CH.30 Arriving In The Underworld And Meting Charon

It did not take long for them to wake up and when they did, they woke with a groan as if they knew what a hangover felt like.

"What happened," Percy asked.

"My head" Annabeth complained.

"We entered the den of the lotus-eaters and almost got trapped in there," I said.

"WHAT!" Annabeth yelled.

"Yeah, don't worry if I didn't save you Percy would've," I said looking at Percy.

"Me?" he said pointing towards himself.

"Yes you, you may not think it but you're stronger than you think, I can feel it," I said.

"Oh thanks," Percy said rubbing his head.

"So, what now," Grover said.

"Now I'm taking charge," I said.

"For about the whole journey I've been a backseat driver but now something important has come up and we need to head to the underworld as fast as we can," I said sounding very serious.

"And what is so important," Annabeth asked.

"I can't tell you but the moment we enter the underworld I can say it, just please trust me," I asked.

"Okay I trust you," Percy said after looking at me for a few seconds.

"Percy!" Annabeth said.

"What, my gut says he's not lying," Percy said.

"And we're supposed to trust your gut," Annabeth said.

"I mean it's never been wrong before right Grover," Percy said.

"Yeah, trust me Annabeth his gut is like a sixth sense," Grover said patting Percy's gut and then laughing.

"Urg, fine but if he betrays us don't say I didn't warn you," Annabeth said.

"Haha, thanks guys," I said smiling shocking them and making me stop.

"Huh, okay, so how will we get to the underworld," Percy asked.

"Well, I know you guys are going to like it, but I don't know about Annabeth," I said looking at Annabeth.

"What does that mean," Annabeth said looking scared.

….2 hours later….

"I HATE THIS" Annabeth yelled as we were teleporting and driving at unknown speeds.

"woohoo" Percy and Grover yelled like they were on a rollercoaster.

Right now, we were traveling, well more like teleporting at insane speed towards Los Angeles. This was the fastest way that I could go to Los Angeles, so after stealing a car I started teleporting towards Los Angeles after two hours later we were already there, so I stopped and got out of the car.

"Where here," I said

"t-thank the gods," Annabeth said finally letting go of her seatbelt and getting out of the car

"THAT WAS AWESOME" Percy and Grover said getting out of the car

I did wait for a second and entered the lobby of the gated the underworld which was just a building by the airport. Entering the building muzak played softly on the speakers, the overall style was, of course, a gothic style but more modern, so gray carpets and black leather furniture.

There were dead people everywhere and the Percy and the others were scared until I told them to relax and that they weren't going to hurt them. After calming them down, we walked toward the security guard, or who I should say was Charon the man who ferries you across the river of Styx.

Charon was tall and elegant, with chocolate-covered skin and bleached blonde hair shaved military style, with an Italian suit.

"Charon," I said walking up to him.

"Ah yes Adrian, I've been waiting for you," Charon said looking at me and then at Percy and the other.

"So, four for a ride," he said looking at us.

"No six," I said finally bringing my siblings out of my shadow.

"Ugh, my head hurts," Nico said.

"Oh, now I have to see how he going to explain this" Charon said with a smile looking at my siblings.

"Um, Adrian who are they," Percy asked.

"Oh, right these are my siblings that I found in the lotus hotel, Bianca and Nico son and daughter of hades," I said making them look confused, but they still waved.

"WHAT! Two more are you kidding me" Annabeth yelled looking at them.

"Yeah, so I'm going to need you guys to keep this a secret, pretty sure I wasn't supposed to find them," I said.

"Yeah, got you, man," Percy and Grover said.

Annabeth didn't say anything and was pretty much having a brain aneurism with the new information she just got.

"Okay, let us go," Charon said making his boat appear behind him.

"Alright time to, my dad's waiting for us," I said and stepped onto the boat.

"Come on follow me," I said and gave my hand to Bianca.

She like last time didn't know what to do but she trusted me with how I felt to her, so she and Nico stepped on the boat and now we were waiting for Percy and the others.

"What you not coming," I said waking them up from their thoughts and making them go on the boat.

After we all got on the boat Charon started paddling us towards the river of Styx, as we entered the underworld, I breathe it all in making my body brimming with energy, I looked at Bianca and Nico to see the same effect the underworld had on me. It also seemed that their headache was gone, and they felt better now.

While the others looked around at the new things that they had never seen before we soon arrived at the entrance with Cerberus standing and grading the entrance to the castle.

"Is that who I think it is," Percy asked a little bit scared.

"Yes, but don't worry his harmless," I said and started heading towards him.

As we were walking towards Cerberus, groves' shoes started flying toward Taurus but before he could go any farther, I used my shadows to steal the shoes from his feet. Then I grabbed him in the air and gently put him down.

After that suspicious turn of events, we headed towards Cerberus who by now saw me and smelled me, so he became smaller and went towards me and the rest of the group like a dog coming towards its owner after years.