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We looked around us. There were hundreds upon hundreds of hellhounds. "H-how did we not see them when we arrived?" Calypso wondered, confused.

"Guys, we have to be careful, these aren't normal hellhounds," I warned.

"Why, they look normal to me," Jamie said.

"Just trust me, I've fought more of these things then most demigods ever will in their life."

"You should listen to the girl," a voice said. I automatically knew the voice; it was the one from my dreams. Nemesis.

I brought my sword out, καλοσύνη. "W-what do you want N-Nemesis?" I stammered.

Suddenly the hellhounds parted ways so that we were face to face with the Immortal herself. She had large white wings and was holding a long golden sword in one hand and had a scale in the other. "Well, I want revenge of course."

The light around us seemed to darken, and I hate the dark.

"P-please, Zeus didn't even seem that mad at me. I-I didn't try to slap him, b-but he slapped my mother," I managed to sputter out.

"Oh, Zeus wasn't mad. But you slapped our king, you disrespected him," as she talked, she kept advancing, "And for that, I would like my revenge."

I then felt something tugging at my hands and noticed that καλοσύνη was back in pendant form. They were chains, I didn't even feel them! How did they get on me? I tried to pull them off using my magic, but it wasn't working. "Oh don't waste your time, they're made out of celestial bronze. You may be mortal, but you were cursed by the gods," Nemesis sneered.

I looked over at Calypso and Jamie who too had their hands bonded with celestial bronze chains. I looked at them with a saddening look.

I felt the chains pull on my arms as Nemesis led us down the road.

We soon came to a rock, it looked like a normal rock, but it's never just a normal rock. With a snap of Nemesis's fingers, the rock split in two and revealed an entrance with a set of stairs. Nemesis walked down the stairs and the chains magically pulled us along.

After what felt like hours of walking, we finally made it to a large room. "Sit," Nemesis said, gesturing to the ground. We didn't really have a choice, it wasn't like we could just say "no", so we sat.

"Stay here, I'm going to go see what I can do to you," she then snickered and muttered, "Stay there, ha, like they can get out of here." She walked to where the other side of the room should have been, but instead she kept walking as if the wall wasn't even there.

I started panicking. "What are we going to do? We need to get out of here. We need to get these chains off," I kept spilling a whole bunch of ideas and nonsense until Jamie came over to me and gave me a hug the best he could.

"Hey, it's going to be okay, we'll figure a way out."

"Stop saying everything will be okay!" I yelled at him, "Nothing is okay, we're stuck in this stupid cave thing and Coral is out there probably worrying about me. I miss the Stoll's and I just wish they were here. I wish I was still back in my home in the middle of nowhere with my arguing family having a somewhat normal life. But nooo! Someone had to make me mad, they just had to push me over the edge." By the end I was in a full sob. I leaned on Jamie and cried into his shoulder making his shirt wet. "I just want everything back to normal!" I cried.

Just then I realized something. "Jamie, can you try to grab my sword?"

"Uh, sure, but why wouldn't she have disarmed us?" he asked.

"I don't know, that's why I said try."

Jamie tugged at my pendant but it wouldn't come off the chain. "What the hay," I muttered.

"She must have cursed it or something," Calypso said.

"Augh! Why did I have to get mad!" I yelled.

Just then we heard footsteps coming down the stairs. We looked at where the stairs were just to see two figures heading towards us.

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