It was only slightly weird to step into the dining pavilion like this. Nico sat down at the Apollo table, as he always did, ordered some food, just like he always did. Yet, he did not offer anything to Hades. When Will saw that, he already got a feeling that this was going to be a long evening.

Kara leaned closer to Austin. 'Neeks gives off weird vibes today, doesn't he?' she whispered. Austin nodded. 'Yes, he surely does. Truly a peculiar occurrence on this otherwise wonderful Midweek evening.' Kara rolled her eyes.

'He feels like death more than usual, Austin. You could also say that instead of that weirdly poetic sentence.' Will put his utensils down and sighed. 'Come, Nico,' he softly said. 'Let's go to the Hades table.' Nico shrugged.

'Alright.' They got up and walked away (Austin and Kara did not really care. Nico and Will often walked away to talk about something - usually stuff that gave them the creeps or personal stuff). Will acted like he did not see the camp directors staring at them, like they always did when they changed tables halfway through. He and Nico sat down. 'Say, Nico. I noticed that you did not offer anything to Hades today. Do you want to tell why?' Nico took a deep breath - one that felt like a bad omen.

'Alright, this is going to sound really weird, but I am being haunted.' Will let that sink in. A lot of crazy things happened with Nico, but this was probably the high point. 'Uh... by inner demons or by actual demons?'

'It is not a demon, but a regular ghost...'

'How did it happe...'

'Let me talk. I was just walking around by the edge of the forest in my free time, when I saw something ranting to a dryad. The dryad was clearly as annoyed as an employee who has to deal with an entitled person. When I walk by, the something turned around. It starts giggling and tells me that I am just the person she seeks. She muttered something about justice from Hades, she got angry, and, well, I am haunted now.'

Will did not know if he should laugh or be serious. 'Do you know what to do now?' Nico shrugged. 'Go to the Underworld and ask dad about it, I guess. I do not know what else to do.' He rolled his eyes. 'Will you shut up? I am trying to eat!' he muttered. Will raised his eyebrows. 'To the ghost. She keeps whining about horrible customer service, for some reason.'

Will had no idea what to do with that piece of information, so he just took another bite of potato. At that moment, Dionysus and Chiron got up to make the announcements, so there was no more talking about being haunted by ghosts.

After diner, Will and Nico walked to the Hades cabin together. 'You know, I understand why people go insane because of this. Just shut your mouth, lady!' Nico mentioned, as they walked through the door of the Hades cabin. 'Spooky Scary Skeletons' played - The trigger that made it play whenever someone opened the door was still not fixed. Nico pressed a button by the door. A small door opened.

'That is new,' Will remarked. Nico nodded.

'It is an instant way to the Underworld.' They stepped through the door. 'If you do not want to walk, you can just stop haunting me,' Nico muttered, while they stepped onto the staircase.

The way was, surprisingly, not very long. Will assumed it worked with a sort of distance-shortening magic. They walked straight into Nico's room in the Underworld. Will saw that the white lilies he had knocked over a few weeks earlier where put back on the nightstand. Fred the hydra was sleeping on Nico's bed. Nico opened his door and stepped out onto the hallway. Immediately, someone almost tackled him from the left.

'Nico, we might have done something to anger Hades.' Nico rolled his eyes.

'Wow, Castor, it is not like you guys do that every single time.' He kept silent for a few seconds. 'So, what did you do?' Nico realised he was smiling.

'We kind of started to give tours around the palace to some people in Elysium. As a joke! of course...' Castor answered. Nico grinned.

'I told you that it would be hilarious.' His smile faded. 'I have to go to the throne room anyway.' He walked further through the hallway, with Will and Castor behind him.

They stepped into the Throne room. The imperial march played on the stereo's - that also was not taken down yet. Nico's expression got even darker - Will assumed that the ghost that was haunting him had whined about the loud music. Will looked around for a few minutes. Hades was sitting on his throne. The throne next to his was empty (Oh, right, spring happened a few days ago, Will remembered. It was so cold that he almost did not notice it). Silena, Beckendorf and Lee were standing in front of his throne, clearly getting a talking to by Hades. The god of the Underworld stopped ranting at them when he saw his son.

'Nico. Are you here to defend these clowns? Because it won't work.' Nico shook his head.

'No, no, that is not why I am here. Although showing people from Elysium around here sounds pretty funny... but, ehm, I am being haunted.' The demigod ghosts looked like they had already noticed that. Hades nodded slowly. 'I see. So the lady who is standing beside you is not... another new friend?' Hades said the last words through clenched teeth. Nico shook his head.

'Hades, no... Hm. I realise how weird that was. But, no, she is haunting me.' Hades sighed.

'William solace?' Will shot up from his deep demigod thoughts (Which is a special kind of deep thoughts). 'Huh? I mean... What were you saying, lord Hades?'

'I only called your name. Yet, can you see the ghost that is standing next to my son?' Will looked at Nico. For a second, he thought he saw an outlining of something, but that faded away as quickly as it showed up. 'No, lord Hades.' Hades stood up.

'Hm. We'll see. Now, Nico...'

'SHUT YOUR MOUTH!' Nico screamed at the top of his lungs. His eyes grew wide. 'Oh, uh, that was not meant for you, dad. She just kept talking about being treated badly by the staff or something, I do not understand it!' Hades clenched his jaw.

'Hm. Come here.' Nico took a few steps closer. Hades put a hand on his shoulder, and another one on his forehead. After a few seconds, a figure shimmered next to Nico. Will gasped lightly. The figure slowly turned into a regular ghost woman (Well, a regular ghost woman with the 'can-I-speak-to-the-manager' haircut).

Hades tried to let go of Nico, but his son suddenly hugged him. Hades eyes grew big - he looked surprised. 'Awh,' Will heard Castor softly say next to him. Will had to agree. It looked really 'awh.' He wondered if any of Hades had ever been hugged by one of his children before.

Nico let go of his father and quickly jogged back to Will. He had a slightly weird look on his face. 'I have no idea why I did that,' he whispered to Will. Will giggled.

'It looked really sweet,' he whispered back. Nico groaned. Meanwhile, Hades shook his head and walked over to the ghost woman. 'Why were you haunting my son?' he demanded. The woman rose her chin. 'I want to know why I have been treated so horribly. ' She stopped talking, clearly expecting Hades to say something. When he didn't, she scoffed.

'What a horrible service! Are you not going to ask what my problem is!?' She screeched. Hades rolled his eyes and sat down on his throne. 'No.' The woman straightened her shoulders.

'Well, I was just going on about my day when I fell down the stairs, and then, Poof! I was dead. Nobody even asked me if I wanted to! Some winged thing was hanging next to me, but when I asked what was going on, he just left! Well, horrible service, already. I walked out of my house. I asked other ghosts what was going on, and they just said that I had to find a way to the Underworld. Horrible employees you got, I tell you. After an hour or so, which is a way too long waiting time, some guy with a silly hat and staff appeared next to me. He offered to give me a map to the Underworld. I asked him if he could bring me there himself. He told me no and said that there were more people who needed service to go to Hades. Well, they would not need it if they knew how horrible said service was!'

The woman stopped for a moment. Hades opened his mouth to step in, but she cut him off: 'After that, I wandered around until I reached that stupid forest with its stupid small buildings. There, some ditzy girl asked me what was going on. I told her exactly what I thought of all of this. Then he came along and brought me here. Now, I demand that something is done about this!' She reached her arm up, and waved her finger around.

Hades looked absolutely dumbstruck. 'That... that is literally just how it works.'

'Change that, then!'

'It works for thousand if not millions of people.' The woman pulled open her mouth again, but she was interrupted by Silena. 'Lady, that is absolutely true!' She fluttered her eyelashes and smiled dazzlingly. 'Yet, they' (She spread her arms and waved around the room) 'do not know that. The professional on this specific case, that should by all means be fixed, is currently back to earth for another important case. We will be sure to call you when she has returned!'

The woman was silent for some time. 'Excellent. You see, this girl knows what she is talking about. The rest of you could learn something!' Lee patted her shoulder.

'You are right. Now, I will bring you to our waiting room, called the Fields Of Asphodel.' Lee grabbed her arm and lead her out of the throne room.

Hades sighed deeply. 'What was that?' He asked Silena. She shrugged.

'Persephone is the one who deals with entitled dead people. No one else does it, so she is by all means the proffesional. She has gone to the earth for other important things, but she will return to deal with entitled people again in the autumn. So I did not lie!' Hades nodded - kind of.

'Interesting. Maybe I should ask her about it.' Beckendorf laid a hand on Selena's shoulder.

'You have not had any situation like this since you started this job?' He asked. Hades shrugged.

'Maybe. There are so many people passing through here, I cannot remember each and every one of them.'

Nico linked his arm through Wills'. 'Let's go. They'll be talking for a while.' Will nodded. His head started to spin from everything. 'How come I could not see her, even though she was seemingly right next to her?'

'It is a weird kind of magic. If a ghost haunts someone, only other people from the Underworld can see the ghost. I do not know how that works.' Will giggled.

'I never knew there were even entitled... clients, so to say, in the Underworld.' Nico shrugged.

'Guess such an attitude never dies.'