Kore woke quietly, her dark lashes slowly lifting in unison from the black unconsciousness she fell into.

The tapestry above her was grand and sheer light green, falling all around her like leaves.

It was not a moment later, as Kore looked around at her ornate surroundings...that she panicked.

Kore gasped, and shot up quickly in a large immensely decorated room. But as she looked around at every jewel, she became more and more frightened, and began to cry almost immediately as her eyes gazed over everything. she was no where near her mother. Her tears rolled surprisingly quickly down her pale soft skin, leaving a noticable mark at its trace. Her heart began racing faster and faster as she got up, her mind flitting to Litagae as well.

Kores tears worsened, as she looked around the unfamiliar room. A diamond vanity adorned in rich jewles shined almost too obnoxiously at her. Rich deep red carpeting and architectural masterpieces of greece outlined the room similar to the pillars of olympus.

She had no idea where she was. Her tears could not stop flowing, even though she did not wail or sob. the last thing she saw, Litagaes horror stricken face.

Kore almost felt her own heart breaking. Her throat began to twist in pain, and for once a silent sound matched her tears. she ran to the door thinking only of litagae and her mother.

Before she made it halfway through the incredibly large room, a woman appeared out of thin air before the door, and Kore screamed.

Kore almost did not know what she did, as she immediately in fear threw the nearest thing by her, almost as shocked as she was horrified. An ancient glass vase flew through the woman's body as if she were nothing but air, and shattered violently upon the closed door of her room.

Kore kept throwing whatever she clasped in her hand, and yelled at the strange being, all objects flying through the woman's sheer body.

"GET OUT! GET OUT! DO NOT COME NEAR ME!" Kore screamed frightened beyond sense.

Kore reached for another item to throw, afraid of the being that immediately dissolved into the air, with sadness and upset upon its face.

As Kore flung the item she grabbed last, a gold chalice of intricate design, it did nothing to the spirit-like being who had just disappeared.

Kores eyes were wide in shock, it stopped her tears for a moment. What being was that? It was no spirit...

She had seen spirits before in her mothers realm, that woman was not at all one of them...

Upon realizing the being would not return, Kore quickly ran pale and barefoot towards the grand oak door and opened it. Determined to leave.

A narrow, dark lit hallway awaited her just beyond it.

Both directions she looked, left and right, were so ominous, it quieted her immediately. Sounds of deep creatures, from a great distance, could be heard slightly. Moans from who knows what, were just as faint, and shocked Kore into silence as she turned left into one of the dark hallways and began walking.

The sounds of her pale feet upon the hard black ground echoed barely, but Kores heart still beat so frantically, she could hear it in her ears...

She had to leave.

She didn't care how, she had to go home.

Strange sounds echoed from vast distances periodically, which made the hairs on Kores milk white arms stand straight off her skin.

Just hearing the noises, Kore knew, where ever she was...seemed extraordinarily large, just from the sounds of the echos.

She wrapped one of her pale arms around her stomach for comfort, not knowing where she was going.

She pressed on quicker with spurts of runs, her light feet meeting water in some areas.

She walked as if it was endless, her frustration rose along with her fear and once again her eyes watered.

It was a maze from hell, she thought. This never ending hallway felt like a torture in itself.

She was scared, at every creepy turn the dark hallways gave. She shivered nervously out of fear, but kept walking anxiously forward on her bare toes just the same. Finally, she thought she saw the tiniest light in a narrow hallway nearing the end of the torturous ominous walk...

Kore paused, as this last hallway at the end of whatever part of this castle she reached, was small and narrow.

A part of her almost felt shocked a bit, as she stepped into this last hallway reluctantly.

The hallway was darker than pitch black night, there was nothing to be seen, save for a tiny circular light a small distance away.

The moans and disturbing muted sounds of the castle drowned away, as she stepped further into the darkest narrow hallway of all.

The obscured light at the top of this strange hallway, seemed to reveal this narrow space more like a cave. As if it was built into the earth...The ceiling of it seemed to be black rock, though Kore wasn't so sure.

Kore walked anxiously forward, and felt in her soul this one crack of light, could take her...up?

She did not know where she was, but somehow she wanted to go up.

all light from the castle she left behind her disappeared..., as the tiny light seemed so close, yet she was somehow not getting to it...even whilst walking.

Tiny droplets of water fell, and along with her nervous breath, all you could hear were their echos bouncing off the narrow cave.

No matter how many steps Kore took, the tiny light at the top of the cave remained as far away as when she saw it.

It made Kore confused and fervent, as she kept stepping forward for the light to still remain at the same distance.

A shadow, made Kore halt, frightened to a stop...she froze immediately, and felt her heart skip and her breath hold all at once. Something big moved precariously in front of the light, blocking it. It moved almost as if it had strange wings that didn't work well, from the small glimpse Kore got to see.

It was big..

Kore stopped breathing, and every strand of hair upon her arm stood up. There was no movement she made that could have stopped what happened next...

The creature bat it's wings in powerful fury in the pitch black dark...and all that could be heard in the great Almighty castle now, were the wretched infuriated screeches of the angered mysterious creature...and a blood curdling anguished scream, of Hades new young guest, Kore.