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PART 3. CHAPTER 10.
You've never really given a piggyback ride until you've given a hellhound-ride to someone like Percy. I had to keep adjusting my shoulders to make sure he didn't fall off, not like Thalia was helping like Percy did for her. You know, it was so helpful.
I kept my nose high in the air for most of the time, trying to make sure nothing would come in our way.
Three days since we lost Grover, and he could've been anywhere by now, and now we were so close, so very close to getting to the Underworld.
I stopped, and felt Percy stir upon my back. I leaned down and started to growl, Percy laid his hand on my head, "What's wrong?" he asked sweetly. He stepped off my back and moved in front of me, but I walked in front, guarding Percy. "Mrs. O'Leary," he whispered, "It's okay, don't worry."
I barked and advanced. It was clearly not okay, there was something there, it made the air smell sour. It smelt like old pudding that's been under the couch of Deadaleus's workshop for five years. Trust me, I know what that smells like and you do not want to get near it. I seriously think that pudding was vanilla when I shoved it under there five years ago.
I started to move properly towards the smell and brought up my head, I looked down an alleyway and saw a door. Just a door, but the door wasn't normal. It wasn't a door into the side of a building, there was nothing special to it, but it seemed so much more different than any other door this hellhound had ever seen in her life. I moved toward the door and sniffed it.
I turned and sat down as Percy, Nico, Ethan and Thalia walked to the door, I moved for them to get to it. Percy seemed just as confused as I was. Thalia placed her hand on the door handle and pulled, it slowly creaked open. I turned my head swiftly to the streets, but oddly, no cars came. No people moved. No voices were heard. Nothing, total emptiness.
Suddenly a whole new smell overwhelmed me, coming from the other side of the door. I stood and barked at it, something was down there. Nothing alive though, there seemed like there were no true souls. Nico backed up, and I knew he was feeling everything the same as I was, he could hear all the voices, the dead voices. There was no living soul down there, but there were dead voices, with no real voice. Just whispering, yet it truly was not whispering, it was different than a whisper.
"Don't go down there, Percy," Nico warned. I knew what he was trying to do. He moved past Thalia, and I moved slowly behind and took in a whiff of the dead air. I felt nothing, but I felt everything too. It was the most strange feeling I'd ever have, even as a baby I never experienced anything like this.
I moved slowly past Nico and looked down, there was no floor, and I barked and laid down, inviting everyone onto my back. No one made a move, so I barked again and wagged my tail, trying to invite them. Thalia got my message, "She wants us on," and so they got on, and I jumped into the emptiness. There was no wind to slow me down, and there was no air pushing my fur upwards, but I could still tell I was falling.
I could feel the pads of my feet touch the ground softly and I moved forward.
There were lights everywhere, red dark lights. Nico jumped off my back and advanced into the lighting. I moved behind him as everyone got off.
He placed his hand on another door and pushed it open.
"Hello, son."
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