Percy Jackson and the Loch Ness of the Deep Blue

What are You Doing Here?

We kept walking and walking around the area, the pegasus's right behind us. We split up in teams with our pegasus, Summer and Arrow went east, Autumn and Bloom went north, Piper went west and I went south. I was starting to get bored when I heard Autumn shriek. "WHOAAAA! WHAT THE HADES IS THIS!?" We all came running to Autumn since we didn't go very far yet. We all found a deep black whole which Autumn almost fell into. A head popped out of the whole, and yep - It was Nico Di Angelo. "Shhh!" He said motioning for us to be quiet. "My father doesn't like people saying what the Hades, especially not here!" "Nico?" I asked stunned. "Who in the world is this?" Asked Autumn. "It's our old friend Nico." Piper explained. "He's the child of Hades." Nico's expression grew darker. "Why are you here?" Summer stepped forward. "Look I need your help." He pleaded. "My father has allowed me to bring back Bianca." "What? Bianca would never allow you to do that!" I protested. "Well she has allowed me since she thinks she can help. And my father says she will be a lot of help because we need as many demigods we can get right now, the goddess that has turned is really powerful." "Well then." Said Summer. "How can we help?" "Follow me." Nico insisted. 

So we did, we followed Nico down the black hole. "This is another entrance to the underworld." He explained. "My dad has opened more entrances so we can access it easier." "Wait what?" "We are going to the underworld?" Autumn asked widening her eyes. "Really?" Nico nodded. "I need more help summoning the ghosts." "Are you kidding me?" Asked Summer. "You're not actually thinking we would be sitting there helping you pray to raise the dead?" Nico's face turned red. We continued walking in the whole. I was starting to wonder if this could go on forever when we came to a big palace, and surely I recognised the place. It was Hades Palace. "Are you kidding? Im not going in there again." I crossed my arms. "Y-you mean yo've been here before?" Autumn asked me surprised. "Yeah." I nodded rolling my eyes. "And every time I come here, Hades tries to vaporise me. "Wow." Autumn said with a frown. "Well no, were not going into my dads palace." "Were not?" I said hopefully. "No, I have a room here in the underworld and we will summon the spirits there." He lead us to a dark cave with flaming green torches stuck on each side of the cave entrance. We followed him inside the cave and took a seat on his jet black chairs. He taught us this weird chant and we - lets say - followed him, but reluctantly. It worked though, Bianca's spirit came and we greeted her. "Hey Bi-" I started, but I was interrupted by a very startled Summer. "W-wai B-but I've seen you before..." "You have?" Nico asked. "I think I saw you before too." Bianca answered calmly. "I-it w-was i-in this p-place with games and everything, and I think I saw you with Nico there." Summer added. "Thats right!" Nico exclaimed. "Thats where we saw you! But you were only there for a few days, we were there for weeks." "Well I was there for days but when i came out 2 weeks passed." Said Summer. "Years passed for us!" Nico said. "Wow. You stayed in that place for years?" Bianca nodded. "It was only a few weeks but it turned out to be a year." "Then our dads assistant monster turned herself into a lawyer and brought us out of there." Nico continued. "Who brought you out Summer?" "No, one I just felt like this place was weird so I asked a few kids including you guys is the current president and most of you said presidents from the past. So I quickly rushed out of there." "Wow that must have been hard." Piper spoke up. She was quiet the whole trip down here. "Thats the exact same question Zoë nightshade asked me to test how many years has passed since I was in that place with Nico." Bianca said. "Well me Annabeth and Grover got stuck in that place too, its called the Lotus Casino. Grover and Annabeth were so into the games they forgot everything around them, I was starting to feel weird like Summer did, so I asked a few kids around, one of them was Darrin who dressed like an elvis pop star. I asked them what the year was and they told me years from the 1990's and 1880's so I had to drag Grover and Annabeth out of there. 

We sat in silence for a while letting that sink in. "So how do we get you out of there Bianca?" Summer asked. "She needs to eat this special pomegranate my father gave me to bring back Bianca." Nico answered. "But what happened to you anyway Bianca?" "I was on a quest with Percy and some others when we passed the gods junk garage and I took a small figure toy for Nico. It was the only figure he didn't have in his collection. And it was Hades. Then there was this huge monster robot that Hephaestus made - it got angry so it started to attack us. It was my fault it started to attack, Percy was going to go into the controls of the giant and try to turn it off but I thought it wasn't right, I had to go. So before Percy could stop me I ran inside it and tugged at the wires, I eventually stopped it, but it electrocuted me. The others, Percy, Thalia, Grover and Zoë searched forever for me but I was gone." "Wow." Summer said. "That must have been harsh." Piper added nodding. Bianca started to eat the pomegranate - her colour started to come back and she started to become a real form again. She still had her hunter clothes, bow and quiver on. "Bianca!!" Nico rushed to hug her. I shake hands with her and we headed out of the cave. It took a while for Bianca to get used to being in full human form again but she managed it. We went up the hole and found our Pegasus's waiting. Bianca wanted to do some archery since she didn't do it for ages. She shot a few arrows at the trees and Summer joined her. She still seemed to have the hang of that, it was probably her Hunter of Artemis blessing. "So, are you still a hunter of artemis?" I asked her. "Ofcourse!" She answered nodding. "My dad is already notifying Artemis."  Nico looked a bit upset, maybe he was hoping she would come back to camp with us again.