Nico walked down one of the many long hallways of his dads' palace. He was lonely - Will had to work a shift in the infirmary today and couldn't come along. Nico had decided to do something which he had never done before: Go through the little door in the back of the palace that had a sign with 'Escape route to Helheim' on it.

Why? He had no idea. He reached the end of the hallway while he was still thinking up a reason as to why he was walking to Helheim of all places - partly for himself, partly because he needed to be able to explain it to his father and Will in case he needed to.

Without to much thinking, He laid his hand on the door knob and opened it. There wasn't even a hallway, like he had expected - there was a room. He stepped through the door before he could back track.

The room was slightly colder than the rooms in Hades. Maybe because Norway laid in a colder place than Greece. Nico didn't really care. He got the time to look around for five seconds, before he heard someone cough behind him. 'And what is a random, seemingly alive teenage child doing in my realm?' He turned around. The goddess Hela was standing behind him. She was wearing a long, victorian gown. Half of her face was hidden behind a mask. Nico shrugged.

'I am Hades' son.'

'So you thought you could just waltz into my realm like you own the place?'

'Well, I don't think I own the place, since you stand in front of me and all. I was curious, I guess.'

'Teenage boredom. Classic. Do you know how many people like that have just wandered into my palace without thinking about the fact that I live here and don't feel like wearing a mask at home?'

'Then why did you put it on? I don't care if...'

'Because otherwise they will scream, run away and not listen to a single thing I say,' Hela said, while reaching under her black hair and taking of the mask. Nico stared at her skelefied half. 'Cool. So, how does this place work?' Hela stared at him.

'There is no way that I am going to give you a lesson on how my realm works, right after you just barged in, via a way that should only be used during emergencies...'

'...and over there you can see the village of the people who were not that horrible. After a few ages I decided to make it better for them, because they didn't do anything bad. I told the other asgardians it was symbolic for the way I look, you know, half dead and half alive...' Nico took a sip of the juicebox he had gotten from one of Hela's servants. He had to admit, Helheim was surprisingly interesting.

'... That's where I keep Baldr and his twin brother too, I mean he is going to rule the new world one day...' Hel sighed. 'I tried to make something of the place, you know? So that I do not live with just famine, hunger and pain around me?' Nico nodded.

'Yeah, I get it, Hades tried to do the same. He built a whole garden for Persephone, and all. Oh, and gave me a room, that's cool too.' Hela blinked. Nico felt his muscles tense.

'...and you have no business being here.' She pointed at a door near her throne, while grabbing her mask of the floor. 'That's the way to Duat.'

'I don't belong...'

'I don't care. Leave.' Nico bowed and stepped through the door, to the fourth hour of the night - Osiris' palace.

He looked around for some time. A river flew past the palace. He wondered why he didn't step right into the palace out of Helheim, but he didn't really care. He walked through the open doors.

Inside, Osiris was judging the death, like he should, with some ghost lady next to him. '...I see here that you gave free food to the elderly... now, that would be enough to land you in the afterlife...' the ghost in front of Osiris looked uncertain. '...and it is.' Anubis, who Nico only now noticed, got the ghosts' heart out of the scale. The ghost looked relieved.

'Say, lord Osiris...' the ghost disappeared. Osiris looked over. Nico took a little step back. 'Man, you look like Sadie and Carter. Eh, I am Nico, son of Hades. That looked suprisingly relieved, are you sure he isn't hiding something?'

'No, the good ones are often even more nervous than the horrible ones. They sometimes wonder whether they have truly done good.'

'... if you say so.'

'What brings you here?'

'I stepped through a random door in Hades, walked into Helheim and then Hell send me here.'

'Typical. Please stand back for a moment...' the ghost woman behind Osiris gestured him to follow her. She lead Nico away to a small living room.

'Hey, you look like Sadie and Carter too!' Nico remarked. She smiled sweetly.

'I am their mother. Ruby Kane. That over there is their father fused with Osiris. Want some tea?'

'...Yes, Tea would be nice, please.'

He talked with the ghost woman for what felt like an hour (but you never knew. It could have been a hundred years) before he decided to leave. 'Ruby, thanks for the tea. I think I should be heading back to Hades.' Ruby silently looked at him. 'Is there something with that?'

'You... can't go immediately back to Hades. Firstly because Hell will probably feed you to her wolf and because the doors work in a circle.'

'So I'll just have to go to the next underworld.'

'I am afraid so.'

'I'll will have to go then. I might see you again some day, Ruby.' He stood up.

'I'll show you the door,' Ruby offered.

'Yes, thanks.'

Nico stepped right into the underworld the Inca people believed in - although he didn't know it was. He just knew it was... dark. He felt something dripping down his sleeve. Somewhere in the distance, he heard heavy breathing. Nico waved his arms around. He felt another door knob. He decided to just go through - no need to stay wherever he was right now.

He stepped right into hell. Not the realm he had already been in - the Christian place. He also didn't feel like staying there - way too hot and it looked too much like Tartarus, which he could see whenever he wanted (Which was never, actually). He quickly disappeared to a door he hoped was the correct one (it wasn't, and he had to walk through six more wrong doors before someone noticed that he didn't belong here and pointed him to the correct door).

While taking a small detour around the Babylonian afterlife (Which looked cool, it had seven creepy looking portals), he felt something buzzing in his back pocket. Confused, he got out his Phone. He didn't remember taking that along with him. He saw that Will was calling him.. 'Hello?'

'Neeks? Are you doing alright!?'

'Eh, yeah, what?'

'We are having an issue! You need to... Aahh!' He heard screaming on the other side, before the Phone went dead. Nico felt panic rising in his chest. He looked around, desperately trying to find the next door. He felt a lumb rise in his throat when he remembered that he didn't know how long it would take to get back to Hades.

'What are you doing here?' He heard behind him (For like the fifteenth time that day, if not more. He was used to it by now). 'I need to get out!' He heard a woman laugh. Slowly, he turned around to face Ereshkigal, the queen of the Babylonian Afterlife.

'You can't.'

'Where is the next door? To the next underworld?' Ereshkigal shifted her shoulders a little.

'You know of the chain doors, huh... so you must have a goal.'

'Hades!'

'You do look like him.' The goddess grinned. 'Well, the door is right there. It doesn't lead to the Greeks, though. You could, of course, go through my gates, but then you'll have to lose your clothing...' Nico gave her a fake laugh.

'I thought that was only the rule when you got into this place.'

'Is it, now?' She grinned. Her teeth looked sharp. Nico made a deep bow and left through the door, right into Yomi.

The place was dark. Not as dark as the underworld he had seen after Duat, but darker than most places he had seen that day. While running around the place like a loonatic, trying to find the next door, he caught a glimpse of a few zombified bodies. He shivered. He really didn't want to think of zombies after he had heard Wills' voice.

He found the next door and ran through it, right into a long hallway. He kept running until he noticed he was running through his Dads' castle. He slowed down, before he dropped to his knees, panting. He sat on the ground for three seconds before jumping up again, remembering the Phone call.

A few minutes later, he burst through the door of his own cabin. He had no idea how late it was, or what day, or what year. The camp still looked the same, however. He ran to the infarmary. 'Will!?' He heard someone walking around inside. Will appeared in the door.

'Nico? Is there something? Did you get hu... oof!' Will coughed while Nico bear hugged him.

'I got the call! What's going on?'

'Call? I didn't call.' Will softly got out of Nico's arms. 'Is everything alright?'

'I thought you called... You were hurt...' Nico whimpered. He took a deep breath. 'It... It must have been Ereshkigal, or Hela, or whoever else.'

'Who? Hela? Were you in Helheim?'

'... There too.' Will sighed deeply.

'Come on, go take a shower. I'll get some tea.' Will kissed Nico on his forehead. Nico nodded and left to follow his boyfriends' advice, leaving Will to contemplate whatever Nico got into this time.