Brianna was walking past the Fields of Punishment was someone yelled at her.

"Hey you girl, come over here!" someone hissed.

Brianna thought it would be safer not to go, but she went anyway. She jumped over a river of lava and avoided some cacti until she saw a man hauling a boulder uphill. The man was old, bad smelling, and least to say, out of shape, or so it seemed.

"Hi," Brianna said. "Who are you?"

"Ha!" the man cackled. "Who am I? I'm the one and only cheater of death! Sisyphus!"

That sounded like a bad thing, but Sisyphus seemed proud of it.

"So why'd you call me over here?" she asked following him while he pushed his boulder up the hill.

Sisyphus ignored her question. "Could you possibly hold my rock for a minute? I'm really tired." Brianna didn't want to, but she did anyway and he observed her. "You remind me of someone that came to see me you know. What was their name again?"

Brianna couldn't believe that someone would actually want to see this particular old man on their own will, but of course, she didn't say that.

"He hangs a lot around the Underworld," he mused. Then he gasped and pointed behind her. "There he is!"

In the Fields of Punishment? she thought but looked behind her.

"Yes!" Sisyphus cried. "Free at last!"

However, as Brianna looked behind her, she let go of the boulder and it bounced down the hill.

"Oh my gods!" Brianna said as the boulder landed on Sisyphus and continued bouncing.

"You alone were worse than the last group!" he groaned as he got up.

She wasn't sure if that was an insult or a compliment, but shrugged and jogged out of Punishment.

Brianna passed by the Judgment Pavilion where the judges were taking a break.

"You look like you're on a morning jog," one of them chuckled. "Of course, except for the fact that it's night."

"Or at least, so we think!" another said. "Hard to keep time in here."

"Oh, Of course it's the night!" another said as if annoyed. "We just saw Nyx coming coming out of Tartarus!"

The other judge smiled kindly. "Oh don't mind them," he said. "Ooh, actually, you remind me of…" He looked back. "Who was that daughter of Hades again?"

"Hades?" Brianna asked.

"Oh you're Roman?" he asked. "Then it would be Pluto for you. He got more respected, being the god of riches and all, but I wouldn't know much. I'm from the Greek times."

"Oh, the one a few years ago?" one of them said.

"I still want to kill her brother and grant him a terrible afterlife," one grumbled. "Of course, his time will come anyway."

The kind judge cleared his throat. "Anyway, sorry for taking up your time. As mortals say, 'time is money!'"

Brianna said her good-byes and kept on jogging past the Fields of Asphodel and she paused to look at a bright place that didn't match the Underworld. There was a small place like a paradise, Elysium. And in there, Isle of the Blest.

Another vision flashed in her head.

"Elysium," one of the judges that she saw on the pavilion said. "Died a hero, on a quest to save Lady Artemis." Brianna had a feeling that this part was only the end of the judgement.

The ghost that looked like her was led to Elysium where all the laughter and fun was.

"Welcome to Elysium!" a ghost said at the entrance. "If you ever want to be reborn, use that phone over there." She pointed to a pink phone in the distance. "Either way, have a good time!"

Her ghost was left alone as she sat by herself staring into the distance.

"I hope they're able to complete their quest instead of just beating themselves about my death," she murmured.

The vision faded and Brianna found herself surrounded by chattering ghosts again. She clenched her jaw and moved on forward past the entrance to Tartarus (no one ever wanted to go there).

Brianna arrived at the Garden of Persephone and forced herself to look at the ground. She didn't want to tempt herself to eat Underworld food. There were other plants made of gems in the garden.

Then in front of her was a gate with violent pictures with two skeleton guards.

One of them clacked at her. Any appointment with the Lord?

Or a purpose? The other one clacked.

"I'm the daughter of Pluto," she said. She was positive now.

The gates opened and the skeletons waved her in.

The throne room was nothing like she expected. There was a huge black throne made of obsidian with silver designs and another smaller one shaped like a flower, but this with gold designs. Strangely, the thrones were empty.

"And who exactly let you in?" a voice said behind her.

Brianna jumped and looked behind her. The man behind her had pale skin and was wearing a black suit with a silver tie. "Oh, um, the guards let me in," she said her voice getting quieter. "Because…" she looked up at him. "Are you my father?"

He studied her and smiled eerily. His form flickered into a different man—same pale skin, but more greasy head, harder eyes, and such. Then he flickered back. "One of my daughters recently got reborn… and as a Roman no less. Anyway, to answer your question, yes, I am in a way."

"So… I'm not Roman?" Brianna asked utterly confused. "And why weren't you on your throne?"

"No, you are Roman, just not originally. But you must not tell this to anyone else," he said. "I mean, I could erase your memories, but it doesn't seem very civilized, does it? And the reason for being somewhere else was to cause some trouble for some other demigods. Those stuff."

It didn't seem like her father was civilized in any way (especially because of causing trouble on purpose), but she didn't mention that.

"Thank you father," she said not know what else to say.

She bowed and was about to exit the room when Pluto said, "You don't have a weapon do you?"

She shook her head.

"Then here you go," he said tossing her a short sharp object.

Brianna caught it in her hands. It was a sheathed dagger and when she unsheathed it, it was pure black with some silver embedded in it.

"It's Stygian iron," he said. "I couldn't get a bow like you wanted, but it'll have to do."

She clipped it onto her belt. "Thank you," she said and left the palace on her way back up to the surface.

Sorry if some of the characters are OOC. . I was kind of distracted... ^^'

BTW, the House of Hades cover is pretty cool! It's kind of darker than the other ones, but what am I to expect? It's Tartarus where it's supposed to be dark. XD

Anyway, school is gonna be over in two days! Well, for Hydra it's tomorrow. _ Lucky.