Well, congrats if you managed to get through the last chapter! Well, this one is a bit darker but anyway, read it! Note: I am new to so if you find anything weird with my stuff and or spelling mistakes, tell me. I'm not earning any money off this and I don't own this series etc. etc. but yeah, ignore my aimless rambling and hopefully read the chapter.
May was talking with Chiron.
"You sure I could shadow travel all that way?" she asked.
The old centaur sighed. "You should be okay. Besides, there is no other real way to get to the underworld. Well, you could jump off a building…"
"Uh, seriously?"
"…but that would be a one way journey. No, it's best to shadow travel."
May looked up. "Last time didn't go that well," she pointed out.
"You only ended up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."
"I was aiming for Brazil!"
"Your half-brother Nico kept missing and ending up in China."
"But he was trying to get to North Korea for the bragging rights! That's only a couple hundred kilometres off! I was twelve thousand!"
Chiron stopped. "May. You have to believe in yourself. I noticed that the more disheartened you are, the further you get from your target."
May slumped. "I don't think I can do it."
"All heroes say that."
"And what could I do if I do reach the underworld."
The centaur pursed his lips. "That I cannot say. All I can say is that many heroes before you have become legends though they started in the same situation as you. May Li, I hope you can succeed."
May walked away, still feeling uncertain. How could she reach the doors to the underworld which was on the other side of the Earth? She started thinking of other solutions. Hades was the god of anything below ground so could she go straight down? (A/N many people think that if you dig straight down you will get to China. Actually, you don't. You end up in the Indian Ocean near Australia if you live on the eastern seaboard. Anyway I gave away spoiler for where the gates to the underworld are) She glimpsed the dark façade of the Hades cabin and focused her energy on its front doorstep. She felt her whole body dissolving into dust and she re-emerged inside the Athena cabin. Cursing, she walked out and strolled across the grass to the Hades cabin. She pulled open the huge wrought iron doors and went inside.
It was dark, bleak and a sad place. The hopeless feeling of the underworld reached her. The cabin was much bigger on the inside than what it seemed on the outside, magic, she suspected. It was a circular shape with five beds surrounding the sides. In the centre was a huge statue of her father in old man form. It was almost pitch dark with but her night vision set in almost immediately. Do you deserve to be here? A familiar voice said in her head. She swore and plopped down on her bed, the one furthest from the entrance. She lay there staring up at the ceiling where thunder and lightning occasionally lit up. She felt like a failure. Ryan was in the clutches of the dragon and what did she do? She got swiped aside by the dragon's tail. She sighed. She was so lame! She rolled over to the side and stared at the carved etchings on the wall. Ever since she arrived at Camp Half Blood she was treated as an anomaly, a stranger, and a person who should have never existed. But at the bottom of her heart, she knew that she ought to be cast out. She thought back in time.
"Wait, you're saying that I'm a demigod?" The younger May stared at the girl before her. So the stories are true…she thought.
"Yes! Believe me! They're coming for you!" pleaded the girl.
"Was this why you were friends with me? Was everything just an act for me to come with you?"
"Pleease! May, they are not going to spare you." The girl tugged at her shirt and she reluctantly started running. They were too late. A flash, no, a bolt of blue struck the girl and she fell to the ground. May froze in horror. What have I done? Before she could think any more, she too fell to the ground and the world turned upside down.
She remembered herself at the underworld, before three judges, their gold masks eerie in the dim light. They studied her carefully. The centre one spoke.
"May Li," it mused. "Daughter of Hades, had herself and her friend killed from her stubbornness. I'm sorry but it has to be Fields of Punishments for you."
And from there she was carted deeper into the underworld. She didn't remember much from here (and she suspected that her mind was wiped on purpose) but all she remembered was the burning hot pokers and the agony. Oh, the agony! However, one day, she received a letter supposedly from her father, Hades. She was sent to the Fields of Asphodel which were not much better. It was outright depressing, figures chattering away confusedly. Finally, one day she saw a figure not deluded by the mist. The figure noticed her too. "Hello," the figure said. "Daughter of Pluto?"
May blinked. "Pluto? I thought he was Hades."
The figure clicked her fingers. "Ah. Greek girl." She stuck out her hand. "I'm Hazel, daughter of your father's Roman form. I can get you out of here."
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A loud knocking on the door woke May up from her memories. The knocking persisted and she knew that only one person would do that. "Come in," she called lazily. Heather and Ryan walked in shuddering from the cold.
"Really May…how do you cope with all this cold?" Heather said.
"Ugh, reminds me of death and despair," added Ryan.
May smiled coldly. "Well, I guess this is what I deserve."
Ryan shifted nervously. "So…you've finished packing your stuff?"
May spat. "Styx! Give me a moment…" She reached for the chest at the corner of the room and started quickly pulling clothes out and dumping them in her bag.
"You know where we're headed for?" asked Heather. "I mean, where are we entering the underworld?"
May looked up briefly. "Turkmenistan," she muttered.
"Lol, wot?" said Ryan. May couldn't blame him. Out of all the places…
"So you know what you're going to do?" continued Ryan. "I don't want to just end up being enslaved by some powerful deity."
May rolled her eyes. "Make it up as well go along."
"Shall we go now?" invited Heather. May grimaced. "Fine. But let me warn you, my aiming sucks."
The other girl placed her hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry! Believe in yourself!"
May didn't like being told some pre-schooler's motto but grudgingly held their hands. Ryan was muttering something about dictators and deserts but May shut him up effectively with a pointed glance. Anyway…
"Here we go. Three…Two…One…"
The world went black and they travelled through darkness.
Yeah.
I know, I might have rushed writing this chapter so isn't as good as I had hoped. Well, that's all I got around to writing for this chapter. Reviews are welcome and hopefully I can attempt the third chapter if you give me enough motivation (reviews)(Views).
