The Chronicles of Olympus, Book 1, The Goddess's Fury

The king of the dead

The furies dragged us to a huge black palace in the middle of the underworld. We went inside it and entered a huge throne room. Then me and my friends were forced roughly to kneel on the blood-red carpet. They flicked their hands, and suddenly I couldn't move. I was glued to the ground. Panic rushed over me. To distract myself, I decided to think; examine my surroundings.

There were torches flickering with a green light around the room.

In the far end of the room was two thrones.

One was made of completely obsidian and was decorated with blood red rubies. On top of it was a man with obsidian black shoulder-length hair and cold dark eyes with gold flakes. He was wearing a black chiton, held at the shoulders by golden clips and at the waist with a crimson red belt. His dark hair was crowned with a crown of obsidian set with rubies. He was scary without scowling. His eyes were filled with dark, evil, things.

The other throne was made of flowers. Lilies, roses, dandelions, and so on and so on. The woman sitting on top of it had soft grassy green eyes that were a meadow of flowers and long wavy auburn hair. She smelled of flowers and was wearing a green chiton, held at the waist by a dirt brown belt and at the shoulders by golden clips. On her red tresses was a crown of flowers. She was giving us looks of pure hatred. 

I think it's pretty easy to guess who these people were. The man was definitely Hades, the god of the underworld, and the woman next to him must have been Persephone, his wife.

"Father." said the girl. "These kids accused you of-"

"I know," said Hades. The girl nodded. Then Hades leaned toward us.

"Thought you could trick me, didn't you?" he asked. "Trick me, the god of the underworld? Thought you could fool me, give me all the blame for stealing the apple. But you have failed. I don't care if this makes me sour with Artemis, or Athena, or even my brother." Hades turned to the furies.

"Take them to the dungeons," he ordered.

"Yes, my lord." obeyed the Furies, and they grabbed us and roughly took us across the castle.

The furies dragged us down black stairs and to a large room with only a single lantern on the ceiling providing light. On the sides was a few small cells. Each cell had a window and a door and a bucket at a corner for..... Well.... I think you can guess that. that was all. One of the furies pressed a lock on one of the doors, and the door opened. Then the furies shoved me and my friends inside.

"Hope you have a nice time." they snarled, and pressed there hand again to the door, closing the seal to our eternal imprisonment