"We're almost there, about two more miles." Audrey said.
"Two miles?!" Thea griped. "How far have we walked?"
"About sixty-eight miles." Warren answered gleefully.
"Any further and I won't have feet." I complained.
"How about we take a rest." Nico suggested.
"I second that." I agreed. Audrey rolled her eyes. "If you guys didn't stop every two feet we'd have been there by now.
"Hey, you can float, you don't have to walk." Thea pointed out.
"Neither do you." Audrey replied.
"I could keep walking." Oc- I mean "Warren" informed.
"Well I didn't ask you."
"Let's just keep going." Nico said, eager to avoid more conflict.
"Here we are." Audrey announced.
It was dark, I had a lot of trouble seeing where I was walking. "Ow!" Thea screamed.
"Sorry….." I apologized.
We walked a few feet further until we could see the outline of a building, something was in front of the door.
"It's Audrey. Open the door, I need to get in there." I felt a puff of cold air and the door opened, shedding some light on the creature, it was silver and scaly, then I realized. "Th-thats a Dragon." I stuttered.
"Yes, and she's also my sister, be nice." She handed me a pair of sunglasses, "If you're coming in too you're going to want these." I put them on and we stepped into the room. At once I knew why she had handed me the glasses, the room was bright, ridiculously so. I saw Nyx, she hardly resembled the beautiful woman from my dream, she looked ill, her eyes were red and puffy, her skin was grey.
"What do you want?" She hissed, her voice was dry, cracking over each word.
"We need to get out, and you're the only who can open the gate."
"Why should I help you?"
Audrey paused. "... Because if you help us get out I'll let you free." Nyx stood up sharply. "When do we get started?"
"Right now."
Nyx seemed ready to leave, then she paused. "Wait, how am I supposed to know that you will let me out after I open the gate, for all I know you'll turn on me as soon as it opens?"
"I swear on the river styx that I will set you free AFTER you open the gate." Both me and Nyx were shocked.
"Audrey….. I thought you hated us… To give up your-"
"All I am doing is fulfilling my promise, Feelings have nothing to do with it. And it's not like a can't catch her again, I've done it once already."
The trip to the exit went a lot quicker, because with all the tension everyone wanted to get their faster. When we got there, I was surprised. It looked like a fire escape with a keypad.
"That's it? That's the exit?" Thea asked in disbelief.
"What were you expecting? Golden gates from above?" Audrey retorted.
"We'll, not exactly. But it looks like if you touched that, it'd fall over." Thea mumbled.
"Anyways. Nyx open the door." Nico commanded. Nyx looked like she'd very much like to squash us and throw us into the river Acheron, But she did as she was asked. She walked up to the door and typed in the password. The old door opened more smoothly than I had expected. Behind it was a glowing purple barrier.
"I hereby give Audrey Noir and her companions permission to enter the overworld." The barrier faded, giving way to a well lit tunnel.
"I opened the exit, now release me." Audrey shook her head. "I said once they reach the overworld.." Nyx pouted.
"There, now my side of the deal is finished, I'll take you up the exit and then I'm gone." Audrey said.
"Wait, you aren't going to try to kill us?" Audrey shot me a dark look. "What would that accomplish? Besides, I have to deal with my mother first. But I promise you if I ever see any of you again, I will kill you." And she went back down the stairs."
Warred looked shocked. "She left! But I was still coming up with baby names!" Nico put his hand on Warren's shoulder. "It's okay buddy, you'll find someone else. Now let's go home."
Nico was to tired to shadow travel us back to and I am not strong enough to bring more than one person with me at a time. So we ended up taking an airplane.
When we finally arrived at camp we were shocked to see it burning, black flames flew across the big house.
"What in Hades is going on!" I called to a new camper.
"The girl! She showed up and suddenly everything started burning!" The camper ran off, I wasn't eager to learn who was the cause of this, because I already knew. Nico looked at me and I nodded, we both knew what we needed to do.