Reincarnation to the Past

Chapter 6

Hades' POV

I lead Percy... or Yǔ or whatever he called himself... or herself (I have never been more confused in my immortal life) into the room where I stored all the memories of the dead. Once a person died and was judged, be it good or evil, they would lose their memories which would automatically be stored in this room.

It may sound creepy or weird keeping the memories of the dead but I've always thought that everybody, no matter who they are or what they did, deserve to be kept alive at least through memories. No matter what they did, I believe that nobody deserved to be completely erased from existence. So when I took over the underworld, I created this room to store all the forgotten memories so that even if the dead are eventually forgotten, at least in this room they will still be alive and remembered. Whenever I am troubled, I always find myself coming here...

Inside the room, it was completely empty and dark except for a huge tree (which of course was black) with more branches than could be counted, each holding a white ball which are the last remains of the dead, a small part of their soul or essence, their memories.

I looked behind me at Yǔ to see her staring with a look of awe and wonder in her eyes. I couldn't help but smirking to myself. Everyone- mortals, demigods and immortals think they know everything about me and the underworld but this is a secret that I've kept that nobody knew... Well, now except anybody Yǔ.

She took a full sweep of the place and whistled, "Wow... What is this??? Where is this??"

Me (smiling): We're still in the underworld. This is where all the memories of the dead are stored. If the owner of that body actually died, her memories should be somewhere on that tree... Only... (As an afterthought) We'll have to find it...

Yǔ (impressed): Wow... And here I thought I knew everything there was about the underworld... I doubt even Nico knows about this place...

Me: Nico???

Yǔ (speaking slowly): I don't think it'd right to give you the details but he was someone from my past... or future (crunching up her eye-brows) He, like everybody else that I trusted, betrayed me (sighing sadly)...

I had a feeling that this Nico was my son because of what he had said previously but I didn't probe seeing how sad she looked... or he looked.

Yǔ (suddenly): Wait a minute... Did you just say that we'd have to find the memory??? As in hunt for it ourselves!!??? Among all these million memories???

Me (smirking): I was wondering when you'd pick on that...

Yǔ (glaring): Why??? Can't you just summon it???

Me: Now where's the fun in that???

And with a huge sigh and glare, she marched up to the tree and started hunting... I joined him and started looking through the names carved on each branch. Now, I could've summoned the memories if I wanted to but at the moment I just wanted to play with her a bit...

Me: Do you only have powers from my blessings or even your dad's??? What all can u do???

Yǔ (looking through the branches): Yup... I can control shadows to a certain limit, shadow travel and apparently have immunity from your powers. I still have my powers as a child of Poseidon and that from other God's blessings...

Me (looking at him, surprised): Other gods??? Just how many gods have blessed you???

Yǔ: Excluding you??? There is Hestia, Hephaestus, Apollo and Hermes. Oh, and a ring from Hecate as a reward for doing a mission for her which allows me to control the mist and create physical items. The ring also connects to separate dimension created by her through which i can store stuff...