Hades and Persephone were making Nico go to high-school. He chose to go to Goode High. This was both good and bad because he got to see his boyfriend Will Solace and his friends Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase but it was still high-school and there was no escaping it. He contacted Paul the week before to tell him but not to tell the others. He walded in the building and almost imediatly people were calling him goth for wear all black and with a black hoodie with skulls on it. He walked up to some random kid after he got his schedual and asked "Would you happen to know where Will Solace, Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase are by any chance?" the kid looked at him and said "Look kid I know there popular but you wouldn't be their friend I can tell" "UGH I'll find them myself".

Percy, Annabeth and Will heard there was a new kid in school and were trying to find said kid. People told them he looked goth and there thought was 'Him and Nico would be great friends' but little did they know. They walked past a guy who looked like he was goth getting beat up by the captain of the the football team, Hunter. "Hey! Hunter stop!" Will yelled at Hunter. Percy saw who was getting beat up and tapped Will on te shoulder adn whisperd in his ear "Dude that's Nico". Will's face lit up with exitement then melted back into rage as he realized his Death Boy was getting beat to a pulp. Yet he was proud of him for not raising the dead or shadow-traveling away. Percy pointed it out to Annabeth and they all went over to Hunter with anger writin all over their faces. "Oh what is Percy and his little gang gonna do to me? I'm so scared" Hunter said sarcatically. "A lot more then you need to know. NOW GET OFF OF HIM!" Annabeth yelled. Students started to crowd around them to see what the comotion was. When Hunter went back to punching Nico in the face Nico was about to raise the dead Will could see him starting to control the shadows so he had to do something. "DON"T YOU DARE DI ANGELO!" he screamed at Nico. "YOU"RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME SOLACE!" Nico yelled back at him continuing to control the shadows a bit to get warmed up. Everybody was now confused especially when Will yelled "DOCTERS ORDERS!" at Nico. That made Nico stop. Hunter stop pounding at him now that he was really confused. Nico got on one knee and begged "Please forgive. Don't make me stay in the infirmary please. I hate that place" Will laughed. "Okay Death-Boy, I forgive you" he said. Nico hugged him and whispered 'Thanks' in his ear.