Chapter 19:

I woke up to my annoying parents yelling at me to wake up. At first I thought I was back home and everything that just happened was a dream. But then I realized they were yelling through the Iris message. The others were somehow still sleeping. I sat up and rubbed my eyes.

"Dylan your alive!" Annabeth said happily. "Thank the gods!"

"What is wrong with you!?" Percy yelled. "We thought you were dead! Why didn't you call?!"

"I forgot! Then when I remembered it was like 11 o clock-"

"That's no excuses! You should have called anyways!" Percy told him. "We didn't know where you were, you could have been dead in a gutter somewhere or killed by some Greek monster. It was very irresponsible and...shit. I'm starting to sound like my mom when I'd go on quests."

"I`m really sorry, I promise I won't do it again."

"Dylan, where are you? Are you somewhere safe?" Annabeth asked him.

"We are in a bed and breakfast in Kansas." He told them. "But we are heading towards Iowa. "

Dylan then told his parents about what he was supposed to do on the quest and about the little girl who got attacked.

Suddenly Darla appeared.

"I heard the noise what's going…."

She noticed the message, then smiled.

"Can I talk to Dylan through this thing too?" Darla asked pointing at the image.

"Of course." Annabeth replied.

"Can I talk to him for just second….alone. "

"Why?" Annabeth asked.

"I have to have a reason to talk to my nephew?"

"Why alone?" Annabeth asked.

"Because why should my conversation with him be everyone's business?"

"Alright fine." Annabeth agreed.

Percy and Annabeth leave.

"Dylan, I'm coming to get you. I know it must be torcher being there, being forced to fight and do quests. Don't worry I'll be there soon."

"No! I want to stay. I`m having fun!"

"What?"

"I made so many friends, and I'm having fun trying to figure out this quest. I feel like for once in my life I'm having fun and enjoying my life. It's like I finally know where I am supposed to be. Don't take that away from me."

"…..I won't….I can't do that to you. I change my mind stay with your friends and have fun."

"Thanks. Plus between you and me there's a prophecy about me and I'm supposed to save the world from certain doom."

"Really?" she says shocked. "I have to go. Good bye."

"Bye."

Then he waved my hand into the mist.

Darla tried to contact hades using the iris message. She had seen Percy and Annabeth call Dylan on it a thousand times, she figured it was a simple thing to work. She create the rainbow and ask Iris to call hades right?

"Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering." Darla said. "Hades, the underworld"

Nothing happened at all.

"I said Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering." Darla said again. "Hades, the underworld"

Nothing happened again.

"Hades, the underworld!" she repeated. "Hades, the underworld!"

Percy walked in, he clearly saw her shouting about Hades.

"What's going on?" Percy asked.

Her eyes widened.

"I- um….I….was just…"

"Trying to call Hades. " Percy said. "Why?"

"I…I…I did something horrible. At the time I didn't think it was bad, but now I know it was."

"What did you do?"

"I made a deal with Hades. When I died 15 years ago, Hades told me he`d let me live again if I made sure Dylan never found out about his true abilities. I didn't think it would be so bad if he didn't know he had human abilities, who cares, it might even be good I thought. No offence but you and Annabeth are pretty weird and have some freaky friends."

"How was I not supposed to take offence to that? Wait since when do you believe that were demi gods? Even when you were a kid you didn't believe her."

"Hades proofed it to me, he showed me an image of the two of you fighting some creature on earth with that half goat creature. Anyways through the years of trying to convince Dylan your stories where false and magic was illogical. As well as preventing him from seeing any of the monsters that dared to attack him….which wasn't offend because he apparently had a sent that only the rare type of extremely powerful demi god he is gives off. But as I was doing all this I…..I….I…grew to….have a deep regard for him."

"What?"

"I care about him! Okay I said it!"

"Aww! I didn't think you were capable of feelings."

She rolled her eyes.

"He is destined to save the world! You guys have to help him! I think hades is behind the attacks, I herd Dylan tell you guys that all the attacks were on demi gods, maybe he wants to get rid of all those demi gods so he can rule the world. Maybe he wanted to get rid of Dylan because he knew he was the only person that would stand in his way. "

"Pshh I could defeat Hades. I defeated Kronos."

"Who's Kronos?" Darla asked.

"Exactly, you're welcome. I defeated him when I was 16. He tried to take over Olympus and therefore make the Titians rule instead of the Olympians."

"Well if that's true, which I doubt, maybe Hades knew Dylan would be more powerful then you and therefore would be his greatest threat to his plain."

"Yeah. And then maybe he needed to wait for enough monsters to reform and that's why he waited till now to attack! We have to tell Annabeth!"