Tartarus (Nico di Angelo Fanfiction)

How I Got Here

It all started with the Gods. It's funny, how the gods are almost always at the root of everything. Hades had given me a job as the ambassador of Pluto, meaning that I was the only one who knew about both camps. I was also the only one who knew about the prophecy, and what it meant. So when I head the line: And foes bear arms to the doors of death. I was the only known demigod child if Hades. I could travel anywhere in the underworld, right? Wrong, very wrong.

~~~~~~~~~~Time Jump~~~~~~~~~

Unfortunately, the doors weren't in Elysium, they weren't in Asphodel and they weren't in Punishment. Which could mean only one thing: they were in Tartarus. I was standing on the edge of the pit, shaking. A/N: different pit than the one Percy and Annabeth took. It wasn't a far drop, maybe twenty feet? But falling wasn't what I was worried about. I twas about everything that comes after that. No god or demigod has ever been here before, why did I think that I could do it? You're doing this to protect Hazel, I reminded myself, and... Percy. I had to give up on him, but I couldn't. It was too painful, waiting for someone that would never come. But he was happy with Annabeth, he wasn't a messed up freak like me. And even if he was, why would someone like Percy Jackson even look at me? I was the son of Hades, I didn't belong anywhere, not at either camp, not even in the underworld. When I finished this quest, I was leaving for good. No one would ever have to walk away from me in fear again.

And with that happy thought, I jumped. I hated the feeling of falling, that feeling in your stomach. It only lasted about thirty seconds, then I landed on the ground, "Ow," I muttered, because I had landed hard on my feet. And then I made the mistake of looking up. Nothing could have ever prepared me for what I saw. Monsters were everywhere, reforming like zits in the body of Tartarus. The ground was like red dirt and the smell. Imagine dirty diapers, now imagine that smell being everywhere. I nearly threw up. That's when I realized that I needed to stop feeling bad for myself and start looking. Based on the geography, I need to cross all the way to the other end of Tartarus. I popped a pomegranate seed from my mothers garden into my mouth and started walking.

How was that? Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I have been busy with my other Fanfic, Falling in Love with the Ghost King. I hope you liked it. Please remember to comment and vote!

Yours in Demigodishness and all that,

Claire