Complete Summary: The goddess Persephone has summoned Percy, Thalia and Nico to the Underworld in order to retrieve Hades' powerful sword before it falls into the wrong hands. Easier said than done in a world full of evil daimons, ghosts and ghouls. Not to mention Iapetos - brother of the powerful Titan lord, Kronos. This time the young demigods are really up against it - will Percy manage to return the sword before it's too late?
NOTE THIS IS NOT THE REAL STORY BUT MY SAD ATTEMPT AT IT! RICK RIORDAN OWNS EVERYTHING!
(A/N) Now I know I should be finishing and working on my other stories, but this one was just asking to be written! Blame the evil plot bunnies! They were biting my toes telling me to "Write it! Write it! Nikahyie! (That's the sound the plot bunnies make). And yea..... I can't for the REAL Sword of Hades to come out! I live in the USA so I have like a month to finish this story or it will be pointless because the real will be out! Now I am just guess what I think is going to happen so this is NOT THE REAL THING! Got it? Good your smarter than Percy LOL. OMG I can't wait! THALIA, NICO AND PERCY in one story about Hades? Did I die and go to the Underworld? Those are my three favorite character so I'm a happy camper LOL. My story is going to be longer than Rick's since his is a short story and mine is broken up in chapters. I just wanted to make sure I got my ideas out before the book comes out so I can say OMG I guess the story or wow I was no where close. Most likely the second one. ANYWAYS yea I'm in a good mood right since I just won a button from (Shameless plug) PercyQuest GO THERE! I'm Lightning_Girl if you want to talk. ON WITH THE STORY! REVIEW! PLEASE! SQUEE!
I was, yet again, having a dream. This time I was in some strange cave full of stalagmites and stalactites, hey what's the difference again? Sorry ADHD working up again, anyways… This place reminded a lot of the Labyrinth and if I didn't know better, I would have said it was, but the Labyrinth was destroyed last summer. The air was to hot for it to be the Underworld, so I really didn't have clue where I was, big shocker there, right?
I was expecting Kronos's voice to speak me but another one, a new one, filled my ears.
"Welcome brave hero. I knew you would come," his voice was raspy and he spoke too quickly.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Oh, I have many, many names, too many names, none of which are important right now."
"What do you want?"
"Oh, it's not want I want, but what you want. I can help you. Yes, I can help you on your way to greatness."
"Where are you? Show yourself!"
"This is only a dream and you are very, very far away. I am not powerful enough to make a form. You have nothing to fear, I'm here to help you."
"Help me with what?"
"To give you strength, power to defeat the traitor."
"The traitor? Ethan?"
"No!" The voice shouted angrily, "The son of Hermes."
"You mean Luke?"
"Yes," the voice boomed, "Traitor, back stabber, betrayer of friends, and has now joined bodies with the name of evil. He must face his fate."
"Does this have anything to do with Nico's plan?" Nico had visited me yesterday, during my fifteen birthday party, and had told me about his plan about defeating Kronus and saving Luke.
"No, Nico wishes to save Luke. Give him an easy passing. But the traitor deserves pain. He deserves to feel the same suffering he put on his friends. Doesn't he?"
I said silent while I thought. The truth was I wasn't sure. I was mad at Luke, he had tried to me more than once, almost destroyed the camp twice, and tried to kill his best friends Thalia and Annabeth. But I knew that wasn't really why I was mad at Luke. The truth was, that after all the evil things his done, Annabeth still loved him. Annabeth the girl I might…
"He's evil. Tricking Annabeth into loving him, he's using her. He'll hurt her in the end. Only you can save her from him. Stop him before it's too late. Let me help you." The voice spattered out at rapid fire.
"I-I'm not sure."
"Luke needs to be punished!"
Dark shadows lifted off the walls and began circling me. The air grew hotter.
"Hey! What are you doing?" I shouted. I drew Riptide from my pocket, but you can't cut up shadows.
"Traitor! Traitor! Trailor!" The voice ranted.
"Stop-!" My voice failed me. The glow from Riptide began to fail, something that had never happen before. The shadows circled my feet moving slowly up my body.
"Stop him! Stop him before it's too life! Stop him before he kills Annabeth!" The voice was fading, moving farther away from me.
The shadows covered my face. I couldn't breathe, the shadows were suffocating me.
"Let me help you!" The voice said. I could barely hear it now.
I woke up, but still couldn't breathe. I tried to scream but something was covering my mouth and nose.
"Calm down, Seaweed brain!" Electric blue eyes glowed in the darkness. A figure stood by bed; it released its hold on my mouth.
"Thalia?" I choked.
"Will you shut up? I don't want your mom waking up."
Thalia was my cousin, on my dad's side, and she was the daughter of Zeus but had recently joined Artemis's hunters. I haven't seen her or heard from her in about a year.
She pressed her finger to her lips, reminding me to stay quiet, and tip toed over to the other side of the bed where Nico was sleeping on the ground. He had decided to spend the night with me yesterday.
She lightly shook him to wake him and told him to stay quiet.
"There's something we need to do. Get dress, grab whatever you need for a week and meet me outside as fast as you can. You might what to leave a note for your mom, Percy," Thalia whispered.
"Thalia, what?"
"I'll explain everything outside, now come on!" She made her way quietly to my window which I now saw was open.
"Come on Seaweed brain!' She hissed impatiently when saw me staring. Nico was already up and gathering his things together.
Thalia went through the window and onto the fire escape. I really needed to do something about that fire escape; Thalia was the third person so far that got into my room using it.
I could hear Thalia's slow footsteps on the metal stairs. I knew she must have had a very reason for scaring me half to death in the middle of the night because my apartment was on the fourth floor and Thalia was, kind of, afraid of heights. She wouldn't walk up four floors of shaky metal stairs for nothing.
I jumped out of bed and got dressed.
Five minutes later and Nico and I were making are way down the fire escape, dressed and with our backpacks. I had left a note for my mom saying that something can up and I might be missing for a while and not to kill me when I got back. My mom was used to those kinds of things but I knew she would worry herself to death while I was gone.
Thalia was waiting for us in the alleyway by my apartment. She was tapping her foot impatiently and gave us one her famous evil stares when we walked up to her.
"What took you so long?" She snapped.
I stared stupidly at her. In my dark room I had only recognized her by her voice, but now. The alleyway was lighted by streetlights so I could see her clearly now and she didn't look like Thalia.
The Thalia I knew always wore all black punk clothes with black spiky hair and wore heavy black eyeliner.
This Thalia was dressed in a silvery ski parka and blue jeans, the outfit of a huntress. Her black hair was elegantly braided back out of her face. A silver circlet was braided on the top of her head like a princess. Her blue eyes were cleared of any eyeliner as she wore no makeup. I could see her sparkling blue eyes and freckles on her nose more clearly now there was no makeup of hair covering it. Overall she looked… well pretty…I mean in a weird cousin sort of way, not like Annabeth; wait, did I just say that?
"What?" Thalia put her hand on her hips. She may look different but it was the same old Thalia.
"You look…umm…different," I mumbled out.
"Yea? You want make something of it?" She answered angrily. It was amazing that even without the black eyeliner; Thalia was able to make a perfect ten evil look.
"No," I answered quickly.
"Artemis doesn't appreciate my style," Thalia said spitefully.
"Hi Thalia, remember me?" Nico said shyly.
"Of course Nico, I was there when we found you. But what are you doing at Percy's?" Her voice lost its harshness.
I had forgotten that Thalia wasn't there when we discover who Nico's father was.
"Annabeth didn't tell you?" I asked her.
"No, we are traveling so much it's hard for anyone to contact us," she answered sadly.
"Oh, well… there is really no way to say this but …Nico's dad is Hades."
"WHAT?" Thalia said shocked.
"Hi cousin," Nico gave a small wave.
"But... but… the prophecy! This means Hades broke the oath too!"
"No, he didn't. Remember Bianca and Nico were held in the Lotus casino for seventy years. They were born before the oath was made."
"That sneaky, old…"
"Hey! That's my dad!" Nico said proudly.
"Quiet you two, we don't want to wake anyone one up," I interrupted, "So, why did you wake us in the middle of the night?"
Thalia recovered herself, "Artmeis got an Iris message from another god. She ordered me to go to your house and bring all the half-bloods there to central park at midnight on the next full moon."
"Isn't that a little odd to you?" I asked.
Thalia shrugged, "Not much different to her other requests. She doesn't tell me much, I don't think she trust me yet as much as she did with Zoë." There was a sad tone to her voice.
"Guys, I hate to interrupt, but its fifteen minutes till midnight," Nico said glancing at his watch.
"Right, let's go," I said leading the way out of the alley.
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