The Shadow Command (A Nico di Angelo Fancfiction)

Chapter 11: A Trip To The Underworld

*Nico's POV*

I stood in Chaos' office with Maz, waiting nervously for Chaos to show up. Today was the day. I had chosen the three people for the Galaxious, now I just had to go collect two of them. Chaos strode in and told us to follow him outside.

It had been two days since I got out of the infirmary. The doctors were very confused when I didn't complain to have to spend extra days there. I just replied with "Deja Vú." Chaos told everyone what happened and what information they had gathered till now. He regrets it ever since. Well, I think he does. I sure regret not stopping him even though I had no idea he was planning on telling people! Hmph. Now I was getting a lot of unwanted attention. I had thought people would treat me like they did back on Earth, but thankfully, since having wings wasn't so uncommon, it slowly died down. Although, the 'born-on-a-planet-that-should-have-died-long-ago' was still making people's eyes pop out of their heads.

Chaos led us to the huge hangar located to the right of the palace. We went inside and saw the familiar sight of the space ships, some as small as one-seater planes, others as big as bungalows. We usually used the slightly bigger ones, as even in the Alpha squad you only went in groups of 10 or more. Although there were only two of us, the pilot plus the guests we were going to retrieve, we were led to a big ship. It was a triangular one and had a rope ladder leading up to the door. When we went inside, we saw a seat at the front and middle, for the pilot, and 6 seats behind that, divided into two rows. Behind the seats was a wall, with 5 doors. Three of the doors opened onto rooms, each having two twin beds, one desk, a cupboard, and a one-way window. That means that we can see outside of it, but the people outside, can't see inside. The fourth door was for the pilot, so we didn't open that, and the last door was a kitchen. I turned to Chaos, confused.

"Why would we need this much space?"

"Earth is 14 galaxies away. The trip will be long, even though this ship is really fast. It takes about half a day to cross a galaxy, so you will be travelling for two weeks, one there and one back."

"Okay then, wait, how did Íroas revive her soldier so quick?"

Chaos rolled his eyes at my questions and replied "Her galaxy is the next one to the right. She was back in a day. Now go, you have to be quick. And make sure you aren't seen by anybody, especially Hades."

Chaos got off the ship and walked back to the palace, whilst the pilot came out of his room. He nodded at us and sat down in his seat, just as we took ours, in the first row. We strapped our seatbelts on and took off.

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I was sitting on my bed and thinking about what was to come when suddenly, a loud announcement jostled me out of my thoughts.

"We are reaching Earth in 10 minutes. Please sit down on your seat and strap yourself up. It will be a rough landing."

I hurried out of my room, just as Maz came out of hers, and we both sat down. Sure enough, in about 10 minutes, we landed in the middle of Los Angeles. The ship itself wasn't damaged, but we did damage quite a couple of street lamps. The pilot said he would be staying on the ship, and to contact him when they were done. The Mist could only do so much, and Hecate might realise some alien object had landed on Earth. He would be flying it out of the atmosphere, and when they were done, he'd come down to get them.

We said goodbye to him, and I led Maz down the streets of L.A to a secret entrance to the underworld only I knew about. Walking down these familiar streets saddened me when I thought about how I left. But I knew I wouldn't be here for long, and would (hopefully) never be coming back. I saw Maz circling above me, fluttering her long, multi-coloured butterfly wings. I took off with my wings and started flying alongside her. My wings were 4 feet long, a midnight blue colour, and had streaks of purple, grey, white and a faint, light, yellow on them. We talked for a while, but I soon spotted the secret entrance I used to use. Unfortunately.....it was closed. I sighed exasperatedly and led us to the main entrance. Maz was about to walk up to Charon, but I stopped her, and, disguised by the shadows, slipped us into the boat unseen. She looked at me confused, so I MM-ed (mind messaging) her "He'll be able to recognise me, or at the very least, be able to tell I'm a son of Hades."

She nodded, and we got out of the boat, after crossing the Styx. While the dead went to the panel of judges, I shadow-travelled straight to Elysium. I knew Hades would soon realise I was here, so we would have to make this quick. I scanned the place with my mind and found the people I was searching for. I shadow travelled us to where one of them was, grabbed his arm, shadow-travelled again, grabbed the other person, and got us back to the streets of L.A.

(A/N: 941 words.

Have a good day, thanks for reading and bye...

Yours truly, daughter of Apollo/Aphrodite,

Eliza)