Author Note: It's probably not the greatest idea to post a new story when I'm not even done a real chapter on my first one but this idea has been bouncing around in my head for ages and if I don't write it I'm going to be driven crazy.

Hades: Aren't you forgetting something mortal?

Me: Oh, right. I do not and will never own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or the Heroes of Olympus.

Children of Hades

By: Cynder2013

Fifteen year old Sapphire Banks waved to her parents, twin sister, and little brother. It was the first week of summer vacation and her brother, like most of the other little kids, was getting driven to an overnight camp. She sighed and slammed the door as the car pulled out of sight. Then she collapsed on the couch.

"You know I would go with." She said to the empty room. "But I get carsick, in fact long car trips rank somewhere between spaghetti and traveling on boats for me."

She paused, "I've heard the first sign of madness is talking to yourself." The room didn't answer but Sapphire couldn't help but feel she was being watched. "Idiot." She muttered, "Amber's right, I need to get out more."

Then again her sister wasn't addicted to Rick Riordan's books. Reading about Greek monsters and crazy Egyptian ghosts could make anyone jumpy. Still, Amber was the risk-taking twin; Sapphire was the stay-at-home-and-cover-for-her-twin, twin. There was a big difference.

Sapphire sighed again. Then she reached for her copy of 'The Mark of Athena', not even bothering to check the page numbers she turned to her favorite part. Well, one of her favorite parts.

'"Well done, Frank Zhang," Leo said dryly, doing his best impression of Chiron the centaur, "That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas."'1

She let out a laugh that bordered on hysterical.

Poor, Frank. It was awesome that he was Canadian, she had almost fainted when she found that out, but the way Leo teased him...she shook her head. "You'll be friends pretty soon, Frank, but right now it sucks."

She knew that from experience, she had hated Ed for a full three weeks before the boy next door had called a truce and they'd become best friends. "Of course it didn't hurt that our backyards are connected." The room was still silent. "Sure be that way."

"What did I do?" Sapphire froze. She hadn't said anything.

She rolled off the couch with 'The Mark of Athena' sill in her hands and somehow twisted so that she was standing on her toes facing the owner of the voice. Then she stared.

The boy had shaggy black hair and pale skin. He was wearing a black t-shirt that read "KEEP CALM AND PAY THE FERRYMAN" with a picture of skull and crossbones above it. Oh, and he was carrying a sword. Two in fact. One was hanging from his belt and the other seemed to be tied onto his back with a length of rope.

After she (somewhat) got over her shock Sapphire squeaked "Who are you and how the Hades did you get in?"

The boy was staring at the book in her hands; he muttered something that sounded like "That sure was a fun trip." Then looked at her and frowned, "Are you going to stand up anytime soon?" Sapphire blinked then stood up. Then she cursed at herself silently 'the ground is your friend', had she learned nothing in self defense?

"Idiot."

"What was that?"

Sapphire scowled "I was talking to myself." Then she repeated her question, not that she expected him to answer. The boy let out a short laugh. "What?"

"Hades.", he said, "That's the point isn't it?"

What did he mean? Hades...Sapphire's eyes widened she looked down at the cover of her book then back up at the boy.

Black hair, black clothing, she'd be willing to bet that his sword was black to, pale skin; she looked at his hands, skull ring. "You..." He nodded seeming to see she was putting it together. "Nico di Angelo, son of Hades."

He paused for effect, "And your big brother."

A/N:

1This text is taken from page 212 of the hardcover copy of 'The Mark of Athena'. I did not come up with the text nor do I clam to own it. It belongs to Rick Riordan.

So this was going to be a one-shot but in order to organize my thoughts it is going to be in chapters. Sorry if that bugs people. Also, a) Nico may be OOC and b) I need some original characters for camp, names and godly parents because if you leave that to me they'll all be children of Ares, Aphrodite or Athena.

-Cynder2013