Okay, I am like, officially the worst author ever to leave you guys hanging like that for so long, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry! Please forgive me! :)

Percy went with the guard (Who, Percy noticed, was female) to the security department, where, he assumed, he would be questioned like a criminal.

It wasn't until the questioning started that Percy thought that being treated like a criminal wouldn't be so bad. Because when the security guard faced him, hers was a face that knew way too well. It was Kellie, the cheerleader/empousa/grocer-store-sample-lady. "Not you again!" Percy groaned. He got up and drew Riptide out of his pocket, and cut off the cuffs that bound his hands together. "I'd think that you might get tired of trying to get revenge on me, seeing as how I have defeated you, TWICE! Just face it, you can't beat me. Plus, you don't have your sisters with you. Easy fight."

Just then, two equally familiar faces came into the room. "Would you give me a freaking break!?" Percy said. He swore to himself that as soon as he got Annabeth back he would give Hades the royal butt-whooping he deserved.


Annabeth was in a place she had been before, and she hated to be back, especially under the circumstances. Her heart broke as she watched her boyfr- no, fianceƩ cry over her very bloody, limp body. It made her insides twist painfully to see Percy in that much pain. Now she was in the Underworld, in Hades' palace, watching her fianceƩ do an almost impossible quest to get her out of this place, on an eighty inch, high definition, flat screen tv. It hurt her so much to not be able to go comfort him. Help him, even just be there with him. "So this is what it is like to be dead," she thought out loud.

Nico di Angelo, who was sitting beside her, said, with a slightly hopeful voice, "Well, half dead, dad is willing to let you leave the Underworld if Percy completes this quest to get you back. He even thinks that, depending how hard Percy works, he might let him have another day or two. He claims that it's strictly for business purposes, but personally, I think that he just a little bit like his sister, you know, Aphrodite. I think that he just can't stand to see you two get separated when your relationship was going so perfectly."

Annabeth smiled, in slight relief, and in genuine amusement, to think of Hades being even the slightest bit like Aphrodite, it was so ubsurd. She prayed to the gods that Percy could defeat Kellie and her sisters so he could continue on his quest.


Woah, I was not expecting that last part, and I'm freaking WRITING this thing! Oops, before I forget. Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or any other characters or stories mentioned. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! PLEASE!? Thank you guys again for being so patient with me, I love you all! *Blows internet kisses*