Chapter 9

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Disclaimer: I didn't own anything for the last nine chapters, if I told you again would you care? Time War explanation, mostly enjoy.

Hades P.O.V

I... I had no words to even begin to explain how I felt about everything that just happened. The only thing I wanted to know was where did Percy go? Apollo is my eternally cheerful nephew who can whistle show tune while strolling though the underworld. What could make him like that? and who the hell, no what the hell was Lyra Black. Hera's daughter who looked more like a goddess than any of my family. Perhaps the Goddess, the original one of which came all of time and space.

She sent Zeus over to us. We spent the night with him; Poseidon and I and I felt bad. He and Hera's marriage was falling apart and we weren't helping. I was too selfish to care because we needed him. I slipped out of bed watching my two brothers reach out to the gap where I once was before settling closer together and made my way to the kitchen. She was there.

"Don't just stand there, come in. I'm making breakfast before I leave," Lyra said. I noticed, the table was set with people's favourites. I didn't know what to say.

"How is Apollo?" I asked the first question I could think of. She smiled like I was a child who had answered a question correctly. For the first time I realized that she was old, not that she looked old she felt it.

"Fine, he wont remember anything about what he saw, other than what he wants to" she says as if this delighted her. "The things he saw... I witnessed them personally, there is no shame in his reaction... not one single bit." I was taken aback as she directed this at me, silently telling me to spread it around.

"I don't doubt it" I responded. She smiled, placed a plate full of bacon and eggs in front of me and kissed me on the check.

"I'd expect you don't. I have to leave but you'll see me soon" she said, "Goodbye Uncle H" I even received a hug before she disappeared. I couldn't help but notice that she said you'll be seeing me soon, not I'll. Breakfast passed in a blur everyone eating and Apollo, despite being his normal cheery self had a brief moment of disappointment and panic when I told him Lyra had left. After an argument between Ares and Athena, which Ares won we all sat down to listen to him read.

Annabeth, Grover and I were sitting in a diner watching the TV with little disguised contempt, there was a reporter talking to smelly Gabe again. I really had to remember to kill him as he sat there and told people that my Mom was a crack whore.

"He is so dead" Poseidon spat outraged, I dislike the man for calling her that but I couldn't help but feel jealous that Poseidon feels so strongly for her. Zeus caught my eye and gave me a sad smile of understanding.

"I completely agree Uncle" Artemis said venomously, "How dare he treat a maiden like that." It appeared that there was more than Poseidon angry with this. Good.

Yeah, so not happy, nobody was going to find his body, and if they did it wouldn't be recognisable as human. I mused over different ways of killing him when I heard a Motorbike pull up. A big one, glancing over to the window I looked it over. It looked like the bike that the movie ghost rider wanted but so much better, the bike leather looked like human skin and the gas tank had flames that looked like they were actually moving. I wanted it, and that was before I even saw the Nitro attached.

"I wonder what I'm doing there?" Ares mused. I wondered as well, on the plus side I might not be the first God we read about getting our ass handed to us.

"I don't know" Athena said, cutting off my train of thought, "Why don't you hurry up and read so we can find out?" Sometimes I wished she'd stayed in Zeus's head... all the time actually.

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