"Holiday at Elysium" Chapter-3

The Fantastic Train Journey

Well, Journey to Underworld was horrible. A huge chariot full of screeching ghosts and live skeletons to keep them in control..........Not really!!!!.
IT WAS AWESOME..!!!!

The underworld express was luxury flying train. It did look a bit creepy.....decorated with skulls and painted with painful scenes of death but it did look like a giant roller coaster flying in the night skies with brilliant lights.

It landed down beside us and doors opened to reveal a cool compartment with dead souls chatting happily and drinking coffee (wait! can ghosts drink coffee....?) However, Mr. T gestured me to board the train. I took a seat besides a girl (hey! that was the only seat empty!) and the train took off.

The trip was unbelievably undeadly. Well, I heard that the trip to hell would be as a trailer of the real movie at hell. If its true, this would be like "Holiday to Elysium"! We were offered drinks (yes! it was cappuccino) , sweet music was playing which was clearly not related to death. People were( I mean the ghosts) playing cards, chatting, or even flirting. Then at last,

"Hello, How did you die?". It was the girl sitting beside me.
"well, shot by a gun I suppose. What about you?
"My Stepdad killed me!"
"What?" The thought of step fathers being evil was weird. Only later I found out that this was common for OUR kind.
"What? your stepdad killed you ! That's horrible, my stepdad is really cool. He takes very good care of me."
"Oh! so even you are like me! I wonder how I'am going to be a brave demigod!"

"Demigod!" I did hear that term. Demigods were children of a mortal and a god/goddess.
"Sorry, I'am not a demigod, by the way, who's daughter are you?"
"Persephone"
"Holy Zeus! So you were killed by the Lord of Underworld himself........you mean..."
"Yes, Hades killed me. But don't worry, my mom came before this train arrived. She promised my life back as my 15th birthday, which is today!"

This whole Idea of being a demigod....that too child of 'queen of underworld'........being killed by step dad......getting life as birthday gift.........to much to process.
 Before I came to senses..

"We reached!"- shouted Mr. Thanatos
 All I saw from the windows was..........Hollywood!

The train was above the Los Angeles city and was going straight towards a hill. Panic struck my heart. Did the train lose control?, breaks not working?, driver drunk?, or just a prank to scare us!, .......but no, we were about to bang to the hill.......we are going to die.....(Wait a min.....we are already dead!). So, we went straight into the hill and entered the UNDERWORLD.

"Holiday at Elysium" Chapter 2

The Underworld Express

Alright, before Thanatos comes and picks me up for our ride to underworld let me introduce myself. Hi there, my name is Daniel Drake and I'm 16 years old. I had been going to high school until just now. You can go on and call me a nerd but I was extremely good at academics( I have already my SAT). I was also on my school basketball team. But don't let this blind you. You might be like, "bro that is a perfect life right there"; give me a break alright. Its no use of having such a life if you totally suck at social skills( hi I'm a teenager, try and  understand). Okay may be that was too much. Let me tell you about my family. 

My mother's name is Rory Drake and until now, if some let me give the price of best mom award it will go to her for sure. I mean she is kind brave, after dad left her she was able to coup up with life. I always ask her why dad left her but she always ignores the question and that was the only thing that troubled me through my entire life. 

After dad left it might have been like 7 or 8 years when my mom got married to Bill. 

Wanna ask if I had any problems? Well to be honest no, I mean if my mom was happy then I had no problem. Actually, Bill was the coolest guy I had ever met. He is a hotel manager and he used to take us for out like every 2 weeks or so. I may go on and call him more like my brother rather than step dad. Also did I tell you I had a sister, oh wait she was in the last chapter right?( Daniel you dumb hay sack).  Her name is Casey and she is so adorable. If you have a younger sibling, you know what a pain they can be but in the end you have to say it is the best experience in your life. 

"Hi kid, sup?"

"And may I ask who you are, sir?"

Just then I noticed that he was actually talking to me. But how, I'm dead right? Just then it hit me, he was Thanatos the Greek god of death. But if you ask me, he didn't look much like one. I swear to god he was literally wearing a ticket collectors uniform.

Just then he offered me a ticket. I took it and it read 'the Underworld Express'. 

Next part coming soon........