As Brimstone searched he found something under the bed. A note.
Dear Brim, the note read.
First off, this had been the happiest I have been in forever. I have connected with you like no one else in my life. Your humor, your silliness. they complete me. Although I love you, Brimstone could feel something inside of him churn. at first he thought oh my goodness. This is it, I am going to get my powers back, but then he realized he just wanted to weep and cry. So he let out a growl that could only come from a creature of the Underworld. He didn't have the strength or the ability to want to kill someone. He kept reading the letter.
I simply cannot go on. I can't be with you. It is nothing you have done. It is all me. I have went to a location that you don't know about and I have ended my life. By the time you have read this I will already be dead. Don't come looking for me, please. I hope you have a good life, love Rach.
Brimstone climbed back into bed and went to sleep. He slept for what must have been three weeks. After he finally woke up, he heard pounding at the door. He got up to see who it was. He opened the door, shocked to find Percy, Annabeth, and Grover.
"What the f-", Brimstone said.
"What the hell are you all doing here?".
"We heard the scream. We knew you needed help", Percy said.
"I didn't think you gave anything about me, why have you come?".
"Brimstone, we didn't do or say anything like that. That was your dad making you think those things. Not us. We love you, man", Grover said. Brimstone smiled and hugged the three of them.
"We seen her, too", said Annabeth.
"We knew you loved her from day one. We could see from the Oracle. Chiron was afraid something was going to happen".
"Does he know where she went?", Brimstone exclaimed.
"No, he said it was strange because he can see all of earth. But he could not see where she went".
"The reason we are here", Percy began.
"Is because we are on a quest. Dad wants us to go to the Underworld and bring back some kind of an electronic animal?".
"Yes, my makeshift dogs, or hellhounds as Rachel had said. They are electronic and that, dang it, is why I am here. My mother stole them and I went to get them back. I hit her and then I got thrown out".
"Well, get you some clothes, take a shower and let's go get them back", Annabeth said. As Brimstone was walking back to the bathroom he saw another note with Rachel's MP3 player on top of it.
For Brim with a heart on the note.
"She was going to give me her MP3 player?", Brimstone said in tears.
"Take it", said Percy.
"She would want you to take it". Brimstone got in the shower he listened to the angriest thing he could find on the playlist and kept wondering why he still could not use his powers. Then it hit him. He was not mad at Rachel. He loved her too much to be mad at her.
"Well", he said.
"We're going to the Underworld to get my hellhounds. I bet someone will really piss me off down there, then I'm gonna unleash it every bit on them. The pain, the hurt, the anguish", he began to talk in a growling voice and realized the water was steaming hot, opened the curtain and saw that he had changed into his Underworld form (Hades) he turned the water off and watched his human skin come back. He put on his cloak of chains and went outside with the others.
"Where have we got to go?", Brimstone asked them.
"Los Angeles, California. To the subway system. we get on one of them and ride it to some airport in Anaheim and then get on an airplane and go to Liverpool. The gate we have to use is there, on top of a hill", Grover explained.
"Guys", Brimstone said.
"I'm sorry for how I have been. Distant from you all. I thought you hated me".
"It's okay", Annabeth said.
"You're with us now".
"Yeah, your dad is-", Grover was cut off by Brimstone.
"A complete dick".
"Well, yes. But I was going to say a jerk for making you think we hated you".
"Well, he's a dick". They walked all the way from Oregon to Northern California that day. Stopped at a motel and went on. Brimstone was silent almost the entire time, with his earbuds in listening to music. They reached a town just north of San Francisco and stopped for the night. Brimstone was sitting on the balcony listening to The Ghost Inside when he heard a scream and it wasn't coming from the music.
