Son of Atom

Chapter 8 Getting Out of Hades & Olympian Questioning

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My friends... well I thought they were my friends, but friends don't abandon each other.

Everything around me became dull noise, from the chattering of the dead, the distant barks of hellhounds and screams of the punished. None of it seemed to break through the noise of my own thoughts.

I wasn't sure how far I had walked, but I knew it was in the general direction of giant three headed hound. While I wasn't particularly thrilled to have to pass it again, I do need to get out of here. Hopefully I can find a way back home.

When I think about it, it's not like I could really fault Percy and the other two. I knew they had three pearls but let myself get dragged down here anyways.

"Its just my fault, why do I repeatedly get myself into this stuff?" I muttered sadly.

Hearing a large bark I quickly looked up to see a hellhound staring at me, it was large. Almost as large as I heard supermutant behemoths are.

Slowly I backed away as my eyes were locked with it's lava like eyes. While it could have been my imagination I could almost feel heat radiating from them, or maybe it was its breath or the feel of Hades.

"Nice doggie..." I muttered nervously.

Maybe it didn't like being called doggie or nice, whatever the case it lunged at me. Now I reacted like how I usally do when I get scared. I tried to swing Atom's Judgement at it. Problem being I didn't have it!

How ever something unexpected happened. The green glow on my hands glew brightly and...

BOOM!

A large explosion that was comparable to a mini nuke, but maybe a quarter size larger.

Dust was kicked up as the blast suprisingly only sent everything around me away. When everything cleared I could see a very faint radioactive dusting in the air. No hellhound or even undead around me. Even the grass and the very few dead looking trees around me looked to be like their was an attempt to blow them away. Almost as if a small nuclear explosion went off.

"Did I..."

Suddenly I noticed the growing sound of bat wings above me. Looking up I saw one of the bat ladies that I had seen flying around before. She landed infront of me, and I noticed she looked like a bat mixed with an old lady, not the weirdest thing I've seen today.

She stared at me for a moment.

"I didn't mean to explode the big doggie." I said as I nervously shifted my stance.

"That is not why I am here." She said simply and before I knew it her talons were on my shoulders and it was really dark all of a sudden.

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Huh?

Where...

"Y/N!" Jumping around I see Percy looking at me with a smile. "Glad to see you're alive."

"Per..cy..." I slowly stopped as I noticed someone behind him, well a towering someone with eleven other someones around us in the shape of a U or incompleted O.

Their was a total of six females and six males, all with their eyes trained on me. Why were they staring?! I wish I had Atom's Judgement with me right now.

Do I make things go boom? Can I even repeat that on command?

"Y/N they have some questions for you." Percy told me, making me unfocus from my panic.