Ch. XІ

Lies, traders, dead bodies, and pants

Well; how do I put this? Half way on our journey to the underworld, Jake started freaking out yelling, "My demigod sense is tingling." We starred at him and blinked a few times. "I don't know how to explain it, but I just have a really good feeling the way is this way!" We stared at him. Pan mentioned one of us becoming a navigator, but this isn't what I had in mind. "Please trust me. We have to give it a shot." Max looked at me, and sense he was my favorite cousin, I followed him. (About that whole, 'favorite cousin thing,' just don't tell my other cousin Dustin about it.)

We followed him for about; 6 hours why taking half a mile breaks every 10 minutes. We also started to see a lot more monsters. Most of those, Max stabbed with his knife, but others were… You know; dead. Just a random body lying in the middle of an endless maze. Those really freaked me out. We continued going, till we got to the end. Or, at least, I thought it was the end. The tunnel stopped and lead to a cliff that could fit someone on if you were careful. It had a huge wall on one side that probably went to the surface. It had a pathway in front of us, and on the left, had an endless hole that lead to darkness. Max told me to be careful, and started walking on the thin path. I followed, but I leaned against the wall just in case. We slowly and carefully walked.

It was only a quarter of a mile long, but it felt like 5 miles. Max walked across no problem. I went slowly across, and Jake went 2 miles per hour. We all made it across, and walked through another tunnel, but this one didn't have a roof.

We got to the end, and the tunnel opened up revealing an amazing valley. It had pools of blood, but it still looked pretty; green grass, perfectly designed bridges and pathways, and an amazing view. Kind of like when you go to a park, but this one was nicer. I have forgotten all about the amazing view when I saw the people. Hopeless and loss faces everywhere. Some didn't even have faces. Half had some missing arms, legs, or 3degree burns. This had to be the underworld! We passed them, but they all seemed to be different. Some just starred at us; others didn't seem to notice us. We crossed some old rail rode tracks, and it was completely different. People throwing stuff at each other, shooting guns, stealing, smoking, doing drugs, throwing explosives… We had to hide behind some houses, and continue from there. The houses were old, destroyed, and/or being used for a shooting range.

When we passed the neighborhood, it got worse. Millions and millions of dead skeletons. All of them had flies on them and were just piling up as high as passable. We just had too walked around them the best as we could. They all seemed to have one thing in common. That is that they seemed to all be wearing pants! For an empty skeleton, having pants on, but no other cloths was strange. We just walked passed them following Jakes lead. I think I saw one of them wink at me.

Jake led us up to Hades palace. For a guy who lives with dead people, his place isn't so bad. We followed a pathway that had beautiful flowers on both sides. Every color you could imagine was located at the palace of the dead. I didn't ask how Jake knew where this was, but he probably didn't know either. We walked up. Max handed me a knife and gave Jake a throwing javelin. It was 3 feet long, but could magically shrink into a small ball.

My heart pounded as we made it to the top. I heard foot steps and whispering, but once we got closer, all noises stopped. The 3 of us walked through this hallway that led to the God of the Deads palace!

We walked up to the God's palace. He looked just like in my dream. Just like a black shadow with eyes. He looked down at us. I think he was smiling, but his eyes stayed normal. If Hades is at the deads thrown, then he has to be the key! I got an erg to bow down, but fought his power.

"Well, well. So it seems that you have come to me now; how quite," Hades said with a voice so cold, it struck my core. "I think that you 3 have a good reason to be here? Do you want an autograph?"

"No," I said staying bravely. "I want you to stop telling lies about me and for you to give us our friend." Hades chuckled.

"Well why didn't you just ask? I would have been delighted to give her to you.

"Really," I said with hope.

"I said would have been. Your mean and demanding words have changed my mind. Now, when you said I was telling lies about you, you could only know that if you've been watching me. Perhaps your father has given you the dreams. So it is true your father has been giving you clues on how to make Elizabeth's demise. I wasn't lying after all that the note was mine. Maybe you missed out on the part where Hephaestus decided to join me and kill you!" My mouth threw open. "I see that she isn't with you. So you have trapped her in the maze forever to die!"

"So, she didn't want to come with us, so she stayed behind. I couldn't chance her mind."

"Silence! Your father's palace will fall under the feet of those that he trapped them under. Your Father pushed Hephaestus off of Olympus to soon fade away. And that is exactly what is happening. Because the fact I'm living under Olympus have kept me from fading, but Hephaestus will soon die. Your Father wanted that." I knew what he was trying to tell me; but it seemed impassable. "Yes, you know it is true… Your Father is Zeus!!!"

"No," I yelled. I was crying. How could my own Father do that to one of his sons.

"So we have the children of the big three at my feet. Son of Zeus, son of Poseidon, and son of me!!!" He looked right at Jake. It all made sense now. How Jake knew where Olympus was. He followed his memory from when he was a baby and recognized the maze. Jake sensed that his blood was in that direction, so he went that direction. And how he always wanted Hephaestus to kill me. I was the son of Zeus, so we wanted me dead no matter what. We heard foot steps come toward us from behind Hades thrown. One look and I knew it was Hephaestus. We was in a wheel chair, but used his strong leg to push him. He looked right at me and I knew; he meant killing.

Ok. That wasn't my longest chapter. But don't miss the next chapter because it is the climax of the story. I still have a few more chapters to write, so don't think that it's almost the end of my story. Please review on how you like it so far. Did you expect Hunter to be the son of Zeus? Did you think Liz was going to betray them? Ps: this is before the Percy Jackson books, so that is why Pan is still alive. In the book Percy Jackson books: Hades didn't want revenge. Find out why in my last Hunter Mason book soon to come!!! I will also explain how they are all kids of the big three, even though it didn't say that Zeus had any other kids besides Thalia. Please leave good reviews!!