Epilogue

Underworld (3rd P.O.V)

Hades was just sitting on his throne, minding his own business when he heard someone clear their throat behind him.

"Sweet mother of Hera! Nico, Hazel, other demigods, satyr, oracle DON'T DO THAT!"

"Sorry dad"

"Sorry Hades"

"Sorry my Lord"

"Sorry Lord Hades"

"Sorry Uncle"

Everyone chorused.

"What brings you here?" Hades asks.

"Straight to the point as always..." Nico muttered.

Hades ignored him.

"Well?"

"Well, Uncle, we have come to discuss a certain dead soul..."

"You want to return someone to life?! You know the rules-"

"No, we want to punish him"

"You want to WHAT?"

"Punish him"

"It must be bad if all of you came down to do it..."

"Indeed it is, my Lord"

"What did this man do?"

"He abused Percy"

The sea god's son was well respected (one could almost say liked) among all the gods. Hades was infuriated.

"Excuse me but, WHAT THE-"

"Language Uncle!" Jason admonished.

Hades didn't look the least bit repentant. Jason sighed.

"Have you told Poseidon?" Hades asked curiously.

"... we probably should do that"

"He's gonna go on a rampage..."

"Yup"

"Back to the matter at hand-"

"Yes, yes of course. Who is this insolent mortal who dared to do such a crime to my nephew?"

"Gabriel 'Gabe' Ugliano"

Hades summoned an Ipad and scrolled through the names of all those who had died in the past millennia before finally finding who he was looking for.

"Ah, here he is. He is currently in the Field of Punishment."

"Well I would hope so," Hazel grumbles.

"What is his punishment, my Lord?"

"I was getting to that child"

"sorry"

"His punishment is an endless game of poker, where he is destined to lose every time"

The group frowned, that didn't seem harsh enough. Especially not by their standards.

Hades seemed to agree for he said, "Nico, Thalia and possibly Hazel know the way. I believe you have some business with the man. Run along now. I have work to attend to. I am a very busy god."

Nodding, the group thanked him and set off.

...

Upon arriving at the field, they began to search for the man.

Grover being the only one that actually knew somewhat what he looked like was in the lead. Not to mention even in death the mortal's stench was still horrid.

Thanks to the satyr they soon arrived at the poker table, alone in the vast field. And there they saw a fat man, playing poker.

Rage flooded the friends. Lightning flickered off the children of Zeus and if any of it happened to hit the pudgy man they weren't complaining.

The puny mortal looked back in surprise to see the group of enraged demigods, oracle and satyr glaring at him. Power flowing off of them in waves as he looked at them in annoyance.

"What do you punks want?"

*Silence and more death glares*

"Don't you know it's rude to stare? Or to not respond to your elders when they ask you a question?

Nico, having enough of the man, walked up to him, grabbed him by the collar and promptly tossed him to the floor like a dirty rag.

Gabe gave a cry as he fell. Glaring up at no one in particular he growled, "you little brat! What was that for?!"

The moment he said that any self-restraint the others had was gone.

Thalia grabbed her bow and nocked an arrow, shooting it straight at the spirit's thigh. Being that he was a spirit the arrow didn't make him bleed, but, Thalia presumed that it was either Hades, Nico or Hazel allowing it to hurt. For whatever reason, when the arrow hit home, the vile man screamed in pain.

"You hurt him. You hurt my cousin, you will pay," she said, her voice dead calm.

"Who? I didn't hurt no one! Whoever said I did lied! They're a damn liar!"

Annabeth grabbed his arm and judo flipped him.

"NEVER CALL MY BOYFRIEND A LIAR YOU PATHETIC MORTAL! HE WOULD NEVER LIE ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS! OR ABOUT NEARLY ANYTHING IN GENERAL!" She screamed, nearly hysterically from her position pinning him to the ground.

"GET OFF ME YOU STUPID BLOND!"

"..."

"What did you just say?!" Piper hissed lowly as she walked up to the monster, excited to get her turn.

Lifting him to meet his eyes she growled, "first you abuse one of my best friend's boyfriend and his mother, then you insult my best friend. Aren't you a piece of work?" Then she punched him square in the face.

Calypso's turn. "You had your chance to do something good. He is amazing, no thanks to you! He grew up caring, loving, loyal! You disgust me." Then she followed Piper's lead of punching him in the face before dropping him to the floor.

He didn't hit the floor as he felt a fierce agony appeared at his side, coming from the round kick an angry praetor had just performed.

"You are a disgrace"

Gabe pushed himself up, lifting his head and opened his mouth to curse at them only to be stopped by a blue plastic hairbrush hitting him in the eye.

"You give us mortals a bad name," came a voice to the left, where a pissed-off redhead stood.

Before he could retort he felt a searing pain as a brown hand slapped him across the face. Hazel, her golden eyes blazing, stood above him.

"You horrible man, you deserve a much worst punishment than what you have received. You hurt my cousin, he's scared of you! You deserve so much worse for all the pain you caused him! Now Frank I believe it's your turn."

"Can you hold him still Hazel?"

"My pleasure," Hazel said a sardonic smile spread across her face as she lifted her hands out. The earth responded to her and brought gems up, combining them together to surround Ugliano.

"What sorcery is this? Let me go!?"

"There you go, Frank!"

Gabe looked up to see the son of Mars jump in the air and turn into an elephant. That was all he was able to see before that elephant fell on top of him, squishing him.

After getting off him, he turned looking down on the man and growled, "mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.'

"What are you idiots talking about?"

"Blahaha, what do you think we're talking about? We're talking about how you hurt one of our friends, and now you're paying the price," bleated Grover angrily, whilst wacking him on the head with his reed pipes.

"Hey goat boy, leave some for the rest of us won't you?" the Latino elf chastised.

With that Grover reluctantly moved away, glaring daggers at Gabriel.

Will picked him up and punched him grumbling, "I may not be much of a fighter but I guess I have decent uppercut..."

Leo walked up placing hands on the man's shoulders, he willed them to catch fire. Gabe screamed at the scalding pain on his shoulders.

Once Leo was satisfied with his punishment he bent down to be eye level with the former step-father a stated in a deadly calm voice, "you lost your chance to raise the most amazing child you could imagine, here is your reward."

Stepping back he handed the chance to Jason who grabbed him by the scruff and began to fly, higher and higher before they reached the highest they could go. Jason smirked, "this is for my cousin. Have a nice drop!"

Jason let go, and Gabe fell. Hitting the ground he flinched as the last boy walked up. Surprisingly he did not hit him, he simply grabbed him and dragged him back to the poker table.

"You will endure this torture for eternity and our punishment may be the lightest you will receive once the other gods discover your wrongdoings. I will trust my father and the justice of the Underworld to ensure your punishment is severe enough."

The group turns to leave but Gabe stops them by asking, "Who?"

"Who what?" Nico responds.

"Who is it that you say I hurt?"

"My cousin. The son of Poseidon, Percy Jackson."

Then they left leaving a bewildered Gabriel Ugliano behind.

If the Furies went over and punished Ugliano after Hades had nothing to do with it.

And if Poseidon, Tyson, Apollo and a bunch of other gods and goddesses came to beat up the man later, Hades had no clue it was happening. He certainly wasn't watching them while drinking pop and eating popcorn and M&Ms...