Journey below [L x reader] • Death Note

Chapter 31 | speed

The last trip to the surface was successful, and now thanks to your little push Aizawa was fully suspicious of Light and had an indirect confession on tape. Now you'd have to plan the next phase of the mission to make sure the rest of the taskforce see that footage and turn on light.

So it was no time to update hades on the current state of the case, and your walk through the underworld with L just had to have a little pit stop on Asphodel to see Watari and eat some of that cooking Eurydice had given him recipes for. You were growing rather used to the little routine of pick up L, walk through the underworld to the house of hades, make a few visits on the way and plan the next trip to the surface.

Walking through Tartarus was the worst part of the trip. Tartarus being were all the bad people went meant it was full of deranged maniacs and was dark and gloomy. One massive study bridge spanned across Tartarus from Asphodel to the house of hades above all the punished shades. Out of reach of their filth.

Looking down always made you uneasy so you tended to keep your head up and focus on the trip forward instead, passing green flames on torches that lit the area as you went.

"Man this part of the trip is always so depressing" L sighed, glancing down at all the punished shades.

"I know, it's not a nice reminder that some of humanity are, well... all that" you replied.

"I'm guessing all the worlds worst people are down there"

"Yep. That any anyone that managed to piss off the gods enough. Sisyphus is probably still pushing that boulder to this very day for trying to cheat death and literally kidnapping Thanatos"

Ah yes, that old story. How the hell he managed to keep a whole god trapped L had no idea but safe to say when he got out Thanatos was absolutely not happy, neither was hades. And now he's cursed to push that boulder forever.

"If only there was a better way to get to the house" L said.

"I know I wish there was. Although that's definitely not high up on the to do list with the overpopulation situation Kira has caused down here" you replied.

As you walked and chatted as usual, the two of you were caught off guard when you heard the sound of something moving in the wind followed by a fierce just of it overhead as a blur zipped over your heads.

"What the hell was that?" L asked.

"Hermes! He's probably got a message for the underworld come on!" You replied, grabbing L's hand and rushing after the speeding god.

There was no way you and L could run that fast. Hermes has his special winged sandals that allowed him to run on air as fast as the wind could take him, but you wanted to get to the house as quick as possible to see what the message was. Hermes was one of the only Olympians still in contact with the underworld. As when the incident happened he was only a child and had nothing to do with it, and being a psychopomp messenger god it was literally his job to relay messages across the realms.

As you ran across the bridge toward the house, L couldn't help but worry that if there was a message for the underworld it might be the Olympians finding out about the boon deal with Dionysus, which would put you and L in some rather big trouble... but the gods are said to be (mostly) beings if there word so hopefully Dionysus kept his mouth shut and Hermes was here for something else.

Busting through the doors of the house of hades, you and L skidded down the hallways dodging other shades to catch up and see what the message was. For all you knew it could be confidential information and all this running was for nothing, but it wasn't often Hermes came all the way down here so you were exited to see what it could be.

When you reached the throne and desk of Hades, you were out of breath and Hermes was already there hovering over the desk with his winged sandals. Hades read over a scroll that contained the message and you couldn't help but wonder what it was.

"Lord Hermes! You're back!" You said.

The floating god dressed in a chiton and winged helmet looked down at you and L, shoulder bag hanging over him full of messages.

"Oh it's you! Duty bound shade that was on the featured employee board last time I was here" Hermes replied.

And didn't know the god that well, but in your menu years working for hades you'd run into him a few times.

"That's me! With a rather famous shade this time" you replied.

"Wait let me guess, that detective that died?"

"Damnit why does everyone know I'm dead?" L snickered.

"Your name made the rounds once you died there mate, no was was expecting it. But from the looks of things this case is going well even with you dead. Isn't it wild how everything is working so well even after you died? Guess your work when you were alive laid the foundations for a smooth case" Hermes replied

"Let's hope it stays that way and this mess will be over soon, Tartarus is flooded with shades" hades sighed, rolling the scroll back up again.

Looming over his desk, Hades looked down at you and L with his pitch black, hollow eyes L was once intimated by but had grown used too.

"Updates I suppose?" He asked.

"Yep, we have one hell of an update for you. Light got drunk and accidentally spoke to his shinigami in front of a taskforce member we kinda pushed into the room AND on tape too. So all we need to do is make sure the taskforce sees that tape and turns against him and we've solved the problem" L replied.

"Woah hang on- you two are allowed to watch the case on the surface?" Hermes asked.

"I'm allowing it for this circumstance only. They're trustworthy and when it's over no more surface time. For the sake of stopping this mess and fixing the life and death blame that Kira messed up" Hades replied.

"But that means..."

L's ghost blood ran cold for a moment, hoping that Hermes hadn't figured out about them contacting Dionysus when the underworld isn't meant to talk to Olympus aside from Hermes.

"This message might relate to that then, it's something from the fates. Gave me the message themselves, real rare occurrence! They barely ever leave their chambers or let anyone in!" Hermes said, taking the scroll from hades and handing it down to you and L.

"You know now you mention it you might be right..." Hades mumbled.

You unrolled it and you and L looked down at the parchment in anticipation wondering what was so important that the fates handed the message directly to Hermes for.

On the eve of the longest nightfall, a single dispute will turn family against each other and cause the man of god complex to take drastic actions. Only to be stopped by a simple push.

Now you and L were confused. It was definitely a prophesy but a very cryptic one. It sounded like Light would make a fatal mistake thanks to something you did to turn the taskforce against him. But it was vague, you had no idea exactly what it was you'd do, or what the final nail in the coffin would be that turns everyone against him, or what Lights mistake even is. But that comment about the longest nightfall, that at least gave you a rough date.

The night Nyx covers the surface for the longest out of all the days of the year. The day the sun sets earliest, and rises latest.

"Huh... interesting" you muttered.

"A prophecy we have to fulfill? Not vague at all thanks a lot fates..." L sighed.

Looks like the next part of the puzzle was decoding this message and finding out what night this all takes place so you and L can be there to give the final push.