"Welcome to the underworld" a mysterious voice said. The voice filled the whole chamber.
"Hold up. I am in the underworld?" Annastasia acknowledged to the voice. She looked around. It was a dark huge cave; the top of the cave went a kilometer up. Ghosts of people popped up in every blank space there was in the huge crowd of ghosts.
Infront of her was a giant three-headed Molossian. Cerberus. The whole crowd of ghosts started walking toward Cerberus as if the Molossian was a magnet. Annastasia followed the crowd. Her eyes darted left and right, taking in her surroundings. She saw Furies sitting on every ledge that was visible in the cave. Hellhounds patrolling the crowds of ghosts, looking for half-bloods that are on a quest. Annastasia noticed that she and the crowd were getting closer to Cerberus. The closer they got the more Annastasia noticed.
First, there were three lines that separated into different directions. One line went to Tartarus, then the other went to the Asphodel Meadows, and the last line went Elysium. Annastasia stepped forward. All three heads of Cerberus barked. It sounded like an alarm. Cerberus bent down like he wanted to bite her.
"Ahh," Annastasia screamed. She raised her hand above her head, she wanted to shield it. Her arm hovered over her head. The arm blocked her sight, so she could not see what was happening.
All of a sudden, she was floating. Once Annastasia put down her hand, she saw that she was being lifted by three Furies. All the ghosts looked up to see what was happening. Annastasia could see how many ghosts there were in the whole cave. Ghosts stuffed in every corner, barely any space to move. Annastasia wondered how long some of these ghosts had been in the crowd, on their way to make it into one of these 3 lines. She also wondered if there were any complete families that were here and lived in a village that was behind Tartarus, the Asphodel Meadows or the Elysium.
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"Deary, go and play with the ghosts. You need to socialize with others, before you can go to the over world," Mother Adrienne said.
"But I don't want to," young Drako said. He started throwing a mini tantrum. He threw his black Lego pieces around, they landed in every corner.
"Dear, if you want to go to the over-world then you must learn how to act around other people. Not just, Furies, Hellhounds, and Cerberus." Mother Adrienne said, while picking up the small black lego pieces and putting it back into the Lego boy. "Come on Drako. Lets have some chocolate milk and a snack and then go to Papa." Mother Adrienne said. She took Drako's hand.
"Fine but tomatoes. I don't like tomatoes.Drako got up. Both of them started to walk to the door.
"Mommy wait." Drako said and stopped.
Mother Adrienne squatted down so that her eyes were at Drako's height. "Whats wrong. Do you have something to tell me," she told Drako with a sly smile.
"If I go to the over world, can I come back?" Drako asked his mother. "And will you come and visit me?" Tears where slowly dripping down from his eyes. Now on his cheeks.
"Don't worry, my little Hellhound. You can always return and I will come visit when ever you want." Mother Adrienne said. She wiped away Drako's tears, then leaned in for a big hug. "Come on now lets get some ice cream as the snack. Mother Adrienne stood up and patted down her long, black, tight skirt. Then she took Drako's hand, and they continued from where they left off.
* * *
They where flying full speed ahead. She saw that the ghosts that where just a minute ago, ghostly body's. They where now just white stripes. Suddenly one Furie just collapsed mid air. It fell to the ground. Once it landed there was a huge cloud of smoke. Right after the dust cloud made it self bigger, the other Furie collapsed. So that meant that Anastasia was falling in a outrageous speed. Then Anastasia remembered that ghosts could not die. She just closed her eyes. Once she thought that she was about to hit the floor, she opened her eyes. It came to her, that she was floating. When she looked up she saw a black dragon, that had her shirt in its mouth. Suddenly, the dragon took a turn into the other direction. About five wing beats later there was a small cave, where sun light peaked out.
"Ahhh." Anastasia screamed. Where are not going to make it. She cluched her eyes close.
She only opened her eyes when the sight behind her eyelids was really bright. When she opened them, she saw the real world. Green grass underneath her. The yellow sun above her, with the sky next to it. There where big fluffy, white, clouds in the sky. Anastasia wanted really adly to touch them. Flowers, people, parks, and more. Anastasia stretched her hands our by her sides. The dragon swoped so low that she was able to touch the grass. When she felt the spiky grass on her finger tips, Anastasia realised that she was an actual human being. Anastasia forgot how fun it was being a human. suddenly the dragon horesontely up into the sky. This action that the dragon did made her have the biggest grin on her face. Once the dragon decided that they flew high enough, it straightend again, and flew striaght. After a while of flying the dragon decided that they where flying long enough. It landed on a big mountain that was really big. There was a ledge that only objects that could fly could reach it. Once the dragon set her down, it nudged her to turn to the mountain, ut she could only stare at the beautiful view that was able to be seen.
"Wow," Anastasia gasped. Her eyes widened.
"I know right," a sly voice said behind her shoulder.
