Chapter 2

"My lady," the demigod knelt, his head nervously bowed. "Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson, they left. With a stranger in a police box."
The shadowy figure didn't turn, but Andrew could feel the anger radiating off of her in waves. "Did you follow them?"
He gulped. "N-no, my lady. The police box just disappeared into thin air."
"Magic?"
"W-w-we had a daughter of Hecate with us, and she detected no traces of magic," Andrew stuttered. "But-"
"YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL!" She roared. "I GAVE YOU ONE TASK! KEEP AN EYE ON THE HALF-BLOODS. BUT YOU LOST THEM!"
"My lady, I'm sorry!" Andrew shuffled back. "We'll find them. This is just a minor set back."
The ground trembled as the lady fumed. "I WILL SEND YOU TO THE DEPTHS OF TAR-"
"Now, dearest," a silky voice interupted. "Don't kill the half-blood just yet. We still have need of him."
"But, husband. He has failed us yet again. He deserves punishment."
A taller, more infinitely evil, presence had entered the dark room, and Andrew cowered in fear.
"Don't fear, demigod, I won't hurt you," he said. "Leave us, we have visitors."
"Y-yes, m-my lord. My lady," Andrew bowed and scurried out of the room.
Once out of the dark mansion, he relaxed wiping his brow. It was bright and sunny, lazy white clouds floated around the sky. The scene was too cheerful for the horrors he had narrowly escaped. Untold horrors lurked in Tarturus, and a demigod would be fresh meat.
"Andrew," a young gorgon stepped from behind a tree. "Have you seen them?"
"Seen what?" he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Our masters visitors," Klaniss inspected a manicured claw. "They're strange, I've seen nothing like them. They're like big pepper shakers and they have big knobs around their shell. A- Look! There's one now."
Klaniss' description was apt, a red and gold pepper shaker rolled towards the mansion. A long stalk protruded outwards and beneath deep bands were too more, they must have been weapons of some sort. Above the stalk on the head of the thing were to ears out to the side at an angle.
"What are they?" Andrew stared at the thing.
As if it had heard him, the thing stopped, it's stalk thing swiveled to stare at him.
"I am a dalek!" the thing grated in a harsh metallic voice. "We have mutual enemies and they will be EXTERMINATED!"