Dis part 2: HADES'S WRATH

Don't eat the cake

Hades, The Lord of all Death, leads us down hallways until he opens a door marked, "prisoner waiting room".
"What does that say?" Asks Ralph , and I realize that it's written in Greek and he can't read it.
"Uh, waiting room of some sort." I answer hastily. Annabeth doesn't seem to have seen the sign yet, and I'm not going to be the one to tell her we're walking into a trap. Really lowers the confidence of a person.
Hades turns, inspecting us for the first time in the flickering light of a weird greenish lamp. He frowns.
"You--" he says, pointing at Annabeth, "you've been here before. And you were stupid enough to come back?" He seems confused.
Annabeth glares at him.
"And you, you've been here before too. Both of you. I don't get it."
And I didn't get it either. Because he was pointing at Ajax.

Ajax looks confused as well. "Me? I--" he starts. But Hades cuts him off. It's not like you're going to object to the God of Death in his own darn palace.
"Well..." Continues Hades, looking flustered. "Anybody want pomegranate cake? It's Persephone's best." He asks. Julia looks alas if she's about to accept, so I shove my fist in her mouth. Gods, that girl can bite HARD.
While I'm stifling my yelp of pain and wiping Julia's drool off my fist, Hades makes another observation.
"Hey...you're Greeks and you're Romans...what is the world coming to, Greeks and Romans working together?..." Suddenly Hades's form flickers. He looks older, and his clothing is covered in jewels. Pluto, I think. And not the dwarf planet, either.
Annabeth takes advantage of Hades/Pluto's distraction to say, "The world isn't coming to anything good, uh, Pluto. That's why we're here."
Pluto is flabbergasted. "Wha--why you're here?"
"There are holes in the earth, leading directly to and from the underworld. Anything could rise from the dead...or Tartarus. It's bad and you have to fix it NOW."
Pluto morphs quickly back to Hades. He is flushed, but dangerously calm.
"It just so happens that I know about these problems already, and I have no intention of fixing them. But thank you for coming. Now that you're in my palace, it's going to be ever so easy to murder you."
Wait...what?