Lunar's Plight

Starting the Quest

"Alright Percy. So, do you know where we need to be going?" Annabeth asked as she walked up with a backpack and a pair of shoes which she gave to Grover "Those are some of the shoes from the Hermes Cabin, Ethan suggested I use them"

"Yeah, we need to head west, Shane mentioned that hades was angry so I'm assuming the entrance to the underworld is in the west" I say as I fiddle with the ring Phoenix gave me as well as adjust the bow that Phoenix also gave me as well as the quiver

"You alright Percy?" Annabeth asks as we climb into the van and Argus drives out of camp

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just nervous. Hey Argus just drop us off at the bus stop, we can take care of ourselves from there" I say quickly and Argus nods as he keeps driving toward the city

After a while, Argus drops us off at the bus stop and she pulls out an apple and the three of us start playing hack sack with it while we wait for the bus. When the bus shows up the three of us get on and sit in the very back, then I notice Grover stiffen as three old ladies climb on and sit near us.

"Grover, are those monsters?" I whisper to him and he looks at me and nods,

The old ladies stand up and start walking towards me and the others and I get a crazy idea.

"Annabeth, hand me your dagger" I whisper to her and she looks at me incredulously before nodding and handing me her dagger

I take it before standing up and walking towards the old ladies who I noticed were shifting into old leathery hags which I recognized from my trip to the museum. I quickly moved toward the monsters and jabbed at the first one which was unsuspecting as she dissolved into dust as the bus had started moving. I quickly did the same to the second one in line but this one was expecting it as she grabbed my wrist and dug her nails into my skin as she slowly turned to dust.

"Hello honey" I heard the all too familiar voice of Mrs. Dodds say and I had my arm grabbed again and I was pulled forward "This time you won't escape me"

By this point in time, people have noticed the commotion and started to panic as the sight of whatever they saw in my hand, whether it was a knife or a gun. I growled at Mrs. Dodds and I slashed at her to which she dodged.

"Nice try dear Perseus but you'll have to do much better than that to kill me again." She snarls and lunges forward slashing her claws across my chest trying to kill me, however the attacked is blocked by a faint silver shield that appears and stops the attack

I hear the breaking of bones in Mrs. Dodds' hand and I capitalize on the sudden look of 'WTF happened?' on her face. I slash her throat with Annabeth's dagger before plunging it into the side of her neck, causing her to dissolve into dust. By this point every passenger is screaming and Grover and Annabeth rush up to me as the bus stops.

"Let's go, were getting off now." I say and the two nod and we quickly exit the bus and make our way into the surrounding woods

When were about a hundred yards from the bus I turn to Annabeth and hand her back her dagger.

"Thanks Annabeth" I say as she takes her dagger back

"No problem Percy, but how did you stop Alecto's attack? That should have made contact on your chest but it just stopped from what I could see." She asks and I just shrug

"Beats me, I don't know what happened, I'm just happy that we made it out alive" I admitted as the sky was starting to get dark and I smiled slightly as a shadow covered my face

After a while we came across a small house that had stone statues littered across the lawn. My stomach growled and I hugged myself a little.

"Gods' I'm so hungry..." I muttered as we walked up to the house