Did I wait long enough for this update? Should I have waited longer? I could have waited a lot longer to get this chapter out, but I knew you guys would start sending nasty PMs. Now, this story is just a side project. I will not be updating that often, only when I have an idea that works. If you are a reader of my other stories, I will be updating most of them soon as I have a lot of ideas. Now, on with the story!

"Perseus get down here this instant," my mother yelled up the stairs of our vacation house. I ran out of my room with my luggage to go home and ran right into her. "Perseus, you are the Prince of this nation and I will not tolerate you making us late. You will be grounded to your room once we arrive at the Palace tonight."

"But mom," I pleaded. "I was reading my book."

"It matters not," she said. "I have already talked to your father and he agrees that you will be grounded. The only reasons you will be allowed out of your room is for your Royal duties and school."

"Fine," I said and went out to the car and got in the back seat and opened up my favorite book in the world Mythica by Richard Riordan.

The car ride back to the capital was a long one. We had to travel almost eight solid hours. When we arrived my father, King Poseidon, was waiting along with all of our servants. "Perseus go to your room. I will be up to discuss your punishment after I talk to your mother," my father greeted. I ran up the stairs to our Palace and ran to my room that is in the east wing of the Palace.

After about thirty minutes I heard a knocking on my door. "Perce," my dad's voice said. "Can I come in?"

I got off my bed and opened the door to let him in. "Percy, what's wrong?"

"I just don't understand why mom was so mean this morning," I said with tears in my eyes. My mom never raised her voice to me, not even when I would break something. Recently though she had been meaner and more strict. It started happening around my ninth birthday last year. She had only calmed once and that was while we were at our beach house on the coast.

"Your mother is just going through a rough time," dad said. "She wants you to stay in your room as punishment, but I think you should be grounded to the Palace. So, I talked to her and she agrees. You are grounded until school starts. You can't leave the Palace and you can only have friends over for your birthday and that is it. Now, you should get some sleep as I will need your help in the morning."

"Okay dad," I said and walked over to my closet to grab some pajamas.

I woke up the next morning to knocking on my door, "Prince Perseus, you are needed in the throne room for a meeting today," the voice of our butler Argus said. I got up and grabbed some of my Royal clothing and headed to my bathroom for a quick shower and got dressed to head to the throne room.

The walk to the throne room, wait a second I haven't told you about the Palace. The palace is huge it has almost three hundred rooms. The largest is the ballroom, followed by the throne/meeting room. The Palace has four floors above the ground and four basement levels. It also has the central house and two wings the East and the West. My parent's room is in the West wing as is the Throne room and the ball room. My room and most of the servant and guest rooms are in the East Wing. My room's entrance is on the second floor and extends to the top floor. I have everything I would ever want there.

As I was saying, the walk to the throne room was typical, as I passed someone they would bow and I would greet them. Once I arrived at the throne room I noticed a man sitting next to my father. The man was wearing all black and had a son and two daughters sitting next to him.

"Perseus," my father greeted. "Have a seat next to me and order some breakfast and then I will introduce you to them."

I sat down next to my father and on the screen in front of me I ordered some blue pancakes with bacon and some orange juice. After I ordered my food my father spoke again, "Percy, this is King Hades and his children Bianca, Nicolas, and Hazel. Hades is the king of Elysium. I believe Nicolas here is close to turning ten as well." At that last sentence I started to smile.

"Yes, Prince Nicolas will be ten in October," Hades said.

"Perseus, after you eat how about you show Nicolas and his sisters around the Palace and the grounds," my father suggested and I nodded.