Tango's POV:

"Get up, we've been at this for like a minute now." The annoying voice that belonged to Exy called out from outside of the tent.

"It's cozy and warm in here..." I said, rubbing my eye.

"The weather is a bit cold outside. Can I come in?" Joe said, opening the door of the tent a bit.

"Ex! Help- They are using me as a heater-" Zedaph cried. (He was practicing his fire magic which, first it's dumb but, he hasn't mastered it yet, so he produced a flame that is warm and can't burn.)

Ex said something, but it was unclear, we heard footsteps going away.

"Why must you leave me here, just to suffer." Zed sobbed quietly.

"Come on, it's not too bad," I said, still wrapped in my blankets.

After a bit of silence, Mumbo moved to the tent door, "Did they seriously decide to continue the quest without us?"

Then the whole of the tent's roof got blown away by Ex's wacky powers.

"What just... wait that tent wasn't cheap!" Keralis somewhat yelled at Ex. (Who was standing next to a not very amused Xisuma)

"Why did you do that," I said, with a sad tone.

"It was funny," Ex said, his arms crossed.

"Anyways, I'm hungry," Ren said, not realizing what he just allowed people to do.

"Hi hungry, I'm Grian," Grian smirked, throwing Ren a taco.

"Really dude," Ren replied, staring into Grian's soulless eyes.

"Oh, it could be much worse. Lettuce taco about it." He continued, trying not to laugh.

"You're not helping my instinct to punch you in the face," Ren said.

"I can help with that," Ex said, thrilled to punch Grian. (Poor dude just wanted to make a pun.)

Grian laughed nervously, "Welp, better go find that opening that Tango was talking about!" Then he blasted upwards and shortly came back down, "Where is that exactly?"

"You see, it's more like a way of going in than an opening." I explained, "We have to jump into the Fonias waterfall after a sacrifice to both Hades and Hermes. I'll explain more when we'll there."

"Why the sacrifice?" Grian asked.

"Without the sacrifice to Hades, we can't leave the underground and without Hermes' help, we go splat on the ground and die," I said, using my hands to explain.

"And why that very specific waterfall?" Xisuma asked.

"First because in Greeks, most rivers are thought as branches to the River Styx, and second, I don't know if it works for all waterfalls for just this one and I rather not die trying," I answered. "And also, fonias in Greek means slayer, killing...you know."

"Ok, big fancy waterfall, got it." Grian nodded and flew upwards again.

"At this rate, he's going to overheat his wings again," Etho said.

Mumbo laughed a bit, "He better not come to me, begging for me to fix it."

Impulse added, "Actually, I have an idea to make the wing eject out quicker."

"That sounds like a fun idea." Mumbo nodded.

Grian landed again, "We just this way, follow me!"

We walked for a few hours, stopping now and then to take a break, eat and drink, and the dawn of the day was coming, we made it outside of the waterfall.

"There are still people here, try and act normal," Cub said.

"The scenery is gorgeous." Scar said in awe.

"It's quite lovely. I agree." Ex nodded.

Xisuma looked in shock, "My brother agreeing? Oh wow, what have you done to Ex?"

"Shut up." Ex flustered.

Grian and Mumbo are panicking in the background, "The wings won't go in." Mumbo rattled.

"Oh boy, time to hide and pretend I don't exist," Grian said, half in joy.

"Won't the mist hide it or something?" Beef asked.

"Well, you see. It's not fully magic, the mist will hide the wings itself, but the machine that makes the wings won't be hidden. And, in any park, a small machine taped to your back is bad." Grian explained.

"I'll signal you when the coast is clear," I said, giving a thumbs up.

"I'll just hide among the trees," Grian said, flying into the cover of a tree.

We walked around for a while, the guards were a bit suspicious of us, but Cleo quickly fixed that. The few tourists that were still here were now starting to clear for lunch.

"I think, it's clear," Cleo said, looking around.

I waved to the tree that Grian hid in, he came out covered in bird poop.

"Yuck, what happened?" Iskall asked.

"A bird, it was marking its territory," Grian said, accepting the towel that Stress gave.

"We don't have much time." I said, "After the lunch break, they'll come back. Follow me." I spoke.

We hiked up the hill, next to the rushing waterfall I stood at the ledge.

"Now what?" Jevin asked.

"First the sacrifice." I nodded to Keralis.

He blubbered, "Goodbye dear marshmallows." He whispered, dumping all of them into the small fire that Impulse made, and stood there praying.

"We should be grateful that they don't need blood sacrifices." False joked.

"Blood for the blood god!" Cub joked.

"Now we jump, with where we want to go in mind." I said, "Really imagine the underworld in your mind."

I took one stbackwardrds and lost my balance, as I was about to fall, I shouted out, "Remember to close your eyes!"

Falling into a different dimension is hard to explain in words. So basically, you go whoop- and it went s-whoop! And it's more of a bop as you teleport and a bang when you land. Does that make sense? No? ok cool.

"Ow, I landed on a thorn bush." I winced, trying to get up. Unlucky, my clothes got caught so I was kind of stuck.

"AH-" Grian yelled, landing next to me.

"Are you alright?" I asked.

"My arm is a bit bruised up, but I should be," Grian said trying to get up as he got crushed by a falling Cleo.

"Well, it worked. I'm not dead...again." Cleo said.

"The person you're standing on may be dead," I said pointing at a struggling Grian.

"Oh sorry! Let me help you!" Cleo said.

"My arm is bleeding now, and we aren't even a second into the underground." Grian brushed off the thorns caught on his sweater.

"That's the demigod life," I said, waiting for another hermit to fall from the sky. (Ground? Idk.)

"This is my favorite sweater too," Grian said, cleaning his bleeding right arm.

"All your sweaters look the same," I smirked as a Zedaph fell from the heavens (ground?) above.

"Why, a fallen angel!" I teased.

"Shut up and help me up from this bush," Zed asked. (Wow, polite.)

After all the Hermits got down, TFC looked around, "Well, do you know where we are."

"I don't know, never been to the underworld." I said, and pointed at a ghostly figure walking by, "Let's ask them."

"Hey! Hey!" Zed ran up and tried to wave at the person.

Tried is the keyword as his hand kind of just went through the person.

"Woah. That felt weird." Zed said, examining his hand.

I caught up to him, "Let's follow them for now."

We walked in silence for a while and finally, Ex broke the ice, "What did you mean when you said it felt weird?"

Zed shrugged, "It was sort of like waving in water. It also felt like dementors from Harry Potter were sucking on my soul."

"That's bad isn't it?" Stress asked.

"Yeah, duh," Zed said.

After a lot of awkward silence, the ghost(?) in front of us faded into thin air.

"Hey, they're gone." Scar said pointing at the obvious.

"Scar, look up," Cub said, pointing at the more obvious of the obvious.

We are in front of Hades home, and he flexes. Castle walls of marble and gates, statues of him and flexing their love at all the singles, weirdly huge front garden, and a clock at the tallest tower. (No, not around lava, that's the Christian hell. It was also weirdly well lit.)

"How do you even open this door? You'll need to be like ten feet tall or something." Mumbo said.

"Do we even need to go through Hades home, isn't Tartarus just a hole somewhere leading deeper into the underworld?" Xb asked.

"Nope, Hades is like guarding it or something, I am not sure." I guessed.

So, Zed begins to pathetically try and push the ten-foot-tall door made of gold to open.

I chucked, "I don't think that's going to work Zed."

"I can believe it!" Zed pushes again to no process.

"Hades, are you home?" I asked, trying to knock on the door.

Man, he was flexing hard when he made his house, the door was all made out of pure hard gold.

"Ow! I think I broke my knuckles!" I spoke.

"I wish I can steal that," Grian said.

"Who wanted to steal my door?" A loud and low voice asked.

"Oh, I'm dead," Grian said, slowly turning around.

A very tall dude stood there, his grey-blue hair reached his back, his stormy blue eyes stared into Grian's soul, he had elven-like ears and black armor and a cape.

"You don't look... uh dead," Hades said.

"I'll take that as a compliment," Grian said, looking himself.

"You're bleeding, ghosts don't usually bleed," Hades said, kneeling on his knees to examine the much smaller Grian.

"Hades, we're demigods. Tango is over there; he is your son." Ex said pointing at me.

"Oh! Sorry about my matters. I was buying some flowers for my wife." He said pointing at a bag that magically appeared. "... wait, I had a son?"

I patted my clothes, "Last I checked, I'm real."

"Aw, don't you kill everything that you touch?" Stress asked.

"Only things that don't have a will to live, so isn't" Hades answered, "Plants yes. Animals and humans, no."

"So, about the flowers?" Keralis asked.

"They're fake, made out of glass," Hades said, carefully pulling out a beautiful glass flower from his plastic bag. (Please don't use plastic bags, promote recycling.) (This is here because Xisuma is forcing me to have good morals.) (Xisuma is pointing his hammer at me right now. Help)

"Where is Persephone right now? I don't see her anywhere." Mumbo asked.

"She is with her mom... Demeter. She is coming back in like two weeks; I am just waiting until the day she comes back." Hades said, his cheeks a bit redder as he thinks of her.

"That's cool and all, but how do you get to Tartarus?" Ex bluntly asked.

Hades suddenly got a lot more serious, "Why do you want to know that."

"Quest, Nike is you know, causing some issues. The day is going by much faster and night is much longer now." Ex clarified.

Hades remained silent and waved at the door, causing it to swings open with a loud echo.

"Come, I need to address something," Hades said, his eyes dim.

We walked down a long echo-y hallway, fire lit up from the torches as Hade walked eerily past him, he stopped at a huge dining room.

"Come sit down." He said he flipped his cape onto his seat.

We nervously took a seat and he looked at all of us but focused on Cleo.

"You know, your mother caused me a lot of paperwork." He said in a calm tone.

"Yeah, cool. Uh. Yes." She said, giving a silent thumbs-up.

"Anyways, you know what you will be getting yourselves into right?" Hades asked.

"Yeah, we're demigods, we get nearly killed almost every week," Grian said with a bored expression.

"No, no. The doors of death are well, meant for the dead. Only." Hades said, scanning the room.

"I can hold it open for two days. After that, it will close forever, and you wouldn't be able to escape." He said, using his godly powers to summon a diagram. "So, you need to put Nike to sleep for a long time within two days."

"Why not just kill her? I mean, the night will still exist right?" Ex asked.

"You see, while the night will still come and go, it won't feel the same. It'll be colder and just more dreadful, more monsters could raise, and people will be able to feel that something is wrong." Hade said drawing on his diagram.

"Would people just sleep past the night?" B-dubs asked. (Unlike you B-dubs, most people don't have regular sleep patterns.) [As I, the actual author, writes this at 2 am]

"Well, let's just say that it will be harder to fall asleep." Hades said staring at B-dubs, "Well, you look like Hypnos kid, so you won't have a problem with that."

"Not everyone has a room that was made for anyone to instantly fall asleep," Xisuma said.

"I miss my bed." B-dubs moaned.

"I miss my home in general," Grian said.

"Do you miss scamming people with ice cream?" Zed said.

Grian gave a small smile. Hades nodded, "Well, if you weren't able to get out before that. You'll be trapped there."

He nodded to himself.

"If let's say if we do get trapped, what will happen?" I asked.

"You'll probably die," Hades said without a care in the world.

"Well, we'll doom either way," Hypno said.

Hades got up from his seat, by the way, did I mention that his chairs are huge and made out of fricking marble?

"Geez, you like marble," I said, trying to jump down from the chair and not break my legs.

"Me? Not really. Persephone loves the colors and texture of it." Hades said, walking down another hallway, "Honestly, for me, it makes things look dirty and broken."

"Is the garden at the front for her as well?" Stress asked.

"Yes, she's also got a greenhouse in there, where she grows actual flowers." Hades added, "Can't go in there but I heard it's pretty."

It grew silent once again. Hades led us down into a room with a locked metal door.

Ex raised an eyebrow, "Well, the most dangerous place in the world is locked by a simple iron door."

"Well, not really," Hades said, he touched the air and suddenly a magic barrier appears.

"Woah," Zed said.

Hades did the magic thing with his hands and the barrier is taken down.

"I've taken the barrier down for a bit. You better come in before it comes back up again." Hades warned.

"What does the barrier do anyways?" Grian asked.

"If you're alive, it kills you, and if you are dead. Uh, you get killed again." Hades answered, using his key on his belt to open the door.

Inside the door was a larger room, and in the middle was a three-headed dog.

"Oh, my gods, is that Cerberus?" Stress asked.

"Hey boy, wake up!" Hades whispered; his tone went up to sound sweeter.

Cerberus raised his head and nuzzled Hades, then he saw us and went ballistic.

"Hey, calm!" Hades, pulling a chicken leg out of nowhere and feeding him.

"What's with that?" Xb asked.

"He's shy to strangers and very quick to anger," Hades said, patting the dog. "Not to mention that he is trained to eat any monsters that may escape."

"With all this security, it's a wonder that there are still monsters on the surface." Ex sassed.

"Heh, sometime when the magic barrier gets low and Cerberus is asleep, there may be one or two escapees." Hade rubbed his head; he turns back to Cerberus.

"Do you mind moving a bit? The demigods need to get through because they have something to do." He whispered to Cerberus.

The dog nodded his three heads and moved aside to another door with a strange portal in it, a large blast of wind went by.

"Cool!" Zed walks towards the portal, but Hades quickly shouted.

"Wait! Don't!" Hades warned but it was too late, the portal sent Zed flying into Impulse.

"Sorry!" Zed said, quickly getting off Impy.

"It's fine, are you ok?" Impulse asked.

"Yeah." Zed said, "You should warn us next time."

"I tried, but you kind of charged into the portal," Hades said doing more of his magic and the wind subsided.

"Two days will this portal allow you and monsters pass; we will be here," Hades said.

We all nodded, Grian spoke up "Let's go in using the buddy system, Mumbo?"

Mumbo and Grian went first, followed by Cleo and Joe, then Me and Impulse, the rest soon followed.

Tartarus is a lot scarier than you think, (Yes, even scarier than the Christian Hell or any underworld in general.)

The screams of people getting eternally punished, the loud bang that happened now and again. The monster spots you and jumps at you at full speed only for their chain to active and drag them back, them clasping onto the ashy ground and releasing more screeching. (Looked like something from a horror game.)

"This will be fun." Joe jokingly said.

"Can't wait to dive again!" Cleo said, walking farther into Tartarus.

Cleo took one step and fall into a hole.

"You alright down there?" Joe asked.

"Joe! I think we're sinking too." Xisuma said.

"Quick! Grab my hand!" Doc said, reaching out his robotic arm.

One quick panic pulls and run later; we are at the side catching our breaths.

"What was that?" Cleo asked looking over to where the hole was.

"It's a hole," Ex answered.

Then a huge worm around 3 meters long emerged out of the dirt, it have no eyes, only two sharp teeth with one above its 'mouth' and one below.

"Now, it's a hole with a huge worm," Ex added.

"What is that?" Xb asked.

"I think that's a... Indus Worm, but I heard they lived around the Indus River and I thought they were extinct." Jevin said.

"First, all rivers lead to the underworld and second, we are in the underworld." I clarified.

"Ok, it seems to be hunting for food, let's just sneak by." Stress said and started crawling by the monster.

"Try not to get too close, it hunts food by sensing heat," Jevin informed.

After that sweaty and nervous crawl to not our death (It got close, I'm pretty it turned its head to try to sense us once), we got out alive.

"Ok, we learned that every monster in the history of Greek myths is here... that doesn't sound good," Xisuma said.

"We'll all gonna get killed." Etho nodded.

"Also don't worm sense things by light and shadows? Snakes sense things with heat." Grian asked, putting his biology degree to good use.

"We don't have time to argue the difference between worms and snakes." Jevin shut down Grian's question.

At half-hour an hour of walking, I announced, "I think, we are lost."

"This is fun." Etho said.

"I wonder if we can ask for help..." Stress looked around.

"I can't tell if you are joking or not," Cub said, crossing his arms.

"Joking about what?"

"Stress, we are in Tartarus. Tartarus in which holds over a thousand criminals or killers from Greek."

"They've been here since forever; they must have learned their lessons, right?"

"Stress, I love you, but you are an idiot." Cub facepalms.

Stress strolls over to a very skinny dude on a small rock in a lake and an apple tree that grew by the side, the dim lighting showing the person's skinny body.

"Hi!" Stress waved to the person. "You're Sisyphus, right?"

"Oh, don't get me confused with that bastard." His voice was very rough and dry. "He's over in that mountain, shouting profanities at the gods."

"Oh, and your name is actually...?"

"Tantalus, I'm here because I kidnapped a dog," Tantalus said, rolling his eyes.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Stress!"

"You don't look like Hades... or anyone around here..." He scanned Stress.

"We aren't dead. Well, don't yet at least." Grian butted in.

"Well, what you extras want."

"Do you know the directions to wherever Nyx is?"

"Oh her? She's been more noisily, I suppose." Tantalus said, and pointed at a small opening to a cave at the side of Sisyphus' mountain. "There, she sleeps and has been sleeping. I doubt Sisyphus will hurt you, he's a coward."

"Thank you!" Stress called out and headed to the hill.

As we strode over to the looming hill.

"Are you sure he's not lying?" Scar asked.

"Oh yes. Quiet down, I hear something." Stress said, her mood suddenly switches from annoyed to worried.

We hid in some sort of mud, "Ew... what is this? It smells." Ren asked.

"Quiet!" False exclaimed, pointing at a lady in the distant hiding in the cover of a dead willow tree.

"It's just a ghost." Mumbo whispered.

Then the lady came out from the shadows and her lower half was a snake.

"Oh. It's a Greek monster I'm not even surprised." Impulse said.

And then she looked at us, her face was so thin, and she had no eyes, blood ran down the side of her cheek, if it wasn't for that she'll have looked like a Greek Queen, a crown rested on her dark flowing hair and her skin was tan but was burned at some spots.

Zed gasped a bit too loud (Damn, you Zed!) and she heard us.

"Oh no," I whispered.

"Stay still, she can't see us," Xisuma said.

The monster opened a jar and popped her eyes back in, and she turned and looked at us with her big eyes, that doesn't look like it fit into her skull.

"Ohh... new flessshhh." She hisses with her snake-like mouth.

False struggled to get out of the mud, but she was stuck; the monster giggled madly.

"Leaving so sssssoon?" She slithered over to False.

She stared at False with her crossed eyes, "You look jussst like my daughter."

"You're... you're Lamia!"

"Yessss, I am. Hera cursed me to be here, forever without any new... food." Lamia cupped False's cheeks.

"We're not children so uh... you can't eat her," Cleo said, using her charmspeak.

"Still, it'sss been a long time that I ate anything... good like flesh."

"You know what is also good?" Iskall said, managing to free himself from the mud.

"A knife to your back." Iskall purged his sword deep into Lamia's back, she froze but didn't dust.

"Oh... We need to run. NOW." TFC said, taking out his small scalpel and cutting himself free and the rest soon followed.

We sprinted to Sisyphus hill as fast as possible. TFC rammed a rock in front of the cave opening.

"What was that for?" Scar asked in a panic.

"If a monster doesn't dust... it's usually bad news." TFC said. "It means they are immortals in some way."

"But Lamia is just a mortal that got cursed and turned insane," False said, trying to rub the mud off her torn clothes.

"Something is going wrong." Grian said, "Things that aren't supposed to be happening are... now happening. What does this mean?"

"I don't know, and I'm scared," Hypno said, fully awake. (B-dubs? Only half-awake.)

"We need to stay together now more than ever," Xisuma said.

Then a deep crack opened up, splitting us up into two groups as a loud echo shook the cave.

"Hello, I've been watching and expecting you... Demigods of HermitCamps."

TLDR:

So, they travel into the underworld... that's about it.

Author's Notes:

JEV GOT A DATE, HE IS NOW LOVER BOY-

AND DOC IS NOW A DAD. AAAA-

AND MORE ANIMATIONS: https://youtu.be/gnhBDUL7NfQ

And the best couple award in Greek mythology goes to Hades and. (duh)

Big plans up ahead. Prepare some popcorn.