"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.