"I can't believe you talked me into this." Thea complained as we stepped out in front of DOA recording studios

"I didn't talk you into anything, you volunteered." I pushed open the door and stepped into the waiting room, I walked straight to Charon at the desk.

"Hell-oh, it's you."

"I need to get into the underworld Charon, now." I demanded.

"One drachma please." He grinned.

"Do I need to bring Hades into the picture?"

"Touchy, touchy. I've got a little room left, you might be squished, but that's not my problem." We walked to an already over packed elevator and began our descent into the underworld.

We stepped off the ferry onto the black ground of Hades.

"Welcome to hell." I said dramatically as we made our way to the security gate, then Cerberus stepped in our way.

"Hey boy!" I scratched his foot. He stuck his tongue out and rolled onto his back.

"Sorry baby, I've got to get going."

We arrived at the gate and walked through the express lane, the skeletons who were currently running the line let us through without much trouble, (But they took forever figuring out who I was and why I wasn't dead.) then we had no more interruptions until we got to the entrance of Tartarus. The hole seemed a little eviler than when I last saw it.

"You ready?" I asked, Thea nodded and slid off her jacket, revealing her wings.

"Let's go." She grabbed my arms and we plunged into the darkness, then we started flying.

Finding Audrey was easy, all we had to do was go to the deepest, darkest part of Tartarus and there she was, but the weird thing was, someone else had found her first.

"Oh the sad lonely son of Hades, so desperate for a friend that he pours out all of his fears and darkness into a little girl, then lets her fall in love with him while he is busy, paying attention to a boy who he knew could never love him back. You're pathetic." She spat. "All the years she spent with you and you count them all for not and run off at the first chance you get and forget about her. Well this little girl grew up. I'm not the stupid, naive little girl you thought you knew."

"Please Audrey." A familiar voice sobbed.

"Nico?" I thought.

"Don't you 'please Audrey' me, you lost all right to speak to me when you left me here alone with my mother."

"I thought you wer-"

"Shut up!" I heard a painful slap and I had had enough.

"Hey Audrey!" I shouted, she turned around, viciously angry. I saw Nico, he was bruised and bloody, and his eyes were red from crying, but he was alive. "Eat my foot!" Thea dropped me and I kicked Audrey in the face.

"You want to fight? Fine." She growled. An arsenal of dark creatures appeared at her feet and ran at me, just as they reached me I lifted the rock out of under them and sent them flying. Audrey pulled out a long black scythe and swung it at me. I winked at Nico and he moved his bound hands right where Audrey's scythe would stop and she freed him, allowing him to fight as well. Thea landed and drew her sword.

"Give it up Audrey, You're out numbered." Nico pointed out.

Audrey laughed, "You think you've beaten me? Why, I haven't even started." She swung her arms above her and everything went black.

"Let's play hide-and-seek, ready? I win." I felt a sharp tug on my ponytail.

"Ooops, sorry." I Heard a scream and then the darkness lifted.

"Let's see how well you do against your sister." I turned around to find Audrey, only to see her voice was coming from Thea, who was rushing at me, she swung at me but I easily disarmed her. "Been practicing have you?" Audrey/Thea said, my own sword was kicked out of my hands.

"Let's see how good you've gotten." She grabbed my wrists and flipped me over, slamming me into the ground. Nico ran over while I was lying on the ground in a daze, I blacked out for a moment and when I awoke and Nico was about three seconds from being beheaded and I noticed something, Thea's eyes were two different colors, one was green and one was deep violet. I picked myself up and ran at her, poking her in the eye. I could see her body separating from Thea's, it made me dizzy. Audrey just stood where she was for a moment, confused when Thea smacked her in the head with her hilt.

"Don't you dare EVER mess with my head again!"

Me and Nico quickly constructed a prison cell out of stone and locked Audrey in it.

"Hopefully she's still awful at going full shadow…." Nico sighed.

"But what are we going to do with her?"

"We could start with apologizing." I replied.

"Why would we apologize? We weren't the ones who attacked her?" Thea questioned.

"I forgot her," Nico said sadly. "And left her here to rot." I nodded.

"She wasn't mad at me or at anyone else," I affirmed "She was mad that the boy she cared so much about, because he didn't come and rescue her like a knight in shining armour."

Audrey sat up sharply.

"Audrey, I'm sorry…. I thought you were dead, I saw your body.." She glared at Nico.

"Did you ever bother to think? You could've easily checked up with your dad and found out that I wasn't dead, that was all you had to do….. You brought this on yourself."

Nico stood up. "Look around Audrey, hasn't this gone on long enough? Why are you taking this out on everyone else? Chiron treated you like a daughter, everyone else saw you as a sister and you betrayed them."

Audrey slammed into the side of her cage. " Don't you dare talk to me about betrayal Nico di Angelo, don't you dare." Tears began to glisten in her eyes. "You know how I became this despicable monster? I met you. You turned me into this."

"You did this to yourself." Nico spat.

"Ookay," I interrupted before they could say anything worse. "So how are we going to get out of here?" Audrey grinned.

"I know how to get out of here, but that doesn't mean I'm going to tell you how."

"What do you mean?" Thea exclaimed. "The only way out of her is through the doors of death, and those are impossible to find!"

"How do you think that Nyx escapes everyday to bring darkness?"

"Not a clue, care to shed some light?" I questioned.

"First of all, that was a terrible joke, and second of all, do you really think me that stupid?"

"I knew it was a long-shot."

"But," Audrey continued, "I may help you, if you let me out." Audrey had the advantage, but spending so much time with the Hermes kids, I had one trick up my sleeve.

"You have to swear on the River Styx that you won't attack us our run away until we've made it out of Tartarus."

"I swear it on the the River Styx."

I opened the door.

"Sooo, how do we get out?" Thea asked.

"It can only be opened by Nyx herself."

"Where is Nyx then?" Nico questioned.

"What makes you think I know?" When she realized we weren't going to buy that, she sighed. "Follow me, I had Hemera help me build a prison made of extremely bright light, it weakens Nyx."

"Where is it?" I inquired.

"In the center of the pit, about three days from here, we should better get going"

"It's good to have you back." I said.

"This isn't going to change anything, when this is over I intend on killing you and the rest of my so called friends."

"Love you too." I said sarcastically.

We walked for a few hours without stopping, but eventually we had to eat.

"You packed food? I wish I had thought about that before." I grimaced.

"Don't worry, I paked enough for everyone."
"Well, if you'll excuse me I'm going to scout ahead." Audrey stood up and walked off.

"How long do you think we can trust her?" Thea asked.

"We can't… Not after what she's done." Nico said.

"She can't attack us until we get back upstairs." I pointed out.

"So? She could be planning an attack on us right now with monsters."

"Do you really have that little faith? If anyone can change Audrey's mind it's us."

"BACK OFF CREEP!" Audrey shouted as she ran back to us.

"Oh my gods, What do the fates have against me, WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS!" Then I saw what she was screaming about, I saw the most disgusting, evil creature in existance.

"Octavian?" I called out.

"Who's Octavian?" He asked.

"You are." Nico stated.

"No i'm not, i'm Warren."

"Warren?" I repeated.

"That's my name.

"Ummm, how did you get here?" Thea questioned.

"I-" He paused. "How did I get here…. heh, that's weird, I don't really remember."

"It doesn't matter anyways." Audrey spoke up. "Just go away."

Octavian, or Warren, Smiled and it seemed almost… innocent.

"But I can't, I'm supposed to be here."

"No you aren't. Go back to the fields of punishment." Nico pointed to the right.

"I can't. He sent me here."

"Who is 'He'?" Thea asked.

"Eros."

"GODS OF OLYMPUS! WHY DO YOU ENJOY THIS SO MUCH?! Why do you have to be so cruel….. SCREW YOU CUPID!"

Nico sighed. "I guess he's not leaving, we'll just have to deal with him for now." Warren squealed like a fangirl who just discovered that her favorite author wrote another series. Audrey growled like her least favorite actor was playing her favorite fictional character.

"You better keep him away from me.