It did not take us long to get to Erebus. Living down here your whole life makes you learn how to get around the souls of the dead and Hades' three headed dog easily.

"Are you going up Styx or taking the short cut with me?" I asked Thanatos. He swayed his head for a moment, in contemplation.

"I'll go with you. It will be faster to start in Manhattan anyway," he told me as we walked up Erebus and around the newly dead who were coming down. Most of them seemed to be staring, or possibly glaring, at Thanatos. Eventually we reached the short cut and stopped walking.

My uncle looked at me with a cocked eyebrow. "I hope you can sing," he remarked with his arms crossed in front of his chest. I rolled my eyes at him. Apparently, he did not know about the little trick I used to get the passageway open. All the gods and goddesses that lived in the underworld knew that music from iPods and MP3s do not open the passageway. I had found from personal experience that this is true unless, you are playing music sung by Ozzie Osborn. Why? I honestly have no idea.

Either way, I took my iPod out of my cloak, which I had bought purely for opening this passageway, and turned on a random Ozzie song. At first Thanatos looked at me as if I was insane, until he saw the steps that were now in front of us. "How in Hades did you do that?" he asked me as I turned my iPod off and put it back into my cloak's nearly invisible pocket.

"It's a long story," I replied and we both walked up the stairs.

It was not long until we emerged into Central Park. Once we were both out of the passageway, it closed back up behind us, blending into the ground perfectly.

"Well, I have to go now," Thanatos said. "See you later," he told me, turned around and flew away. You may think that everyone would see him, since it was broad daylight. However only gods, demigods, the dead and the dying can see him; unless he wants them to of course. I guess that is his privilege for being the god, or rather the personification of death.

I watched him fly away for a moment, not particularly eager to go to Olympus and see what Zeus and the others had to say to me. Maybe I should just go to Nyx now. I thought and looked away from the sky and down at the ground. No, I'll go to Olympus. If they are going to do anything to me, I should have enough power to make them fall asleep just long enough to get out of there and go to Nyx.

I let out a deep breath, looked away from the ground, and started to walk out of Central Park. Once I was out onto the people-filled sidewalks, I did not care to contain my power and simply let the humans around me fall asleep. It made it easier to walk around and not be bothered by them. Besides, I was more comfortable around people that were asleep.

After walking over and around the sleeping bodies of humans, I finally made it to the Empire State building. Yuck. After I was in, I realized I didn't know which floor Olympus was on. I never actually tried to remember the number before, because I never had been to Olympus and figured I'd probably never go. It took me a few moments to jog my memory. To the elevator, ask for the… 600th floor. I think. I let out a snort. If I am wrong, I can just tell the person standing in the front of the elevator who I am. I told myself and continued to walk through the building until I saw the elevator a few yards away from me. There was one man in his early 30s who had muddy brown hair standing beside it and a woman with fiery red hair that went to her mid back standing in front of him. I would recognize her anywhere.

"Nemesis?" I asked, as I walked up to her. She turned her head to me and set her watery blue eyes, which reminded me of teardrops, on mine.

A small smirk crossed her pale pink lips as she turned her head back to the muddy haired man. "Yes there is a 600th floor," she told him, "and my nephew Morpheus and I would like to go to it," she said to him slowly, in an almost bitter-sweet tone.

The man glanced over at me uncomfortably and handed Nemesis a card. "Once you're in the elevator there will be a place that you can swipe the card. After you do that a button will appear that'll say '600'," he told us and hit the up button on the elevator for us. The doors opened instantly.

She gave him a small, but still creepy smirk. "Thank you," she told him as she and I walked into the elevator. Its doors closed behind us and Nemesis swiped the card, which disappeared immediately and a button that said "600" appeared on the wall. She pushed it and I could feel the elevator starting to ascend.

"Do you know who else is coming?" I asked her.

Nemesis looked at me then shrugged her shoulders. "Actually, I thought I was the only one that they were going to talk to," she said to me then frowned. "How many other gods are supposed to come?" she asked.

"I'm not sure," I replied honestly. I heard her sigh and the rest of the trip up to the 600th floor was quiet, except for the annoying 1970s music that the elevator was playing. Honestly, I was extremely happy to hear the elevator's doors open.

My aunt turned her face to look at me before stepping out. "Welcome to hell in the sky," she told me bitterly.