Curse of Twins

19. Puppy Love!

"Seriously?"

"You should be happy that I let you be in Elysium, my dear niece. You should be thanking me." I rolled my eyes.

"Thank you ever so much, Uncle Hades. I so appreciate not being in your service." I said sarcastically. "So, what you do want?" He looked offended.

"Can't the lord of the dead come to see his subjects?"

"Your subjects are over there." I pointed toward the village area.

"Point taken. It seems that my dear Cerberus has gone missing."

"Your pet. You want me to find your stupid pet?"

"Such an attitude. Just like your brother. Cerberus is the underworld's guard dog, he keeps the mortals in check and demigods from sneaking in and making a mess. He's missing. It's possible he just ran off or someone may have took him. Unfortunately, my son is busy with his own problems." I sighed.

"Fine." I stood up. "See ya, Luke."

"Oh, he needs to go too." He looked at Hades.

"What? Why?"

"Because you know the Underworld better than her." He shrugged.

"Good point."

"Fair warning. You can be wounded after you step out of the gates."

"Good to know." Hades disappeared.

"Ugh. Can't I just relax? Why is it always practice this, slay this, go on a deathly quest to save your seaweed brain brother! I just want to chill and do what I want." My shoulders slumped.

Luke put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Life of a demigod. It doesn't end, even when your dead." I sighed.

"Let's go." We walked back down the hill.

"Well, that was fun while it lasted." Luke said after a while.

"Well, this should be an easy quest right?"

"Have you seen Cerberus?"

"Um... He's like fluffy from Harry Potter, right?"

"More vicious."

"Meh." I shrugged We arrived at the gates.

"You ready?" Luke asked me.

"I have no idea how I'm going fight in this getup and no weapons but, I guess I am."

My earlier comment was void when we walked out of the gate. My sword was resting on my hip. I was wearing a black outfit with a black tank top with a green trident on it and black skinny jeans that I could fight in. There was a useless leather strap around my upper arm. I had Luke's dagger strapped to my thigh, opposite my sword. My hair was in a long braid resting on my shoulder and a gold headband was in my hair, keeping my long bangs out of my eyes.

"Not bad. I look like Katniss though."

I looked at Luke his was in a similar outfit except it was a gray color with a sandal with wing on his t-shirt and way more weapons. He had one of those golden leaf things on his head which made him look like what I would think Hercules would look like.

"That's an improvement." I laughed and Luke gave me a look. Our internal fight was interrupted by a bark.

We both looked up and in front of us was a giant Hellhound. I choked down my fear and pulled my sword of my waist and pointed it at the beast. Luke pushed my sword down. I gave him a questioning look.