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Chapter 11: The Underworld
The group decided to get a cap too LA but more specifically, the Underworlds entrance which is located at DOA Recording Studios. After a few hours of driving, they arrived at their destination which is a building in front of them with gold letters etched in black marble: DOA RECORDING STUDIOS.
Underneath, stenciled on the glass doors were the words: NO SOLICITORS. NO LOITERING. NO LIVING.
"How cheery." the all thought before they walked inside.
It was almost midnight when they arrived and the sun had set hours ago. The lobby was full of people who were both queuing up and who were standing by the walls to the sides looking very miserable. Then again they would be since they were dead.
"Well here we are" Percy said. "You guys ready to whoop some Underworld butt?" he said which no one didn't even responded. While Annabeth and Grover looked a little uneasy but nodded anyway.
"Percy if we die, I'm blaming you for my death," replied Naruto emotionlessly and just went ahead.
"HEY! WAIT FOR US!" as all three yelled at him and rush too him.
And when they caught up too Naruto, they got a good look at the place. It had steel gray carpet and walls. Pencil cactuses grew in the corners like skeleton hands. The furniture was black leather, and every seat was taken. There were people sitting on couches, people standing up, people staring out the windows or waiting for the elevator.
No one spoke and the only sound that could be heard was the lobby music and the sound of their walking.
When they got to the security guard desk, there was a tall elegant looking man with chocolate coloured skin and with bleached blonde hair that was shaved military style. He wore tortoiseshell shades and a silk Italian suit that matched his hair. A black rose was pinned to his lapel under a silver name tag.
"Your name is Chiron" Percy said that immediately caused the others to sigh in annoyance while the man looked at Percy a little annoyed. And with that, Naruto, Annabeth and Grover just agreed mentally that Percy was the most clueless demigod around or the biggest idiot they have ever met.
"Do I look like a centaur to you?" he asked Percy who quickly shook his head. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON."
"Um sorry" Percy said avoiding the mans stare.
"I hate being confused with that old horse." he grumbled.
"We need to go to the underworld." Annabeth said speaking up making Charon roll his eyes.
"Well that's new," he said sarcastically. "I doubt your here for a holiday."
"No but it's either here or Yomi I'm going too when I die unless there is like a super hell or something," Naruto thought.
"Straightforward and honest. No screaming. 'No There must be a mistake, Mr. Charon.' "He looked them over."How did you die, then?"
Percy nudged Grover.
"Oh," he said. "Um ... drowned ... in the bathtub."
"All of you?" he asked skeptically.
"Well they did, but now I was a different story," Naruto said. "I got tortured, than got beat up, than tortured again and I blacked and now, here I am" he said finishing the story.
All four just looked at him in amazement. Even Charon was a little awestruck.
"OK your good."
'Now that's a lie, but did it have too be that dark,' the others thought.
Charon eyed them curiously before sighing. "Do you have payment?" he asked as Percy dug into the back pack and got out a small bag full of golden drachmas.
"Well now it's been a while since I have seen real drachmas" Charon said, while greedily eyeing the bag before he smelled the air around them
"Hey wait a minute. You guys are alive. Get out or get in line." he said about to grab the bag of drachma's before Naruto quickly snatched it away.
"If you get us to the underworld the bag is all your. Along with interest." Percy said getting a nod from Naruto who juggling the bag in his hands.
"Do you think I can be bought, godlings? Eh ... just out of curiosity, how much have you got there?"
"A lot," Percy said. "I bet Hades doesn't pay you well enough for such hard work, we could mention a pay raise while we are talking to Hades."
Charon sighed. "The boat's almost full, anyway. I might as well add you three and be off."
He stood and took the money from Naruto's hand along with some added drachma's Percy handed to him, and said, "Come along."
The group pushed through the crowd of waiting spirits, who started grabbing at our clothes like the wind, their voices whispering things they couldn't make out. Charon shoved them out of the way, grumbling, "Freeloaders."
They all stood inside an elevator as they felt themselves going down.
Then they all felt al little dizzy and before long felt themselves going forward instead of down. They all noticed that Charon's clothes had now changed to long black robes
"I think I'm getting seasick" Grover mumbled s he held his hand in front of his mouth.
They all blinked and then found that the elevator they were in was now a wooden barge and they were sailing in some kind of oily looking river.
"This is the-"
"River Styx." Annabeth said looking over the side.
"It looks so polluted" Percy whispered
Charon looked at them and let a creepy smile from on his face at the others looked at his completed black and lifeless looking eyes.
"Well children here we are, welcome to the Underworld, where you go when you die."
"What about Yomi and Heaven," asked Naruto.
"Only if your Shinto but it's not my taste, Heaven too peaceful and no fun while Yomi is even worse than here, hell Yomi is even worse than Tartarus and I fell sorry for whatever bastard goes to that hellhole," replied Charon with a shiver and the others including Naruto but shiver as hell from that description on Yomi.
Mist curled off the filthy water. Above them, almost lost in the gloom, was a ceiling of stalactites. Ahead, the far shore glimmered with greenish light, the color of poison.
Naruto noticed that Percy's eyes widened in a moment of pure panic and he could tell what the boy was thinking. He, however, smiled when a nervous Annabeth grabbed the water boy's hand and that seemed to calm the two of them down. He looked to Grover and noticed the goat boy was silently freaking out.
Guys I'm going to sleep for a bit, wake me up when we're there," said Naruto and they nodded but with a scared expression on their faces.
~Flashback~
As the team was their to guard Tazuna, the bridge builder. And while he was constructing the bridge a large mist came towards them and knew that Zabuza was coming.
"Shit, Sasuke, Sai, Sakura you guard Tazuna now!" Kakashi yelled.
"What! I am an Uchiha and I should fight along side you and the ANBU there," yelled Sasuke with arrogance.
"Sasuke this is not for debate, now follow orders or you will be suspended as a Shinob."
Sasuke glared at Kakashi but did what he was told.
As it revealed Zabuza and a hunter nin across the bridge.
"Well look what we have here? Kakashi the Copy Ninja and the Kitsune of Konoha, well I'm honored too have the man that killed 3 of my former comrades," Zabuaza said with excitement.
"Kitsune I'll handle the Zabuza while you handle the hunter nin," said Kakashi and Naruto nodded.
They rushed too their battles, Kakashi versing Zabuza while Naruto fight the hunter nin.
They clashed and dodge which of their opponent attack and the hunter nin took some steps back. And performed a one hand sign shocking both Naruto and Kakashi.
'Hand sign with a single hand, I never seen that before,' both Naruto and Kakashi thought.
"Hyoton(Ice Release): Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals"
As multiple Ice Mirrors began to surround Naruto and the Hunter Nin in shocking Naruto even more.
'An Hyoton user, I thought Yagura could rid off them all, one must have survived' thought Naruto as the Hunter nin was moving from mirrors to mirrors in an incredible speed and when he was behind Naruto and ready to strike him, Naruto quickly turned around and punched in the face hard, destroying his mask and to reveal that it wasn't a he but a she and that she was Haku!
"Haku..."
~Flashback Ended
As Naruto suddenly woke up and saw that they arrived destination. As Naruto handed the bag to Charon and he bid them farewell and Naruto decided to lead the way.
They followed him. They were expecting—Pearly Gates, or a big black portcullis, or something. But the entrance to the Underworld looked like a cross between airport security and the Jersey Turnpike. There were three separate entrances under one huge black archway that said YOU ARE NOW ENTERING EREBUS. Each entrance had a pass-through metal detector with security
Cameras mounted on top. Beyond this were toll booths manned by black-robed ghouls like Charon.
The howling of the hungry animal was really loud now, but they couldn't see where it was coming from. The three-headed dog, Cerberus, who was supposed to guard Hades's door, was nowhere to be seen. The dead queued up in the three lines, two marked ATTENDANT ON DUTY, and one marked EZ DEATH. The EZ DEATH line was moving right along. The other two were crawling.
"The fast line is straight to the Asphodel Fields," Naruto said to them. "No contest. They don't want to risk judgment from the court, because it might go against them."
Percy asked, "There's a court for dead people?"
"Yeah. Three judges. They switch around who sits on the bench. King Minos, Thomas Jefferson, and Shakespeare—people like that. Sometimes they look at a life and decide that person needs a special reward—the Fields of Elysium. Sometimes they decide on punishment. But most people, well, they just lived. Nothing special, good or bad. So they go to the Asphodel Fields," Annabeth answered his question.
"And do what?"
Grover said, "Imagine standing in a wheat field in Kansas. Forever."
"Harsh," Percy said.
"Not as harsh as that," Grover muttered. "Look."
A couple of black-robbed ghouls had pulled aside one spirit and were frisking him at the security desk. The face of the dead man looked vaguely familiar.
"He's that preacher who made the news, remember?" Grover asked.
"Oh, yeah." Percy had remembered now.
C'mon lets go, as they walked forward and were about to go even further, their path was blocked by Cerberus the guard of the Underworld and Naruto was about to take it down until Annabeth got a ball how somewhere and tempted Cerberus with it and it looked like it was gonna obey Annabeth like pet owner and got Annabeth to get control of him and let Cerberus play with the play, while it is distracted, the 4 them head on.
'Who knew Annabeth had that in her.' thought Naruto and who seemed to be impressed.
They pushed through the metal detector and raced into the Underworld and saw the Fields of Asphodel where it has black grass had been trampled by eons of dead feet. A warm, moist wind blew like the breath of a swamp. Black trees—Grover told them they were poplars—grew in clumps here and there.
The cavern ceiling was so high above them it might have been a bank of storm clouds, except for the stalactites, which glowed faint gray and looked wickedly pointed. Percy tried not to imagine they'd fall on them at any moment, but dotted around the fields were several that had fallen and impaled themselves in the black grass.
Annabeth, Grover, Naruto and Percy tried to blend into the crowd. Percy couldn't help looking for familiar faces among the spirits of Asphodel, but the dead are hard to look at. Their face shimmer. They all looked slightly angry or confused. They will come up to you and speak, but their voices sound like chatter, like bats twittering. Once they realize you can't understand them, they frown and move away. The dead aren't scary. They're just sad.
They crept along, after the line of new arrivals that snaked from the main gates toward a black-tented pavilion with a banner that read:
JUDGMENTS FOR ELYSIUM AND ETERNAL DAMNATION
Welcome, Newly Deceased!
Out the back of the tent came two smaller lines.
To the left, spirits flanked by security ghouls were marched down a rocky path toward the Fields of Punishment, which glowed and smoked in the distance, a vast, cracked wasteland with rivers of lava and minefields and miles of barbed wire separating the different torture areas. Even from far away, they could see people being chased by hell-hound, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. They could just make out a tiny hill, with the ant-size figure of Sisyphus struggling to move his boulder to the top. And they saw worse tortures, too—things they don't want to describe.
The line coming from the right side of the judgment pavilion was much better. This one led down to a small valley surrounded by walls—a gated community, which seemed to be the only happy part of the Underworld. Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions. Silver and gold flowers bloomed on the lawns. The grass rippled in rainbow colors. They could hear laughter and smell barbecue cooking. Elysium. In the middle of that valley was a glittering blue lake, with three small islands like a vacation resort in the Bahamas. The Isles of the Blest, for people who had chosen to be reborn three times, and three times achieved Elysium.
Annabeth said, "That's the place for heroes."
Percy thought of how few people there were in Elysium, how tiny it was compared to the Fields of Asphodel or even the Fields of Punishment. So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.
They left the judgment pavilion and moved deeper into the Asphodel Fields. It got darker. The colors faded from their clothes. The crowds of chattering spirits began to thin.
After a few miles of walking, they began to hear a familiar screech in the distance. Looming on the horizon was a palace of glittering black obsidian. Above the parapets swirled three dark bats like creatures: the Furies.
"They are waiting for us," Annabeth said.
"I will handle them," Naruto said. "I went easy last time and I try to rip them to shed this time"
"Maybe we should search some of the other places first," Grover suggested. "Like, Elysium, for instance ..."
"Come on, goat boy." Annabeth grabbed his arm.
Grover yelped. His sneakers sprouted wings and his legs shot forward, pulling him away from Annabeth. He landed flat on his back in the grass.
"Grover," Annabeth chided. "Stop messing around."
"And what I told you don't do anything stupid," Naruto said.
"But I didn't—" He yelped again. His shoes were flapping like crazy now. They levitated off the ground and started dragging him away from them. "Maia!" He yelled, but the magic word seemed to have no effect."Maia, already! Nine-one-one! Help!"
Percy got over being stunned and made a grab for Grover's hand, but too late. He was picking up speed, skidding downhill like a bobsled. He and Annabeth ran after him.
Annabeth shouted, "Untie the shoes!"
Grover tried to sit up, but he couldn't get close to the laces. They kept after him, trying to keep him in sight as he ripped between the legs of spirits who chattered at him in annoyance.
'Idiot,' Naruto thought, who was watching the whole scene. First he thought Grover was going to barrel straight through the gates of Hades's palace, but his shoes veered sharply to the right and dragged him in the opposite direction. He saw Annabeth, Percy and Grover entered some kind of a side tunnel. He sensed negative emotions coming out of the tunnel. 'What the hell was wrong with those shoe," thought Naruto deeply.
Grover was sliding straight toward the edge.
"Come on, Percy!" Annabeth yelled, tugging at his wrist.
Percy said, "But that's—"
"I know!" She shouted. "The place you described in your dream! But Grover's going to fall if we don't catch him." She was right, of course. Grover's predicament got him moving again.
He was yelling, clawing at the ground, but the winged shoes kept dragging him toward the pit, and it didn't look like they could possibly get to him in time.
The goat boy was ten feet away from the giant hole in the ground, when Naruto suddenly appeared and caught the boy's arms. He pulled Grover back over the slope and away from the hole. The winged shoes tried to pull Grover back in the hole, but Naruto's grip was too strong for them. Annabeth and Percy came toward them.
"Thank god. You are safe, Grover," Annabeth panted.
Naruto said, "Untie his shoes."
After removing Grover's shoes Naruto threw them in the hole.
Grover was scratched up pretty bad. His hands were bleeding. His eyes had gone slit-pupiled, goat style, the way they did whenever he was terrified. "I don't know how ..." He panted. "I didn't..."
"Wait! Listen." Percy said, getting back up, even though his legs felt like lead and his backpack felt like someone had put a bunch of rocks in it. The boy heard something—a deep whisper in the darkness. Naruto narrowed his eyes as he began to hear it as well.
"We have to get out of here," Naruto said. "That's the entrance to Tartarus."
Percy shouted, "W-what!"
The sound was getting louder, a muttering, evil voice from far, far below us. Coming from the pit. Grover sat up. "Wh—what's that noise?"
Annabeth heard it too, now. They could see it as her eyes widened.
"Lets get going, better not stay here," Naruto said and headed back to the top of the tunnel, where the cavern widened out into the Fields of Asphodel.
As the wail of outrage echoed from deep in the tunnel and was not happy they had gotten away.
"What was that?" Grover asked. "One of Hades's pets?"
"No, let's keep going. Grover can you still walk?" asked Naruto
Grover swallowed. "Yeah, sure. I never liked those shoes, anyway."
He tried to sound brave about it, but he was trembling as badly as Annabeth and Percy were.
Naruto looked back at the tunnel and then they headed toward the palace of Hades.
They walked up the steps of the palace, between black columns, through a black marble portico, and into the house of Hades. The entry hall had a polished bronze floor, which seemed to boil in the reflected torchlight. There was no ceiling, just the cavern roof, far above. Every side doorway was guarded by a skeleton in military gear. Some wore Greek armor, some British redcoats uniforms, some camouflage with tattered American flags on the shoulders. They carried spears or muskets or M-16s. None of them bothered us, but their hollow eye sockets followed us as we walked down the hall, toward the big set of doors at the opposite end.
Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at them, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesmen."
Naruto noticed Percy's discomfort. "Are you alright Percy? Is something bothering you?"
"Nothing." Percy lied to him. He wanted to see what had made his backpack feel like someone had put a bowling ball in it, but now was not the time.
'Why is something with high energy signature is in that bag, find out later?' Naruto though and he narrowed his eyes at Percy's backpack.
"Well, guys," Percy said. "I suppose we should ... knock?"
A hot wind blew down the corridor, and the doors swung open. The guards stepped aside.
"Well let's meet meet the God of the Underworld shall we," Naruto said and they all nodded preparing to meet Hades.
~Hades Throne Room~
As they enter the room they saw the room inside looked just like in his dream, except this time the throne of Hades was occupied. He was the third god he had met, but the first who really struck him as godlike. He was at least ten feet tall, for one thing, and dressed in black silk robes and a crown of braided gold. His skin was albino white, his hair shoulder-length and jet black. He wasn't bulked up like Ares, but he radiated power. He lounged on his throne of fused human bones, looking lithe, graceful, and dangerous as a panther. He had the same kind of mesmerizing, evil charisma.
Percy immediately felt like Hades should be giving the orders. He should be his master. 'Snap out of it,' He thought. Hades' aura was affecting him, just as Ares's had.
Hades looked at Naruto with soft expression and kindness. "Welcome to the Underworld, Naruto." He said in a slightly happy voice. Then he looked at the others and narrowed his eyes at Percy.
"Not that I'm being disrespectful but why are you happy too see me?" Naruto asked.
"I'm happy to see you because I wanted too meet you a long time ago and since me and Minato were really close friends," Hades said.
"Wait you knew my dad?" asked Naruto and it surprised the other three in the room.
"Yes he and I were close friends and he didn't judge me or discriminated me, he respected me and I respected him, I was sad that his soul was sealed within the Shinigami but he did as honorable men and I consider him one of the greatest heroes. No greatest man there was, and I have seen your life and no child deserve that, even you," said Hades.
"Thank-you Lord Hades for telling that," replied Naruto.
"Naruto just call me uncle Hades, me and your father were like brothers than blood than my two other brothers were," said Hades with a smile and Naruto nodded.
He than looked at Percy with a different expression on his face. "You are brave to come here, Son of Poseidon," he said in an oily voice. "After what you have done to me, very brave indeed. Or perhaps you are simply very foolish."
"Lord and Uncle," Percy said. He was clearly affected by Hades' aura. "I come with two requests."
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment, as if the garment were stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of Percy wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way.
"Only two requests?" Hades said. "Arrogant child. As if you have not already taken enough. Speak, then. It amuses me not to strike you dead yet."
Percy swallowed. This was going about as well as he had feared. He glanced at the empty, smaller throne next to Hades'. It was shaped like a black flower, gilded with gold.
'I wished Queen Persephone was here,' Percy thought.
He recalled something in the myths about how she could calm her husband's moods. But it was summer. Of course, Persephone would be above in the world of light with her mother, the goddess of agriculture, Demeter. Her visits, not the tilt of the planet, create the seasons.
Annabeth cleared her throat. Her finger prodded him in the back.
"Lord Hades," Percy said. "Look, sir, there can't be a war among the gods. It would be ... bad."
"Really bad," Grover added helpfully.
"Return Zeus' master-bolt to me," Percy said. "Please, sir. Let me carry it to Olympus."
Naruto sweat dropped their choice of words. 'They really don't know how to negotiate and even talk. Even genin can do better than that' He looked at his uncle's face.''Well their boned.'
Hades' eyes grew dangerously bright. "You dare keep up this pretense, after what you have done?"
Percy glanced back at Annabeth and Grover. They looked as confused as he was.
"Um ... Uncle," Percy said. "You keep saying 'after what you've done.' What exactly have I done?"
The throne room shook with a tremor so strong, they probably felt it upstairs in Los Angeles. Debris fell from the cavern ceiling. Doors burst open all along the walls, and skeletal warriors marched in, hundreds of them, from every time period and nation in Western civilization. They lined the perimeter of the room, blocking the exits.
Hades bellowed, "Do you think I want war, godling?"
Percy wanted to say, Well, these guys don't look like peace activists. But he thought that might be a dangerous answer.
"You are the Lord of the Dead," Percy said carefully. "A war would expand your kingdom, right?"
"A typical thing for my brothers to say! Do you think I need more subjects? Did you not see the sprawl of the Asphodel Fields?"
"Well..."
"Have you any idea how much my kingdom has swollen in this past century alone, how many Subdivisions I've had to open?"
Percy opened my mouth to respond, but Hades was on a roll now.
"More security ghouls," he moaned. "Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion. Double overtime for the staff. I used to be a rich god, Percy Jackson. I control all the precious metals under the earth. But my expenses!"
"Charon wants a pay raise," Percy blurted, just remembering the fact.
'Idiot,' Naruto thought as he slapped his hand on his face.
"Don't get me started on Charon!" Hades yelled. "He's been impossible ever since he discovered Italian suits! Problems everywhere and I've got to handle all of them personally. The commute time alone from the palace to the gates is enough to drive me insane! And the dead just keep arriving. No, godling. I need no help getting subjects! I did not ask for this war."
"But you took the Zeus' master bolt."
"Lies!" More rumbling. Hades rose from his throne, towering to the height of a football goalpost. "Your father may fool Zeus, boy, but I am not so stupid. I see his plan."
"What is stolen from you?" Naruto asked suddenly.
Hades looked at his nephew and said, "My helm... My helm of darkness."
"You think he stole it uncle?" Naruto said.
"I'm absolutely sure about it," Hades said.
Percy said, "But—"
"Shut up! You were the thief on the winter solstice," he said. "Your father thought to keep you his little secret. He directed you into the throne room on Olympus; you took the master-bolt and my helm. Had I not sent my Fury to discover you at Yancy Academy, Poseidon might have succeeded in hiding his scheme to start a war. But now you have been forced into the open. You will be exposed as Poseidon's thief, and I will have my helm back!"
"But ..." Annabeth spoke. Percy could tell her mind was going a million miles an hour. "Lord Hades..."
"Do not play innocent with me, girl. You and the satyr have been helping this hero—coming here to threaten me in Poseidon's name, no doubt—to bring me an ultimatum. Does Poseidon think I can be blackmailed into supporting him?" Hades looked at Naruto. "And you came here with my son so you could get here!"
"No!" Percy said. "Poseidon didn't—I didn't—"
"I have said nothing of the helm's disappearance," Hades snarled, "because I had no illusions that anyone on Olympus would offer me the slightest justice, the slightest help. I can ill afford for word to get out that my most powerful weapon of fear is missing. So I searched for you myself, and when it was clear you were coming to me to deliver your threat, I did not try to stop you."
"You didn't try to stop us? But—"
"Return my helm now, or I will stop death," Hades threatened. "That is my counter proposal. I will open the earth and have the dead pour back into the world. I will make your lands a nightmare. And you, Percy Jackson—your skeleton will lead my army out of Hades."
The skeletal soldiers all took one step forward, making their weapons ready.
Now, Percy was angry because he was being accused of something he hadn't done. He had a lot of experience with that.
"You're as bad as Zeus," Percy said. "You think I stole from you? That's why you sent the Furies after me?"
"Of course," Hades said.
"And the other monsters?"
Hades curled his lip. "I had nothing to do with them. I wanted no quick death for you—I wanted you brought before me alive so you might face every torture in the Fields of Punishment. Why do you think I let you enter my kingdom so easily?"
"Easily?"
"Yes easily, did you think a bunch of weak demigods can enter here safely and the only one would've off made was Naruto there" Hades pointed at Naruto "Now return my property!"
"But I don't have your helm. I came for the master bolt."
"Which you already possess!" Hades shouted. "You came here with it, little fool, thinking you could you threaten me!"
"But I didn't!"
"Open your pack, then."
A horrible feeling struck Percy. He slung backpack off his shoulder and unzipped it. Inside was a two-foot-long metal cylinder, spiked on both ends, humming with energy.
'Master-bolt... So that was the strange energy I sensed earilier.' Naruto thought. 'Someone must be trying to frame us.'
"Percy," Annabeth said. "How—"
"I—I don't know. I don't understand."
"You heroes are always the same," Hades said. "Your pride makes you foolish, thinking you could bring such a weapon before me. I did not ask for Zeus's master bolt, but since it is here, you will yield it to me. I am sure it will make an excellent bargaining tool."
Percy was speechless. He had no idea how the master-bolt had gotten into his backpack. He wanted to think Hades was pulling some kind of trick.
"I don't think it is a good idea," Naruto spoke suddenly in between them.
Hades asked, "What do you mean?"
"If you killed him, your brother, Poseidon will not be happy about," Naruto said. Hades scoffed at this. "Also someone is framing him. This is not his backpack. This is—"
"Lord Hades, wait," Percy yelled suddenly. "This is all a mistake."
'What the fuck Percy, I had this under control!' thought Naruto.
Hades forgot his son's words. "A mistake?" He roared angrily
The skeletons aimed their weapons at Percy, Annabeth and Grover. From high above, there was a fluttering of leathery wings, and the three Furies swooped down to perch on the back of their master's throne. The one with Mrs. Dodds's face grinned at Percy eagerly and flicked her whip.
"Damn, who knew Furries can regenerate last," Naruto said which got all three Furries glaring at him.
"We still have a bone pick with you Uzumaki, we will not kill you but we try and beat you in a fight," said Alecto.
"Anytime, anywhere," Naruto simply replied.
"Enough you two, now it's not the time," Hades said getting in between Alecto and Naruto. " Fight on your time."
"Fine but I want a round 2, me and you only," Alecto said pointing her finger at Naruto.
"Like I said, anytime anywhere."
"Anyway, Jackson there is no mistake," Hades said. "I know why you have come—I know the real reason you brought the bolt. You came to bargain for her."
Hades loosed a ball of gold fire from his palm. It exploded on the steps in front of him. Percy saw his mother, frozen in a shower of gold, just as she was at the moment when the Minotaur began to squeeze her to death. He reached out to touch her, but the light was as hot as a bonfire.
"Yes," Hades said with satisfaction. "I took her. I knew, Percy Jackson that you would come to bargain with me eventually. Return my helm, and perhaps I will let her go. She is not dead, you know. Not yet. But if you displease me, that will change."
He thought about the pearls in his pocket. 'Maybe they could get me out of this. If I could just get my mom free ...'
"Ah, the pearls," Hades said, and Percy's blood froze. "Yes, my brother and his little tricks. Bring them forth, Percy Jackson."
Percy's hand moved against his will and brought out the pearls.
"Only three," Hades said. "What a shame. You do realize each only protects a single person. I know for a fact Minato's son doesn't need them. Try to take your mother, then, little godling. And which of your friends will you leave behind to spend eternity with me? Go on. Choose. Or give me the backpack and accept my terms."
Percy looked at Annabeth and Grover. Their faces were grim. Then he looked at Naruto, who was standing beside Hades, who displayed no emotion.
"We were tricked," Percy told them. "Set up."
"Yes, but why?" Annabeth asked.
"I don't know," Percy said.
"Decide, boy!" Hades yelled.
"Wait Uncle, let me explain," Naruto got in between Percy and Hades before anything could happen.
"Naruto what are you doin..." But Naruto decided to interrupted Percy.
"Shut up Percy! You don't get to talk right now! I can understand why your angry but now it's not the fucken time!" Naruto yelled at Percy. "But right now I'm handling this and I will not let that fucken mouth of yours get millions of innocent life's killed because your selfishness of wanting mother back, so shut up and let me handle this!" Naruto yelled at Percy and it would be the first time expressing anger or an outburst for the first time.
Percy was shocked at what Naruto just said and just stayed quiet and decided too remain quiet. Hades had an impressive look on his face at what his nephew did and was kind of glad that he is beginning too show emotion but now wants to hear what Naruto has too say.
"That didn't belong to us, it was given to us by Ares," Naruto said shocking Hades.
"Not that I believe you Naruto but can prove this too me," Hades asked.
"I swear on the River of Styx that I was telling the truth," Naruto swore and could hear a bang from the direction where the river was and nothing happened too Naruto.
"Hmmm very well I'll let you leave but in two condition," Hades said.
"And what are they Uncle?" Naruto asked.
"One you will have to retrieve my Helm of Darkness from Ares and if you do that than I'll let Sally Jackson go," Hades said surprising Percy.
"And the second condition?"
"If you were too fight Ares, you Naruto cannot interfere in the fight," Hades responded shocking the room.
"Can I ask why?"
"It's because the sea spawn has angered me and if you were involved, I know this would be too easy for them as well since I know for a fact that your as powerful as us Olympians so those are the conditions for you too leave, do you accept these terms?"
Naruto just looked around too see any alternative but there was none and he just sigh.
"Uncle I accept too these terms and I'll prove by swearing to the Styx again," Naruto said and than another boom was heard.
"Very well than you may leave," Hades said gesture too all his minions to stand down.
"C'mon let's go," Naruto said and the others walked out with him but Hades stopped him.
"Wait Naruto, can you stay for a moment," asked Hades.
"Sure, you guys wait for me outside," Naruto said to them and they nodded and headed out of the throne him.
"I want you to give you this," Hades took out a small glass container with a colourful golden liquid in it. "This elixir will allow you too bring someone back too life either they are a soul or recently died, consider this a gift from me and for owing to Minato."
"Thanks Uncle."
"Your welcome and I hope you court my daughter," Hades said with a smile.
"Your daughter?" Naruto asked.
"Yes you met her in the Lotus Hotel, her name was Bianca di Angleo since I would only trust you with her," Hades answered which surprised Naruto.
'So that's why Bianca and Nico were powerful, they were the chirlden of Hades,' Naruto thought deeply but blushed on what his Uncle meant and before he could reply Hades than said.
"You should get going Naruto, your friends are waiting," Hades said and Naruto nodded and headed towards his friends.
As Hades was looking at the leaving form of Naruto, he couldn't help but smile.
'You son is like you Minato and if you see him now, you would have been proud off him,' Hades thought.
End of Chapter 11
Omake: The Olympians opinion on The God of War Series
What is your opinion of the game series?
Zeus: Horrible Game! How dare those mortals create such a game!
Poseidon: I don't want to talk about it!
Hades: Never mention that game too me again. But those claws of Hades weapons are fantastic and I want one but besides that, its awful.
Hera: Disgracefully!
Demeter: Don't really care
Hestia: Too violent, too much swearing and too much nudity in my opinion.
Ares: I HATE THAT GAME! ESPECIALLY AFTER THE FIRST GAME!
Athena: It was a fantastic piece work of a game series but I do not like them killing every single one of us!
Apollo: It was an awesome game, even if most of us died.
Artemis: I think the main character should have been a maiden
Hephaestus: Please move on, I don't want to talk about it.
Aphrodite: I love it! The drama, the nudity and the sex scene. Love it!
Hermes: It's a good game just wish they didn't kill me.
Dinoyus: Don't really care.
What did you thought about your appearance's in the game?
Zeus: It's just me with a white hair and beard
Poseidon: I don't have glowing blue tattoos on me, they made me look like some male stripper!
Hades: It doesn't even come close too me, what the hell I wasn't tortured and had spikes come out off me and I'm not even fat!
Hera: They made me look too much like a drunken bitch!
Ares: They made me look like Ganondolf! WTF I don't have a fire beard or hair!
Athena: They made me look OK, but really a ghost form in the third game? Really?
Apollo: I got two appearance's in the game. The multiplayer one looks awesome but the one off my statue made me look like some crack old man, I'm too handsome too look like that! C'mon I should have been a boss instead of helios and I should have his look!
Artemis: They made me look me a hybrid between an old women and a plant.
Hephaestus: That is like the lost interpretation on me, especially the third game!
Aphrodite: Mine was hot so I got nothing too complain about.
Hermes: I looked like a rejected human torch!
What did you thought about your deaths in the game?
Zeus: Like any mortal can kill me that and yes my death would mean the end of the world. (No it doesn't since Chaos, Izanagi and Izamani are still around including the Shinto big 3)
Poseidon: They made me the first boss in the third game, what the hell I'm one off the big 3, I deserve a higher tier than this and my death, WTF I was a push over and a coward in the game but I don't think the sea will react like that too my death since Susanoo can still keep it under control.
Hades: WTF, you can't kill me that, hell I can't physical die like that since only the Shinto's, Primordials and SSS-Shinobi can only kill me. And yes all the souls of the underworld would be releashed but really, the second boss? I the God of the mother fucken Underworld, I deserve better.
Hera: Like I would die like that.
Ares: They made me look like a pussy in the end.
Athena: I would never sacrifice myself like that.
Hephaestus: No, just no
Hermes: WTF, I don't die from someone cutting my legs off! WTF! And what the hell with me turning too bats when I die!
End of Omake