Thorns.

A skull rolled down to Kylar's feet.. As the demigod pulled up his feet about to crush it underneath his shoes.. not much for curiosity. 

"Wait!.. don't!.."A lean girl exclaimed as she scrambled down the steep hill full of nothing but dead grass.. Up close she wore a kind of greek attire, but more so one that was meant for the upper classes hundreds of years ago in greece.

As Kylar stopped his feet right before he hit the skull.. He stared at the girl a bit blankly as he tilted his head. "Mind explaining the.. skull?.."Kylar asked, finally falling into his curiosity, as the brunette rushed to pick up the skull.

She was ecstatic with the skull as she hugged it tightly, a few moments passed and Kylar just stared at the girl, only a few moments more passed as the brunette soon realized the situation…

Her face reddened slightly in embarrassment as a result. "Sorry!.. You must be new around the underworld.. .The skull here is.. My husband! I'm Macy. the underworld's secretary. You're a new unlucky soul?"Macy replied as she caressed the skull in her arms carefully.

A singular skull.. Her husband? How odd, Kylar has seen odd things before but this was quite next level, he didn't bother to ask again.

"I'm Kylar. Not a soul for the underworld.. Here to save one actually."

The boy replied his strawberry pink colored hair completely contrasted the harsh vicious dark red lighting of the underworld, though his dark black eyes fit in quite well. 

Macy's arm rested on the desk, it had a certain type of tattoo.. Perhaps wires wrapped around her arms? Kylar is sure he'd seen it somewhere. But not under the name of 'Macy' for sure. 

"Ah!.. an appointment with our lord Hades?.."Macy replied with a chipmunk-like grin as she now had the skull laid on.. A desk that appeared just out of thin air.

"Preferably not with Hades."Kylar insisted as he seemingly flinched a bit at the mention of 'Hades'.. Macy being her oblivious self with another object that came out of thin air.. A computer.. In the underworld?.. Simply smiled.

As she nodded along with Kylar's request as she typed away, "Great! Appointment with Lord hades…noted preferably not hades, and the date is when you're on the brink of death~"Macy said with a bright and innocent smile despite the words that left the girls mouth. 

"Brink of death?"Kylar repeated, the underworld is quite odd.. Accept it so easily as he just nodded along trying to think of the quickest plan and a way to die-

"Just kidding~ your Hades' son right? Lucky for you, relatives of Hades have a fast pass!.."Macy said with an ecstatic smile as if she had solved an issue..

"I prefer the wait till the brink of death offer."

Kylar replied not wanting to see Hades.. Could've been a good excuse to not save a soul and not meet Hades in a while.

"Well~! Too bad!.. It was insisted on by my dear lovely Mrs.Persephone!.."Macy replied as she wheeled out a small wand.

The small wand held an immense amount of mana in terms of magic.. A flourishing kind of fireworks exploded.. That was a lot of power.. A bit too much for a mere secretary of the underworld?

Leading Kylar to an unexpected hall.. A long and continuous looking hall.

Kylar's head tilted as he felt a seething red rhythm.

A burning sole in the vertex of his body, the lean male coughed..

And coughed. 

"Truly dirty blooded demigods can't survive this long in the underworld~"The same secretary said as she smiled so cruelly to her once innocent expression, she caressed the same skull..

Her long brunette hair was braided into one long ponytail, she wore cat like glasses as thorns rested around her figure.. Acantha goddess of thorns. 

That's when Kylar realized.. Those weren't wires, it was thorns that wrapped around her arms.. As vicious plants rested right behind the goddess..

Taking back a soul from the underworld, is not as easy as putting in an appointment huh..\

Kylar stared at the Goddess for a moment more before gazing back to his feet, blood pittled down his chin and dripped down his mouth. The demigod was used to all of this.

Poison ivy was laid in every corner of the continuous looking hall, swarming every corner was Acantha's own minions of green invasive plants. 

But Kylar was fumbling, looking for things in his pockets as for once.. There was an extreme urgency.. A soft cloud of pink filled the hall.

The demigod kept on stumbling down at his every attempt to properly stand up and walk.. The pink gas filled the hallways..

Acantha's eyes glowed a bright red.. But that's when Kylar remembered those words, "...Appointment with Lord hades…noted preferably not hades, and the date is when you're on the brink of death.." Was what Acantha said.

And this would be most of Acantha's leniency, bringing Kylar to the brink of death just like she said.. As Kylar understood. 

Taking in the risk of his fate, who knows if he would actually die..?