, but of course that's never something a demigod can do.

A feminine voice yelled to them, "Oh visitors! How lovely! I haven't had visitors in... well... not that long. The last were your sister," she pointed a pale, slender finger at Nico, "and that tinkerer." She looked utterly disgusted when she choked out the last word.

They looked up. The room they were in reminded him of the Pantheon in Rome, only, with more Underworld-y decor.

The obsidian walls were carved with scenes of death, all of it embelished with precious gems. Somehow, it seemed to make the place even more creepy. Cecil glanced over at Nico, who had a hard expression. He looked like he recognized this place, and sure as Tartarus didn't wanna be here. In the center of the room, stood a tall woman. She had pale skin, dark hair piled into a cone, encircled with diamonds and emeralds, and a face that would have been beautiful and regal if it wasn't contorted into a sneer. She was dressed in an elegant sleeveless dressed that seemed to be woven from gold.

"Who's she?" Cecil whispered to the others, jerking his head at the dark haired witch lady.

Before Nico could respond, Lou breathed out, sounding impressed for some reason, "Pasiphaë."

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Hey guys! Short chapter, sorry 'bout that. I'm not doing too well with the whole "Just wing it" approach with writing. Hopefully the next will be longer and will be coming out soon. I'm also really sorry about the writing, it's definitely not my best work. Hopefully that'll get better too. Jeez, I'm doing a lot more hoping than writing. Anyways, thank you so much for reading, I love you guys, please review and constructive criticism is always welcome. 000 Nico di Angelo 000 wins the award for most reviews so far! Thx so much, your reviews always make my day. K, love you guys, bye!