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Percy POV

After the surprise greeting with Beckendorf and Selena, they lead me to an open cabin, right along the sea shore, as I was a Hero of Olympus. I suppose they wanted me to have an excellent view as a result.

However, this was not the sort of view I would call "beautiful". The normal deep blue sea had a sort of unknown beat to it, never knowing what to expect. At one moment, it was calm and welcomed you like an old friend, at other times, it was your worst enemy, swallowing you into the unknown. This place had too much order to it, flowing easily up to the shore without a second thought.

After channeling in the thoughts that I would never feel home in the green fields, blue ocean, and large log cabin, I realized I would only ever feel at home with Annabeth. I may be at paradise, but it would never feel that way to me if my heart wasn't in the right place. And that was with Annabeth. I thought about her as I walked up the three steps onto the front porch and opened the wooden door into a comfy cabin with fire burning at the hearth.

It took me a few moments to take everything in, there was a large grey sofa in the center of the room, facing a grand fireplace with a mantel full of pictures from my life. The first was of me and my mother, her pushing me on a swing at the park, the next was of my father visiting me, a memory I did not remember, on what appeared to be my second birthday, blowing out the candles. After that were some class pictures that were taken, many with Grover covering up my face, so I was barely visible. Then came the ones from when I first was at Camp Half Blood, me sitting in the infirmary with the love of my life, Annabeth. I became a little teary eyed but continued looking at the album of my life. Framed in a green border with anchors, was a picture of when I was claimed by Poseidon, then others from my many quests. The last three felt the most important to me, so I moved them to the center of the mantel, me kissing Annabeth underwater in a bubble I had created, all of us seven smiling happily while Coach Hedge yelled at us with his bat in the air, and finally Grover in a wedding dress from when he was captured with the crazed cyclops.

I couldn't help but laugh, he looked ridiculous, but I would never get to see that little furry goat again, so my smile became a frown. The rest of the cabin wasn't as interesting, a television, kitchen, and room not too far away with a queen sized bed covered in a blue comforter and a dresser in the far corner.

I was beginning to feel slightly tired of wearing my ugly, not to mention, extremely uncomfortable death robes, so I ran to the dresser. I pulled open the middle drawer, which was where I kept my shirts back at home, and, sure enough, I found some of my old clothing. I yanked out a yankees tshirt and then some hawaiian shorts, sadly, they didn't have any that I had previously owned.

The only shoes available were old fashioned Greek sandals, which made me give off a weird baseball fan, surfer dude, and emperor sort of vibe, but I pulled it off. After dressing in my new getup, I went over to the kitchen, gods I was starving, death can do that to you. Unfortunately, I did not know how to cook, so I walked outside onto the bright, freshly cut, green grass and tried to find Beckendorf.

Elysium sure was crowded, despite how difficult it was to get in, but I guess a few thousand years can produce some heros. There were firefighters, police officers, doctors, presidents, my grandmother, athletes, actors. Wait back up a second, my grandmother? I recognized the older lady that had walked by from one of the scrapbooks my mom had made of our family. I have never met her and all I knew was that her and my grandfather died in a plane crash when my mom was just five years old. I didn't know what to think, just that she looked younger, maybe mid 20s.

She was walking at a surprising fast speed, like she was on a mission, I hurried to catch up to her, hoping to meet my grandmother, the one that wasn't Rhea.

"Umm, excuse me, miss?" I gasped

She stopped suddenly and gave me a curious glance, "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

"Well, not exactly. Lets just say that I'm a bit lost and can't cook for the life of me," not sure if that would make me seem like a poor young kid, but it was worth a shot, I needed information.

"Alright, dear, come along then, I'll help you out," she waved me over, beginning to walk once again.

"You don't talk much like a twenty year old," I pointed out, trying to match her pace, she really did talk like she could be my grandmother.

"Sorry, honey, I never really got the chance to be much of a mother, and I worked at a children's hospital back in the day, must be a habit," she said.

We began to walk down a gravel path that lead to, yet another, log cabin, just slightly smaller than mine, and facing the woods. To fill in some conversation, and since I wanted to know if this lady was really my grandmother, I asked, "So what time period are you from anyway?"

"You're a curious one aren't you, well, I lived during the twentieth century, not so much back in the day compared to most of the people around here, some are even from Ancient Greece," she sounded like she was reading something out of a magazine, bizarre.

I did my best to look shocked, but I'm not an actor for a reason, I can't hide a smile for my life. "Yeah, weird," I answered.

"Oh come on, nobody expects to hear that when they enter to Underworld. Most usually take it as quite a shock," she observed.

"How'd ya know I haven't been dead for a thousand years?"

"Oh, honey, it was easy, you said you were lost and hungry, nobody would go around saying that if they knew what was good for them," my possible grandmother replied.

We were getting closer to the house now, and as we got closer, I started to notice a few out of the ordinary things about this cabin. First, it had no windows. Second, it had a large brass door, while mine had a typical wooden one. And, finally, I felt like I could hear something coming from the woods.

The hairs on the back of my neck began to stand up, and I felt a hot breath with spit falling down my spine. Instantly, I reached for Riptide, but my sword was gone, I was dead. Thinking this put a pang in my chest, I had no weapon to fight this monster with, no Hydra, so I quickly covered my mouth to avoid the dangerous venom. My mind was buzzing, and I did my best to think like Annabeth. What do I know about this monster? It can regrow it's heads, I remembered, and what was so dangerous about it? It's venom could kill you. Oh just my luck, I thought, it's spit is trailing down my spine.

"Yes, Percy Jackson, even down in Elysium you are not safe, Gaea is growing stronger as we speak, your little demigod friends have failed Perseus, failed!" my "grandmother" exclaimed with a cringey laugh soon following it.

I spun around, the once beautiful black haired twenty year old had turned into a serpent like creature, and my heart was racing, I had no weapon. But then it hit me like a brick wall, I was dead.

"Well, thank you for the message," I boasted, "but I cannot be touched here, like I once thought you were, Hydra, I am dead."

"Good observation, Perseus" it growled, "but don't you see, that just makes it even more painful, because you can be killed again, and again, and again. You will never be able to return to the mortal world, young hero," it laughed wickedly, "you will forever feel my wrath and the thousands of monsters you have destroyed while you lived on earth. Gaea is almost at her most powerful, and you will be forever punished!"

It then lashed out at me with it's razor sharp scaly tail, and I just barely ducked under it. "Not if I kill you first!" I howeld. Of course I knew that it could just travel back from Tartarus, but I need a boost of confidence.

The beast continued to strike at me, not to mention, also shooting it's poisonous venom in my direction. I looked around, and all I found was a weak little stick the size of a tooth pick, but anything would have to do.

Knowing that if I attempted to decapitate it, the Hydra would just become more powerful, so I aimed for the legs. Ducking for the third time over it's tail and trying to avoid the earsplitting growls, I plunged myself on the ground and began to army crawl towards her ankles.

"You fool Percy Jackson, you are not strong enough to defeat me! Only a man on a suicide mission would try, to avoid a less painful second death."

"Well, my lady," I spat, still crawling in the dirt, "guess I am the fool because I only plan on dying once down here, and I don't want you making your way to the mortal world and messing with my friends."

"Have it your way," she began to open her mouth wide, but there was only one thing that could stop the venom, and it wasn't a toothpick.

I gathered all of my energy, even though I had like none since I hadn't eaten since before Piper, Annabeth, and I left to fight the giants, gods that felt like forever ago. But I unleashed a knot in my gut and channeled the Underworld waters to obey at my will, and they gladly gave in after being so bored for the past thousand years. The water engulfed my Hydra and swept it all the way back to Tartarus. I knew I was not safe for long, but now I had to worry about the world up above that was slowly falling apart, and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

I knelt to the ground and began to cry, my whole body shaking. The last thing I wanted was for all of my friends to die, and us having to spend eternal life in this torture.

However, a bright glow came from the woods at that exact moment and out came a beautiful young girl, wearing a sunny colored yellow top with yoga pants and had chocolate brown wavy hair and brown eyes. She gave off that aura that could brighten up any room she walked into, literally.

"Hello, Percy," she smiled, "I'm Elizabeth, and I've come to take you home."

Gratefully, I took her hand, and the world became white.

Alright, I seriously have to study for finals now, but please review and let me know what y'all think and if you think I should add anything!